1872 Fighting Thousand Transformations
Western Desert.
Fang Yuan was standing proudly on the deck of Myriad Year Flying Warship with his hands behind his back and without hiding his trace.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was like a sharp sword that pierced through the sky towards a light yellow cloud.
“Fang Yuan, you dared to come back!” A woman’s shout spread from the light yellow cloud, expressing the anger and hatred of its owner.
The ordinary looking light yellow cloud was actually an immortal formation.
The formation covered a dream realm, inside which Immortal Gu Mutation and Gu Immortal Dancer Hong Yun were trapped.
Immortal Concubine Qing Lan was maintaining the formation.
Immortal Concubine Qing Lan had rank seven cultivation and was a concubine of Thousand Transformations Ancestor.
Back then when Fang Yuan had been traveling in Western Desert and was chased by Feng Jiu Ge, he ran into Dancer Hong Yun and pretended to make an alliance, trading for Zhen Yuan Zi’s formation path inheritance.
Fang Yuan’s plan was to pretend to leave. Ying Wu Xie had still been in Fairy Cui Bo’s body at that time, he detonated a Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body and trapped Dancer Hong Yun and Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s will.
Unfortunately, when Fang Yuan wanted to clean up the battlefield, Feng Jiu Ge caught up to him and he had to retreat.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor had been plotted against and felt something wrong, immediately sending Night Temptress and Immortal Concubine Qing Lan to inspect it.
After knowing Liu Guan Yi was Fang Yuan and feeling helpless against the dream realm, Thousand Transformations Ancestor could only make Night Temptress and Immortal Concubine Qing Lan construct an immortal formation around the area.
In fact, Dancer Hong Yun, who was trapped, here might be Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s concubine, but he did not like her that much. What Thousand Transformations Ancestor was worried about was the mutation Immortal Gu trapped in the dream realm.
This was a rank eight Immortal Gu!
Back then, Thousand Transformations Ancestor inherited a Reckless Savage true inheritance and this mutation Immortal Gu was its core. Without it, Thousand Transformations Ancestor would have a very hard time activating most of the methods and their strength would also be reduced greatly.
Mutation Immortal Gu could not be lost!
Thousand Transformations Ancestor did not have Fang Yuan’s methods and could only learn from Southern Border’s righteous path, confining the dream realm.
The main culprit behind all this was Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan revealed himself now and attacked the formation, it was no wonder Immortal Concubine Qing Lan could not restrain her fury.
But this famous Western Desert beauty did not attack, instead she activated the formation and chose to defend.
“Fang Yuan might only have rank seven cultivation but he can fight rank eights. He also has Myriad Year Flying Warship which has defeated Heavenly Court before, I cannot resist it by myself! The urgent thing now is to defend and stall for time until husband and others arrive.”
Immortal Concubine Qing Lan sent an urgent message for help while controlling the immortal formation with all her strength.
Boom boom boom!
Fang Yuan’s attacks erupted on the formation, the endless silver flying swords rained down like a waterfall.
Immortal Concubine Qing Lan clenched her teeth as she activated the yellow cloud and held on firmly.
Under the ferocious attacks, the yellow cloud started disintegrating, its size shrinking continuously. But this disintegrating speed was quite slow.
Myriad Year Flying Warship had four main killer moves; torrential charge, daybreak sword, daybreak torrent, and myriad year hunting.
Every killer move was a rank eight move, but evidently, the immortal formation that formed the yellow cloud was also at rank eight.
“Fortunately, we reinforced the immortal formation, otherwise with the previous rank seven formation, it would be impossible to block Fang Yuan. This is Myriad Year Flying Warship? It is really amazing!” Immortal Concubine Qing Lan was pale as she had to bear a huge pressure because of Fang Yuan’s vicious attacks.
She had never imagined Fang Yuan to actually attack this place. There had simply been no warning signs.
The formation rumbled as several Gu Immortals teleported to myriad statue desert.
At the front was Night Temptress, the number one concubine of Thousand Transformations Ancestor, along with several other Gu Immortals who were all Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s concubines.
“Where is husband?” Immortal Concubine Qing Lan’s expression changed slightly.
Night Temptress said heavily: “It is not time yet for husband to make a move, the situation is much more complex than this. We received the order to help you defend this place.”
Immortal Concubine Qing Lan shook her head: “With just us, we are probably not Fang Yuan’s match and will not be able to last for long.”
A female immortal scoffed: “Qing Lan, what are you afraid of? This formation is a rank eight…”
Boom!
Right at this time, a loud sound spread and almost half the yellow cloud disintegrated instantly.
The female immortals inside the formation were pale.
Night Temptress screamed: “What are you waiting for? Reinforce the formation, quick!”
The female immortals stopped quarrelling as they used all their strength to control the formation and defend against Fang Yuan’s attacks.
Fang Yuan was still standing on the deck, his gaze flickering sharply.
Myriad Year Flying Warship had made big contributions. In the River of Time, it had killed Qing Ye and Li Huang who were rank eight experts, especially the latter who had extraordinary strength.
But at that time, Myriad Year Flying Warship occupied an advantage, because all its killer moves were amplified to a horrifying level in the River of Time.
On the contrary, Qing Ye, Li Huang and the rest had been greatly suppressed.
This time, Myriad Year Flying Warship was fighting an aerial battle in Western Desert, and without the environment’s amplification, its killer moves only had normal strength.
It was because of this that even when Myriad Year Flying Warship attacked with everything, it was still unable to destroy the yellow cloud.
“This formation isn’t simple, it is a transformation path Gu formation with extraordinary defense as well as having the ability to transport Gu Immortals, it is probably a portion of Reckless Savage’s true inheritance.”
Fang Yuan thought of many things.
His guess was not wrong, this formation was the myriad li adaptation formation of Reckless Savage’s true inheritance, it was a genuine rank eight formation.
A Rank eight Immortal Gu House could fight a rank eight immortal formation, both sides were evenly matched.
However, comparing the person controlling the Immortal Gu House and the Gu Immortals guarding the immortal formation, Fang Yuan undoubtedly won by a margin.
“Someone help me quick, I can’t hold on for long!”
“Ahh! Fang Yuan is too fierce, I can’t endure it.”
“Sisters, hold on, I am coming… Damn it, I am about to lose my defensive position as well.”
The foothold that these concubines of Thousand Transformations Ancestor had was slipping at an astonishing speed.
Night Temptress’s expression was ashen as she exhausted all her strength and coughed out blood, but was also unable to hold on.
Immortal Concubine Qing Lan was soaked with cold sweat. She was unable to understand why she was able to pull Fang Yuan into a deadlock when she had been defending alone, but now when she received huge support, they were failing bit by bit.
The remaining rank six female immortals were sweating madly, their limbs were numb and their fighting strength had already fallen to the lowest point.
Myriad li adaptation formation was indeed a good formation, but it was nothing against Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan had time path quasi-supreme grandmaster attainment, transformation path great grandmaster, formation path grandmaster, wisdom path grandmaster, as well as the light of wisdom and many methods to make deductions.
Daybreak swords could be used as he liked, and every attack was like a probe filled with deep intentions.
Although there was still a large distance from fully understanding the formation, what Fang Yuan needed to do was to destroy and not study, this was much simpler and straightforward.
“Thousand Transformations Ancestor, you are still not making a move? Can your concubines stop me? You are looking down on me too much and thinking too highly of yourself.” Fang Yuan sneered and spoke.
But he still didn’t see Thousand Transformations Ancestor.
The yellow cloud had already shrunk to a dangerous level, Night Temptress was panic-stricken and said decisively: “Sisters, activate the final method.”
“We are using it this early?”
“What choice do we have other than this?”
“It will be too late if we don’t use it now!”
The female immortals activated their final trump card, the yellow cloud suddenly emitted golden rays, although only a small portion was left of it, it was extremely firm and blocked all the silver flying swords without even budging.
Fang Yuan smiled coldly, thinking: “This situation is also within my expectation. Using it so quickly, you are truly incapable! If it were others, they might be perplexed, but I have already understood its context, you are just speeding up your deaths by doing this.”
While thinking this, Fang Yuan immediately stopped daybreak sword and sent a command to his subordinates inside the warship: “Ram it!”
Myriad Year Flying Warship ferociously collided straight into the golden cloud.
Boom!
First collision; golden cloud shook, the female immortals started bleeding from their seven orifices and were struck with dizziness.
Boom!
Second collision; the golden cloud loosened, the female immortals fell to the ground after suffering such a fierce collision. They were panting hard, their faces were pale as paper and their gazes were somewhat dull and blank.
Boom!
Third collision; Myriad Year Flying Warship directly pierced into the golden cloud, the female immortals could not endure such a backlash and many of them fainted immediately.
The formation was on the verge of collapsing, Fang Yuan retreated inside the warship instead.
“Master, should we capture these female immortals to use them as hostages to negotiate with Thousand Transformations Ancestor in the future?” A variant human Gu Immortal suggested.
Fang Yuan, however, shook his head.
Just as Myriad Year Flying Warship was about to make a fatal move against these female immortals, a female immortal suddenly stood up. Her appearance had changed greatly and shouted: “Fang Yuan, you are going too far!”
“Husband!!” Night Temptress and Immortal Concubine Qing Lan had been barely able to remain conscious, they shouted in surprise and joy.
As it turned out, Thousand Transformations Ancestor had already come over but had disguised his identity and kept it hidden from all the people around him.
He had been patient for a long time and intentionally set up a trap to seize a golden opportunity.
But Fang Yuan simply did not give him the opportunity, he was extremely cautious and did not leave Myriad Year Flying Warship even once. He did not even make a move personally or have the thought to capture these female immortals.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was like a dazzling giant sword as it pierced Thousand Transformations Ancestor.
In the moment of danger, Thousand Transformations Ancestor laughed sinisterly and raised his left arm without dodging.
At the next moment, his left arm expanded rapidly and transformed into a berserk ape’s arm, the giant arm was filled with purple-gold dragon scales.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor raised his left arm as Myriad Year Flying Warship smashed into him with a loud sound.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was thrown back a small step but Myriad Year Flying Warship was sent flying.
Fang Yuan’s heart sank slightly.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was indeed the person who inherited Reckless Savage’s true inheritance, his methods were amazing.
He had only defended just now but it revealed many profundities.
He had not transformed his whole body, but only his left arm. The left arm’s transformation was also not simple, dragon scales and the berserk ape’s arm were used together, multiplying the strength.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was without options against such defense.
But Thousand Transformations Ancestor had not just blocked forcefully, but had used a technique to divert the force of Myriad Year Flying Warship and send it flying.
“Exquisite killer move along with exceptional combat techniques.” It was only one exchange of offense and defense, but Fang Yuan was able to learn a lot of information about Thousand Transformations Ancestor.
At the next moment, he turned Myriad Year Flying Warship around and charged towards Thousand Transformations Ancestor again: “Thousand Transformations Ancestor, you finally came out, now die!”
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was furious: “You, a rank seven Gu Immortal, are dreaming of taking my life by relying on an Immortal Gu House? You dare speak such shameless words!”
Fang Yuan scoffed: “Even Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals died from my ship, you will also follow in their footsteps.”
It was okay when Heavenly Court was not mentioned, but at the mention of Heavenly Court, Thousand Transformations Ancestor was even more infuriated: “Demonic scoundrel, you think I am afraid of you? You fool, only knowing to conflict with me but not realizing you have already fallen into Heavenly Court’s scheme. Heavenly Court’s members are probably watching the show secretly.”
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1873 Heavenly Court“s Ambush
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was boiling with anger and resented Fang Yuan for not realizing the bigger picture.
Fang Yuan knew it clearly as he laughed: “If Heavenly Court comes, I shall kill them. If one comes, I will kill one. If two come, I will kill two!”
Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s eyes widened and could not help but think: “After winning a few battles, this Fang Yuan has actually become so arrogant, or does he truly have a trump card to make him so confident?”
Back then, Thousand Transformations Ancestor had undergone a myriad tribulation and barely survived from it, he had been recuperating secretly. At that very time, Fairy Cui Bo was killed by Fang Yuan, Thousand Transformations Ancestor sensed this but because of his heavy injuries, he could only send Dancer Hong Yun to inspect the situation. But he was worried his weakness would be seen through by others, so he handed rank eight Immortal Gu Mutation to Dancer Hong Yun to avoid showing weakness if she encountered strong enemies.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was a lone cultivator and didn’t have a friendly relationship with Western Desert’s righteous path forces. He was at his weakest state at that time.
Later, Fang Yuan schemed and trapped Dancer Hong Yun.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor received Heavenly Court’s message and knew Fang Yuan was the true culprit.
But at that time, the dream realm had already entrapped Dancer Hong Yun and mutation Immortal Gu, Thousand Transformations Ancestor had no choice but to send Night Temptress and Immortal Concubine Qing Lan to construct a rank seven immortal formation around the dream realm.
He had not expected this action to expose his state to Heavenly Court.
Since then, Fairy Zi Wei had been actively plotting to kill this Western Desert rank eight in advance so as to prepare for the five regions chaotic war in the future.
Heavenly Court secretly sent its members while Fairy Zi Wei schemed repeatedly to form a trap targeted against Thousand Transformations Ancestor.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was a rank eight Gu Immortal and not some ordinary person, he keenly sensed the abnormal situation occurring, but due to his injuries, he could only use schemes to compete with Heavenly Court.
Both sides fought secretly, although Heavenly Court had a wisdom path great expert like Fairy Zi Wei, she was occupied with important matters. Moreover, a mighty dragon cannot suppress the local snake, Thousand Transformations Ancestor had been developing his territory in Western Desert for many years.
Thus, after Thousand Transformations Ancestor sensed their actions, Heavenly Court’s progress became halted time and again.
Fairy Zi Wei noticed this and took the initiative to recruit Thousand Transformations Ancestor, trying to repeat the success of recruiting Old Ancestor Xue Hu.
However, Thousand Transformations Ancestor was different from Old Ancestor Xue Hu, he had Reckless Savage’s true inheritance and was in control of the whole of myriad statue desert. He had a lot of cultivation resources and was able to financially support his concubines to become immortals.
While Old Ancestor Xue Hu was almost bankrupt because of the failure in refining rank eight Immortal Gu Fortune Rivalling Heaven. He accepted Heavenly Court’s financial aid to make a comeback.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor also did not refuse directly but promised Heavenly Court that he would consider it.
Both sides had yet not reached the point of truly getting into an unresolvable conflict.
Right at this time, Fang Yuan suddenly appeared and attacked the myriad li adaptation formation, Thousand Transformations Ancestor was not willing to show up.
But this problematic Fang Yuan immediately broke the deadlock, destroying Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s plan to stall for time.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor and Heavenly Court’s battle was like a bomb. Both sides were restraining themselves to find a much better opportunity to use it.
And Fang Yuan was like a spark that lit the bomb.
The balance was broken, Thousand Transformations Ancestor had no choice but to make his move. Once he exposed his cards, Heavenly Court would definitely attack!
Boom boom boom!
Repeated explosions resounded throughout the area.
Fang Yuan controlled Myriad Year Flying Warship to fight Thousand Transformations Ancestor, after a long while, neither side could do anything to the other.
“Heavenly Court experts are probably hiding in the surroundings and watching, even if they weren’t, this commotion will attract them.” Thousand Transformations Ancestor had this worry since the start, he did not chase after Fang Yuan and urged: “Fang Yuan, Fairy Cui Bo died because she was too weak, she died a worthy death in the battlefield. Our hatred is not irreconcilable. You must be clear that your true enemy is not me, but Heavenly Court!”
Thousand Transformations Ancestor did his best to persuade him while forcibly restraining the fury in his heart.
My situation is like yours, why do we need to fight each other to death? We are both targeted by Heavenly Court, this battle is just giving Heavenly Court an opportunity to strike us! Why do you need to be so irrational?
But Fang Yuan was irrational, laughing madly: “Thousand Transformations Ancestor, you don’t deserve being a rank eight great expert, you are actually such a coward that you want to make peace with me? Hehe, I fear neither Heavenly Court nor you. Die!”
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was so furious from hearing this that he wanted to skin Fang Yuan alive.
Fang Yuan stood on the deck again and activated daybreak sword.
The sword lights were like a waterfall with mighty momentum as well as being extremely nimble. The daybreak swords had charged right into Thousand Transformations Ancestor when they split into ten groups, the ten groups passed around Thousand Transformations Ancestor and attacked the myriad li adaptation formation.
“This Fang Yuan is so insidious!” Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s eyes widened, he of course could not let Fang Yuan succeed. If this formation was broken, the female immortals inside would definitely die.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor inhaled fiercely and transformed into a giant.
He then turned his body around, his back part transformed into a giant tortoise shell which blocked five or six groups of daybreak swords.
Then, his neck lengthened like a snake.
His head also transformed into a beast mouth. The beast mouth inhaled and swallowed the remaining swords.
“Giant transformation! Whirlpool tortoise shell transformation! Divine green snake neck transformation! Taotie transformation!” Fang Yuan’s gaze was like fire as he instantly recognized Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s methods.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor used all kinds of transformations at will and with extreme skill, every transformation just perfectly shielded the formation behind him.
Fang Yuan realized immediately: he was unable to break through Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s defense just by relying on Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Not only this, Fang Yuan needed to avoid close combat as much as possible as the other might know many transformations that could restrain Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Myriad Year Flying Warship charging into him was what Thousand Transformations Ancestor wanted to see.
Fang Yuan smiled coldly: “Worthy of being Reckless Savage’s true inheritance, alright, let’s stop here. Thousand Transformations Ancestor, we will meet again someday.”
Saying so, he controlled Myriad Year Flying Warship and activated the killer move torrential charge.
Shining water waves immediately appeared below Myriad Year Flying Warship, the killer move had summoned a phantom image of the River of Time!
Myriad Year Flying Warship borrowed the momentum of the river and left like a shot arrow.
But right at this time, a delicate voice resounded through the skies: “Fang Yuan, where are you going!”
Before the voice finished speaking, four Immortal Gu Houses came rushing from four directions along with four rank eight Gu Immortals.
“There was indeed an ambush!” Even Thousand Transformations Ancestor got a fright, Heavenly Court’s determination was too great, such an enormous force had actually been lying in ambush.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor suddenly realized: “Dangerous! I was intentionally stalling for time but Heavenly Court was trying to use that to make me lower my guard, and later, secretly mobilizing a large number of troops to besiege and even kill me! From this angle, looks like I need to thank Fang Yuan, had he not lured out this force, I might have still been in the dark.”
Although he knew the situation clearly, Thousand Transformations Ancestor did not show any gratitude towards Fang Yuan as he shouted: “Fang Yuan, look, my words came true!”
Fang Yuan’s expression was serious as he maneuvered Myriad Year Flying Warship to dash here and there, but its movement was all blocked by Heavenly Court.
Fang Yuan did not try again, instead turning the ship around towards Thousand Transformations Ancestor: “Ancestor, the situation is like this, let us cooperate.”
Thousand Transformations Ancestor pointed at Fang Yuan furiously: “Fang Yuan, I have rarely seen such shamelessness in my life!”
Fang Yuan smiled coldly: “Then you want to continue fighting me?”
Thousand Transformations Ancestor choked and forcibly swallowed this grievance: “Hmph! We shall fight later, don’t be a burden to me.”
“I should be the one saying that. You have quite a huge burden there.” Fang Yuan ridiculed, hinting that the many concubines were Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s weakness.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s expression turned dark: “Stay further away from me, if you cross this line, I will fight you as well.”
He was naturally still wary towards Fang Yuan and did not have even a bit of trust in Fang Yuan. But there was no other choice in this situation, he could only collaborate with Fang Yuan to have a chance at winning.
Just like Thousand Transformations Ancestor expected, Heavenly Court had secretly mobilized a large force to ambush him.
But there was suddenly a change in the situation, Fang Yuan had attacked and fought Thousand Transformations Ancestor.
Heavenly Court’s forces did not expect this and quickly contacted Fairy Zi Wei who was in Heavenly Court. Fairy Zi Wei was exulted and commanded Heavenly Court’s forces to continue lying in ambush and watch the battle from the sidelines, waiting for the opportunity to reap the spoils.
But Thousand Transformations Ancestor was extremely shrewd and pointed out Heavenly Court’s existence while also displaying an extraordinary battle strength.
Fang Yuan seemed to be unable to break his defense and wanted to retreat.
The moment he tried to retreat, Heavenly Court’s troops had no choice but to make a move.
Previously, Heavenly Court wanted to deal with Thousand Transformations Ancestor, but Fang Yuan was a much bigger threat to Heavenly Court. He had finally appeared and Heavenly Court’s members were not willing to let him go.
As such, Heavenly Court’s forces moved out and turned the whole situation upside down.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor and Fang Yuan had no choice but to collaborate, but even those two did not have any hopes for what their joint efforts could achieve.
“Fang Yuan, you ran away last time. This time, let me see where you can flee to.” Prince Feng Xian closed in, intending to make up for his previous loss.
The expressions of Xing Ye Wang and Wei Feng were cold as they flew in without saying a word.
There was another rank eight Gu Immortal as well, it was a woman with a seductive body. She laughed alluringly: “You are Fang Yuan? So handsome, big sister likes you. What a pity, what a pity. Why would someone so handsome end up like this?”
Fang Yuan paid the most attention to this female immortal.
“According to my previous life’s memories, this woman should be Wan Zi Hong. In the previous life, when Northern Plains invaded Heavenly Court, she had awakened. I didn’t expect her to wake up so early in this life.”
Prince Feng Xian shouted: “Attack!”
Four Immortal Gu Houses guarded four directions while the four rank eight Gu Immortals activated their killer moves simultaneously.
In an instant, flames erupted, starlight spread, fierce wind raged, and mist filled the air!
Four rank eight killer moves with grand might overwhelmed the surroundings.
“Come!” Fang Yuan controlled Myriad Year Flying Warship and directly charged head-on.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s eyes widened: “One’s nature can be seen at the crucial moment. This Fang Yuan is truly a demon that can fight Heavenly Court, he has such courage!”
Seeing Fang Yuan charging over, Heavenly Court’s four immortals controlled their killer moves to attack Fang Yuan.
“I’ll dodge!” Fang Yuan laughed sinisterly, lightly turning around his direction and flying behind the myriad li adaptation formation.
“This bastard…” Thousand Transformations Ancestor was dazed before cursing inwardly. Fang Yuan left and the killer moves that were lured by him flew at Thousand Transformations Ancestor.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor needed to protect the formation behind him and could not dodge. He gave a furious shout and braced himself to defend the attacks!
Boom boom boom!
Continued explosions resounded while Fang Yuan flew away within Myriad Year Flying Warship.
“Thousand Transformations Ancestor, thank you, I shall leave now.” Fang Yuan laughed brightly.
Guh.
The aftermath of the battle settled, revealing Thousand Transformations Ancestor covered in soot. When he heard Fang Yuan’s laughter, he immediately coughed out a mouthful of blood.
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1874 Overturning Heaven and Earth
myriad year flying warship was like an arrow let loose as it flew to the sky.right as fang yuan was about to charge out of the encirclement, wan zi hong charmingly giggled: “scoundrel fang yuan, you cannot leave.”
at the next moment, the sky above fang yuan suddenly transformed into boundless land, myriad year flying warship had been flying to the sky, but in an instant, it started charging towards the ground.
fang yuan quickly stopped myriad year flying warship.
myriad year flying warship’s speed was too fast, but the phantom river of time below the warship played a crucial role in stopping it.
just before crashing into the ground, fang yuan succeeded in stopping the immortal gu house.
fang yuan carefully checked the surroundings, he saw the sky had change into land, while the land changed into sky, tossing and turning around. the entire sky and earth seemed to have become a rubik’s cube, the sky and earth seemed to casually interchange their positions, it was bizarre and absurd.
wan zi hong floated in the sky while prince feng xian was standing on the ground.
fang yuan felt he had become a small insect in this rubik’s cube, unable to find his way. he seemed to look at the sky but it would change into land at the next moment.
if this was ordinary ground, myriad year flying warship could have charged right through it.
but this ground was evidently extremely firm and was like an impenetrable wall.
“what kind of method is this?” fang yuan asked wan zi hong with narrowed eyes.
wan zi hong replied: “this killer move is called overturning heaven and earth, to be honest, heavenly court specially designed this for you. the reason we brought it out to deal with thousand transformations ancestor was to test it in real battle. hehe, who could have expected you to be so impatient and come rushing over.”
fang yuan possessed fixed immortal travel and also had a relevant killer move, he even had omni-directional travel, he could flee quickly at the critical juncture.
heavenly court wanted to capture fang yuan, so they needed to first restrain fang yuan’s escape methods. previously, they had fixed space gu but it was unfortunately looted by fang yuan. yuan qiong du had collapsed from trying to refine it but did not succeed. heavenly court’s foundation was extremely deep, creating this overturning heaven and earth that could restrain both fixed immortal travel and omni-directional travel.
“fang yuan, it will be difficult for you to escape this time.” prince feng xian, wrapped in flames, charged with surging momentum.
“surrender now, maybe we can still spare your life.” wei feng sneered, wind blades following him from all sides.
the other two rank eight gu immortals attacked thousand transformations ancestor.
“heavenly court mobilized four immortal gu houses to maintain the activation of the killer move overturning heaven and earth. their true battle strength lies in the four rank eight gu immortals.” fang yuan’s eyes shone sharply.
he did not want to have a prolonged battle, there were no benefits in tangling with these gu immortals.
based on just myriad year flying warship and the strength fang yuan revealed on the surface, it was difficult to kill them.
if he wanted to kill them, he would have to reveal his rank eight cultivation. but like the analysis he made long ago, once his cultivation was revealed, the secret of fang yuan’s sovereign immortal body would also be exposed.
more importantly, did heavenly court’s side only have these people? once they began fighting, even if heavenly court did not have others lying in ambush, they could quickly mobilize other rank eight gu immortals as reinforcements.
if this matter was not handled properly, even duke long, fairy zi wei, and qin ding ling might join the battle.
fang yuan skillfully controlled myriad year flying warship, dodging or blocking the two rank eight gu immortals’ attacks while looking for a path to break through.
bam bam bam…
myriad year flying warship charged in all directions, colliding into the ground repeatedly.
whenever the immortal gu house’s charge was impeded, wei feng and prince feng xian grabbed the chance to bombard it violently.
heavenly court’s forces had clearly gone through a large amount of preparation, these two rank eight gu immortals coordinated remarkably; wind fueled the fire, while the fire increased the wind’s power.
myriad year flying warship was under increasingly greater pressure, but fortunately, there were still many of fang yuan’s subordinates inside. these people were sweating hard as they hurried in repairing and replacing the gu worms in the warship.
through many failures and his wisdom path attainment, fang yuan made out many details: “this killer move, overturning heaven and earth, is absolutely exquisite. it cut this patch of sky and land to countless cubes and could constantly change the position of these cubes. it is only a killer move and not a battlefield killer move, so its activation is extremely fast. its effect is to transform the sky and land of an area while also forming a battlefield that traps the enemy.”
battlefield killer moves needed time to activate. with fang yuan’s vigilance and craftiness, this time was enough for him to make a getaway.
so heavenly court formed this overturning heaven and earth killer move, its activation was extremely fast, fang yuan was not able to escape in time even with myriad year flying warship’s speed. heavenly court had put painstaking efforts in this.
ever since fang yuan had reborn, he defeated heavenly court time and time again. but heavenly court could never be underestimated, when they reacted, they had already prepared a killer move that turned fang yuan’s most proficient movement methods into mere decorations.
“this overturning heaven and earth has flaws when compared to battlefield killer moves. as long as i deduce its essence, i can break or interfere with its operation and escape easily. now… is not the time yet.” fang yuan pondered inwardly. he suddenly changed the direction of the ship and flew towards thousand transformations ancestor.
heavenly court had not expected fang yuan to have a change in plan so suddenly and were caught unprepared for an instance, letting fang yuan draw close to thousand transformations ancestor.
thousand transformations ancestor was protecting the formation behind him, letting the two heavenly court rank eights attack him wildly, but his defense was still firm and stable.
overturning heaven and earth cut the whole battlefield, but they could not cut the area thousand transformations ancestor was in and it became the most spacious piece of land in the battlefield.
seeing fang yuan return, thousand transformations ancestor sneered: “fang yuan, why are you coming back?”
fang yuan smiled: “ancestor, the formation behind you has been restricted as well, right? currently, we both cannot escape, how about we join hands and collaborate? block heavenly court’s attacks for me and stall for time, i will concentrate on deducing and modifying the formation, it won’t be a difficult thing to escape then.”
thousand transformations ancestor spat out: “as if i can trust you!”
fang yuan was surprised, thousand transformations ancestor was not in a hurry and looked like he still had a trump card.
an ordinary rank eight gu immortal would find this situation extremely troubling. but thousand transformations ancestor possessed one reckless savage true inheritance, be it fang yuan or heavenly court, neither could guess what trump card he was hiding.
“you two, none of you shall escape!”
“kill!”
heavenly court’s four immortals charged over together.
fang yuan and thousand transformations ancestor had no way to retreat, they could only deal with whatever attacks were thrown at them.
both sides used killer moves repeatedly, the air burst, wind howled, flames burned, sword lights shone.
thousand transformations ancestor felt an explosive increase in pressure the more they battled, he scolded: “fang yuan, you are still playing tricks! if you keep acting like this, i will fight you as well!”
fang yuan controlled myriad year flying warship and used the myriad li adaptation formation to block or evade heavenly court’s attacks like a slippery eel.
it was inconvenient to get close to thousand transformations ancestor, but the myriad li adaptation formation had a large size and could not be moved once constructed, becoming an extremely good shield.
fang yuan used this shield to block most of the heavenly court’s attacks. the gu immortals inside myriad year flying warship got time to recover and restore myriad year flying warship back to normal.
“ancestor, please continue to persevere, you need to hold on for a while longer. my deductions have already gotten some results, i can deal with this current predicament in just a short while.” fang yuan shouted.
thousand transformations ancestor was not a fool, why would he be willing to act as a shield?
he was deeply aware of fang yuan’s nature, if fang yuan deciphered this killer move, he would definitely escape alone and leave him as a target to attract the attacks of heavenly court’s gu immortals.
so, if fang yuan could truly break this killer move, it would instead be disadvantageous to thousand transformations ancestor!
boom!
thousand transformations ancestor really went to attack myriad year flying warship.
“ancestor, don’t be like this, you need to look at the big picture.” fang yuan called out.
thousand transformations ancestor rebuked: “you are talking about the big picture with me now? without your disturbance, how could there be this current predicament?! didn’t i tell you before that there was heavenly court’s ambush! didn’t you yell that heavenly court was nothing? if one came, you would kill one, if two came, you would kill two, show it to me now!”
fang yuan said earnestly: “i didn’t lie, but heavenly court sent four gu immortals and four immortal gu houses, i have no way to deal with this. ancestor, you really need to consider the big picture, if you attack me, how will you protect those women who love you?”
boom!
prince feng xian’s fire meteor struck and shook the myriad li adaptation formation fiercely, the female immortals inside the formation cried out in fright.
persistent defense would only result in eventual loss, no matter how thousand transformations ancestor transformed, he was only one person and he was dealing with four of heavenly court’s rank eights!
thousand transformations ancestor shouted furiously: “heavenly court, you are going too far! if there is an opportunity in the future, i will definitely pay you back one hundred fold!”
“first, you need to survive today.” wei feng smiled coldly, as he threw an enormous wind blade towards the myriad li adaptation formation.
“your heavenly court doesn’t deserve the reputation of being the righteous path leader!” thousand transformations ancestor shouted furiously.
he needed to defend the formation, so he was in an extremely passive state.
heavenly court’s four rank eights specially targeted this weakness, they had indeed shown no ‘righteous path demeanor’.
“look, what did i say? thousand transformations ancestor, you really need to consider the big picture.” and right at this time, fang yuan made flippant remarks.
thousand transformations ancestor almost coughed blood from anger, shouting hoarsely: “neither of you will die an easy death!”
the battle continued, thousand transformations ancestor starting to feel a sense of helplessness, he was fighting heavenly court’s four immortals almost by himself while also paying attention to that insidious scoundrel fang yuan.
the myriad li adaptation formation was being attacked continuously and was unable to hold on for long.
finally, under wan zi hong’s killer move, a corner of the formation collapsed and revealed the space inside.
“a chance!” wei feng was coincidentally above this gap and saw the female immortals inside the formation.
these female immortals were in a very bad state, they all suffered backlash when the formation collapsed. most of them were already unconscious and only night temptress was barely able to keep conscious and hold on.
“we can use these female immortals to threaten thousand transformations ancestor!” wei feng activated a killer move, turning into a green wind and entering the formation.
“husband, save us!” night temptress’s aura was extremely weak, her face paled as she saw wei feng and shouted in panic.
“stop!” thousand transformations ancestor shouted from outside the formation.
“too late.” wei feng sneered and grabbed night temptress.
boom!!!
a huge sound rang as a large part of wei feng’s body flew out of the formation like a shooting star, leaving behind a trail of red blood.
his head was being held by night temptress, his expression before death was filled with unimaginable horror!
night temptress was letting out rank eight aura and her appearance slowly changed into thousand transformations ancestor.
heavenly court lost a rank eight all of a sudden, the remaining three were shaken: “why are there two thousand transformations ancestors?!”
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1875 Ignoring the Big Picture
the change had occurred too suddenly, catching almost all the people off guard.night temptress actually transformed into thousand transformations ancestor and immediately killed a rank eight gu immortal of heavenly court, wei feng!
this thousand transformations ancestor opened his immortal aperture and waved his left hand, sending all the fainted female immortals inside the formation into his aperture.
his right hand that was still grabbing wei feng’s head exerted strength and crushed it into pieces!
red and white brain matter splattered like a crushed watermelon.
“this is what will become of all of you!” thousand transformations ancestor said through clenched teeth and a vicious expression. his might shook the battlefield instantly.
he was a person who could silently endure. it was because of this nature that he did not make a move personally after fairy cui bo died, instead sending dancer hong yun to probe the situation.
he had arranged this trap meticulously, waiting for someone to bite. the trap had come into effect and heavenly court’s wei feng paid with his life as the price, contributing to thousand transformations ancestor’s reputation.
“unfortunately, fang yuan did not take the bait.” thousand transformations ancestor glanced at fang yuan with some regret.
this brat was too crafty, he stayed inside myriad year flying warship the whole time, not giving thousand transformations ancestor any opportunity.
heavenly court’s three immortals were shaken and infuriated!
the grand wei feng had actually perished right before their eyes.
after the shock and anger, a chill spread in their hearts.
let alone wei feng, even if it were them, they might not have a good ending in that situation.
thousand transformations ancestor had prepared for a long while without making a move, but when he moved, wei feng did not even have the chance to escape.
the chill passed away and heavenly court gu immortals were filled with doubts: “what is actually going on? how could there be a second thousand transformations ancestor? even if he inherited reckless savage’s true inheritance, isn’t it too strange for a second rank eight to appear out of thin air?”
fang yuan controlled myriad year flying warship and quietly moved away from thousand transformations ancestor, similarly having a perplexed look: “ancestor, what is going on?”
the night temptress who turned into thousand transformations ancestor sneered: “aren’t you someone who has been reborn, even you don’t know it?”
“ancestor, you think too highly of me.” fang yuan laughed: “if i could know all the secrets of the world, i would have already become a venerable, why would i be trapped here?”
after denying it, he praised: “ancestor, your methods are indeed beyond ordinary, worthy of the inheritor of reckless savage’s true inheritance. you killed a rank eight of heavenly court in one move, you were much more efficient than me. this junior is full of admiration.”
he instigated hatred on both sides, but had no doubts in his heart.
“the previous thousand transformations ancestor should be formed by myriad statue palace. the real night temptress should be inside the immortal gu house and assisting in controlling it. and the real thousand transformations ancestor disguised as night temptress and stayed with the concubines. on one hand, it was to protect them, on the other hand, it was to use them as bait to deceive others into biting it.”
in fang yuan’s first life of five hundred years, during the five regions chaotic war, myriad statue palace had shown its might, thus fang yuan already knew clearly about the secrets of this immortal gu house.
different from other immortal gu houses, myriad statue palace was rather special — it could transform into all things. this palace could transform into the appearance of every statue created inside it, even copying their innate abilities and methods.
evidently, there was a statue of thousand transformations ancestor inside the palace.
even if fang yuan knew of this, he pretended to be unaware. you don’t know that i know this, when you think i don’t know about your secrets, my knowledge will be my advantage.
this advantage seemed small, but fights between experts were decided by such minor details.
how was an advantage created? it was by adding accumulations like this, bits by bits.
fang yuan fought heavenly court and progressed until now, this was a far better result than the previous life at the same time period. after his rebirth, his step by step progress, changing the past, winning small victories, didn’t all these accumulate to become his advantage?
it was impossible for anyone to succeed without accumulations.
“who among you is the real thousand transformations ancestor!” xing ye wang shouted.
“alright, i will let you know that i am the real thousand transformations ancestor, and he is my twin brother, myriad transformations ancestor.” the real thousand transformations ancestor lied casually.
the myriad statue palace turned myriad transformations ancestor nodded lightly: “heavenly court, you didn’t expect it, did you? you guys wanted to ambush my brother but did not expect to confront two rank eights! i have always cultivated in seclusion and wanted to keep my identity hidden my whole life, but regretfully, this secret has been exposed now. but it was worth it to take a rank eight gu immortal’s life.”
heavenly court’s three immortals glanced at each other, keeping silent. whether thousand transformations ancestor was telling the truth or not, regardless of what the truth was, the power structure of both sides had a huge change now.
previously, fang yuan and thousand transformations ancestor were fighting four rank eights of heavenly court.
now, wei feng was dead, but a myriad transformations ancestor was added. one side lost while the other side gained, both sides were now three against three, and they all had rank eight battle strength.
wan zi hong suddenly laughed: “if i were one of you two, i would have arranged a companion to stay behind in myriad statue desert. like that, the ones inside and outside can respond and help each other. but now, both of you are trapped, myriad statue desert is left unguarded and is free for my heavenly court’s gu immortals to enter. ah, right, i wonder if you have brought myriad statue palace with you? it would really be unfortunate if you left it at myriad statue desert.”
wan zi hong’s words were a threat as well as a probe.
however, fang yuan knew the secret: myriad transformations ancestor was myriad statue palace that was being controlled by thousand transformations ancestor, how could the two separate?
even if heavenly court had sent gu immortals to go to thousand transformations ancestor’s territory, myriad statue desert, that place definitely had no valuable things.
but thousand transformations ancestor’s expression changed slightly, shouting with anger and ridicule: “your heavenly court calls itself the leader of humanity and the righteous path, but this is your style of action?”
even fang yuan praised him inwardly for such acting skills.
thousand transformations ancestor would not be able to conceal the truth for long, although fairy zi wei was not present at the scene, she would be able to deduce the truth soon.
however, just like fang yuan hiding the truth that he knew, thousand transformations ancestor was also trying to fight for every little advantage he had.
although he killed wei feng, he was still in a weak position.
heavenly court was maintaining the killer move overturning heaven and earth, they held the initiative firmly. their remaining strength was still higher than thousand transformations ancestor and fang yuan together.
wan zi hong sneered: “so be it, i will be the main attacker this time, you two support me with all your strength.”
she instructed xing ye wang and prince feng xian.
the two nodded without objection.
based on seniority, wan zi hong was the highest, based on strength, this female immortal was also the strongest.
immortal killer move — blood petals.
wan zi hong went on the offensive, her aura rising instantly.
she did not look like she had made any movements, but blood started spouting out of thousand transformations and myriad transformations.
blood spewed out of their bodies like floating petals and scattered randomly.
although myriad transformations ancestor was myriad statue palace, it had human form right now and thus received the injury of this move.
thousand transformations ancestor quickly changed form and flew out of the myriad li adaptation formation, not to retreat but to counterattack.
myriad transformations ancestor did not follow and stayed to guard the myriad li adaptation formation.
wan zi hong retreated slowly without any change in expression.
prince feng xian and xing ye wang flew out and held back thousand transformations ancestor.
thousand transformations ancestor was unable to close the distance between him and wan zi hong, he transformed again and attacked wan zi hong with long range attacks.
wan zi hong sneered as she used another move — helpless withering.
the petals around her whirled down. thousand transformations ancestor’s attacks were all ruined by these falling flowers.
“thousand transformations ancestor, take this move and die!” wan zi hong shouted and pointed her finger.
immortal killer move — yellow flowers thinning life!
thousand transformations ancestor, who was fighting with xing ye wang and prince feng xian, shivered. his expression changed intensely as his body thinned and his lifespan shrank rapidly.
this yellow flowers thinning life was terrifying, it was wan zi hong’s trump card, and although it was a wood path killer move, it could affect lifespan.
thousand transformations ancestor was struck by this move, he tried many transformations but was unable to break it and could only retreat.
xing ye wang and prince feng xian chased after him, thousand transformations ancestor had no choice but to control myriad statue palace to take them on.
myriad transformations ancestor came over to help out.
wan zi hong sneered as she used yellow flowers thinning life on myriad transformations ancestor.
myriad transformations ancestor’s body, similarly, thinned rapidly, his speed and strength both fell. but he was essentially an immortal gu house and had no lifespan. thus, though he looked miserable, it was not a big issue.
thousand transformations ancestor was truly in trouble.
he was unable to break this killer move, and after repeated attempts, he found some transformations that could delay the effect of the killer move.
but that way, he could not transform casually and his battle strength was greatly restrained.
wan zi hong’s offensive methods were extremely terrifying, it was no wonder she had been recruited by heavenly court back then even though she was a demonic immortal.
in the previous life, wan zi hong lacked immortal gu and could only take the position of a healing gu immortal. this was not her specialty, but even so, she had healed many heavenly court gu immortals and created much trouble for longevity heaven.
however, after using yellow flowers thinning life twice in succession, wan zi hong’s face became extremely pale. for some time, she did not continue her attack and only panted heavily. clearly, these two moves put an extreme strain on her, and the risks were also high. if wei feng had not died, wan zi hong would not have used such a risky battle tactic.
thousand transformations ancestor was suppressed by wan zi hong and was anxious, shouting: “fang yuan, if you don’t move now, it will be too late. if i fall, you also won’t be able to escape!”
boom boom boom!
fang yuan made a move.
but he did not reinforce thousand transformations ancestor, instead attacking the myriad li adaptation formation!
without any gu immortals controlling it, this formation became a still target and was already torn apart by fang yuan in a few short moments.
thousand transformations ancestor’s face reddened with anger and his eyes seemed to spout fire: “fang yuan, you bastard!”
he shouted with utmost fury.
previously, fang yuan had used him as a shield, so be it. later, he had cowered at the side like this battle was none of his business, forget that too.
but what in the world was he doing now?
argh!
he was not attacking heavenly court but attacking his formation?
this was too much!!
was he mad?! did he not know that the enemy was strong while they were weak, why was he not letting the past be bygones and collaborating to fight the enemy?
he was continuing the internal fighting even now, what was he thinking?
saying that he had a pig’s brain was humiliating the pig instead!
was he still not seeing the big picture? not even a little?!
thousand transformations ancestor was exasperated, with such an ‘ally’, even heavenly court’s three immortals felt sorry for him.
myriad year flying warship was like a sharp sword that pierced into the formation. fang yuan had quite a technique in disassembling formations, the myriad li adaptation formation was on the verge of collapsing but did not self-destruct.
fang yuan repeatedly looted the immortal gu inside.
he then targeted the dream realm.
the dream realm turned into a pure dream reality seeker physique body. he then grabbed mutation immortal gu in one hand and dancer hong yun’s corpse in the other before entering myriad year flying warship.
“fang yuan, you thief, die!” thousand transformations ancestor’s eyes were bloodshot when he saw fang yuan stealing his rank eight mutation immortal gu. he left myriad statue palace to fight heavenly court’s three immortals and went to kill fang yuan.
after fang yuan obtained what he wanted, he immediately controlled myriad year flying warship to leave.
but thousand transformations ancestor was truly furious, he gave chase without giving up and bombarded myriad year flying warship wildly.
fang yuan had really bullied him too much, this rank eight gu immortal stared at fang yuan with clenched teeth, wanting to eat fang yuan alive.
thousand transformations ancestor’s speed was slower than myriad year flying warship. but heavenly court’s side controlled overturning heaven and earth killer move to obstruct fang yuan’s path while helping thousand transformations ancestor.
heavenly court’s three immortals also slowed down their attacks, happy to watch fang yuan and thousand transformations ancestor fight to death.
“he is blinded by profits! fang yuan has made thousand transformations ancestor his mortal enemy by stealing his rank eight immortal gu.”
“but i feel like there is something wrong, this is not fang yuan’s style. if i were him, i would never do this.”
“wait a second, did he loot the rank eight immortal gu because he already thought of a way out? is this why he is not afraid? we need to be careful!”
heavenly court’s three immortals conversed secretly, they were not complacent but instead became more vigilant.
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Chapter 1876 Western Desert“s Situation
Fang Yuan secretly transmitted: "Thousand Transformations Ancestor, stop chasing me. I can find a way out of this, I will bring you out and you give me mutation Immortal Gu as the reward, how about that?"
Thousand Transformations Ancestor laughed coldly, he replied: "Hmph, wishful thinking, if you open the way out and return the Immortal Gu, we will spare your life."
After his rage subsided, he thought of Fang Yuan's action of stealing the Gu, it meant that he had nothing to fear. His intense anger earlier was real, but afterwards, it was mostly just acting.
The myriad li adaptation formation was broken, if Thousand Transformations Ancestor wanted to leave this place, the best choice was to borrow Fang Yuan's strength.
Even if he could not, he definitely could not let Fang Yuan escape.
If Fang Yuan really escaped, he would be left to deal with Heavenly Court, in the end, he would be overexerted, even if he escapes, this devious demon would ambush and attack him.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor had good foresight, his vision was not limited to just this battle. Thus, he chased Fang Yuan relentlessly, following him closely.
As for Myriad Statue Palace, even if he left it inside overturning heaven and earth, it would only be temporary.
As long as he escapes, he would be able to attack the four Immortal Gu Houses outside the killer move.
The four Immortal Gu Houses maintained overturning heaven and earth, that was the biggest weakness of this move, once they were dealt with or disrupted, Heavenly Court's battlefield that was painstakingly created would have severe loopholes, they would not be able to maintain it.
At once, the three parties of Fang Yuan, Thousand Transformations Ancestor and Heavenly Court chased and escaped, they had many methods that created grand commotions, heaven and earth shook.
Secretly, they were engaging in psychological warfare, they schemed and plotted against each other.
After a long deadlock, the three Heavenly Court immortals' expressions changed.
From outside the battlefield, a large number of people charged in, there were many Gu Immortals including rank eight, they had four Immortal Gu Houses! The palace at the lead was lofty like a mountain, liveliness mixed in its solemnity, its green bricks and golden tiles emitted dense fragrance of plants and trees. What else could it be but Divine Bean Palace?
The one controlling Divine Bean Palace was Fang clan's second supreme elder, Fang Di Chang!
Beside him, there was Fang Gong, Fang Hua Sheng and the rest.
Immortal killer move — Myriad Life Spring Lightning!
Fang Di Chang did not speak, he directly manipulated Divine Bean Palace and shot out countless lightning balls.
The jade green lightning balls landed on Heavenly Court's four Immortal Gu Houses, they shook intensely from the explosions, a large number of vines grew out and infiltrated the Gu Houses.
Heavenly Court immediately went into chaos.
"Ah, Divine Bean Palace!" Seeing that Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's creation was used against them, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals had bloodshot eyes.
"They belong to Western Desert's righteous path!"
"Why are they here?"
"Western Desert's righteous path did not come together, only Fang clan, Tian clan, Dong clan, Shi clan, and Tang clan are here."
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals immediately realized who had arrived.
After Fang Di Chang refined Divine Bean Palace, Fang clan's difficulties were resolved, Fang clan's rise was already unstoppable.
As long as they showed Divine Bean Palace, Western Desert's righteous path would understand reality and change their stance.
Fang Di Chang used this chance to secretly contact Western Desert's righteous path.
To cooperate with his main body, he had to act quickly while keeping it a secret.
Eventually, he only gathered four super clans, Tian clan, Dong clan, Shi clan, and Tang clan.
This level of strength was already enough to change the situation!
Heavenly Court was caught by surprise, their arrangements were strong on the inside but weak on the outside. Divine Bean Palace displayed terrifying might, Heavenly Court's four Immortal Gu Houses were shaking intensely, they were greatly disadvantaged.
The killer move overturning heaven and earth was also severely disrupted, it could not be sustained perfectly.
"To think it was so convenient!" Fang Yuan laughed loudly as he escaped outside using the exposed route.
"Where are you going!" Thousand Transformations Ancestor chased him relentlessly.
Fang Yuan turned around as he sneered: "You really think I'm afraid of you?"
Myriad Year Flying Warship suddenly turned around as daybreak swords shot out like a torrent.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor shouted in anger but he could not defend against the full power of this rank eight Immortal Gu House, he was forced back into overturning heaven and earth.
He was trapped again.
"I'm leaving!" Fang Yuan laughed heartily as Myriad Year Flying Warship tore through the air, vanishing rapidly.
Western Desert's righteous path went into a commotion, some wanted to stop Fang Yuan but Fang Di Chang stopped them in a justified tone: "Let Fang Yuan go, he is the enemy of Heavenly Court, it will be helpful to us in the future!"
Fang Di Chang led the allied forces to fight against Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court was in an awkward state now, there was Thousand Transformations Ancestor inside and Western Desert's righteous path outside.
Xing Ye Wang shouted in anger: "Western Desert's immortals, you are the shame of the righteous path, you are publicly helping demonic path Gu Immortals."
Fang Di Chang sneered and replied: "The great Heavenly Court is far more shameless than us. You were the ones who took in that Western Desert demoness Wan Zi Hong yourselves, but you want to accuse us instead?"
Xing Ye Wang was stupefied and speechless.
Prince Feng Xian had a cold tone: "Are you really going to stand at odds against us, Heavenly Court, today?"
Fang Di Chang replied: "Not long ago, our Fang clan got into a dangerous situation, your Heavenly Court were the ones who added fuel to the fire, you have great ambitions. Do you really think Western Desert has no intelligent or outstanding people? When the regional walls vanish and the five regions become one, will Western Desert let you treat us as meat on the chopping block?"
Prince Feng Xian snorted coldly, he stopped speaking.
"Hehehe, to think that Western Desert would have such an interesting junior." Wan Zi Hong's face regained a bit of color as she looked towards Divine Bean Palace with interest, she said: "We will retreat."
There was no helping it, retreating was the best option.
Heavenly Court retreated with composure and order, they were not anxious.
"No need to chase them." Fang Di Chang said.
This made all of the Gu Immortals let out sighs of relief. After all, they did not want to fight with Heavenly Court to the end, if their losses were huge, the other Western Desert super forces would benefit.
Only Thousand Transformations Ancestor and Western Desert's righteous path were left.
The door of Divine Bean Palace opened as Fang Di Chang stepped outside, smiling: "Thousand Transformations Ancestor, we have a common enemy. Not long after, the five regions will merge, the Gu Immortal world will face an unprecedented great era. We are willing to join forces with you and resist the enemy, what do you think about that?"
"This person can see the big picture!" Thousand Transformations Ancestor's eyes shined, he nodded as he remembered Fang Di Chang's words in his heart: "I will look for you."
"Good, with your help, Heavenly Court will definitely have an even tougher time." Fang Di Chang clapped and he laughed loudly.
"Let's go." He ordered as Western Desert's righteous path allied forces left together.
They came quickly and left just as quickly.
But the Western Desert Gu Immortals had extremely excited faces.
Because they defeated Heavenly Court!
This was Heavenly Court!
Only Fang Gong had a look of worry.
He looked at the confident Fang Di Chang beside him leading the army as he, the first supreme elder, became an accompaniment.
He felt immense pressure.
"But so what?"
"Fang Di Chang and I merely have internal conflict. Fang clan's rise to become the leader of Western Desert's righteous path and defeating Heavenly Court is an external matter. How can I focus on internal conflict and cause harm to Fang clan? Even if my authority is taken in the future, our Fang clan will still be the Fang clan of Fang clansmen!"
Fang Di Chang knew that even though they had no physical gains in this battle, Fang clan's rise was already undeniable! Fang Di Chang obtained the greatest political wealth in his entire life!
The clans who came were originally disunited, they were only joined together forcefully. But after this battle, the glory turned into cohesiveness as these five clans started to unite. As for Fang clan, it was the leader of this group that sought benefits!
"Fang clan's Fang Di Chang, he is truly a formidable person." Thousand Transformations Ancestor watched Western Desert's righteous path leave as he sighed to himself.
Myriad Statue Palace returned to him without making a sound.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor looked at the directions where Fang Yuan and Heavenly Court escaped, he gritted his teeth: "Fang Yuan, Heavenly Court, just you wait!"
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Chapter 1877 Li Xiao Bai“s Promotion
Fang Yuan looked at the mutation Immortal Gu in his hands.
This Immortal Gu had a peculiar shape, it had the body of a longhorn beetle, it had eight spider-like legs, it had a rhinoceros beetle horn on its head, it had cicada wings and two mantis arms. Its tail shined brightly like a firefly, but the light was a rainbow color.
Mutation Immortal Gu was the possession of Thousand Transformations Ancestor, but this was not a problem for Fang Yuan.
After Fang Yuan left the battlefield, he refined this rank eight Immortal Gu during the time he traveled.
There was no need to mention Thousand Transformations Ancestor's anger after sensing this, Fang Yuan tried several times and found out the effects of mutation Immortal Gu.
This was an offensive Immortal Gu, it had great power, it could mutate a portion of the enemy's body, it dominated rank sevens and could give huge problems to immemorial desolate beasts.
It could also be used on oneself to add transformations to one's transformations. For example, if Fang Yuan turns into a tiger, after using mutation Immortal Gu, he could gain two wings on his tiger body, he might get a third eye on his tiger head, he might even grow a scorpion stinger at the end of his tail.
Of course, these were positive mutations.
There could also be detrimental mutations.
For example, the tiger's stomach might grow an elephant leg that is much longer than the tiger's entire body. The tiger's back might gain a butthole, it would be an obvious weakness that the enemy would target.
Using mutation Immortal Gu alone would have mixed effects, it was risky.
Because this Immortal Gu was rank eight, it would trigger rank eight level mutations, there would be huge effects on the body.
Thus, to play safe, he had to use other supplementary Gu worms with mutation Immortal Gu to form killer moves.
Using these moves to amplify oneself was the least risky way.
Other than attacking enemies with mutation Immortal Gu, it could also be used to manage the immortal aperture.
Using it as the core to display a killer move or immortal formation, it would cause more mutations to the lifeforms within the immortal aperture. Ordinary beasts would gradually grow into mutated beasts.
Of course, these mutated beasts could also be crippled, but due to natural selection, they would slowly phase out of existence.
As for those powerful mutated beasts, they would survive and reproduce, creating a brand new species.
Normally, these mutated lifeforms would develop into the specialty resource of a certain immortal aperture, they would not exist elsewhere. If they were well received in the market, this would become the Gu Immortals' long term income source, they would gain a huge profit from this over time.
"Mutation Immortal Gu has such a comprehensive effect, it should be one of the core Immortal Gu of Reckless Savage's true inheritance. No wonder Thousand Transformations Ancestor became so nervous after losing it." Fang Yuan thought.
Other than mutation Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan also gained several other Immortal Gu.
Most were transformation path Immortal Gu, there was also a rank seven rule path Immortal Gu — Pass.
This was an insect that seemed like a flightless cockroach, it had the size of a fetus' fist, it was flat and shining in a metallic color, giving off a feeling of toughness.
Back then, when Night Temptress and Immortal Concubine Qing Lan first set an immortal formation, it was the core of it.
Feng Jiu Ge was hidden nearby, he saw this Immortal Gu and wanted to obtain it.
This Immortal Gu had great value to him.
To think that in the end, this Immortal Gu would end up with Fang Yuan.
"Just these Immortal Gu and Thousand Transformations Ancestor's methods show how powerful Reckless Savage's true inheritance is. It is a pity, I can't act rashly."
Thousand Transformations Ancestor had only gone through one myriad tribulation, his dao marks could not compare to Fang Yuan. But he had many methods and was a person with great endurance and acting skills, Wei Feng was done in by him. This was unless Fang Yuan could lure him into a battlefield killer move.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor still had Myriad Statue Palace guarding him, this rank eight Immortal Gu House had shocking strength, it could transform into Thousand Transformations Ancestor at crucial moments to deceive enemies, it was quite an obstacle.
It was not easy to scheme against him.
Looking at Heavenly Court, they planned for so long and used overturning heaven and earth killer move, they mobilized four rank eights but ended up with no gains.
And most crucially, Fang Yuan could not display his true battle strength.
A little impatience will spoil great plans, if the secret that he had become rank eight gets exposed, the detriment would be huge.
Thus, when dealing with the Three Crazed Demon Eccentrics, he was very careful.
Fang Yuan was looking at the big picture.
"The Central Continent Refinement Path Convention is approaching."
"Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world has Longevity Heaven, Southern Border has the ambitious Wu Yong, Eastern Sea is led by my Qi Sea Ancestor identity, Western Desert has Fang clan and Tang clan that I can make use of."
"I can already see the situation of four regions attacking Central Continent."
This was something Fang Yuan had been planning since rebirth.
Finally, at this moment, he could see some results from his work.
Fang Yuan was no longer just a single rank eight Gu Immortal, he had outstanding subordinates, he had many talented people under him.
He was also not just a normal super force, he plotted against the world, using everyone as his pawns to get rid of his biggest obstacle, Heavenly Court.
Heaven's will made use of him, Spectral Soul made use of him, Red Lotus Demon Venerable made use of him, Chu Du made use of him, Lang Ya land spirit made use of him… but now, he was finally one of the chess players.
Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
"Did I see wrongly? Why is my student's name on the list of the ten great scholars?" Teacher Jiang looked at this information, he felt deeply shocked, he was stunned.
"Teacher, are you inside? Your student Li Xiao Bai would like to see you." At this moment, Li Xiao Bai's voice resounded from outside the door.
Teacher Jiang quickly opened the door: "Come in, tell me, what is going on?"
Li Xiao Bai went through deep consideration and made up his mind, he told everything that had happened that night to Teacher Jiang.
He was very troubled: "Teacher, you need to help me."
Teacher Jiang heard this as he looked at Li Xiao Bai blankly, his expression turned weird, he shook his head in a seemingly smiling expression: "Oh you, I have no idea what to say about this."
In Teacher Jiang's perspective, Li Xiao Bai had no hope of becoming one of the ten great scholars.
But when luck came approaching, it could not be stopped.
His great luck made even Teacher Jiang feel a bit of envy and jealousy in his heart.
"After the matter, Lady Su Qi Han tested me before informing me that I will become one of the ten great scholars. I received your guidance and did not dare to be arrogant, I quickly rejected her but Lady Su Qi Han made up her mind already, I was helpless against her, after all, the weak cannot contend with the strong." Li Xiao Bai expressed his sadness.
"Your encounter would make everyone jealous, you want to reject it?" Teacher Jiang smiled.
"Teacher, stop making fun of me. I came here to ask you to save my life. I do not have enough talent, becoming one of the ten great scholars would simply push me into the pit of doom." Li Xiao Bai cupped his fists and said.
Teacher Jiang stopped smiling, he nodded: "Yes, you are neither arrogant nor prideful, you can see reality. Clearly, I did not waste my time teaching you. But you are overthinking this, before becoming one of the ten great scholars, if you try to compete for a spot, you will face great danger. But now that you are already one of them, the Imperial Court will defend you. Whoever tries to harm you will also be attacking the reputation of the Imperial Court, do you understand this?"
Li Xiao Bai shook his head: "But I still feel very worried. Compared to the other nine, I am less renowned, people might come after me. Also, after that matter happened, Lady Su Qi Han is also being extremely strict towards me."
Teacher Jiang nodded again: "Even though I am here, I have heard of this junior Su Qi Han, she has immense talent and a prideful nature. Since she wants to take responsibility for you… I am sure she wants to marry you, I mean, she wants you to marry into Su clan."
"She is one of the most famous female scholars, her husband has to match her talent. But she will not act blindly, she wants to test you first, after seeing that you have some talent, she nominated you. In the future, she will pave the way for you and help you to advance even further."
Saying so, Teacher Jiang looked at Li Xiao Bai with a complex expression.
He was also one of the ten great scholars in the past, he was proud of his talent and looked down on everyone. But reality was cruel, there was only one road of advancement, countless people wanted to fight for it.
He could not compete against them, after a long time, even though his reputation spread widely, he was only famous outside of the Imperial Court.
To think that his student who had inferior talent, background, and network would succeed due to immensely good luck!
For an absurd reason, he became Su Qi Han's man and was greatly supported by her!
Forget about Su Qi Han herself, but she was backed by Su clan, her father was the Court's Chancellor Su, Li Xiao Bai gained a huge background all of a sudden.
"To speak the truth, I was quite happy initially, but recently, I felt something amiss, I am getting more fearful. Lady Su Qi Han has so many admirers, this matter… cannot be known to anyone else, all of these young talented geniuses will hate me for becoming Lady Su's lover. Especially after the selection of the ten great scholars, I will need to enter the Court and meet the Emperor, along the way to the Imperial City, what should I do? I am helpless now, I need your help, teacher." Li Xiao Bai sighed deeply.
Teacher Jiang was a little unhappy, he grunted lightly: "Xiao Bai, don't look down on yourself, you have enough talent, do you think my teaching was a waste? As my student, when others target you, they need to consider my reputation as well. How about this… I will write a few recommendation letters for you, go visit them and they will provide you some help along the way."
Saying so, he paused a bit as Teacher Jiang made up his mind: "You can stay here for a few days, I will impart some of my methods to you."
Li Xiao Bai was overjoyed, he quickly bowed deeply: "This student thanks teacher!"
Su Qi Han wanted him to keep this a secret but Li Xiao Bai did not really care about that.
After the time was right, he immediately told the secret to Teacher Jiang, he seemed to be asking for help but he was actually displaying his own value.
Teacher Jiang was excluded from the Imperial Court, he could not enter the core, seeing that his student had a high chance of getting in, if his student becomes famous in the future, would he forget this valuable teacher?
Impossible!
Teacher Jiang was extremely familiar with Li Xiao Bai's nature, he was not an ungrateful person.
Even if he wants to disregard him in the future, he would be subject to public opinion, he would not dare to ignore this benefactor and teacher. The higher Li Xiao Bai's status, the more he would treasure his reputation, and the more he would repay this teacher.
Thinking of this, Teacher Jiang decided to do his best and use all his resources to help this student gain success and status.
His student's success would also be his own success!
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Chapter 1878 World Savior Little Du
Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, Sacred Eagle City.
In terms of size, Sacred Eagle City was much larger than Mountain Cliff City. Mountain Cliff City was only a sub-city but Sacred Eagle City was one of the main cities.
In the previous life, when Fang Yuan attacked Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, he turned into the bull demon and first landed in this city.
In this life, Sacred Eagle City was currently in a terrible situation.
The entire city turned into a swamp kingdom, yellow soil crocodiles moved around in the swamp, hunting the people in the city.
Eagle Warrior defended this place. he was strong but he was currently heavily injured.
An immemorial desolate eagle had injured him, it was still flying in the sky, if any warrior appeared, it would dive down and attack.
"How could this happen!" Eagle Warrior was bathed in blood, he lay in the mud as he watched his people get slaughtered, he was furious and shocked.
Nobody could imagine that such a large group of fierce beasts would attack Sacred Eagle City all of the sudden.
It was still peaceful earlier, this city was serene and bustling, but in a moment, it turned into a bloody slaughterhouse.
"No, I cannot watch this happen, I need to stop everything!" Eagle Warrior struggled to get up, he wanted to stand but his injuries were too severe, he fell down once more.
As he was about to fall to the ground, a young and muscular arm grabbed onto Eagle Warrior.
"Uncle Eagle, you cannot fight anymore, if you continue, you will die." A youthful voice said.
Eagle Warrior turned to look at the youngster who supported him, he smiled bitterly: "Little Du, thanks for saving my life. But I am the Sacred Eagle City Lord, I cannot watch as the beast calamity continues to cause destruction, I cannot let my people become the food of these beasts."
"Uncle Eagle, let me do it!" Little Du had shining eyes as he spoke with determination.
"You?" Eagle Warrior looked at the injury on Little Du's chest, he shook his head: "Little Du, you are not a member of Sacred Eagle City, you came here because I invited you to come and tour the city to repay the gratitude of saving my life. You already got injured to save me, you are not these beasts' match, quickly leave! Go now!"
"No, I am not leaving, I want to fight with you, uncle. Let's defeat these evil beasts." Little Du shook his head.
Eagle Warrior was moved, he patted Little Du's shoulder, he said with joy: "Mountain Cliff City Lord had really taken in a good disciple. Why can't I find a disciple like you? Little Du, you are still too young, you have a brighter future than me, you cannot die here. I want you to promise me something, after you leave here, wait for the Guild's reinforcements to arrive, then come and retrieve my corpse. Remember, I want to be buried in the garden."
"Uncle!" Little Du's eyes turned red, tears could be seen in his eyes, he was choked with tears and could not speak.
"Quickly leave!!" Eagle Warrior suddenly exerted his strength and pulled Little Du's hand away, he flew into the sky.
He turned into a heavily injured silver eagle again as he charged towards the immemorial desolate eagle in the sky.
"The Gu Immortals here are really different from the ones outside, they are willing to sacrifice their lives for mortals." Little Du sighed in his heart, feeling moved.
"But it is useless, this immemorial desolate eagle was nurtured by my main body purposely to deal with you."
Beast Calamity grotto-heaven was not Profound Literature grotto-heaven, there was little restriction here. After Little Du received Eagle Warrior's invitation, he informed the main body and set up this trap.
This was a great opportunity.
Because Beast Calamity's true inheritance was split into several portions kept in the main cities of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
Fang Yuan's clone had no chance to get close to those true inheritances with a proper reason.
He wanted to create a chance, but Eagle Warrior personally handed this opportunity over to him.
If Eagle Warrior who was bathed in blood learned that the reason why Sacred Eagle City faced such a calamity was due to himself, who knew how he would feel.
Eagle Warrior was not the immemorial desolate eagle's match, he quickly fell into a disadvantage.
The immemorial desolate eagle attacked again, about to peck Eagle Warrior to death, when Little Du turned into the arrowtail eagle once again and saved him at the moment of life and death.
"Little Du, why haven't you left?!" Eagle Warrior was shocked and extremely anxious.
"Uncle, how can I watch you die here? How can I let everyone get into such great danger? Even if I have to sacrifice my life, even if my blood bleeds dry, I will fight till the end!" Little Du said with firm determination.
"Little Du…"Eagle Warrior was speechless, he was extremely weak now, he turned back into human form as Little Du's claws grabbed onto him.
Little Du fought against the immemorial desolate eagle but he was not its match.
But the immemorial desolate eagle was the main body's pawn to begin with, Little Du often got into dangerous situations where his life was at stake, he constantly got injured but managed to retreat each time.
Eagle Warrior watched with a palpitating heart, he fought without any fear himself, but when he watched Little Du fight, he became very concerned, he could not help but shout warnings due to his intense nervousness.
When he saw that Little Du was bleeding and gaining more wounds, he felt deep heartache.
Little Du had saved him earlier in the Twelve Zodiac battle formation, he was a benefactor. Now, he had saved Eagle Warrior twice, he was even fighting to the death for Sacred Eagle City. This moved Eagle Warrior deeply, he acknowledged Little Du's nature and disposition, he felt deep admiration towards the young lad.
Fang Yuan was ruthless to others, but was even more ruthless to himself.
As his clone, Little Du had the same style and personality.
These were genuine wounds and injuries, Eagle Warrior was completely moved by him.
Little Du had just become a Gu Immortal, he was a new Combat Beast Warrior, the youngest one in the Combat Beast Guild. With this level of strength, he was definitely not the immemorial desolate eagle's match.
After a while of fighting, he was smacked by the immemorial desolate eagle and fell into the City Lord Manor.
This was naturally his plan, Little Du fell heavily and crashed through the floor, entering the underground altar.
Eagle Warrior had already fainted earlier, when he woke up, he saw that Little Du was beside him.
"Uncle, you are awake!" Little Du was overjoyed.
Eagle Warrior was also overjoyed that Little Du was still alive, but he quickly frowned as he asked: "How long was I unconscious for?"
"Not very long, the guild's reinforcements did not come, after the eagle attacked us, it remained flying in the sky instead of pursuing us." Little Du answered.
"Sigh!" Eagle Warrior sighed deeply: "It seems that we cannot defeat this eagle in a frontal battle."
Little Du analyzed: "Thankfully, this eagle is not smart, if we do not transform, it will not feel any threat, so it will not attack us."
"We cannot transform into our immortal beast form now, we need to use other transformations to save the city's people." Eagle Warrior was very worried.
If he could not become an immortal beast, he would not be able to control the situation.
He could only fight against those yellow soil crocodiles and save all of the citizens one by one, the efficiency was too low.
There was no choice, they had to do that.
But when they were about to leave, they found that a large number of yellow soil crocodiles had formed into a group, they had sealed all the entrances.
There were two desolate beast yellow soil crocodiles too.
Eagle Warrior and Little Du could not turn into immortal beasts, they could not fight the two desolate beasts, they had to retreat.
Eagle Warrior sat on the ground, he had an ashen expression: "It seems that we can only wait for reinforcements. I hope they can arrive soon."
"They won't." Little Du thought to himself: "According to my plans, the reinforcements will be obstructed, I still have some time to execute my plans."
But on the outside, Little Du frowned as he slammed his fist on the ground: "Damn it! Are we just going to wait here until reinforcements come? Where are we? Why is there an altar here?"
Eagle Warrior answered: "We are below the City Lord Manor now. As for this altar…"
Before he finished, Little Du interjected.
Little Du's brows were raised: "To think that there is so much space underneath the City Lord Manor. I've got it, we can move underground and get past the yellow soil crocodiles to escape."
Eagle Warrior shook his head: "It is useless. This underground area only covers the City Lord Manor, we cannot go to the outer city. Those yellow soil crocodiles are also skilled at digging underground, they often live in swamps after all."
"Damn it." Little Du gritted his teeth, suddenly, he gasped: "Wait no, uncle, isn't it strange? Why are those yellow soil crocodiles just surrounding this place but not attacking us? The eagle in the sky might be prideful and not feel like attacking us, but why are those yellow soil crocodiles waiting outside, they seem to be avoiding something."
Eagle Warrior forced a smile: "Little Du, your observation is right. But don't be too hopeful, these yellow soil crocodiles can't get near because of this altar. It is extremely old, legends say that the first generation Combat Beast King arranged it here, a portion of his power is sealed inside."
"First generation Combat Beast King? Why did he seal his own power?" Little Du asked curiously.
"It seems that he wants to give it to an inheritor. There are several more altars in the other main cities, whoever can collect all of these powers will obtain the strength of the first generation Combat Beast King!" Eagle Warrior said slowly.
Little Du blinked multiple times: "Then, why don't we use this power to defeat the beasts outside?"
Eagle Warrior smiled bitterly: "It is useless! These are all rumors, there are no actual records about it. Countless people tried but nobody has succeeded. These are likely false rumors, but these altars are very powerful indeed, they have a mysterious power and cannot be destroyed, beasts also cannot get hear them."
Saying so, Eagle Warrior saw that Little Du was excited and laughed: "If you want to try it, go ahead. But remember my words, don't be too hopeful, don't get disappointed if nothing happens."
"Okay, uncle." Little Du took large strides and quickly got to the altar.
He walked several rounds around the altar but nothing happened.
He climbed up but there was still no reaction.
This was a normal situation, Eagle Warrior watched at the side.
But at this moment, Little Du knelt down and started to pray loudly: "First generation Combat Beast King, I don't know you and have never met you before! But I hope you can help us, beasts are outside eating the people, every breath of time, a life is lost. I beg you, first generation Combat Beast King, if you can hear me in heaven, please do something, do something!"
Little Du spoke louder and louder as he teared up towards the end.
"Little Du… you are truly a kind hearted and innocent boy!" Eagle Warrior's eyes turned red too, he felt deeply moved.
Then, at the next moment!
White light burst out of the altar, enveloping Little Du's body.
"Hmm?" Eagle Warrior stared with wide eyes, he opened his mouth and became lost for words: "What, what is going on?!"
Bam.
A soft sound could be heard as the white light fused into Little Du's body, the firm and indestructible altar shattered into pieces at the next moment.
"Little… Little Du?!" Eagle Warrior stammered.
Little Du turned around with an expression of joy: "Uncle, you were right. I inherited the power of the first generation Combat Beast King!"
"A miracle! This is a miracle!!" Eagle Warrior reacted as he raised his head towards the sky, becoming extremely happy.
He laughed for a while before turning to look at Little Du, his gaze was filled with seriousness and excitement: "Little Du, you actually inherited the power of the first generation Combat Beast King! Do you know what that means?"
"What?" Little Du was dumbfounded.
"This means that you can inherit the rest of the inheritances. You are the future Combat Beast King! No, more accurately, you are the world's savior!" Eagle Warrior became incredibly excited.
"That's right, you are the world's savior."
"World Savior Little Du!"
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Chapter 1879 Situation
Eastern Sea.
Dragon Palace.
Fang Yuan's clone, Wu Shuai, sat on his dragon throne as he manipulated his army ants.
During this period of time, the ant army had already developed to a certain size.
At this moment, there were over a hundred million ants, they moved like a golden river and circled in the sky.
Wu Shuai took out a rank eight immortal material.
It was a bunch of bird feathers, these feathers had a stone texture but looked very lifelike, they were covered in a grey-white light.
If one sniffed them, they would be able to smell the stench of a corpse.
This was the immemorial desolate beast corpse emperor bird's feathers.
Wu Shuai blew lightly as the feathers flew into the sky, fusing into the golden river of army ants.
Soon, he started to hear noises.
Countless army ants landed on the corpse emperor bird feathers and devoured them.
Even though there were only ten feathers, they were rank eight immortal materials after all, just a tiny bit was enough to feed an army of ten thousand ants, it could last very long.
A moment later, the corpse emperor bird feathers got completely consumed by the army ants.
These army ants were not just fed, they even created a new batch of army ants.
The new ants were corpse ants, they emitted death energy, they could eat the corpses of army ants to get stronger. The more corpses they ate, the stronger the corpse ants became. There was a limit to this growth of course, the strongest corpse ant could match a king ant but could not match a queen ant.
"With these corpse ants, the army ants will be more usable and durable in battle. Before this, the ants would die in vain, but with corpse ants, I can make use of their corpses. In this regard, I can save quite a bit of cost too." Wu Shuai let out a breath of air.
The army ants were extremely profound, they contained the essence of enslavement path.
Feeding the army ants not only maintained their numbers, new breeds could even be created. When countless different army ants work together, they would produce many unique effects.
But the army ants could only alleviate the weakness of enslavement path, they could not eliminate it.
Enslavement path truly used up too many resources.
After growing the army ants to this scale that could fight rank eight Gu Immortals, Wu Shuai was starting to feel a heavy burden.
"My main body is refining Gu, the expenditure is huge, the army ants I am raising are also a bottomless hole."
"Thankfully, I have the help of Gu tribe and the merfolk, otherwise, my army ants would not develop to this size."
Right at this moment, Wu Shuai's expression changed.
A Gu Immortal had appeared outside Dragon Palace, visiting Wu Shuai.
Wu Shuai opened the palace doors and went to invite the person in.
"Tang Qiong greets Lord Wu Shuai." It was a yellow scaled mermaid, she was adorable and gentle, she smiled as dimples were seen on her face.
She was an elder in charge of the Merman Imperial Court, she represented a portion of their will.
Fang Yuan's clone Wu Shuai helped to convert a portion of Gu tribe and the mermen into new dragonmen, the relationship between the three groups had deepened a lot.
Tang Qiong was the representative of the Merman Imperial Court, she interacted with Wu Shuai deeply and always kept a polite attitude, she treated Wu Shuai as an actual senior.
Wu Shuai brought Tang Qiong into Dragon Palace.
"Even though this is not my first visit, I am still in awe regarding Dragon Palace's grand appearance." Tang Qiong sighed to herself, she had a sincere expression.
Wu Shuai laughed: "Fairy Tang Qiong, what brings you here?"
Tang Qiong showed a serious expression: "Senior, Qi Sea Ancestor is holding a banquet in Eastern Sea, he has invited the entirety of Eastern Sea Gu Immortal world to attend it. My Imperial Court received the invitation as well, our grand elder wants to ask senior if you are going to the banquet along with us?"
"Oh, that matter." Wu Shuai heard this and his eyes shined with bright light.
After Fang Yuan's main body snatched mutation Immortal Gu, he used the identity of Qi Sea Ancestor to interfere in Eastern Sea's politics.
This Eastern Sea banquet was one of Fang Yuan's plans, but in his plan, he did not invite Wu Shuai.
Wasn't it easy to invite his own clone?
But Fang Yuan wanted to conceal Wu Shuai for now, he did not want to expose him yet.
The Merman Imperial Court actually invited Wu Shuai to go with them, this action had deep meaning. It showed that the merfolk really wanted to get closer with the dragonmen.
"I have rank eight Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace while the Merman Imperial Court has no rank eight Immortal Gu House. Their force was established with the help of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable back then, after so many years, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's influence has dwindled, his protection will eventually vanish."
"As a variant human, the dragonman race is a natural ally indeed."
"Even so, the merfolk are taking a huge risk, this current generation grand elder has a lot of resolution."
Wu Shuai thought about it, he asked an obvious question: "Then, did Qi Sea Ancestor invite Fang Yuan as well?"
Within the palace, Tang Qiong shook her head: "Qi Sea Ancestor has announced that he will not invite Fang Yuan. He said that this banquet is an Eastern Sea banquet, Fang Yuan is not an Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, he will not be invited."
Wu Shuai nodded.
That had to be the case.
If Qi Sea Ancestor invited Fang Yuan, it would be an act against Heavenly Court. He was not afraid of them, but Fang Yuan had to consider the feelings of the other Eastern Sea Gu Immortals.
He was not afraid of Heavenly Court, but Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals were afraid and wary of Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court's reputation was deeply ingrained in everyone, it was after all the number one force in the world, it had a history of three million years!
If he invited Fang Yuan, the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals might have second thoughts and decide not to attend the banquet, that would go against Fang Yuan's intentions.
Qi Sea Ancestor had also just taken half a Primordial Origin true inheritance from Duke Long. If he immediately approached Fang Yuan after that, it would be disadvantageous towards the big picture.
Tang Qiong observed his expression but had no findings. Wu Shuai was ambitious and unfathomable, it was normal that he showed no signs on his face.
Tang Qiong had to encourage him: "Senior Wu Shuai, pardon my disrespectful words but in my tribe's opinion, although you have an agreement with Fang Yuan and are working together, you are you and Fang Yuan is Fang Yuan, we cannot treat the two as the same entity. Even though Fang Yuan is strong, he is a human with a special identity, he is ruthless and hard to read. Dragonmen will reign supreme, but to truly rise up, you need to rely on yourselves, becoming a force of your own and dominating your own area."
"Haha, you are right." Wu Shuai laughed: "I will remember your tribe's sincerity. But now is not the time for the dragonman race to reappear in this world."
"Qi Sea Ancestor invited a huge range of Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals, even though he has some agreement with Heavenly Court and is in a neutral position, Heavenly Court will not want such an influential person to exist in Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world."
"If I join the banquet, Heavenly Court will be even more wary, they might even take action."
"By then, we cannot confirm what stance Qi Sea Ancestor will take. Furthermore, I am not an Eastern Sea Gu Immortal in identity."
Tang Qiong pondered about it: "According to my tribe's deductions, Qi Sea Ancestor is strong but as a lone cultivator, he likely wants to stay neutral. He has made agreements with both Heavenly Court and Fang Yuan, senior, if you go, he will have a good opportunity to express his stance, he will definitely welcome you, even though his attitude might not be too enthusiastic nor cold."
"Hmm… give me some time to consider it." Wu Shuai pondered and said.
"Alright, senior, if you want to go, please contact me. I will take my leave."
Watching Tang Qiong leave Dragon Palace, Wu Shuai fell into deep thought.
From this matter, he could see the attitude of the merfolk, it was very advantageous to him, he could make use of it.
To speak the truth, he did not want to burden the main body excessively. He would rather settle most things himself through his own effort.
The merfolk were a part of Eastern Sea, their attitude was also the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal world's attitude towards Qi Sea Ancestor and this huge banquet.
It was a good attitude.
It was very beneficial to Fang Yuan's plans.
With just Qi Sea Ancestor's identity, wanting to set up a banquet and uniting the whole of Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world was wishful thinking. That was basically impossible.
Longevity Heaven had dominated Northern Plains for so many years but they had not united their Gu Immortal world either.
Fang Yuan did not dream of this, what he wanted was to influence Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world! He wanted to make sure that when dealing with Heavenly Court in the future, Qi Sea Ancestor's decisions and actions would greatly affect the choices made by Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals.
Before Qi Sea Ancestor's banquet began, Western Desert's Fang Di Chang, who was also Fang Yuan's clone, had also started doing something like this.
"Everyone, goodbye."
"Friend Xiao, please take care."
Fang Di Chang sent off the final Western Desert Gu Immortal.
A Western Desert righteous path meeting had just ended.
Fang Di Chang cooperated with the main body, leading the allied forces of five clans in Western Desert's righteous path, 'defeating' Heavenly Court. Fang Di Chang used this outstanding result to its limit, he invited all of the Western Desert super forces to come for a meeting.
"These guys… hmph!" Fang Gong walked out and looked at Xiao clan's Gu Immortal leave as he showed an unhappy expression.
This gathering did not have a good result.
Many forces were cold towards Fang clan, some even suspected Fang clan's victory over Heavenly Court.
They were simply provoking Fang clan!
Fang Di Chang smiled bitterly: "First supreme elder, don't be too angry, the truth is, Heavenly Court managed to retreat safely, they lost one rank eight because of Thousand Transformations Ancestor as well. The 'defeat' of Heavenly Court was merely our publicization to raise our reputation."
"Our Fang clan rose to power too abruptly, we have not won yet. These clans are too envious of our good luck in obtaining Divine Bean Palace."
"Right now, we rode on this wave and held a meeting, in their eyes, they think that our Fang clan just wants to be the leader hastily. Thus, they did not send any elders with authority, they only sent some insignificant members."
Other than the four clans who allied with them showing a sincere attitude, most of the other super clans did not give Fang clan face.
But this was something that could not be helped.
Firstly, Fang clan did not obtain an actual victory, their battle strength was not threatening enough.
Secondly, they did not have true authority, these clans were not interested in entertaining them.
"Heavenly Court must be sowing discord as well. There is no helping it, our influence can only grow slowly." Fang Di Chang said.
"Hmph, during the five regions war, when Central Continent attacks, I want to see what these people will do." Fang Gong snorted coldly.
Fang Di Chang squinted but he sighed in his mind.
How could these super forces not understand the big picture?
They knew about it clearly, but so what?
These forces restrained and restricted each other, they had countless years of grudges and conflict, their individual interests and benefits were at stake, without any life-and-death crisis, their usual mindsets would not allow them to work together.
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Chapter 1880 Heavenly Court“s Discussion
Heavenly Court.
In the silvery white sky, countless immortal palaces were erected.
Within the discussion hall, more than ten Gu Immortals had gathered.
Duke Long sat at the highest seat, followed by Fairy Zi Wei and Qin Ding Ling. After them were Bai Cang Shui, Cong Yan, Che Wei, Yuan Qiong Du, Zhou Xiong Xin, and the rest.
Other than that, there were the wills of Gu Liu Ru, Wan Zi Hong, Prince Feng Xian, Xing Ye Wang, Jun Shen Guang, and others. These people had missions to do, they were unable to participate in this Heavenly Court meeting personally.
Once in a while, Heavenly Court's members would gather and hold a meeting to discuss matters and bring up their own opinions, to come to some consensus.
During normal times, Heavenly Court would usually be led by wisdom path Gu Immortals in terms of management. Currently, Duke Long was the psychological pillar holding up the organization while Fairy Zi Wei had control over the administrative affairs. Before her was Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord.
"Yuan Qiong Du, how is the research on second aperture Gu going?" Duke Long asked.
Yuan Qiong Du answered: "With Lady Zi Wei's help, I have already deduced some secrets, we can refine rank one to five second aperture Gu now."
The truth was that Heavenly Court's refinement path foundation was deeper than Lang Ya Sect.
There were three refinement path supreme grandmasters in history, Long Hair Ancestor was just one of them, the other two had practically their entire inheritances collected by Heavenly Court.
Yuan Qiong Du was the current person in charge of refinement path, he had incredible talent and aptitude, he was the one responsible for repairing fate Gu in the previous life.
Along with Fairy Zi Wei's deductions, the combination of these three things made it not so hard for them to deduce the recipe of Fang Yuan's second aperture mortal Gu.
After hearing this, many of the immortals had joyful expressions as they started to converse.
I've heard of this second aperture Gu, it is a good thing."
"That's right, having a second aperture will give Gu Masters a huge boost in battle strength."
"If we can obtain the Immortal Gu recipe, it will also be extremely meaningful to Gu Immortals!"
"From this point, we need to thank Fang Yuan, hahaha."
Fairy Zi Wei spoke in a calm tone as she interrupted: "Is Fang Yuan such a foolish person? He had already expected second aperture Gu to be deduced when he threw it out to Southern Border's righteous path. A second aperture has deep meaning indeed, but if Gu Masters had a second aperture, they would need double the time and effort to cultivate. They would need more resources as well."
"So that's it." The Gu Immortals here were all rank eight elites, Fairy Zi Wei had just said this when they understood the reasoning.
"Fang Yuan is intentionally doing this."
"He gave out second aperture Gu to extort Southern Border's righteous path but also to make plans for the five regions chaotic war."
"That's right, when the regional walls vanish and the five regions fuse, Gu Immortals and Gu Masters will not change in numbers, but this second aperture Gu will spread rapidly. By then, their need for resources will double, what will everyone do? They will need to fight and start conflicts to gather resources."
"This demon is truly vicious and devious, but we have no choice but to take his bait."
They had to.
Heavenly Court had obtained second aperture Gu from Southern Border's righteous path. Southern Border would research second aperture Gu themselves, the other three regions would not ignore it either.
Second aperture Gu was something that would cause a storm in the world if it was circulated.
Like the time Blood Sea Ancestor created blood path, even if the five regions' righteous path outlawed blood path cultivation, there were still many blood path Gu Masters and Gu Immortals.
"We can't deduce the recipe of second aperture Immortal Gu yet?" Duke Long, who had been silent, asked suddenly.
He spoke very little but he often got to the point quickly, this was no exception.
Yuan Qiong Du smiled bitterly and shook his head: "We are still some distance from deducing the Immortal Gu recipe. If I can have the help of a few refinement path experts of my level, I might be able to deduce it more quickly. But currently, I have limited energy and time, I cannot attend to too many matters at once."
Yuan Qiong Du was having a tough time recently.
Earlier, when Fang Yuan annexed Lang Ya Sect, he had to modify the formation to repair fate Gu. That was because the formation referenced Refinement Cauldron, it had to be changed for safety purposes.
Afterwards, Fang Yuan captured Southern Border's righteous path, Yuan Qiong Du was in charge of refining fixed space Gu before the rest.
After that, Fang Yuan defeated Heavenly Court in the River of Time, Heavenly Court's time path Immortal Gu Houses shattered. Yuan Qiong Du had to refine Gu once again, to try to refine these time path Immortal Gu.
Recently, Qin Ding Ling woke up, she handed Fairy Zi Wei a stack of luck path Immortal Gu recipes, Yuan Qiong Du was in charge of refining them.
Refining Gu was a dangerous task to begin with, Fang Yuan had refined many of these Gu before him, Yuan Qiong Du was faced with many failures during this period.
These last days, he had suffered great injuries from refining Gu, if Heavenly Court did not have superb healing methods, he might have died already.
"Next, Yuan Qiong Du has to prepare for the restoration of fate, before we fully repair fate Gu, second aperture Immortal Gu's recipe will not be obtainable." Fairy Zi Wei declared, it was a slight pity.
Duke Long nodded but did not speak anymore.
Qin Ding Ling sighed: "Without the recipe of second aperture Immortal Gu, Southern Border's righteous path will not be able to escape from Fang Yuan's threat and extortion."
"Hmph, these Southern Border immortals are truly the shame of the righteous path, they were extorted to this extent!" Within the hall, Xing Ye Wang grunted in displeasure.
"The truth is, Southern Border's righteous path has done quite a few things. They started to build Beacon Towers, this is an Immortal Gu House that is worth guarding against."
"Southern Border's righteous path is trying to break free from Fang Yuan, only Ba clan and Xia clan desire second aperture Immortal Gu, they are controlled by him. Meanwhile, Wu clan, Chai clan, and others are resisting him fully. They want to cooperate with our Heavenly Court, we have already started to suppress Fang Yuan's businesses in treasure yellow heaven."
"I need to remind everyone that Southern Border's Gu Immortal world has a powerful lurking force that we need to be on guard against, that is the Virtue Paradise. This is the true inheritance that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had set up personally, they have many Gu Immortals, the strongest among them being Lu Wei Yin, they also include mushroomman Gu Immortals."
"Even though Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable did not enter Heavenly Court, there was a friendly relationship between us. But what about the attitude of this Virtue Paradise? We need to probe further."
"I have already considered that." Fairy Zi Wei spoke: "After some time, I will personally head to Virtue Paradise and borrow Immortal Gu."
Heavenly Court needed this Immortal Gu indeed, it was also their test towards Virtue Paradise.
If Lu Wei Yin showed a friendly attitude, Heavenly Court would try to rope them in as allies.
After discussing Southern Border's matters, Heavenly Court's immortals went on to talk about Western Desert.
Because of Fang Yuan's schemes, Western Desert's situation changed a lot. After Fang clan gained control of Divine Bean Palace, they 'defeated' Heavenly Court, causing their plan in maintaining internal conflicts within Western Desert to suffer a loss.
"Fang clan does have the ability to rise to power. But this time, there was a crucial person who caused this situation, Fang clan's second supreme elder Fang Di Chang!"
"This person has huge ambitions, he is a formidable character. He has already allied with multiple Western Desert righteous path forces, if not for the fact that we succeeded in sowing discord among them, Fang clan's rise would have been unstoppable."
"Now that Chen Yi is dead, we do not have any proper Genesis Lotus inheritor, how will we retrieve Divine Bean Palace?"
"I suggest that we assassinate Fang Di Chang!"
"Too difficult, this person is very crafty and vigilant. After getting Divine Bean Palace, he has basically stationed himself inside permanently."
"Fang clan's first supreme elder is Fang Gong, what is his attitude towards Fang Di Chang?"
"Fang Gong and Fang Di Chang have a close relationship, they do not have conflict between them, we cannot do anything to them for now."
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After Heavenly Court's immortals talked for a while, they decided to add reinforcements in Western Desert!
Even though Heavenly Court lost Wei Feng, their main forces were still intact, there were not much losses.
Back then, when Heavenly Court set up their forces there, it was because Fang Yuan had tried to escape using the natural tributary of the River of Time there, in order to stop him, they set up immortal formations at the tributary. After that, they noticed Thousand Transformations Ancestor's weakness and thus sent more people there to deal with him.
Even though Heavenly Court's plan to deal with Thousand Transformations Ancestor and Fang Yuan failed, they were not going to give up despite the setback.
After discussing, they decided in unison that they would send a number of Gu Immortals and Immortal Gu Houses to the River of Time during the crucial moment, by using the tributary of the River of Time to reinforce them rapidly.
Their main target now was not Thousand Transformations Ancestor, it was Fang clan!
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was a lone immortal while Fang clan was a righteous path clan that was gradually gaining influence over Western Desert's righteous path. If they were allowed to develop, Western Desert's righteous path would be an increasing threat against Heavenly Court.
After Fang clan took away Divine Bean Palace, it meant that Fang clan and Heavenly Court could not come to peaceful terms anymore.
Thus, Heavenly Court started preparing to deal with Fang clan, it was a logical move.
After Western Desert was Eastern Sea.
"Eastern Sea's politics are also changing, Qi Sea Ancestor is holding a banquet and inviting Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals, what is he planning to do?"
"Not long ago, Qi Sea Ancestor came to an agreement with Duke Long, he stopped helping Fang Yuan. This person seems to be a neutral party but we cannot relax our guard against him."
"We have already infiltrated this Eastern Sea banquet. If Qi Sea Ancestor makes any move, we will know quickly."
Duke Long spoke again: "Qi Sea Ancestor has extraordinary strength, he is not beneath me. My personal opinion is to actively entice and sway this person to our side. This is so Heavenly Court faces less threat before we manage to repair fate Gu."
Duke Long's words made the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals feel heavy emotions.
Eastern Sea had Qi Sea Ancestor who could rival Duke Long in battle strength, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were somewhat unable to accept this fact.
After settling the matter of Eastern Sea, they moved onto Northern Plains.
Heavenly Court paid a lot of attention to any movement from Northern Plains' Longevity Heaven.
Among the four regions, Heavenly Court was most wary in regards to Northern Plains.
Northern Plains' politics had been influenced by Heavenly Court, the cooperation of Old Ancestor Xue Hu and Heavenly Court was a huge success for them.
If Longevity Heaven wanted to unite Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world, Old Ancestor Xue Hu would be the biggest obstacle.
After the matters of Northern Plains, Duke Long mentioned the River of Time.
"Now, we have five time path Immortal Gu Houses, yet we cannot find any trace of the Red Lotus stone islands. Can we do anything about it?"
However, Heavenly Court's immortals did not have any good ideas, these stone lotus islands were made by Red Lotus Demon Venerable after all.
Qin Ding Ling shook her head too: "In the aspect of luck path, we already have the Dao Guardian Feng Jiu Ge guarding it. He has powerful luck, if even he fails, then there is nothing we can do."
Duke Long was silent, he felt a little disappointed.
The repair of fate Gu was Heavenly Court's greatest plan.
In Duke Long's mind, Wu Yong, Longevity Heaven, Fang Yuan, and Dragon Palace were all below Red Lotus Demon Venerable's threat level.
But there was no other way, Heavenly Court had already done its best, the river suppression lotus sealing formation was their greatest achievement. It was a pity that they were still far from finding a Red Lotus stone island.
The discussion hall went silent.
But at this moment, Fairy Zi Wei's eyes suddenly shined, next, Duke Long and Qin Ding Ling also showed surprised expressions.
Eventually, all of the remaining Heavenly Court Gu Immortals became very excited.
"News came so suddenly!"
"A Red Lotus stone island appeared in the River of Time."
"Gu Liu Ru has already confirmed it, this Red Lotus stone island is the real thing without doubt."
"We have finally found one Red Lotus true inheritance!"
"As long as we can get one, we will be able to find our way to the rest of Red Lotus' true inheritances."
Duke Long nodded: "This is a good thing, we need to try to get this true inheritance as soon as possible now. Also… beware of Fang Yuan."
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals turned solemn.
"Indeed, this commotion cannot be kept from him for long."
"By then, he will definitely show up."
"Set up the river suppression lotus sealing formation quickly, we need more reinforcements, if Fang Yuan comes. we will take his life!"
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Chapter 1881 Setting Up Formation
Eastern Sea.
To the east of the flourishing bumpy sea area, to the west of the barbecue islands, there was a unique and large sea area — Qi Sea!
There was no water in qi sea, instead, countless qi currents intertwined and entangled, forming swirls of millions of qi currents.
During the Remote Antiquity Era, Qi Sea had an incredibly high status in the hearts of all Gu Immortals in the world.
Back then, qi path flourished, it was the main Gu cultivation path, all other paths were non-mainstream.
All paths were inferior to the number one qi path.
Qi sea was incredibly big, it was a whole different world inside, countless qi currents moved within it, destroyed and created at every instance. Back then, qi sea was the number one qi path resource point in the five regions.
But time passed quickly, eras changed.
Qi path went on the decline, qi sea started to shrink, right now, qi sea was less than one-ten thousandth of its original size, the qi currents inside had all turned into pure water qi. Only at the most central area, there were still some qi path immortal materials left.
Qi sea had once been the most popular place, it was now the most deserted area.
It contained mostly water qi.
But in the whole of Eastern Sea, which sea area would have any lack of water qi?
It was easy to collect water qi anywhere, why would Gu Immortals go to qi sea on purpose to collect it?
Even if they wanted to get other qi path immortal materials, entering and exploring qi sea carried huge risks. They were better off just buying these immortal materials from treasure yellow heaven.
"By holding this Eastern Sea banquet now, qi sea will become renowned in the five regions again." Fang Yuan's main body sat on a cloud as he looked down at the qi sea sea area.
Looking from above, the qi sea sea area had waves of light blue in color as countless qi currents moved in turbulence, it was a huge contrast to the surrounding sea water that was dark blue in color.
Initially, when Southern Border's rank eight Gu Immortal Qi Xiang created the killer move unlimited qi sea, he had obtained inspiration from this qi sea to a certain degree.
Fang Yuan called himself Qi Sea Ancestor, he had not picked it randomly. He had already made ample considerations before deciding.
For example, which sea area should Qi Sea Ancestor originate from, where in Eastern Sea did he live in seclusion?
Fang Yuan chose qi sea for this.
This place was deserted, barely anyone came here, it was extremely compatible with Qi Sea Ancestor's cultivation of qi path as well.
If he told others, they would believe him as this was very logical.
At the center of qi sea, dragonman clone Wu Shuai transmitted: "The formation has been prepared."
This Eastern Sea banquet had significant meaning to Fang Yuan, he had made many preparations for this.
Fang Yuan not only deployed Wu Shuai for this, he even set a formation at the center of qi sea.
This was naturally a qi path formation. Fang Yuan's time path clone had qi path great grandmaster and formation path grandmaster attainment levels, along with the light of wisdom, he spent a month to deduce this.
At the center of qi sea, countless currents surged, they were turbulent from time to time, the area was very dangerous.
Setting a formation in this place was quite difficult.
But it was not a problem for Fang Yuan, he did not lack formation path attainment and he had ample resources, he was not trying to create a complex formation like the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, he was merely going for a usable and realistic effect.
Fang Yuan's main body checked it with his divine sense and confirmed there were no problems, he shut his eyes and meditated.
This Eastern Sea banquet was extremely important to him.
He plotted using the world as his chessboard, he arranged pawns to influence the overall situation, such planning was not easy at all.
In Southern Border, Fang Yuan's influence was small, because Wu Yong was gathering allies with his good political manipulation, there was nothing Fang Yuan could do to stop him.
In Western Desert, even though Fang clan was rising, its influence would only grow with time. Furthermore, be they Heavenly Court or the other Western Desert forces, they would not want this to happen. Fang Di Chang had a lot to do in this situation.
Central Continent had Heavenly Court, it was impenetrable like an iron fortress. The Zombie Alliance that Shadow Sect created had already been uprooted along with the organization Defy by Fairy Zi Wei.
In Northern Plains, Fang Yuan and Chu Du had a close relationship but it could not affect the big picture. Even though Bing Sai Chuan had not awakened, Longevity Heaven was started to take control, Fang Yuan could not do anything there.
Thus, Eastern Sea was an important part of Fang Yuan's plans and arrangements.
Eastern Sea was the most abundant in resources, if he succeeds, when the five regions merge, Fang Yuan would have enough influence to affect the other four regions.
A few minutes later, Fang Yuan opened his eyes as he muttered while looking at the horizon: "They're coming."
An Immortal Gu House was flying in the sky, it looked slow but was moving at a rapid speed.
The Immortal Gu House slowly stopped as a girl with bright eyes walked out, she was wearing a long dress that had exquisite rainbow clouds drawn on it.
"Hua clan first supreme elder Hua Cai Yun greets Qi Sea Ancestor." Hua Cai Yun had rank eight cultivation level but she still acted very politely.
Next, from Hua clan's Immortal Gu House, several Hua clan Gu Immortals walked out and paid respects to Fang Yuan.
"It is not time yet, you have arrived early, please come in." Fang Yuan stretched out his hand as qi currents gathered, forming a cloud.
Hua Cai Yun kept her Immortal Gu House in her immortal aperture as she took a seat, while the other Hua clan Gu Immortals stood behind her.
"I was too excited to meet you for the first time, this is a gift from Hua clan, please do accept it." Hua Cai Yun said as the Gu Immortal behind her took out an item and presented it with both hands.
Fang Yuan took a look, this was a lump of qi that resembled a ball, Hua clan's Gu Immortal was holding it out respectfully.
There was flashing of lightning and rumbling thunder inside this qi lump, there was rainy or sunny weather occasionally inside, there was even snow at times.
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with bright light, he knew what this was.
This was a rare rank nine heaven qi.
Heaven and earth qi were the foundational qi of living beings, they were very common. When Fang Yuan placed his immortal aperture and opened his immortal aperture's entrance, he would absorb heaven and earth qi to stabilize his sovereign immortal aperture. He had many secluded domains of heaven and earth in his immortal aperture, they expended too much heaven and earth qi, the sovereign immortal aperture felt a heavy burden due to them.
Of course, after Fang Yuan annexed Qi Sea grotto-heaven, he gained a huge boost of qi path dao marks, his immortal aperture started to produce a lot of heaven qi and earth qi, Fang Yuan's burden in this aspect had eased a lot.
But the heaven qi that Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture produced or absorbed were ordinary Gu materials, they were not even considered immortal materials.
If heaven qi was an immortal material, it would gather into a lump and could not be pulled apart easily. Its value would rise greatly, ordinary heaven qi could not compare to it.
The usage of immortal material heaven qi was very easy, one just had to scatter it.
Many Gu Immortals used it like that.
They would purchase a lump of immortal material heaven qi from treasure yellow heaven and scatter it inside their immortal aperture, creating different weather conditions like thunder, lightning, wind, or snow.
This type of weather would last for some time, the resource points of Gu Immortals would be altered in some ways as a result.
Most transactions in treasure yellow heaven would involve rank six or seven heaven qi. Rank eight heaven qi was very rare, while rank nine was barely ever seen, it was only sold once in a thousand years or more.
Hua Cai Yun gifted Fang Yuan a portion of rank nine heaven qi, it showed her sincerity as well as Hua clan's immense foundation, after all, Hua clan was most proficient in cloud path, they were experts in exploring black heaven and white heaven.
At the same time, in the River of Time.
Four Immortal Gu Houses flew above the river.
Present and Past Pavilion was not covered on all four sides, it was very simplistic, it traveled while riding the waves.
Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform was elegant and grand, the orange roof resembled cranes with their wings spread out. The Immortal Gu House was radiating three layers of autumn light, it was quite extraordinary.
Shark Flow Lever was white like jade, there were seven huge sharks in front of the lever, they had sharp teeth and were dragging the huge lever ahead.
Moment Stage was rank eight and had a ring of stone stairs around the outside, it spiraled upwards until it reached the red tiled pavilion at the top.
The four Immortal Gu Houses carried Heavenly Court and Central Continent Gu Immortals as they charged towards one destination — Red Lotus' stone island!
Within Present and Past Pavilion, a rank eight Gu Immortal stood as he watched the river water surging outside.
This person wore a red and white robe, standing straight like a spear or sword. His eyebrows were sharp like swords, a mysterious and profound light was hidden in his eyes. He had a calm and elegant aura, he was looking afar now as he continued to focus and comprehend.
It was Feng Jiu Ge!
"During this period in the River of Time, I have observed this long river, I watched the prosperity and downfall of eras, I witnessed the turbulence of the past and present. Destiny is like a wave, it rises at times and falls at times, it is slow at times while fast at times. The profundity contained within cannot be expressed in words, I can only sing it."
Feng Jiu Ge had been comprehending destiny song all along.
Different from the previous life, Feng Jiu Ge's destiny had changed a lot this time around.
He was defeated by Fang Yuan in Lang Ya blessed land, he was transported away by Chen Yi using the killer move karma relocation, he obtained the inspiration of destiny song.
This was way earlier than in the previous life.
After gaining some insight, Feng Jiu Ge came to the River of Time, he grabbed onto this inspiration and started to comprehend it.
The River of Time was a time path secluded domain, but Feng Jiu Ge made use of Present and Past Pavilion to observe the life of people in the past and present, he saw many scenes.
This was a great help towards his comprehension of destiny song.
Right now, his destiny song was sixty percent complete, it was ten percent higher than during the Central Continent fate battle in the previous life.
"My destiny song already depicts the destiny of living beings. But the destiny of venerables cannot be described so simply."
"Last time in Heavenly Court, I looked at Reckless Savage's blood skins and felt like they were incomprehensible. I hope that this journey to the stone lotus island will allow me to gain further growth in creating destiny song."
"We have arrived, it is here."
"Stone lotus island… Red Lotus' true inheritance!"
The four Immortal Gu Houses stopped nearby, Eternal Yacht was already waiting above the stone lotus island.
Eternal Yacht was the first to discover the stone lotus island, the Gu Immortals within it quickly informed Heavenly Court, they sent the other four Immortal Gu Houses to join up with it.
Feng Jiu Ge looked over with an expectant gaze.
Gu Liu Ru who was within Moment Stage had a complex expression.
"We finally found it, the hard work of our Heavenly Court over generations has not been in vain. After countless years, we have finally gained the fruits of our labor." Gu Liu Ru sighed deeply to himself.
He had many difficulties in his life, his lower body was crippled and could not be healed, he had an impassive attitude but at this moment, he was filled with excitement, pride, and satisfaction.
After breathing in deeply, Gu Liu Ru calmed down completely.
He sat on his wheelchair as his eyes flickered with cold light, he ordered: "Set up the river suppression lotus sealing formation now, I will lead Moment Stage while Feng Jiu Ge will lead Present and Past Pavilion. Eternal Yacht will move out to the tributary's entrance and bring in our reinforcements. Shark Flow Lever and Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform will patrol the surroundings, if anything shows up, inform me immediately."
"Yes." The immortals replied as they started to move, executing great efficiency.
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Chapter 1882 Challenge
"The three supplementary formations are ready." A group of Gu Immortals ended their work, they sat down in the Immortal Gu House to rest and recover.
The second group took over, on top of the three supplementary formations, they added a rank eight Immortal Gu — Suppression.
The second group had eight Gu Immortals that were either rank six or seven, they worked together with great coordination, after some work, they finally added in suppression Immortal Gu successfully.
This was the River of Time, a time path secluded domain of heaven and earth, as a rule path Immortal Gu, it was not easy to use suppression Immortal Gu here, the difficulty was high.
But rank eight Immortal Gu Suppression was one of the core Immortal Gu of the river suppression lotus sealing formation, it had to be the first rank eight Immortal Gu arranged here. After it, other steps could be taken.
At this time, the second group went to rest while the first group came back to work.
They were not continuing the setup, they were dismantling the three layers of supplementary formation that was created earlier.
These Gu formations were meant to help Immortal Gu Suppression find the proper area to be put in. After that, they had to be removed and make space for the next few steps of the immortal formation.
"Good, the three layers of supplementary formations have been removed. Next, we will set up the pale fire formation." The third group of Gu Immortals took over.
The first group of Gu Immortals were exhausted, they quickly went to rest.
"After the pale fire formation, we will set up the paper cage formation, let's go." The second group of Gu Immortals took over.
If the river suppression lotus sealing formation was split apart, there were a hundred and thirty-eight sub formations, the pale fire and paper cage formations were just two of them.
"Be careful, something has happened in the River of Time, a huge wave is crashing towards us!" Someone alerted.
At this time, the first group was resting, trying to recover as much as they could, the second and third group were busy setting the formation, the fourth group of Gu Immortals meant to deal with emergencies were activated.
In order to create the formation, Heavenly Court split the Gu Immortals into four groups. The first group had the strongest formation path abilities, they were in charge of the core of the river suppression lotus sealing formation. The second and third groups had similar levels of strength, the fourth group had the least number of people, they had some level of ability in formation building but were meant to deal with emergencies.
The fourth group of immortals quickly acted and destroyed the huge wave.
The second and third groups let out a sigh of relief. While checking that the formation was intact, they started to make preparations for the future steps.
Gu Liu Ru and Feng Jiu Ge were stationed in Moment Stage and Present and Past Pavilion respectively.
Feng Jiu Ge's eyes were steady as he comprehended destiny, Gu Liu Ru had a deep gaze that was filled with alertness.
"We have found the stone lotus island, there is some commotion when we made the formation, Fang Yuan will definitely be alerted."
"He will definitely come here to cause destruction!"
"The river suppression lotus sealing formation has not been completed yet, we are at our weakest now, Fang Yuan will definitely come to attack."
"This is an important matter! I need to make up for my mistakes, I cannot let Fang Yuan succeed!"
While thinking, a silvery light appeared on the horizon.
Gu Liu Ru's heart immediately tensed.
Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform and Shark Flow Lever that were patrolling outside changed directions immediately, trying to obstruct the invader.
It was Myriad Year Flying Warship!
"Gu Liu Ru, your Heavenly Court actually tried to take Red Lotus' true inheritance from under my nose, hehe, you are just dreaming." Myriad Year Flying Warship came rapidly as Fang Yuan's voice resounded from within.
Gu Liu Ru snorted coldly, his voice spread in this entire battlefield: "Fang Yuan, you are merely a loser that we defeated, was the painful lesson last time not enough for you?"
He was a time path great expert, he was like a fish in water in the River of Time. Rank eight Gu Immortals of other paths would need a lot more effort to make their voice transmit around the entire battlefield.
"Haha, with me here, don't think of setting any formation." Before Fang Yuan finished his words, Myriad Year Flying Warship already started to shine with bright lights.
These lights converged into countless silver flying swords as they shot out rapidly, towards the incomplete river suppression lotus sealing formation.
Gu Liu Ru's expression was grim, he felt a headache, Heavenly Court's biggest weakness now was this formation.
Fang Yuan ruthlessly attacked the enemy's weakness, Heavenly Court had no choice but to defend it, they were stuck in a passive situation.
Last time, when Fang Yuan attacked the river suppression lotus sealing formation, Heavenly Court could dismantle the formation, but this time, with this Red Lotus stone island, they would preserve it even if they had to pay a huge price to do so.
Boom boom boom!
Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform arrived first, it fought against Myriad Year Flying Warship, there were many impacts that caused the water of the River of Time to splash and splatter.
Shark Flow Lever arrived shortly after.
As the three Immortal Gu Houses fought intensely in the River of Time, in the sky of Eastern Sea's qi sea, the scene was harmonious and joyful.
After Hua Cai Yun, the Gu Immortals of Eastern Sea's super forces, Song clan, Su clan, and Cai clan also arrived.
The one from Song clan was naturally Song Qi Yuan, he came to the banquet with Song Yi Shi.
"This is my granddaughter Song Yi Shi, after hearing of senior's story, she became very excited, she asked me to bring her here and meet you." Song Qi Yuan smiled, he introduced his granddaughter Song Yi Shi.
Song Yi Shi had lost her father long ago, as her grandfather, Song Qi Yuan doted on her, for this Eastern Sea banquet, he brought her here so that she would get to leave an impression on people.
"This junior pays respects to Qi Sea Ancestor." Song Yi Shi said politely.
She had snow-white skin, her eyes were bright, she wore a blue-white dress and had an innocent aura, she was truly one of the six great beauties of Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world.
Similar to Hua Cai Yun, Song Qi Yuan also brought a gift, it was a qi path inheritance that Song clan had collected in its inventory, it originated from a historical qi path rank eight great expert. After Fang Yuan took a look, he saw that it was quite unique and had quite a bit of value.
Fang Yuan smiled as he looked at Song Yi Shi, he displayed the concern of a senior: "Song clan has a good descendant, a good junior. This is our first meeting, I cannot let you leave empty-handed."
Saying so, he took out a rank eight water path immortal material, it floated towards Song Yi Shi.
Song Yi Shi was of great upbringing after all, she received the gift and quickly thanked him.
"Take a seat." Fang Yuan waved his hand as qi currents gathered, forming a seat instantly, it was right below him and towards the left.
Song Qi Yuan saw this position and became very happy, he quickly brought Song Yi Shi to take their seats.
Song Yi Shi placed the rank eight water path immortal material in her immortal aperture, she acted very modestly and gracefully, displaying the demeanor of a young lady in an esteemed clan.
Hua Cai Yun laughed as she spoke: "Song Qi Yuan, this is the first gift that ancestor has handed out. Had I known this, I would've brought my grandson as well."
She was the earliest person, she had already conversed with Fang Yuan for some time, their relationship had gotten much closer in this period.
Song Qi Yuan laughed, he was secretly proud of this, bringing Song Yi Shi here was really a wise decision.
Song Yi Shi was looking at Qi Sea Ancestor for the first time, she was awe-inspired by his aura: "This old senior is truly the number one person in Eastern Sea, a person who rivaled Duke Long. He has the demeanor of a great person, he is so magnanimous and grand."
If she knew that this person was Fang Yuan, who had once acted as Xing Xiang Zi and watched her shower, she would not have such thoughts.
"Qing Yue An pays respects to Qi Sea Ancestor." Qing Yue An was the third Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortal who arrived.
"Junior Qing Yue Zhi Cheng greets Qi Sea Ancestor." A youngster was behind Qing Yue An, he wore a green shirt and had a tall nose and flat face, his eyes were shiny like stars, he was a handsome and talented junior in Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world.
"Good." Fang Yuan sighed and praised, assessing Qing Yue Zhi Cheng: "Another good junior. I have a gift for you as well."
He gave Qing Yue Zhi Cheng a rank eight immortal material as well, Qing Yue Zhi Cheng quickly received it with thanks.
Hua Cai Yun gradually saw a pattern as she thought to herself: "This Qi Sea Ancestor seems to enjoy helping talented juniors, just from this point alone, one can see that he truly has grand disposition."
At this moment, Nan Gong clan's Gu Immortals arrived at the banquet, Hua Cai Yun's expression sank.
This was because Nan Gong clan's first supreme elder brought Hua An along.
Hua An was originally a Hua clan Gu Immortal, but he betrayed Hua clan and joined Nan Gong clan. He had deep wisdom path attainment, he was one of the three wisdom path experts of Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world.
The saying goes: Jia Dan sits in twin polar, Hua An hides in Nan Gong, there is also Dragon Head Tortoise, living inside adversity sea.
Even though Hua Cai Yun was unhappy, she did not say anything. This was Qi Sea Ancestor's banquet, she wanted to get close to the number one Eastern Sea expert now, she had to endure it.
Eastern Sea's righteous path arrived one by one.
The last one who came was the grand elder of the Merman Imperial Court.
Fang Yuan said some words of consolation as he arranged for her to sit at the very end.
After the merman grand elder sat down, she sighed to herself internally: Even though this was her first meeting with Qi Sea Ancestor, this great expert was showing a good attitude towards the merfolk.
Of course.
The mermen were working with the dragonmen, they were Fang Yuan's natural allies.
Fang Yuan would not give her trouble.
Seeing Fang Yuan's treatment of the merman grand elder, Eastern Sea's righteous path Gu Immortals fell into contemplation.
River of Time.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was already at the inner area.
Immortal killer move — Daybreak Sword!
Swords moved out like an army of pythons, traversing the battlefield and attacking Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform.
Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform started to shine with a bright orange light, the strength of the silver flying swords weakened continuously.
At the other end, Shark Flow Lever shot out three frost waves and froze the water of the River of Time under Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Fang Yuan grunted from within Myriad Year Flying Warship, silver flying swords turned around and gathered in the water below the river.
Immortal killer move — Torrential Charge!
Myriad Year Flying Warship shot out like a meteor, crashing into the river suppression lotus sealing formation that was still being set up.
Boom!
With a loud sound, Moment Stage blocked Myriad Year Flying Warship as the two rank eight Immortal Gu Houses collided.
Moment Stage had a slight disadvantage while Myriad Year Flying Warship's advancement was halted, it was stalled by Shark Flow Lever and Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform which had caught up.
Heavenly Court had deep foundation, they already prepared some methods to deal with Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Myriad Year Flying Warship had gone through many battles, its methods were exposed, it could not do much in this situation.
At this moment, two more time path Immortal Gu Houses arrived as reinforcements.
One was Eternal Yacht carrying Xing Ye Wang, the other was Sun and Moon Temple carrying Nine Spiritual Fairy.
Heavenly Court's reinforcements arrived!
Four rank eight Gu Immortals, six time path Immortal Gu Houses!
Heavenly Court's morale soared.
Eastern Sea, above qi sea.
Qi currents surged and formed into a vast cloud, Qi Sea Ancestor willed as countless dishes and delicious wine emerged from these currents.
It was finally time, Qi Sea Ancestor wanted to raise his cup and announce the start of the banquet when a voice resounded in the sky: "Black Soul Sea Lord would like to request a spar with Qi Sea Ancestor."
Next, his rank eight aura filled with dark energy loomed over the entire area.
The Eastern Sea immortals were stunned before their eyes started to shine.
An Eastern Sea rank eight was actually challenging Qi Sea Ancestor!
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Chapter 1883 Ancestor“s Divine Might!
Moment Stage, Present and Past Pavilion, Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform, Eternal Yacht, Shark Flow Lever, Sun and Moon Temple.
Gu Liu Ru, Feng Jiu Ge, Xing Ye Wang, Nine Spiritual Fairy.
Heavenly Court gathered its forces in the River of Time, it was bent on getting Red Lotus' true inheritance.
In contrast, Fang Yuan's side only had Myriad Year Flying Warship, even though it was rank eight, against Heavenly Court's grand force, it was too small.
Heavenly Court had six Immortal Gu Houses and four rank eight Gu Immortals, they surrounded Myriad Year Flying Warship completely.
Myriad Year Flying Warship fell into a tight spot, but Fang Yuan spoke calmly as he smiled: "Hehehe, you want to occupy the stone lotus island? Since I cannot get it, neither will any of you."
Immortal killer move — Myriad Year Hunting!
Fragrance spread from Myriad Year Flying Warship, it quickly dispersed and caused countless dao beasts to resonate and growl.
A wave of a year beast tide was rapidly forming.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan cooperated with Bing Sai Chuan and fought against Heavenly Court over this Red Lotus true inheritance, in the end, Feng Jiu Ge acted and destroyed the stone lotus island.
This time, Fang Yuan made the same choice, he used myriad year hunting to summon an endless beast tide that targeted the stone lotus island.
This method was Myriad Year Flying Warship's strongest ability, it had an evident weakness however, the year beasts did not differentiate enemy from ally, in fact its main target was Myriad Year Flying Warship itself.
Last time, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals fell for Fang Yuan's scheme, they thought that he could control the beast tide and slaughtered a large number of year beasts, taking most of the damage for Myriad Year Flying Warship. After suffering a loss, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals realized that Fang Yuan could not control this beast tide either.
The weakness of myriad year hunting was already known to Heavenly Court.
But this time, Fang Yuan used it to target Heavenly Court's weakness, they were setting up the river suppression lotus sealing formation now, they had no choice but to fight against these beasts.
Gu Liu Ru snorted coldly: "This scoundrel is very devious, he used this move after all."
He had a calm expression as he instructed his people, Eternal Yacht and Shark Flow Lever left the battlefield immediately to head to the outside. At the same time, Nine Spiritual Fairy jumped out of her Immortal Gu House, turning into an immemorial desolate beast to leave the battlefield.
Heavenly Court had the advantage while Fang Yuan's Myriad Year Flying Warship was encircled, he could not stop these people from escaping.
After leaving the battlefield, Eternal Yacht and Shark Flow Lever shined with a bright light, two auras resembling years flow like water Immortal Gu started to spread out.
The newly formed beast tide was instantly lured to these two Immortal Gu Houses as eighty percent of them rushed towards the two Immortal Gu Houses.
The remaining twenty percent were intercepted by Nine Spiritual Fairy who had turned into an immemorial desolate beast, she took control over them.
"It's her indeed!"
"Nine Spiritual Fairy… a rank eight great expert that cultivated enslavement path and transformation path in Central Continent's history."
Within Myriad Year Flying Warship, a Gu Immortal had already discerned Nine Spiritual Fairy's identity.
Right now, Fang Yuan's main body was in Eastern Sea, only his will was inside the ship, the will could think and make comparisons to his previous life's events.
Nine Spiritual Fairy did not wake up in the previous life, but this time, she woke up and even earlier in time.
This was a very different situation.
After she turned into the immemorial year beast, the River of Time was no longer an obstacle to her.
Even though Heavenly Court could not counter myriad year hunting directly, they found ways to deal with it.
They analyzed the concept of myriad year hunting and targeted it, resolving the year beast tide that had yet to fully form.
Next, even if year beasts emerge, there would only be a few of them, they would not be of a threatening scale.
This was Heavenly Court's foundation.
It was also the reason why Fang Yuan had been concealing his strength and methods all along.
Once he exposes his methods, Heavenly Court would rapidly react and make deductions, they would counter his actions in their next encounter.
This was the case for daybreak sword, torrential charge, and myriad year hunting.
Myriad year hunting, which could change the situation, was resolved by Heavenly Court before it even showed effect.
The remaining four Immortal Gu Houses surrounded Myriad Year Flying Warship tightly as they unleashed a barrage of attacks.
"Fang Yuan, if you still have any methods left, use them." Gu Liu Ru smiled coldly.
Within Myriad Year Flying Warship, Fang Yuan's will was silent, he did not respond.
The battle continued, Myriad Year Flying Warship was kept suppressed and unable to turn it around. Even though it tried to break out several times, it did not succeed.
Over at Heavenly Court's four Immortal Gu Houses, Moment Stage was in front, as a rank eight Immortal Gu House and with the time path great expert Gu Liu Ru stationed in it, it was not inferior to Myriad Year Flying Warship.
At the same time, the other three Immortal Gu Houses worked together to assist it, their cooperation was not simple, they were very effective in their actions.
Evidently, during this period of time, these Gu Immortals did not slack off, they had practised extensively and their battle strength rose greatly.
"Fang Yuan is already trapped, he is not a threat."
"Be careful, we cannot be careless against this demon."
"Our river suppression lotus sealing formation is almost complete, what can Fang Yuan do to stop us?"
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals had a surge of morale.
Many of them could already see the sight of Fang Yuan's defeat.
But at this moment, a grand aura surged from the stone lotus island.
Golden light flashed as a grey stone giant stood up slowly.
This giant was immensely tall, its muscles were bulging, its hair was thick, its eyes shined with a fierce beast light.
"What monster is this? It has time path aura!"
"We have not explored the stone lotus island yet, why did the guardian of this stone lotus island awaken?"
"Oh no, the river suppression lotus sealing formation has not been completed yet."
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals had changes of expression.
The giant roared, it was actually the sound of a tiger's roar, the sound waves spread out in all directions, causing huge ripples to form around the island.
The river suppression lotus sealing formation shook intensely, the Gu Immortals setting up the formation spat out mouthfuls of blood.
"Quick, stabilize the formation!"
"Paper cage formation was broken, we need to repair it."
"Fourth group, Gu Immortals of the fourth group, quickly reinforce us!"
The Gu Immortals setting up the formation became very busy.
After the grey stone giant roared, it moved its arms, the muscles on his forearm and upper arm expanded like a balloon, to three times of its original size.
Pitch-black bull horns grew on its forehead, it lowered its head slightly as its arms gathered in front of its chest, it opened its palms and placed them together, air currents surged and gathered between its palms, creating a spiral ball made of currents.
Gu Liu Ru saw this as shock appeared in his eyes.
He understood, these air currents were just the physical appearance, these were actually time path dao marks!
More and more time path dao marks were drawn by the giant and gathered into a huge silver ball.
The ball became larger and larger, the giant monster growled and pushed with both arms, throwing the silver ball with all its strength.
The silver ball flew like a meteor, shooting out and causing endless gusts of wind to blow.
Central Continent's righteous path Gu Immortals were deeply shocked, their pupils shrunk when they saw this giant silver ball's might.
"Quick, we need to block it!" Gu Liu Ru gritted his teeth, he forcefully controlled Moment Stage to block the advancement of the silver ball.
Boom!
At the next moment, an intense sound erupted, the silver ball crashed into Moment Stage and burst out with terrifying might, Moment Stage was like a house swept by a typhoon, it flew away even when resisting.
"We blocked it." Moment Stage stopped eventually as Gu Liu Ru let out a breath of turbid air, Moment Stage was already damaged beyond words, it was filled with cracks, countless mortal Gu died while many Immortal Gu were injured.
The Gu Immortals inside Moment Stage were already very busy, they could not stay as carefree as when they encircled Fang Yuan anymore, they quickly tried to repair the Immortal Gu House.
The aftermath of the silver ball explosion caused intense winds to blow, the river suppression lotus sealing formation was still affected and damaged, many Gu worms died, the Gu Immortals setting up the formation were very busy trying to fix it.
Seeing that its attack did not work, the grey stone giant started to gather a silver ball again.
Gu Liu Ru saw this and gritted his teeth, he controlled Moment Stage to charge down.
But as Moment Stage got close to the stone lotus island, it gave off a brilliant light and a formless force blocked Moment Stage from approaching.
Using this time, the grey stone giant gathered another silver ball in its hands.
The ball shot out, Gu Liu Ru had no choice but to grit his teeth and resist the silver ball again using Moment Stage.
Boom!
Another explosion resounded, after the intense impact, the front part of Moment Stage was completely devastated, a large number of tiles and bricks flew out and turned back into Gu worm corpses.
The grey stone giant saw that its method was obstructed once again, it became infuriated as it growled and gathered another silver ball.
Gu Liu Ru frowned deeply: "This giant is using a very familiar time path method! To think that Red Lotus Demon Venerable had left this behind."
"But even if I know about its information, for now I can only block its attack by sacrificing Moment Stage, I need to protect this river suppression lotus sealing formation! Thankfully, we have this Moment Stage."
Gu Liu Ru felt glad in his heart.
The signature method of Moment Stage was to teleport from one location to another location in a moment's time.
This was not a space path method but a time path method instead, it was not teleportation in essence, but was the act of using Moment Stage to compress its time into a moment. If the distance was further, it would take several moments.
Gu Liu Ru wanted to protect the formation, he had a clear objective. As long as the formation was set up, it would isolate this place from the outside, the stone lotus island would not be able to escape, all of Red Lotus' arrangements on this island would weaken slowly and be resisted.
And against outside force, there would also be a strong layer of protection.
By then, even if Fang Yuan wanted to enter, with this formation and several Immortal Gu Houses around, it would be difficult.
Fang Yuan evidently understood this logic, Myriad Year Flying Warship tried to move in different directions, the remaining Immortal Gu Houses were just rank seven, they could barely contain it. This was like a thin fishing net trying to capture a shark.
Heavenly Court's situation was getting worse, Gu Liu Ru snorted coldly and came out of Moment Stage, joining the encirclement of Myriad Year Flying Warship.
He was a time path great expert, he could move and act freely in the River of Time, with his interference, Heavenly Court stabilized the situation once again.
"Persevere, persevere and we will gain victory!"
"After this period, when the formation is completed, it would be Fang Yuan's time to die."
Gu Liu Ru took charge of the situation, he dealt with Myriad Year Flying Warship while raising the morale of his people.
Eventually, the river suppression lotus sealing formation was completely set up, it formed a huge sphere that not only surrounded the stone lotus island, but also Myriad Year Flying Warship.
The formation activated, the grey stone giant grunted as it felt a strong suppression.
Myriad year hunting was also restricted, the fragrance could not spread out, a beast tide was unable to form.
"Get rid of Fang Yuan first, then explore the stone lotus island!" Gu Liu Ru shouted.
Without the threat of myriad year hunting, Eternal Yacht, Shark Flow Lever, and Nine Spiritual Fairy returned in time, they joined the encirclement against Fang Yuan.
"Fang Yuan, this will be your final resting place!" Gu Liu Ru's eyes shined with bright light, he had a cold expression.
"Is a demonic overlord going to die here?" Feng Jiu Ge squinted, inspiration regarding destiny song emerged in his heart.
"Let's not wait any longer, kill him!" Xing Ye Wang moved Shark Flow Lever and assaulted with deep killing intent.
Nine Spiritual Fairy was silent but her movements were not slow, she got around to the back of Myriad Year Flying Warship as her aura burst out, she prepared her killer move.
But at this moment, Fang Yuan's cold snicker resounded in Myriad Year Flying Warship: "Oh Heavenly Court, you have already been trapped, can't you sense it?"
Before he finished his words, stone lotus island erupted with a bright light, tens of water pillars shot up around the island.
The light and water pillars forcefully connected into the river suppression lotus sealing formation, the Central Continent Gu Immortals who were inside became dumbfounded. Someone shouted: "What is going on! We lost our control of this formation!!"
This was not a simple change of events.
Heavenly Court's four rank eights were in deep disbelief but the facts were in front of them: This was all Fang Yuan's trap!
"I did not waste a stone lotus island to trap you after all, this is not the place I will die, it is yours." Fang Yuan said so as the grey stone giant on the stone lotus island grew chicken wings and feathers, its hands turned into tiger claws, its mouth turned into a beak, it flew up and barged past the encirclement, paving a way for Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Realization flashed in Gu Liu Ru, he finally understood what this grey stone giant was, he shouted in shock and anger: "This is the Twelve Zodiac battle formation! To think that Fang Yuan had this method."
"This was all Fang Yuan's trap!"
"He has already obtained Red Lotus' true inheritance, he can control the stone lotus island!"
"This Twelve Zodiac battle formation is likely the content of the true inheritance, his time path foundation grew immensely, he is able to suppress our formation instead."
"We cannot stay here, we need to retreat!"
The four Heavenly Court rank eights discussed and decided to leave.
But the awkward thing was, this river suppression lotus sealing formation that they set up with so much work was their biggest obstacle at this moment.
"Want to leave now? Too late!" Fang Yuan's laughter could be heard inside Myriad Year Flying Warship, daybreak swords flew out and shot towards Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform and Shark Flow Lever.
The grey stone giant growled loudly and pounced at Present and Past Pavilion.
Present and Past Pavilion had torrential waves around it but the grey stone giant ignored that, it advanced and slammed down with its fist.
The grey stone giant was just too big, its fist was larger than Present and Past Pavilion itself.
Before the fist landed, sounds of tiger and dragon roars resounded in the battlefield.
The might of the fist was simply destructive and unrestrained!
Feng Jiu Ge squinted while the other Gu Immortals were fearful, against this fist, they felt like the world was collapsing, any attempts to dodge it was futile.
They could not dodge!
Boom!!
An intense explosion resounded as Present and Past Pavilion crumbled at the impact of the grey stone giant's fist.
The injuries and deaths inside were severe, Feng Jiu Ge barely managed to escape in a sorry state.
Moment Stage!
At the crucial moment, Moment Stage teleported over and took in Feng Jiu Ge.
The grey stone giant completely ignored the Moment Stage that was nearby, it turned around towards Sun and Moon Temple.
Sun and Moon Temple was a time path Immortal Gu House of Spirit Affinity House, it was weaker than the rest, when the grey stone giant approached, Sun and Moon Temple could not escape in time.
The giant was too fast, it was inside the River of Time and had the power of the stone lotus island boosting it, its current battle strength was simply unheard of!
Boom!!
With a second explosion, Sun and Moon Temple shattered, most of the Gu Immortals inside died.
"No!!" Gu Liu Ru gritted his teeth, his eyes were red from anger, his body was shaking from hatred.
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were no longer as confident as before, they wanted to escape for their lives now.
The grey stone giant's battle strength made them feel deep despair!
Eastern Sea, above qi sea.
The Gu Immortals were very excited as they looked at Qi Sea Ancestor and the owner of the black soul sea area, Zhang Yin.
Zhang Yin was a lone cultivator with rank eight cultivation level, everyone knew him in Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world.
But they did not expect that he would challenge Qi Sea Ancestor. Although thinking about it, it was not strange, back then, the fight between Duke Long and Qi Sea Ancestor was only witnessed by Song Qi Yuan and Shen Cong Sheng, and these two were righteous path Gu Immortals.
Under everyone's gaze, Qi Sea Ancestor smiled lightly: "Gu Immortal Zhang Yin, you are very courageous, but will you be able to handle one move from me?"
Zhang Yin smiled arrogantly: "Ancestor, you underestimate me, not just one move…. ugh."
He suddenly stopped as the other Gu Immortals' expressions changed.
Instantly, they felt the entire world buzzing as countless qi currents gathered from all over the place.
Within all the surroundings, pressure intensified.
The immortals' pupils shrunk, cold sweat flowed down as they felt unparalleled pressure, they were like insects trapped in amber, fragile and helpless.
"What killer move is this?"
"Is this Qi Sea Ancestor's method?"
"We are merely feeling the side effect, what pressure is Zhang Yin, who is bearing the brunt of the attack, feeling?"
The immortals looked over, Zhang Yin's face turned red, he did not move in the air, his eyes were bulging as he struggled, he only trembled as he could not break free.
The immortals were all shaken.
A loud sound could be heard from above their heads.
The Eastern Sea immortals quickly looked up and all of their faces turned pale as paper.
A huge hand completely made of qi currents was translucent and pale-white, it extended an enormous distance, shrouding the skies itself!
The giant hand pressed down as all of the Eastern Sea immortals felt suffocated, it was as if a mountain was crashing down upon them.
"What sort of power is this!"
"If I were not here personally, I would never believe it."
"I'm afraid this strength is on par with rank nine?"
"Qi Sea Ancestor!!"
At the banquet, many Gu Immortals stood up uncontrollably, their bodies shook as fear overwhelmed them.
Zhang Yin shouted with all his strength, his entire body was radiating dark energy as mild lightning flashed weakly, he could not escape, he was trapped and fixed in the air.
Seeing this, Song Qi Yuan and the other rank eight Gu Immortals were all incredibly shocked and fearful.
"It looks like Zhang Yin has used his full strength, but he cannot escape at all?"
"Is he going to die?!"
"Qi Sea Ancestor's battle strength is so terrifying. Does he wants to leave a deep impression on us and use Zhang Yin's life to raise his reputation in Eastern Sea?"
It was unimaginable, a rank eight Gu Immortal was completely helpless against Qi Sea Ancestor!
But the truth was right here, Song Qi Yuan and the other Eastern Sea Gu Immortals had to believe it.
As the qi current hand approached Zhang Yin, it slowly disintegrated and went past Zhang Yin, slamming into qi sea.
There was no heaven shaking explosion, after the qi current hand came into contact with qi sea, it quickly scattered and fused into the sea.
Zhang Yin regained freedom, he felt deep lingering fear as his clothes were filled with sweat, he had a fearful look as he stared with wide eyes, breathing roughly.
"Look at qi sea!" Song Yi Shi shouted.
Everyone turned to look, the treacherous and turbulent qi sea filled with countless spirals had been completely calmed, it was like a mirror now!
Eastern Sea's immortals were very shocked, many of them opened their mouths but could not speak.
"Ancestor's divine might, I have fully experienced it." Zhang Yin let out a breath of air as he paid his respects: "Thank you for sparing me."
Qi Sea Ancestor was still sitting at the main seat, his eyes were barely open as he waved his sleeves lightly: "Take a seat."
"Thank you." Zhang Yin took his seat amidst the silence.
Many of the Eastern Sea immortals were still standing, those who were seated were not feeling any better, they were all like statues.
Qi Sea Ancestor defeated Zhang Yin in one move, he had truly intimidated all of them.
"Ancestor has divine might!" After a while, Song Qi Yuan reacted as he stood up, respectfully praising.
"Ancestor has divine might!" Shen Cong Sheng also stood up and praised with respect.
"Ancestor has divine might. Ancestor has divine might." Countless Eastern Sea Gu Immortals stood up to pay their respects, they were completely in awe.
Fang Yuan smiled lightly as he said: "Everyone, take a seat, the banquet is beginning."
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Chapter 1884 Qi Spreads in Five Regions
The stone lotus island ambush that Fang Yuan planned had already ended.
A grand light filled Heavenly Court, but in Central Great Hall, the atmosphere was grim.
"At the crucial moment, Gu Liu Ru blocked Myriad Year Flying Warship while risking his life, I managed to live because of him." Nine Spiritual Fairy said this as she coughed blood again.
Tears were in her eyes, the scene of Gu Liu Ru defending them with his life surfaced in her mind again.
Nine Spiritual Fairy had a beautiful face, she liked to wear a long robe and wave her sleeves around, she had a graceful aura but now, she was covered in blood, wounds were all over her body, her sleeves were cut and dangling. Nine Spiritual Fairy's thin body was completely fragile at this moment, covered in this large robe.
In this battle in the River of Time, Heavenly Court had the absolute advantage at the start, but later, they lost completely, the six Immortal Gu Houses were destroyed, only two Gu Immortals, Nine Spiritual Fairy and Feng Jiu Ge, managed to escape.
Feng Jiu Ge was in the hall too, he lost his cool demeanor at this moment, his eyes turned dim as they lost their light, he showed an expression of loss and perplexity.
Fairy Zi Wei sighed to herself, she instructed them to go recuperate.
She learned of the result of this battle already, she called for Nine Spiritual Fairy so that she could gain more information about the minor details.
"To think that Fang Yuan obtained the stone lotus island long ago, how did he do it? We did not sense it at all." Fairy Zi Wei deduced quietly, she could not find any answer.
Because of this, Heavenly Court lost this battle completely, they fell into Fang Yuan's planned trap, their losses were severe.
Duke Long smiled bitterly: "The truth is, we had guessed that Fang Yuan might have a Red Lotus true inheritance already. But in the previous battle, Myriad Year Flying Warship was forced to escape from us, it was useless even if they tried to make use of the River of Time's dangerous terrain. Now it seems that Fang Yuan had purposely did that so as to lure our attention, he wanted to fight for Dragon Palace and also to prepare for this battle, to make us underestimate him. This is truly a devious and scheming demon!"
"Then, when did Fang Yuan obtain Red Lotus' true inheritance? So be it if he got it recently, but if he obtained this stone lotus island long ago, that would be a very scary situation." Fairy Zi Wei thought about it as she felt a chill down her spine.
Right now, Heavenly Court was facing a difficult situation.
However, no matter how tough the situation was, Heavenly Court had to face it directly, they could not try to dodge it.
Duke Long said solemnly: "Even if Fang Yuan obtained one Red Lotus true inheritance and gained Twelve Zodiac battle formation from it, we need to continue putting our forces into the River of Time!"
This was only natural.
There was more than one Red Lotus true inheritance, if Fang Yuan obtained a second or third one, he would become even scarier.
From Heavenly Court's perspective, the River of Time was an important area they had to guard, Red Lotus true inheritance was something they had to obtain. This situation might only change after they successfully repair fate Gu, but now, Heavenly Court had to start all over again, after losing six Immortal Gu Houses, they would have to build six, or even ten more!
Fairy Zi Wei nodded slowly, she had a serious expression, she shared the same opinion as Duke Long on this matter.
"But…" Fairy Zi Wei showed a look of difficulty.
There were problems in this too.
If they wanted to send more time path battle strength into the River of Time, the best method was to send time path Gu Immortals.
But because of Red Lotus Demon Venerable, Heavenly Court's foundation in time path Gu Immortals was very weak.
Without any time path great experts, they could only make up for it using time path Immortal Gu Houses.
Heavenly Court lost six time path Immortal Gu Houses, the losses were too severe, they needed to rebuild these houses and needed a large number of time path Immortal Gu for them.
Even though Nine Spiritual Fairy and Feng Jiu Ge were still alive, they did not bring back many Immortal Gu.
Heavenly Court needed to refine many time path Immortal Gu to rebuild their Immortal Gu Houses.
And in this aspect, Gu refinement immortal materials were not a problem.
Heavenly Court had an immensely deep foundation of over millions of years, it was not for show. Heavenly Court's three million years worth of accumulation was split into three treasuries of 'early, middle, late'. Each one represented a million years of foundation, they had placed all of their gains in that time period into the respective inventories.
Any one of these million years treasury had more things in it than any of the ten great ancient sects.
In order to refine rank eight fortune rivalling heaven Gu, Old Ancestor Xue Hu went bankrupt. Even with Fang Yuan's current foundation, he did not dare to refine rank eight Immortal Gu. When normal super forces try to refine a rank eight Immortal Gu, they would expend a good deal of their foundation. But for Heavenly Court, not just one, even if they refined ten of them, their foundation would not be shaken.
Heavenly Court did not lack immortal materials at all, they lacked refinement path great experts.
Yuan Qiong Du was a refinement path expert, he had been in charge of repairing fate Gu. But asking him to refine time path Immortal Gu on top of this was just too much for him.
He was just one person, he had limited time and energy.
"If one or two refinement path experts could wake up in the immortal graveyard, it would be great." Fairy Zi Wei thought to herself, regrettably, the immortal graveyard was not subject to external influence, she could not wake up any Gu Immortal she wanted.
Duke Long also noticed this problem, he thought about it and said: "Then rally the ten great ancient sects, we can even unify the refinement path Gu Immortals of other sects and send them all here, get them to work together and refine time path Immortal Gu."
Fairy Zi Wei nodded, Yuan Qiong Du had important matters to do, he was in charge of repairing fate Gu, Heavenly Court had to do this now to deal with the current problem.
Fairy Zi Wei sighed internally: "If we had succeeded in invading Lang Ya Sect and taken control of it, that would be great. This would not be a problem for us now, it was a pity that Lang Ya Sect ended up in Fang Yuan's hands."
Heavenly Court had lost that great first step and now, they were facing problems because of it. In contrast, by using his refinement path advantage, Fang Yuan was giving problems to Heavenly Court now. Yuan Qiong Du could feel this most deeply.
Fairy Zi Wei and Duke Long had grim emotions.
Fang Yuan's victory in the River of Time was a devastating blow to Heavenly Court.
But the River of Time was just one aspect, Heavenly Court's overall situation was worsening.
In Northern Plains, Longevity Heaven had been trying to unify and gather the whole strength of Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world.
In Western Desert, Fang Di Chang refined Divine Bean Palace and was bringing Fang clan to rise up as the leader.
In Southern Border, even though Wu Yong was close to Heavenly Court, Beacon Towers were being built everywhere, it was becoming a problem for Heavenly Court.
As for Eastern Sea…
"According to our newest information, Qi Sea Ancestor defeated Zhang Yin using a single move, Zhang Yin is a famous Eastern Sea rank eight lone immortal, but he could not fight back at all. Qi Sea Ancestor's battle strength is very terrifying, after this battle, his reputation soared, even more Eastern Sea Gu Immortals attend his banquet now." Fairy Zi Wei showed a worried look.
Duke Long nodded: "Even for me, achieving this would not be easy. It seems that Qi Sea Ancestor has gotten stronger, according to his words, his battle strength rose after comprehending Primordial Origin true inheritance."
After defeating Zhang Yin, Fang Yuan declared frankly to the Eastern Sea immortals: His battle strength had risen once again, it was because he obtained Primordial Origin's qi path true inheritance from Heavenly Court.
Duke Long continued to speak: "Since Qi Sea Ancestor said that, it shows that he is close to Heavenly Court, but still wants to remain as a neutral party. This person can be swayed towards us."
Qi Sea Ancestor had stayed in seclusion for so long even though he had strength that rivaled Duke Long, it showed that he had no ambitions to begin with.
Even if he had ambitions now, he was definitely more attracted to Heavenly Court, which had the complete true inheritance of Primordial Origin.
As Qi Sea Ancestor stayed as a neutral party, Duke Long and Fairy Zi Wei became more assured of his stand.
It was not just Qi Sea Ancestor's personality, but also his lifespan that affected their judgment.
Lifespan was the biggest element that restricted a Gu Immortal great expert.
Qi Sea Ancestor looked like someone who was going to die soon, after all, using lifespan Gu would allow one to regain their youthful appearance.
He was so old already, he likely used many lifespan extension methods. These methods all had flaws, they would make lifespan Gu ineffective.
Duke Long did not have much longer to live, but he believed that Qi Sea Ancestor was in a similar state.
Fairy Zi Wei suddenly said: "Since Qi Sea Ancestor said that, we can send Gu Immortals to openly attend his banquet. Even if we did not receive his invitation, now that the entire world knows that Qi Sea Ancestor took our inheritance, even if we suggest a transaction, he cannot reject our visit."
Duke Long agreed with this suggestion, even if it failed, they would successfully probe Qi Sea Ancestor.
Right now, the regions' changes were not good for Heavenly Court, only Eastern Sea was relatively calmer. Heavenly Court wanted to make use of this, to ensure that at least Eastern Sea's forces were on neutral terms with them.
Eastern Sea, above qi sea.
Ever since Fang Yuan defeated Zhang Yin, the number of people visiting this place had increased, the number of people attending his banquet multiplied rapidly.
The Gu Immortals who came would first go to pay respects to Qi Sea Ancestor, to take a look at this number one Eastern Sea Gu Immortal.
Qi Sea Ancestor and Duke Long's battle was already known to all five regions. After defeating Zhang Yin, Qi Sea Ancestor became recognized as the number one Eastern Sea expert, nobody doubted him anymore.
The entire world was deceived by Fang Yuan.
Zhang Yin was one of the Four Dragon Generals, he cooperated with Fang Yuan and because of the immortal formation under qi sea, Qi Sea Ancestor's attack showed an incredibly powerful aura.
Nobody knew that Zhang Yin was under control, even Duke Long did not know of Dream Token. In the previous life, he only found out the secret of the Four Dragon Generals after obtaining Dragon Palace by force.
Nobody guessed that Qi Sea Ancestor and Fang Yuan were the same person. After all, Fang Yuan only had rank seven cultivation level while Qi Sea Ancestor was a genuine rank eight. Fang Yuan tried to conceal the secret of the sovereign immortal aperture to the best of his ability, he gave up some short term benefits and obtained a much greater reward for it at this moment.
Xie Bao Shu arrived.
He was handsome and had a warm aura, he looked like a graceful young master, he was a famous lone cultivator in Eastern Sea. He had a unique method of nurturing vicissitude trees, he was once a major seller of year Gu, but Fang Yuan ruined that business. In the previous life, he had worked with You Xian Zi to snatch the moonlight mushrooms of Fairy Yue Hua.
Zui Xian Weng came too.
He was a rarely seen food path Gu Immortal, he was also the owner of Eastern Sea's wine sea. He had a collection of countless wines, he held a wine reception every year. This time, he brought a thousand jars of top tier wines and gave them to Qi Sea Ancestor as a gift.
Seven Seas Snake Woman arrived.
This was a beautiful but dangerous woman, she was very ruthless in her actions. Even though she was a lone immortal, she owned seven sea areas, this showed her strength. At the same time, she was one of the six beauties of Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world, on par with Song Yi Shi.
Great Treasury Immortal arrived too.
This person cultivated information path, he was dressed in a gentlemanly attire, he had long sleeves that fluttered in the wind. In the previous life, he invaded Central Continent too, he stole Mi Lan Guang's rank seven immortal material electrolytic iron starflower.
The qi sea banquet caused a storm in Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world, all sorts of people showed up one after another.
Among them, there were more lone immortals than righteous path immortals.
Eastern Sea had more lone immortals than the other four regions to begin with, and they had the most abundant resources. At the same time, the righteous path had a lot of territory that needed guarding, lone immortals could move more freely than them.
"I, Central Continent Gu Immortal Jun Shen Guang, bring a gift to meet Qi Sea Ancestor, please forgive my intrusion without an invitation." Heavenly Court's rank eight Gu Immortal Jun Shen Guang arrived.
The banquet became silent, countless gazes looked towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan smiled and laughed in a light tone: "An esteemed guest has arrived, what forgiveness do you speak of? The sea is wide and draws in all tributaries linked to it, my Eastern Sea is the same, how can we not have this bit of tolerance? Please take a seat."
Fang Yuan waved his sleeve, a seat was formed again. Even though it was located at a good position, it was below the Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortals' seats.
Seeing this, the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals' expressions relaxed.
Eastern Sea was the most tolerant towards other regions' Gu Immortals compared to the rest of the five regions, but they still had some sort of exclusion.
Fang Yuan had already expected Central Continent's Gu Immortals to come here.
The truth was, he had been waiting for Heavenly Court's envoy to come here.
Fang Yuan looked around, he saw that almost everyone was here, he started to speak: "Everyone, I have something to say."
The place became silent again, everyone held their breaths, waiting for Fang Yuan's speech.
Jun Shen Guang saw this and became internally shocked: Qi Sea Ancestor had only appeared for such a short time but his reputation in Eastern Sea had already reached this stage!
Nobody dared to ignore a single sentence from Qi Sea Ancestor, in fact not a single phrase, or a single word.
Fang Yuan did not say a lot of things but he expressed his own political views — peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding, uphold justice and resolve conflicts.
Finally, he said: "This banquet is not to simply gather everyone here, it is also a transaction event, an auction and also a battle stage. If anyone has conflict, you can engage in a duel to resolve it, I can be the judge here with all the Eastern Sea friends witnessing it. If anyone needs resources or has anything to sell, you can step up and state your requests. Every year from now on, at this time period, I will hold qi sea banquets. Of course, I will not charge any transaction fees."
"Ancestor is wise."
"Ancestor is impartial and magnanimous, we are in deep admiration."
Eastern Sea's immortals quickly praised.
Jun Shen Guang shook internally: Qi Sea Ancestor is using this move to increase his influence over Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world. Great strength would lead to admiration while great benefits would lead to influence and power.
Furthermore, he was going to hold qi sea banquets every year!
Jun Shen Guang could predict the qi sea banquets would get larger and larger, they would involve the entire Eastern Sea Gu Immortal world. When the five regions merge, Gu Immortals from the other regions would even come over, in time, Qi Sea Ancestor's influence would not just affect Eastern Sea but the entire five regions!
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Chapter 1885 Banquet Transactions, Heart Blood Appears
Qi sea banquet.
Transactions were undergoing.
A Gu Immortal walked up the stage, he wore a black robe and had messy hair. He raised his head and showed his appearance, it was an Eastern Sea lone immortal, Wu Ma Yang.
He had an aquiline nose and his gaze was dark, he seemed to have an injury, he coughed while taking out a shell that was floating in the air.
The Eastern Sea immortals looked over, they recognized what it was and quickly showed disappointed expressions.
This was the shell of a small music clam, it was a rank seven immortal material.
Music clams were ordinary clams that contained sound path dao marks. When they grow to desolate beast level, their size would increase, they would become giant music clams. After becoming an ancient desolate beast, their size would shrink again, becoming small music clams.
The small music clam that Wu Ma Yang took out was dead and had no vitality, it was merely a rank seven sound path immortal material.
But Wu Ma Yang smiled coldly: "Everyone, calm down, why would I dare to embarrass myself at ancestor's banquet? I am not selling this small music clam, but the music stored inside."
Saying so, Wu Ma Yang cupped his fists at Fang Yuan: "Ancestor, please pardon my rude action."
Qi Sea Ancestor nodded lightly.
In truth, Fang Yuan and Wu Ma Yang had met long ago. Back then in Eastern Sea, Fang Yuan sold bone spike Immortal Gu to Wu Ma Yang.
After getting Fang Yuan's agreement, he used his method and opened a slit in the small music clam.
Instantly, everyone heard a crying sound emitting from within it.
This voice was very weak, it was like a sobbing sound that had a music rhythm to it, if someone tried to investigate it, they would be restrained by this voice, they would get weaker and unable to resist it. Mortals would definitely fall prey to it, even Gu Immortals would get lightly injured or die if it was a severe situation.
However, after Wu Ma Yang let it emit its sound for a while, he shut it tight, the small music clam became silent, many Gu Immortals sighed in pity before alerting themselves, they had been affected by it.
"This is rank seven immortal material ghostly wail."
"Ancestor has great knowledge, I am willing to exchange this ghostly wail for any rank seven dark path immortal material of equal value. It would be best if you have any black hole wood or dark thread algae." Wu Ma Yang announced.
The Gu Immortals below were silent for a while before someone said: "I have dark thread algae."
Wu Ma Yang nodded in joy, he was about to answer when someone said: "I have black hole wood, I will exchange for your ghostly wail."
After some negotiation, Wu Ma Yang left the stage in satisfaction.
In the recent years, due to the five regions' Earth Trenches emerging, Eastern Sea gained an abundant source of cultivation resources even though they had the fewest Earth Trenches.
Wu Ma Yang's ghostly wail was likely obtained from them.
Even though Eastern Sea Gu Immortals interacted often and held auctions commonly, they were mostly small events, how could they be as large as Fang Yuan's banquet. The qi sea banquet involved the entire Eastern Sea Gu Immortal world after all!
Treasure yellow heaven's transactions had gone up in numbers due to the Earth Trenches, but treasure yellow heaven charged a fee for every transaction done.
The transaction fee of treasure yellow heaven varied according to the intensity of the treasure light, therefore, the more valuable the transaction item, the higher the transaction fee one would have to pay.
Rank seven immortal materials were already quite valuable, Wu Ma Yang tried to save as much cost as he could.
After Wu Ma Yang walked down, another Gu Immortal went up, selling a lump of fire.
This fire was yellow inside and orange outside, it was filled with deep death energy. Once it was taken out, the surrounding air became dry like a desert, the temperature rose sharply.
"This is drought zombie flame." The Gu Immortal who sold this flame smiled.
He came from Su clan, an Eastern Sea super force, he was called Su Lun, a righteous path member.
Fang Yuan arranged them in the order of one righteous path followed by one lone immortal, this arrangement clearly took the Eastern Sea lone immortals into consideration, it was welcomed by them. And most wonderfully, he did not allocate any spots for demonic path Gu Immortals, it showed a certain political attitude of Qi Sea Ancestor.
Eastern Sea's righteous path did not get upset by this arrangement, after all, Qi Sea Ancestor was a lone cultivator in Eastern Sea himself.
The drought zombie flame caused a slight commotion, it was a rank eight level flame, Fang Yuan had to wave his hand lightly as he forced the flame to gather into a tight lump.
The temperature of the qi sea banquet gradually returned to normal.
"I am sure many people know what flame this is already. But I am not just selling the flame today, I am also adding in a drought immortal zombie lifespan extension method. This method can allow a Gu Immortal who is near their lifespan limit to use the flame and become a drought immortal zombie. I am sure everyone has heard of the drought immortal zombie, its battle strength rivals rank eight Gu Immortals."
But there was a lack of interest in this among the Gu Immortals.
Currently, everyone knew about Heavenly Court's plan to repair fate Gu. Once they succeed, immortal zombies would likely cease to exist. If fate is restored, the world would not allow dead people to exist, they would all need to remain dead.
Therefore, becoming a drought immortal zombie did not have good prospects.
After a while, a Gu Immortal asked: "Can a rank seven Gu Immortal convert into a drought immortal zombie as well?"
Su Lun nodded: "Of course, but the drought immortal zombie body would not be complete, it would only be a small drought immortal zombie, the battle strength will also be at rank seven."
He did not dare to deceive anyone, in this situation, experts were everywhere, they would likely notice the truth. By then, he would have publicly offended Qi Sea Ancestor, a rank eight great expert, at his banquet, that was a problem that Su Lun and Su clan would not want to create.
When Eastern Sea's righteous path sent representatives to this banquet, did anyone not bring gifts along with them?
In contrast, only a small portion of the lone and demonic immortals did this.
After all, Eastern Sea's righteous path forces had a lot of territory and businesses, they needed a good relationship with Qi Sea Ancestor. Meanwhile, most of the lone and demonic immortals were alone, they did not have much restraints.
Su Lun did not manage to make any trades in the end.
But a few Gu Immortals expressed their interest, they were willing to negotiate, it might be sold if the cost was lowered enough.
"This drought zombie flame likely came from Eastern Sea's Zombie Alliance." Fang Yuan thought to himself, he had obtained the inventory list of Zombie Alliance from Shadow Sect's inheritance, among which, there were several drought zombie flames in Eastern Sea's Zombie Alliance headquarters.
Back then, Spectral Soul tried to refine sovereign immortal fetus Gu, he exposed Shadow Sect and Zombie Alliance. Spectral Soul failed, Eastern Sea's Zombie Alliance was mobilized in the effort and reduced to nothing, it was wiped out by the combined effort of Eastern Sea's righteous path.
Looking at the location, Su clan was one of the closest forces to Eastern Sea's Zombie Alliance headquarters. Other than them, there was Qing Yue clan, Song clan, and Hua clan.
After the drought zombie flame, another Eastern Sea Gu Immortal walked up the stage.
He slowly walked up and took glances at Qi Sea Ancestor from time to time. He saw that Fang Yuan had no response, his eyes were shut and he was relaxed.
This Eastern Sea Gu Immortal calmed down slightly, he let out a breath of air as he said in a hoarse voice: "I came here to exchange Immortal Gu."
Saying this, he spread open his hand and revealed an Immortal Gu.
Instantly, a bloody smell spread out rapidly, many of the immortals' hearts pounded intensely.
This was the first Immortal Gu transaction since the banquet started!
Everyone focused their attention and looked at this ladybug-like Gu, it was small and delicate, with a bright red shell and an iron-black belly and head. Listening closely, one could seem to hear a thumping heartbeat from inside the ladybug. The sound of this heartbeat was very faint, but the more one listened, the louder and louder it got, echoing with the rhythm of the heartbeat of the Gu Immortal, thus affecting the heartbeat of the Gu Immortal as well.
The immortals were a little shocked, some of the weaker rank six Gu Immortals here grunted, some had pale faces, they were evidently affected.
"What Immortal Gu is this? Even Gu Immortals got injured, while mortals definitely cannot approach it."
"It is clearly a blood path Immortal Gu."
"This Drowning Uncle is too daring, he is publicly selling a blood path Immortal Gu at the qi sea banquet, is he not afraid that Qi Sea Ancestor and the Eastern Sea righteous path members would take action?"
"Drowning Uncle is a demonic path immortal, who in Eastern Sea does not know that? Ancestor did not state that demonic immortals could get on stage but he still walked up so fearlessly."
The immortals conversed among themselves, the righteous path Gu Immortals had ugly expressions, Drowning Uncle had killed countless people, but now he was feeling trepidation too.
He cultivated water path but was specialized at dealing with water path Gu Immortals, he drowned countless mortals and even targeted many Gu Immortals of the righteous path, he was a heinous person with many sins committed.
Until now, he was still under the arrest warrant of five super forces in Eastern Sea.
During normal times, the righteous path Gu Immortals would have ganged up to attack him already, but now was the qi sea banquet, it was Qi Sea Ancestor's event, who would dare to act rashly here?
Regarding Drowning Uncle's matter, all the Gu Immortals turned to look at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was still calm and composed, as if he was resting, he said nothing.
After looking at Fang Yuan for a while, they gradually understood that Qi Sea Ancestor was likely not going to take action here.
Drowning Uncle became very excited, he had made the right gamble! He was greatly daring, if not, why would he go against Eastern Sea's righteous path forces? At the same time, he was meticulous and did not take risks blindly.
"Since ancestor allowed me to join the banquet, it meant that he would not do anything to me. Otherwise, he could have done so when I arrived. Such a person is high and mighty, why would he spend effort on a small fry like me?"
Thinking so, Drowning Uncle spoke: "This is rank seven heart blood Immortal Gu, I caught it inside an Earth Trench, will anyone exchange for it?"
After a momentary silence, many Gu Immortals quickly bid for it.
But no righteous path member took part.
Blood path was created by Blood Sea Ancestor, it had flourished for a while before the five regions' righteous path suppressed and sealed it. Blood Sea Ancestor was extremely capable, he actually set up his blood path inheritance in all five regions, causing blood path to continue existing until today, while the righteous path forces all tried to research on it secretly.
Transactions of Immortal Gu were only done through exchange for other Immortal Gu.
There was no bidding here, it only depended on what Immortal Gu Drowning Uncle wanted.
There were many Gu Immortals who wanted to exchange for it, many took out water path Immortal Gu. Water path was the most common path in Eastern Sea, the number of water path Immortal Gu was also highest in Eastern Sea.
This heart blood Immortal Gu had incredible strength just from seeing it, it would have a great effect if used in battle.
In normal situations, Gu Immortals could not cultivate many paths due to conflicting dao marks. But Eastern Sea had many Gu Immortals cultivating blood path, most of those primarily cultivated blood path, while several rank sevens and sixes cultivated it on the side.
Seeing this, Eastern Sea's righteous path Gu Immortals had even uglier expressions.
Eastern Sea had many secluded cultivators, but to think that only heart blood Immortal Gu would cause so many blood path Gu Immortals to show themselves.
But Fang Yuan was not surprised.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, blood path was extremely popular, after the five regions merged, the number of blood path Gu Immortals rose drastically, by the time of the five regions chaotic war, blood path became a mainstream path that could not be banned anymore.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, Fang Yuan was one of these people.
"I can try to get this heart blood Immortal Gu, Song Zi Xing's inheritance had a heart blood premonition killer move, it is most appropriate to use this heart blood Immortal Gu as the core."
Fang Yuan developed this thought, Zhang Yin started to speak: "I want this heart blood Immortal Gu, I have several rank seven water path Immortal Gu, you can pick any one of them. Furthermore, I will owe you a favor."
This was the first time a rank eight Gu Immortal had spoken in the auction, the surroundings went silent the moment he spoke.
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Chapter 1886 Red Heart Leaves, New Board Owner
The moment Zhang Yin spoke, because of his rank eight dominance, all the competitors backed off.
Not only could they not outbid a rank eight Gu Immortal, even if they did, they would have offended this rank eight lone immortal.
Sometimes, lone immortals were scarier than righteous path rank eights, they were unrestrained and free, they did not have so many concerns like the righteous path members.
As for why Zhang Yin had an interest in heart blood Immortal Gu, that was his business, the Gu Immortals could not ask him why.
As the Heavenly Court representative, Jun Shen Guang watched this with deep worry.
Qi Sea Ancestor hosted this banquet that publicly traded Immortal Gu and immortal materials, it satisfied the needs of many Eastern Sea Gu Immortals.
After this banquet, Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals would have an abundance of suitable cultivation resources, their battle strength would rise sharply.
This was great news for Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world, but for Heavenly Court, it was not so good.
Especially after Qi Sea Ancestor declared earlier that this qi sea banquet would be held annually! That was very frequent, Jun Shen Guang could not help but think: Is this Qi Sea Ancestor too free and bored? He wants to hold banquets every year, isn't it tiring? Different from treasure yellow heaven and other auctions, he is not collecting any fees, what is he after then?
"It seems that Qi Sea Ancestor is not without ambitions, he is trying to raise his reputation. Making use of the qi sea banquets to solifidy his influence and reputation every year, in the future, whether he joins Heavenly Court or stays in Eastern Sea, he will benefit greatly."
"I heard that Qi Sea Ancestor has many descendants, in the future, when these people roam Eastern Sea under Qi Sea Ancestor's name, they will be well received by every force they visit."
As a Heavenly Court rank eight, Jun Shen Guang was astute, he gradually saw through some arrangements and plans.
At this moment, information came from Heavenly Court.
Fairy Zi Wei told Jun Shen Guang that he had to cooperate with other Gu Immortals and buy heart blood Immortal Gu without raising any suspicions.
Jun Shen Guang frowned.
He was not confused about why Heavenly Court wanted this blood path Immortal Gu, the truth was, Heavenly Court had been researching blood path all along, with great success.
Jun Shen Guang felt troubled as he transmitted secretly: "The situation has changed, earlier, Zhang Yin took action and bid for this heart blood Immortal Gu using a high price."
Fairy Zi Wei who was in Heavenly Court hesitated for a moment, she arranged: "Then continue to observe them, I will ask others to do it."
Jun Shen Guang was a Heavenly Court representative, if he fought with Zhang Yin over a blood path Immortal Gu, Heavenly Court's reputation would take a huge hit.
In Fairy Zi Wei's original plan, he was only meant to help out.
Heavenly Court placed great importance on this qi sea banquet, they sent people like Jun Shen Guang to come openly, but there were also secret members that were hidden among the rank six and seven immortals.
"Haha, this is a coincidence, I am interested in this heart blood Immortal Gu as well." Yang Jun suddenly spoke.
Right when Zhang Yin thought that he was about to succeed, this Eastern Sea rank eight lone immortal also joined the competition.
This change of events stunned many immortals, even Fang Yuan became slightly puzzled as surprise flashed in his eyes.
In Fang Yuan's previous life, Yang Jun participated in the battle over Dragon Palace.
He had an Immortal Gu House called Fragrant Treasure Horse Chariot, while chasing after Dragon Palace, he found Fang Yuan's traces and ruined his chances of sneaking up on it.
Afterwards, Yang Jun suddenly helped out Duke Long and helped him to suppress the rank eight Immortal Gu House's resistance, before capturing it.
After that, Yang Jun went into concealment and vanished without a trace.
During the battle of repairing fate Gu, Yang Jun did not appear to help Heavenly Court.
During the battle, Heavenly Court was in a difficult spot, there was no way they would have any forces left unused. But Yang Jun did not show up, this showed that he was not a Heavenly Court member, he likely had some sort of agreement with Heavenly Court and would only act once for them.
"Then, is he working for Heavenly Court now?" Fang Yuan had a thought that flashed by.
This was not easy to deduce.
Even with Fang Yuan's deep wisdom path attainment, due to the lack of clues and evidence, he could not be sure of it.
Regardless of the situation, Fang Yuan instructed Zhang Yin to act more forcefully and try to obtain this Immortal Gu.
Thus, Zhang Yin smiled: "Yang Jun, the truth is I really like this Immortal Gu. If you insist, maybe we can spar to decide this?"
Yang Jun frowned as he thought: "Zhang Yin wants this Immortal Gu even if he has to fight? Qi Sea Ancestor was able to defeat him in one move because of his overwhelming strength! But if I fight him, it will likely be a draw."
"Sigh, do I continue this and help Heavenly Court?"
Yang Jun fell into hesitation.
When he was at his lowest, he received Heavenly Court's help, he owed them one favor, promising he would do one thing for them.
This favor was just too heavy to bear, it became Yang Jun's worry eventually.
Yang Jun thought about it, he decided to repay Heavenly Court's favor and resolve this agreement.
"This is a good chance, if I do not act here, during the five regions chaotic war, Heavenly Court will ask me to deal with Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals and I won't be able to reject them."
"Thankfully, I know about Drowning Uncle's situation."
Thinking about this, Yang Jun smiled: "Zhang Yin, don't be so impatient. It is not important to spar, this heart blood Immortal Gu belongs to Drowning Uncle, I am sure that this water path Immortal Gu I am offering will satisfy him greatly."
Saying so, Yang Jun took out an Immortal Gu.
Drowning Uncle saw it and beame overjoyed, he shouted: "Let's do it, I'll exchange for this Immortal Gu."
Zhang Yin was dazed.
What could he do now? Everyone was watching, he could not snatch it, otherwise, Qi Sea Ancestor would need to stop him.
Even though they were in cahoots, they needed to act under their respective roles now.
They had to keep up the act after all.
Zhang Yin could not take action, neither could Qi Sea Ancestor.
Right at this moment, Yang Jun stood up from his seat, he grabbed onto heart blood Immortal Gu and tossed the water path Immortal Gu to the other party.
The immortals showed varying expressions.
Yang Jun moved extremely quickly, he had evidently used an immortal killer move, wasn't he too impatient?
Yang Jun let out a breath of air, he relaxed as he sat down, placing heart blood Immortal Gu into treasure yellow heaven.
Buying or selling Immortal Gu in treasure yellow heaven was very costly, but Heavenly Court did not mind it with their huge assets.
Fairy Zi Wei obtained heart blood Immortal Gu and quickly gave it to someone else.
This person cultivated within Demon Judgment Board all his time, after getting heart blood Immortal Gu, he shouted in joy: "Success has arrived!"
He got out of Demon Judgment Board, all the surroundings surged with blood light, fragrance spread as clouds resounded with immortal music, bloody petals flew in the sky like raining flowers.
He was tall and had a handsome face, he smiled lightly and had a headband on his forehead, there was a lump of blood light behind his head.
A formless flight of stairs seemed to have formed in the air as he walked down slowly.
Fang Zheng was cultivating in front of the Demon Judgment Board, upon seeing this, he knelt on the ground and said: "Fang Zheng greets master!"
"Get up, my disciple. I have gotten a crucial Immortal Gu, the blood path method that I conceptualized my entire life finally has its core and foundation. After staying in this Demon Judgment Board for hundreds of years, it is finally time for me to leave."
This rank eight Gu Immortal spoke warmly, he stretched his arm as a formless force helped Gu Yue Fang Zheng to stand up.
Fang Zheng cupped his fist again: "Congratulations, master."
Ever since the Eastern Sea journey, he got captured by Shen Cong Sheng and was brought back to Heavenly Court afterwards.
Qin Ding Ling observed his luck, she suggested to Fairy Zi Wei that he could be the next Demon Judgment Board Lord.
After Fairy Zi Wei discussed with Duke Long, they agreed to this.
Fang Zheng thus came to the Demon Judgment Board to cultivate, he became the disciple of the current Demon Judgment Board Lord.
Demon Judgment Board was a rank eight Immortal Gu House with a long history. When Blood Sea Ancestor caused chaos in the five regions, Heavenly Court sensed danger and a Heavenly Court predecessor followed the revelation of fate Gu, finding a wild blood relation Immortal Gu.
Blood relation Immortal Gu was rank eight, after Heavenly Court captured it, they added it to Demon Judgment Board. This caused every single blood path cultivator in the world to be detected by Demon Judgment Board as long as they were not rank nine.
Heavenly Court relied on the information from Demon Judgment Board to execute their plans and exterminate the budding blood path trend in Central Continent. Furthermore, they passed the news from Demon Judgment Board to the other four regions, allowing their righteous path forces to deal with blood path more effectively.
Blood path had not flourished, it was suppressed fiercely, Demon Judgment Board was the key contributor to this.
After Blood Sea Ancestor created blood path, Heavenly Court had been researching it, their gains were the greatest compared to any force in the world.
The current Demon Judgment Board Lord, Red Heart Traveler, was a sole blood path cultivator, he had been in closed cultivation in Demon Judgment Board for years, researching and gaining great results, he allowed Heavenly Court's blood path to be far ahead of the five regions.
Spiritual light flashed as Nine Spiritual Fairy suddenly appeared, she went to Red Heart Traveler: "Red Heart, I was ordered to come here and gather with you, we are going to Western Desert to find trouble with Fang clan."
Red Heart Traveler nodded slightly, instructing Fang Zheng before he left: "Demon Judgment Board cannot be without an owner at all times, my disciple, you will take over as Demon Judgment Board Lord after I leave. My inheritance is inside the board, not just that, the cultivation experiences of the past generations of Board Lords are also inside. From now on, you will cultivate inside Demon Judgment Board, it will benefit you greatly, I hope you can work hard and not slacken, don't waste this fortune."
"Yes master, I will remember your teachings, I will never forget it." Gu Yue Fang Zheng quickly replied.
"Mm." Red Heart Traveler nodded before turning around and leaving.
He and Gu Yue Fang Zheng had a very shallow relationship, if Fairy Zi Wei had not given orders, he would not have taken him in as a disciple.
Their relationship however, provided him a huge help.
"Luck is truly profound and mystical. Earlier, Senior Qin Ding Ling told me that if I accept Fang Zheng as my disciple, once we become master and disciple in name, I would be able to use his luck to aid in my own cultivation."
"To think that I gained so much in just a short period of time, before leaving, I should go and visit Senior Qin Ding Ling first." Red Heart Traveler said with deep emotions.
Nine Spiritual Fairy nodded.
They were in no rush for time.
After Qin Ding Ling returned to Heavenly Court, she stayed in a specialized Immortal Gu palace.
After the two met Qin Ding Ling, she inspected their luck, Nine Spiritual Fairy's luck had nine spiritual lights, they were clear and clean, like leaves after withstanding a storm, they brought benefit to the world, giving off an aura of prosperity.
Red Heart Traveler's luck was like a sun or blood pill, it was round and perfect without any flaws, it had just emerged from the clouds, grand and vast, it was truly an amazing sight. This showed that after years of closed cultivation, Red Heart Traveler had finally emerged to travel the world, he was going to spread his radiance throughout the five regions.
Qin Ding Ling smiled as she told them that this would be a smooth trip, as long as they followed the plan, nothing bad would happen.
After the two said goodbye to Qin Ding Ling, they flew in the sky, passing by Embroidered Tower, they saw a Gu Immortal stationed there in a daze, not moving at all.
Nine Spiritual Fairy looked down at Red Heart Traveler as she sighed: "This is Feng Jiu Ge, after the loss in the River of Time, he became this despondent."
Red Heart Traveler shook his head as his expression turned grim: "He is comprehending his Dao now, when I was in closed cultivation in the board, I often fell into this state, we cannot interrupt him."
Nine Spiritual Fairy showed a look of surprise: "Oh? No wonder Fairy Zi Wei is letting him do as he pleases. I am embarrassed, I inherited the nine spiritual transformations inheritance, I have cultivated it wholeheartedly and did not modify it, so I was unaware of this."
Red Heart Traveler consoled her: "Your nine spiritual transformations is the greatest transformation path inheritance in Heavenly Court, it has been modified by countless generations of predecessors, it is near the point of perfection that cannot be modified any further."
Even though he cultivated blood path, he had an extremely gentle temperament, he was as soothing as the spring winds.
Nine Spiritual Fairy smiled: "Back then, when master gave me the true inheritance, he said my aptitude was insufficient. Compared to geniuses like you, I can only feel admiration and envy."
The two immortals talked and laughed as they left Central Heaven Gate, entering white heaven and going towards Western Desert.
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Chapter 1887 Banquet Ends, Desire to Enter Dragon Whale
Eastern Sea.
Swish swish swish!
Waves crashed onto the rocks by the island shore, bursting into white bubbles upon impact.
Wicked winds howled, the sky was dark.
This uninhabited island was not eye-catching in the huge Eastern Sea, but it actually hid four Gu Immortals.
The four Gu Immortals were injured, one was lying down, either dead or alive, the other three were sitting and trying to heal their injuries.
A moment later, someone coughed as he spat out mouthfuls of blood.
"Lord!" The other two immortals who were still conscious quickly stopped healing their injuries as they gathered towards him.
The person coughing blood was Miao Ming Shen.
This Gu Immortal cultivated space path, he had rank seven cultivation level, he was famous among Eastern Sea's lone immortals, he had a huge network and influence.
Miao Ming Shen was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin. In terms of appearance, he looked ordinary, only his flat and wide nose left a heavy impression on others.
In terms of appearance, he was unassuming. But he was an ambitious person, being very good at building relationships, he had a lot of charisma. Three Eastern Sea lone immortals, Immortal Hua Die, Feng Jiang, and Gui Qi Ye all looked to Miao Ming Shen as their leader, the four were a group of Gu Immortals with common interests.
But now, Gui Qi Ye was unconscious, his body was covered in a poisonous purple color, he was in great danger.
Miao Ming Shen wiped the blood off his face as he spoke with a pale expression: "My injuries… cough cough.. are not an issue! Gui Qi Ye's condition is more severe."
"That's right, Gui Qi Ye was hit by the ice poison starfish, we do not have the way to heal him." Immortal Hua Die was very worried.
Feng Jiang's expression was cold as ice: "The ice poison starfish might have a troublesome poison, but I've heard that Su Chen and Fairy Jiu Yue can heal it."
Miao Ming Shen shook his head and sighed: "Fairy Jiu Yue has some relationship with Ren Xiu Ping while Su Chen is attending the qi sea banquet, we cannot go and expose our identities and secrets. We can only rely on ourselves to heal him. I intend to use the extreme time pole to exchange for underworld yellow water and cleanse the poison of the ice poison starfish."
"Lord…" Immortal Hua Die and Feng Jiang were both moved.
Miao Ming Shen laughed: "Just one rank eight immortal material to save Gui Qi Ye, it is worth the price. Speaking of which, we need to thank that demon Fang Yuan, if he did not defeat Heavenly Court this time, they would not have purchased time path immortal materials from treasure yellow heaven so frantically."
Immortal Hua Die nodded as she sighed: "Indeed, that demon Fang Yuan actually obtained a Red Lotus true inheritance, he is able to control the stone lotus island, Heavenly Court suffered a great defeat, their losses were too severe!"
Feng Jiang was a little worried: "This demon Fang Yuan is too crafty, Heavenly Court is without options against him. Now that Fang Yuan has a Red Lotus true inheritance, he is finally a huge influence. If he is not stopped, this Fang Yuan will become more terrifying, the entire world will be threatened by him."
Immortal Hua Die smiled: "Feng, you are worrying too much, how can any of us deal with a powerful person like Fang Yuan, the world is so huge, will we ever meet him? Even if heaven collapses, giants will hold up the sky. Heavenly Court will not let him off, we just need to watch this quietly."
This time, Fang Yuan used the stone lotus island to cause great harm to Heavenly Court, he naturally did not waste this chance, he put up the video of Heavenly Court losing in treasure yellow heaven, letting the entire world view it.
This way, Fang Yuan's reputation and prestige rose again, while Heavenly Court's fame was heavily damaged.
It was logical that Immortal Hua Die and Feng Jiang knew about this situation.
But what they did not know was, Fang Yuan had disguised as Chu Ying and got close to them, he saved their lives before.
Miao Ming Shen sighed deeply to himself.
He had deep ambitions, he was not willing to lead a normal life.
Otherwise, he would not create a wide network and many connections, he even got the loyalty of Feng Jiang, Immortal Hua Die, and Gui Qi Ye.
As an ambitious Gu Immortal, he had a complex feeling towards Fang Yuan's rise and immense strength.
Fang Yuan's rise was too fast, it had not been a hundred years, he already went from a mortal Gu Master to a rank seven Gu Immortal.
And how long did Miao Ming Shen take?
Hundreds of years!
In just this last period of time, Miao Ming Shen watched the rise of Fang Yuan, it was like a drama that played out before him.
Except he was not the main character.
He felt that both he and Fang Yuan were rank seven Gu Immortals, it was just that Fang Yuan had a rank eight Immortal Gu House and controlled the stone lotus island, which resulted in his victory over Heavenly Court.
But what about himself?
Miao Ming Shen looked at himself, he was truly pathetic!
He was heavily injured, Gui Qi Ye was on the verge of death while Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die were both injured. The cause of this was his enemy Ren Xiu Ping, who aggressively chased after them.
He was truly full of problems both internally and externally.
At this moment, Miao Ming Shen even questioned himself, was he wrong in trying to expand his network these years, was he wrong in getting the loyalty of these three immortals after so much hard work? If he was not wrong, why did he end up in this state?
He thought of Qi Sea Ancestor next.
Qi Sea Ancestor held his qi sea banquet and invited the Gu Immortals of Eastern Sea, it was such a huge event that Miao Ming Shen had heard of it long ago, he wanted to attend it. But because of Ren Xiu Ping, he had to hide himself, he had lost this opportunity as a result.
Miao Ming Shen felt deep admiration and envy towards Qi Sea Ancestor.
"If I can follow Qi Sea Ancestor's example and cultivate in seclusion, would I be able to get stronger, would I avoid suffering from the devious schemes of Ren Xiu Ping?"
Miao Ming Shen gritted his teeth, he quickly dispelled this thought that wavered his determination.
He let out a breath of air, he said to Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die: "Fang Yuan is having a good life, he is backed by several venerables and does not lack cultivation resources, he is also an otherworldly demon and has control of Spring Autumn Cicada."
After pausing for a while, he added: "He is far beyond us, let's save Old Gui first before we leave this place."
Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die nodded in agreement.
Miao Ming Shen immediately connected to treasure yellow heaven and used the extreme time pole to exchange for underworld yellow water.
The transaction process was very smooth and no unexpected mishaps occurred.
In the previous life, Heavenly Court not only occupied the River of Time to restrict Fang Yuan from finding the stone lotus islands, they even worked with Southern Border's righteous path to suppress Fang Yuan in treasure yellow heaven, stopping his businesses and aggressively buying time path immortal materials.
But in this life, Heavenly Court was in a much poorer state. Even though they still allied with Southern Border's righteous path and suppressed Fang Yuan's businesses in treasure yellow heaven, just their loss in the River of Time made them loss a huge amount of Immortal Gu, they needed to try to refine these time path Immortal Gu rapidly, they needed to refine them before Fang Yuan tried doing so.
Thus, in this life, even though Heavenly Court did not lack time path immortal materials in their inventory, they intensified their actions of purchasing time path immortal materials in treasure yellow heaven.
Miao Ming Shen obtained the underworld yellow water much earlier than in the previous life.
Of course, he did not know the cause of it.
Next, Miao Ming Shen used the underworld yellow water to cleanse Gui Qi Ye's entire body.
He used just the right amount, after all, this water was also corrosive on an undefended Gu Immortal body.
Gui Qi Ye was completely cleansed of the poison, he slowly woke up and thanked Miao Ming Shen.
Miao Ming Shen said some words of encouragement as Gui Qi Ye's eyes turned red from gratitude.
The four finally had the time to catch a breather, they started to think about their situation, how would they get out of this and deal with that accursed Ren Xiu Ping!
The four of them were just not enough.
Ren Xiu Ping was an enslavement path expert, he could fight a group on his own, this time, there were more than just him around, Ren Xiu Ping's group was far stronger and more numerous than Miao Ming Shen's group.
Gui Qi Ye pondered and said: "The reason why Ren Xiu Ping targeted us is because lord has the method to enter the blue dragon whale, it concerns Paradise Earth's true inheritance. Right now, we need to use this secret and invite allies to explore that Paradise Earth true inheritance before Ren Xiu Ping. If we are late and Ren Xiu Ping spreads news of this, not only will we lose our initiative, we will also be the target of all the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals!"
Miao Ming Shen nodded in agreement.
Even though he did not like it, this was the only way now.
Regarding the secret of the blue dragon whale, it was better if fewer people knew of it. It was a pity that Ren Xiu Ping plotted against Miao Ming Shen, news would spread in a short time.
Following Gui Qi Ye's method, not only would Miao Ming Shen gain a bunch of Gu Immortals to help him, gaining enough strength to fight Ren Xiu Ping and protect their own lives, they would even be able to explore the blue dragon whale, if they could gain anything inside, that would naturally be good.
In this situation, he had to give up some of his potential future profits and share the secret with more people.
Similar to the previous life, after Miao Ming Shen and the rest discussed this, they decided on the participating members, including Chu Ying.
When Fang Yuan received the invitation, he was still hosting the qi sea banquet.
During this period of time, more famous Eastern Sea Gu Immortals came to attend the banquet.
For example, Dragon Head Tortoise Immortal in adversity sea.
All sorts of famous people came, Fang Yuan gained a deeper understanding of Eastern Sea's situation. Jun Shen Guang who was present also collected information here, the truth was, Southern Border, Northern Plains, and Western Desert also had people here trying to gain information, that went without saying!
Even though this was Fang Yuan's first qi sea banquet, it had already caused a huge impact and influence, the Gu Immortals of the five regions were very concerned.
Eastern Sea had too many spare resources after all, during this period, more Gu Immortals started to trade Immortal Gu.
Each transaction that succeeded meant that Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world would get slightly stronger, Jun Shen Guang and the rest felt deeper pressure.
If Fang Yuan wanted any of these Immortal Gu or immortal materials, he would get Zhang Yin to buy them for him.
He planned to stay here and remain motionless, he would just be a backdrop.
But this backdrop was something nobody could ignore or look down on.
"The time is about right, the qi sea banquet will end now." Fang Yuan spoke.
The immortals were confused and felt perplexed, why was it ending so suddenly?
Fang Yuan smiled warmly: "Transactions will never stop, how long would it take? Everyone here has important things to do, it is not good that I keep everyone waiting here. I held this banquet so that all of you Eastern Sea friends can meet up and have a nice gathering. Now, this goal has been achieved."
The truth was, he had things to do now, these people should scram and get out of his way.
Fang Yuan spoke politely, even if any Eastern Sea immortal was unhappy, they would not dare to defy the number one Eastern Sea immortal.
The immortals quickly stood up and said their goodbyes to Fang Yuan.
Song Qi Yuan and the rest left first, as leaders of their force, they were indeed busy with many things, they had a lot of territory to guard. Fang Yuan's words were music in their ears.
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Chapter 1888 Changes Midway
Several days later, on a nameless island in Eastern Sea.
Eight Gu Immortals finally gathered.
Miao Ming Shen was the leader, other than him, Gui Qi Ye, Feng Jiang, and Immortal Hua Die were there. In addition, Zeng Luo Zi, Tu Tou Tuo, Tong Hua, and Fang Yuan were present.
"Even though I was reborn, it seems that the influence has not reached Miao Ming Shen." Fang Yuan was disguised as Chu Ying, he observed without showing changes in his expression.
Similar to the previous life, Miao Ming Shen chose the same people without changes.
But Fang Yuan was very different now.
He was in a much better state than in the previous life.
In the previous life, at this time period, he could not annex Qi Sea grotto-heaven, he could only take the resources of Qi Sea grotto-heaven and the Five Xiang's public grotto-heaven, consuming a portion of time. As for the rank nine killer move heaven form, it was still resisting Fang Yuan's refinement and was not his yet.
And most regrettably, his plans in green ghost desert had failed, his soul path cultivation was obstructed and could not progress. At the same time, his guts Gu productions fell drastically.
In this life, at this point, he had already annexed Qi Sea grotto-heaven, he had rank eight cultivation level and even became Qi Sea Ancestor, obtaining huge political power. Heaven form was refined long ago, but he did not find more grotto-heavens.
Green ghost desert developed rapidly, his soul path cultivation also progressed smoothly. The production of guts Gu was also many times of his highest records in history.
In the previous life, Heavenly Court dominated the River of Time, Fang Yuan had to fight desperately to escape.
But in this life, Fang Yuan dominated the River of Time, Heavenly Court suffered severe losses and their prestige was greatly affected. Despite this, Heavenly Court had no choice but to continue building Immortal Gu Houses, to send more reinforcements into the River of Time, they could not allow Fang Yuan to dominate the River of Time alone and find another Red Lotus true inheritance.
His position in the River of Time was easy to defend while hard to attack, Fang Yuan also had many arrangements in Western Desert, Eastern Sea, Profound Literature grotto-heaven, and Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, his progress was very smooth.
After rebirth, Fang Yuan worked hard and used the five regions and two heavens as his chessboard, he played many different pieces and set up arrangements everywhere, his gains were not just in the present but would continue increasing for future periods of time.
There was a similar situation as the previous life, Fang Yuan's businesses in treasure yellow heaven were suppressed and targeted by the joint efforts of Central Continent and the Southern Alliance.
Fang Yuan did not have any solution to this problem now.
Firstly, his influence on the Southern Alliance was falling gradually, he did not have much of a bargaining chip, only his second aperture Immortal Gu had an intense attraction to several Southern Border Gu Immortals.
Secondly, be it Heavenly Court or the Southern Alliance, they had deep foundations and assets, competing with them in treasure yellow heaven through price and quantity was not wise.
Fang Yuan's foundation was skewed towards Immortal Gu, Immortal Gu Houses, and secluded domains of heaven and earth. Most of his cultivation resources were used for his own strength. For example, guts Gu, if he sold them in treasure yellow heaven, this monopoly would be well received by the market, Southern Alliance would not affect his gains.
But Fang Yuan did not do that.
He chose to use most of the guts Gu on his own soul path cultivation.
He was still trying every way possible to raise his battle strength!
This decision made his business in treasure yellow heaven even worse, he fell into a disadvantage against them.
"In terms of immortal materials, I have even less compared to my previous life. I refined Immortal Gu multiple times and used too much of them. I also gained many subordinates this time, Lady White Rabbit, Sixth Hair, and Fairy Miao Yin died last time. But now, they are alive and well, I even took in the variant human alliance. Right now, the sovereign immortal aperture is also raising many snowmen, rockmen, hairy men, and others, I am trying to comprehend human path."
Fang Yuan gained a lot more immortal materials than in his previous life, just the annexation of Lang Ya blessed land alone was an immense gain.
But his expenditure also increased as well. The refinement of luck path and wood path Immortal Gu, the nurturing of variant humans, the gathering of twelve different immemorial year beasts, his other clones needed resources, he also faced several intense battles that required vast immortal essence, many Gu worms were lost during those fights…
All in all, be it internally or externally, Fang Yuan's situation was much better than the previous life.
His only weakness was the lack of immortal materials, he was running out of certain immortal materials already.
In this situation, Fang Yuan would not compete with Heavenly Court in treasure yellow heaven at all.
Heavenly Court was buying time path immortal materials, they wanted to obstruct Fang Yuan, their attitude was even stronger than the previous life, Fang Yuan chose to avoid them.
In this regard, he could not beat Heavenly Court alone, not to mention they had the Southern Alliance as well.
Fang Yuan's following plan was to obtain regret Gu and advance the bulk of his current Immortal Gu, this was the same as his previous life's plan.
He currently had a large number of rank six Immortal Gu, once they become rank seven, his battle strength would surge again in an all-rounded manner!
Cooking Luck Pot alone was worth anticipating.
"In the previous life, I lacked time and did not get Red Lotus' true inheritance, I had to act quickly in the blue dragon whale's immortal aperture and could not tackle it with peace of mind."
"This time, not only do I want regret Gu, I also want to try to get that Merit Obelisk, in fact, I want to get Paradise Earth's true inheritance and the blue dragon whale itself!"
Fang Yuan calculated his time well.
Very soon, Central Continent's Refinement Path Convention would start, they would try to repair fate Gu.
But that did not matter.
Fang Yuan put Zhan Bu Du in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, this clone lived up to his expectations, he progressed rapidly and smoothly. When Fang Yuan appeared, Zhan Bu Du would cooperate with him and annex Beast Calamity grotto-heaven without issues.
He would save a lot of time in that regard, it could all be used to tackle the blue dragon whale's tasks.
His early investment was growing like a snowball, soon, Fang Yuan would gain even more benefits.
Miao Ming Shen looked around and said solemnly: "Everyone, I have already explained the details of this expedition, I gave you all some time to consider. This is my first journey too, the risks are unknown, we might possibly die. If anyone wants to give up now, you can leave. I will definitely not stop anyone, I understand from the bottom of my heart."
Nobody backed out.
This involved Paradise Earth's true inheritance, even if their paths were different, the immortals still held great expectations towards it.
These days, they had been thinking about what could be inside this blue dragon whale.
They did not know that Fang Yuan, who was beside them, already had a reliable plan to work with.
Similar to the previous life, before the immortals set off, Zeng Luo Zi went ahead to make the alliance agreement.
Next, the immortals went into the sea and used a method to find out each other's location.
After that, they went into the undercurrent with Miao Ming Shen taking the lead, they moved around through twists and turns, Fang Yuan was mixed among them as they followed Miao Ming Shen.
He had already made arrangements at the area that the blue dragon whale appeared in the previous life, but he did not receive information about the arrival of the blue dragon whale.
If not for Miao Ming Shen, he indeed might not find the blue dragon whale.
There were eight immortals here, they continued to travel for days. They used several undercurrents to travel, if there were no undercurrents, they would travel under the sea as well, being extremely low profile. Even if they met desolate beasts or ancient desolate beasts, they avoided them. If they saw any resources, they would ignore them.
Along the way, the immortals were led by Miao Ming Shen as they conversed, the atmosphere was quite harmonious and lively.
Miao Ming Shen also became the central member of this group subtly, he managed the relationship between everyone meticulously, he was truly skilled at interpersonal communication.
The immortals traveled with days and nights without stopping.
Miao Ming Shen was afraid that Ren Xiu Ping would expose this matter, so he had to race against time.
Suddenly, he slowed down as he showed an excited expression: "We are getting close!"
The immortals were energized.
Fang Yuan frowned lightly, similar to the previous life, he had been using investigative methods on Miao Ming Shen all along, he could not tell what method Miao Ming Shen was using to search for the blue dragon whale.
And their current location was completely different from the previous life as well.
As the blue dragon whale got closer, the immortals started to notice something strange.
The seawater became more turbulent, desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts increased in numbers, Fang Yuan and the rest had to resist them as they advanced, slaughtering desolate beasts as they forcefully created a path filled with blood.
The immortals fought desperately while Fang Yuan showed a peculiar expression.
In the previous life, he had fallen for it, but this time, he was experienced, after considering this situation, he saw some of the peculiarities in this situation.
"It seems that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's test started in the sea. If I try to die now, will I get transported into the blue dragon whale's immortal aperture?"
Fang Yuan felt that it was likely but he did not want to take the risk.
To play safe, he would follow his actions in the previous life, 'dying' after a certain amount of time.
"Who is it?!" Right at this moment, Zeng Luo Zi shouted as he sent a killer move behind him, towards his left.
The killer move did not have offensive power but several figures appeared immediately.
"As expected of Zeng Luo Zi, this is a wonderful investigative method." The leading Gu Immortal smiled as he spoke, his aura surged as it destroyed Zeng Luo Zi's investigative method while also sweeping towards Miao Ming Shen and the rest.
Fang Yuan saw him and felt slightly dazed: "Why is Shen Cong Sheng here as well?"
This was different from the previous life.
This person who only said one sentence and broke Zeng Luo Zi's investigative killer move was none other than Shen clan's first supreme elder, Shen Cong Sheng.
This was a righteous path rank eight Gu Immortal!
Miao Ming Shen and the rest only had rank seven cultivation level, they were completely outmatched.
Not only did Shen Cong Sheng come, he even had many Gu Immortals with him, there were Shen clan members and also lone cultivator experts like Ren Xiu Ping.
Fang Yuan had a shocked expression, he was obviously acting. His main body was here, not just Shen Cong Sheng, even if four of Eastern Sea's righteous path rank eights came here, Fang Yuan would not fear them.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest were truly shocked.
The enemies were too powerful, there was no way of contesting them.
What should they do?
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Chapter 1889 Entering the Aperture
"Why are they here?!" Immortal Hua Die gasped, she felt her body turning cold.
"If not for the dangerous situation, if I did not sense this mild peculiarity, I would not have found these people. Quickly leave!" Zeng Luo Zi urged as he said anxiously.
"There is a traitor among us! We need to split up!" Miao Ming Shen said with an ashen expression, he understood already. He looked around at Tu Tou Tuo, Tong Hua, Zeng Luo Zi, and paused when he looked at Fang Yuan.
Evidently, his biggest suspicion was Chu Ying because he did not know about this person's background.
"Hahaha, I wanted to follow you all into the blue dragon whale, but since you found out, none of you will escape." Shen Cong Sheng said as he moved his finger, sound waves spread out and shot towards Miao Ming Shen and the rest.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest were surrounded by these sound waves as their speed fell drastically.
Sssssssssh—!
Shen Cong Sheng started whistling in the depths of the sea.
Immortal Hua Die gasped as she was tied up by countless sound waves, Shen Cong Sheng dragged her away immediately.
"Hua Die!" Feng Jiang watched and stared with a furious expression, he tried to help her but was too weak, Shen Cong Sheng captured him too.
Shen Cong Sheng had rank eight cultivation level, his sound path methods were quite profound. In the previous life, he captured rank eight Gu Immortal Old Man Bei Feng alive in Hidden Dragon Cave, it was much simpler now to capture weaklings like Immortal Hua Die and Feng Jiang.
"Leave!" Feng Jiang shouted loudly.
But soon, Shen Cong Sheng grabbed his neck and he fainted.
He snorted coldly: "Attack."
The Shen clan Gu Immortals around him and Ren Xiu Ping found their targets and attacked.
They had followed behind closely, having already discussed among themselves who to fight. Not only was their attack coordinated, they helped each other out.
The only who attacked Fang Yuan was Shen clan Gu Immortal Shen Tan, he was an ordinary water path Gu Immortal.
He shot out a water ring that was the size of a vat, it flew towards Fang Yuan's head.
Fang Yuan did not want to fight, he turned into a small seahorse that was palm sized, he moved like lightning speed.
Shen Tan missed his target, he was shocked and attacked with three more water rings, they appeared before Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan turned into a fish and swerved around with great agility, dodging all three rings.
Shen Tan's expression turned ugly, he called out to Ren Xiu Ping: "Lend me a hand."
Ren Xiu Ping was attacking Tong Hua with two vicious sharks. Hearing Shen Tan's words, he nodded: "Of course."
A vicious shark that was attacking Tong Hua quickly turned around and swam towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan looked around him, he found that if he got past this obstacle, he would be the frontmost person charging out.
He quickly stopped as he pretended to be obstructed by the vicious shark.
Because of this, Shen Tan laughed loudly as he moved his four water rings, blocking Fang Yuan: "Where can you run to now?"
He had no idea who he had obstructed, if he knew Chu Ying's true identity, he would be shivering in fear now.
Fang Yuan pretended to be trapped while patiently observing his allies.
Tu Tou Tuo was also obstructed, as an earth path cultivator, his speed was not fast, it was even slower in water.
Tong Hua was busy dealing with two of Ren Xiu Ping's vicious sharks.
Zeng Luo Zi was like a white ghost in the sea, he moved around swiftly and competed with Shen clan's Shen Qi in speed, they were well ahead.
Gui Qi Ye and Miao Ming Shen moved together, when Shen clan's two Gu Immortals got close, he shouted: "Lord, quickly go, I will stop them."
He stopped as he pushed with his palms.
With a loud sound, a huge area of black fog spread out.
Shen clan's two Gu Immortals were moving too rapidly, they entered the fog and vanished into thin air.
"Old Gui, take care!" Miao Ming Shen knew the severity of the situation, he had tears in his eyes as he flew up.
Shen Cong Sheng suppressed Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die completely as he snickered: "Where are you going?"
Saying this, countless sound waves chased after Miao Ming Shen.
Miao Ming Shen's hair stood on end as alerts rang in his mind, his gaze flashed like lightning as he grunted, activating his space path killer move.
His figure vanished instantly, appearing a hundred steps away. At the next moment, he vanished again, he moved a hundred steps further from Fang Yuan and the rest.
As he flickered continuously, Miao Ming Shen escaped and charged out of the sea.
Shen Cong Sheng gasped lightly, feeling surprised.
He had used a genuine rank eight method, Miao Ming Shen was actually able to escape from it, it was very impressive.
Miao Ming Shen was the most important person, Shen Cong Sheng did not care about Immortal Hua Die or Feng Jiang, he did not have time to store them into his immortal aperture, he tossed them to others and flew out to chase Miao Ming Shen.
Miao Ming Shen charged out of the sea as sweat poured out of his forehead.
"My escaping method could usually move a hundred li with one flicker, but before Shen Cong Sheng, I could only move a hundred steps away. Is this the power of a rank eight Gu Immortal?"
Suddenly, there was a sound behind him as Shen Cong Sheng broke out of the sea.
Miao Ming Shen's body shook, his speed fell as he had fallen into Shen Cong Sheng's killer move's range once again.
Seeing that he was about to be captured, Miao Ming Shen struggled intensely, he felt deep despair in his heart.
Right at this moment, there was a shrill cry resounding.
An immemorial thunder phoenix flew over and attacked Shen Cong Sheng.
The immemorial thunder phoenix attacked fiercely, intense winds blew as Shen Cong Sheng's expression changed, he did not dare to be careless, he let off Miao Ming Shen for the time being and faced the immemorial thunder phoenix instead.
With a loud sound, the immemorial thunder phoenix sent Shen Cong Sheng flying into the sea again as huge waves were created.
Miao Ming Shen used this chance to flicker and escape, his body was covered in cold sweat.
At this time, he finally had time to observe the surroundings.
Only to see that above the sea, intense tornadoes surged in the sky, lightning flashed continuously as thunder rumbled, dark clouds extended to the horizons.
The sea was in a frenzy, waves surged from the sea, they were thousands of feet tall.
Countless flying birds and eagles fought intensely amidst the thunder and lightning.
Blue charm lightning shadows flickered in the dark clouds, they were hunted down by immemorial desolate beast thunder phoenix.
The situation was too dangerous!
"Where in the world did I end up at?!" Miao Ming Shen took a deep breath in shock.
"Catch them!" Right at this time, Shen Tan's anxious voice could be heard behind him.
Just earlier, Shen Tan received the two captives that Shen Cong Sheng tossed him, Fang Yuan used that chance to not only destroy the water rings but also helped the others out.
Tong Hua, Zeng Luo Zi, and Fang Yuan got out of the sea, flying into the sky.
"Don't think of running!" Shen Qi, Shen Tan, and Ren Xiu Ping chased after them.
At the same time, lightning flashed in the sky and shot towards the immortals.
The immortals quickly attacked to block it.
Another group of eagles flew down and scattered the group of people, the scene was a chaotic mess.
"All of you, scram!" At the next moment, an intense sound wave burst out from the depths of the sea.
Sound waves shot out of Shen Cong Sheng as he flew out of the sea and towards the sky in an instant, he waved both hands as two translucent sound waves moved around the battlefield like two sharp blades.
Immortal killer move — Aerial Sound Blades!
Wherever the sound blades went, be they eagles or lightning, they were all cut into two, even the immemorial thunder phoenix was injured and moved back.
A sound blade went around Tong Hua and quickly slit through Zeng Luo Zi's throat.
Zeng Luo Zi stared with wide eyes as his head fell off his body.
A sound blade went after Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan sighed to himself, he made a turn and burst out with speed, he charged on the closest route to the immemorial thunder phoenix.
At the next moment, his body became charred by lightning, he died on the spot.
Shen Cong Sheng did not even look at Fang Yuan's corpse, he went after Miao Ming Shen immediately.
Within the blue Dragon Whale Paradise.
Starting island.
Fang Yuan opened his eyes as he woke up.
"I arrived here after all." He stood up and looked around him.
The sea was blue with white waves, there was a golden sandy beach, the temperature was warm and nice, this was a serene location.
"Hmm?" Fang Yuan saw Zeng Luo Zi here as well.
He was clearly killed by Shen Cong Sheng's sound path killer move, he was beheaded. But now, he lay near the beach, he breathed normally but was unconscious, his head was still attached to his body.
"As expected." Fang Yuan was not surprised: "The illusion started long ago, within it, whoever dies would not die for real."
Fang Yuan was killed by the immemorial thunder phoenix and arrived here afterwards. Zeng Luo Zi was killed by Shen Cong Sheng but arrived here as well.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created Reincarnation Battlefield in Central Continent, it had a similar trait. Central Continent's ten great ancient sects occupied that place and sent Gu Immortals to fight inside it. No matter who died inside, they would not lose their life, they would only sustain some injuries or damage if they died too many times.
Thus, Fang Yuan did not do anything earlier. Even if he killed Shen Cong Sheng, he would not die, he would even get transported here earlier, while Fang Yuan would have exposed his identity for no reason.
Fang Yuan waved his hand as a qi blade flew towards Zeng Luo Zi.
Zeng Luo Zi did not have any defenses up, but right before the qi blade landed and killed him, it vanished.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, turning around and leaving.
When Shen Cong Sheng woke up, he felt that his vision was still blurry, but a joyful sound was heard beside him: "First supreme elder, you finally woke up!"
Next, his vision cleared up, he saw Shen Qi, Shen Tan, Ren Xiu Ping, Miao Ming Shen, Hua Die, Feng Jiang, Tong Hua, and the rest, they were in a nervous standoff.
"What happened? Didn't I die!" Shen Cong Sheng was internally shocked, he felt that this was unreal.
As a rank eight Gu Immortal, he lasted the longest in the illusion, he was also the final person who arrived.
"First supreme elder, this is likely Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's method, it is similar to Central Continent's Reincarnation Battlefield." Shen Tan said.
Shen Cong Sheng managed to calm down as he nodded: "This is indeed the style of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable."
At the next moment, his eyes flashed like lightning as he looked at Miao Ming Shen and the rest, asking directly: "How long have you been awake for?"
"We had just woken up too." Shen Qi answered.
Shen Cong Sheng nodded, he looked at Miao Ming Shen, Immortal Hua Die, Feng Jiang, and Zeng Luo Zi.
These people were either captured or killed by him, but now, they were alive and well. Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable truly had unfathomable methods!
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Chapter 1890 Where is Chu Ying?
"Where are we? Tell me everything that you know!" Shen Cong Sheng said as he attacked Miao Ming Shen again.
The result was that his killer move vanished upon activation, Shen Cong Sheng grunted as blood flowed out of his nose, he had sustained injuries from the backlash of the killer move.
"First supreme elder, hold on, this place seems to forbid fighting. If you have the intention to fight, any killer move or Gu worm activation will fail. In contrast, healing yourself will not be obstructed." Shen Tan said.
"Why didn't you say that earlier?" Shen Cong Sheng stared with furious eyes.
Shen Tan felt wrongly accused as he thought to himself: "Wasn't it because you acted too quickly?"
He could not say that of course, Shen Tan lowered his head and apologized.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest let out sighs of relief.
They were also healing their injuries.
When they woke up, they saw the Shen clan Gu Immortals around and attacked without thinking, they had suffered intense backlash as a result.
Shen Tan and the rest were in similar situations.
But at that time, Shen Cong Sheng had not woken up, nobody knew if a rank eight Gu Immortal would be restricted as well.
"It seems that even rank eight Gu Immortals cannot defy the arrangements of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable." Miao Ming Shen let out a breath of air, after seeing that Shen Cong Sheng had failed, he calmed down completely.
They were temporarily safe.
Shen Cong Sheng heard this as bright light flashed in his eyes: "It seems that we are inside the immortal aperture world of the blue dragon whale."
Miao Ming Shen did not acknowledge or deny his words.
Gui Qi Ye who stood beside him stared at Tong Hua furiously: "Tong Hua! You betrayed us!"
Tong Hua lowered her head and did not speak, looking ashamed.
She was standing beside Ren Xiu Ping now.
The traitor among Miao Ming Shen's group was her.
Earlier, when Shen Cong Sheng used his killer move in the illusion, he avoided her, everyone saw that.
And now, her status was exposed.
Immortal Hua Die had a cold expression: "Fairy Tong Hua, to think my lord trusted you so deeply, when you had to fix your immortal aperture after tribulation, he helped you so much. Not only did he help you, he even invited you to explore the blue dragon whale, you actually betrayed our kindness with enmity! Why did you betray us? Where is your conscience?"
Tong Hua wanted to speak but she turned around and stopped looking at Miao Ming Shen and the rest.
Miao Ming Shen sighed heavily as he stopped Immortal Hua Die: "Fairy Tong Hua probably has her own difficulties, forget it, everyone has their own goals."
Tong Hua's gaze flickered intensely.
"Lord… you are too kindhearted. How can we let this kind of people off?" Immortal Hua Die stomped her feet.
Ren Xiu Ping smiled arrogantly, he was the one who made Tong Hua a traitor: "Miao Ming Shen, you need to understand this situation clearly, you need to know who is the stronger side! Tong Hua was wise to have chosen us, if you surrender and hand over all your information, we might spare you."
Immortal Hua Die was still furious about it, this was their fortuitous encounter but these people wanted to snatch it away and threatened them, she rolled her eyes as she called out: "I'm so scared, why don't you come attack me, my entire body is shivering from fear."
Shen Cong Sheng's expression turned cold.
Ren Xiu Ping squinted as he smiled even more coldly: "Girl, you have a sharp tongue, do you think Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's methods can protect you for a lifetime? After you leave this place, when we get back to Eastern Sea, can any of you resist Lord Shen Cong Sheng? Even inside here, do you think Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's arrangements are perfect without a single loophole?"
Immortal Hua Die's expression froze.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest had grim expressions, especially Zeng Luo Zi, he looked at Shen Cong Sheng with fear in his eyes. After all, he was killed earlier by a killer move.
"It is uncertain who will win. Let's go!" Miao Ming Shen did not want to waste time on arguments, he turned around and left this beach.
"This person had the special method to find the blue dragon whale, he definitely knows more than us. Follow him!" Shen Cong Sheng quickly ordered.
They could not fight now, following Miao Ming Shen was the best alternative.
The two groups walked with some distance between them, they moved in silence.
Soon, they got out of the beach, arriving in a dense forest.
"This forest is a bit strange, the leaves of the trees have empty heart shaped spaces at the center." Immortal Hua Die said in confusion.
"Hmm, these are just ordinary trees." Feng Jiang checked and touched a tree trunk with his hands.
With a soft sound, the tree that he touched collapsed, it shattered into a pile of wood dust.
"What is going on?" The immortals sensed a commotion and quickly gathered.
"These are not ordinary trees, they are rank seven immortal plants, cloud ladder trees." Shen Cong Sheng looked as he said grimly.
They arrived as well.
Seeing that the rank eight Gu Immortal was standing beside them, Miao Ming Shen and the rest felt their hearts tighten but they quickly relaxed.
Gui Qi Ye said arrogantly: "Old Shen, do you think we are ignorant? I know about cloud ladder trees, this tree has dense wood path and cloud path dao marks. Every hundred years, it grows by ten inches, which is one step of a ladder. How can these be cloud ladder trees? With such a height, they have to be a hundred steps at least, that means these cloud ladder trees have lived for ten thousand years? Hehehe."
But Shen Cong Sheng was calm and composed: "These are cloud ladder trees. You only know a portion of the details. Cloud ladder trees are a rank seven immortal material, the leaves of ten thousand year old cloud ladder trees would form the rank eight immortal material, cloud ladder leaf heart. Once all of the cloud ladder leaf hearts are taken away, the cloud ladder tree would collapse into a pile of wood dust, becoming an ordinary material."
Gui Qi Ye was stunned before he smiled coldly again, pointing forward: "Then you mean to say that this dense forest is filled with ten thousand year old cloud ladder trees? Hehe, this is too laughable."
Shen Cong Sheng nodded: "Cloud ladder trees are quite rare, of course, this forest isn't made up of such a precious tree. But at the very least, this particular plant was a cloud ladder tree!"
Shen Cong Sheng was very certain while Gui Qi Ye stuck to his views, he pointed at a tree nearby: "Then according to Lord Shen Cong Sheng, this tree, this tree, and that tree are also ten thousand year old cloud ladder trees. Haha, look, all of their leaves have an empty heart shaped space. There are so many cloud ladder trees, how many rank eight immortal material cloud ladder leaf hearts are there? Isn't there too much of this rank eight immortal material? How different is it from a plain cabbage you grow in your farm?"
The immortals were looking at Shen Cong Sheng, his expression also changed slightly.
On this island, investigative methods were not very useful, but he had already inspected his surroundings gradually.
He walked quickly and struck several tree trunks, once he touched these cloud ladder trees, they turned into wood dust.
Shen Cong Sheng gasped as he said to his subordinates: "These were all cloud ladder trees, but the leaf hearts on them had all been taken away. These are valuable rank eight immortal materials, quickly look for any that are left behind!"
The Shen clan Gu Immortals believed in Shen Cong Sheng, while Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua believed him to some extent, because of his reputation, they had to obey him and spread out to search.
As cloud ladder trees got destroyed one after another, none of the immortals found any cloud ladder leaf hearts.
The entire forest was made of cloud ladder trees, there were no trees left here.
Even while Shen Cong Sheng walked out of this dense forest, he started to suspect his own finding: "Are these really cloud ladder trees? If they are, there are simply too many of them, right?"
The immortals left the forest, they saw the yellow sandy ground, as wind blew, dust clouds moved in the air.
It was a desolate land.
This was everyone's first impression.
"The air seems to have the smell of clear wind grass stems." Shen Cong Sheng sniffed as he crouched down, moving the soil and exposing the holes in it.
Shen Cong Sheng's expression changed.
At this time, Zeng Luo Zi also sensed something strange, he called out: "This place must have an entire field of clear wind grass stems planted here in the past, I've smelt this aroma before, it is this. There are holes here, each is as large as a fist, the walls of the holes are all smooth and round, this is the effect of the roots of clear wind grass stems."
Miao Ming Shen was stunned: "Clear wind grass stem is a rank seven immortal material, this means that this area filled with holes was once an entire field of clear wind grass stems?"
"Even though it is unthinkable, don't forget that we are inside the blue dragon whale now. This is the location of a Paradise Earth true inheritance!" Hua Die's words were like a stone dropped into the hearts of the immortals.
Shen Cong Sheng frowned as he looked at Miao Ming Shen, asking: "Why is there someone missing from your side?"
Miao Ming Shen was stunned, he realized why he had felt something strange earlier, after hearing this reminder, he understood, indeed, someone was missing.
"Chu Ying is not around!" Feng Jiang said grimly.
"Where did he go?"
"Speaking of it, he died really early, he should have arrived here long ago."
"Did he awaken earlier than us, did he take away all of the immortal materials here?"
The immortals were all astute figures, because they were at conflict earlier and the atmosphere was tense, they did not think so much when exploring the island.
Once this topic started, everyone became anxious.
Shen Cong Sheng stopped following Miao Ming Shen, he moved rapidly and advanced.
Miao Ming Shen hesitated, he decided to follow.
The immortals quickly arrived in front of a huge pit.
This hole was tens of li wide, it was hundreds of feet deep, there were some fragments left in the hole.
Tu Tou Tuo picked up these fragments as he looked, shouting instantly: "Oh heavens! This is the rank seven immortal material rooster iron. Which bastard took everything away, only leaving behind these fragments?"
Tu Tou Tuo stared with wide eyes, he shouted loudly.
"Rooster iron only exists in mines exposed to open air. When roosters sing, heaven turns white[1], with such a wide span of rooster iron here, when wind blows, there will be resonance, rank eight immortal material heavenly white snow iron will be produced!" Shen Cong Sheng said with a cold tone: "We need to find that Chu Ying as quickly as we can."
All the immortals were anxious.
All these immortal materials were likely taken by Chu Ying.
They needed to find him!
They quickly spread out and called his name but they could not find even a trace of Fang Yuan. All they saw were holes and pits, dried rivers and a large field of land with their plants uprooted and taken away.
[1] A saying from Chairman Mao
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Chapter 1891 Who Else Could It Be But Me?
The island they were sent to was not big, the immortals did not gain anything from their exploration, they quickly gathered at the center of the island.
Over there, they made a shocking discovery!
A huge obelisk that seemed to be made of gold was radiating with a mild crystalline light.
Rank eight Immortal Gu House — Merit Obelisk!
The surface of Merit Obelisk had words appearing on it, introducing the background of this island and also the details of the Paradise Earth true inheritance.
To obtain the Paradise Earth true inheritance, one had to accept the missions on the Merit Obelisk, they would gain merit points when they complete these tasks. The more merits they had, the more valuable things they could exchange for.
If one did not accept this, they could only wait on this island, they could not leave and go to other places in the grotto-heaven world.
Of course, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was merciful and kind, he would not let them leave empty-handed. The immortal materials on this island were specially prepared for them to split among each other.
Three hundred days later, everyone would be transported away.
The immortals were shocked.
"There are immortal materials on this island after all. Those cloud ladder leaf hearts, clear wind grass stems, rooster iron and others were not fake."
"They were all taken by someone! Damn it, he took literally everything, he left nothing for us at all."
"It must be that Chu Ying."
"Where is Chu Ying? Why have we not seen him?"
"I found Chu Ying!" Immortal Hua Die suddenly shouted.
The immortals quickly gathered towards her, they saw that on another side of the Merit Obelisk, by looking at where Immortal Hua Die pointed, they saw words that appeared on the Merit Obelisk.
Merit Board Ranking — Chu Ying, eighty-two merit points.
Other than Chu Ying, there were nobody else.
"This person!" Ren Xiu Ping gritted his teeth in anger.
Right at this moment, Chu Ying's merit points jumped again, from eighty-two to ninety-three.
Next, the Merit Obelisk flashed.
The immortals quickly took steps back.
The light faded as Fang Yuan appeared.
"Chu Ying!" Feng Jiang cried out.
"You finally showed up." Tu Tou Tuo had bloodshot eyes, he thought about the empty pit that was filled with rooster iron before.
"Oh, you are awake." Fang Yuan nodded at them, he said in a plain tone.
"Hey, what is wrong with your attitude!" Shen Tan shouted in displeasure.
Fang Yuan's indifferent attitude made every immortal furious.
Shen Cong Sheng stepped forward with a cold expression and overbearing tone: "Tell me, did you take all of the immortal materials on this island?"
"Who else could it be but me?" Fang Yuan retorted, he was indifferent about Shen Cong Sheng's overbearing tone. He quickly got to the other side of the Merit Obelisk and quickly browsed through the missions.
The immortals were furiously staring at him.
This person had taken all the benefits but still acted so arrogantly!
Ren Xiu Ping said grimly: "We have seen the text on this obelisk, all of these immortal materials are arranged by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable for us. Chu Ying, isn't it too much to take everything yourself? You owe us an explanation!"
Fang Yuan did not even look at him, he pressed his palm at the obelisk and took another mission.
Swoosh.
White light flashed, he vanished again.
The immortals were shocked.
Shen Qi shouted in anger: "This guy!"
"Where did he come from? He is completely disregarding Lord Shen Cong Sheng and us." Ren Xiu Ping spoke with a livid expression, his voice was cold as ice.
"Investigate him after we go out." Shen Cong Sheng was a rank eight after all, as the leader of Shen clan, he quickly calmed down and started to mimic Fang Yuan, walking to the Merit Obelisk.
"Chu Ying is acting so fearlessly, he is merely relying on the fact that we cannot attack him in this paradise." Shen Cong Sheng thought to himself: "Chu Ying is merely a rank seven secluded lone immortal, we can deal with him later. The important thing now is this Merit Obelisk."
Fang Yuan's actions earlier were a great example to the immortals here.
In the previous life, Miao Ming Shen and the rest came to the obelisk with suspicion, they first distributed the immortal materials on the island before going to accept the missions.
But now, Fang Yuan woke up in advance, he acted first and ransacked the entire island.
The only thing left to these immortals was this Merit Obelisk.
There were many missions on this Merit Obelisk.
Helping the merfolk in South Coast City to excavate the golden lotuses on silver lake.
Round fish island was drying up, it needed wells to be built.
Three stripes tribe lacked medicine, there was a plague spreading, they needed a lot of medicinal herbs.
Piper tribe was stuck in a fog, they were asked to lead them out.
Aurora Mountain's spirit spring had an issue that needed to be dealt with immediately.
…
The Gu Immortals watched with a dazed expression.
Similar to the previous life, they encountered the same situation again.
These missions were only described briefly, they were not detailed, the Gu Immortals could not gain any useful information.
For example, this mission: Three stripes tribe lacked medicine, there was a plague spreading, they needed a lot of medicinal herbs.
What kind of force was three stripes tribe? Were there Gu Immortals? Were they an ordinary force or super force?
A plague was spreading, what kind of plague was it? There were many kinds of plagues that even rank eight Gu Immortals did not dare to handle.
They needed a lot of medicinal herbs, what kind of herbs did they want? Immortal materials? What method did they need to use?
Nobody knew.
The Merit Obelisk only had this one line.
The immortals were really unaware of the situation.
"Does that Chu Ying know anything?" Someone muttered.
The immortals were silent, their hatred, anger, and suspicion towards Fang Yuan intensified again.
Even though Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was known for kindness, this was an unknown environment, even the rank eight Gu Immortal Shen Cong Sheng was barred from fighting, the Gu Immortals had to be vigilant.
And looking at the rewards on the Merit Obelisk.
There was a large amount of immortal materials and Immortal Gu that could be exchanged for using merits!
Of course, there were some peculiar things here like titles or mortal Gu.
Shen Cong Sheng immediately saw one rank five mortal Gu, it was called good deeds Gu, this was the first time he had seen such a Gu worm.
To exchange for a good deeds Gu, one needed fifty merit points, it was the most expensive mortal Gu.
But the actual effect of the Gu worm was not written on the Merit Obelisk, Shen Cong Sheng knew nothing about it.
However, it had to be unique and special for Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable to put it up as a reward.
After the immortals discussed among themselves, they realized that they had to try this to find out. Shen Cong Sheng was the first to act, he quickly walked up to the obelisk to receive his mission.
In the previous life, the group of eight including Fang Yuan and Miao Ming Shen came to the Merit Obelisk, only ten missions had appeared to them. But now, because there were more people, it seemed that the number of missions had also increased correspondingly.
There were many missions, they were slowly taken.
Because they did not know anything, there was no fighting or snatching here.
Shen Cong Sheng's mission was: Round fish island was drying up, it needed wells to be built.
As light flickered, he appeared in a desert at the next moment.
Shen Cong Sheng's pupils shrunk.
He was a rank eight Gu Immortal with dense dao marks, he could not be transported using ordinary methods. But when he was transported here, it could not be blocked, a grand and mystical power brought him here instantly.
"As expected of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable." Shen Cong Sheng sighed internally, he looked around as his investigative method spread out over the surroundings.
Shen Cong Sheng quickly sensed something different: "Oh, my investigative method works properly here, it is not the same as the starting island."
Tens of li away from here, there was a small village in the desert.
Shen Cong Sheng stood on the spot, moving his ears as he listened to the conversation of the people in the village.
A moment later, he confirmed that he was on round fish island. This island was huge and had many villages, but decades again, vegetation had started to become sparse, right now, a large area desert had already spread around the remaining few villages.
Mortals and Gu Masters lived in the village, their lives were getting tougher.
"This means to say, I need to build water wells near these villages?" After learning of the situation, Shen Cong Sheng let out a breath of air as he relaxed.
This mission was much easier than he had expected.
They were all mortal level issues, not at the level of Gu Immortals.
Even if it involved immortals, he was a rank eight sound path great expert, he could deal with most issues.
Shen Cong Sheng thought about Fang Yuan as he muttered to himself: "That Chu Ying only has rank seven cultivation level but he accumulated ninety-three merit points so quickly. This shows that the missions must be very easy to complete."
Even after knowing the situation, Shen Cong Sheng did not rush to take action.
He needed to test many things here.
For example, could he ignore this mission and fly out of this place?
Could he communicate with the outside world?
How many methods could he still use in this situation?
Shen Cong Sheng did not interact with the mortals, he used sound path methods and secretly dug wells near the villages.
The desertification here was very severe, Shen Cong Sheng had to dig for a long time before he found some underground water deep below.
Using these sources of water, he created deep wells around the place.
Thinking about it, he used his methods to reinforce the walls of the well. Finally, he made the mouths of the wells and covered them with a thatched roof on top.
"To think that one day, I would have to do such manual labor." Shen Cong Sheng laughed.
He built a total of more than thirty wells, this mission was not difficult at all to this rank eight Gu Immortal.
In the process of completing it, Shen Cong Sheng tried many things, he probed the foundation of this paradise to a great extent.
For example, he could not leave this place, he was only able to move around this desert area.
His communication was also restricted, forget about treasure yellow heaven, he could not even send anything to Shen Qi or Shen Tan.
He was also unable to attack the ordinary villagers, all his offensive methods would fail and he would sustain backlash.
He could open his immortal aperture's entrance and take out stuff from within, yet he could not take anything from round fish island to put into his immortal aperture.
Shen Cong Sheng also gained a lot of information from these mortals, these people were able to leave round fish island and tour the seas. In the past, there were conflicts among the villages, people had died.
In conclusion, Dragon Whale Paradise gave the inhabitants a lot of freedom, while the Gu Immortals who received these missions were greatly restricted.
As for how they were restricted, Shen Cong Sheng was unable to detect the method, he simply could not deal with it or get around it. This made him feel even more admiration towards Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable.
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Chapter 1892 Analyzing Chu Ying Together
After completing the mission, Shen Cong Sheng said "return" in his mind, he was transported to the starting island again.
The Merit Obelisk appeared beside him.
He checked the board and saw that on the merit list, his name was there: Shen Cong Sheng, nine merit points.
Shen Cong Sheng frowned.
One mission only gave him nine merit points?
This reward was too little, it was out of Shen Cong Sheng's expectations.
"Looking at this, does it mean that Chu Ying had already taken about ten missions before me?" Thinking of this, Shen Cong Sheng frowned even deeper now.
He looked at those rewards while feeling a chill in his heart.
Those Immortal Gu and immortal materials that he wanted needed more than ten thousand merit points!
"There is another problem, Immortal Gu are unique, if others get them first, I will lose my chance."
"Now that Chu Ying is so far ahead, we have to pick up the pace and catch up with him!"
Shen Cong Sheng was a rank eight but he felt a sense of urgency now, everyone else was feeling worse.
"First supreme elder." Shen Tan walked over and respectfully greeted Shen Cong Sheng. Even though he had finished his mission earlier, he did not rush to the second one, he waited at the obelisk.
In fact, the group of immortals had all agreed before the first transportation to communicate with each other after completing their missions.
Shen Cong Sheng, Shen Tan, Shen Qi, Shen Xiao, Shen Nai He, Ren Xiu Ping, and Tong Hua were the first group, while Miao Ming Shen, Feng Jiang, Immortal Hua Die, Gui Qi Ye, Tu Tou Tuo, and Zeng Luo Zi were the second group.
The two sides were distinctly separated.
Evidently, Shen Cong Sheng's group was far too strong. However, in a special environment like the paradise, it was inconvenient for them to make a move against Miao Ming Shen and the others, so they had to watch as these enemies banded together as a group.
"Heaven always leaves a way out! Everyone, this is a great opportunity now, as long as we grab onto it, we will have a chance of dealing with Shen Cong Sheng in the future. We need to work hard, we need to unite for a glimpse of hope. Otherwise, if we work alone, we will not survive." Miao Ming Shen encouraged the Gu Immortals on his side.
Zeng Luo Zi, Tu Tou Tuo, and the rest nodded in agreement. They faced greater pressure than Shen Cong Sheng, because they felt more urgency to complete missions and raise their strength.
Even if they were safe inside the Dragon Whale Paradise, after three hundred days, they would be transported out and would need to face Shen Cong Sheng.
"Tell me, what have you all discovered?" Miao Ming Shen spoke.
All of them spoke about their findings one by one, without any concealment, there was even a lot of speculation that they made.
Everyone's discoveries were similar to Shen Cong Sheng's, Miao Ming Shen concluded in the end: "The restrictions placed on us by the paradise can actually be seen as a kind of protection for us, at least for the time being, Shen Cong Sheng is unable to lay his hands on us."
"The amount of merit points we received after completing a mission was only nine at most, it did not exceed ten. It seems that the reward for each mission is between one and ten."
"But I have a feeling that this Merit Obelisk will undergo more changes in the future."
Zeng Luo Zi and Tu Tou Tuo looked at each other, Zeng Luo Zi hesitated but still asked: "Brother Miao, since you can sense the exact location of the blue dragon whale, and bring us to it, is this place completely new to you?"
Miao Ming Shen smiled bitterly: "Brother Zeng and Brother Tu, if I said that I have no idea why I am able to sense the location of the blue dragon whale, would you believe me? Several years ago, information about the blue dragon whale began to appear inexplicably in my mind, but at first it was very vague. These bits and pieces of information had only gotten clearer recently, I finally realized that it was the blue dragon whale calling to me."
"If I really knew these arrangements and had any shortcuts, would I not use them? Would I continue to face Shen Cong Sheng's threat? When we were outside, Shen Cong Sheng attacked us, if I knew it was an illusion, I would have tried to die long ago."
"Friends, my words are all true, there is no deception at all!"
Zeng Luo Zi and Tu Tou Tuo saw Miao Ming Shen's earnest expression and nodded: "We believe you."
Gui Qi Ye suddenly said: "Speaking of which, I do recall one thing. Previously, when he was being chased in the sea, Chu Ying was being attacked by a sound blade, but his speed soared and he took the initiative to bump into an immemorial thunder phoenix, after which he got struck by its lightning and died."
"Yes, I saw that too." Feng Jiang also added.
"It's strange to actively seek death, it seems that Chu Ying really knows something about this place." Tu Tou Tuo's eyes burst out with bright light.
Previously, Fang Yuan did not know that dying by the hands of Shen Cong Sheng would also be accepted. To be on the safe side, he still chose the method of death from his last life.
As a result, he exposed a flaw.
It was like Shen Cong Sheng, who avoided Tong Hua earlier with his sound blades.
Miao Ming Shen's group discovered Chu Ying's peculiarity, It was the same for Shen Cong Sheng's group.
"Miao Ming Shen." At this time, Shen Tan walked in front of the group and took the initiative to approach Miao Ming Shen and the others.
Behind Shen Tan were Shen Cong Sheng, Ren Xiuping and the rest.
"There is no need to be nervous." Shen Tan smiled: "We are not here to find trouble with you all this time, but rather to seek cooperation."
"Cooperation? You guys are really shameless."
"Who was it who wanted to kill us earlier?"
Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die said with displeasure.
Miao Ming Shen, however, stopped them and looked at Shen Cong Sheng.
Shen Cong Sheng nodded slightly and said indifferently: "This was my decision. It is true that I was the one who made the move to attack you before, but let's put ourselves in each other's shoes and think about it, if you were me, would you let me off?"
"It's not that I don't want to kill you all, but with the situation as it is right now, then I can only cooperate with you."
"I swear on the reputation of my Shen clan, I promise that even after we leave this Dragon Whale Paradise in the future, we will not do anything to you, but rather let you all leave. "
"And all of you will need to tell me everything you know about the information you have regarding this place."
"The reputation of Shen clan…" Miao Ming Shen pondered, the immortals around him all looked slightly moved by this proposal as well.
Shen Cong Sheng was the first supreme elder or Shen clan, the promise of a righteous path figure held a lot of weight, and now he was staking the reputation of the entire Shen clan, he could be trusted to a high degree.
Of course, the best way was for both sides to set an alliance agreement.
Zeng Luo Zi and Shen Nai He were both rank seven information path Gu Immortals, they were unable to use information path methods here because the paradise restricted them greatly.
"You all can think about it, this is your only chance. If you miss it, don't regret it if you go out of the Dragon Whale Paradise in the future." Shen Tan threatened with a smile.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest became increasingly silent.
The Merit Obelisk had made it clear that they would only stay here for three hundred days, and once the time limit was up, they would be sent out. At that time, they might have to face Shen Cong Sheng.
Shen Cong Sheng's guarantee was certainly not completely assuring and he could go back on his word.
But with their own lives at stake, Miao Ming Shen and the others would certainly not let go of any possibility of survival.
Miao Ming Shen suddenly smiled and nodded: "I accept your offer. I'll cooperate with you and tell you everything I know."
Shen Cong Sheng also smiled: "Good, a wise man submits to circumstances. I will let you live, go ahead and speak."
Miao Ming Shen's smile turned bitter: "There's actually nothing to say."
He repeated the things he had said to Tu Tou Tuo and Zeng Luo Zi earlier.
Shen Tan was furious: "You're saying that you actually don't know anything? Are you lying? Do you think our Shen clan is easy to fool?"
Shen Cong Sheng, however, had a look of deep consideration.
He felt that Miao Ming Shen's words were probably true, lies could be told, but actions often could not deceive others. On the way here, Miao Ming Shen's actions were all seen by Shen Cong Sheng. He did not seem like someone who knew the details of the Dragon Whale Paradise.
Gui Qi Ye interjected: "We analyzed it earlier, it seems that Chu Ying is very suspicious. He might indeed know some inside information!"
The immortals' eyes shined with bright light.
Ren Xiu Ping smiled coldly: "Aren't you stating the obvious? That person had actively sought death before, he came here and was the first to awaken, ransacking the starting island of all the immortal materials. And look at the Merit Obelisk, he's got nearly a hundred merit points, hmm."
.Ren Xiu Ping suddenly became silent.
At this moment, white light flashed as Fang Yuan appeared again.
His mission was completed, his merit points went past a hundred, reaching one hundred and two.
The immortals gathered in a group, looking at Fang Yuan who was at the obelisk. He had appeared right when they mentioned him.
Fang Yuan also looked at the immortals. Wow, the atmosphere here was great!
Fang Yuan was a little surprised, but he did not feel anything strange about this.
Gu Immortals were all exceptional talents, these Gu Immortals were very perceptive and knew about benefits and harm, they prioritized their own gains. As long as Shen Cong Sheng stopped being haughty, it was possible that they would cooperate as Miao Ming Shen and the rest would worry about the future.
Shen Tan smiled and took the initiative to come over, approaching Fang Yuan: "Brother Chu Ying."
He took the initiative to greet, his attitude was much better compared to when he spoke to Miao Ming Shen.
In the current situation, Fang Yuan's value was also clearly much higher than Miao Ming Shen.
But before he could send any invitations…
"Scram." Fang Yuan glanced at Shen Tan before he turned around and walked away.
Shen Tan's smile froze on his face, the corners of his lips twitched as anger rose in his heart, he was about to shout but his shoulder was patted by someone.
It was Shen Cong Sheng!
Shen Tan quickly held down his anger, he did not dare to shout rashly, he only stared at Fang Yuan with a furious expression.
"Little brother." Shen Cong Sheng chuckled: "We can coope…"
"Scram." Fang Yuan said one word with a calm tone, he interrupted Shen Cong Sheng without hesitation.
Everyone was shocked.
Shen Cong Sheng's eyes widened a little, he was dumbfounded at this situation.
How long had it been since anyone scolded him like this?
He was the first supreme elder of Shen clan, an Eastern Sea rank eight great expert, who would dare to scold him in his face?
Even normally, when people like Song Qi Yuan had a conversation with him, they would still keep a composed attitude when they conversed with each other.
But Fang Yuan scolded him without restraint.
Plain and straightforward.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest looked at Fang Yuan with immensely shocked expressions.
"This is a rank eight Gu Immortal, the first supreme elder of Shen clan, don't be so reckless!"
"If you don't relent now, what will happen when you get transported out of here three hundred days later?"
At this moment, everyone did not know whether to admire Chu Ying's courage or shame him for his stupidity.
After Fang Yuan finished scolding, he immediately disappeared, he had taken another mission and left again.
The remaining Gu Immortals stood as they stared at the Merit Obelisk blankly.
Shen Cong Sheng suddenly laughed lightly, breaking the silence: "This Chu Ying is very courageous. I am looking forward to seeing his courage after we leave this place."
He had a smile on his face but his eyes were flashing with furious sparks, his killing intent had appeared!
"Miao Ming Shen, who in the world is this Chu Ying and what is his background?" Shen Tan turned around and shouted aggressively.
He had an overbearing attitude, Gui Qi Ye and the rest were unhappy as they stared furiously.
Miao Ming Shen sighed deeply and shrugged: "If I tell you that I'm not sure of his origin, would you believe me?"
"Hehe." The corners of Shen Tan's mouth twitched and he laughed dryly, the look on his face showed his current thoughts.
What sort of lie was this?
If he did not know about Chu Ying's background, would he invite this person to explore Paradise Earth's true inheritance?
"Chu Ying, oh Chu Ying, I am going to die because of you." Miao Ming Shen smiled bitterly but he did not give up, he decided to throw this problem over to Ren Xiu Ping.
"The reason I trusted Chu Ying was because of Ren Xiu Ping. Brother Ren, explain it, is there a need to hide the matter anymore?"
Miao Ming Shen's words made everyone's gazes gather on Ren Xiu Ping.
Ren Xiu Ping shook as he felt an immense pressure, he had to explain everything that he knew.
The immortals learned about the reason behind Chu Ying's involvement now.
Miao Ming Shen continued to explain: "Actually, I have not interacted with Chu Ying much. I only invited him to an auction in the past. Back then, Tong Hua and Tu Tou Tuo were around as well."
Shen Cong Sheng turned his gaze towards these two.
Tu Tou Tuo and Tong Hua spoke one after another, explaining all that they knew.
Shen Cong Sheng heard their words as he frowned deeply.
There was a lot of information but it was all useless! All that was known was already known, while all that was not known was still unknown.
They had nowhere to start and no way to target him.
"This Chu Ying is not a simple person." Shen Cong Sheng had a feeling, but he was still confident: "He is just a rank seven transformation path Gu Immortal after all, he is not my match."
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Chapter 1893 Saving Xia Lin Again
Light flickered and faded at once, Fang Yuan appeared on a small island in the sea.
"I am here again." Fang Yuan smiled lightly.
He accepted the mission to collect Earth Trench black oil at the nearby sea of this island.
This was the first mission he accepted when exploring the Dragon Whale Paradise in his previous life, he was most familiar with it.
"Many changes have happened in the Dragon Whale Paradise compared to the previous life."
"Not only did the blue dragon whale's location change, there are more Gu Immortals here now, the missions have also increased in numbers."
"This black oil mission only appeared after I completed ten or so missions."
In the previous life, he had used this mission to save the mermaid girl Xia Lin, using her as his pawn to have her become the saintess of the Merman City, he slowly found his way to regret sea and found regret Gu.
Once regret Gu flew to him, the venerable method activated, sending Fang Yuan to the stone lotus island in the River of Time. Using that, Fang Yuan got around Heavenly Court's assault and inherited a Red Lotus true inheritance.
After rebirth, Fang Yuan designed a more optimal plan for himself.
During the battle in the River of Time earlier, Fang Yuan destroyed six Immortal Gu Houses from Heavenly Court, he destroyed the river suppression lotus sealing formation and killed many Gu Immortals, only Nine Spiritual Fairy and Feng Jiu Ge escaped.
As the price, that stone lotus island was destroyed too.
Without the stone lotus island, regret Gu's venerable method could not activate.
This time, Fang Yuan intended to take down this Dragon Whale Paradise, regret Gu was only part of the bigger plan.
The entire island was under the effect of Fang Yuan's investigative killer move, it had no secrets at all.
The island was quite ordinary, there were not many resources here, it had a fishing village and a low quality spirit spring, there were a few Gu Masters in the village but most of the people were mortals.
Fang Yuan did not enter the fishing village immediately, he went into the sea first.
In the sea, a group of weaving sea spiders were hunting.
Fang Yuan got around them and dived deeper.
When he got close to the Earth Trench, he found a group of seashell sharks swimming around.
Fang Yuan had great strength but he did not want to act abruptly, he only concealed his presence, arriving at the black oil.
Black oil was an immortal material, it was dangerous to Gu Masters. Once they came into contact with black oil, food path dao marks would be carved in their bodies.
This was a huge problem for Gu Masters.
On one hand, the conflicting dao marks would make the oil collecting Gu Masters experience a fall in strength. Oil collecting food path Gu Masters were just too rare.
On the other hand, Gu Masters had mortal bodies, as time passes, they cannot help but become affected by the black oil.
The black oil in the Earth Trench tangled and weaved together like huge pythons. They were almost still but if one observed closely, they would see that the oil was moving slowly in the sea.
Fang Yuan activated his method, everywhere he went, black oil moved like water and spread out over a wide area.
"I remember that this is the location." Fang Yuan split some of the black oil apart but he did not find the blue scaled mermaid Xia Lin.
Fang Yuan's heart sank.
It was possible that his rebirth created some changes, Xia Lin's life might have changed, she might not have come here.
"It's more likely that she's nearby. The time now is quite early compared to the previous life after all." Fang Yuan thought about it, he did not give up immediately, he used his methods to move away the nearby black oil.
There were many things in the black oil, there were sea beast corpses and different ores. Blue scaled mermaid Xia Lin was among them, she had fainted.
Her face was not the same as Xie Han Mo, but their disposition was very alike, a complex gaze flickered in Fang Yuan's eyes.
He breathed out lightly as a bubble surrounded Xia Lin.
Xia Lin was saved, her eyes started to move, she barely opened her eyes before fainting again.
When she woke up, she realized that she was lying in a waterhole.
The sky was wide and clear, there was bright sunlight.
The broad leaves of a few large trees cast a dense shadow, like an umbrella, covering her entire body.
The breeze caressed her like a lover's gentle hand, making Xia Lin feel cozy.
"Didn't I get engulfed when collecting black oil?" Xia Lin's memories slowly surfaced: "That's right, I seem to have been rescued. I saw a vague white figure on the dark ocean floor."
Her body was still limp and weak, Xia Lin could barely raise her upper body, she looked around but saw no one.
"Who saved me?" She became very confused, looking down at the waterhole that she was half lying in.
There was a pool of clear water in the waterhole, it was crystal clear. Her blue scaled fish tail was shining with the reflection of the light in water.
"This must be the arrangement of my savior." Xia Lin thought, she could not help but feel warmth in her heart. This water was not seawater, it was the most appropriate water for a weakened merman.
"You are awake." Just at this moment, the tree leaves were moved aside as Fang Yuan walked in.
"Did you save me?" Xia Lin stared at Fang Yuan, who wore white clothing, she felt a hint of familiarity.
"You are very lucky, I happened to find you in that situation." Fang Yuan smiled slightly.
Xia Lin was extremely grateful and was about to get up to express her gratitude, but was stopped by Fang Yuan's outstretched arm.
"Your body is still too weak. Eat something." Fang Yuan extended his hand and a trace of green wind flew around to the top of the tree and picked a fruit that resembled a coconut.
The green wind held the fruit and flew to Xia Lin's face. The green wind was like a pair of scissors, moving around and opening the shell, revealing the delicate bright red flesh inside that was like a pomegranate.
Xia Lin took a small piece and put it in her mouth. The flesh was tender and juicy, it rolled down her dry throat and into her stomach. There was a warm feeling in her stomach, the fruit was very delicious.
Xia Lin's eyes instantly glowed, she was so hungry that she took out a few more chunks and put them in her mouth, swallowing them whole.
"It is very delicious." She could not help but exclaim, but then she saw that Fang Yuan kept staring at her with his gentle gaze.
Her face instantly flushed red as she stammered: "May I ask for your name, benefactor, I will definitely repay the favor of saving my life."
Fang Yuan laughed: "This was a simple action, you do not need to do anything. In the future, stay away from the black oil, it is very dangerous there. You were lucky to have met me this time."
Xia Lin's expression turned dark.
She was in a huge debt because of her grandfather's funeral and had to risk collecting black oil to pay off the debt. To think that not only did she fail to get black oil, she even nearly died from this.
"But even if I survive, I'll be corroded by the black oil and will die soon. Sigh, how can I pay off my debts and repay this benefactor?" Xia Lin had a kind nature, she felt troubled over this.
At this time, Fang Yuan's gentle voice resounded in her ears: "Oh, right, you had black oil corrosion earlier, but it is not a problem anymore. I've already healed the injuries on you without any lingering after-effects."
"Ah!" Xia Lin was astonished and stared at Fang Yuan with wide eyes, dumbfounded.
This Gu Master in front of her could actually heal the problem from black oil corrosion! This was truly remarkable.
Fang Yuan nodded at her: "Little girl, you are young, don't have such rash thoughts. You still have a long journey ahead of you. Go ahead and eat something, after you regain your strength, come with me. I came here to do something."
"Oh." Xia Lin was still in a daze.
Fang Yuan smiled and turned around to leave.
Xia Lin watched him pass through the forest and disappear for a long time before she reacted and began to continue eating the fruit in her hand.
The flesh of the fruit was delicious and juicy, the windy breeze brushed her face, she was lying in pure water, her heart was filled with warmth and tranquility.
"Don't tell me this is just a dream?" As she ate, her tears flowed silently down her face.
She was nothing more than an ordinary, poor mermaid girl. Reality was cold and harsh for her before this incident. The only warmth in her life came from her grandfather who took care of her.
Her grandfather who was her only kin had died, Xia Lin was all alone now, her heart was hollow, her only goal in life now was to complete her grandfather's water burial.
In the customs of merfolk, a water burial was the final journey, it would bring peace to the dead. But a water burial was expensive, Xia Lin paid a huge price for it.
As the girl ate, she sobbed soundlessly.
Fang Yuan stood outside the forest, looking at the sea, he knew the situation inside well. But he did not go in, he gave the girl ample time to adjust her mood.
In this life, he had a grand plan for Dragon Whale Paradise.
Xia Lin's series of missions were not the most important.
For Fang Yuan to obtain regret Gu, he only needed to enter regret crying sea. Back then, he had made use of Xia Lin's chain of missions to enter regret sea area. But other than this series, he had many other ways to get there.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan focused on getting regret Gu while Miao Ming Shen and the rest focused on doing missions, the more they did, the more they found out. The atmosphere then was much better than now. Miao Ming Shen and the rest interacted and left behind information path mortal Gu at the Merit Obelisk, sharing their gains with everyone without asking for compensation.
Their collective findings and gains all became Fang Yuan's current wealth.
Thus, Fang Yuan had a deep and comprehensive understanding towards the Merit Obelisk and blue dragon whale.
Xia Lin's missions were created by Fang Yuan himself, it required luck and used a lot of time. The truth was, after some time, when mid-sized missions appear, there would be a few useful ones to get into regret crying sea.
In the previous life, when these missions appeared, Fang Yuan already had Xia Lin as his pawn, because Miao Ming Shen and the rest were showing desire towards these missions, Fang Yuan did not compete with them.
"But now, since I took the mission and found Xia Lin, it means that I can use her again."
"This pawn is very useful, as long as I replicate the success of my previous life, I can indirectly control Merman Sacred City."
"Controlling this force will be quite helpful to my plans ahead."
Fang Yuan thought to himself.
"Benefactor, I've kept you waiting." A moment later, Xia Lin floated out of the forest. She recovered some of her strength and did not want to keep Fang Yuan waiting.
A white cloud supported her lower body, three feet away from the ground, helping her to move forward on land.
"Don't call me benefactor, my name is Chu Ying, people call me Master Chu." Fang Yuan smiled.
"Master Chu." Xia Lin said.
"Mm, let's go." Fang Yuan brought Xia Lin as they moved to the fishing village.
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Chapter 1894 Going Down, Going Up
Fang Yuan brought Xia Lin to the small fishing village and met the village head.
The moment they met, he soul searched directly in front of his face. The entire fishing village was in a trance for a while, and then recovered without suspicion.
Fang Yuan collated this information and compared it to his previous life, he found that nothing had changed in the small fishing village.
Like in his previous life, he was still using his identity as a traveling Gu Master to contact these mortals.
First, he challenged the village's Gu Masters and defeated them easily, then he taught them how to refine water shell Gu and gave them the recipe.
The villagers were all very grateful.
Fang Yuan then took them to the bottom of the sea to practice using these water shell Gu, he even taught them some healing methods to alleviate the corrosion of the black oil.
To completely heal from the corrosion of the black oil, one needed at least rank four Gu worms.
The Gu Masters in the small fishing village were simply not even close to rank four. The things Fang Yuan taught them were things that they could do.
During this process, Fang Yuan focused on teaching Xia Lin.
In the previous life, he had only given her water shell Gu, but now, he wanted to nurture her properly. He used wisdom path methods to directly hand methods over to her mind. At the same time, he corrected many of her mistakes.
Fang Yuan did not stay in the small fishing village for long, and when he left, the entire village fell to their knees.
Xia Lin wanted to follow Fang Yuan, but he stopped her and said with deep meaning: "This isn't the end of our connection, we will meet again in the future."
Xia Lin was helpless and could only watch tearfully as Fang Yuan disappeared with a flicker of light.
Fang Yuan returned to the Merit Obelisk once again.
His merit points had risen by ten.
The initial missions on the Merit Obelisk were small missions, the rewarded merit points ranged from one to ten.
This time, Fang Yuan collected black oil and taught the villagers in the small fishing village to sustain a livelihood, he had completed the task perfectly.
At this time, Shen Cong Sheng and the others had all been transported away to complete their respective missions, there was only one person at the Merit Obelisk now.
It was Miao Ming Shen.
Miao Ming Shen was staring at the four sides of the Merit Obelisk which had moving words and characters, he was very patient.
He faintly felt that there was a mysterious connection between himself and the Merit Obelisk, the peculiar feeling was extremely hidden and also very weak.
But he had no idea how to grasp onto this opportunity.
A sharp light flashed across Fang Yuan's eyes as he saw this.
The secrets involving Dragon Whale Paradise were very deep and mysterious.
What method did Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable use to restrict Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan had no way to find out.
His method did not leave any traces, it was as if it were a naturally occurring phenomenon, like how there were males and females among people, and how the sky had a sun and a moon.
Gu Immortals could not make a move on each other or the inhabitants of this small world.
But there were differences and discrepancies in this rule.
For example, Fang Yuan had soul searched the mortals in his earlier mission, he even gave a lot of knowledge to Xia Lin through wisdom path imparting methods.
Was that not considered making a move on the inhabitants?
Of course it was.
But Fang Yuan had no ill intentions, he was trying to help them. Thus, he was not restricted at all in his actions.
But once he had any evil thoughts, these methods would not be usable, he would even face backlash from using these killer moves.
Or for example, the collection of black oil in this mission.
The excess black oil was all kept in the sovereign immortal aperture by Fang Yuan.
Normally speaking, other than the immortal materials on the starting island, Gu Immortals could not take the resources of the other areas for themselves.
But Fang Yuan had taken the black oil near the island to complete his mission, by reducing the number of food path dao marks there, it would allow other natural resources to grow.
This was a good thing for the island's environment on the whole, so it was not restricted.
Not only did Fang Yuan complete the mission, he also collected a portion of the black oil as profit. This mission to collect black oil was obviously much more profitable than the others.
There were many missions on the Merit Obelisk, but there were also differences in missions, whether they were superior or inferior.
In the previous life, Miao Ming Shen and the rest had a lot of findings, these were all Fang Yuan's exclusive information now.
Fang Yuan slowly approached the Merit Obelisk.
His footsteps interrupted Miao Ming Shen's thoughts as he turned around to look, his pupils shrunk as he thought: "It's Chu Ying!"
Fang Yuan smiled: "Brother Miao, your connection with the Merit Obelisk is too weak. This connection is mainly used to find this place, it will not be of much help to you from now on. I would advise you to actively complete your missions and accumulate more merits."
Fang Yuan's polite attitude surprised Miao Ming Shen.
He had seen with his own eyes when Fang Yuan said 'scram' at Shen Tan and Shen Cong Sheng.
He was quickly attracted to Fang Yuan's words as he felt some shock: "He actually knows about the connection between me and the Merit Obelisk! This is a secret I have never revealed to anyone else. How did he know? Unless he is like me and can also sense the location of the blue dragon whale? Or maybe he can't sense its location, but has other forms of connections instead?"
Miao Ming Shen looked at Fang Yuan, feeling that this person was getting increasingly unfathomable.
He was filled with doubts, he opened his mouth to ask questions, but wisely close to keep it shut.
Fang Yuan acted so arrogantly in front of Shen Cong Sheng, it was useless to try to force him.
"If he wants to tell me, he will definitely take the initiative to speak, if I try to ask him, I will not get anything I want." Miao Ming Shen sighed internally.
Fang Yuan passed by as his finger pointed at a certain line of text on the obelisk, he suddenly said: "You can take this mission, it is quite suitable for you. Complete missions and accumulate merit points, it is not simply about doing superficial good deeds, it is better to teach a man to fish than to fish for him."
Miao Ming Shen shook internally, he gulped as he said two words: "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Fang Yuan smiled.
Giving Miao Ming Shen some guidance was not just a casual action.
On one hand, it was to sow discord among these people for his own convenience, and on the other hand, he was also trying to make some arrangements to affect Eastern Sea.
The secret regarding Miao Ming Shen's ability was only announced in the previous life after a lot of futile attempts at finding out. Regarding the truth behind it, many immortals had reliable guesses.
Miao Ming Shen was quite popular in the lone immortal world of Eastern Sea, if he was forced by Shen Cong Sheng into a corner, it was likely that Qi Sea Ancestor or Wu Shuai could recruit and take him in.
Fang Yuan did not take a mission, instead, he went to the other side of the Merit Obelisk and exchanged for a title.
In an instant, his merit points that exceeded a hundred were reduced to single digits, plummeting from the first place to the last.
When Miao Ming Shen saw the change on the merit board, his eyes sparkled and his mind was filled with huge suspicions: "Chu Ying spent a hundred merit points, what exactly did he exchange for?"
Fang Yuan took his mission and vanished again.
Miao Ming Shen immediately came to the other side of the Merit Obelisk to check the list of things they could exchange for.
But how could he find out easily?
There were too many rewards that were priced at a hundred merit points, it was also possible to have a combination of rewards to expend a hundred points instantly.
Miao Ming Shen felt a sense of curiosity, he immediately realized that Fang Yuan's action had a deep meaning, it must be beneficial to him, otherwise he would not have given up his advantage like that.
"Did Chu Ying deliberately express goodwill earlier so that I would help him hide this information?" Another thought appeared in Miao Ming Shen's mind.
But soon he shook his head.
Fang Yuan's merit points were right there, it was something that could not be hidden, soon, the other Gu Immortals would discover it.
With a flash of white light, Fang Yuan was transported to the bottom of the sea.
The seawater was murky, sand was churning, and a giant salamander was causing chaos.
This giant salamander had a smooth body without a single scale, its head was wide and large, its body was stout and flat, its limbs were very thick and short, and its tentacles were like tiger claws. Its claws and teeth were sharp, its gills were glistening with firm tiger whiskers.
This was a desolate beast, tiger king salamander!
The tiger king salamander rampaged and created shocking waves that affected the peace of the land.
The mission that Fang Yuan took on was to suppress it.
Fang Yuan did not rush to take action, he scouted first.
Soon, his brow furrowed slightly and a peculiar expression appeared on his face.
He could not find out the reason for the tiger king salamander's rampage. There was nothing abnormal about its body or mind, but it was acting manically and unpredictably, wantonly destroying its surroundings.
Not only that, it even self-mutilated, it had clearly gone insane.
Attempting to attack the tiger king salamander, Fang Yuan discovered that this desolate beast's battle strength had soared to the level of an ancient desolate beast.
"This is the same situation as the one that Miao Ming Shen's group faced in the previous life." Fang Yuan sighed internally.
In his previous life, he had only completed the missions involving Xia Lin, there were few missions and he did not encounter this. After trying it in this life, he found that according to his knowledge and vision, he could not even see through this peculiarity.
The tiger king salamander was actually very beneficial to the environment.
It could swallow salt and sand to purify the seawater, making it crystal clear and saline, producing extraordinary natural resources.
A tiger king salamander is often the core of a pure and clean sea. This pure seawater could be drunk directly.
If it was possible, Fang Yuan did not want to kill this tiger king salamander. If he could pacify and calm it down, Fang Yuan would be able to reap a large amount of merit points.
But right now, it was obviously impossible.
Fang Yuan had no choice but to take action and kill it.
The corpse of the tiger king salamander acted as the extra profit for the mission and was kept in the immortal aperture.
Ren Xiu Ping returned to the starting island again.
And a group of people had gathered near the Merit Obelisk.
Seeing his arrival, a Gu Immortal of Shen Clan, Shen Xiao, said to him: "Congratulations, Brother Ren, you're now at the top of the merit board."
"Ah? How is that possible!" Ren Xiu Ping did not believe it at first, but after witnessing with his own eyes, he was surprised and delighted.
His name was really ranked first, even Shen Cong Sheng was ranked second.
Shen Cong Sheng had also returned and was standing in front of the obelisk, his expression was a little dark.
Ren Xuping carefully looked at Shen Cong Sheng, he was thrilled that he had 'defeated' the rank eight Gu Immortal, but at the same time, he was also a little worried.
Shen Cong Sheng cast his gaze towards Ren Xiu Ping.
Ren Xiuping quickly bowed his head and cupped his fists: "Lord."
Shen Cong Sheng nodded: "Ren Xiu Ping, in your opinion, what exactly did Chu Ying exchange that caused his own ranking to slip to last place?"
Ren Xiu Ping was dazed, only now did he realize that Fang Yuan was at the bottom of the ranking, he quickly calmed down and furrowed his brows: "Indeed, Chu Ying would rather give up the lead to spend his merit points, it is certain that the thing he exchanged for was very useful to him."
If it could be helpful to him, it would naturally be advantageous to the others as well.
But what exactly would it be?
The group of immortals had been discussing for a while now.
With a flash of white light, Fang Yuan appeared in front of everyone once again.
At the same time, his ranking on the merit board skyrocketed, once again rising to the top.
Chu Ying, ninety-eight merit points!
At once, the immortals became tongue-tied.
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Chapter 1895 Mid-sized Missions
Small sized missions gave one to ten merit points. Meanwhile, mid-sized missions gave eleven to a hundred merit points.
Fang Yuan exchanged for a 'good person' title, it allowed him to accept mid-sized missions.
Mid-sized missions were Gu Immortal level, the tiger king salamander that Fang Yuan dealt with this time was a rank six desolate beast but its battle strength had reached rank seven.
This mission's difficulty was way beyond the limits of a mortal.
The higher the difficulty, the greater the reward.
"Thus, I earned over ninety merit points this time…" Fang Yuan realized: "The reason why I did not get a hundred is because I took away the tiger king salamander's corpse. If I left it behind, the dao marks on the corpse would spread out and elevate the foundation of the surrounding environment."
Fang Yuan had done this purposely.
He was curious about the reason why the tiger king salamander went on a rampage.
Thus, he brought this corpse with him, planning to research on it later.
In the previous life, Miao Ming Shen and the rest encountered this situation many times, they researched together but did not find the root cause. This time, Fang Yuan wanted to try it himself.
The group of immortals looked at Fang Yuan and the merit board, their expressions and emotions were similarly terrible.
They had worked so hard to complete their missions, each one gave ten merit points at most. Fang Yuan however, got over ninety merit points from one mission.
This comparison was truly infuriating!
Even though small sized missions were simple, they wasted a lot of time. Mid-sized missions was much more efficient in terms of merit points.
Looking as Fang Yuan approached the Merit Obelisk, some of the Gu Immortals felt jealous, some were curious, while others felt despair.
At this rate, Fang Yuan was taking huge steps forward while they were crawling like snails, how could they ever catch up to him? He would only leave them in the dust as time passed!
Hua Die looked at Miao Ming Shen, wanting to ask Fang Yuan about this, but he shook his head at her.
Shen Cong Sheng looked over at Shen Xiao.
Shen Xiao had no choice, he had to force a smile and walk towards Fang Yuan.
"Brother Chu." He cupped his fists, speaking in an earnest tone and polite attitude: "Just name the price, as long as I can afford it, I will satisfy you."
Fang Yuan smiled lightly: "You want to know how I obtained so many merit points?"
"Indeed." Shen Xiao cupped his fists again: "I hope brother can teach us. Don't worry, with my Shen clan's foundation, we will not disappoint you. Furthermore, you are not just getting my friendship, you will get the friendship of Shen clan!"
Earlier, Shen clan tried to force Fang Yuan but he was indifferent and acted extremely arrogantly. Shen Xiao changed his tactic and tried to exchange for it using benefits instead, it was a wise move.
Fang Yuan laughed: "Sure, use a true inheritance of your Shen clan to exchange for it."
Shen Cong Sheng's eyes shined when he heard this, he did not expect Fang Yuan to agree, he could not help but ask: "What true inheritance do you want?"
"It is up to you, if you don't want to give an inheritance, Immortal Gu are fine too." Fang Yuan said nonchalantly.
Shen Cong Sheng's lips twitched, he wanted an Immortal Gu? Dream on!
He thought about it and tossed out an information path mortal Gu.
Fang Yuan received it and looked through the content, there was a transformation path Gu Immortal true inheritance, it was rather incomplete, the truly valuable parts were still with Shen Cong Sheng.
Fang Yuan clicked his tongue as he tossed the mortal Gu back to Shen Cong Sheng: "Another one."
Shen Cong Sheng received the information path mortal Gu and erased the information inside, injecting a new wave of content. Of course, this was incomplete as well.
Fang Yuan received it and nodded, giving the information path mortal Gu back to Shen Cong Sheng: "Another one."
Shen Cong Sheng received the information path mortal Gu and looked at Fang Yuan, saying grimly: "Chu Ying, you want to look at so many of them, how much content do you want to see?"
Fang Yuan's expression turned solemn: "Don't worry, I, Chu Ying, act according to my principles, I am not someone who goes back on my words. Those who treat others as fools are the real fools. How about this, give me a portion of constant wave sound and I will tell you the reason why I gained so many merit points."
"Fine, I'll believe you once." Shen Cong Sheng did not hesitate, taking out a conch from his immortal aperture and tossing it to Fang Yuan.
This conch was only the size of a palm, and was itself a desolate beast.
There was a wave sound stored in the conch, this wave sound was a sound path rank seven immortal material, a specialty product of Shen clan, it could produce sounds for years without ever stopping.
Fang Yuan inspected it and found nothing suspicious, he placed this immortal material into his sovereign immortal aperture.
He looked at Shen Cong Sheng and smiled, "Then I'll tell you this secret. Do you want me to tell you alone, or do you wish to make it public?"
This time, it was Shen Cong Sheng's turn to look solemn.
But he only hesitated for a moment and then smiled: "What is there to hide? Please speak directly."
As expected of an old expert who had been leading Shen clan for many years.
Once he said that, even the Gu Immortals on Miao Ming Shen's side developed some good feelings towards Shen Cong Sheng.
Miao Ming Shen coldly snorted in his mind: "No agreement can be made here, Shen Cong Sheng can't restrain Chu Ying at all. Chu Ying is trying to sow discord! Since he can tell Shen Cong Sheng alone, he can tell others in the future as well. Shen Cong Sheng knows this, so even if he is unwilling, he has no choice but to make it public."
"Good, Lord Shen Cong Sheng's magnanimity is admirable." Fang Yuan turned around and placed his palm on the surface of the obelisk.
Words related to missions started to vanish before emerging again.
But these new words were different from before.
Thousand soul fog appeared on White Light Mountain, the living creatures were in dire need of help to clear it up.
In seahorse sea area, coral seahorses fought each other, a number of seahorse kings were rioting and needed to be suppressed.
The formation on gathering-separation island had not been repaired for years, causing serious disruptions to the lives of the islanders, it needed to be fixed.
Fish round island lacked seawater, one had to make it rain for three days and nights there.
…
The Gu Immortals were stunned.
These missions were clearly different from the previous ones, such as the thousand soul fog, which was a soul path rank seven immortal material, it was quite famous. Another example was that every coral seahorse was a rank five wild beast, while seahorse kings were at least desolate beasts.
Shen Xiao watched with glimmering eyes as he sighed deeply: "These are missions worthy of Gu Immortals."
Those small sized missions earlier were limited to the mortal level, they were simply weak in comparison to these missions.
Shen Xiao copied Fang Yuan and placed his hand on the obelisk but his expression turned to confusion: "Why can't I accept these missions?"
"Of course not. I have used up a hundred merit points in order to accept these missions." Fang Yuan smiled.
The immortals quickly focused their attention on his words.
But Fang Yuan kept his mouth shut.
Shen Xiao became anxious, he cupped his fists at Fang Yuan: "Please do teach us, Brother Chu."
Fang Yuan looked at him with a slightly mocking expression with raised brows: "Why should I tell you?"
Shen Xiao's expression froze: "We made a deal earlier."
"I know. You guys asked how I acquired a large amount of merit points. I have completed the transaction and told you the reason, it was because I received these missions. As for how to receive these missions, that is a different question." Fang Yuan said.
The group of immortals were dumbfounded.
Shen Cong Sheng's expression turned dark while the Shen clan Gu Immortals looked at Fang Yuan with anger in their eyes.
Shen Xiao was stunned before he laughed again, only this time, it was clearly mixed with anger: "Brother Chu is really impressive at doing business. A single answer alone earned you a rank seven immortal material that is unique to my clan."
Fang Yuan nodded: "Shen clan's constant wave sound is unique in the world, I really profited from this transaction. But I did not lie to you, I did not give you false information either. I, Chu Ying, am not such a person."
Fang Yuan showed a demeanor of having a conscience and bottom-line, it made all of the immortals here seethe with anger.
Shen Cong Sheng's anger accumulated.
He was a grand righteous path rank eight, he was actually being toyed by this rank seven lone immortal Chu Ying who had no fame, how could he let this pass?
"After we leave Dragon Whale Paradise, I am going to deal with you properly!" Shen Cong Sheng swore in his heart, but he smiled and laughed heartily without showing any displeasure, he clapped: "Chu Ying, very impressive. You obtained the constant wave sound through your wittiness, that was your ability. Don't worry, why would my Shen clan be so petty over a small matter? Come, let's make another deal, tell me what you want in exchange for this information to get the mission?"
The group of immortals looked at Fang Yuan with eyes that could not help but reveal envy.
It was just so easy to earn immortal materials like this.
But from Shen Cong Sheng's perspective, his clan was affluent, one or two rank seven immortal materials in exchange for precious information was not a bad deal.
But Fang Yuan shook his head: "I am not going to sell this information, you all can try it yourselves."
Shen Cong Sheng glared: "Chu Ying, I hope that you will think about it clearly!"
Fang Yuan, however, ignored him and disappeared again with a flash of white light.
Shen Cong Sheng was livid, he was not given any face at all.
"Chu Ying, don't let me catch you outside!" Shen Cong Sheng swore in his heart. This was the first time he had seen such a rank seven Gu Immortal, he completely disregarded him.
Fang Yuan needed to maintain his advantage on the merit board, this was useful to his plan of conquering the paradise.
"As for Shen Cong Sheng and the rest… hehe, I don't believe that you can stay united." Fang Yuan smiled coldly in his heart, his plan to sow discord did not work earlier because it was a minor action, but this time, he dug a pit, he was not afraid that Shen Cong Sheng would not jump in.
In a way, Fang Yuan needed external help. It was necessary to split up this huge group.
He could complete the mid-sized missions independently by himself, but after the mid-sized missions, there were large sized missions too.
This kind of mission often required different Gu Immortals to cooperate with each other and work together to complete it.
Although Fang Yuan had quite a few Gu Immortal subordinates hidden in his immortal aperture, it was useless. In this Dragon Whale Paradise, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's methods restricted this.
It seemed that only those Gu Immortals who had passed that test outside and were sent to the starting island while asleep were eligible to enter and leave this place, and also receiving and completing missions.
After Fang Yuan left, the atmosphere at the Merit Obelisk turned heavy.
Because Shen Cong Sheng had made a rather forceful request, he wanted the surrounding Gu Immortals to spend their respective merit points to exchange for those contentious rewards.
Shen Cong Sheng was betting that one of these rewards would be the one Fang Yuan exchanged for earlier!
Since Fang Yuan did not tell him, he was going to test it personally.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest were unwilling to do that but they had no choice, they had to make considerations for the future and could not offend this rank eight sound path great expert.
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Chapter 1896 Killed Instantly
Shen Cong Sheng stared intently at the surface of the Merit Obelisk.
Although he did not show it, he was indeed feeling anxious at the moment.
As the first supreme elder of Shen clan, he was in a high position of power. As a rank eight great expert, he could be said to be standing at the peak of Gu cultivation. However, facing the Paradise Earth true inheritance, his foundation was simply too shallow and insignificant.
Fang Yuan was able to take on mid-sized missions, he had a huge advantage in getting the Paradise Earth true inheritance. Shen Cong Sheng was forced to do everything he could to catch up with Fang Yuan's footsteps.
Although he had come here with a different purpose, the Paradise Earth true inheritance was right in front of him, he would not give up without trying his best to get it.
Therefore, even though Shen Cong Sheng knew that Fang Yuan had the intention of sowing discord, he still forced the other Gu Immortals to exchange for the various rewards.
In order to try to ease the emotions of the other Gu Immortals, Shen Cong Sheng also took out various immortal materials from his own immortal material to compensate them.
However, it was clear that these immortal materials were far less valuable than the Paradise Earth true inheritance.
The immortals were forced to comply with Shen Cong Sheng's orders due to his authority, their inner resentment naturally grew deeper and deeper.
Shen Cong Sheng had lost the hearts of the people, and to make matters worse, these rewards exchanged by the group of immortals were not the one that allowed him to take on mid-sized missions.
"The rewards on this list are a bit too numerous, excluding those rewards exchanged before, there are still three most likely rewards left." Shen Cong Sheng felt a headache.
"Let's take a gamble." He knew that time could not be wasted, after a moment of deep deliberation, he used his merit points to choose and exchange for one of them.
At the next moment, Shen Cong Sheng's expression turned dark.
"This is not the one!" He gritted his teeth, feeling very dejected.
He had lost the gamble.
It was really bad luck.
As such, they had spent almost all of their accumulated merit points, but what they obtained, although helpful, were not very significant in this situation.
"Don't tell me it is this 'good person' title?" Shen Cong Sheng looked at the merit board, sighing deeply to himself.
It was useless to say anything now.
All he could do was to hurry up and accumulate more merit points, then continue to exchange for rewards.
"But before that, I still need to appease these Gu Immortals." Shen Cong Sheng turned to look at the immortals.
They had similarly unhappy expressions.
Shen Cong Sheng was quite eloquent, after saying some words, he pulled out a batch of immortal materials and gave them to the immortals.
Although the immortals received these immortal materials, their expressions only changed slightly.
In this Dragon Whale Paradise, Shen Cong Sheng had rank eight battle strength but he could not do anything to them. This key was the most important foundation for Shen Cong Sheng's declining influence.
Swish swish swish…
The tides were rising and falling, the fishy sea breeze blowing on his face, Fang Yuan stood in the clouds, overlooking the sea market below him from the sky.
The sea market was a place where people sold and exchanged for cultivation resources, usually having fixed locations. Not long ago, Fang Yuan disguised himself as Qi Sea Ancestor to hold the Eastern Sea banquet, in a way, it was a super-sized sea market, it almost involved all of the Gu Immortals in Eastern Sea.
The same type of sea markets existed in Dragon Whale Paradise, and there were quite a few of them.
This sea market that Fang Yuan observed was centered around a small island, with numerous fishing boat-like Gu Houses surrounding the island.
For more than half of each year, this island would be flooded by seawater, so this sea market was not open all year round.
Because of its advantageous location, the island sea market became an indispensable trading area. Even if it was not open for half the time each year, as long as it opened, the surrounding Gu Masters and forces would flock to it.
Fang Yuan was very familiar with this sea island, he had come here in his previous life.
In his previous life, Xia Lin had been framed on this island by an unscrupulous merchant, the mission Fang Yuan had happened to take was to punish this merchant severely, he saved Xia Lin as a result.
In this life, Fang Yuan also took the mission and came here, but it was a mid-sized mission, completely different from the previous time in terms of characters involved.
The sea market was extremely lively.
There was a huge crowd of people moving around, having both humans and merfolk.
"Come, come, take a look, this is a superb crystal coral."
"There are three Gu house River Boats left, quickly buy them before they are sold out!"
"Purchasing grand soil, I will buy as many as you can sell…"
Xia Lin appeared.
She moved on the deck, observing the goods at the stalls as she made her way towards the core island.
Unlike before, she was energetic and her eyes had life in them, after receiving Fang Yuan's guidance and teaching after a life-and-death situation, she had improved drastically from the inside out.
Fang Yuan activated his investigative method, surveying the surrounding hundred li.
As soon as Xia Lin appeared, he found her.
Fang Yuan did not approach Xia Lin, but continued to scout the interior of the island, as well as the depths of the sea.
An immortal level formation gradually appeared in his perception.
Fang Yuan could not help but praise it in his mind as he looked at it.
The structure of this immortal formation was very profound, it was a formation that was mainly earth path and water path, its role was to sustain the island, managing the surrounding sea currents and improving the environment of the entire surrounding sea.
But now, this immortal formation was damaged, the earth path portion was eroded while the water path portion was not changed much.
There was originally a balance of earth path and water path. Now, with the weakening of earth path, water path became more overbearing. The island was able to remain open the entire year in the past, but because of the damage to the formation, it would be submerged in water for half of each year.
Fang Yuan wanted to repair the formation now.
Fang Yuan's abilities, however, were still somewhat lacking. His formation path attainment level was not bad, being at grandmaster. But to use the natural dao marks to create a formation, he would have to be a great grandmaster.
At the same time, his water path attainment level was at grandmaster, while his earth path attainment level was only master.
And the problem was that this formation needed fixing in the earth path aspect.
"This formation is not the work of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, but a certain formation path great grandmaster instead." Fang Yuan analyzed.
If it were Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable himself, it would definitely gave the style and size of a formation like regret crying sea.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan and the others had discovered that they were not the first batch of Gu Immortals to come into the Dragon Whale Paradise.
There were also predecessors who had entered here before to receive missions and earn merit points.
Evidently, the formation Fang Yuan saw was the work of a certain predecessor.
"There's no need to hurry, looking at the time, there should be some gain at Wu Shuai's end soon." While Fang Yuan continued his surveillance and transmitted the information he detected to the time path clone for deductions, he also stealthily descended and mixed in with the crowd, following after Xia Lin.
Xia Lin entered a gambling den.
The door had three words written on it, Golden Jade House, it was clearly a high grade gambling den among the mortals.
This gambling den had tens of huge rocks in the hall, behind the hall were many rooms with an assortment of rock dissecting Gu worms for the customers to enjoy using.
"I'm here to return the loan." Xia Lin took out an information path mortal Gu.
Several months ago, her only family member, her grandfather, died.
Merfolk sea funerals were very expensive. In order to bury her grandfather, she had to borrow primeval stones.
To repay the debt, she had to take a risk and collect black oil, almost dying in the Earth Trench as a result. Fortunately, she met Fang Yuan and was saved miraculously, not only that, her strength even rose drastically thanks to his help.
Just like in her previous life, Xia Lin obtained gather oil Gu from Fang Yuan. Her efficiency in collecting oil increased, she quickly gathered a huge amount of primeval stones from selling oil.
The one who attended to her was a scarred merman, after taking this information path mortal Gu, he smiled deviously: "Lass, you must have seen wrongly, our agreement is not like this."
Xia Lin was slightly stunned, "What do you mean?"
The surrounding Gu Masters knew about Golden Jade House's usual tricks, they saw this and shook their heads: "Sigh, another Gu Master has fallen for it again."
Xia Lin talked to the other party and finally reacted.
"You guys are shameless, you changed the agreement details, our contract was ten percent interest, but you raised it to sixty percent!" Xia Lin said with a furious expression.
The scarred merman's face became solemn, he looked at Xia Lin with a vicious gaze: "Young lady, you cannot spread false news like that! Are you trying to ruin our reputation, this is detrimental to our business, who would come to our shop after this? Can you bear the cost of our losses?"
"Screw you! Even if I die, I will expose this shop's evil deeds."
The scarred merman changed his tone as he said eerily: "Die? You are too naive, sometimes, being alive is worse than dying."
A sharp light shined in Xia Lin's eyes: "You forced my hand!"
She shouted as she attacked.
Swoosh!
An explosion was heard as a torrent was shot out.
The scarred merman did not expect that in this situation, an innocent and naive lass would dare to attack him, a rank three, in his territory, the Golden Jade House.
The scarred merman was caught unprepared, he was washed away by the torrent, crashing into the wall as many decorations shattered.
The commotion was huge, the Gu Masters who were quietly choosing and dissecting rocks all came to watch.
A large number of eyes turned to look at Xia Lin and the scarred merman.
"What happened?"
"What happened?"
The scarred merman was lying in rubble, he looked at Xia Lin with extreme disbelief and anger.
He wanted to get up, but in the end, he only managed to raise his finger.
After that, he collapsed and stopped breathing.
"Dead… he died!"
"Oh heavens, who is this girl? She actually killed a merman in one move."
"He was a rank three Gu Master!"
The crowd went into a commotion, the Gu Masters were deeply shocked.
Xia Lin was also quite surprised by this, she was only rank two now, but the Gu worms that Fang Yuan gave her were all incredibly useful, they could form very powerful killer moves.
After Xia Lin used these Gu worms to form a rank two killer move, she killed a rank three Gu Master in one hit.
The mermaid girl was stunned.
She was dazed on the spot.
Fang Yuan smiled as he transmitted to her.
"Master Chu!" The mermaid girl heard his voice as her eyes shined, she spoke with deep joy.
But Fang Yuan did not show up, he instructed the mermaid girl on how to find an excuse to take over the entire Golden Jade House in a dignified and justified manner.
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Chapter 1897 Clone Enters Dream
Jian Wen blessed land.
The palace was deep and had a magnificent number of structures. The shade of the trees was thick, the summer cicadas sang.
The long-closed doors of the palace were opened, all of the featherman girls along the way fell to their knees to greet the master of the palace, Xia Cha.
Xia Cha's expression was unsightly, she was filled with gloominess.
She had tried all sorts of methods in her closed cultivation, but none of them could allow her to advance from a rank five Gu Master to a rank six.
All methods had been exhausted, leaving only one path in front of her - to purchase the rank six level second aperture Immortal Gu from Fang Yuan.
As the first supreme elder of Xia clan, Xia Cha originally had rank eight cultivation, but in the ambush battle of the River of Time, she was captured by Fang Yuan. Although she was lucky to survive, her rank eight immortal aperture had already been taken away by Fang Yuan.
After releasing Xia Cha, Fang Yuan took the opportunity to sell his second aperture Gu and extort the Southern Border super forces in another way.
As a result, Xia Cha was given the opportunity to cultivate again, she grasped it like a drowning man who was surviving by hanging onto a wooden plank.
Xia Cha had now regained rank five cultivation, but she was stuck at the most crucial step.
Advancing to Gu Immortal!
Her countless attempts to ascend to immortal had failed.
"Ugh." Xia Cha sighed, coming to terms with reality once and for all.
"Prepare fresh water for me to clean up, additionally, spread news that I have come out, ask second supreme elder and third supreme elder to come here." Xia Cha instructed the featherman maids beside her.
However, after waiting for an hour, Xia Cha did not see the arrival of second supreme elder or third supreme elder, but rather they transmitted that they had important matters to handle, they were unable to come.
"These two old scoundrels!" Xia Cha cursed in her heart, a chilly feeling assaulted her heart.
Although she was also clear that sooner or later there would be such a day, when it actually came, she still felt a chill in her heart.
To think that she had once been the center of authority, she made all sorts of sacrifices for Xia clan, she was the decision maker of all political affairs, but now she was just a rank five cripple who had to endure other people's disrespect.
In the past, Xia clan's second supreme elder and third supreme elder had to look up to her as their leader. In fact, their rise to their current status was all because of Xia Cha's help of nurturing.
"It looks like… these old scoundrels are trying to gain independence." Xia Cha looked at the empty hall as she sighed in her heart.
There was not much anger in her, but more of a sense of helplessness and sadness.
Could she say that they were ungrateful? Not entirely. In fact, Xia Cha understood the choice that these Xia clan Gu Immortals made.
Because of her, Xia clan had already been extorted too harshly by Fang Yuan, their inventory was greatly depleted, even though they had painstakingly accumulated so many years of foundation, it was like them looking after Fang Yuan's assets now.
Even if Xia Cha could regain her cultivation, she would have to start all over again, the resources expended in the long run would certainly be a huge amount.
Should they give the resources to Xia Cha or keep it for themselves?
After the initial panic and uncertainty, Xia clan's Gu Immortals began to have an unsaid agreement with each other.
Xia Cha's first supreme elder title was now just a hollow status. Her rank five cultivation level could not allow her to intervene in Gu Immortal level situations.
Xia Cha pondered for a long while before she took out an information path mortal Gu and gave it to a featherman maid for her to bring to the second supreme elder.
But in the evening, the reply from second supreme elder infuriated Xia Cha once again.
"Even the title of the first supreme elder has no value anymore." Xia Cha gritted her teeth.
It turned out that she had proposed a deal with the second supreme elder in the information path mortal Gu, Xia Cha was willing to hand over her own first supreme elder title to the second supreme elder. He would be able to rightfully sit on the throne of Xia clan's highest position of authority, while only having to pay an amount of cultivation resources.
But Xia clan's second supreme elder did not accept it, he politely rejected her offer.
Evidently, he had reached an agreement with the third supreme elder, they were going to make Xia Cha their figurehead and still let her continue to be the first supreme elder.
Xia clan's situation was not the same as Ba clan.
Ba clan's Ba Shi Ba encountered the same situation as Xia Cha, but he was already kicked off his position as the first supreme elder, the newly advanced rank eight Gu Immortal Ba De had taken the role instead.
Meanwhile, Xia clan's Xia Zhao and Xia Chen Yuan were only rank seven in cultivation level, they both cultivated earth path.
Years ago, when Xia Cha first came to power, she was not a rank eight Gu Immortal yet, in order to take control of Xia clan, she had nurtured Xia Chen Yuan and Xia Zhao, to use them to contest against Xia clan's existing factions.
Now that Xia Cha's cultivation level had fallen to rank five, while Xia Chen Yuan and Xia Zhao still had their authority, they started having different ideas.
But as far as the righteous path was concerned, they did not dare to make a move on Xia Cha, who had shown great kindness to the two of them. They would rather let Xia Cha have the position of first supreme elder than to lose their own reputation.
Xia Cha knew that her influence over Xia clan had slipped to a dangerous point, and it was slipping faster and faster!
She had to become an immortal as soon as possible, otherwise, she would be completely pushed out of the circle of Xia clan's higher-ups.
However, there was no way for her to break free from this predicament, as she did not have any capital to negotiate or transact.
Xia Cha's situation was not an exception, but the norm.
The attitudes among the Southern Border righteous path forces had started to change.
The most important person causing this change was naturally Wu clan's Wu Yong.
He had been relying on Heavenly Court and his own political skills to elevate his own reputation and influence in Southern Border's righteous path.
The downfall of Xia Cha and Ba Shi Ba, these experienced rank eights, gave him an incredibly rare opportunity.
Despite the appearance of Lu Wei Yin, the Virtue Paradise behind him included a large number of mushroommen and not just humans. This gave them a natural political shortcoming in Southern Border's righteous path, which Wu Yong grasped firmly and took full advantage of.
Lu Wei Yin did not pose an obstacle to Wu Yong, so his influence in the Southern Alliance was growing by the day.
There was already a faction within the Southern Alliance, its voice was becoming louder and louder, with Wu Yong being the main advocate. He advocated that the Southern Alliance should actively confront Fang Yuan and stop accepting his blackmail and extortion. Compromising with a demon like Fang Yuan would only fuel his arrogance.
The Southern Border righteous path forces had almost gotten back most of their hostages, they had also been hurt by Fang Yuan's blackmail and extortion. Thus, more and more Southern Border Gu Immortals responded to Wu Yong's call with an increasingly supportive attitude.
What Wu Yong exploited was precisely the hatred that the righteous path Gu Immortals felt towards Fang Yuan.
Under the moonlit night, Fang Yuan's Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body traveled alongside Chi Qu You.
A secret transaction involving dream realms had just ended.
"Lord Chi, we should part here." Fang Yuan's dream path clone smiled.
He was a temporary clone made from the dream realm, he had Gu Immortal cultivation and would self-detonate into a dream realm after reaching the time limit.
Chi Qu You cupped his fists and sighed: "Fang Yuan, it's not that I am making things difficult, it's just that the risk of this business has become bigger. Now that the situation is so tense, if we get exposed, my Chi clan's reputation will be completely ruined."
The Pure Dream clone snorted coldly in his mind, Chi Qu You proposed to increase the price, no longer satisfied by the previous price. The given reason was that Southern Border's righteous path was becoming more and more aggressive in dealing with Fang Yuan, Wu Yong gathering a huge force in Southern Border's righteous path.
This reason was of course bullshit, the real reason was that Chi Qu You used this excuse to raise the price because he wanted to get even more dream path research results.
Fang Yuan wanted more dream realms, but now that it was getting harder and harder to extort Southern Border's righteous path, the secret deal between Chi clan and Fang Yuan had become his main source again.
Chi clan controlled the dream realm formation, one of its kind in Southern Border, Fang Yuan could only steal a portion of the dream realms by working with Chi clan.
"I will explain this matter to my main body." The dream path clone left this sentence and directly flew away.
Chi Qu You stayed where he was and watched Fang Yuan's dream path clone disappear into the sky, his face turning cold as he left with a soft snort.
It was not like he did not think of attacking the dream path clone.
But he lacked dream path methods to deal with a dream path Gu Immortal. Furthermore, he was also worried that Fang Yuan's main body was likely to be around here waiting in ambush.
Fang Yuan himself was far away in Eastern Sea, but for this transaction, Wu Shuai had already arrived nearby with his Dragon Palace.
If Chi Qu You were to make a move, he would certainly not gain anything.
The Pure Dream clone soon returned to Dragon Palace.
This was a temporary clone with immortal-level cultivation, but after reaching the time limit, it would fall apart and turn into a dream realm.
"We cannot continue with Chi clan's business anymore, unless we allow him to raise the price." The dream path clone said coldly, he opened his immortal aperture and let out a few dream realm bodies: "This batch of dream realms is likely the last batch we can get."
It could not be helped.
Fang Yuan and Chi Qu You did not make any kind of binding agreement.
Chi Qu You purposely raised the price by using the excuse of Southern Border's attitude.
"The main enemy is in front of us, after this hurdle, this trivial Chi clan is nothing to worry about." Wu Shuai opened his mouth.
Right now, he could not make a move yet.
The more times he made a move, the more likely Heavenly Court would notice the true relationship between the Wu Shuai clone and Fang Yuan's main body.
The killer move dreamy light smoke had to be used on Heavenly Court, exposing it on Chi Qu You was truly a huge waste, it would be like killing a chicken with a bull's knife.
Rather than dealing with Chi clan, it would be more efficient to attack the formation directly.
In fact, with Fang Yuan's main body staying in Eastern Sea, it would be possible to deal with Chi clan with just the strength of Wu Shuai's forces.
But if he revealed these trump cards in advance, Heavenly Court would likely be so happy they might laugh in their dreams.
Small greed ruins big plans.
Moreover, by allowing Southern Border to preserve its strength, it could also cause more trouble for Heavenly Court in the future.
Directly destroying the enemy, although straightforward and easy, sometimes does not reap the greatest benefits. For example, Fang Yuan had released Xia Cha and Ba Shi Ba, they had already started feeling ostracized and neglected in their respective clans.
Fang Yuan would secretly sponsor them in the future.
Their current situation could be said to be caused by Fang Yuan. But besides Fang Yuan, they had nobody else to rely on.
Fang Yuan, on the other hand, needed these people to act as his eyes and ears, planting them in the righteous path forces of Southern Border, so that he would always maintain a certain amount of influence over Southern Border.
It was just that at the moment, Fang Yuan still lacked some means to restrict them.
Regarding this, the time path clone was already working night and day to make deductions.
Boom boom boom.
With a series of muffled sounds, the temporary Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies exploded one by one, turning into lumps of dream realms that fused with each other.
These were all earth path dream realms.
Wu Shuai sat on his dragon throne in the palace, his soul left his body and entered the dream.
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Chapter 1898 Accumulated Soil Mountain
Heaven and earth were gloomy, dark clouds loomed overhead, endless thunder roared and resonated.
Scarlet lightning flashed countless times in the dark rolling clouds of smoke, black clouds swirled like vortexes, lightning balls descended from the center of the swirling vortexes one by one.
These lightning balls were strangely shaped, resembling porcelain products, as large as a water tank, and glowing with red light.
Grand tribulation — Red Porcelain Lightning Ball Tribulation!
The lightning balls smashed down and erupted with crisp explosions.
On the ground, an Immortal Gu House silently suffered from the damage caused by the explosions of the lightning balls, large pieces of debris continued to fly into the air, before turning back into the corpses of countless Gu worms.
Inside the Immortal Gu House, Wu Shuai endured the sound of rumbling thunder in his ears and inspected himself first.
He found that he had turned into an earth path rank eight Gu Immortal, he had wide fingers and a large stature, his battle robe was already covered in damage.
And not far from him, there was a female immortal standing on the ground, her face was pale and her aura was not only weak but also a little strange.
She was using a certain light path healing killer move, and thus was covered in a layer of holy white light. But on her face, exposed arms, legs and feet, dark path dao marks that resembled ink lines appeared.
These dark path dao marks were so dense that they reached the extent of a rank nine immortal material, creating dao mark light, Gu Immortals could see it with their naked eyes.
The female immortal had clear rank eight cultivation level.
A light path rank eight Gu Immortal who had such a quantity of dark path dao marks, it made Wu Shuai very surprised.
And more peculiarly, the female immortal's dark path dao marks were still transforming. Not only did they increase in quantity, their arrangements and positions were rapidly changing too.
The female immortal grunted, the killer move activation was successful, the halo around her stabilized while the dark path dao marks were also temporarily suppressed.
The female immortal was sweating profusely, she opened her weak eyes to look at Wu Shuai, smiling bitterly: "I can't be saved. This is my strongest healing method, but it can only temporarily suppress the injury. When the time limit of the killer move is up, the injury will explode with terrifying power."
"Oh Zheng Yang, my most beloved, I can no longer accompany you. You have to live well." The female immortal said, tears flowing down her cheeks.
"No, there must be some way, there must be! You must never give up hope, this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress of mine is made up of all the Immortal Gu I have, it can be considered to be number one in defensive power in all of history. We still have time, you have to keep working hard, I will always be there for you!" Wu Shuai shouted with tears in his eyes.
This was the natural development of the dream realm, he could not control it.
But after this conversation, Wu Shuai gained control of the body.
"Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress? Never heard of it…" Wu Shuai's eyes shined with bright light, using the conversation earlier, he analyzed and searched for clues.
He inspected his own immortal aperture.
There was quite a bit of white litchi immortal essence in his immortal aperture, there were also a large amount of mortal Gu, but no Immortal Gu.
Like what Zheng Yang had said, he had used all of his Immortal Gu to construct this rank eight Immortal Gu House, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
"Which means to say, my biggest reliance is on this damaged Immortal Gu House?" Wu Shuai had a realization.
He started to try controlling this Immortal Gu House.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress had a complex structure, it used a hundred million Gu worms, among which there were more than twenty Immortal Gu.
Even Wu Shuai could not tell what the core Immortal Gu were at a glance! These Immortal Gu were cleverly positioned and had a mysterious relationship with each other, the design of the Gu House was as profound as a towering mountain range spreading across the entire countryside for ten thousand li, connecting heaven and earth, the mountain range had overlapping layers of intertwined mineral veins.
Wu Shuai was like a mortal Gu Master mining the mountain range, he had to excavate it layer by layer to uncover the minerals he wanted and figure out the connection between the ore veins.
"Just analyzing this Immortal Gu House itself is a huge difficulty! Furthermore, I need to rely on this Immortal Gu House to defend against the red porcelain lightning ball tribulation!"
Wu Shuai's heart sank, he knew that this exploration was going to fail.
As expected, the following developments went as he had predicted.
Red porcelain lightning balls continued to explode as Wu Shuai tried to use his Immortal Gu House and slowly fix it.
But it was useless.
His understanding towards this Immortal Gu House was too low, even if he wanted to fix it, he had no idea where to start.
Eventually, the red porcelain lightning balls destroyed the Immortal Gu House, Wu Shuai and the female immortal became the sacrifices of the tribulation's fury.
After leaving the dream realm, Wu Shuai started to heal himself.
This time, Fang Yuan's main body was exploring Dragon Whale Paradise, before leaving, he had made ample preparations and arrangements. Not only did he pass the dream path Gu worms to Wu Shuai, he even gave a large number of guts Gu.
With guts Gu in his hands, Wu Shuai's injuries were not a problem.
This dream realm exploration was different from the Dragon Palace dream realm, Wu Shuai could explore it multiple times until he succeeded.
Second failure, third failure, fourth, fifth…
After eight tries, Wu Shuai finally gained a clearer understanding of this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
Even though he could not completely fix this Immortal Gu House, Wu Shuai was already able to repair it sufficiently to negate the red porcelain lightning balls' damage.
Black clouds swirled in the sky, the red porcelain lightning balls gradually thinned out until they completely stopped.
But within the black clouds, a second grand tribulation was starting to brew.
The female immortal sighed: "Sigh… it was my fault for not listening to you, I went to search for the location where Reckless Savage Demon Venerable died, in the end, I caused this curse to occur and lead to an unceasing wave of calamities and tribulations."
"This is my just desserts. Zheng Yang, leave, I do not want to implicate you!"
On the female immortal's body, the halo had noticeably dimmed. The dark path dao marks were tightly arranged, like pieces of black thread sewing up wounds, covering the female immortal's skin and face.
Compared to before, the female immortal's aura had weakened a lot, and at the same time, it became more peculiar, not only were the light and dark path dao marks intertwined, an adam's apple was also growing in her throat!
Wu Shuai had yet to analyze the situation of the female immortal when a drizzle started to occur in the sky.
Even though it was a small rain, it was bone-chilling, there was a cold feeling that could freeze the soul.
The heat and smoke caused from the lightning balls earlier vanished entirely without a trace.
Howl howl howl…
The ghostly cries became louder and louder, before it resounded throughout the entire area.
Grey threads fell from the black clouds in the sky, extending towards Wu Shuai.
Wu Shuai's heart sank, he recognized this tribulation: "This is the grand tribulation — Ghost Spirit Ice Silkworm Tribulation! A grand tribulation occurring right after the previous one, it seems this will not end."
Wu Shuai had to resist these silky threads forcefully.
The red porcelain lightning balls were powerful and destructive, while these ghost spirit silk threads were soft and troublesome.
Wu Shuai had no offensive methods, the Immortal Gu House Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress that he was relying on was also unfamiliar to him, he could not find any offensive methods that could be used.
Thus, Wu Shuai watched as these threads extended towards him and slipped in through the cracks and holes of the Immortal Gu House.
Wu Shuai tried to defend against them but Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was already completely infiltrated, it broke apart after resisting for some time.
The silky threads wrapped around the female immortal while also attacking Wu Shuai, turning the two of them into solid cocoons.
At the next moment, Wu Shuai was chased out of the dream realm.
This time, he suffered heavy injuries, he saw darkness in front of him, he gulped and felt that his throat was dry, he almost fainted.
"Failing at the ghost spirit silk thread tribulation stage has caused tens of times the damage as before!" Wu Shuai smiled bitterly, in this situation, he had to recuperate first before trying again.
This injury would only be mild if it happened on Fang Yuan, it would not be severe, he could definitely explore it again.
But Wu Shuai was not the same.
Wu Shuai's soul foundation was only at thirty million man soul, even though it rose later as he cultivated in Eastern Sea, he could not compare to the main body.
Wu Shuai was a dragonman who cultivated enslavement path, soul path cultivation was just a supplementary method. The stronger his soul foundation, the more soul path dao marks he would have, and the more it would restrict his enslavement path development.
But Fang Yuan's main body was the sovereign immortal body, it had non-conflicting dao marks, so he could cultivate soul path alongside all his other paths.
After resting sufficiently, he went in again.
Failing time and again, challenging it continuously even after failure, Wu Shuai was in a difficult position.
He did not have the time path clone's deduction abilities, even though he had Dragon Palace, dreamy light smoke was not useful for exploring dream realms.
The most reliable method, other than unravel dream, was the ability to recover rapidly using guts Gu.
As he slowly explored it, Wu Shuai finally had some breakthroughs and gains.
After learning the general information of Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, Wu Shuai gained the three killer moves of this Immortal Gu House.
The first was called accumulated soil mountain, the second was called peaceful burial, and the third was called heavy soil comeback.
The one that was an eyeopener to Wu Shuai was the first killer move, accumulated soil mountain.
This killer move was very special, it did not have offense, movement, healing or other aspects. It was an earth path killer move that had formation path effect, using this killer move, the Gu Immortal could stack earth path Gu worms to allow them to form an Immortal Gu House! This could be done even if the Gu Immortal using the killer move had zero attainment in formation path itself!
Because of this killer move, there was this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
Gaining this killer move was also the same as gaining the foundation of the Immortal Gu House, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress!
It was no wonder Wu Shuai could not find any core Immortal Gu, this Immortal Gu House's core was not an Immortal Gu but the immortal killer move accumulated soil mountain!
"Thus, I only need to activate this killer move and add earth path Gu worms into this Immortal Gu House to rapidly fix it."
After understanding this, Wu Shuai started to repair Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress while enduring the onslaught of the ghost spirit silk thread tribulation.
Boom!
The moment he repaired it, the female immortal self-detonated, the force of the explosion was greater than the grand tribulation, not only was Wu Shuai killed instantly, the entire Immortal Gu House was torn to shreds.
"I see, I still have to take care of this female immortal." After understanding this point, Wu Shuai entered the dream realm once again.
Immortal killer move — Peaceful Burial!
Using this method, the female immortal was temporarily sealed, her injuries were suppressed, she was receiving treatment from the Immortal Gu House.
After Wu Shuai fixed this Immortal Gu House completely, the third grand tribulation appeared.
Purple stars fell from the sky, this was a tribulation that fused poison path and star path — Rotten Poison Purple Star Tribulation.
Purple stars continued to descend and land on the Immortal Gu House, causing holes to form due to corrosion.
Wu Shuai did his best to endure it but even as he failed many times, this grand tribulation never stopped.
"The third grand tribulation seems to be unceasing, this is not normal. Don't tell me?" After many failures, Wu Shuai had a flash of inspiration.
He tried to unseal the female immortal, without peaceful burial's suppression, the female immortal went into a state of nearing death again.
"Zheng Yang, if a next life exists, I want to meet you again. Goodbye, my love."
While Wu Shuai defended against the grand tribulation with difficulty, she flew out of the Immortal Gu House through a hole that had formed on top.
Boom!
She self-detonated instantly, turning into a lump of pitch-black flames, burning intensely with a terrifying aura.
Heaven seemed to be enraged, at once, billions of purple stars shot down. The black flame was not large, but was incomparably tough when faced with the attack of the purple stars, although its size was shrinking, the extent of its loss was minuscule.
Seeing that this grand tribulation was ineffective, the black clouds in the sky transformed again, countless lightning bolts rained down like snakes, the black flame was instantly assaulted by countless bolts.
The black flame seemed to be nourished from this, it quickly expanded and grew to a mountain-like size.
The black flame's appearance had changed already, it became a white-gold colored mist.
The grand tribulation in the sky continued to transform and attack the white-gold mist, the mist also transformed, turning into wind, ore, flower, grass, bird, or beast at times.
"What in the world is lurking in this female immortal's body, so many grand tribulations are unable to do anything to it!" Wu Shuai was internally shook.
He acutely sensed that this realistic dream realm contained a certain deep secret in history.
This secret might be the reason behind the deaths of venerables, it involved the most profound secret of heaven and earth.
The female immortal died, but Wu Shuai's dream realm continued.
He had to survive from the aftermath of this terrifying fight, he could only rely on Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
Eventually, after countless rounds of grand tribulations, that mysterious black flame was slowly extinguished bit by bit.
Even when just a tiny bit was left, the grand tribulation still targeted it and the battle lasted for over an hour.
"What in the world is this thing?" After the dream realm dissipated, Wu Shuai was still filled with deep shock.
He had put in so much effort, the rewards were similarly shocking.
At almost the same time as when the dream realm faded, the eyes of Fang Yuan's main body, which was in Dragon Whale Paradise, shined.
"Oh, I advanced to earth path grandmaster."
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Chapter 1899 Large Sized Missions
Sea island, Golden Jade House.
"What is the purpose of inviting us here, little girl?"
"Quickly tell us, I've got things to do."
"That's right, this is the only time each year that the sea market opens. We are wasting our time and money by being delayed here!"
Many Gu Masters gathered in Golden Jade House, staring at the blue scaled mermaid girl, Xia Lin, and spoke.
They were already a bit impatient from waiting.
Xia Lin looked around with a slight smile: "Everyone here is a respectable figure, so I'll make it short. From now on, this island is my territory and under my control. If you all want to come here and make transactions, I'd welcome you with open arms, but you need to pay taxes, and you can't stay on the island for a long time."
"As for the way to stay and live here for a long time? That is to join me and become my subordinate."
There was a sudden silence in the house.
Immediately, the Gu Masters went into an uproar. Was this a joke?
The few rank three Gu Master leaders all looked unhappy.
"Little girl, you're too bold."
"Juniors these days, hehe, they really don't know what fear is."
"Do you really think you can act so arrogantly after killing a rank three Gu Master? Don't forget, you are just a rank two Gu Master."
Faced with many questions, Xia Lin felt apprehensive, but remembering that this was Master Chu's order, she could only force a smile as she answered as instructed: "No need to doubt my words, now, you will know what I am relying on."
"What is it?" Immediately, someone asked.
Xia Lin was still smiling, because even if she said so, she had no idea what it was.
But at that moment, the ground began to shake.
"What's going on?" Someone screamed as the ground shook more and more.
"Is it an earthquake?!" The Gu Masters were in a state of shock and panic.
Fortunately, this Golden Jade House was a Gu House and had some defensive effects.
But the outside world was already in chaos, with screams and shouts everywhere.
"No, I need to rush back to guard my shop."
"I'm leaving too!"
The Gu Masters tried to run out, but suddenly, a thick yellow light suddenly emerged from the ground.
The yellow light enveloped the entire island and blocked the entrance of the Gu House.
No matter what they tried, the Gu Masters could not break through the yellow light and were horrified: "What in the world is going on?"
"This is no ordinary earthquake."
"Xia Lin! You must know something!!!"
Someone saw that Xia Lin was still smiling, he had a flash of inspiration and screamed loudly.
As a result, all the Gu Masters in the room focused their attention on Xia Lin.
Xia Lin was also shocked, but at this moment, Fang Yuan's voice was transmitted, instructing her on how to deal with the situation: "Everyone, there is no need to panic, this change is only beneficial for everyone. I will not say more, just watch it quietly, this change will not last long."
Xia Lin was keeping this a secret but the Gu Masters did not dare to look down on her.
This was clearly not a natural disaster but a man-made situation.
But who could do something of this magnitude?
Not mortals at least!
A word suddenly emerged in the minds of all the Gu Masters — Immortal!
This was indeed a method of an immortal.
Or more accurately, Fang Yuan was repairing the immortal formation at the bottom of the sea.
He took out portions of immortal materials from his immortal aperture and put them into the formation, before activating many killer moves to repair it.
Yellow light surged around the island, spreading around.
A brand new piece of land around the island condensed and appeared in the yellow light. Those ships that were originally around the edge of the island ran aground. The people on the boats were shouting and screaming, fixed in place by the yellow light, unable to move.
The yellow light gradually dissipated, the entire island had more than doubled in size.
At the edge of the new sea island, tides surged up, causing huge waves, countless fish and sea beasts revealed themselves.
Fang Yuan had started to fix the water path aspect after repairing the earth path side of the formation.
Finally, when he had completely mended the immortal formation, the huge waves on the surface of the sea gradually calmed down.
However, Fang Yuan did not stop yet.
He added a small subsidiary immortal formation on top of the foundation of this great formation.
After the small formation was built, he waved his hand again and gave the small formation to Xia Lin.
Thus, a white light descended from the sky and enveloped Xia Lin, before it merged entirely into Xia Lin's body.
Xia Lin did not have any attainment in formation path, but this small formation designed by Fang Yuan was very friendly, Xia Lin suddenly felt that she had many new abilities instinctively.
This instinct was as natural as breathing, or like moving legs and feet, it allowed her to move the island's land and the surrounding seawater using her thoughts.
Rumble…
Amidst muffled sounds, the entirety of Golden Jade House began to expand, growing larger and larger, quickly transforming from a small building to a beautifully ornate palace.
This was naturally also Fang Yuan's doing, he had expanded Golden Jade House and created a formation core here, which was secretly connected to the formation deep under the sea.
This series of astonishing changes made the entire crowd of Gu Masters gawk and stand dumbfounded.
Xia Lin was showing a smile but she was also immensely shocked internally.
Fang Yuan's words rang in her ears once again.
She read out the script: "Everyone, you witnessed it with your own eyes. I am fortunate to be accepted as a disciple of the great immortal. My immortal master has just laid out the immortal formation and ordered me to guard this place, I will be in charge of mortal affairs."
Saying so, Xia Lin willed as yellow light surged up, enveloping all of the Gu Masters present.
Xia Lin willed again as these Gu Masters gasped in shock, they were suppressed by this yellow light and could not move, they were all raised into the air, unable to retaliate.
Xia Lin smiled, the yellow light dissipated and these Gu Masters were released.
"This, this, this…"
"Immortal miracle, this is an immortal miracle. So there really are immortals in the world!"
"I reverently ask Lady Xia Lin, why did your immortal master set up an immortal formation here, I wonder what lord immortal has planned?"
Xia Lin just smiled, she had also just learned that Master Chu was actually an immortal! Her shock was no less than the others.
"Now, does everyone have anything you wish to say about my previous proposal?" Xia Lin looked around and asked in a warm voice once again.
The Gu Masters did not dare to question her again, they bowed their heads together, some even fell to their knees on the spot, saying that they wanted to follow Xia Lin, while some wanted to go under Fang Yuan as his disciple.
Xia Lin could only appease them one by one.
Fang Yuan's divine sense went around Xia Lin, in the end, he only said a few words of advice to her before he left her to her own devices.
Although there were signs of immortals in Dragon Whale Paradise, be it his previous life or present life, Fang Yuan had never seen any native immortals.
Legends about immortals had been circulating within the mortal world, but they were only rumors.
This time, Fang Yuan displayed an immortal miracle and set up the immortal formation, leaving many things within the formation to Xia Lin. Soon, countless people arrived after hearing the news, some of them wanted to see the miracle, while others simply wanted to join Xia Lin as a subordinate.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan helped Xia Lin become the mermaid saintess. In this life, he had simply made an early move to support the growth of Xia Lin's forces first.
In the following period of time, Xia Lin would maneuver between various forces and Gu Master experts, she would follow Fang Yuan's instructions to establish her own force.
Even if there were things she could not do right, there was still a will left behind by Fang Yuan within the formation to tutor her and help her to make up for any flaws.
His investment in Xia Lin was actually not even a drop in a bucket.
Repairing the underwater formation was the most costly thing that Fang Yuan did.
Fang Yuan's earth path attainment level rose, his weakness was eliminated as he rapidly found a useful method to fix this formation.
He had grandmaster formation path attainment level, he could not use natural dao marks, he had to use immortal materials. The immortal materials that he expended here were his greatest spending.
Not only was the difficulty of a mid-sized mission higher, the Gu Immortal also had to make investments sometimes.
Merit points were not so easy to earn.
Fang Yuan returned to the Merit Obelisk.
This mission gave him a hundred merit points, this was the limit of a mid-sized mission, his action of repairing the formation was perfect.
Thus, he became the undeniable number one person on the merit board, the gain of a hundred points made everyone else feel a strong sense of dejection.
This time, Fang Yuan did not leave in a hurry.
He started to research on the merit board.
His earth path attainment rose to grandmaster level, could he comprehend this Immortal Gu House?
If he could comprehend it and use some methods, would he be able to make loopholes in the Merit Obelisk and refine this entire Immortal Gu House?
Earlier, Fang Yuan could not do it and had to follow the rules.
But all along, he had not given up on the idea of getting this Merit Obelisk.
After looking at it for some time, deep disappointment flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes.
The Merit Obelisk contained the profundity of earth path, but also sound path, human path, and heaven path.
And looking at the foundation, earth path and sound path were just supplementary, the true cores were human path and heaven path.
"To have hopes of comprehending this completely, I will need to be a great grandmaster in all four paths." Fang Yuan realized this and smiled bitterly to himself.
It was unrealistic to try to refine this Merit Obelisk now.
That was only natural.
Before Fang Yuan, who knows how many Gu Immortals had come here. Among these predecessors, there were definitely outstanding people, but they were unable to do anything to this rank eight Immortal Gu House.
Fang Yuan's foundation in this aspect was not deep, how could he possibly refine this rank eight Immortal Gu House easily?
There was no breakthrough in this area, so Fang Yuan had no choice but to continue to follow the rules, he continued to receive and complete missions.
When he reached nine hundred merit points, Shen Xiao finally screamed at the Merit Obelisk: "I finally found it, this is the one, this good person title!"
At this moment, Shen Xiao almost wanted to tear up from joy.
He quickly told Shen Cong Sheng about this discovery.
Soon, Shen clan's Gu Immortals started to show signs of rising merit points.
Followed by Ren Xiu Ping, Tong Hua and the rest.
There were four groups on the merit board now.
The first group was a single person, Fang Yuan, he was way ahead.
The second group was the Shen clan Gu Immortals led by Sheng Cong Sheng, they were trying to catch up.
The third group was Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua, as they were attached to Shen clan, they had been informed of this secret after some time.
And the last group was Miao Ming Shen and the others, they had not learned about this.
After completing another mission, Fang Yuan's merit points rose to over a thousand.
He looked at the merit board, laughing in his mind: "They finally found the good person title? These people are truly unlucky, maybe this is the result of my luck suppressing them."
He came to the board and started exchanging for a reward.
He spent a thousand merit points in exchange for the 'really good person' title.
With this title, he could finally accept large sized missions.
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Chapter 1900 Super Good Person
Beehive island was a sea island that had a peculiar shape.
The entire island resembled a voluminous dark yellow beehive, with countless pits and holes on the surface of the hive, and a precise structure and countless tunnels inside.
A rank six Gu Immortal with broad shoulders and a thin waist, wearing jade green battle armor, was inside the beehive.
This man was one of the followers of Miao Ming Shen — Feng Jiang.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
The densely grouped red thread earthworms were shooting violently at Feng Jiang from all directions.
The red thread earthworms could shoot themselves out like the flicking of a zither, so fast that Feng Jiang could only see a red light.
The attack of the red thread earthworms was very sharp, and the swarms of red thread earthworms were able to make desolate beasts back away from them.
Feng Jiang fought as he retreated.
He was facing immense pressure, after a while, he was already covered in sweat.
Even though his battle strength surpassed desolate beasts and he had many killer moves, he received this mission to quell the red thread earthworm calamity near the beehive island, to allow its ecology to return to normal.
If Feng Jiang used his methods without holding back and unleashed his attacks, he could easily kill all of these red thread earthworms.
But in that case, beehive island would be heavily damaged, Feng Jiang would receive few merit points.
"Damn it." Feng Jiang had no choice but to retreat and fly out of the hive, floating in the sky.
The red thread earthworms were still in hot pursuit, shooting themselves into the sky and pursuing Feng Jiang.
From countless holes, large amounts of red threads were shot out, Feng Jiang sighed and pulled away from the hive, these red thread earthworms could not hit their target.
The red thread earthworms did not die from a fall of this height, their bodies were soft but tough, after they loitered around for some time, they went back into the hive again.
They did not follow the existing holes within the hive, but dug their own way through the hive's walls.
This was very damaging to beehive island.
"There are too many red thread earthworms, and I'm afraid there are still desolate beasts inside. After all, I'm taking on a mid-sized mission."
"There is one more difficulty, the more the passage inside this hive extends inside, the narrower it becomes, it is very disadvantageous to me."
Beehive island was already covered in holes due to the red thread earthworms, if Feng Jiang fought inside, he might cause the destruction of the entire island.
Feng Jiang was silent for a moment before making up his mind.
He opened his immortal aperture's entrance as he summoned a large group of wild bees. These bees were all elites that had rank five battle strength, their leader was even more powerful, it was a desolate beast bee.
The abdomen of this wild bee was of peculiar form, being gyroscopic instead of ellipsoidal, it was most broad at the waist, extending out to the tail while becoming increasingly thinner.
The surface of the gyroscopic belly had a black spiral pattern that was quite striking.
All the wild bees were covered with dense fluffy hair and had large, broad wings.
This was the yellow gyro bee.
Feng Jiang's immortal aperture raised a large number of bees, yellow gyro bee was one of them with a unique status.
Even though ordinary bees formed into groups, they consisted of members from the same species. Different ones could not live together.
But not only could yellow gyro bees live with other wild bees, they could reproduce and even help to increase the numbers of the other species of bees.
The yellow gyro bees were the core bee group of Feng Jiang's immortal aperture.
Feng Jiang was an Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, he was rich in cultivation resources, keeping a variety of bees in his immortal aperture and having more than ten desolate beast wild bees. The yellow gyro bees had always been his main focus, but there were only three of them that were desolate beast level.
This time, Feng Jiang mobilized a large group of yellow gyro bees, he was taking a huge risk in this situation.
Under the command of Feng Jiang, the yellow gyro bees buzzed as if they were a yellow cloud that quickly burrowed into the hive.
There were still swarms of bees in beehive island, but they were completely at a disadvantage compared to the red thread earthworms in terms of size.
With the help of the yellow gyro bees, the bee group was confused for a moment before retaliating against the red thread earthworms entrenched in the lower part of the beehive island with a fierce attack.
This was a fight for survival between their respective groups, it was a tragic battle.
Beehive island continued to shake as cracks appeared on its surface, rapidly expanding in size.
Feng Jiang was prepared to take action, he immediately used methods to repair the island.
He let his bee group fight while he took on a support role.
He was quite lucky, when the red thread earthworms lost enough numbers, the sole desolate beast red thread earthworm retreated instead of fighting, leading its members away from the beehive.
Feng Jiang looked as millions of red thread earthworms gathered in the sea like a huge red current, swimming away. He sighed as the weight in his heart was lifted.
He hesitated for a moment, should he chase after the red thread earthworms or ignore them now?
While he hesitated, the red thread earthworms swam into the sea.
Feng Jiang gave up the thought of chasing them.
If he fought in the sea, he would have to give it his all, but there were many different sea beasts hidden within this sea area.
"I should not cause more uncertainty, let's repair this beehive island first."
He spent a day and night repairing it.
Not only did he repair beehive island completely, he even reinforced many of its weaknesses. At the same time, he let out many bees in his immortal aperture and planted many special flowers to complete the ecology of this place.
After all this, beehive island became completely revitalized. Not only did it regain balance, it even had more potential for future development.
"This is a mid-sized resource point now." Feng Jiang sighed.
If possible, he wanted to take this beehive island for himself. But this was a merit mission, he was restricted by Paradise Earth, Feng Jiang had to give up on that idea.
After returning to the Merit Obelisk, Feng Jiang looked at his merit points and found that he gained over eighty points from this mission.
Feng Jiang stared blankly before regretting it: "I did not get a hundred points, it seems that my actions were not perfect. Back then, I should have eliminated the red thread earthworms, letting them leave means that they are likely to attack beehive island again."
"That might not be it. The mission wanted me to balance the ecology of beehive island, did I achieve that? I did not."
"This so-called ecology's core was beehive island but the surrounding sea areas are also a part of it. I only modified beehive island but did not target the surrounding sea areas, that was my mistake."
Thinking so, Feng Jiang sighed.
A few days ago, after Fang Yuan returned to the Merit Obelisk, he saw the board and understood the situation, he explained the secret of the 'good person' title to Miao Ming Shen and his allies.
Thus, Feng Jiang exchanged for the 'good person' title and could receive mid-sized missions.
Now, he completed his first mid-sized mission but he was not happy at all.
Not only was it because he did not understand the mission's requirements fully, he had also spent a lot for this mission.
In order to get the merit points, his yellow gyro bees could not be retrieved.
Of course, this exchange was not unfavorable.
Merit points were related to Paradise Earth's true inheritance, Feng Jiang gave up his bee group but gained points that could be exchanged for Immortal Gu if he had ten thousand or more!
This trade was definitely worth it.
Because in the outside world, Feng Jiang did not have any way to get these Immortal Gu. No matter how many desolate beast bees he had, he could not exchange for an Immortal Gu using them.
"But mid-sized missions are quite tough, I am specialized in raising bees, this mission suited me well but I only got around eighty merit points."
"What about other missions?"
Feng Jiang looked at the board.
Many missions were listed but he could not take them.
For example, the mission to repair an immortal formation, Feng Jiang did not have any methods to repair immortal formations.
Or the one that required the healing of an ancient desolate beast's injuries, Feng Jiang's healing methods were not good enough.
Feng Jiang suddenly understood why Fang Yuan kept this 'good person' title as a secret.
As long as he had a head start, Fang Yuan could choose missions that suited him, he could accumulate merit points rapidly.
But Feng Jiang thought about it and felt something strange: "No, even so, Chu Ying's merit points are rising too quickly. He is almost perfectly completing every mission. Is transformation path really this useful?"
At this moment, Feng Jiang was stunned.
Because white light flashed as Fang Yuan appeared beside him.
"Lord Chu Ying." Feng Jiang greeted.
Fang Yuan nodded at him, his gaze was directed at the obelisk.
His merit points went from the bottom position and surpassed everyone to reach the top three again.
"He gained five hundred merit points at once?!" Feng Jiang saw this as his heart shook.
"I spent a thousand merit points to get the 'really good person' title, it allowed me to receive even better missions." Fang Yuan smiled and explained.
Feng Jiang was stunned before bowing deeply: "Lord, thank you for the guidance!"
Fang Yuan nodded as he went to the other side of the obelisk, exchanging for his third title 'super good person'. His merit points instantly fell by five hundred, becoming the last position again.
Feng Jiang opened his mouth, he was curious about Fang Yuan's action but he was astute, he did not ask when he saw that Fang Yuan was not going to talk about it.
Feng Jiang was certain that Fang Yuan had exchanged for something extremely useful.
"Looking at the time, they should be back already." Fang Yuan walked towards Feng Jiang, he did not receive a mission immediately.
Feng Jiang nodded, he knew that Fang Yuan was referring to Miao Ming Shen and others, he replied: "They should be here soon."
Feng Jiang did not have outstanding strength among Miao Ming Shen's allies, yet he had already returned, the others were soon to arrive as well.
Fang Yuan did not mind the wait.
As expected, Miao Ming Shen and the rest returned quickly, they met with Fang Yuan.
Feng Jiang quickly told the secret of the 'really good person' title to Miao Ming Shen and others.
Miao Ming Shen had a thought: "This title of 'good person' can exchange for mid-sized missions, while 'really good person' can exchange for large sized missions. This is a series of titles, if one can find out about the 'good person' title, the 'really good person' title is no secret as well, they can easily connect the dots."
But even so, Miao Ming Shen felt very grateful to Fang Yuan.
Because Fang Yuan had told them about the 'good person' title. Meanwhile, Shen clan and Ren Xiu Ping kept it from them.
The ranking on the merit board was very important, many rewards could only be exchanged once, the first person to get them would be the sole beneficiary.
"Brother Miao, you do not need to fear Shen Cong Sheng. I have a way to get far away from Shen Cong Sheng when we teleport outside, the distance is enough for us to stay safe." Fang Yuan lied but Miao Ming Shen and the rest felt deeply shocked.
Gui Qi Ye's brows rose: "It is a reward on the Merit Obelisk?"
"Indeed." Fang Yuan nodded, but he had no idea if that existed.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest could not help but believe him.
Why?
Because Chu Ying's attitude towards Shen Cong Sheng was simply courting death! The fact that he remained so fearless meant that he had some sort of assurance.
Fang Yuan continued: "I can receive large sized missions but I cannot complete them alone. I need all of your help."
Saying so, he received the large sized mission on the obelisk and shared the details with Miao Ming Shen and others.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest felt shocked, after receiving information of the mission, their expressions changed.
He could actually do that?!
The truth was, Miao Ming Shen had discovered this secret personally in the previous life.
The 'super good person' title allowed one to share missions.
For Gu Immortals, mid-sized missions were difficult to do alone, having other people's help made it easier. Even though they would share the merit points, if their efficiency at solving missions increased, the benefits far outweighed the costs.
Miao Ming Shen could choose to accept it or not. Fang Yuan could share missions but he could not force them to take it.
Miao Ming Shen only thought about it for a while before accepting the mission.
He had just completed a mid-sized mission, he had the same feelings as Feng Jiang.
Fang Yuan had an easy time because he cultivated every path, Miao Ming Shen and the rest were ordinary Gu Immortals, they cultivated one path and most of the time, only certain missions suited them.
Since completing mid-sized missions was not easy, and they had to put in a lot of investment, Miao Ming Shen was more willing to work with Fang Yuan and attempt something new.
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Chapter 1901 Formation Calms Sea Area
Five lumps of white light, flashing abruptly in the sky, brought Fang Yuan, Miao Ming Shen and the others from the Merit Obelisk to here.
All five of them were familiar with the mission and headed down to get a bird's-eye view, each of them activating their investigative killer moves.
Fang Yuan was the first to observe the area and take a closer look.
His investigative methods had always been his shortcoming, but that was only relative to his enemies. When compared to Miao Ming Shen and the others, even his weaker aspects were still far superior to them.
This was a vast sea area.
The sea was raging, creating thousands of fierce waves, they were so powerful that countless sea beasts could be seen within the reflections of these ripples.
In this sea, there were five small islands.
First was jade shaking island with countless jade pillars, chiming and tinkling due to powerful winds.
Second was white bone island, it was pale white and had the corpses of beasts scattered around.
Third was hidden space island, it seemed illusory as if it did not exist.
Fourth was sword wind island, there were three tornadoes on the island that would never stop moving.
And fifth was treasure moon island, it was crescent shaped and was shrouded by the night sky at all times, every inch of sand on this island shined with faint moonlight.
Three of these five islands had begun to drift slowly with the current. Among them, sword wind island had the fastest flow and confusing direction of movement.
For the remaining two islands, jade shaking island was in danger, the pillars underneath the island were broken, and in a little while, just like the three islands, it would start to drift away on the sea surface.
As for hidden space island, however, it was very stable and remained firmly entrenched in the distance. This was because this island was filled with phantom path dao marks.
The main cause of the islands' drifting was the impact currents that ran deep under the sea.
These currents had become so large that they endangered the sea itself. Suppressing the currents, restructuring the ecology of the sea, and restoring the former five-islands chain were the contents of this large-sized mission.
Fang Yuan started to make calculations and deductions in his mind.
There were indications that this sea area had originally formed an intrinsic ecology with the five-islands chain as its core. Impact currents did not exist before, but now they were like a shark in a calm pond, causing severe destruction to the habitat and ecology of this sea area.
While Fang Yuan made his deductions, Miao Ming Shen and the rest also explored this entire sea area with their investigative methods.
They frowned and had serious expressions.
"This is a large sized mission? The difficulty is several times higher than a mid-sized mission!" Hua Die's heart sank steeply.
Feng Jiang had an ugly expression as he thought: "I tried my best earlier to improve the ecology of beehive island but it was still imperfect. This large sized mission is not about balancing the ecology, but restructuring it. Each island is in greater danger than beehive island itself. And the five islands are only part of the mission, there's still a large sea area and the underwater impact currents to resolve."
"This is very complex, to restructure the habitat of the sea area, we would need to change everything and meticulously alter the details. Without a wisdom path Gu Immortal, we will need to make many experiments and attempt the restructuring step by step. During this process, we would make many mistakes." Gui Qi Ye sighed in his heart.
Miao Ming Shen was calculating the gains and losses: "The mid-sized mission I just completed expended a large amount of my rank seven immortal materials. To restructure the ecology of this place, the resources invested, the immortal essence consumed and the energy spent will be an extremely large sum!"
The more Miao Ming Shen and the rest observed, the faster their morale slipped away.
The difficulty of the large sized mission made them feel like giving up.
The truth was, they started to regret it, following Fang Yuan blindly to accept this mission was not a wise decision.
"Brother Chu, let's plan together." At this point, Miao Ming Shen could only smile bitterly and find Fang Yuan to discuss their actions.
He was not going to give up on it, just because they took the mission did not mean they could abandon it. In fact, in order to give up the mission, they needed to exchange for another title.
Bright light flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes, with both time path clone and Fang Yuan making deductions at the same time, he had already arrived at a perfect plan.
He cupped his fists at Miao Ming Shen: "Brother Miao, I have already planned something, follow my instructions and we will definitely complete the mission."
Miao Ming Shen was stunned, although he did not believe it in his heart, he nodded without rebuking: "Please give the instructions Brother Chu, we will do our best!"
Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Brother Miao is too polite, it will be good for both of us if we work together to complete this mission. The better we complete a large sized mission, the greater the returns compared to a mid-sized mission!"
"I'm only afraid we can't complete it well." Miao Ming Shen sighed internally but did not say anything, he had already lost confidence in himself, he could only place his hopes on Fang Yuan now.
But Fang Yuan's words were comfortable for him to hear.
Fang Yuan was not high and mighty, but rather he had an attitude of equal cooperation. This was different from Shen Cong Sheng.
"Brother Miao, I want you to occupy jade shaking island to guard against the impact currents. Please ask Gui Qi Ye to station at sword wind island and make sure that it doesn't wander off. Ask Feng Jiang and Fairy Hua Die to guard treasure moon island island and white bone island respectively. I'm going to deal with hidden space island first."
Fang Yuan made the arrangements, Miao Ming Shen's group was clueless to begin with, they followed Fang Yuan's instructions.
With the four immortals in action, the islands were quickly suppressed, no longer drifting with the current, their speed of movement fell to a level that could be controlled.
Watching Fang Yuan descend on hidden space island, the four immortals had doubts in their hearts.
"Hidden space island is a phantom path island, it is the most stable place in the entire sea area, it is also the easiest part of the mission."
"Why is Chu Ying trying to deal with this island first? He should fix the other islands before trying to fix this hidden space island. After all, this island is almost non-existent, by dealing with it first, he will cause some obstruction when handling the other islands later."
"In my opinion, he should deal with the impact currents first. It is the cause behind the collapse of the five-islands chain. To restructure the ecology here, one has to deal with the root cause at the start."
Fang Yuan landed on hidden space island, quickly flying out afterwards, his speed was shocking to Miao Ming Shen and the rest.
Fang Yuan went to white bone island.
Under Hua Die's observation, Fang Yuan took out immortal materials from his immortal aperture and threw them around at will.
"He is setting up a formation!" Hua Die was seeing Fang Yuan create a formation for the first time.
Fang Yuan was skillful and experienced, the process was very fluid, Hua Die watched with a sense of appreciation and amazement.
Soon, Fang Yuan finished setting up the formation.
Hua Die's mouth opened with deep shock, she could not close it.
"Chu Ying actually used immortal materials to set up a formation! Doesn't this mean he has grandmaster attainment in formation path?"
"So he is not a transformation path Gu Immortal but a formation path Gu Immortal."
"No, not true, when he defeated Ge Wen and saved us, he clearly used transformation path methods."
"Don't tell me, he cultivates two paths?"
It was not that rare for Gu Immortals to cultivate two paths. But for Fang Yuan to be so proficient in both paths, with such high attainment, it was very rare.
White bone island's arrangements were done, Fang Yuan activated this sub-formation and connected it to the main formation on hidden space island.
Due to the effect of the immortal formation, white bone island shook intensely, it anchored itself to the sea and showed no signs of movement anymore.
Hua Die finally understood Fang Yuan's intentions: "So he was using hidden space island as the base to stabilize the other islands around it."
"Amazing, hidden space island is the best foundation for this chain, because the impact currents are useless against it. But…"
Hua Die soon realized a flaw: "But the other islands are using hidden space island as the anchor, this is the power of a formation, these impact currents will still hit these islands over time, as the formation continues to get damaged, it would break eventually, these islands will still float away in the end."
Fang Yuan did not show any inclination to dispel her doubts, soon after, he landed on the three remaining islands and set up his formation, stabilizing them all.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest looked at Fang Yuan with complex gazes.
Fang Yuan's formation path attainment was too shocking to them.
Formation path grandmasters were very rare!
And earlier, Fang Yuan's transformation path attainment was also exemplary.
With such strength, the mysteriousness of Fang Yuan intensified in the immortals' hearts.
"However, stabilizing the five sea islands is just a good start."
"The real problem are the impact currents around the sea islands."
"Without water path methods, how can we deal with the sea currents?"
Miao Ming Shen and the rest talked among themselves. They could not transmit their voices in Dragon Whale Paradise, but they could still use information path mortal Gu like letter pigeon Gu.
The impact currents that rampaged in this sea area were too huge, Miao Ming Shen and the rest could only think of using immortal methods to attack the impact currents and destroy them bit by bit.
This method was crude and wasted a lot of time and immortal essence, the biggest flaw was that attacking these currents would cause tremendous damage to the surrounding sea area.
But other than that, Miao Ming Shen and the rest did not have any good ideas.
Boom!
Right at this time, Fang Yuan rose to the sky and activated the entire Gu formation.
Each of the five islands blossomed with rushing pillars of light of various colors, the power of the Gu formation soared upwards, breaking through its original limit.
"So this is the true power of the formation!" Miao Ming Shen and the rest had changes of expressions, they were dumbfounded.
These five islands' dao marks were so dense that they could also be seen as a single gigantic immortal material. The immortal formation that Fang Yuan had set up naturally included them within the range that could be utilized.
"I am going to draw in the impact currents now. Everyone, continue to defend your islands, if any beasts attack or if any waves approach that would endanger the islands, I need you to stop them." Fang Yuan called out as his voice resounded in the sea area.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest quickly responded, saying they would do their best.
The formation buzzed and the five pillars of light gradually dissipated, turning into white light that scattered in the sky.
The light went into the seawater, staining the water around the island with a beautiful illusion of white light.
In this illusory white light, the impact currents were like a blue whale that had been stirred up by fish and shrimps, slowly moving its body, then swimming faster and faster and crashing towards jade shaking island, which was the closest.
Miao Ming Shen, who was on jade shaking island, gritted his teeth, he felt tremendous pressure, tensing up and going on full alert.
If the immortal formation's defense was not enough, such a sea current could completely crush jade shaking island if it hit directly!
Boom!
The impact currents touched the formation and created a startling explosion.
A huge wave, up to ten feet high, pounded at jade shaking island.
Miao Ming Shen immediately flew up with a cry, using his killer move to resist it.
The impact currents were slowly turned around by this and moved to the left of jade shaking island. But before they could move away, they were drawn back by white bone island's immortal formation.
The one guarding white bone island was Hua Die, and she almost groaned when she saw the sea current coming towards her.
In the discussions of Miao Ming Shen's group, the impact current was to be repelled and slowly weakened, the best outcome was to break it up and scatter it completely.
But Fang Yuan was actually attracting the impact currents actively to hit the sea islands.
This was something that Miao Ming Shen and the rest wanted to avoid at all costs.
"Chu Ying is too crazy!" Hua Die soon had no time to think as the impact currents crashed into white bone island, the entire formation resounded with a scary creaking sound, before a huge wave was created.
There were also many sea beasts caught in the waves, Hua Die put up her best effort to resist them.
Like this, the impact currents, under the constant manipulation of Fang Yuan, hit the five islands one after another.
With each impact, the power of the currents was reduced by one level, they then circled around the island and became drawn to the next point.
After the impact currents crashed into the last island, they had less than half the power and momentum as before.
At this time, Fang Yuan activated the immortal formation once again, actually making the impact currents turn around and crash into the second last island.
Thus, the Gu Immortals defending the sea islands felt great fear again.
After the impact currents struck five times and returned to jade shaking island, the power of the currents hitting the island was almost nonexistent, they had almost turned to being ordinary currents.
The five islands shook lightly as the immortal formation stabilized completely. The impact currents quickly calmed down and began to flow at an even rate consistently.
In contrast, the hearts of the four Gu Immortals stirred with huge waves of disbelief and shock!
They did not expect that Fang Yuan would resolve the impact currents using such a method.
The impact currents, while still present, had become a protective layer that surrounded the island. Around the five islands, the impact currents flowed rapidly, faster than ordinary seawater, protecting the five islands while at the same time, helping the immortal formation to stabilize the five islands' location.
If they had followed the plan of Miao Ming Shen and the others to destroy the impact currents, this sea area would surely be destroyed beyond recognition.
Fang Yuan's move, however, cleverly avoided this drawback and instead made full use of the impact currents, turning the original calamity into a blessing and greatly enhancing the natural foundation of this sea area.
This was truly an incredible achievement!
Miao Ming Shen and the others were all impressed.
It was really difficult to do this.
Not to mention the arrangement of the immortal formation, just the matter of manipulating impact currents alone, even water path Gu Immortals were not even capable of doing that. To perfectly weaken the impact currents to a certain level, one needed to make precise calculations and deductions. When the impact currents return to jade shaking island, their power must be reduced to almost nothing. A bit more or a bit less would have greatly affected the overall situation and would not have gotten the incredible near-perfect balance it had now.
"The biggest problem has been resolved, the next step will be for you to repair the immortal formation, as well as restructuring the ecology of the island, as for the things beyond the impact currents, you can ignore them." Fang Yuan smiled.
He was quite satisfied with this result.
If new impact currents formed, these existing currents would engulf them and protect the islands under the effect of the immortal formation.
Fang Yuan would leave his will and a large amount of immortal essence here, as long as they remained, the five-islands chain would be very safe.
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Chapter 1902 Bullying Rank Eigh
The impact currents were like hungry tigers at first, but after Fang Yuan's arrangements, they became the pet cats that defended the five-islands chain.
After Fang Yuan completed this set up, the situation was already resolved.
What followed were some finishing touches.
These were not hard to do, but they were quite strenuous and required time and effort.
Fang Yuan was not going to bother himself with them.
Thus, Fang Yuan discussed with Miao Ming Shen, they left Feng Jiang and Fairy Hua Die here while the rest returned with him.
White light shined, Fang Yuan, Miao Ming Shen, and Gui Qi Ye returned to the starting island.
Ren Xiu Ping was currently looking at the missions on this merit point.
He was an enslavement path Gu Immortal, he had many desolate beasts and a few ancient desolate beasts in his hands. These beasts all had various abilities, his methods were quite wide-ranging.
However, even Ren Xiu Ping still felt the difficulty of mid-sized missions.
Fang Yuan and the others appeared beside him, causing his heart to jump as he secretly thought: "How could these three suddenly appear at the same time? Is it a coincidence?"
Fang Yuan nodded at Ren Xiu Ping and smiled slightly.
Ren Xiu Ping was stunned, this unexpected attitude of Fang Yuan made him not know how to respond for a moment.
Fang Yuan walked towards him as the obelisk's words transformed, showing all of its large sized missions.
Fang Yuan swept his gaze around it and quickly received one of the missions.
Next, he shared this with Miao Ming Shen and Gui Qi Ye.
With another flash of light, the three of them vanished on the spot.
Ren Xiu Ping watched the entire process, his expression turned grim: "Chu Ying received a different level of mission from me, it is one tier higher. It seems that his merit points fell earlier because he was exchanging for another title to receive higher tier missions. This is very likely to be the title — really good person!"
The title of 'good person' could exchange for mid-sized missions, while 'really good person' could exchange for large sized missions.
This was a simple relationship, the Gu Immortals could easily guess it just by seeing the names.
But the problem was, so what if they realized it?
"Mid-sized missions are already so hard, large sized missions must be even harder!" Ren Xiu Ping felt gloomy internally: "And why were Miao Ming Shen and Gui Qi Ye able to move together with Chu Ying? Did they receive the same mission?"
This discovery was quite alluring to Ren Xiu Ping.
Mid-sized missions were difficult but if they had help, the difficulty would be shifted.
"Even though the merit points would be divided if many people receive the same missions, as long as we control it well, our efficiency at completing missions will increase, our overall gains will increase instead. Isn't Chu Ying doing the exact same thing now?"
Ren Xiu Ping was a savvy person, after thinking about it, he understood Fang Yuan's intentions.
Fang Yuan did not plan to hide it, in fact, he had purposely released the information.
Miao Ming Shen's group could be roped in as allies, why couldn't Ren Xiu Ping?
Their hatred earlier?
Hehe.
How could hatred compare to the benefits in front of them?
Ren Xiu Ping was not crazy, he was astute, thus, there was a chance of cooperation.
Ren Xiu Ping definitely had an alliance agreement with Shen clan.
But it did not matter.
The Merit Obelisk had such rewards that could eliminate the agreement restraints on a Gu Immortal.
Even without Fang Yuan's reminder, Ren Xiu Ping must have seen that himself already.
The second large sized mission was naturally harder than mid-sized missions, but it was no problem for Fang Yuan.
After spending some effort, Fang Yuan resolved the big issues and left Miao Ming Shen and Gui Qi Ye to settle the minor problems.
When he returned to the Merit Obelisk again, he waited a little while before Hua Die and Feng Jiang returned.
Their return meant that the first large sized mission was completed.
Fang Yuan gained five hundred merit points, while Miao Ming Shen and the rest each gained around eighty points.
Fang Yuan looked at the numbers on the merit board as he calculated, this large sized mission gave a total of nine hundred and seventy-three points.
Fang Yuan and Miao Ming Shen's group split up these points, Fang Yuan gained the bulk of them, getting five hundred points was about the same as completing a large sized mission alone.
Except that he spent way less time and effort on it.
Hua Die and Feng Jiang looked at each other, seeing the joy in each other's eyes.
In this mission, they helped Fang Yuan resist the waves and settle the minor problems at the end. They only spent some immortal essence, time, and effort, but they gained more than eighty merit points from it.
Feng Jiang thought about the beehive island mission he completed alone, he spent a group of bees, including his desolate beast yellow gyro bee, but only got eighty points in the end.
Comparing the two, helping Fang Yuan complete a large sized mission was much easier and reaped greater rewards.
"Go and join with Miao Ming Shen to complete the second mission. I'd advise that we should all exchange for a group title. With a group title, we will be able to communicate with each other." Fang Yuan suggested.
A group title was not cheap, it required a hundred merit points.
But Feng Jiang and Hua Die did not hesitate, they listened to Fang Yuan and exchanged for this title.
Fang Yuan shared the second mission with them as Feng Jiang and Hua Die teleported to where Miao Ming Shen and Gui Qi Ye were.
Fang Yuan received the third large sized mission and went ahead to deal with it.
After Miao Ming Shen and the rest completed the second mission and returned to the starting island, the four immortals gained a sum of merit points listed on the merit board.
Miao Ming Shen and Gui Qi Ye also spent merit points to exchange for a group title, it allowed the four immortals to communicate with Fang Yuan constantly.
At this point, Fang Yuan already completed his arrangements in the new mission, he shared it with Miao Ming Shen and group.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest touched the obelisk and accepted the mission Fang Yuan shared with them.
They were transported to Fang Yuan, he gave them some instructions before returning to look at the next mission on the Merit Obelisk.
Fang Yuan had an advantage in cultivating every path, his value was fully displayed here.
Even for Shen Cong Sheng, many of the missions here were impossible to complete, but Fang Yuan, from his perspective, had methods to solve most missions. What he had to do was to choose those that would give him the most benefits and complete them first.
With the help of Miao Ming Shen and the others, Fang Yuan saved a lot of time and effort, while they were also gaining much more merit points now due to the help of Fang Yuan.
The cooperation between them was of mutual benefit, but it was a problem for Ren Xiu Ping and Shen Cong Sheng.
These people watched as Miao Ming Shen's group rose in position on the merit board, surpassing them and becoming part of the top rankers, it was truly infuriating but there was nothing they could do.
Looking at Fang Yuan's merit points, he had reached several thousand! He was truly ahead, far surpassing any other immortal.
Because of their huge difference, the immortals lost all desire to catch up to him.
"Immortal Gu need at least ten thousand merit points to exchange, Chu Ying is not far away already." Many people saw this and felt complex emotions, they were in admiration but also felt dejection.
"This is so strange, how can Chu Ying successfully complete so many different types of missions?"
"He must know many secrets about this place, it is a pity that we cannot fight inside here!"
"Miao Ming Shen and his group have truly dog shit luck, how could they gain the help of Chu Ying like this?"
The immortals were extremely jealous.
Shen Cong Sheng sighed, the number of times he had sighed in the last ten days was more than the sum of the previous few years.
The ranking on the merit board was very glaring, Shen Cong Sheng's position was even lower than Hua Die and Feng Jiang.
He was a great rank eight Gu Immortal, he actually was losing to two rank six Gu Immortals, how could he allow this? It was too embarrassing.
"If I can receive a large sized mission, my rank eight strength will be fully utilized, I will definitely gain a lot of merit points. But how can I let others receive the same mission as me?
The 'really good person' title was obvious, but what was the title to share missions?
They needed to test this.
And these experiments would test Shen Cong Sheng's luck, their merit points would also be wasted.
This would aggravate their situation from the already terrible situation now.
"I can make my Shen clan Gu Immortals use their merit points, but what about Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua? If I do that, will I just push them towards Chu Ying's side?"
Shen Cong Sheng had some reservations.
He knew that his influence was continuously falling now.
After learning that Gu Immortal agreements could be removed using the rewards on the Merit Obelisk, Shen Cong Sheng became more cautious regarding his attitude towards Ren Xiu Ping and others.
Fang Yuan and Miao Ming Shen could cooperate to do missions together, he had a good lead.
Shen Cong Sheng wanted to copy him, he had to unite Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua, these two people cultivated paths that Shen clan lacked.
Shen Cong Sheng was already regretting it, he should not have forced Miao Ming Shen and the rest to spend their merit points to exchange for different rewards.
This action made the immortals go against him mentally, it was a wise action back then, but now it was a terrible idea.
This was not Shen Cong Sheng's fault, after all, he did not know anything about the Merit Obelisk earlier.
The decisions he made back then was very appropriate due to the circumstances.
There were many types of missions on the merit obelisk, mid-sized missions started to become difficult.
Thus, the more paths one cultivated, the more advantage they would have in completing missions.
Fang Yuan had already united Miao Ming Shen and the rest, Shen Cong Sheng started to learn from his mistake, he became more gentle in his approach towards Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua.
His rank eight reputation was still around, while Ren Xiu Ping's alliance agreement was not removed yet, and most importantly, Ren Xiu Ping had a grudge against Chu Ying and Miao Ming Shen.
All these reasons ensured that Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua were still on Shen clan's side.
When Fang Yuan returned to the Merit Obelisk, a new large sized mission appeared — the demonic immortal in regret crying sea has lost his senses, please cooperate with the formation and kill him!
"Regret crying sea appeared?" Fang Yuan was slightly stunned before accepting this mission.
At this point, four missions regarding the merman city had appeared, but the merman saintess selection competition had not started yet.
The influence of Fang Yuan's rebirth had greatly altered the missions on the Merit Obelisk.
With this mission, Fang Yuan would be able to retrieve regret Gu earlier.
This was a great thing!
Once he gets regret Gu, he would be able to advance his Immortal Gu to a higher rank, his progress would be faster than in his previous life.
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Chapter 1903 Response Gu
The sky was cloudy, there were vicious winds and choppy waves.
This was regret crying sea area, Fang Yuan and Miao Ming Shen's group had already been here for some time.
"I regret it! I should not have killed so many people."
"I painfully regret it! I should not have chased after power, it would have been much better if I had stayed behind to look after my parents as a filial son!"
"I truly repent! I deceived everyone and concealed Immortal Gu, I let a friend, who trusted me the most, carry the blame so I could get benefits!"
Waves of crying sounds resounded in the immortals' ears like immortal killer moves that messed with their emotions.
This was the center of the regret crying sea area.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest stayed in the sky while watching Fang Yuan who was in deep contemplation, they waited patiently.
Even though they did not have much formation path foundation, they also found the grand formation at the bottom of the sea.
This was clearly the work of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, Miao Ming Shen and the rest looked at it and felt how minuscule they were.
Fang Yuan was like this in his previous life, he sighed that this formation was as vast as the sky, he would need at least dozens of years to comprehend all the profundities of this large formation.
But now, this time needed decreased drastically.
"I need about eight years to fully comprehend and gain complete understanding of this formation." Fang Yuan thought.
The reason for such an improvement was none other than Fang Yuan's earth path attainment level.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan did not have grandmaster attainment level in earth path, but this formation was a super immortal formation that was primarily earth path.
"There are no actions from regret Gu." Fang Yuan stared at a certain area at the bottom of the sea.
Fang Yuan was not surprised by this situation.
In order to stay in Dragon Whale Paradise, Fang Yuan destroyed the stone lotus island in advance. Without the stone lotus island, the venerable method used on regret Gu could not find its location, how could it activate?
According to the memories that Fang Yuan obtained on the stone lotus island, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had entered the stone lotus island and borrowed regret Gu.
Even though the stone lotus island had Red Lotus' will and his lingering methods, how could it resist a living venerable?
Red Lotus' will gave in, allowing Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable to borrow regret Gu, he even wanted to snatch Red Lotus' inheritor.
This inheritor was naturally Fang Yuan.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan chose the stone lotus island but this time, he took everything from the stone lotus island in advance, he came to the Dragon Whale Paradise because he wanted to inherit this Paradise Earth true inheritance.
"In the previous life, regret Gu flew out and transported me away. Right now, it is showing no signs of movement, it seems that I need to take action myself." Fang Yuan gained some realization.
Venerable methods were grand and powerful, Fang Yuan was teleported by regret Gu to the stone lotus island without putting up resistance.
Seeing that regret Gu did not activate, Fang Yuan was quite happy about it.
After comprehending it for several hours, Fang Yuan recollected his scattered thoughts.
He thought about it for a moment before saying to Miao Ming Shen: "We need to use the formation to get rid of this demonic immortal. However, when Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable set up this formation, even though it has unparalleled power, it can only suppress and seal, it has no offensive power. My idea is, we will set up a supplementary formation outside and activate it to kill the demonic immortal trapped within the formation."
Miao Ming Shen and the rest nodded upon hearing this idea, they agreed with it.
If they tried to break the formation and release the demonic immortal, it would be extremely dangerous.
It was obvious that this mysterious demonic immortal was someone of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's generation. Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had died already but this demonic immortal was still alive.
In terms of lifespan, he had already lived for more than a hundred thousand years.
Who could live for so long?
Even Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, who had the longest lifespan among venerables, only lived for twenty five thousand years.
Having a longer lifespan than a venerable, just this point alone made the demonic immortal extremely terrifying.
"Everyone, no need to overestimate the demonic immortal." Fang Yuan smiled: "This formation has a lifespan extension method in addition to its sealing ability, this demonic immortal is in constant hibernation to extend his lifespan, this is the reason he is still alive."
Miao Ming Shen and the rest showed a more relaxed expression after he said that.
"Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable is truly merciful, not only did he not kill the person, after suppressing this demonic immortal, he even extended his lifespan!"
"Does Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable have Heavenly Court's lifespan extension method? According to Heavenly Court's method, not only a hundred thousand years, they can hibernate for millions of years."
"Sigh, how can we possibly try to understand the method of a venerable?"
Fang Yuan turned his gaze to Miao Ming Shen and said: "But for me to set up the supplementary formation, I need a Gu Immortal to suppress each formation core. When the supplementary formation is activated, the more Gu Immortals there are and the more formation cores there are, the greater the power of the supplementary formation will be. And in my plan, I need at least eight Gu Immortals to suppress the formation cores."
The good feelings of Miao Ming Shen and the rest faded away.
Including Fang Yuan, there were only five Gu Immortals here. Fang Yuan's words meant that they had to invite at least three more people.
That was an interesting situation.
Because with the addition of Zeng Luo Zi and Tu Tou Tuo, they still needed one person.
And other than Shen clan's Gu Immortals, there were only Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua left.
This was not acceptable to Miao Ming Shen's group. Shen clan had suppressed them, while Ren Xiu Ping was their enemy and Tong Hua was a traitor.
Who do they invite?
Gui Qi Ye, Hua Die, and Feng Jiang showed difficult expressions.
However, Miao Ming Shen smiled and responded sincerely: "Brother Chu, the most important thing right now is the Paradise Earth true inheritance, it is a rare opportunity, so we should seize it! This is such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! What hatred do we have that we can't put aside for a while? If we want to settle the score, we can do it after we leave. In my opinion, Zeng Luo Zi and Tu Tou Tuo can be invited, Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua can also be invited, and it will be even better if Shen clan's Gu Immortals can also come."
After saying that, Miao Ming Shen added an additional sentence: "Of course, everything is up to you, Brother Chu."
Gui Qi Ye and the other immortals' expressions changed, they wanted to say something but after Miao Ming Shen's statement, they could not say anything.
Fang Yuan laughed loudly, Miao Ming Shen was truly Miao Ming Shen after all!
Fang Yuan said warmly: "Brother Miao is truly magnanimous, I am in deep admiration. Let's do that, I will set up a few supplementary formations first, the four of you will guard a formation core each and activate the formations to infiltrate the underwater formation. After that, I will invite the other Gu Immortals in."
Miao Ming Shen said again: "I am friends with Tu Tou Tuo and Zeng Luo Zi, I can write them a letter to make sure they know what decision to make."
Fang Yuan nodded: "That would be good."
Eventually, Fang Yuan obtained a few information path mortal Gu from Miao Ming Shen.
Miao Ming Shen not only wrote letters to Zeng Luo Zi and Tu Tou Tuo, he even wrote to Ren Xiu Ping, Tong Hua, and Shen clan, inviting them on behalf of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan took a few glances at the content, there were no issues. Miao Ming Shen expressed his intention to work together in the letter, he said that their grudges could be put aside for a while, he also praised Fang Yuan's methods and urged them to cooperate with him.
Fang Yuan could not help but reassess Miao Ming Shen.
The truth was, Miao Ming Shen's letter was only the icing on the cake, this letter was not going to change anything.
Fang Yuan had a lot of confidence in successfully recruiting these people to begin with.
Even if Miao Ming Shen objected, Fang Yuan would still invite the other Gu Immortals. Miao Ming Shen knew that he was not someone crucial to Fang Yuan, he could be replaced, in order to gain more benefits in the future, he relented. If this is not a talented person, who is?
The process of recruiting Tu Tou Tuo and Zeng Luo Zi went very smoothly.
Fang Yuan only said a sentence and they quickly joined him, they even showed deep excitement.
After all, Fang Yuan was bringing Miao Ming Shen's group to rise in ranking on the merit board, everyone could see how they suppressed Shen Cong Sheng.
Fang Yuan invited Tong Hua next, she hesitated and said she needed to think about it.
After that, Fang Yuan invited Ren Xiu Ping, he agreed to it without even thinking, he was even faster than Tu Tou Tuo and Zeng Luo Zi.
Ren Xiu Ping also brought slightly surprising news to Fang Yuan, Shen clan's Gu Immortals wanted to join as well.
Shen Cong Sheng was the leader of the Shen clan Gu Immortals, without his consent, none of them would dare to defect over to Fang Yuan.
Thus Fang Yuan met with Shen Cong Sheng soon after.
"Chu Ying." This time, Shen Cong Sheng had a warm attitude, he also treated the rank seven Chu Ying as a rank eight equal.
"The reason why I came here is because of Heavenly Court's information. Not long ago, Duke Long and Qi Sea Ancestor had a battle, I'm sure you have heard of it. In this battle, I captured Gu Yue Fang Zheng, in order to get him back, Heavenly Court gave me some important information."
"It turns out that this Dragon Whale Paradise has a rank eight response Immortal Gu, this Gu is extremely important to me and my Shen clan, I have been looking for it for many years."
"Shen clan is willing to cooperate with you, Chu Ying. If you see this Gu on the Merit Obelisk's reward list, I hope you can pass it. If you encounter this Gu in a mission, my Shen clan would like you to capture it for us. We will offer you a huge reward!"
Fang Yuan's expression changed: "Response Gu? This Gu worm is among the top ten of the List of Mystical Gu, it can emit a voice and anyone who hears this voice and responds to it will become enslaved. A rank eight response Gu can enslave rank eight Gu Immortals, this is such a precious Gu that your clan is unable to obtain, if you want to work with me, what rewards are you offering me? After all, within this Dragon Whale Paradise, we cannot set an agreement."
Shen Cong Sheng laughed loudly: "I have already prepared it. This cooperation will use the reputation of my Shen clan, you can record the entire process. Furthermore, I have something for you, this is a portion of our sincerity, please do accept it."
Saying so, Shen Cong Sheng took out a set of immortal materials and handed them to Fang Yuan.
The immortal materials had a lot of value, even Fang Yuan felt a little excited upon receiving them.
Regret Gu was right in front of him, he needed quite a bit of resources to advance all of his Immortal Gu, this set of immortal materials from Shen Cong Sheng had fixed this problem, it was something Fang Yuan really needed.
Fang Yuan nodded as he accepted the immortal materials.
Shen Cong Sheng added: "I hear that your current mission has a super immortal formation set by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable himself. I would like to go there, response Gu might be in it, even if it is not there, my Shen clan Gu Immortals can lend a hand to help you with this mission."
Fang Yuan pondered for a while before nodding: "It is my honor to receive the help of Lord Shen Cong Sheng."
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Chapter 1904 Territory Gu
Within the regret crying sea area, immortals were present.
Miao Ming Shen and the other three each stayed in a supplementary formation, they activated their formations as the power continued to seep into the underwater formation.
Fang Yuan was setting up his immortal formation now.
His aura was radiating at rank seven level, his body was covered in a light green halo, his eyes were filled with blue light, resembling lightning in the sea.
Waving his hand, a large number of mortal Gu flew into the sky like a swarm of bees, circling around and forming the shape of a supplementary formation.
Next, Fang Yuan took out immortal materials and used his killer moves to fill up this supplementary formation.
The newly arrived Ren Xiu Ping and others looked at Fang Yuan with gleaming eyes, they were silent upon seeing his formation arrangement.
The Gu Immortals all had complex expressions, even Shen Cong Sheng was the same.
"Being able to use immortal materials to set up formations, he is a formation path grandmaster."
"Chu Ying cultivates transformation path, to think that he has such attainment in formation path, this is very rare. How does he dual cultivate?"
"Perhaps he found a way to cultivate both transformation path and formation path without conflict, like how Heavenly Court's Thunder Ghost True Monarch cultivated lightning path and soul path, or how Nine Spiritual Fairy cultivates transformation path and enslavement path."
"It is not as simple as just a formation path grandmaster, Chu Ying's proficiency in creating formations is very high, and most impressively, he does not lack formation path immortal killer moves, his efficiency at creating formations is truly amazing!"
The immortals watched with increasing shock as Fang Yuan displayed his incredible formation path attainment.
"With such methods, he can handle a lot of missions on the Merit Obelisk."
"Most of the Merit Obelisk missions involve channeling of rivers and managing the ecology, this is very advantageous for Chu Ying."
"No wonder he could complete so many formations!"
"Ordinary formation path Gu Immortals need Immortal Gu to create immortal formations. But Chu Ying is a formation path grandmaster, he only needs to use immortal materials. This is too terrifying."
The Gu Immortals could not help but feel envy and jealousy, especially towards Miao Ming Shen and group who had joined Chu Ying much earlier and had a head start.
Ren Xiu Ping was already starting to consider if he should abandon Shen clan after this mission and defect to Fang Yuan instead.
Looking at the current situation, Fang Yuan was very magnanimous, earlier, even though Ren Xiu Ping was enemies with him, he had completely ignored it at the moment.
Ren Xiu Ping's worry was that Fang Yuan already had Miao Ming Shen's group, even Tu Tou Tuo and Zeng Luo Zi had a closer relationship to Fang Yuan than him.
"In Chu Ying's perspective, he could simply cooperate with the people he liked. Why would he seek the cooperation of an enemy like me?"
Ren Xiu Ping had a thought: "Even though he had formation path grandmaster attainment level, being able to use immortal materials to set up formations, his greatest limitation is also immortal materials. If he lacks immortal materials, I can contribute them to him and deepen our cooperation and relationship."
Ren Xiu Ping decided to give up some of his personal benefits, that was the only way he could entice Fang Yuan into cooperating with him.
"This formation has been created, Ren Xiu Ping, please go and defend it." Fang Yuan spoke at this time.
He had already set up several formations, this was like the previous few ones, even though they were made in the sky, once they were completed, they would sink into the sea.
"Sure, sure." Ren Xiu Ping smiled as he flew down, he entered the formation without checking it closely.
Ren Xiu Ping did not have formation path attainment, even if Fang Yuan created the formation before his very eyes, he could not understanding the profundity of this supplementary formation, but he believed that with Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's arrangements, Fang Yuan could not harm him.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable restricted Gu Immortals from fighting each other, it allowed them to trust each other to a large extent.
Fang Yuan continued to set up formations.
One, two three…
One by one, Gu Immortals entered their formations, the supplementary formations were getting stronger.
Ren Xiu Ping's expression was not good now.
Fang Yuan seemed to have an endless supply of immortal materials!
During this period of time, he saw domination copper, earthly limit astral qi, green jade wind, dark inkstone, heaven flying jade…
Fang Yuan's deep wealth silenced all of the immortals.
Ren Xiu Ping even gasped in shock several times.
With such wealth, how could he possibly compare?
And the thing that made Ren Xiu Ping the most dejected was Fang Yuan's attitude.
He spent all of these immortal materials to create formations, he did not even blink or hesitate, he was completely indifferent about the cost!
Even though Fang Yuan lacked immortal materials, that was for the sake of advancing his Immortal Gu. The immortal materials used to create these formations were merely just a tiny portion of Fang Yuan's treasury, even if he had to create another hundred supplementary formations, he could easily afford it.
Thus, Fang Yuan's actions were simply showing that he was incredibly affluent in the eyes of Ren Xiu Ping and the other Gu Immortals!
After expending some time and effort, all the supplementary formations were finally created.
Shen Cong Sheng and the rest went into their own formations that were scattered all around the underwater formation, if one watched from above, it would resemble the tail of a peacock.
Every single supplementary formation resembled the feathers that formed the eye of a peacock tail, they gathered strength that flowed all the way into the underwater formation.
The supplementary formations looked similar but they all had different effects.
This was because Fang Yuan modified every supplementary formation according to the respective Gu Immortal using it, for example, Miao Ming Shen's supplementary formation had space path immortal materials, it could raise his efficiency. Ren Xiu Ping's supplementary formation had several spaces in it that could accommodate desolate beasts, it would allow him to use his enslavement path expertise.
Other than that, the supplementary formations also had specific locations. Fang Yuan placed the weaker immortals like Hua Die and Feng Jiang at the periphery. Shen Cong Sheng who was the strongest was closest to the underwater formation.
Fang Yuan also created a supplementary formation for himself.
He entered it.
This supplementary formation was a refinement path Gu formation, its only use was to amplify the power of Fang Yuan's refinement path killer moves.
Within the supplementary formation, Fang Yuan activated his killer move — Refinement Formation Rain!
At once, rain started to drizzle above the sea.
Countless raindrops entered the underwater formation, the might of refinement path was displayed as Gu worms were refined by Fang Yuan one by one.
Shen Cong Sheng and the others did not find this rain powerful initially, but after a while, their eyes were opened wide.
Because during this short period of time, Fang Yuan had already refined the outer layer of the underwater formation.
"What killer move is this? It worked against this underwater formation!"
"It looks like a refinement path killer move?" Some were uncertain.
"Such a powerful refinement path killer move… does Chu Ying cultivate refinement path too?" Some found it unbelievable.
"This should be the effect of that supplementary formation!"
The Gu Immortals thought about it for a long time, they subconsciously decided to attribute it to the power of Fang Yuan's supplementary formation.
If Chu Ying also had such terrifying attainment in refinement path, able to refine the formation of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, wouldn't he be a triple cultivator?
How would Ren Xiu Ping, Miao Ming Shen, and all these other elites who cultivated one path feel!
Even if it was the power of the supplementary formation, these Gu Immortals were still immensely shocked.
Shen Cong Sheng's pupils shrunk slightly, compared to the supplementary formation's power, he was more shocked at Fang Yuan's ambition.
He already understood it.
All of them controlling the supplementary formations were like crowbars while the underwater formation was like a tightly sealed wooden box.
The power of the supplementary formation invaded the underwater formation, it was like the crowbars trying to pry open the box.
Meanwhile, Fang Yuan controlled the supplementary formation that was the core of this entire formation, it could flow in using the crack opened by the crowbars, to invade and turn these wooden boards into his own possession!
"Such formation path attainment, such ambition… he wants to take the entire formation for himself!"
"Chu Ying…" Shen Cong Sheng had a solemn expression, he secretly engraved this name into his heart.
This was not the first time Fang Yuan was using this refinement formation rain killer move.
This move used rank eight water refinement Immortal Gu as the core. Fang Yuan used many Gu worms to suppress the rank eight aura, disguising it as rank seven.
After rebirth, he annexed Lang Ya Sect and gained rank eight Immortal Gu Water Refinement, he created this move.
After returning to Southern Border, he used this killer move to refine Chi Qu You's formation and captured many Gu Immortals inside the formation.
This time, Fang Yuan used it with rank seven aura again, with the concealment of the supplementary formation, Shen Cong Sheng could not tell that it was truly rank eight.
The power of a rank eight killer move was truly extraordinary, the underwater formation was slowly refined by Fang Yuan bit by bit.
The more he refined it, the greater his control over the formation, with the help of his supplementary formations, he progressed with great speed without much problem.
However, after he refined thirty percent of the formation, refinement formation rain's effect fell drastically, his progress slowed down.
"Refinement formation rain is just a killer move, the actual effect depends on my understanding of this underwater formation." Fang Yuan expected this, he was not surprised, he was sufficiently patient.
He decided to spend some time here, to get regret Gu and the other Immortal Gu in the formation, his investments were worth it.
Originally, he was worried about the other Gu Immortals.
But now that Shen Cong Sheng had been invited here, Fang Yuan was not afraid that other Gu Immortals would use this time to surpass his contribution ranking.
The rate of formation refinement got slower and slower, eventually, Fang Yuan hit a brick.
This was an earth path rank seven Immortal Gu, its body was flat like a disk, yellowish brown, with a head and a tail, and four tentacles that look like hooks, growing evenly around the disk.
"This is territory Gu. Once a Gu Immortal plants it deep into the soil, it will emit a profound power that affects the surrounding soil and spreads out until it reaches its limit, everything that is within a thousand li of that territory will be controlled by the Gu Immortal." Fang Yuan recognized this Gu.
Territory Gu was very commonly seen.
Especially in Southern Border.
Many villages, even if they were not proficient in earth path, would try to get a rank three or four territory Gu. The village would plant this Gu in the soil and let a Gu Master in a position of authority use it, to raise and maintain their control over this territory.
Territory Gu was a very useful Gu worm but it was very expensive, it was often used by forces. Individual Gu Masters did not need it.
Territory Immortal Gu was actually kept within Dragon Whale Paradise, this Gu was quite useful to Fang Yuan as well.
Fang Yuan could conveniently use this Gu worm to manage his immortal aperture. He could alter the landscape of the territory that he creates using territory Gu.
Even if it was not useful, Fang Yuan still had to refine this earth path Immortal Gu. It was the key obstacle now, it stopped Fang Yuan from progressing further.
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Chapter 1905 Demonic Immortal Breaks Free
"It is a little troublesome, I need to make deductions. Everyone, take a rest for now." Fang Yuan spoke.
The obstacle of territory Gu not only blocked Fang Yuan but also the other Gu Immortals. No matter how they activated the supplementary formation, they could not penetrate the formation anymore.
The Gu Immortals started to rest, but not without talking among themselves.
"We finally met with an obstacle."
"I thought that Chu Ying would be able to continue refining it endlessly."
"Don't joke, this is a formation that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created personally, how in the world can this Chu Ying possibly refine such a formation?"
"But if he cannot refine it, what will happen to our mission?"
"Indeed, even though Chu Ying is a formation path grandmaster, deduction is the expertise of wisdom path. What can he deduce?"
The Gu Immortals had complex emotions.
On one hand, they could finally let out a sigh of relief after seeing Fang Yuan face an obstacle.
On the other hand, the fact that Fang Yuan was stuck meant that they were also not able to progress and gain more benefits.
The Gu Immortals wanted Fang Yuan to break through this obstacle but they were also inherently unwilling to see him succeed.
"Alright, I deduced it, let's continue." Fang Yuan said.
"What?" The immortals were stumped, his speed was too terrifying.
Fang Yuan flew out of the supplementary formation and floated in the air: "To get through this obstacle, we need to modify the supplementary formations a little, everyone, don't be anxious to take action."
Next, he willed as immortal essence got rapidly expended, supplementary formations followed his will and thought, changing locations. Some supplementary formations moved back while others moved in front, getting closer to the underwater formation.
Eventually, Miao Ming Shen's supplementary formation was closely placed beside Ren Xiu Ping's formation, they were tightly connected together.
Fang Yuan said to them: "Next, the two of you will lead the supplementary formations while the others help out."
Ren Xiu Ping and Miao Ming Shen nodded, they had complex expressions, not expecting that they of all people would actually cooperate.
After modifying the supplementary formations, Fang Yuan entered his supplementary formation again, he did not rush to activate refinement formation rain, instead he gave specific instructions to the immortals within these formations, using his own steps and methods to activate these supplementary formations in a particular manner.
The power of the supplementary formation changed, it was like a thin cluster of sand, falling through the cracks of the underwater formation and slowing down its operations bit by bit.
And this change was what Fang Yuan needed to make use of.
He quickly activated refinement formation rain and successfully refined territory Gu after a while!
After passing this obstacle, a new sense of ease was felt by the immortals as the supplementary formation's power surged like a wave and rampaged in the underwater formation. Only after it took over sixty percent of the formation did it stop at a new obstacle.
A huge wave of shock emerged in the hearts of Shen Cong Sheng and the rest.
"So powerful!"
"To think that this Chu Ying is so impressive."
"More than half of this underwater formation belongs to him now."
"The supplementary formations he designed are very profound, they can be adjusted according to situations. This is not a fixed formation, it is a transformative formation!"
Fang Yuan's performance surpassed their highest expectations, they could not help but feel deeply astonished.
Three days and two nights later, Fang Yuan refined a few more earth path Immortal Gu and a vast number of mortal Gu. At this point, the sixty percent of the formation was finally under Fang Yuan's control.
"But the remaining forty percent is the core of this underwater formation. With just the supplementary formations and myself, we cannot break through it in the short term." Fang Yuan knew his own limits. He had already reached the current limit of his abilities after reaching this point.
After all, this earth path formation was created by Paradise Earth, his earth path attainment level was supreme grandmaster!
Fang Yuan tried to use the sixty percent that he refined to interfere with the remaining forty percent.
Fang Yuan tried to use the underwater formation against itself.
Guh.
A moment later, Fang Yuan suddenly coughed out blood as his soul shook, his face turned pale. Many supplementary formations including the one he was in broke apart, the Gu Immortals within fell into the water as they shouted in shock, each of them faced varying levels of backlash.
Fang Yuan's plan failed, even though he controlled sixty percent of the formation, he could not do anything to the remaining core forty percent!
"As expected of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, even after over half of it was refined, it still remained unmoved." Fang Yuan's heart shook.
He sighed to himself as he called out: "Everyone, I am sorry, I did not see the profundity of the formation and caused you to get injured."
The injured Gu Immortals shook their head, they quickly replied that they were fine.
In their opinion, it was outstanding that Chu Ying could reach this stage, he far exceeded their expectations.
Fang Yuan squinted his eyes as he thought: "It seems that we can only dismantle the formation now."
After resting for a while, he started to dismantle the formation.
Because the external sixty percent was already refined by him, the dismantling was very successful.
But this was not a normal dismantling process, Fang Yuan only took apart sixty percent of the formation, thus during this process, Gu worms were destroyed when the formation was taken apart. But Fang Yuan paid attention to the Immortal Gu and protected them, he successfully obtained them. As for the mortal Gu, even if some of them were destroyed, it was not a big deal.
Miao Ming Shen, Ren Xiu Ping, and the rest watched with wide opened eyes!
When they controlled the supplementary formation earlier, they could not sense the exact situation within the formation, there was only a faint connection.
Now that Fang Yuan dismantled the formation, they could see all of the Gu worms that he was getting.
"So many Gu worms!"
"I see so many long-lost earth path mortal Gu, they were all created when Paradise Earth was still a Gu Master."
"There are also Immortal Gu, oh heavens, there are eight Immortal Gu!"
"Most of these Immortal Gu are rank seven, there are few rank six Immortal Gu!"
"Chu Ying took them all!"
"Indeed, he did not even give us a single one…"
The Gu Immortals watched as Fang Yuan took his Immortal Gu, they were staring in a daze, some of them were even salivating intensely.
Most of these were earth path Immortal Gu, they were not suitable for use but Immortal Gu were unique, they could be traded for other Immortal Gu!
Tu Tou Tuo's eyes were bloodshot, he was almost spewing fire from them!
He was an earth path Gu Immortal, watching as Fang Yuan kept the earth path Immortal Gu in his immortal aperture, he felt his mouth turning dry and his heart palpitating intensely.
While dismantling the formation, he gulped several times, he wanted to speak but could only swallow his saliva in the end.
He really wanted to snatch these Immortal Gu!
But his logic told him that it would be the most stupid move to do so.
Even a rank eight like Shen Cong Sheng could not do anything, how could he?
In the end, Tu Tou Tuo heaved a deep sigh, he swallowed all of his envy and jealousy into his stomach along with his saliva.
His mind moved quickly, thinking of how to get these Immortal Gu. He knew that he was not crucial to this plan, so the only way was to deepen his cooperation and relationship with Chu Ying by displaying his value, it would help in the future when he asks Chu Ying to exchange Gu.
The only good thing was that Chu Ying cultivated transformation path and formation path, he did not cultivate earth path. Thus, there was a high possibility that Chu Ying would sell these Immortal Gu in the future.
The pitiful Tu Tou Tuo did not know that Fang Yuan's earth path attainment level was at grandmaster, it was even higher than his!
After Fang Yuan dismantled the outer part of the formation, the immortals came to congratulate him.
"Congratulations, congratulations."
"Chu Ying, you've earned a fortune this time. Even though you used so many immortal materials, you gained a large number of Immortal Gu! It is truly a huge profit."
"To speak the truth, my saliva is about to drip to the ground."
"Outstanding methods, all I feel is admiration towards you."
"Chu Ying, I am Tu Tou Tuo, I am quite interested in these earth path Immortal Gu that you obtained. If you wish to sell or exchange them, please inform me, I am sure that you will be satisfied with my offer."
Fang Yuan thanked them one by one with calm emotions.
He simply had too many Immortal Gu already!
It could scare them all to death if he said the exact number.
And this batch of Immortal Gu that he just obtained was not his biggest gain recently.
Earlier in the River of Time, Fang Yuan defeated Heavenly Court, even though he lost the stone lotus island, his gains were huge.
He dismantled six Immortal Gu House from Heavenly Court, even though many Immortal Gu died in the battle, there were many Immortal Gu left.
For example, the core Immortal Gu of the river suppression lotus sealing formation, Suppression and Bone Seal; the two time path core of Moment Stage, Instant and That Time; Immortal Gu Permanence in Eternal Yacht; the Early Autumn, Mid Autumn, and Late Autumn of Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform; and the Immortal Gu in Sun and Moon Temple, Sun Day and Moon Month.
These Immortal Gu were mostly rank seven, some were rank eight!
As for Shark Flow Lever, even though it was completely destroyed without a single one left, it had a special construction style, it used a combination of desolate beasts and Immortal Gu. While Fang Yuan took his loot and gains from the battlefield, he reverse-deduced most of the contents of Shark Flow Lever using the clues he found. This gave him a huge inspiration, currently, Fang Yuan's clone was already making deductions to try to incorporate Twelve Zodiac battle formation into his Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Right now, there was only forty percent of the underwater formation left in front of Fang Yuan and the others.
Using refinement formation rain would have little to no effect already.
The power of the supplementary formation could no longer do anything.
Even though Fang Yuan tried very hard, there was no progress. He understood that this underwater formation was like a hard tortoise shell, its defense was very tight.
"Should I wait for my clone Wu Shuai to raise my earth path attainment level or should I attack directly?" Fang Yuan thought about it, he decided to save time and attack now.
After all, he had so many people with him now, he had to make good use of them.
Immediately, he asked these Gu Immortals to attack while he and a few other Gu Immortals stayed to manipulate the supplementary formation.
Boom boom boom!
All sorts of killer moves were unleashed upon the underwater formation, causing huge ripples and waves.
The formation only had forty percent left, after being attacked by so many strong immortals, including a rank eight Gu Immortal like Shen Cong Sheng, its operations were hindered as all sorts of flaws appeared.
Fang Yuan was overjoyed, he quickly used the supplementary formation to invade the formation using these loopholes.
"I regret it!" Suddenly, from within, a loud crying voice resounded in the area.
"What was I doing? I should not have attacked the formation."
"I regret it! Why did I listen to Chu Ying?"
"I should not have come to Dragon Whale Paradise, now I am completely trapped, I truly regret everything."
…
The immortals quickly stopped their actions, their morale fell to rock bottom as regret Gu exerted its influence on them.
Only Fang Yuan remained unmoved, bright light shined in his eyes as he thought: "The demonic immortal within the formation is spreading the power of regret Gu to weaken its influence on him. He wants to escape!"
Bam bam bam!
Loud sounds were emitted from within the underwater formation.
The formation had flaws to begin with, right now, these gaps spread as they formed into a huge crack.
Shen Cong Sheng shouted loudly as he temporarily suppressed the effect of regret Gu, his eyes were bloodshot as he attacked the formation's crack fiercely.
Immortal killer move — Grand Collision!
Boom!
The power of this move cooperated with the demon within, the formation broke apart as the sealed demonic immortal flew out like a black arrow.
Shen Cong Sheng was overjoyed, he flew closer: "Ancestor Shen Shang, I am a descendant of Shen clan, I am your junior!"
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Chapter 1906 He Is Actually Fang Yuan!
The sudden change occurred in front of all the immortals.
Shen Cong Sheng got close to the mysterious demonic immortal, he showed an agitated expression.
"Finally, I've finally found you, Ancestor Shen Shang!" Shen Cong Sheng shouted in a slightly trembling voice.
His true motive in coming here was to save his ancestor, Shen Shang.
Shen Shang was the most outstanding Gu Immortal in Shen clan, he had outstanding talent that was publicly recognized. In fact, when he was still a rank six Gu Immortal, a wisdom path rank eight great expert had said that he was the 'hundreds of years eastern immortal leader, with half of a venerable's talent', it meant that he would become the leader of Eastern Sea's immortals in hundreds of years when he reaches rank eight, his talent was so high it could compare to half a venerable.
However, Shen Shang pursued strength and gradually fell into the demonic path, he started to commit heinous deeds.
His clan treasured his talent and even though they punished him, it was not a severe punishment, they protected him continuously.
Shen Shang did not change his ways, he became more daring and as a righteous path Gu Immortal on the surface, he acted like a demon.
Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world was kept in the dark, Shen clan managed to conceal the fact but they could not hide it from Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable took action, suppressing him, but did not expose his identity publicly.
Shen clan did not dare to publicize it, they only announced that Shen Shang had died from his tribulation.
After Shen Cong Sheng captured Gu Yue Fang Zheng, Heavenly Court contacted him and told him about Shen Shang's information, in exchange for Fang Zheng.
Therefore, Shen Cong Sheng learned that Shen Shang was still alive, and that he was imprisoned within Dragon Whale Paradise.
In order to enter Dragon Whale Paradise, Shen Cong Sheng mobilized the whole of Shen clan to investigate and search in secret.
Right at this time, Ren Xiu Ping targeted Miao Ming Shen and attacked them, exposing clues leading to the blue dragon whale.
After Shen clan learned of this, Shen Cong Sheng led them to force Ren Xiu Ping to submit, they learned that Miao Ming Shen had a way to find the exact location of the blue dragon whale.
Miao Ming Shen gathered eight immortals to search for the Paradise Earth true inheritance in the blue dragon whale, Ren Xiu Ping and Shen Cong Sheng learned about it and followed them.
After that, it led to a series of events.
After Shen Cong Sheng came to Dragon Whale Paradise, he tried all the ways possible to find Shen Shang's location, after a few missions, Shen clan Gu Immortal Shen Qi got the information of regret crying sea.
Shen Cong Sheng guessed that the demonic immortal in regret crying sea was likely Shen Shang!
However, he could not be happy for long because he heard of terrifying news.
Chu Ying actually accepted the mission to kill Shen Shang!
This shocked Shen Cong Sheng, he quickly contacted Fang Yuan, lying that he was looking for response Gu and offering a large amount of immortal materials to express his goodwill.
Thus, Fang Yuan brought Shen Cong Sheng into regret crying sea.
Shen Cong Sheng waited secretly and did not make a move, only at the last moment, he acted and saved Shen Shang with one attack.
This change made everyone dumbfounded other than the Shen clan Gu Immortals.
Immediately, Miao Ming Shen and the rest had dark expressions, their hearts sank to rock bottom.
Shen Cong Sheng was a rank eight Gu Immortal to begin with, they had another Shen Shang who was a rank eight Gu Immortal now as well. Back then, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had to suppress him personally, he definitely had outstanding battle strength that was not to be underestimated.
With Shen Shang, Shen clan's strength rose greatly. Not only in Dragon Whale Paradise, but even in Eastern Sea, there would be a shocking change.
Currently, in Eastern Sea's righteous path, Shen clan would be the only super force with two rank eight Gu Immortals!
Shen clan would become the strongest force in Eastern Sea.
This would have huge impact and bring immense benefits to Shen clan.
Back then, Heavenly Court exposed this secret to them, it was no wonder that Shen Cong Sheng immediately released Fang Zheng without caring about Qi Sea Ancestor, who was hinting that he wanted to get Fang Zheng.
"You are a descendant of my Shen clan?" Shen Shang floated in the air, looking at Shen Cong Sheng, his eyes shined with brilliance as he nodded: "Indeed, you are a member of Shen clan. What year is it now?"
Shen Shang had a hoarse voice, it was even more course than crows.
He wore a grey robe that was tattered, his face was pale and his hair was messy, his eyes were bloodshot and red. His peak rank eight aura radiated from his body with an intense force.
Shen Cong Sheng answered his question and told him that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had died long ago.
"So long has passed." Shen Shang sighed deeply: "Lord Paradise Earth died after all, sigh…"
His attitude towards Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was a bit strange.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable suppressed him but he actually called Paradise Earth 'Lord'.
After sighing, Shen Shang looked towards Fang Yuan and the other immortals.
He gazed around and understood the situation, he cupped his fists and smiled: "Good, it seems that my Shen clan has many talented people."
Afterwards, he focused his gaze on Fang Yuan as he spoke in a gentle tone: "Friend, I was able to escape thanks to you. It was mostly due to your effort, do you wish to join Shen clan and become our external supreme elder?"
He actually wanted to recruit Fang Yuan.
Indeed, Fang Yuan had displayed sufficient value already.
Just his formation path grandmaster status was something Shen clan wanted. And looking at his attainment and age, it was possible that he could break through to formation path great grandmaster in his lifetime.
Shen Cong Sheng cupped his fists towards Fang Yuan, adding: "Chu Ying, I lied earlier but I did not have a choice. Saving our Ancestor Shen Shang is extremely important to Shen clan, I hope you can understand."
Fang Yuan nodded with a plain expression, he even had a smile on his face: "Of course I understand, if it were me, I would do the same."
"But Shen clan wants to recruit me? Hehehe…" Fang Yuan laughed as he shook his head.
Shen Cong Sheng said coldly: "Friend Chu Ying, why are you laughing?"
Fang Yuan raised his eyebrows: "On what foundation is your Shen clan trying to recruit me? You guys are simply unqualified."
Shen Cong Sheng's gaze turned cold as ice.
His Shen clan was an Eastern Sea super force, they owned seven large sea areas and thousands of middle and small sea areas, they even had two rank eights now. With such strength, they were not qualified to recruit a tiny lone immortal?"
"Hmph, Chu Ying, don't be too arrogant."
"My Shen clan is giving you a chance, this is the magnanimity of our Ancestor Shen Shang."
"Don't think too highly of yourself!"
Shen Xiao and Shen Qi quickly spoke, they flew out of the supplementary formations, gathering with Shen Cong Sheng and Shen Shang.
Shen Shang's bloodshot eyes had deep killing intent, he looked at Fang Yuan and spoke with an icy voice: "Chu Ying? I need to remind you, you were all sent here by the Merit Obelisk, Paradise Earth's method restricts you from fighting each other. But I have been trapped here for countless years, I am not restricted by the Merit Obelisk, so all of you can be attacked by me."
The expressions of Miao Ming Shen and the rest changed, their worst nightmare had come true!
What should they do now?
Right when they were helpless, they suddenly heard Fang Yuan laughing loudly as he pointed his finger at Shen Shang who was in the sky, provoking him to attack.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest were dumbfounded.
Was this courage or stupidity?
They could not tell.
Shen Shang's eyes shined with blood red light as he lowered his voice that was filled with anger: "You are courting death, then go die!"
Saying so, he opened his mouth as a blood colored sound wave in a ball shape shot towards Fang Yuan.
The sound wave was very fast, in almost an instant, it flew through the sky and landed on the supplementary formation.
Boom!
The supplementary formation collapsed instantly, it did not even last for a moment.
An intense explosion occurred, a huge sea wave surged into the sky, it was tens of feet tall.
Before the wave landed, the explosion had already caused damage to the surroundings, Miao Ming Shen and the rest had to fly into the sky, away from their supplementary formations.
All of the supplementary formations were destroyed, Miao Ming Shen and the rest had ashen expressions.
Shen Shang's attack was definitely at rank eight level, it was terrifying! From their perspective, there was little chance that Chu Ying survived that.
The truth was, they did not care about Chu Ying's situation right now, they were more worried about themselves.
Because Shen Shang had proven his words from earlier with action, he could really attack Miao Ming Shen and the others!
"Ancestor is so powerful!" Shen Cong Sheng squinted, he knew the inside details. Shen Shang did not cultivate sound path primarily, the sound path method he used earlier was not his true strength.
"Chu Ying is dead meat!"
"Good that he died, I disliked him from the start."
"Indeed, he only had rank seven cultivation level but acted so arrogantly because he knew things about the Dragon Whale Paradise, he truly had no regard for us."
"He dared to provoke a rank eight, he truly wanted to die… die…."
Shen Xiao said as he suddenly stammered.
After the huge waves crashed down, new enormous waves were formed.
Within the steam and mist, a shiny ship that was covered in silver-white light appeared in front of all of the immortals.
Chu Ying's arms were behind his back, he stood at the deck as he carried the same smile as before.
Shen Shang saw this as his pupils shrunk, he gasped with shock: "Rank eight Immortal Gu House?"
The other Gu Immortals were all stunned!
They were so familiar with this Immortal Gu House, no, in the current five regions, which Gu Immortal did not know about this Immortal Gu House?
"This is… Myriad Year Flying Warship!" Ren Xiu Ping cried out, he felt his scalp going numb.
"Chu Ying actually has Myriad Year Flying Warship, who in the world is he?" Shen Xiao was tongue-tied.
The immortals stared at Fang Yuan with fixed gazes, he gradually dispelled familiar face as he showed his true appearance.
After seeing his true appearance, all of the immortals' hearts shook, none of them could stay indifferent.
Hua Die screamed out loud: "It's Fang Yuan!"
She was too shocked, she had always felt that Fang Yuan was high and mighty, far away from people like them, to think that he was around her the entire time.
It was truly unbelievable!
"It's Fang Yuan!!" Shen clan's Gu Immortals gritted their teeth, some were breathing and gasping loudly.
"So that was it." Miao Ming Shen gulped as he swallowed his saliva. Chu Ying was a fake identity of Fang Yuan, after all, how could such a powerful lone immortal appear in Eastern Sea suddenly?
It was Fang Yuan after all!
Who was Fang Yuan?
He had inherited many venerable inheritances, he was someone who could not be assessed with common sense.
No wonder Chu Ying had such attainment in transformation path and formation path. This was just a fragment of Fang Yuan's true strength.
Now everything made sense.
Shen Cong Sheng's expression was pale as he gritted his teeth, in just a short time, sweat had gathered on his forehead already.
So it was this great demon Fang Yuan!
No wonder he had such an attitude, even against two rank eights, he showed such disdain towards Shen clan.
It was normal!
Shen Cong Sheng suddenly felt that it was a logical situation, all of his anger towards Chu Ying's arrogance vanished completely without a trace!
Fang Yuan dared to provoke even Heavenly Court and kill their members, how could Shen clan even compare?
After his anger subsided, he felt intense fear afterwards.
He actually met with Fang Yuan, this was such a problematic person!
Shen Cong Sheng sighed in his heart, his luck was really bad, why did he meet Fang Yuan of all people?
At this moment, his rank eight strength could not give him confidence, he was panicking internally.
At this moment, Shen Cong Sheng heard Shen Shang's voice: "Who is Fang Yuan?"
Shen Cong Sheng looked at Shen Shang who had a confused expression.
He felt that this was very strange!
This Gu Immortal only had rank seven cultivation level, he had only changed his appearance.
Why were they all so afraid?
Shen Shang looked at Shen Cong Sheng with a gaze that had slight questioning, it seemed to be saying: You are a great rank eight, why are you afraid of a rank seven, what is there to fear!
Even though Fang Yuan showed his appearance, he did not reveal his rank eight aura, it was still concealed.
Shen Cong Sheng blinked as he shuddered internally.
Could he remain calm?
Could he look at Fang Yuan using common sense and cultivation level?
He was a ruthless demon who dared to trample on Heavenly Court, he destroyed six Immortal Gu Houses belonging to Heavenly Court earlier, he even slaughtered a bunch of Heavenly Court Gu Immortals!
He was ruthless and scheming, even Heavenly Court was without options against him.
Now that Shen clan offended him, forget about two rank eights, even if they had a group of rank eights, Shen Cong Sheng would not feel safe at all.
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Chapter 1907 Human Path Quasi-supreme
At this point, Fang Yuan was no longer like before.
Heavenly Court was the reason for his overwhelming fame and dominance. Even though he only displayed rank seven cultivation level, it was enough to intimidate most rank eight Gu Immortals in the world.
"Ancestor." Shen Cong Sheng sent an information path mortal Gu to Shen Shang, it contained everything they knew about Fang Yuan.
Shen Shang received the mortal Gu as his divine sense swept through it, he looked towards Fang Yuan with a new type of gaze.
"Fang Yuan? Even Heavenly Court cannot do anything against you, hahaha, interesting!" Shen Shang's eyes burst out with blood red light, he laughed wildly: "To think that a person like you would appear in the world, this is wonderful, because now… I won't feel lonely."
Saying so, a strong aura burst out of his body, overwhelming the surroundings and dominating everyone's hearts.
Not only did Shen Shang not feel threatened by Fang Yuan's information, he even became extremely motivated to fight.
Looking at Shen Shang's action, Shen Cong Sheng felt a sense of confidence in his heart: "I'm likely not Fang Yuan's match, but with Ancestor Shen Shang here who is not an ordinary rank eight Gu Immortal, the outcome is still unknown!"
While he was thinking that, a silver light shot out and filled Shen Cong Sheng's vision.
"Damn it!" The alarms in Shen Cong Sheng's mind rang wildly, he quickly retreated.
At the next moment, Myriad Year Flying Warship flew over, drawing a beautiful arc of light in the air as it traveled.
If he reacted slower and stayed on the spot, Shen Cong Sheng would have been hit by Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Shen Cong Sheng did not dare to imagine the result of that collision.
This was the advantage of an Immortal Gu House.
Activating immortal killer moves took time, but using an Immortal Gu House to charge and rampage would instantly allow one to unleash an offensive method.
Myriad Year Flying Warship shot off again.
Fang Yuan mobilized Myriad Year Flying Warship and went after Shen Shang, ignoring Shen Cong Sheng completely.
Shen Shang did not dare to test Myriad Year Flying Warship with his bare body either, he was forced into being chased around by Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Shen Cong Sheng and the other Shen clan Gu Immortals wanted to help out but they were helpless when they found out that they could not attack Fang Yuan.
"Damn it!" Shen Cong Sheng gritted his teeth, in this situation, Shen clan's superiority in numbers could not be used, they could only watch as Fang Yuan fought against Shen Shang.
As for Miao Ming Shen and the rest, they did not dare to participate in such a battle, they were retreating already, hiding at a corner of the battlefield.
"Shen Shang, as an ancestor of Shen clan, all you can do is run around?" Fang Yuan mocked from within Myriad Year Flying Warship.
But even inside Myriad Year Flying Warship, he was still restricted by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's method. Fang Yuan had many subordinates in the sovereign immortal aperture but he could not let them out.
He could only control Myriad Year Flying Warship alone.
If he could let out his subordinates, his numbers would far surpass Shen clan.
"Hmph, arrogant junior!" Shen Shang was angered by Fang Yuan's words, he stopped in the air and used an immortal killer move.
Shen Shang's flying attainment was very high, he was able to fly rapidly, capable of catching up to Myriad Year Flying Warship.
In the process of escaping, he had been preparing his killer move, he finally unleashed it now.
Immortal killer move — Night Song!
The melancholic song quickly spread across the battlefield, and the sadness contained in it was like a tidal wave, constantly filling the hearts of the people.
The song had a slow tempo, it focused on the person's vocals, along with the sounds of drums and zithers, it was traditional yet sad.
Hua Die and Feng Jiang who were at the periphery were already crying.
Miao Ming Shen, Ren Xiu Ping, and the rest all had sad expressions, they could not help it.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, Myriad Year Flying Warship shined with radiance as it helped him to block the power of night song.
But Shen Shang had already achieved his goal.
He activated night song, not to directly deal with the Gu Immortals here, but to create a battlefield environment.
The song enveloped the sea and sky, a trace of twilight mist spread out from the sound waves, permeating the entire field, and after a few breaths, the entire regret crying sea turned pitch black.
The Gu Immortals were trapped in this dark area and could not see anything, all they could hear was the sorrowful night song, their morale and battle intent fell drastically. If this continued, they were going to be defenseless.
Even though Fang Yuan was barely affected, the surrounding darkness meant that he had lost sight of his target as well.
Fang Yuan immediately activated his investigative method, to try to find Shen Shang's location.
But Shen Shang sensed something as he laughed: "Fang Yuan, you fell for my trap."
Saying so, he activated a killer move — Sensory Injury.
Fang Yuan grunted immediately, he was directly hit by it.
He was shocked as he quickly realized: "This is a human path killer move! No wonder my Myriad Year Flying Warship could not guard against it."
Immortal Gu Houses had both offense and defense, they provided a huge assurance to the Gu Immortal and were very safe.
But this defense was not perfect.
When Fang Yuan designed Myriad Year Flying Warship, he considered most paths but human path was his weakness, he was not a human path grandmaster back then.
By the time he gained the attainment level, Myriad Year Flying Warship was already built, it could not be changed, he could only adjust it a little but there could not be major modifications.
And most importantly, Fang Yuan lacked defensive human path Immortal Gu.
"Shen Shang definitely has a high rank human path Immortal Gu!" After Fang Yuan was hit, he understood a bit of his enemy's foundation.
In terms of information, Fang Yuan was the one at the losing end.
He did not know much about Shen Shang, but Shen Shang knew a lot about him.
Fang Yuan had trump cards of course, like his rank eight cultivation level, five restriction profound light qi, and others, but he intended to keep these methods as a secret, he did not want to expose them now.
Within this Dragon Whale Paradise, Fang Yuan could not attack Shen Cong Sheng, Miao Ming Shen, and Ren Xiu Ping. If they brought this information out of Dragon Whale Paradise, it was easy for others to find out.
Thus, Fang Yuan decided to use the methods that he had already exposed before to fight.
Immortal killer move — Daybreak Sword!
Myriad Year Flying Warship's aura surged as a blinding white light shot out.
From the silver-white light bubbled the water of the River of Time, from which countless strands of silver light emerged.
The silver rays quickly condensed and took shape, transforming into many sharp sword-like blades that shot out violently.
The group of flying swords whistled past, pointing straight at Shen Shang.
Daybreak flying sword was a genuine rank eight killer move, its power was immense, but when Shen Shang saw the group of flying swords, he laughed loudly and did not dodge.
Silver-white flying swords landed on his body.
Shen Shang's body surged with a mysterious aura, he did not die but was covered in injuries.
But soon, all the injuries over his body disappeared and turned into dao marks.
"Incredible! The records in the clan are indeed correct, Ancestor Shen Shang was most proficient at healing." Shen Cong Sheng saw this scene and exclaimed in his mind.
When Shen Shang was still young, he was a healing physician. When he was a Gu Master, he began to travel Eastern Sea, and because of his powerful and unique healing methods, he soon became famous and well-known. He was also praised for his charitable acts, often helping the poor and needy without charging the slightest consultation fee, he received a warm welcome wherever he went.
Precisely because of his fame and reputation established in his youth, when he fell into the demonic path later and committed all sorts of demonic acts, Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals did not manage to link these crimes to him.
Within Myriad Year Flying Warship, Fang Yuan squinted his eyes and felt something amiss: "This healing method is another human path killer move!"
Under normal circumstances, the injuries of Gu Immortals would have dense dao marks that were difficult to heal.
But Shen Shang possessed human path methods, he could heal himself with extreme efficiency and yielded quick results.
The group of flying swords continued to shoot out, many of them piercing through his body.
However, these wounds were completely healed almost instantly.
Immortal killer move — Mutual Injuries!
Shen Shang saw that the time was ripe and quickly unleashed the killer move that he had already prepared.
In Myriad Year Flying Warship, Fang Yuan grunted as hundreds of wounds instantly formed on his body, wounds burst open and blood splattered everywhere.
The wounds were filled with human path dao marks, which then spread rapidly from the wounds, scattering everywhere while being connected as one.
Alarm bells rang in Fang Yuan's heart!
These human path dao marks were like a hanging rope around his neck, once the numbers increased, it would endanger Fang Yuan's life.
At the crucial moment, Fang Yuan activated his wisdom path killer move first!
In an instant, the thoughts in his mind blossomed like fireworks, all sorts of thoughts collided, converged and fused into each other.
"Shen Shang's methods are bizarre, he was able to bypass Myriad Year Flying Warship to directly injure me!"
"Such a terrifying killer move… His human path attainment level is definitely more than a level above mine, I'm afraid he's a human path quasi-supreme grandmaster!"
"Any killer move needs to sense its target first, it can only take effect after it senses its target. How did he sense me?"
"I see. The previous night song killer move was just a trap to lure me into detecting him. He then followed this connection and found his way to me."
Everything in this world was interconnected.
When a fist hits a sand dune, a pit would appear on the sand, while the fist would also be covered in sand and mud.
Previously, Eastern Sea wisdom path Gu Immortal Hua An deduced Fang Yuan, but instead, Fang Yuan followed this connection and deduced Hua An's situation.
Not long ago, Heavenly Court Gu Immortals moved to blockade the stone lotus island with the river suppression lotus sealing formation, and it was with this layer of suppression and sealing that Fang Yuan was able to follow this connection and destroy the river suppression lotus sealing formation.
Now, Shen Shang did the same thing to sense Fang Yuan, it followed the same logic.
In just half a breath of time, Fang Yuan had already figured it out.
He immediately made his move, making Myriad Year Flying Warship retreat while scattering the daybreak flying swords, while he began to activate a healing killer move on himself.
His reaction was so swift that it left Shen Shang slightly stunned.
At the next moment, this demonic immortal, who was suppressed by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable himself, laughed with a hint of madness: "Fang Yuan! Do you think you'll be safe if you don't attack me? Hahaha, watch closely!"
As he said that, he activated a killer move again, his five fingers spread wide and his palm pressed against his chest.
Immortal killer move — Light Injuries!
Shen Shang grunted as he was hit by his own killer move, his expression turned pale.
Within Myriad Year Flying Warship, Fang Yuan's body shook as he coughed out a huge mouthful of blood.
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Chapter 1908 Black Fire
Non-conflicting dao marks!
The sovereign immortal body's greatest advantage was also its greatest weakness, at this moment, it was fully exposed.
All along, Fang Yuan had been consciously avoiding this flaw, but Shen Shang's killer move was too peculiar, it could not be guarded against.
Who could have thought that night song killer move was just a trap?
Shen Shang was chased by Myriad Year Flying Warship, it was a normal thing to use this killer move to conceal his own traces.
If Fang Yuan did not use an investigative method, Shen Shang would hide within the darkness, he would not be able to do anything.
The human path dao marks on Fang Yuan's injuries grew rapidly!
The light injuries on Shen Shang's body also affected Fang Yuan due to the killer move mutual injuries.
And in Fang Yuan's case, because of non-conflicting dao marks, his light injuries became heavy injuries.
But thankfully, all sorts of healing killer moves had their full effect when used on Fang Yuan as well.
Thus, as he used a powerful healing method on himself, Fang Yuan instantly recovered.
Immortal killer move — Heavy Injuries!
Shen Shang snickered as he started to hurt himself, with greater intensity than before.
Fang Yuan's body shook intensely, his vision turned dark as his seven orifices started to bleed.
"No! In terms of healing methods, I cannot compare to Shen Shang, I need to find another way." Fang Yuan understood as determination flashed in his eyes.
Immortal killer move — Heavy Injuries!
Immortal killer move — Heavy Injuries!
Immortal killer move — Heavy Injuries!
Shen Shang continued to injury himself as he turned crazy, he laughed loudly as blood spewed out of his mouth.
He heavily injured himself but rapidly healed as well, continuing the cycle.
This was such a strange fighting style, it made all the Gu Immortals dumbfounded.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest had nervous expressions, they were very worried.
Shen clan's Gu Immortals were very excited.
Even though they could not see Fang Yuan's condition, his flying swords had disintegrated while Myriad Year Flying Warship continued to back off.
"Ancestor Shen Shang actually forced back Fang Yuan! Impressive." Shen Cong Sheng was very excited, he could also see the rise of Shen clan.
Miao Ming Shen's eyes shined with bright light as he thought to himself: "Not good, even though Fang Yuan has Myriad Year Flying Warship, Shen Shang's offensive methods bypass this Immortal Gu House, it counters Fang Yuan. He is just a rank seven after all while Shen Shang is a genuine rank eight Gu Immortal."
Gui Qi Ye and Tu Tou Tuo were very confused: "This Shen Shang was suppressed by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable back then, it is not normal that he could live for so long."
"And the strange thing is, he does not lack Immortal Gu! When Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable suppressed him, didn't he take away or destroy his Immortal Gu first?"
"Ugh!" Right at this moment, Shen Shang's wild laughter came to an abrupt stop.
Surprise and confusion appeared on his face.
His connection to Fang Yuan was weakening rapidly.
How did Fang Yuan do it?
How could he break and get around this method so quickly?!
Immortal killer move — Self Cleansing!
Self cleansing could eliminate harmful dao marks on the user's body, Fang Yuan used this killer move to quickly get rid of the human path dao marks on his body.
The blood red light in Shen Shang's eyes flickered, he started to mutilate himself even more intensely, causing the human path dao marks on Fang Yuan's body to grow rapidly.
As long as a single human path dao mark remained on Fang Yuan's body, he could use this connection to attack Fang Yuan while bypassing Myriad Year Flying Warship.
But right now, Fang Yuan had already stabilized the situation.
Myriad Year Flying Warship gradually flew closer as Fang Yuan's voice resounded from within: "It is my turn now, Shen Shang."
Twelve Zodiac ancient battle formation!
Bam.
With a loud sound, the huge grey stone giant appeared again.
The giant moved extremely quickly, its two hands grabbed towards Shen Shang as they spread open.
Shen Shang squinted and snorted coldly, he quickly retreated, attempting to pull some distance from the giant.
Under Fang Yuan's manipulation, the grey stone giant only attempted to capture Shen Shang, it did not attack fiercely.
The grey stone giant had very powerful offensive methods, even though this was not the River of Time, it still had peak rank eight strength.
But he was currently using capture as the objective instead of hurting Shen Shang, Shen Shang had no choice but to dodge.
The battle went into a deadlock.
Shen Shang dodged the Twelve Zodiac battle formation while using killer moves to mutilate himself.
Meanwhile, Fang Yuan manipulated Myriad Year Flying Warship as he healed himself, using self cleansing to get rid of harmful human path dao marks.
Myriad Year Flying Warship and the grey stone giant worked together, chasing after Shen Shang and obstructing him.
Shen Shang was already having some trouble dodging Myriad Year Flying Warship, with the addition of the grey stone giant, he fell into a disadvantage.
Every time he was about to get caught, Shen Shang would emit a loud scream that caused sound waves to burst out, opening a path for him.
Both sides continued to fight, rampaging in the battlefield, it implicated Miao Ming Shen's group, as well as the Shen clan immortals.
Hua Die and Feng Jiang were first to give up, they were transported away from the battlefield.
Followed by Tong Hua, Tu Tou Tuo, Gui Qi Ye and the rest.
After that were Shen clan's immortals, Miao Ming Shen, and Ren Xiu Ping.
Eventually, only Shen Cong Sheng was left in the battlefield, not everyone was qualified to watch a battle between rank eights after all.
Shen Cong Sheng's expression became increasingly dark.
The battle was tilting in Fang Yuan's favor, Shen Shang was getting into a difficult spot while Fang Yuan was having an easier time now.
"This lad has deep wisdom path attainment, he has countless thoughts in his mind, he can multitask easily. In this aspect, I am at the losing end." Shen Shang gritted his teeth, at this point in the battle, he felt like he had fallen into a swamp, the more he struggled, the deeper he sank.
The battle had already left his control!
Suddenly, Fang Yuan walked out of the cabin, arriving at the bow of the ship.
He pointed at Shen Shang as a time path killer move was unleashed.
Shen Shang was caught off guard, he could not dodge, after getting hit by this move, his movement slowed, the rate of time on him had been halved.
The grey stone giant used this chance to grab Shen Shang, it squeezed.
Shen Shang laughed loudly, his hair was messy and his eyes were bloodshot, he had no fear: "Go ahead and kill me!"
Fang Yuan snorted, he ordered the grey stone giant, it gripped to form a cage of ten fingers, imprisoning Shen Shang and preventing him from moving.
After understanding Shen Shang's offensive methods, Fang Yuan easily countered it. As long as he was captured and not killed, he could not do anything to harm Fang Yuan.
Shen Shang struggled, he screamed wildly but could not escape.
Shen Cong Sheng saw that the situation was bad, he wanted to help but was quickly faced with backlash, he could not get away from Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's restrictions.
"I finally succeeded." Fang Yuan let out a breath of air.
Shen Shang lived up to his reputation, this person who was suppressed by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable personally really had some skills.
His methods were peculiar and strange, they were hard to guard against, Fang Yuan had fallen for them earlier.
Of course, Fang Yuan still controlled the situation without wasting many of his hidden trump cards.
In the worst case, Fang Yuan could return to the starting island, with this assurance, he could not lose to begin with.
"Ahhhh…." Shen Shang shouted loudly, his face was distorted.
Fang Yuan's brows slowly started to furrow.
Shen Shang's current situation was quite strange, he constantly laughed and struggled madly without using any immortal killer moves.
At the next moment, his bloodshot eyes turned pitch black, the black color spread until it filled his eyes.
With a light sound, a lump of black fire started to burn on his body.
Within the fire, Shen Shang's body shook like he was having a spasm, he drooled uncontrollably as he waved his limbs around, he growled like a wild beast that was out of control.
The black fire on Shen Shang's body was not eye-catching, but once it spread to the grey stone giant's hands, the giant screamed in pain as it got burned by the fire.
After both hands got into contact with the black fire, they started to melt, completely defenseless against this strange black fire.
Fang Yuan's gaze turned colder, the peculiarity and strength of this black fire was far beyond his imagination.
Seeing that the situation was bad, Fang Yuan quickly deactivated the ancient battle formation.
At the next moment, the grey stone giant vanished while twelve immemorial year beasts appeared in the sky.
Among them, two immemorial year beasts contacted the black fire and lost their reasoning, they rolled around in the sky, growling in pain as they struggled intensely.
Thankfully, the other ten immemorial year beasts acted like this was their biggest threat, after regaining freedom, they quickly fled from the black fire as far as they could.
Fang Yuan and Shen Cong Sheng frowned deeply with solemn expressions.
This black fire was too strange, the two of them could not tell what path this black fire belonged to!
At the same time, they felt an extreme feeling of threat, their skulls felt numb as they sensed this danger.
The black fire was like the enemy of all lifeforms!
The two immemorial year beasts were already covered in the fire, they growled as they fell to the ground.
Fang Yuan had a strong premonition, if these two immemorial year beasts fell into the seawater, the black fire would cause an even greater tragedy.
But he did not do anything, he went into Myriad Year Flying Warship and retreated.
Shen Shang who had lost the restriction of the grey stone giant floated in the air and laughed wildly like a lunatic.
Shen Cong Sheng called him several times but it went unheard. Seeing this strange situation, Shen Cong Sheng also wisely chose to retreat.
Right when those two immemorial year beasts were about to enter the water, a golden-white pillar of light shot out from the underwater formation, pushing these two immemorial year beasts up into the sky.
The underwater formation that had only forty percent left burst out with unprecedented power as it operated at full force!
The golden-white light expanded as it covered Shen Shang as well.
The black fire continued to burn Shen Shang and the two immemorial year beasts but the white-gold light pillar immobilized them on the spot.
Such a change caused Shen Cong Sheng to be stunned.
Suddenly, Fang Yuan made his move, daybreak flying swords flew out and pierced the white-gold light pillar, stabbing into Shen Shang.
"Stop it!" Watching that his ancestor was attacked by Fang Yuan, Shen Cong Sheng shouted anxiously.
Fang Yuan smiled coldly as he activated his flying swords with even greater intensity.
This odd black fire was very harmful, seeing that the underwater formation had taken action to stop it from even entering the sea, it was obvious.
Shen Cong Sheng could only watch helplessly.
Fang Yuan willed again as his flying swords split into two groups, the other group went to attack his immemorial year beasts.
Due to the attack of the daybreak flying swords, the black fire still burned but it had weakened by a very slight amount.
Daybreak sword was a rank eight killer move, yet it nearly had no effect!
Fang Yuan continued to attack, but the black fire suddenly changed, transforming into lumps of silver-white mist.
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Chapter 1909 Shen Cong Sheng“s Immortal Materials
"This black fire can still transform?" Fang Yuan's eyes shined with bright light, he shook his head immediately after, the silver-white mist still had a strange aura, it did not belong to any path .
The silver-white mist did not seem to be fundamentally different from the black fire, and while enveloped by it, Shen Shang was still going crazy, the two immemorial year beasts were also continuing to howl.
When Fang Yuan fired his daybreak flying swords again, he discovered that the power of the daybreak flying swords actually boosted the silver-white mist, causing the latter to increase in size.
Suspicious, Fang Yuan immediately changed his mind and went on a furious rampage with wind blades instead.
The silver-white mist was weakened again, but the rate of decline was still very small.
After the attack lasted for a while, the silver-white mist suddenly turned into three large whirlwinds, covering Shen Shang and the two immemorial year beasts.
Fang Yuan's wind blades shot into the whirlwind and began to boost the latter's power again.
Fang Yuan started to experiment and wisely began to swap his tactics.
Other Gu Immortals might have to stop but Fang Yuan cultivated all paths, he had an astonishing number of Immortal Gu at his disposal, he also had attainment level in many paths, he was even more skilled at transitioning to different paths.
Under Fang Yuan's attack, the strange black fire kept transforming and getting smaller and smaller.
The two immemorial year beasts were the first to die without their corpses left, Fang Yuan was soon left with only Shen Shang as his target.
"Wait, wait! Fang Yuan, I have a huge amount of wealth to gift to you." Shen Cong Sheng could no longer watch this continue, he called out loudly.
To his joy, Fang Yuan actually stopped.
Fang Yuan looked at Shen Cong Sheng and smiled: "Do you want me to let your clan's ancestor go? You should know that this is a demonic immortal, the very demonic immortal that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable suppressed personally in the past. You've seen his current state, crazy as a beast, delirious, and consistent with what is described on the Merit Obelisk. You still want to save him?"
Shen Cong Sheng looked deeply at the imprisoned Shen Shang in the pillar of light and made up his mind: "I believe this madness is only temporary. It would be too much of a coincidence if Ancestor Shen Shang happened to fall into permanent madness right when I was about to rescue him, right?"
"And what price can you pay for that?" Fang Yuan asked.
"How about you take a look at this?" Shen Cong Sheng pulled out an immortal material.
It was a bag.
The bag was not large and seemed to be the size of a grown man's fist. However, the surface of the bag was covered with a pattern that seemed like gems or blue swirls.
If one stared closely, one would notice that these sapphire-like swirls were constantly rotating.
But when one came back to one's senses, these lines were still lines, as if the scene had just been an illusion.
Fang Yuan, however, raised his eyebrows and lightly smiled: "So it's the treasure blue beaver's stomach pouch."
Treasure blue beaver was an immemorial desolate beast, often traveling between Eastern Sea and immemorial blue heaven. Now that immemorial blue heaven had shattered, the treasure blue beaver also went extinct. In history, the Gu Immortal who slaughtered the most treasure blue beavers was Old Immortal Kong Jue.
Old Immortal Kong Jue was one of the three supreme grandmasters of refinement path, comparable to Long Hair Ancestor. The treasure blue beaver that he went after and paid attention to was naturally extraordinary.
Not to mention, this stomach pouch alone was half an immortal aperture, it contained space path and water path dao marks, there was a whole small world inside of it, which could hide countless treasures. A Gu Immortal could obtain it and merge it into his or her immortal aperture, increasing the size of their grotto-heaven.
Because of this characteristic, the treasure blue beaver had been hunted down and killed extensively by Gu Immortals. It was no surprise that treasure blue beavers went extinct.
The stomach pouch of the treasure blue beaver could be said to be the most valuable thing in its body. And in today's world where treasure blue beavers were extinct, the value of this stomach pouch was even higher than normal!
In short, this was an extremely rare and highly valuable treasure.
Fang Yuan reached out his hand and directly took this stomach pouch from Shen Cong Sheng's hands.
The stomach pouch was light and the surface was very slippery.
Fang Yuan inspected it and found that nothing was tampered, so he put it into his immortal aperture in front of Shen Cong Sheng without any concern.
Next, he smiled: "Anything else?"
Shen Cong Sheng took a deep breath and pulled out a long black rod with much difficulty: "And this one too, catch it."
He gathered strength and threw the black rod at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan stretched out his arm to catch it, the rod was very heavy, but he also had a lot of strength path dao marks on him, it was naturally easy.
Unlike Shen Cong Sheng who was a pure sound path Gu Immortal.
This black rod was taller than Fang Yuan, it had the thickness of a goose egg, the surface was also very rough, the weight was not light, as if it was a crude iron tool.
However, Fang Yuan could feel a dense aura of life from it.
This was an ancient desolate plant!
But it had no roots, no branches, nor leaves, there was only the trunk.
At the top of the trunk, there were countless star marks, some of them were five-edged, some two-edged, compactly arranged, all of them were emitting pale starlight.
"Falling star rod tree." Fang Yuan spoke.
Shen Cong Sheng nodded his head and exclaimed: "Fang Yuan, your extensive knowledge is to be admired."
The growth conditions of this tree were still a mystery as it had been extraordinarily rare and low in quantity since ancient times.
It had the unique trait of constantly attracting stars, falling into the trunk of the tree and turning into a single star mark. That was why it was called falling star.
According to rumors, one of the motives that Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable had when he traveled the world alone was to collect this tree.
The value of the falling star rod tree did not just lie in itself.
By planting it in the immortal aperture, the Gu Immortal could use it to create an entire system of orbiting stars. It was a unique ecology that brought incremental gains every year, and the total amount of gains over time, day after day, year after year, was almost impossible to estimate.
Like the treasure blue beaver's stomach pouch, Fang Yuan placed the falling star rod tree into the immortal aperture once again, the natural demeanor that he had almost gave Shen Cong Sheng the illusion that this rare immemorial desolate plant belonged to Fang Yuan in the first place!
"What else?" Fang Yuan smiled: "These alone can't exchange for a rank eight great expert."
Shen Cong Sheng gritted his teeth and said: "I'm sure this immortal material will be able to satisfy you."
This time, he took out a lump of water.
The water was constrained in a ball, constantly creating waves. The waves were not just on the surface of the water, but even within the water, it was rising endlessly.
Although there were countless waves, they were uncluttered.
The water waves rose and fell in unison, advancing at one moment and retreating at the next, it could be called an orderly advance and retreat.
When Fang Yuan saw this, his eyes shined with bright light and he said: "Advancing and retreating tidal water."
Indeed, this was one of the three great waters of the world, advancing and retreating tidal water.
It was a rank nine immortal material!
This point alone made it far more valuable than the treasure blue beaver stomach pouch and the falling star rod tree combined.
Not to mention that it had many wonderful uses.
"I have a total of twelve portions of the advancing and retreating tidal water here, I can give them all to you." Shen Cong Sheng gave his offer.
Fang Yuan could not help but sigh lightly: "Shen clan is worthy of being a super force of Eastern Sea, you really have impressive assets."
Shen Cong Sheng smiled: "We are flattered."
But at the next moment, Fang Yuan said: "But that's not enough."
"It's not enough?" Shen Cong Sheng's pupils shrank as he showed an awkward expression.
Fang Yuan sneered and began to use his daybreak swords again, stabbing Shen Shang one sword at a time.
Shen Shang was still insane and kept on growling.
Shen Cong Sheng gnashed his teeth as he watched his ancestor being attacked: "My ancestor is insane now, he is not the same as an intact rank eight Gu Immortal. We both know that!"
"But as you said before, there should still be times when he doesn't go crazy, shouldn't there?" Fang Yuan was still sneering.
"Fang Yuan!" Shen Cong Sheng said in a low voice.
"What?" Fang Yuan raised his hand, a large number of daybreak flying swords shot towards Shen Shang.
Shen Cong Sheng almost gritted his teeth till they shattered: "Alright, what else do you want, Immortal Gu?"
"Of course I won't be that greedy." Fang Yuan shook his head and said with ease: "I want immortal materials, but not like the three that you gave me. They are all too highly ranked, I need a large number of rank six and seven immortal materials, the larger the variety and quantity, the better it will be."
"Shen clan is one of the super forces of Eastern Sea, you own seven large sea areas and thousands of middle and small sea areas, you'll even have two rank eight existences in the future. This little request should not be hard, right?"
"Of course… not." Shen Cong Sheng's expression was heavy: "But what will our Shen clan get? A crazy rank eight? He is a hidden threat himself. And it's a hidden threat that can even force the merciful Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable to personally take action to eliminate!"
Shen Cong Sheng was definitely a qualified leader.
When it came to the clan's interests, he was logical to the point of being almost emotionless.
Undeniably, Shen Shang's insanity had caused his value to plummet immensely. And the terrifying hidden danger he was carrying further reduced this value to almost a negative number.
Shen clan wanted as many rank eights as they could. But they did not want a crazy rank eight without any reasoning!
A rank eight without sanity was just a burden, unable to differentiate enemy and friend, they were a laughing stock for others, and would even bring calamity to Shen clan because of their reckless killing.
Shen Cong Sheng saw the hidden threat within Shen Shang and kept the worry in his heart. He also did not have the slightest confidence that he would be able to solve this problem.
Therefore, when he took out these three valuable resources in exchange for Shen Shang, he showed great sincerity.
Fang Yuan laughed and pointed his finger at Shen Shang: "He is your ancestor, the person you went to great lengths to save."
At this point, he paused: "Of course, this is by no means the only thing you will get. You'll also gain… my friendship."
"Oh?" Shen Cong Sheng showed a look of sudden interest: "How so?"
"In today's world, with the earth veins frequently shifting and the five regions fusing as one, it's bound to be a chaotic world. Although Shen clan is in Eastern Sea, it is by no means a paradise. Eastern Sea has the most resources and wealth that lure people's greed, even when the five regional walls exist, there is a steady stream of Gu Immortals coming here, what do you think will happen in the future?"
Fang Yuan spoke casually: "In this situation, what is the use of the differentiating righteous path and demonic path? If Shen clan and I join forces, it will be a strong partnership. Of course, we can keep this partnership hidden as much as we want. Your esteemed clan is extremely affluent, while I am free to do anything I want without burden."
"Central Continent is far more powerful than the other four regions, so if they attack Eastern Sea in the future, will Shen clan want to surrender or remain self-reliant? Even if you surrender, will all the super forces in Eastern Sea surrender? This is why, there is never a shortage of enemies, but allies like me are extremely rare to come across."
"The fact that you and I have met here is truly a great opportunity. If we continue to fight, it will only lead to a lose-lose situation. But if we help each other, it will be a win-win situation. Currently, we are dealing with the Paradise Earth true inheritance and Shen Shang, in the future, we will cooperate to deal with Central Continent and manipulate the entire state of the world!"
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Chapter 1910 Everyone“s Immortal Materials
Fang Yuan's words made Shen Cong Sheng go silent.
The sea breeze ruffled his clothes as he hovered in the air, deep in thought.
Fang Yuan stopped attacking with his daybreak swords and allowed him to ponder quietly.
The future of the five regions chaotic war had already been foreseen by all the major forces. Shen clan was a super force in Eastern Sea, but in such a chaotic situation, it was also like a rocky boat in a stormy sea.
Shen Cong Sheng was not stupid, other leaders of their respective forces also had great foresight, they were considering what direction they should take in the future when chaos ensues.
This was a big change, and if one was not careful, the tide of the great era would drown all those who did not plan well ahead of the storm!
This certainly included super forces.
Throughout history, even in relatively peaceful times, countless super forces had disappeared. Not to mention the great era when a venerable would appear, almost all of the existing order would be overturned, and in the midst of this, countless super forces would be destroyed and created, the situation of the five regions would become completely altered beyond recognition.
How should one attempt to live in such an era?
This was something that every Gu Immortal with foresight was wondering about.
Should they cooperate and join forces with Fang Yuan?
This was the question Shen Cong Sheng had to think about now.
In terms of qualifications, Fang Yuan was perfectly qualified to work with Shen clan, in fact, Shen Cong Sheng was still a little worried that Shen clan was the unqualified party. Because he himself was not a match for Fang Yuan.
But if he rescued Shen Shang and resolved the hidden threat in his body, along with Shen clan's Immortal Gu House… They would have the foundation to cooperate with Fang Yuan.
Shen Cong Sheng knew that Shen clan needed external allies like Fang Yuan.
It might be unlikely in times of peace, but in the future, when the five regions chaotic war starts, there would be a great chance that Shen clan would be in danger and at the point of extermination.
At this time… Fang Yuan would certainly be unreliable!
It would be a blessing if he did not gang up on Shen clan in the first place.
Shen Cong Sheng knew very well about Fang Yuan's demonic nature.
But what about the time when Shen clan needs to deal with an equivalent super force? For example, Xie clan, Cai clan, Hua clan, Tang clan, and even Song clan…
Shen clan was situated near the center of Eastern Sea, surrounded by many super forces, it was as if they were caught in a siege.
Without seeking a direction to break out and grow while they could, during the five regions chaotic war, they would end up as fodder for other powerful enemies.
Under such circumstances, if Shen clan could pay a large sum of resources in exchange for powerful help like Fang Yuan, why should they hesitate?
Fang Yuan possessed a rank eight Immortal Gu House, multiple venerable inheritances, and was able to repeatedly trample Heavenly Court underfoot. Such a powerful battle power was what Shen clan needed, it was something every super force desired.
If they did not cooperate with Fang Yuan now, what would they do if he worked with their enemies in the future?
In the current situation, Heavenly Court had to repair fate Gu, Fang Yuan wanted to deal with Heavenly Court, he needed a large amount of low ranked immortal materials, this was a great chance to cooperate with him!
Just like Fang Yuan said, this was a chance for both Shen clan and himself.
Both sides had their own needs.
Of course there were still many concerns, working with a demon like Fang Yuan was indeed very risky.
For example, if he goes back on his word in the future, he would still be free to do as he pleased, nobody including Heavenly Court could do anything about it, what could Shen clan possibly do with him?
Moreover, it is impossible to make an alliance agreement here, both sides lacked a basis for trust.
But in reality, even if there was an agreement, could they not break it themselves?
What if Fang Yuan goes back on his word in the future?
As long as they cooperated and achieved mutual benefits, why would Fang Yuan decide to turn on them?
Risk was definitely present, but how could anything in the world contain no risk?
Risk was secondary, profit was the main thing.
Shen Cong Sheng would not want anything that was high risk with low returns. But when the risk was great and the reward was also great, Shen Cong Sheng would never let it go!
The thing that Shen Cong Sheng appreciated the most was not Fang Yuan's battle strength, but his decision to share the mission with Miao Ming Shen, and even with himself.
From this, Shen Cong Sheng could tell that Fang Yuan was different from ordinary demonic path Gu Immortals! He was rational, he had the ability to think and act like the righteous path.
Pondering for a long time, Shen Cong Sheng nodded slowly with a solemn expression: "This is a chance, for both you and me. Hehehe, fine, why not take a gamble? In the future, if one remains stagnant, they will fall off. If Ancestor Shen Shang regains his senses, I will definitely try to persuade him to stop attacking you."
"These are all the low ranked immortal materials that I currently have, please accept them." Shen Cong Sheng displayed his sincerity once again.
Fang Yuan kept them all into his immortal aperture, he had stopped using daybreak sword, he slowly retreated: "Good! I'm going down to retrieve the underwater formation."
Retrieving the underwater formation was a lot of work for Fang Yuan, but in the end, he succeeded.
Fang Yuan stabbed and injured Shen Shang, although the white-gold pillar of light did not stop it, the daybreak swords still caused damage to the pillar, thus damaging the underwater formation.
The underwater formation was already only forty percent left, Shen Shang had broken out of it, which caused a huge opening, in Fang Yuan's eyes, it was full of cracks that he could target.
If he continued to fight, before Shen Shang dies, the underwater formation would probably collapse first.
Once it collapses, it was very likely to implicate the Immortal Gu inside. Fang Yuan could not control which Immortal Gu would be injured or destroyed, but if regret Gu gets destroyed, Fang Yuan's plans would be severely thwarted.
This was also one of the reasons why Fang Yuan and Shen Cong Sheng had joined forces.
The formation was taken away by Fang Yuan, the white-gold pillar that extended towards the sky dissipated, while Shen Shang regained his freedom.
"Ancestor." Shen Cong Sheng shouted while retreating.
Fang Yuan manipulated Myriad Year Flying Warship and cautiously retreated.
Shen Shang was still shrieking, fallen into a state of insanity, there was not the slightest sign of awakening.
"Shen Cong Sheng, do you need me to lend a hand?" Fang Yuan asked.
"No need." Shen Cong Sheng stared at Shen Cong Sheng, unable to figure out what state or condition he was in, there was nothing he could do: "We'd better wait until ancestor awakens on his own."
"Fine." Fang Yuan said as he controlled Myriad Year Flying Warship, moving further away.
Just at this moment, Shen Shang suddenly moved, his body was like an arrow, flying away.
"Ancestor!" Shen Cong Sheng cried out and chased after him.
Fang Yuan likewise maneuvered Myriad Year Flying Warship to chase after him.
But Shen Shang was extremely fast, Myriad Year Flying Warship was only a little bit faster.
Fang Yuan did not dare to use Myriad Year Flying Warship to directly stop Shen Shang. Because of this, Shen Shang managed to fly out of regret crying sea.
Shen Cong Sheng and Fang Yuan wanted to continue their pursuit, but they were stopped by an invisible barrier.
"Damn it!" Shen Cong Sheng's face was livid, he almost cursed out loud.
This was the method of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, which he had already experienced before, it prevented the foreign Gu Immortals from running around, so every mission had a certain limitation on where they could go.
This constraint did not take effect on Shen Shang, but it obstructed Fang Yuan and Shen Cong Sheng.
The two of them could only watch as Shen Shang flew away in a blur, eventually turning into a small black dot in the sky.
"It looks like he won't come back." Fang Yuan sighed.
Shen Cong Sheng looked stiff and watched for a long time before finally regaining his usual demeanor. He turned to Fang Yuan and forced a smile: "In that case, let's go back first."
Fang Yuan consoled, "Brother Shen, there is no need to be overly concerned, although your ancestor escaped, he cannot leave Dragon Whale Paradise. If he comes to his senses, he will definitely try to contact you by all means. If he is still insane, that would be even easier for us. The Merit Obelisk will not watch him endanger the environment and people, there will surely be more missions to come, just like this one, to kill your Ancestor Shen Shang."
Fang Yuan's words were reasonable, Shen Cong Sheng listened and nodded repeatedly, the look on his face eased a little.
Under the Merit Obelisk, the atmosphere was tense and heavy.
Two groups of people were distinctly separated.
One group consisted of Miao Ming Shen, Zeng Luo Zi, Tu Tou Tuo, and the rest.
The other group consisted of the Shen clan members, with Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua around.
"I wonder what's going on in regret crying sea…"
"Yeah, that is Fang Yuan after all. This demon has defeated Heavenly Court time and again, he is really scary."
"My clan has two rank eight Gu Immortals that can help out each other. Especially with Ancestor Shen Shang here, Fang Yuan isn't anything to fear."
"Don't forget, the reason why Fang Yuan was able to defeat Heavenly Court was because they were in the River of Time."
"But our first supreme elder is also restricted by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, so he can't fight Fang Yuan anyway."
"Sigh…"
The Shen clan Gu Immortals whispered, while Miao Ming Shen's group remained silent.
They were eager to teleport back and see how the battle progressed, but they were afraid that as soon as they teleported over, they would be affected by the horrific aftermath of the battle, and they might get caught up in it and die a terrible death.
No one was willing to take a foolish risk, so they were all here anxiously waiting for the results of the battle.
Two white lights flashed as Fang Yuan and Shen Cong Sheng appeared together.
"They're back!"
"Why don't we see Ancestor Shen Shang?"
"Fang Yuan is still alive, damn it!"
The immortals' thoughts were shaking as their expressions changed.
"Hehehe, Fang Yuan, thanks to this information of yours, it will save me a lot of time and effort." Shen Cong Sheng exclaimed.
Fang Yuan smiled and waved his hand: "This is my sincerity. As I said, it will be a win-win situation if you and I cooperate."
The group of immortals were shocked again and became dumbfounded.
What the heck was this!
You two were just fighting each other earlier! Why were you suddenly on good terms?
What actually happened?
Where was Ancestor Shen Shang?
The Gu Immortals could not help but feel startled and amazed.
Shen Cong Sheng laughed: "I have reached an agreement with Fang Yuan to cooperate for now. Take out all the immortal materials you have on you."
"What?" The Shen clan Gu Immortals were dumbfounded.
Shen Cong Sheng nodded his head and emphasized: "This is the agreement we made, transfer all your rank six and seven immortal materials to him now."
"First supreme elder, this…" The immortals looked at each other.
Shen Cong Sheng showed a solemn expression and said in a deep voice: "This is an order!"
The Shen clan Gu Immortals were speechless.
What has happened?!
Oh great first supreme elder, what in the world are you thinking?
They were simply wondering if the first supreme elder in front of them had been controlled by Fang Yuan!
The Shen clan Gu Immortals dawdled before finally taking out their respective immortal materials and handed them over to Fang Yuan on the spot.
Fang Yuan smiled and received them one by one.
He knew that the Shen clan Gu Immortals would definitely not hand over all the immortal materials, but it did not matter, the materials that Fang Yuan needed for his refinement had been mostly obtained already.
After Shen clan's Gu Immortals had finished handing them over, Shen Cong Sheng looked at Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua.
"Us too?" Ren Xiu Ping could not believe it as his expression turned livid.
Shen Cong Sheng's gaze was cold as he nodded: "Shen clan will reward you for this."
Ren Xiu Ping almost cursed out loud.
Your Shen clan is cooperating with Fang Yuan, what does that have to do with me?!
I came to join your force but you treated me like this. This is just too…
Shen Cong Sheng saw Ren Xiu Ping's hesitation and smiled slightly: "Do you still not believe in me, even if you don't trust me, my Shen clan's credibility is not worth your trust?"
"Lord, please forgive me, of course I believe you. It was just that I could not react in time." Ren Xiu Ping laughed and endured the pain while transferring most of his immortal materials to Fang Yuan.
Tong Hua had an extremely ugly expression but she had no choice but to follow him.
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Chapter 1911 Negative Merit Points
Seeing that Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua were not spared as they handed their immortal materials to Fang Yuan, Miao Ming Shen and the rest became worried.
If Fang Yuan extorted them too, what would they do?
Reject him?
That was likely impossible.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest could not stay in Dragon Whale Paradise forever, they needed to return to Eastern Sea.
Even though it was unreasonable for Fang Yuan to take immortal materials from them, it was basically extortion, but for the sake of their future, Miao Ming Shen and the rest still had to lower their heads.
In this world, strength was the major deciding factor, followed by logic.
Just as Miao Ming Shen and the rest prepared themselves mentally, Fang Yuan ignored them as he looked towards the Merit Obelisk.
Shen Cong Sheng had also seemingly forgotten about Miao Ming Shen's group.
Only Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua looked towards Miao Ming Shen's group, the former had deep hatred while the latter had a complex emotion.
Fang Yuan looked at the Merit Obelisk.
Undeniably, he had completely failed in this mission to exterminate the demonic immortal Shen Shang.
This mission had vanished on the Merit Obelisk, not only that, Fang Yuan even found that a lot of merit points got deducted.
The others were not spared, they had all lost their merit points too.
"First supreme elder, your merit points!" Shen clan's Gu Immortal shouted.
Shen Cong Sheng had an ashen and solemn expression.
He had lost the most merit points, even surpassing Fang Yuan's losses.
Even though Fang Yuan fell from his first place position, he still had single digit merit points. Meanwhile, Shen Cong Sheng had negative merit points!
This situation surprised Fang Yuan as well. After all, this did not happen in his previous life.
"Brother Shen, it seems that the Merit Obelisk punished you the most because you attacked the underwater formation and released Shen Shang. Meanwhile, I did not work properly and even took away the underwater formation, that's why I lost merit points as well." Fang Yuan analyzed.
Shen Cong Sheng's expression changed, he showed some anxiety: "I just received information from the Merit Obelisk, I need to get a positive amount of merit points in ten days. Otherwise, I will be kicked out of the Dragon Whale Paradise, I will not be allowed to enter again."
Fang Yuan had a thought, with his wisdom path attainment, he quickly analyzed the hidden information behind this.
"It seems that Dragon Whale Paradise can be explored repeatedly. We can still return? But how do we find it?"
The biggest problem was finding Dragon Whale Paradise's location in time.
Fang Yuan took a glance at Miao Ming Shen.
"Miao Ming Shen is able to sense the blue dragon whale and enter it, is this the qualification needed?"
Long ago, Fang Yuan had made some deductions.
Miao Ming Shen's ability to sense the blue dragon whale was very mysterious, Fang Yuan could not tell what it was.
With Fang Yuan's knowledge and attainment level in many paths, he could tell that even though Miao Ming Shen cultivated space path, the method he used was not.
This was very strange.
Precisely because it was too strange, Fang Yuan was wary and did not capture Miao Ming Shen to interrogate him about this method.
All sorts of clues pointed out that this method was not his own creation but originated from Dragon Whale Paradise itself, it came from the Merit Obelisk.
Shen Cong Sheng looked at his merit points, he frowned that the glaring number, he walked towards the Merit Obelisk: "Fang Yuan, I don't have much time, I can't talk anymore."
Fang Yuan nodded: "Go ahead, Brother Shen. If you need help, leave an information path Gu worm at the obelisk and I will definitely help."
Seeing the two being so friendly, the immortals behind them had weird expressions.
Shen Cong Sheng was a righteous path leader, while Fang Yuan was a publicly recognized demon in the five regions, was it okay for the two of them to have such a good relationship?
Shen Cong Sheng heard Fang Yuan's words and smiled at him.
He believed Fang Yuan's sincerity, but he believed that the price to get Fang Yuan's help would be extremely high.
Thus, if he could resolve the problem, he would rather do it himself.
Shen Cong Sheng quickly accepted a mid-sized mission and left.
In Shen Cong Sheng's case, this type of mission was the most efficient in earning merit points.
Fang Yuan was the second to walk to the Merit Obelisk.
He continued to choose a large sized mission.
"Hmm? A large sized mission to reclaim Immortal Gu…" At the next moment, he found a brand new mission on the Merit Obelisk.
This mission requested him to take back Immortal Gu, they were the ones that he took after dismantling the underwater formation.
Fang Yuan looked at the content of this mission closely.
This mission had a lot of details, it described the amount that each Immortal Gu was worth in points.
Fang Yuan counted the numbers, it was exactly what he had gained.
Next, he browsed through it, he found that this mission was basically created for him personally by the Merit Obelisk.
The truth was, earlier when Fang Yuan dismantled the formation, he had not checked through these Immortal Gu. Now with this mission, he could learn about their details without having to experiment personally.
From this, Fang Yuan learned that he gained three rank eight Immortal Gu, rank seven were in the highest quantity, and a good number of rank six Immortal Gu.
Each Immortal Gu had a huge resale value, even the lowest rank six Immortal Gu was worth ten thousand merit points.
The immortals behind him went into waves of gasps.
They also saw the mission on the Merit Obelisk.
At once, all of them had varying expressions, they were filled with envy and jealous that could not be concealed.
With this exchange rate, Fang Yuan only needed to contribute one rank six Immortal Gu to get at least ten thousand merit points. This was a huge amount, much more than what Fang Yuan had accumulated earlier!
It was absurd.
Earlier when manipulating the refinement path formation, they put in effort. After the battle started, they avoided the aftermath of their conflict and expended a lot of immortal essences while feeling great fear.
This mission to kill the demonic immortal failed, they did not gain anything.
But look at Fang Yuan!
He gained a huge number of Immortal Gu, if he exchanged them for merit points, the sum would be unthinkable.
Comparison created jealousy.
These immortals felt horrible, they were indignant and even angry but were not brave enough to act brazenly in front of the great demon Fang Yuan.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest were still fine, but Shen clan's Gu Immortals, Ren Xiu Ping, and Tong Hua felt even worse!
After all, the other party had only lost immortal essence.
But they had even lost most of their immortal materials.
This situation was too bizarre!
Not only were there no gains, they even had to expend their own resources, this was truly a terrible feeling.
Fang Yuan did not want to give up a single Immortal Gu.
Immortal Gu were unique, such opportunities seldom knock twice.
If he needed merit points, he could simply earn them, why would he give up on his precious Immortal Gu for such petty gains.
Most of these Immortal Gu were earth path, for ordinary Gu Immortals, they would definitely sell those that were not their own path, Immortal Gu required resources to feed after all.
But Fang Yuan was different.
He cultivated all paths, earth path suited him well. Furthermore, he recently gained a lot in earth path attainment level, he wondered, should he use these Immortal Gu to form a third Immortal Gu House?
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Chapter 1912 Refining Immortal Gu
Earlier, Fang Yuan already had a grand plan to build three Immortal Gu Houses.
Right now, he had already created Myriad Year Flying Warship and Cooking Luck Pot, the final Immortal Gu House was not created yet.
Even though he obtained Divine Bean Palace and Dragon Palace during this period of time, these Immortal Gu Houses were used by his clones, they were necessary for his plans in the future, he could not use them personally to fight enemies.
And most importantly, Divine Bean Palace and Dragon Palace were not suited for his needs.
In Fang Yuan's plan, he needed an Immortal Gu House that focused on defense.
Myriad Year Flying Warship specialized in speed, it made up for Fang Yuan's weakness in movement, it was also crucial for fighting inside the River of Time.
Cooking Luck Pot was designed before Qin Ding Ling appeared, Fang Yuan planned to use it to suppress Heavenly Court's weaker luck, to expand his own advantage.
The final third Immortal Gu House was meant for defense and healing. During the battle of fate Gu, there would definitely be intense fights and little time for recovery. Fang Yuan needed a powerful defensive Immortal Gu House in the battlefield so that he could gain precious time to heal himself.
This Immortal Gu House had to be able to resist even venerable methods to an extent!
"Earth path is sturdy, it excels in defense to begin with. I will use these earth path Immortal Gu to create my third Immortal Gu House, that will be perfect." Fang Yuan thought about it and made up his mind.
Fang Yuan had no idea now that clone Wu Shuai already obtained a method to create an earth path Immortal Gu House from his dream realm exploration.
This Immortal Gu House was called Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, it suited his requirements.
However, Fang Yuan and his clones had shared attainment but not linked memories, they needed to communicate to gain each other's memories.
Eventually, Fang Yuan accepted a large sized mission to combine two sea areas.
"Who wants to come with me?" Fang Yuan did not rush, he turned around and asked.
The immortals looked at each other.
"Me." Miao Ming Shen was the first to react and step forward.
Behind him, Gui Qi Ye and the rest also followed.
"What about you?" Fang Yuan looked at the Shen clan Gu Immortals.
The Shen clan Gu Immortals were dumbfounded.
They had just turned on Fang Yuan earlier, they could not adjust their mindsets so quickly in this period of time.
Shen clan's Gu Immortals were not like Miao Ming Shen's group, the latter had experienced the benefits of working with Fang Yuan. In their first cooperation with Fang Yuan, it ended up as a failure.
Shen Xiao shook his head: "Thank you for the offer lord, we would like to look around first."
Shen Xiao rejected Fang Yuan politely, the other Shen clan Gu Immortal did not object to his statement.
Fang Yuan did not mind it, he smiled towards the last two people, asking: "Ren Xiu Ping? Tong Hua? What about you?"
Ren Xiu Ping had a grim expression, he did not speak, only shaking his head.
Tong Hua was currently startled and did not dare to say or do anything.
Fang Yuan expected them to act like this from the start. After all, he had just taken their immortal materials.
This showed Shen Cong Sheng's political ability as well.
Shen Cong Sheng ordered Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua to give their immortal materials to Fang Yuan, it seemed to have ruined their relationship, but the truth was, it made them helpless to do anything but stay with Shen clan.
In fact, they would even want to stay with Shen clan after leaving Dragon Whale Paradise to replenish their loss of immortal materials.
At the same time, this was a way for Shen Cong Sheng to suppress Tong Hua and Ren Xiu Ping. It made them realize who was calling the shots. Within Dragon Whale Paradise, they had to obey Shen clan, even after they leave, they still had to listen to Shen clan! After joining my Shen clan's boat, they still wanted to leave? Hehe, life was not that easy.
Fang Yuan knew Shen Cong Sheng's scheme, but he did not say anything.
With or without Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua, it did not matter, Fang Yuan's core benefits were untouched.
The five regional walls were still around, but the super forces were already starting to gather members and accumulate strength. Fang clan took in Old Ghost Bai Jun and Eagle Concubine, Shen clan took in Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua, was there anything weird? Longevity Heaven was even more overbearing, it united the entire Northern Plains Gu Immortal world, using the Huang Jin super forces to take in all of Northern Plains' lone and demonic immortals.
As for Central Continent, they achieved it long ago. The ten great ancient sects of Central Continent were subsidiaries of Heavenly Court, while most Gu Immortals or super forces were attached to the ten great ancient sects, controlled and kept under their watch.
Eventually, Fang Yuan brought Miao Ming Shen's group to the mission's location.
Floating in the sky, they looked down.
The Immortals saw these two sea areas, one blue and one green, with the blue sea towering high and the green sea hanging low. A large amount of seawater fell from the blue sea and rolled down into the green sea.
The seawater in both seas could not mix together, at the place where they met, the blue and green seawater touched each other, emitting a sneering sound, as a huge amount of clouds rose endlessly.
At the area where the two seas intersected, fish and insects were absent, this was almost a desolate place.
It was obvious that there was a major ecological problem.
Fang Yuan sighed: "It's not simple to combine the two sea areas, it is necessary to take into account all the different aspects. We might as well explore and gather information individually. After that, we will assemble and discuss a plan."
Miao Ming Shen nodded: "That is reasonable."
Fang Yuan looked at Miao Ming Shen and smiled at him.
Although his own identity was exposed, Miao Ming Shen still cooperated with him. He was able to swiftly change his attitude and continued to follow Fang Yuan's orders, this showed that he was something with great mental fortitude.
The immortals scattered and flew around the place, doing their investigations.
Fang Yuan was the only one who remained at the same place, using investigative methods while dividing his attention to look into the sovereign immortal aperture.
His greatest gain this time was regret Gu.
In his last life, he had followed the design of Regret Pool to use regret Gu as the core and create a refinement path Gu formation.
This life, however, did not need to be so troublesome. Fang Yuan had annexed the entire Lang Ya blessed land and possessed the extremely useful Long Hair refinement path formation, all he had to do now was to add regret Gu into this formation.
The formation certainly needed to be adjusted, Fang Yuan had already deduced it in advance.
At the moment, he only had to watch as regret Gu was placed in the vacant core position.
"Lord, Fang Yuan is a current generation demon, aren't we a little too close to him?" In the process of detection, Gui Qi Ye took the initiative to fly to the side of Miao Ming Shen, looking worried.
Miao Ming Shen patted Gui Qi Ye's shoulder: "Old Gui, you want to ask me why I treated Fang Yuan in this manner, almost acting like his subordinate, right?"
Gui Qi Ye smiled in embarrassment: "Lord, you are very perceptive."
Miao Ming Shen's face was slightly solemn and he sighed: "I am left with no other choice. This is my first time entering Dragon Whale Paradise but there was a mishap. Shen clan discovered this place, do you think they will let this precious land go and allow us to come and explore it again in the future?"
"According to the nature of super forces, they will want to keep it all to themselves!" Gui Qi Ye said with certainty.
"Precisely." Miao Ming Shen's eyes shined brightly: "We will definitely be suppressed and forced to surrender by Shen clan once we go out. If we do not surrender, we will be annihilated. But now we have a choice besides submitting to Shen clan."
"You refer to… Fang Yuan? I see, lord has great foresight, I am too foolish." Gui Qi Ye suddenly realized.
As lone immortals who knew such a precious place like the Dragon Whale Paradise, Shen clan would definitely take action against them in the future. Ren Xiu Ping alone was a strong enemy, not to mention the super force Shen clan.
Miao Ming Shen chose to be close to Fang Yuan in order to use his prestige as a shield and try to preserve the freedom of being a lone immortal.
When Shen clan decides to take action against them, they would have to take Fang Yuan's feelings into account.
In the worst case, he would give up his status as a lone immortal and become the subordinate of either Fang Yuan or Shen clan.
This meant that he still had some room for planning and was not at a dead end.
Unlike Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua who had joined Shen clan long ago. Without external pressure, the super force would naturally take advantage of them. Could they refuse to hand over the immortal materials when Shen Cong Sheng asked them to do so? Did they dare to refuse?
By the time the group of immortals reached Fang Yuan, he had already finished arranging regret Gu.
Within the sovereign immortal aperture, the hairy man Gu Immortals were ready, they were high in morale as they prepared themselves to refine a large number of Gu.
Fang Yuan's time path clone was organizing and planning the immortal material inventory, before fine-tuning and improving the Immortal Gu recipes according to the immortal materials at hand.
Fang Yuan needed to do it himself in his previous life, but with the whole of Lang Ya Sect helping him in this life, there was almost no need for him to intervene.
Thus, he saved a great deal of time.
With the fate battle getting closer and closer, this time was extremely valuable and precious!
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Chapter 1913 Flame Cloud Pillar
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
The Long Hair refinement path formation buzzed continuously, the fire within the formation raged towards the sky, heat waves were pushing everywhere.
A rank six Immortal Gu was bathed in fire and light, suspended in midair, its surface gradually melting like wax.
"Hold steady!" Lang Ya land spirit controlled the formation as he shouted: "Open the inventory, let out the immortal material."
The hairy man Gu Immortals controlling the other formation cores quickly opened the inventory doors.
Thus, lumps of dog shit flew out of it slowly.
These were all immortal materials.
Some flickered with starlight, seemingly embedded with blue diamonds, they were the faeces of star desolate hounds.
Some had sharp spikes and looked dangerous, they were the faeces of remnant heavenly dogs.
And there were pure and clean ones that resembled white jade, they were the excrement of the jade statue white hound.
Star desolate hound, remnant heavenly dog, and jade statue white hound were ancient desolate beasts.
The dog shit slowly flew into the fire, melting rapidly in the flames. Some turned into smoke, and some were reduced to liquid.
The formation activated as three hairy man Gu Immortals took action at once, cooperating to process these dog shit immortal materials.
First, smoke spread out to surround the rank six Immortal Gu, before liquid started to flow and gather.
Lang Ya land spirit took charge of the refinement, it was extremely stable during the late stage processes.
Right when they were about to succeed, when the final portion of immortal material fused into it, an accident occurred. The flame changed color as the incomplete rank seven Immortal Gu within broke apart rapidly.
Lang Ya land spirit was shocked, he quickly activated the formation.
The power of regret Gu activated as the color of the flame within the formation returned to normal, not only that, the incomplete rank seven Immortal Gu was also restored to its former state.
They only lost that last portion of immortal material.
The Lang Ya hairy men calmed their emotions and continued to refine Gu.
After less than an hour, the flames inside the formation gradually dissipated, and rank six Immortal Gu within was refined into rank seven.
Rank seven — Dog Shit Luck!
The hairy man Gu Immortals were very excited while Lang Ya land spirit was also filled with emotions.
Originally, they were proud of their refinement path ability. Now with the help of regret Gu, they were simply a dragon flying through the air, their advantage expanded out of control.
At the same time, in Dragon Whale Paradise.
Fang Yuan sat on the cloud with Feng Jiang and the rest, watching Miao Ming Shen fly around the place.
The ecology of the two sea areas had almost been adjusted completely. The final difficulty was that there was still a shattered space between the two seas.
Miao Ming Shen was trying to get rid of this space, by eliminating it, the two sea areas could finally fuse into one.
Miao Ming Shen was a space path Gu Immortal, he was specialized in dealing with these shattered spaces.
Fang Yuan and the rest were free to idle and watch.
"Oh? Immortal Gu Dog Shit Luck has been advanced successfully. Progress is smooth." Fang Yuan sensed the commotion within the sovereign immortal aperture.
While his main body was doing the merit missions, three Immortal Gu had already advanced inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Their progress was really fast!
When ordinary Gu Immortals refine Immortal Gu, they would take years to do so, they would be very nervous and careful with each attempt, the risks were huge.
But Fang Yuan's situation was different.
Lang Ya land spirit, the hairy man Gu Immortals, Long Hair refinement path formation, as well as the abundance of immortal materials, it allowed him to refine Gu with ease.
The three Immortal Gu that he had refined and advanced were from luck path, he had obtained them from dismantling Cooking Luck Pot.
Luck path was his focus now.
The dog shit luck Immortal Gu that he just advanced was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's former vital Gu, it had an incredibly powerful supplementary effect.
The only problem was that it was stuck at rank six and could not display its power. Now that it was rank seven, it could be used to some extent.
Fang Yuan had rank eight cultivation level now, his requirement for Immortal Gu also increased, he needed higher ranked Immortal Gu. Rank six was too low, while rank seven was barely good enough, rank eight suited him the most.
But if Fang Yuan wanted to refine a rank eight Immortal Gu, he would not be able to afford it. The investment needed was too high, and the risks were huge, he was likely to gain nothing.
After all, he could not ignore the outside world to cultivate, the external environment was very harsh, if he did not stop Heavenly Court from repairing fate Gu, his situation would deteriorate even further.
Currently, rank seven Immortal Gu were still barely usable to him.
Furthermore, these rank seven luck path Immortal Gu that he refined could be used to construct Cooking Luck Pot. At rank seven, Cooking Luck Pot would be able to affect rank eight.
"Hah!" Miao Ming Shen suddenly shouted, breaking Fang Yuan's chain of thoughts.
Miao Ming Shen flashed with a blue halo, it spread out around him and soothed the shattered space, uniting it until the cracks were restored entirely.
"Lord has amazing methods!" Feng Jiang and the rest praised.
At this point, the large sized mission was completed.
"Outstanding methods, yours are superior to mine." Fang Yuan did not stint on praise. He had space path Immortal Gu and space path methods too, he could even use other paths to mimic the effects of space path.
But compared to Miao Ming Shen, even if he could achieve the same effect, the cost would be higher.
After all, experts focused on their own fields, Miao Ming Shen was a space path cultivator, while Fang Yuan barely researched about space path, he made little progress in this path.
Miao Ming Shen quickly cupped his fists: "Lord is too kind, I am not worthy of such praise."
Fang Yuan replied with some praise again as everyone went back to the Merit Obelisk.
In this mission, Fang Yuan gained the most benefits, followed by Miao Ming Shen.
Fang Yuan's merit ranking rose to the top again.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest were no longer surprised. They had seen Fang Yuan's ranking jump up and down like a monkey. He was often in the first and last place.
Fang Yuan's gaze focused.
At this point, the other Gu Immortals were started to accumulate merit points. If Fang Yuan's ranking fell again, he would not be able to get to the first position so easily again.
They continued accepting and completing missions.
Fang Yuan's merit points soared continuously.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest followed after him the entire time, Fang Yuan used the advantage of cultivating all paths to resolve problems, while Miao Ming Shen and the rest resolved the minor issues for him.
This cooperation ensured that Fang Yuan remained at the top of the ranking, his status was getting more unmovable.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest also benefited, they started to break away from Shen clan's group, becoming the second group on the ranking list.
The first group was naturally Fang Yuan alone.
Shen Cong Sheng did not turn to Fang Yuan for help in the end, he got back on track by completing multiple mid-sized missions within the allotted time limit.
His luck was not bad, he received one or two sound path related missions. As for other missions, even though he cultivated sound path, he had many methods to mimic the effects of other paths.
Shen Cong Sheng was a rank eight after all, his cultivation level methods were beyond the rest.
By the time Shen Cong Sheng's ranking rose to the middle, Fang Yuan's Cooking Luck Pot was reassembled already.
Rank seven Cooking Luck Pot.
A top tier Immortal Gu House that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable personally created, it had the power to affect rank eight.
The first thing that Fang Yuan did was to inspect his own luck.
Boom!
As if he heard a roar that seemingly resounded in his ears, Fang Yuan looked up and saw a giant flame cloud pillar, burning brightly and rising up into the sky, as if it was trying to hold up heaven and earth.
His luck was like a giant pillar, flames that were bright-red like blood surged. On the surface of the giant pillar, the end of the many traces of the flame carried a touch of black color in it.
"My strength is rank eight, my battle strength rivals Duke Long, I also have countless Immortal Gu, Immortal Gu Houses, and killer moves, so my luck is grand and vast."
"Blood-red flame means slaughter. The black color at the ends of the flame means a deadly situation. The deadly black qi has corrupted the surface of the pillar, it is trying to get in, this means that my death threat is coming from an external source. It must be Heavenly Court."
"Heavenly Court has yet to repair fate Gu, once they succeed, the black death qi will definitely expand by several times, it will eventually corrupt my entire luck pillar."
Fang Yuan looked again, within the huge pillar, there were countless faint phantom images flickering continuously.
At times, he saw a red lotus, a white crane, a beast phantom, or a lump of soil…
Fang Yuan wanted to investigate deeper but he saw that his vision turned blur.
Immediately, his body shook and his throat felt wet, he almost spit out blood uncontrollably.
Fang Yuan rapidly healed himself and looked above him, he saw that Cooking Luck Pot was floating quietly, there was a vast amount of luck inside while a crack had formed on the surface of the pot, luck was leaking towards the outside.
Fang Yuan smiled bitterly to himself internally.
His luck was too strong, even though this was rank seven Cooking Luck Pot, he could only barely see his luck.
After he looked at it for a long time, he would suffer backlash and Cooking Luck Pot would also be damaged.
The newly created Cooking Luck Pot needed to be fixed now. The crack was huge, the damage was severe, if left unattended, the crack would get larger and larger, he had to fix it immediately.
After checking his luck, Fang Yuan was both happy and worried.
He was happy that his luck was good, this was not strange, he had immense foundation, as well as methods in luck path.
The worry was that his hidden threat had started to appear, if he did not stop fate Gu from recovering, Fang Yuan's crisis would become more dangerous. And because the fire pillar was burning intensely, it also meant that he could not last too long.
These types of burning luck often meant that the Gu Immortal was unrivaled in a short period of time, but it could not last long. After the pillar stops burning, his luck would fall into a period of weakness.
But that was in the future.
Fang Yuan made some deductions, his luck would be maintained at this level at least until Central Continent's fate Gu battle, it could even be improved further.
Fang Yuan continued to receive missions, while the refinement path Gu Immortals within the sovereign immortal aperture also started to advance strength path Immortal Gu.
Missions to eliminate the black fire started to appear on the Merit Obelisk.
After Shen Shang escaped from regret crying sea, he was still in a state of madness, he unconsciously damaged the surroundings of the places he went to.
Fang Yuan was very interested in this odd black fire and immediately started to investigate it.
But he made no progress.
The black fire was very stubborn, even though it was a small lump, it could transform countless times when attacked, it could last for a long time.
As missions to clear the black fire appeared, Fang Yuan, Shen Cong Sheng, and the rest started to work together to complete them.
"Did you notice, this type of mission is getting rarer." On this day, Shen Cong Sheng talked to Fang Yuan while dealing with the black fire.
"Perhaps your Ancestor Shen Shang is about to regain his senses. With the location of these missions, we should be able to deduce his whereabouts." Fang Yuan analyzed.
"Indeed." Shen Cong Sheng had an expectant expression.
Right at this time, a rank eight Gu Immortal flew towards them in the sky.
Who else could it be but Shen Shang?
"Ancestor, this is great, you finally regained your senses. I have already negotiated with Fang Yuan, we will work together." Shen Cong Sheng was overjoyed, he quickly went over.
Shen Shang flew over and nodded towards Fang Yuan, he had a haggard expression, he frowned deeply as he said some shocking things: "The situation is quite troublesome, I have a huge problem. Before I resolve it, I need to be sealed again. Fang Yuan, you are proficient in formation path, I would like you to set up a formation to seal me if necessary."
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Chapter 1914 Super Mission
In the eyes of super forces, there was no such thing as eternal friend or enemy in the world.
This is the way of survival of super forces.
If this was not followed, super forces would not last for a long time. Naturally, Shen clan was not such a force, as it had existed even before the era of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, and had grown and flourished during Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's time, surviving to this day!
As an old generation member of Shen Shang, Shen Shang was not opposed to Shen clan and Fang Yuan joining forces, he even felt joyful about it.
This was because none of the Shen clan members here were a formation path Gu Immortal. If Shen Shang wanted to use a formation to seal himself, he would naturally have to use Fang Yuan's method.
Hearing Shen Shang's words, Shen Cong Sheng had a weird expression. He had gone to great lengths to save his ancestor, but he did not expect that his ancestor would now instead ask to be sealed by a formation again.
However, the reason for this was completely understood by Shen Cong Sheng, he was now silent as he looked at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's face turned a little grim: "Shen Shang, although your clan has joined forces with me, the Immortal Gu from the underwater formation already belongs to me. Now you are asking me to use these Immortal Gu and create an immortal formation to seal you… This is quite hard for me to accept."
Shen Cong Sheng quickly added: "We can negotiate this Fang Yuan. We can even trade Immortal Gu."
At this point, seeing that Shen Shang had regained his senses, he did not want to give up.
Fang Yuan shook his head slowly, he had a serious expression: "Shen Cong Sheng, did you forget about the contents of our missions earlier? The mission states that we need to eliminate the demonic immortal within the formation, that is Shen Shang. What does that mean?"
Fang Yuan paused before continuing: "It means that the Merit Obelisk does not think that Shen Shang will recover, it has decided that his problem is too severe to treat. Even if I create the formation, it will not help him."
Shen Cong Sheng's expression changed, he wanted to speak but Shen Shang stopped him.
Shen Shang smiled towards Fang Yuan: "Fang Yuan, no need to have such concerns. I am not asking you to contribute your Immortal Gu, the Gu worms we will use for the formation are all mine. Look."
Saying so, he took out an Immortal Gu from his immortal aperture.
The Immortal Gu was like a silkworm, pale yellow in color, curled up in a ball and not stretched, making it even more exquisite.
"Shen Cong Sheng may have already explained my situation to you." Shen Shang said to Fang Yuan: "I'm most proficient in healing, and this is the human path Immortal Gu I created back then — Heal Injury. Using this as the core, I later developed a human path killer move called 'saving dead healing injuries', if the difficulty isn't too high, I can even revive a dead person on the spot!"
Fang Yuan looked at the Gu worm in front of him, he felt a little amazed.
This was a pure human path Immortal Gu, the shocking thing was that this was a genuine rank eight Immortal Gu.
Rank eight human path Immortal Gu!
Seeing that the immortals were silent, Shen Shang smiled and said again: "Have you found that human path methods are the most effective in dealing with the black fire?"
Shen Cong Sheng shook his head: "Not yet, but we know that healing killer moves will take effect if we use them on the black fire. But whether we use offensive or healing killer moves on the black fire, there is no difference."
Shen Shang nodded: "Watch."
Saying so, a wave of aura burst out of his body.
Watching him prepare a killer move, the surrounding Gu Immortals quickly retreated with deep alertness.
After Shen Shang regained his senses, he had no intention of harming anyone, he slowly stretched out his hand, aiming at the black fire in the distance.
His palm suddenly burst out with a stream of bright yellow light.
The light stream surged and spiraled forward, it was not fast, but eventually shot into the black fire.
The black fire only endured the yellow light for a moment before quickly dissipating.
Shen Shang stopped his killer move and said to the group of immortals: "As you have just seen, this is my killer move, saving dead healing injuries."
"It's true that human path killer moves are quite effective against the black fire." Seeing the truth, Fang Yuan immediately nodded his head, acknowledging Shen Shang's statement.
"They are indeed." Shen Cong Sheng rejoiced: "The previous underwater formation was an earth path immortal formation, it was difficult to resolve the problem on ancestor. But if you use our ancestor's human path Immortal Gu, there will be greater hope."
Fang Yuan, however, did not agree just yet, he gazed at Shen Shang: "You are a human path quasi-supreme grandmaster?"
Astonishment flashed in Shen Shang's eyes as he nodded: "That is correct. I didn't expect that you are also proficient in human path."
Different professions were different worlds, this was the same for paths.
Since Fang Yuan could estimate Shen Shang's human path attainment level, it meant that he also had some level of attainment in it.
All of the immortals turned their gazes towards Fang Yuan while feeling surprised, they sighed to themselves: This great demon renowned in the world was truly unfathomable!
Fang Yuan asked: "Do you have the formation chart?"
Shen Shang showed a helpless smile: "I have a formation chart but it is incomplete, I seem to have created it myself, but I can't remember the entire thing."
"What do you mean?" Shen Cong Sheng tensed up.
Shen Shang sighed deeply: "I've lost my memory. Every time I fall into madness, a part of the memories I grasp will disappear. This is why I need to solve the problem in me as soon as possible, if it's too late, I'm afraid I won't even know who I am anymore."
Fang Yuan smiled and said: "Shen Shang, you're lucky to have met me."
Shen Shang nodded his head and agreed: "This is indeed my good luck. It is very difficult to set up human path formation that meets my requirements, there are many conditions to do so. Firstly, you need the human path Immortal Gu, secondly, you need to deduce and modify the formation chart, and finally, you need to set up the formation. Setting up the formation requires formation path attainment, deducing and modifying the formation chart requires wisdom path attainment, and because it is a human path immortal formation, it also requires human path attainment."
"Any other Gu Immortal who specializes in formation path, even with rank eight cultivation, would not be able to satisfy my requirements. But you, Fang Yuan, meet all three of these conditions. So now, I really have to rely on you. Please do help me out!"
"Fang Yuan, whatever reward you need, feel free to ask, my Shen clan will definitely do our best to satisfy you." Shen Cong Sheng made a solemn commitment.
Fang Yuan nodded, as soon as Shen Shang said his request to set up the immortal formation, he realized that this was a good opportunity.
Not only would he be able to obtain a generous amount of immortal materials from Shen clan by just setting up the formation.
What he cared more about was Shen clan, Shen Cong Sheng, and Shen Shang.
By cooperating with Shen clan, he could influence the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal world even more deeply and affect the situation of the entire world.
Although Fang Yuan's human path attainment level was already grandmaster, he still had no clue on how to deal with those human path killer moves of Heavenly Court. It would be a completely different story if Shen Shang were to deal with them.
Heavenly Court was too powerful and had countless years of accumulation. Fang Yuan was not able to resist them alone, he needed the help of others to work together and fight against this giant.
Fang Yuan pondered for a moment and said his conditions.
To the surprise of Shen Shang and Shen Cong Sheng, the conditions Fang Yuan proposed were very relaxed and not harsh at all. Fang Yuan did not have much demand for immortal materials, nor did he ask for Immortal Gu.
The only condition that had to be fulfilled was the requirement that Shen Cong Sheng and Shen Shang must take action and become the enemy of Heavenly Court to stop it from repairing fate Gu.
But in fact, there was no need for Fang Yuan to bring it up, it was already the consensus of all the super forces in the world that they had to prevent the successful restoration of fate Gu!
Many of the ambitious people in the world were even more worried about fate Gu than Fang Yuan! After all, none of them were otherworldly demons, once Heavenly Court succeeds in their plan, their status and position would be unshakable.
A few days later, a brand new formation was built at the bottom of the sea.
Shen Shang entered the formation, with the main formation core controlled by Shen Cong Sheng and assisted by Fang Yuan.
The formation was slowly activated as a stream of profound white light formed chains that tied Shen Shang like a mummy.
Shen Shang was silent, sitting in a cross-legged position, soon his entire body was enveloped in a layer of pale white light mist.
A moment later, the formation came to a halt.
Fang Yuan, Shen Cong Sheng and the others found nothing, they could not detect a single bit of black fire within Shen Shang's body at all.
Shen Shang sighed: "I have searched countless times before, the only time this black fire will appear is when I go mad again."
Fang Yuan's eyes shimmered uncertainly: "Are you sure that you can't remember all the things about the black fire?"
Shen Shang just shook his head.
Shen Cong Sheng sighed: "In that case, we will have to wait. This mission will be placed here for now, I will send a person specifically to stay behind to guard the formation."
This arrangement was very reasonable.
The Gu Immortals were restricted in their range of movement in Dragon Whale Paradise and could not travel in and out of places as they wished. Using the Merit Obelisk's teleportation ability, as well as the group title, they were able to communicate instantly, and if Shen Shang went mad, they would quickly gather together.
Those arranged within the formation were bound to be Shen clan's members, sometimes it was even Shen Cong Sheng himself who went to stay guard.
With this burden, Shen clan was not Fang Yuan's match at all in the competition for the merit board ranking.
Time continued to pass day by day, Fang Yuan's merit points rose from thousands to tens of thousands, and then from tens of thousands to even higher.
In the process, he also exchanged for titles from time to time. It was just that the secrets behind many titles were not clear to him either. In the previous life, Miao Ming Shen's group had not explored it to this extent yet, so Fang Yuan could only guess and make deductions.
Fortunately, even if his deductions were wrong, the exchanged titles were all of some use.
Having so many merit points, Fang Yuan did not exchange for any Immortal Gu.
He did not lack any Immortal Gu, what he lacked were some rare immortal materials.
There were instances where Fang Yuan spent his merit points to exchange for immortal materials from the Merit Obelisk that would help the hairy man Gu Immortals' refinement.
Fang Yuan had a large amount of immortal materials, but there were still some missing among the rarer ones. The Merit Obelisk made up for the last gap in resources.
By the time Fang Yuan made a new breakthrough, the first super mission appeared.
"Get rid of the black fire on the heavenly spine?" Fang Yuan was slightly startled: "Why is there still black fire that hasn't been eliminated?"
Some time before, missions regarding the black fire had appeared one after another. The immortals completed these missions to clean up Shen Shang's mess.
"Could it be that this isn't left behind by Shen Shang?" There was a sudden flash of realization in Fang Yuan's mind.
It was very simple to verify this conjecture, with the aid of the Merit Obelisk, Fang Yuan directly teleported to the mission location.
At the next moment, he was at the top of the clouds, the highest point in the sky.
There was no wind and the sun was warm.
"This is?" Fang Yuan's pupils shrank as he looked up to see countless lumps of black fire burning silently.
The scale of the black fire was extremely large, as if this was a field of dark clouds in a rainstorm!
The total amount of black fire that Fang Yuan and the immortals had previously gone to great lengths to annihilate was a minute fraction of the black fire in front of him now.
"The scale of this black fire is appalling, it cannot have come from Shen Shang. In that case, there was already a hidden black fire problem in Dragon Whale Paradise from the start!"
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Chapter 1915 Shen Shang“s Inheritance
The black fire was not burning in the air, it was attached to giant bones.
The giant bones were milky white and had a sacred aura.
The giant bones had a main trunk that extended from east to west, it could pierce through heaven and earth, it was like a dragon of the nine heavens that stretched beyond Fang Yuan's vision. On both sides of the bone, there were countless neatly arranged branching giant bones that extended outwards, as if they were giant ivory tusks.
The entire skeleton was like the spine and ribs of a giant, singlehandedly holding up the sky!
"Heavenly spine…" Fang Yuan murmured, the sight before him was imposing, he was underneath the giant bones, being as small as a mosquito.
These bones were like gnarled trees, and the black fire gathered like clouds, covering most of the bones.
After evaluating it, Fang Yuan figured out a few details: "This heavenly spine is actually a rank nine bone path immortal material!"
That alone was incredible.
The heavenly spine should not be a human bone, which Gu Immortal had such a massive body?
Since it was not a human bone, it was a beast bone.
But how could there be such a fierce beast that could reach the level of rank nine?
It was impossible!
Rank nine was the level of a venerable, historically, they only appeared in the human race. Throughout history, there were only ten of them, while the rest of the races had rank eight existences at most, there were also immemorial desolate beasts or immemorial desolate plants as well.
Was it possible that there were rank nine desolate beasts or plants in this world?
Only such an existence would leave behind such a grade of immortal material after death.
"Other than that, is it something that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created personally?" Fang Yuan was filled with questions.
This was very unlikely.
Because Fang Yuan had already seen through the function of the heavenly spine, its one and only use was to reinforce this Dragon Whale Paradise.
If Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable wanted to reinforce this paradise, he could have used earth path methods, or even sound path methods. These were his expertise, why would he bother to choose bone path?
"Also, why did Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable set it up like this, to specifically reinforce Dragon Whale Paradise? It's as if Dragon Whale Paradise is very unsafe and could collapse at any moment."
"But the truth is, the blue dragon whale is a legendary immemorial desolate beast, its strength is near the pinnacle of the world. There are simply very few existences that can threaten it. If something can threaten its life, would there be a point in reinforcing Dragon Whale Paradise?"
"The biggest question is, why is there such a huge black fire on the back of the heavenly spine?"
This was clearly not caused by Shen Shang.
If Shen Shang was able to leak black fire of this scale, how could he still come back alive and volunteer to seal himself?
"What kind of connection is there between the black fire here and the black fire on Shen Shang's body?" Fang Yuan kept deducing, and in the process, he saw a branching rib completely melt away in the black fire.
The black fire was fiercely corroding and constantly destroying the heavenly spine!
What would happen if the heavenly spine is completely destroyed?
Fang Yuan did not know, but it was definitely not something good.
He tried his hand as he manipulated Myriad Year Flying Warship, activating daybreak flying sword to attack the black fire.
As he expected, the black fire was like a sea, his attack was like throwing stones into the sea, unable to create any difference.
Fang Yuan tried for a while, but he had no choice but to stop. Even a character like him felt overwhelmed at the moment.
This was the difficulty of a super mission.
After pondering for a bit, Fang Yuan left the place, returned to the starting island, he went over to the underwater formation.
Shen Shang was still conscious, Fang Yuan informed him of the situation at the heavenly spine.
"Do you have any impressions of this place?" Fang Yuan inquired.
Shen Shang shook his head in distress: "No recollection of that at all. But it definitely has a connection with my black fire. If I can figure out the mystery of the black fire, I might be able to gain insight on the plan of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable back then, as well as the deepest secrets of Dragon Whale Paradise!"
At this point, Shen Shang paused: "I want to see it for myself, is that okay?"
"Of course." Fang Yuan responded immediately. Since he had told Shen Shang about this situation, he was not going to hide it.
To attempt to complete a super mission, relying on him alone seemed insufficient, he would have to gather the strength of all the Gu Immortals.
Soon, the group of immortals gathered together as one and arrived at the heavenly spine.
Seeing the sea of black fire clouds that filled the sky, the group of immortals had a change of expression as they marveled at it.
The group of immortals tried to exterminate the black fire, but the progress was extremely slight. It seemed that the larger the black fire was, the more difficult it was to eradicate it.
Among the immortals, only Shen Shang's human path methods were sufficiently effective, the others were all outmatched by him.
After the plan to remove the black fire had lasted for several days, Hua Die was the first to give up.
It was not that she could not take it mentally, but the immortal essence expenditure was too high.
"This mission is too hard, I suggest we give up." Miao Ming Shen secretly approached Fang Yuan and discussed with him in private.
Even without him having to say anything, Fang Yuan had already wanted to give up.
By now, the immortals had done their best but only managed to eliminate a small area of the black fire. And such a scale was not even one-thousandth of the entire black fire.
"If I were to truly utilize my rank eight battle strength, this would certainly be much more efficient, but the result would still be too poor. Instead, I might as well complete large sized missions one after another, after a few times, I'll be able to accumulate a large amount of merit points."
"I'm afraid only a venerable will be able to handle a super mission like this with ease."
Fang Yuan decided to give up.
Shen Cong Sheng and Shen Shang expressed their understanding.
But they were unwilling to give up, they only let the other Shen clan Gu Immortals follow him.
Shen Shang said to Fang Yuan: "I still want to explore it further, I will move along the main spine and see if I can find any clue or answer."
Fang Yuan looked at him deeply, nodding and leaving directly.
Soon, only Shen Shang and Shen Cong Sheng were left here at the heavenly spine.
"Take a walk with me." Shen Shang sighed.
Shen Cong Sheng followed and took the initiative to ask: "Ancestor, you purposely diverted everyone away, did you recall something?"
Shen Shang shook his head: "I am planning to hand over my human path inheritance to you."
Shen Cong Sheng was startled, he had an ominous feeling from Shen Shang's tone as he quickly said: "Ancestor, you need not be in such a hurry. I believe that there will always be a way to resolve the problem in you."
Shen Shang smiled slightly: "I have not given up hope, but I have to make considerations for our clan. Leaving behind my human path inheritance for the benefit of our clan, it can be considered as me repaying the debt I once owed the clan!"
Shen Cong Sheng was silent.
Shen Shang continued: "At the underwater formation, I was not able to pass you my inheritance, after all, it was a formation set up by Fang Yuan himself. But here, it should be safe."
"I won't pass my human path Immortal Gu to you, because I still need to use them. What I'm passing on to you is my experience in cultivation, and the various killer moves and Immortal Gu recipes I've created."
Shen Cong Sheng said solemnly: "I will definitely not fail to live up to ancestor's good intentions."
Shen Shang smiled bitterly: "My memory is fragmented, what I remember is limited. Let's start from the very beginning, I used to major in sound path, but then in an accident, I refined heal injury Immortal Gu, from which I saw that hope of human path."
"In order to convert to human path, I did many things in secret, all of which were against the rules of the righteous path. Our clan defended me and helped to cover up these incidents, but in the end, I couldn't hide it from Lord Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable."
"When Lord Paradise Earth found me, I was no match for him, I couldn't even take a single blow from him. But Lord Paradise Earth didn't kill me, nor did he imprison me, but instead, because I had spent many years saving lives and helping the injured, he gave me a chance to redeem myself. And he promised me that if I could seize this opportunity, I might even be able to achieve my goal and successfully convert to cultivating human path."
"And so I came here, I cultivated bitterly in the underwater formation that Lord Paradise Earth had set up."
"The memories of my non-stop cultivation are completely blurred, I only remember that in the process, I received the help of the undersea formation and repeatedly broke through, progressing steadily."
"With heal injury Immortal Gu as the foundation, I developed and created saving dead healing injuries, light injuries, heavy injuries, fatal injuries, sensory injuries, seven laborious injuries, and other killer moves."
"Finally, one day, I created the killer move countless injury marks. From this killer move, I deduced the Immortal Gu recipe of injury mark Immortal Gu."
"I refined it and replaced my own vital Gu. With this Immortal Gu, any attacks that cause damage to me will be converted into the respective injury marks."
"The more injury marks I have, the more I can increase the power of mutual injuries killer move. In the battle earlier, Fang Yuan was forced to retreat by me because I used the killer move mutual injuries to cause him to be covered in injury marks."
"Remember that injury mark Immortal Gu is the core of my human path inheritance, while mutual injuries is my main offensive method."
Shen Cong Sheng's heart shook as he listened, the true inheritance of human path created by Shen Shang was so profound that it shook him physically and mentally!
"Ancestor, this true inheritance that you started has great future prospects, perhaps it might be able to create an entirely new sub-path branching from human path." Shen Cong Sheng praised heartily.
"Hahaha." Shen Shang laughed proudly as he patted Shen Cong Sheng's shoulder: "I'm afraid that I won't be able to. The inheritance is left to you, if you are interested in the future, you can switch to human path. If you have no intention of doing so, just choose a suitable successor."
Southern Border.
Virtue Paradise.
A female immortal dressed in a purple silk robe, ornate and mysterious, came down the mountain step by step.
Her skin was white as snow and her black hair hung down to her waist, her eyes were like the deep pool, with a sense of sadness shrouding her face. It was Heavenly Court's leader, the person who had Star Constellation Chessboard, the number one wisdom path great expert in the current world — Fairy Zi Wei!
At the moment, however, Fairy Zi Wei was covered in a thin layer of sweat and looked haggard, but her eyes were shining and her spirit was high.
At the foot of the mountain, Lu Wei Yin had been waiting for a long time: "Lady Zi Wei, it seems you've reached your goal in this journey."
Fairy Zi Wei smiled: "This climb has benefited me a lot. I have already obtained benevolence Gu, thank you for your generosity."
Lu Wei Yin also smiled: "Lady Zi Wei, it is not to help you, this is for the sake of the world, to maintain the peace of the five regions."
"But alas, in the current world, demonic immortals are rising. Not to mention Fang Yuan, recently in Western Desert, a blood path rank eight great expert has actually appeared, purposely finding trouble with super forces and repeatedly attacking various resource points. They are acting extremely arrogantly, and the methods are extraordinarily terrifying. The chaos is coming, I only hope that this Virtue Paradise will become an actual paradise safe from the chaos of the world."
Fairy Zi Wei sighed: "I understand what you mean. In the future, there will be generous rewards for you after the changes in the five regions. Farewell."
"Goodbye." Lu Wei Yin moved aside and gave way to her departure.
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Chapter 1916 Ultimate Mission
Dragon Whale Paradise.
At the Merit Obelisk, Fang Yuan and Shen Cong Sheng stood as they looked at the merit board together.
The super mission regarding the black fire was still around, but tomorrow was the final day of the three hundred days they could stay here.
Fang Yuan's merit points stood at the top of the board, he had a huge amount. After he found out about the difficulty of the black fire mission, he chose only large and mid-sized missions to earn his merit points.
Miao Ming Shen and others worked alongside him and gained an abundant amount of points as well.
After realizing the difficulty of the super mission, Shen Cong Sheng and others wisely learned from Fang Yuan, now their merit points had also accumulated to a considerable amount.
"Three hundred days have passed by, it feels like we just arrived here yesterday." Shen Cong Sheng smiled bitterly.
This was a genuine land of treasures, by completing various missions, the Gu Immortals would be able to directly obtain Immortal Gu, Immortal Gu recipes, and various killer moves. Even a rank eight Gu Immortal like Shen Cong Sheng was attracted to this place and did not want to leave.
But there was no way, once the time limit was up, they would be kicked out of Dragon Whale Paradise.
"It's a pity that this time, we did not explore all the secrets of Dragon Whale Paradise." Fang Yuan sighed with pity.
There were many more strange things about this Dragon Whale Paradise.
The black fire was one of them.
Where did this black fire come from? How could it transform to so many different forms? Why could its path not be discerned? And why were human path methods so effective against it?
Apart from the black fire, where did the heavenly spine left behind by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable originate? What was the true intent of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable?
What agreement did Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable and Shen Shang make back then? Shen Shang cultivated human path in the underwater formation, yet he was somehow tainted by the troublesome black fire.
Also, apart from Shen Shang alone, Fang Yuan did not see any other Gu Immortals. Were there no Gu Immortals in Dragon Whale Paradise in the first place? And where did the Immortal Gu in the Merit Obelisk come from? If they were all naturally produced, the number was simply too large.
After a moment of silence, Shen Cong Sheng said: "We'll have to leave these secrets for the future when we can explore them again. It's good that we have all exchanged for that title already, so once the blue dragon whale appears in the future, we will be able to sense it and explore it again."
Fang Yuan nodded his head, this was indeed a good discovery.
Just as he had deduced before, the reason why Miao Ming Shen was able to discover the exact location of the blue dragon whale was because of a title.
But it was unknown who had taken this title and quietly transferred it to him.
Of all the titles provided by the Merit Obelisk, there were very few types of titles that could be transferred.
There was also another discovery about titles.
After getting a certain title, the Gu Immortal could teleport to any location within a hundred thousand li radius when they leave Dragon Whale Paradise.
This was something that Fang Yuan had lied to Miao Ming Shen's group before, but it existed in reality.
Right at this time, the words on the Merit Obelisk transformed suddenly.
Be they small sized missions, mid-sized missions, or large sized missions, even super missions were gone, only one ultimate mission was left.
Ultimate mission — Leave with the blue dragon whale and successfully return.
"This is?" Shen Cong Sheng gasped.
Fang Yuan frowned: "This means that above super missions, there are ultimate missions? This description is so vague, I'm afraid it is much harder than getting rid of the black fire!"
At this time, there was a new transformation on the Merit Obelisk.
Shen Cong Sheng stared with wide eyes as he read it: "The mission does not have a time limit, after receiving it, one can stay in the paradise indefinitely. After completing the ultimate mission, one will obtain the qualifications to become the Merit Obelisk Lord and retain their merit points."
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with bright light, he thought to himself: "So Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable made his arrangements already to choose the Merit Obelisk Lord. According to his arrangements, I will be able to become the owner of this rank eight Immortal Gu House. It is a pity, a real pity."
Fang Yuan felt some regret.
He had already uncovered a correct method to obtain the Merit Obelisk, but his strength was limited. He could not even complete the super mission, let alone the ultimate mission.
The ultimate mission was obviously extremely difficult, even a rank eight Gu Immortal would have little hope.
This was easy to deduce.
The Gu Immortals that had come to Dragon Whale Paradise were far more than just Fang Yuan's group. When the previous groups of people came here, some might have chosen to accept this ultimate mission, but the Merit Obelisk was still in an unowned state.
This meant that no one had ever succeeded!
There was another reason why Fang Yuan did not intend to accept the mission.
It was written on the Merit Obelisk that the time limit for this mission was indefinite.
If it took too long and he waited until he completed the mission before leaving, only to find that Heavenly Court had already completely repaired fate Gu, then what was the point of all this?
"Sigh…" Shen Cong Sheng let out a breath of air, he also regained his logic, recognizing the risks involved, he was no longer dreaming about it.
Fang Yuan stretched out his arm and pointed at the mission on the Merit Obelisk, analyzing it: "Brother Shen, this ultimate mission has given us some extra information. After choosing this mission, the Gu Immortal's personal merit points will be preserved. This means that those who haven't accepted it will have all of their remaining merit points cleared as soon as they leave Dragon Whale Paradise."
Shen Cong Sheng nodded repeatedly, his heart clenched: "I'm afraid that's it. When we first came here, the merit ranking list was empty."
As such, the Gu Immortals would have to spend as much of their accumulated merit points as possible.
But exactly how they would spend it would require some consideration on the part of the Gu Immortals themselves.
The next day.
Somewhere in Eastern Sea, three white lights flashed, the three Immortals Fang Yuan, Shen Cong Sheng, and Shen Shang appeared.
All the Gu Immortals gave up on the ultimate mission and chose to leave.
However, Miao Ming Shen's group did not leave with Fang Yuan, they still had reservations towards him.
Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua, on the other hand, left along with the rest of Shen clan's Gu Immortals. After this, these two Eastern Sea lone immortals were considered to be completely on board and tied to Shen clan's ship.
Fang Yuan turned around and looked back, only to see the sky was empty, the sea was calm, there was nothing behind him.
He did not want to give up on this, so he, along with Shen Cong Sheng and Shen Shang, kept scouting the surroundings, but found nothing after all.
"The three of us deliberately chose the location of the blue dragon whale, but where is the blue dragon whale now?"
"We can stop looking for it, this is the method of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable. Even though the scene in front of us is very realistic, it might just be an illusion for all we know."
"Come to speak of it, we have not seen the true appearance of the blue dragon whale until now."
The three immortals sighed.
There were really quite many secrets involving the blue dragon whale.
The blue dragon whale was a legendary immemorial beast that was enlightened by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, it gained an immortal aperture and could cultivate, it should have intelligence rivaling ordinary people. But the entire time the Gu Immortals explored the paradise, they had never seen the blue dragon whale initiate contact with them.
The traces of the blue dragon whale were also very mysterious. When did it appear, how did it disappear, and where did it go in the process? Nobody knew.
The three Gu Immortals here were unable to find out the truth even after they had personally explored Dragon Whale Paradise.
Fang Yuan sighed internally, his original plan was to obtain both the blue dragon whale and the Merit Obelisk.
But the truth was, he had simply been dreaming.
This was a meticulous arrangement set up by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, it had some sort of mysterious purpose. It was like the Crazed Demon Cave in Northern Plains, which was created by Limitless Demon Venerable himself and was also a huge arrangement, Fang Yuan could only stop at the eighth level and could not enter the most important core, the ninth level.
"Wait, Crazed Demon Cave… crazed demon?" Fang Yuan suddenly had a thought.
Limitless Demon Venerable created Crazed Demon Cave that had demonic sounds that would cause living beings to go insane. Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable also had a black fire in the Dragon Whale Paradise that could cause insanity.
Was there some sort of relationship?
"Thinking about it, Dragon Whale Paradise had many insane living beings. For example, the tiger king salamander that I killed…" Fang Yuan pondered.
These living beings were beyond saving, Fang Yuan could not find out the reason, he could only kill them.
Other than the absence of black fire, they had nearly the same problem as Shen Shang.
From this point, it showed how powerful Shen Shang was!
This person, even with black fire on him, had only gone insane for some time, he relied on his immense human path foundation and dao marks to suppress it and regain his clarity.
Even Fang Yuan was not confident in achieving this.
He knew that even though he had many dao marks, they were not of human path.
"Currently speaking, Shen Shang is likely the number one person in the five regions when it comes to human path! Even that Old Man Zheng Yuan in Heavenly Court cannot compare to him."
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan inevitably considered the fact that the fate battle was not far away. It was likely that Shen Shang could cause some trouble to Heavenly Court in battle.
The three immortals could not detect the blue dragon whale and decided to bid each other farewell.
They all had significant gains from their expedition to the Dragon Whale Paradise. But the one who gained the most was undoubtedly Fang Yuan.
While alone, Fang Yuan transformed back into the appearance of Qi Sea Ancestor and returned to qi sea under concealment.
The large formation in the depths of qi sea was still in operation, and in the formation, he met Wu Shuai, who was guarding the place.
Wu Shuai had gone to Southern Border in order to trade dream realms with Chi clan. Chi Qu You saw the opportunity and raised the price, Wu Shuai thought of the big picture and did not want to accept Chi Qu You's price, he planned to settle the score after everything was over.
But to think that Wu Yong found out about the loss of the dream realms. He became enraged, he went to Chi Qu You for a discussion.
Chi Qu You naturally denied all accusations, he refused to admit his involvement.
But after this warning, Chi Qu You had to stop and temporarily end the dream realm transactions.
Wu Shuai had no choice but to return to Eastern Sea.
Fang Yuan met with Wu Shuai and learned about the current situation of the world.
It was quite bad.
In Southern Border, Wu Yong's influence was growing. Because of the mysterious disappearance of the dream realms, Chi Qu You faced much suspicion. Wu Yong used this chance to consolidate his influence over the entire Southern Alliance.
In Western Desert, however, the clone Fang Di Chang, who Fang Yuan was placing much hopes on, was currently facing a tough predicament.
After he allied with several super forces to repel Heavenly Court, a blood path great expert appeared in Western Desert, he caused chaos everywhere. He seemed to hate super forces, Fang clan became one of his victims.
Other than this, an immemorial desolate beast started to cause havoc in Fang clan's ice-fire desert.
This immemorial desolate beast was very crafty, Fang clan failed many attempts to capture or kill it.
As for Profound Literature grotto-heaven, Li Xiao Bai was having smooth progress.
In Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, Zhan Bu Du was facing a huge problem, his life was at risk.
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Chapter 1917 I Am Your Father
Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
The sky could not be seen for the last few months, the entire grotto-heaven was covered in black poisonous smoke.
The poisonous smoke covered the entire sky and rumbled continuously, occasionally turned into dragon shapes that rampaged and caused destruction to the world.
Within Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, there were anguished cries, the future was bleak.
Star Collection City was the largest city in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, it was also now the largest gathering spot of all of humanity here.
The walls of Star Collection City towered high, there were many towers within the city.
Zhan Bu Du was standing on the highest tower, looking up at the rumbling poisonous smoke in the sky.
He looked exhausted and was bruised all over.
Behind him, a female Beast Warrior was healing his wounds.
"My main body has adjusted the speed of time flow in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven to become too fast, it caused frequent tribulations to descend. In this grotto-heaven, any calamity or tribulation will turn into a beast calamity. However, before the former beast calamity is annihilated, the new one will arrive. These beast calamities are spread all over the place, taking the attention of all the Gu Immortals in the grotto-heaven. After gradually accumulating, they all merged together and became the monsters they are today! Sigh… this time, my main body has made a mistake."
Zhan Bu Du's brows were locked in worry.
The Combat Beast Warrior who was treating his wounds advised: "Little Du, you'd better rest. You just fought a fierce battle for three consecutive days and nights without sleep. If this continues, no matter how tough your body is, you won't be able to survive."
Zhan Bu Du sighed deeply: "I am now the strongest Combat Beast Warrior here, I must fight to the best of my ability. If I am on the battlefield, fewer people will be sacrificed!"
"Little Du, you've done well enough. If you hadn't sensed something was wrong and informed everyone beforehand, we would not have had the major cities gather their civilians in advance. In that case, there would definitely be deaths and injuries. You are truly worthy of being our savior, you saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people." The Combat Beast Warrior said.
Even though she was a senior Combat Beast Warrior, she felt deep appreciation and admiration towards this junior Zhan Bu Du.
Zhan Bu Du had managed to gain the recognition of everyone in this grotto-heaven during this period. Not only was it because of his high battle strength, but more crucially, his love for civilians, his selfless sacrifice, and his repeated battles on the front lines.
Right now, Zhan Bu Du was a great hero, he was a role model and the idol of all the commoners.
But in reality, Zhan Bu Du was only trying his best to preserve his possessions. Whether it was him or Fang Yuan, they had already regarded Beast Calamity grotto-heaven as their own property.
Although Beast Calamity grotto-heaven had preserved most of its vitality because of Zhan Bu Du's timely warning, the things that had been lost were still enough for Zhan Bu Du to feel distress.
"Here we go again!" Zhan Bu Du looked tense suddenly.
The Beast Warriors around him also tensed up and looked up at the sky at once.
Only to see that in the sky, poisonous smoke fiercely swirled and roared like a dragon, a giant dragon made of poisonous smoke descended.
The dragon's body was so huge that it stretched for eight hundred feet, and the dragon head was like a small mountain, ruthlessly crashing into Star Collection City on the ground.
Once it hit, half of Star Collection City would be instantly destroyed, and after the poisonous smoke spread, more than a hundred thousand people would die.
Of course, Zhan Bu Du would not allow this to happen.
With an eagle's cry, an arrow-tailed eagle flew out of his immortal aperture.
Combat Beast Warrior transformation!
In an instant, he transformed into an eagle-headed person, fiercely flapped his wings as he flew high into the air.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
Zhan Bu Du attacked madly, sending out countless wind blades that were extremely sharp and fierce like a storm.
Hundreds and thousands of giant wind blades hit the dragon head, the poisonous smoke dragon head lasted for a moment before collapsing.
"It's Little Du."
"He helped us again."
"Worthy of Little Du."
The Combat Beast Warriors reacted one after another, expressing praises.
The civilians located in various parts of Star Collection City, upon seeing this scene, shouted "World Savior Zhan Bu Du", and soon, such voices quickly spread! All over the city, commotions were rising, filling the entire Star Collection City with frenzied cheers.
Zhan Bu Du did not relax but looked up into the sky vigilantly, shouting: "Attention everyone, another wave of attack is coming."
Poisonous smoke surged and more than a dozen poisonous smoke dragons suddenly appeared, rushing towards Star Collection City.
The people's cheering came to an abrupt halt.
The Combat Beast Warriors were instantly pale as paper.
In the past, the attack was at most three to five poisonous smoke dragons, but now the number had multiplied fivefold, and it was simply not something they could resist.
"Is this going to be the end of us?"
"Damn it!"
"I don't want to die!"
Just at the critical moment, the Star Snail Hall suddenly surged with a blinding starlight, and then a giant suddenly appeared and established itself on the battlefield.
The people were overjoyed, Zhan Bu Du also pretended to be extremely surprised, but in his mind he already knew: "The old fellow is finally willing to take action."
This was the current generation Combat Beast King, using the corpse of the Star Sea Snail to transform, he had the highest battle strength in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven and was also the final trump card.
When Fang Yuan had transformed into a bull-headed demon god, he had also fought with the Combat Beast King.
The giant was clad in heavy armor and kept punching, fist shadows shot out violently, like meteors rushing into the sky.
The meteors hit the poisonous smoke dragon heads with extraordinary effect. Several poisonous smoke dragon heads were destroyed on the spot, the momentum of the poisonous smoke dragon heads was ruthlessly stalled, which gave some crucial time for the other Combat Beast Warriors.
Next, the giant's feet stomped on the ground and its hands supported the sky, a hemispherical curtain of starlight rose up, enveloping the city.
The poisonous smoke dragons were temporarily blocked out by the giant curtain of starlight, one by one the Combat Beast Warriors were enveloped in a layer of blue light, floating out and engaging the poisonous smoke dragons fiercely in battle.
The Combat Beast Warriors were merely flesh and blood, they were quickly at a disadvantage.
The poisonous smoke giant dragons kept on coming, no matter how many of them were blown up, there would be new poisonous smoke giant dragons produced.
"If this continues, I'm afraid that today will be the day Star Collection City gets destroyed." Realizing this, the Combat Beast King made up his mind at last.
He called out loudly, his voice echoing through the battlefield: "The situation is urgent, Little Du, go and take the last inheritance. You are our final hope to save everyone today!"
"This old fellow is finally willing to give me the last part of his inheritance!" Zhan Bu Du sneered in his mind.
Currently, he had already obtained the Beast Calamity true inheritance in various important places, and only the last part was missing.
He had been in Star Collection City for many days, but the current generation Combat Beast King had not mentioned anything about it. Zhan Bu Du also had to temporarily pretend that he did not know the last part of the inheritance was in Star Collection City.
"Little Du, go, I'll be guarding this place."
"Quickly go, Little Du, it's up to you."
"We'll buy you time, even if it is the last moment of our lives, we'll do our duty!"
The Combat Beast Warriors urged.
Undeniably, the Gu Immortals in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven were really different from the outside world of the five regions, they had the spirit to sacrifice and contribute their lives.
Zhan Bu Du flew to the underground of the Star Snail Hall and arrived at the last altar.
The altar shined brightly, the qilin heavenly spirit appeared all of a sudden.
"Oh young man, you are qualified to inherit the entire Beast Calamity true inheritance. It's time to tell you the truth about the world." The voice of the qilin heavenly spirit was like that of a young child, crisp and cute.
After receiving the memories, Zhan Bu Du showed a look of shock and disbelief: "So our world is so small, the true way to use Gu worms is not by transformation! This is too unexpected."
"Heavenly spirit, what do I do now?"
The qilin heavenly spirit stood in front of Zhan Bu Du as it lowered its head: "Master, I don't have any method now. Ever since the change in the tributary of the River of Time, the tribulations in the grotto-heaven had been appearing non stop. Among these tribulations, there is one myriad tribulation among them! I'm afraid I cannot escape this now, I will open the door now, master, you need to escape quickly."
The moment Zhan Bu Du inherited the complete Beast Calamity true inheritance, the qilin heavenly spirit acknowledged him as master.
Zhan Bu Du sighed deeply and was about to open his mouth, but suddenly his expression changed drastically, revealing genuine surprise: "No need, my main body has already arrived!"
At the critical moment, Fang Yuan's main body finally arrived.
Looking at the poisonous smoke everywhere, Fang Yuan also felt a headache.
Zhan Bu Du ordered the qilin heavenly spirit to open the grotto-heaven's entrance, Fang Yuan came in here with no obstruction.
Because he was no longer an intruder, and because the qilin heavenly spirit acknowledged a master, myriad beings assimilation transformation was no longer taking effect on Fang Yuan's main body, he was able to come in personally.
Thus, the Combat Beast Warriors in the battlefield saw an unimaginable scene.
A man was floating in mid-air, his aura as strong as the sea. The poisonous smoke dragons seemed to be stimulated by the mysterious visitor, most of them turned towards Fang Yuan to kill him.
"Who is he?"
"Get away!"
"Oh no, it's too late."
The Combat Beast Warriors roared in rage and despair as they watched Fang Yuan being heavily surrounded by the poisonous smoke dragons.
At the moment the poisonous smoke dragons descended on him, Fang Yuan made his move.
Rumble!
In an instant, qi currents surged as wind and waves soared. The sky and earth changed color, all the poisonous smoke receded.
Fang Yuan stood proudly in the sky, the poisonous smoke dragons around him dissipated, even the thick layer of poisonous smoke above his head was torn open to expose a huge hole. Bright light shined down through the round hole, causing Fang Yuan to be bathed in sunlight.
The Combat Beast Warriors opened their mouths one by one, extremely shocked.
As soon as Fang Yuan made his move, he displayed such intense might in battle. Furthermore,he did not use any transformations at all, he had used such great battle strength just by himself.
This scene caused the long-standing cultivation thought process of the Combat Beast Warriors to crumble.
For a moment, the crowd was at a loss.
At this time, Fang Yuan slowly spoke, his voice clearly entering the ears of everyone present: "Little Du, where are you? Father is here."
The group of immortals were surprised again!
Zhan Bu Du flew out, looking surprised and teary-eyed: "Father, you've finally come out of seclusion. Please save the world."
At the next moment, the entire Star Collection City went into an uproar.
It turned out that this mysterious man was actually Zhan Bu Du's father, no wonder he was so powerful!
This was a secluded expert.
They were saved, they were definitely saved!
Fang Yuan sighed and spoke in a tone of bitter loss: "I never expected such a disaster to occur this time when I stayed in closed cultivation. It's a pity that I was isolated from the outside world during my seclusion, if I had known earlier, I would never have let these poisonous smoke dragons wreak havoc for so long."
After saying that, Fang Yuan struck again and quickly dispersed the entire area of poisonous smoke.
However, there was too much poisonous smoke, spreading throughout the grotto-heaven, soon the poisonous smoke was replenished through the smoke at other areas.
"Father, the situation is now under control, let's go down and take a rest first." Zhan Bu Du said.
"Okay." Fang Yuan nodded.
Thus, the two of them slowly flew into Star Collection City amidst countless gazes of adoration, longing, awe, and curiosity.
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Chapter 1918 Crucial Person
Heavenly Court.
Star Constellation Chessboard was half a foot off the ground, slowly rotating between Fairy Zi Wei and Feng Jin Huang, blossoming with brilliant starlight.
The specks of starlight were so dazzling that they resembled blue fireflies, lightly jumping, sometimes swirling around the two, sometimes burrowing into their brains and colliding.
The two sat opposite each other, both with their eyes closed and brows knitted tightly, pondering over some difficult question.
The starlight slowly disappeared, Star Constellation Chessboard flew into Fairy Zi Wei's hands.
Fairy Zi Wei slowly opened her eyes, but Feng Jin Huang did not, she fell softly to the ground as she had passed out on the spot.
"This child…" Fairy Zi Wei was not nervous, she merely sighed.
She knew Feng Jin Huang's condition like the back of her hand.
In the end, Feng Jin Huang was only a Gu Master, unlike Fairy Zi Wei who was a rank eight great expert. The original deduction speed arranged by Fairy Zi Wei was very suitable for Feng Jin Huang.
However, Feng Jin Huang insisted that she did not want to slow down the progress and waste Fairy Zi Wei's time because of her own reasons. After all, Fairy Zi Wei was a key figure in Heavenly Court.
When Feng Jin Huang slowly woke up, she found that she had already left the deduction hall and had returned to Central Great Hall.
"Well done, Huang Er!" Duke Long looked at Feng Jin Huang and was extremely pleased: "You have actually improved the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique, eliminating the flaw of this physique entirely. You are indeed worthy of being the fated Great Dream Immortal Venerable."
Feng Jin Huang was a little embarrassed from the praise: "Master, to be honest, I was only able to do so by coincidence. Do you remember the killer move shatter dream I created previously? This modification was done based on its results. The entire process was thanks to Lady Zi Wei's deductions, I was only playing a minor supplementary role in modifying the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique."
Fairy Zi Wei smiled: "Little Huang Er, you're too modest. It is precisely because you provided the correct direction that we were able to make our deductions. If not for that, I'm afraid that even if I had made many calculations, I would have gained nothing."
Duke Long spoke with great solemness: "Huang Er, this perfect Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique is extremely significant to you, it is the key to your future achievements. You must grasp it well and remember that you must undergo immortal ascension using the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique in the future."
Feng Jin Huang had never seen such solemnity from Duke Long before, she nodded her head: "Yes master, I will definitely keep that in mind."
Duke Long nodded: "You can go, I still have important matters to discuss with Fairy Zi Wei."
"This disciple takes her leave." Feng Jin Huang immediately left obediently.
"This time, Huang Er was able to obtain the perfect Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique, you deserve credit for that!" Duke Long said to Fairy Zi Wei.
It was indeed so.
Not only did Fairy Zi Wei play a major role in the deduction, but the original Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique was also obtained because she looked through the memories of Spectral Soul.
Without this foundation, no matter how much inspiration or direction Feng Jin Huang had, she would not be able to make any progress.
Fairy Zi Wei smiled: "This is my duty. If you hadn't captured Spectral Soul alive, I wouldn't have been able to soul search him. Speaking of which, the one Huang Er has to thank is you, her master."
Duke Long shook his head slightly: "This is shameful, as a master, I actually have very little to teach. I don't know anything about dream path, but fortunately, Huang Er possesses an extraordinary talent in dream path. It is also an honor for me to be able to do something for the future Great Dream Immortal Venerable. How has the practice of the killer move benevolent equality gone recently?"
Fairy Zi Wei's face turned solemn: "There is no problem with benevolence Gu, as for the killer move, I have successfully activated it several times."
"Did you find anything strange?" Duke Long pursued.
Fairy Zi Wei denied: "Not at all."
Duke Long intoned: "This means that benevolent equality is effective. But why haven't we seen any results?"
"Yes." Fairy Zi Wei's eyebrows were knitted: "Using benevolent equality to deal with Spring Autumn Cicada is a plan we have had all along. Looking at Fang Yuan's recent actions, all of them have been well planned and prepared, such as the battle in the River of Time, or the Dragon Palace fight, he had a good head start. He must have been reborn already, but why does no one on our side have memories of the previous life?"
The effect of benevolent equality was just as the name implied. Once Fairy Zi Wei used the killer move, the people that she looked at during the process would experience equivalent changes to their conditions.
For example, after Fairy Zi Wei used benevolent equality, she saw Fang Yuan's rebirth. At the same time, she looked towards Duke Long.
Then if Fang Yuan self-detonated using the killer move spring autumn success, his memories would go back to his past self. Duke Long would receive the same treatment, his memories would also go back to his former self.
"We don't know exactly what happened in Fang Yuan's last life. Previously, it was speculated that we couldn't borrow benevolence Gu, causing benevolent equality to be unusable. But now it seems we indeed gained this method."
"So was this result the effect of Fang Yuan's rebirth, and we actually did not gain benevolent equality in our previous life, or was it because something happened to me in the previous life, causing me to not use benevolent equality on him?"
Fairy Zi Wei was in a predicament.
A while after being awakened and understanding the current situation, Duke Long proposed to use benevolent equality to deal with Spring Autumn Cicada.
Spring Autumn Cicada was refined by his disciple, Red Lotus Demon Venerable, Demon Venerable knew the ways to deal with this cicada.
The time of Fang Yuan's rebirth was easily calculable by Fairy Zi Wei, it was at the time when Heavenly Court attacked Lang Ya blessed land.
The Fang Yuan before this and the Fang Yuan after this time had a different style of action and a completely different success rate in his plans.
Before Heavenly Court attacked Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan failed to regain the upper extreme heavenly eagle and was trapped by Lu Wei Yin.
After that, Fang Yuan had countless adequate preparations to deal with Heavenly Court's attack. Heavenly Court's side was repeatedly restrained, their advantages could not be utilized while their disadvantages were infinitely magnified, yet Fang Yuan was just the opposite.
Duke Long pondered: "Actually, there is another possibility. In the previous life, you successfully used benevolent equality, but you saw no one else but Fang Yuan. Or perhaps this person is not a Gu Immortal who is loyal to Heavenly Court."
There was a slight flicker of light in the eyes of Fairy Zi Wei: "If that's the case, then who could this crucial person be?"
Longevity Heaven.
Bzzz bzzz bzzz….
Orange-yellow light flickered endlessly, enveloping the sky of Longevity Heaven.
Next, an aura started from an extremely weak state and grew rapidly, soon filling the world and shaking people's hearts.
Such a change had already attracted the attention of Five Elements Grandmaster, Bull Demon, and Flower Lady.
Five Elements Grandmaster was a lone cultivator of Northern Plains, but after getting trapped by Longevity Heaven, he felt despair after struggling and decided to join Longevity Heaven, he was not stationed in Longevity Heaven permanently.
Bull Demon and Flower Lady were a duo that took the role of North Desolation Immortal together.
"What happened?" Five Elements Grandmaster was very uncertain.
Bull Demon and Flower Lady looked at each other, seeing the joy on each other's faces, the latter giggled: "West Desolation Immortal Bing Sai Chuan has awakened!"
"Bing Sai Chuan?" Five Elements Grandmaster's brows rose, he felt that the name was familiar.
At this moment, there was a loud roar, ripples of light flickered in the sky, rainbows extended like rivers as they pierced through the horizons.
A figure walked down from the river, he had a tall body and soft facial features, but his eyes were extremely sharp and icy, emitting a cold gaze. From his right ear to the left corner of his lips, there was an ugly scar, it was flickering with white light, while emitting the coldness of a thousand year profound ice.
Five Elements Grandmaster was deeply shocked: "I remember now, this is the Bing Sai Chuan who was born in Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's generation, he was a rank eight legend, a time path great expert, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had tried three times before subduing him. He did not die, he is actually the West Desolation Immortal of Longevity Heaven?!"
Longevity Heaven was a bit different from Heavenly Court, it had Four Desolation Immortals and Eight Extremities, a total of twelve positions. Among which, the Four Desolation Immortals were only meant for rank eight Gu Immortals, while the Eight Extremities needed at least rank seven cultivation level, and they had to be elites among rank sevens.
"Greetings, Senior West Desolation." Bull Demon and Flower Lady quickly went to greet him while Five Elements Grandmaster followed after with a reverent expression.
West Desolation Immortal Bing Sai Chuan's seniority was simply too high.
Bing Sai Chuan went up to the three, he nodded after looking around: "I am awake but I do not have much lifespan, time is limited. Give me the information of the current world, I need to know about it."
Longevity Heaven had very comprehensive information.
They had detailed information of the collapse of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the reappearance of Dragon Palace in Eastern Sea, and Heavenly Court's Central Continent Refinement Path Convention.
"Fang Yuan… he actually extorted Southern Border's righteous path using rank seven cultivation level, while causing huge problems for Heavenly Court time and again in the River of Time. He is truly a world-shaking person!"
"Qi Sea Ancestor… able to fight equally with Duke Long? This is very rare, Eastern Sea has a lot of hidden depths."
"There's also Fang Di Chang, he actually refined Divine Bean Palace. Haha, this world really has no lack of experts!"
After gaining intel, Bing Sai Chuan laughed loudly with a heroic aura.
After his laughter, Bing Sai Chuan's eyes shined with bright light: "Since Fang Yuan is the person who destroyed Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, he is the crucial person who Lord Giant Sun Immortal Venerable mentioned."
Bull Demon, Flower Lady, and Five Elements Grandmaster were stunned.
Bing Sai Chuan's words involved the deep secrets of history.
Did Giant Sun Immortal Venerable predict that Fang Yuan would destroy Eighty-Eight True Yang Building? If he could predict that, why would he let Fang Yuan succeed?
Bing Sai Chuan did not answer them, he gave his orders: "We cannot let fate Gu be repaired completely, we need to stop them during this Refinement Path Convention. We have to contact Fang Yuan now and make an alliance!"
"What?" The three immortals were shocked.
Bing Sai Chuan frowned: "Can any of you contact Fang Yuan?"
The three immortals shook their heads in a daze.
Bing Sai Chuan's brows furrowed even tighter: "Then what are you waiting for? Do I have to search for the way to contact Fang Yuan myself?"
In the last life, Lang Ya Sect had joined Longevity Heaven, so they easily obtained a way to contact Fang Yuan from Lang Ya land spirit.
But now, Fang Yuan absorbed the entire four races variant human alliance including Lang Ya blessed land, Longevity Heaven was not involved.
Bing Sai Chuan wanted to contact Fang Yuan but he was stuck at the first step.
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Chapter 1919 Immortal Gu Responsive Luck
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Mini Northern Plains.
"Are you all prepared?" Xue Er stood in the snow crystal formation as she observed the tens of frost qi lumps.
"We are prepared, supreme elder." A female snowman rank five Gu Master knelt on the ground, speaking reverently.
"Then go, remember to attend to them enthusiastically. Of course, if you suffer any misgivings, do not take it wordlessly." Xue Er thought about it and said.
"Yes." The female snowman Gu Master left.
Xue Er sighed a little.
Ever since she had been placed here by Fang Yuan, she had been dedicated to the development of the snowman tribe. With the aid of Fang Yuan's snow crystal formation, Xue Er worked hard and the size of the snowman tribe quadrupled under her command, turning into a huge variant human tribe.
"My husband has finally brought in the human race… If I had the time, I'd love to go see for myself. Unfortunately, I can't get away here." Xue Er looked at the frost qi, she felt downcast.
She manipulated the formation, carefully maintaining it. Ever since Fang Yuan annexed Qi Sea grotto-heaven, his qi path dao marks had risen greatly, causing a tremendous impact to the sovereign immortal aperture, the effects had yet to stop, still gradually transforming every aspect of the sovereign immortal aperture.
For example, the snowman tribe with Xue Er in charge had been experiencing a surge in frost qi, every few months, Xue Er had to come here personally to manipulate the formation and maintain it.
If the frost qi gathers to a certain extent, beyond the limit, this frost qi would turn into a frost tide.
A frost tide would be a calamity for the physically weak snowmen.
As for the surroundings, it would be heavily damaged too. In fact, when the frost tide spreads out, it would be a problem for the whole of Mini Northern Plains.
Because of the regional walls, the other four mini regions would not be affected by the frost tide.
Not long ago, Fang Yuan sent a letter to inform Xue Er that a city would be placed near the snowman tribe's location. By then, he would need the snowman tribe to gather their people and send gifts while interacting with the newcomers.
Xue Er naturally followed his instructions, but all along, her variant human group had been suppressed by humans all along, asking her to interact with the humans now made her feel some lingering fear from her past.
If possible, Xue Er would like the whole of Mini Northern Plains to be ruled by snowmen.
But that was just an impossible dream.
Fang Yuan was a human after all, when his immortal aperture gets developed to an extent, he would bring in humans to live. That was the sign that an immortal aperture was prospering and growing.
The snowman tribe's group had just moved out when Mini Western Desert's inkman group arrived at its destination.
As the Inkman City Lord, Mo Tan Sang flew high in the sky, quietly awaiting.
"It's coming." Suddenly, his eyes shined with bright light.
In the sky, a dazzling rainbow light flashed brightly.
Around this colored profound light, the earth pushed out in all directions. The colored profound light grew larger and larger, gradually revealing the vague illusory phantom of a city.
This phantom became more and more real, eventually the brilliant light dissipated, adding thousands of miles of land to the original location.
A city was located at the center of the newly added land, it was the Sacred Eagle City of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
The inkman Gu Master group was already kneeling on the ground, praising and cheering at such a mystical sight, only when Mo Tan Sang gave the orders did they stand up.
The gates of Sacred Eagle City opened, the city folks inside had already been informed and quickly gathered into a welcoming party.
The two parties met at the city gates, as contact officially began.
The people of Sacred Eagle City curiously sized up the dark-skinned, white-haired inkmen, the inkmen gradually let go of their worries.
They had also been living under the heavy pressure of the human race for a long time, but they did not expect this new group of people to be so easygoing. The conversations stemmed from a place of equality, which made the inkmen happy from the bottom of their hearts.
"Is this Lord Mo Tang Sang?" The Eagle Warrior who was in charge of Sacred Eagle City flew towards Mo Tan Sang: "From now on, we will be in your care."
"Likewise, likewise." Mo Tan Sang smiled: "You don't have to be too polite, we're all allies here."
Mini Blue Heaven.
The cloud soil gathered into a small hanging continent.
After the starlight flashed, a majestic city was suddenly added to this originally empty continent.
This city was scarred and devastated, It was Star Collection City, which had resisted the poisonous smoke grand tribulation earlier.
In the center of Star Collection City, there was already a brand new Star Snail Hall, which was a mortal Gu House that Fang Yuan had purposely built.
As for the Star Sea Snail that originally served as the hall, it had been put into the treasury by Fang Yuan. This was an immemorial desolate beast, and the shell of the snail was an rank eight immortal material. If it was handed over to the old Combat Beast King, he would not know how to process it, he would only let the dao marks on the immortal material dissipate naturally. That would be too wasteful.
"Is this your father's world? It is so huge." The old Combat Beast King quietly left Star Collection City as he flew around, sighing to himself deeply.
Accompanying him was none other than Zhan Bu Du: "This is Mini Blue Heaven. There are nine other places like this in my father's immortal aperture world. I'm sure we'll be able to live well here."
The old Combat Beast King nodded and asked: "How do we contact the others?"
"Use this. It is an information path mortal Gu." Zhan Bu Du took out a mortal Gu and handed it to the old Combat Beast King.
The Combat Beast King's cultivation was at rank eight but his knowledge was very shallow, this simple information path mortal Gu made him marvel in awe: "I can't believe that Gu worms can be this useful."
"This is how they should be used. The Beast Calamity true inheritance that I received says this as well." Zhan Bu Du smiled shyly: "Please don't blame me, Grandpa Combat Beast King, my father wanted me to keep this as a secret."
The old Combat Beast King nodded: "I understand. I wonder what your father wants me to do?"
"For the time being, we would like Grandpa Combat Beast King and the other warriors to learn the traditional Gu cultivation method. This place is not safe, we have strong enemies outside." Zhan Bu Du said vaguely.
The old Combat Beast King was shook: "Your father is willing to impart the true cultivation way to us?"
"Of course he is. We are all allies." Zhan Bu Du smiled.
Fang Yuan annexed Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
Getting rid of the myriad tribulation in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven expended a lot of his immortal essence and effort, but it could not stop Fang Yuan.
He almost singlehandedly got rid of the grotto-heaven's crisis, Fang Yuan's reputation also rose to its peak.
Next, with the help of Zhan Bu Du, the owner of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, he successfully annexed Beast Calamity grotto-heaven and brought it into his sovereign immortal aperture.
Different from the previous life, Fang Yuan had already made all the preparations now, he deduced everything in advance.
After annexing the grotto-heaven, he split up the grotto-heaven and placed the different parts all over the sovereign immortal aperture.
Beast Calamity grotto-heaven had several major gathering spots, some contained a portion of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven's true inheritance.
Fang Yuan placed Sacred Eagle City, Dark Valley, Spirit Spring Forest, Mountain Cliff City, Star Collection City in Mini Western Desert, Mini Southern Border, Mini Central Continent, Mini Northern Plains and Mini Blue Heaven respectively.
Of course, other than that, the many major resource points in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven were also handled properly by Fang Yuan.
Fully absorbing this grotto-heaven would take time.
The fusing of ecologies needed to reach a balance, time was needed for that, as well as the patience of the Gu Immortals managing the place.
Fang Yuan obtained myriad beings assimilation transformation again, the qilin heavenly spirit was also alive at the largest piece of territory.
Fang Yuan gained more than two hundred thousand transformation path dao marks from this!
In the previous life, Beast Calamity grotto-heaven gave him over a hundred thousand transformation path dao marks only. But in this life, because of Fang Yuan's arrangements, there was ample time to trigger the second myriad tribulation.
The original owner of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven only survived the first myriad tribulation before dying. By the time Fang Yuan discovered Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, its second myriad tribulation was approaching.
After passing the second myriad tribulation, Beast Calamity grotto-heaven gained another hundred thousand dao marks.
Thus, in terms of transformation path dao marks, Fang Yuan gained about double of them this time.
The more dao marks he had, the better it was for him.
"Oh, Bing Sai Chuan has awakened, he wants to cooperate?" Fang Yuan received this information and smiled.
Even though Longevity Heaven could not contact Fang Yuan directly, they found a method to do so.
They knew that Southern Border's righteous path had been extorted by him before, they definitely had ways to contact him. Thus, by finding one of Southern Border's super forces, and paying a high price, they would gain this method.
Bing Sai Chuan immediately talked to Fang Yuan, saying that he wished to cooperate with him.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan was a little puzzled, but this time, he understood the reason.
"Bing Sai Chuan wants to work together and gather everyone's strength to try to snatch fate Gu away."
"However, I need them to attack Heavenly Court as well, they will test the water for me and lure away some firepower."
Fang Yuan was wary about many things in Heavenly Court.
For example, Genesis Lotus' painting path method, or the game of chess between two venerables in Imperfection Regret Pavilion.
Fang Yuan agreed to cooperate with Bing Sai Chuan.
This instead made Bing Sai Chuan have some doubts: "Why did Fang Yuan agree to this so readily? He is likely suspicious of us, he wants to see our future actions."
Bing Sai Chuan frowned, he felt that he should find an opportunity to fight together with Fang Yuan and show his sincerity.
But after thinking about it, Bing Sai Chuan could not find any suitable targets.
In the previous life, he had no such worries. Be it the River of Time's stone lotus island or Dragon Palace, he could ally with Fang Yuan to fight.
But in this life, Fang Yuan changed many things. He obtained Dragon Palace in advance, the River of Time battle ended in Heavenly Court's defeat, they had not recovered even now, still being fearful to step into this forbidden ground that Fang Yuan personally created.
Heavenly Court.
Qin Ding Ling looked at Feng Jiu Ge, smiling: "Tell me, since you approached me personally, what is your request?
Towards this exemplary junior who was also the Dao Guardian of the future Great Dream Immortal Venerable, Qin Ding Ling was quite appreciative.
Feng Jiu Ge hesitated for a while before speaking: "I would like to borrow a rank eight luck path Immortal Gu from senior — Responsive Luck."
Qin Ding Ling was slightly surprised, before she realized: "Sure, I agree to your request."
Saying so, she handed responsive luck Immortal Gu to Feng Jiu Ge on the spot.
Feng Jiu Ge was slightly stunned.
Qin Ding Ling said: "I know that you are creating a new killer move, this responsive luck Immortal Gu must be very helpful to you, otherwise, with your nature, you will not ask to borrow my Gu worm."
Feng Jiu Ge nodded, receiving responsive luck Immortal Gu: "That is correct."
He had already created an eighty percent complete destiny song, he found that rank eight fate armor Immortal Gu could not shoulder the grand and vast destiny song, he needed another luck path Immortal Gu as the core.
With Feng Jiu Ge's current understanding, responsive luck Immortal Gu was the most suitable for him.
Qin Ding Ling looked at this Immortal Gu and sighed: "The Immortal Gu recipe for responsive luck Immortal Gu was not actually created by me, I had secretly taken a look at the manuscript written by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. In the future, if you use this Gu to deal with the Northern Plains Gu Immortals, we will give them a taste of their own medicine. I will give this Immortal Gu to you."
Feng Jiu Ge thanked Qin Ding Ling as he said: "This Gu is not enough, I will need to head to the River of Time, view the past and present, and observe the paths of all lives."
Qin Ding Ling frowned: "According to what I know, even though Heavenly Court is working at full speed, we have only created one time path Immortal Gu House as of now. Going to the River of Time now is simply courting death. Let me take a look at your luck, to try to find a hidden chance for you."
Feng Jiu Ge thanked her once again.
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Chapter 1920 Convention Begins
The River of Time flowed endlessly.
Heavenly Court.
Discussion hall.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals gathered, there were few Gu Immortals who did not come, this was the largest gathering that Heavenly Court had in the last thousand years.
Duke Long sat at the highest seat, he looked around: "We have explained our plan, go ahead and execute it. Whether we can restore the glory of Heavenly Court will depend on everyone's hard work."
"We will do our best!" All of the immortals resounded, they were very motivated.
The Central Continent Refinement Path Convention that would affect all five regions and the future of the world was about to begin!
Once news got out, the world was shaken.
Thanks to Fang Yuan's intentional spread of news, all the Gu Immortals knew of the importance of this Refinement Path Convention. But mortal Gu Masters had no idea, they thought that this Central Continent Refinement Path Convention was like the usual ones in the past.
Gu Masters started to move, heading towards Central Continent.
Each Central Continent Refinement Path Convention would attract the Gu Masters of the other four regions to participate, it involved all five regions and was a huge event.
But this time was slightly different from the beginning.
Western Desert.
A huge group of Gu Masters stood in front of the regional wall.
A youngster sighed loudly: "Father, if I were not seeing this personally, I simply could not believe there is such an amazing thing in the world."
"This is the regional wall. Once we get past this, we will reach Central Continent." The middle aged Gu Master beside the youngster said: "After entering the regional wall, our vision will be restricted, by then, you need to stay by my side and not get lost. Understood?"
"Yes father, I will." The youngster nodded obediently.
"Mm." Zhang Quan looked at his son Zhang Ping, feeling very proud.
His son had strong refinement path talent, for his future development, Zhang Quan brought him on a journey to participate in the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention, to train his refinement path ability and also to gain some knowledge.
"What sound is that?" At the next moment, Zhang Quan looked up in confusion.
Next, his pupils shrunk as he showed great shock.
A huge meteor that was the size of a hill crashed down towards them.
The surrounding Gu Masters screamed in fear.
"Why is this happening? We're doomed!" Instantly, Zhang Quan felt great regret. If he had decided to travel to Central Continent alone, his son would not die with him.
Boom!
The meteor crashed down on the ground, causing an earthshaking explosion.
Zhang Quan and the rest died without intact corpses.
In the sky, an inkman Gu Immortal looked around coldly before leaving.
Similar scenes were happening all over the five regions.
These Gu Immortals were all Fang Yuan's subordinates, they had received his order to prevent people from joining the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention.
Next, Fang Yuan publicly announced in treasure yellow heaven: "If anyone joins the Refinement Path Convention, you will be making an enemy out of me, one day, I will find you and settle the score!"
The Gu Immortals of the five regions sighed in amazement: The Central Continent Refinement Path Convention had just started but Fang Yuan made his move already. As expected of the Little Demon Venerable, he was rampant and brutal.
Heavenly Court was enraged!
Because the assault of Fang Yuan's subordinates would cause much fewer Gu Masters to join the convention, it would be disadvantageous in repairing fate Gu.
Different from the previous life, Fang Yuan ordered his subordinates to only move around Northern Plains, Southern Border, Western Desert, and Eastern Sea. This way, Central Continent and Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals could not head to the other four regions and save these people.
During this period of time, if Central Continent and Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals head to the other four regions, they would be angering and provoking the other four regions' super forces.
Heavenly Court could only accuse Fang Yuan of his heinous crimes and communicate with the righteous paths of the other regions to get them to take revenge on this terribly demonic act.
The righteous paths of the other four regions responded loudly but they took little action, even if they did anything, they were merely doing it superficially, creating a lot of noise but little effect.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan acted in Central Continent itself and was faced with much obstruction not long after.
In this life, Fang Yuan took action in advance, he immediately gained huge results in battle.
The waves of Gu Masters rushing to Central Continent immediately ceased.
Nobody wanted to die just because of one Central Continent Refinement Path Convention.
Furthermore, the four regions' super forces had also stopped their own Gu Masters from joining the convention, it caused this current Refinement Path Convention to be very sparse in attendants.
Central Continent, Unification Sect.
As one of the sign up locations of the Refinement Path Convention, it was filled with people and commotion as well.
"The Refinement Path Convention is about to start! Strange, why do I not see people from the other four regions?" Luo Sheng sighed.
In the previous Refinement Path Convention, he had lost to a Northern Plains Gu Master by chance, this time, he was trying to find that Northern Plains Gu Master again for a rematch.
Luo Sheng was eager to prove himself.
"But Central Continent is too large, the five regions are too broad, geniuses are everywhere."
He looked around and found that three people here were tough opponents for himself.
One was an old man that had been reputed for many years, he was also a refinement path master. Another was a young man, and the last one was a young girl. The former had performed well in the previous convention while the latter was a rising star that had emerged in the last ten years.
"This Refinement Path Convention is still going to be that intense!"
"I must make good use of this opportunity, I cannot fail anymore…"
"I will prove myself, I will let my wife and children be proud!"
Boom!
At the next moment, a huge ancient year beast descended from the sky, crushing the entire hall to ruin.
All of his grand ambitions vanished into thin air.
The young Gu Master with a great future, the genius young girl who was thought of highly, they all died pitifully on the spot, their bones and flesh were mashed together, even the corpses could not be seen clearly.
In the sky, Bai Ning Bing's figure flashed rapidly.
She was in charge of moving around, every destination she reached, she released ancient year beasts. As for the result, Fang Yuan said that she did not need to be concerned with that.
Earlier, Fang Yuan sent variant human Gu Immortals to kill Gu Master participants in advance. Now, he ordered Shadow Sect's immortals to infiltrate Central Continent and use ancient year beasts to destroy the sign-up locations, to create bloodshed as countless elite Gu Masters face their end.
After learning of this situation, Heavenly Court immediately spread news of the truth.
"There really are immortals in this world…"
"The culprit behind everything is Fang Yuan!"
"Fang Yuan, you killed my father, I will definitely take revenge for this immense hatred!"
"Even rank fives are just ants if they do not become Gu Immortals."
"Immortals are high and mighty, why must I sacrifice my life for a mere Refinement Path Convention? Forget it, forget it."
"I must go! If I do not go, wouldn't I fall into that Fang Yuan's scheme?"
Some were fearful, some felt emotional, some backed out, while some became determined.
"They are trying to gather the rage of the people and accumulate human will." In the previous life, Fang Yuan did not know what Heavenly Court was doing, but now, he was deeply aware.
Fang Yuan quickly ordered his subordinates to stop.
Heavenly Court and Central Continent's Gu Immortals gathered rage and hatred, they were about to take action when they found that Fang Yuan's subordinates all vanished without a trace.
"Isn't Fang Yuan trying to destroy the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention? Why did he stop?" The four regions' super forces who were watching the show felt very perplexed.
In a secret meeting in Southern Border, Wu Yong analyzed some of Fang Yuan's thoughts: "Fang Yuan had an early advantage, if he continues, Heavenly Court will deduce the locations of his attackers, he will lose many subordinates."
"Then will Fang Yuan attack again?" Someone asked.
"Of course." Wu Yong said without doubt: "But before that, we need to move out secretly too."
In the previous life, Fang Yuan attacked personally and caused destruction, not long after, he was marked by the killer move people's accusation, he had to hide while his subordinates like Bai Ning Bing took action.
This time, Fang Yuan lurked and concealed himself while ordering his subordinates to cause destruction and bloodshed.
Others were not like Fang Yuan who could defend against Fairy Zi Wei's deductions using wisdom path methods. Thus, Fang Yuan ordered Bai Ning Bing and the rest to hide themselves after causing some level of destruction.
The Refinement Path Convention had just started.
The huge battle had not begun, these subordinates were still very useful to Fang Yuan.
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Chapter 1921 Conflict Rises
The Central Continent Refinement Path Convention was wildly continuing, but Fang Yuan's group was nowhere to be found.
Fang Yuan gave the orders to retreat so quickly, the Gu Immortals of the five regions felt as if the slaughter earlier was not real.
"What is Fang Yuan doing?"
"The Central Continent Refinement Path Convention is still going on, why aren't you doing anything!"
"You are the Little Demon Venerable, don't bring shame to your reputation."
The four regions' super forces were very anxious as they complained, they wanted Fang Yuan to attack and take the role of charging into battle for them.
But Fang Yuan, who had opposed Heavenly Court all along, went missing now, he was in hiding and could not be seen anywhere.
The four regions' forces were about to feel some resentment towards him, as days passed, they watched as the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention continued to advance, all sorts of refinement path elites were progressing in the competition.
The number of test locations in Central Continent also shrunk greatly. Each area was now guarded by multiple Central Continent Gu Immortals arranged by Heavenly Court.
In this situation, Fang Yuan ordered again, various immortals including Bai Ning Bing, Bing Yuan, and Beast Calamity grotto-heaven's Gu Immortals took action.
Central Continent, Xuanwu mountain range.
"Bai Ning Bing, you have committed too much evil, you will face retribution eventually!" A female immortal from Spirit Affinity House was guarding this place, she said that before escaping.
Bai Ning Bing snorted coldly: "She ran really quickly."
Xuanwu mountain range was a giant resource point of Spirit Affinity House, it had a huge area and was a publicly known immortal material treasure trove.
"Problems will come with waiting, I should act quickly." Bai Ning Bing started to loot the place.
Central Continent, Imprisonment Valley.
"It's here." Steel Rush Warrior looked around.
Frost Butterfly Warrior came along with him: "Open!"
Once the killer move was used, a formation appeared in front of them.
Transformation!
The two rank seven Gu Immortals from Beast Calamity grotto-heaven did not hesitate to use their most proficient method. One turned into a giant with bull head and human body, while the other turned into a mini butterfly person that emanated frost energy.
As immortal killer moves were unleashed, the formation broke after resisting for a while.
"Southern thorns, the entire valley is made of immortal materials." Steel Rush Warrior was overjoyed.
Frost Butterfly Warrior was even more direct, freezing the southern thorns and looting them rapidly.
Central Continent, red river beach.
The Central Continent Gu Immortals who arrived were furious.
They were late, they only saw ruins left.
The blazing red stones that accumulated on the beach were all taken.
A clean sweep!
Fang Yuan was waiting silently earlier, but once he made a move, it shocked the world.
His Gu Immortals were almost fully deployed, even the hairy man Gu Immortals were sent out.
These people were instructed by Fang Yuan, they did not attack the sign-up spots that were heavily guarded, they targeted the resource points with weaker defenses instead.
Each time they broke into a resource point, these people would plunder it dry. After the plunder, they would use killer moves to completely destroy the place beyond salvation.
At once, the whole of Central Continent was set ablaze, all sorts of large resource points were plundered and destroyed.
Every time Fang Yuan succeeded in taking down an area, he would publish the results of his success in treasure yellow heaven.
The five regions' Gu Immortals went into a clamor.
"How does Fang Yuan have so many subordinates!"
"So many Gu Immortals, he has greatly surpassed a normal super force."
"How much strength is he hiding?!"
After feeling shocked, they felt envy and admiration.
Fang Yuan's subordinates had varying battle strength, but even the weakest Gu Immortal could succeed. For the Refinement Path Convention, Central Continent had lowered its defense of these resource points too much.
Many powerful Gu Immortals started to think: "Since these variant human Gu Immortals can plunder successfully, why can't I?"
And many weaker Gu Immortals started to think: "Most of the good stuff will be taken by those experts, but I can still get the leftovers, right?"
Thus, similar to the previous life, the four regions' Gu Immortals could not wait anymore, especially those demonic immortals and lone cultivators.
These people started to attack all the resource points around Central Continent.
The situation in Central Continent fell apart rapidly.
Heavenly Court.
Fairy Zi Wei had a dark expression.
No matter how great her self-control, seeing all the information sources regarding resource points getting plundered and looted dry, she felt deep anger within her.
"Fang Yuan…" She gritted her teeth, emitting an intense killing intent uncontrollably.
It was this culprit who stirred everyone's desires and made Central Continent the hunting ground of the other four regions, it was plundered casually and suffered huge losses.
Be they Fairy Zi Wei, Duke Long, or Qin Ding Ling, they were helpless.
Central Continent was too big, it was at the center surrounded by the other four regions as well.
They had too few Gu Immortals, they could not send people to all the resource points, their manpower was severely lacking.
This gave thieves and bandits a chance to strike.
"People's hearts have changed." Qin Ding Ling sighed.
Duke Long was indifferent: "Sacrifices are necessary for our grand ambition. We will focus on the Refinement Path Convention, these immortal materials can be given up. Once fate Gu is repaired, we will make them pay back a thousandfold."
Central Continent was currently being ravaged.
Fang Yuan's timing was too impeccable, he chose the perfect moment where Heavenly Court was increasing its defense of the Gu refinement locations, these elites could not be lost as it would severely affect Central Continent's potential. And for the moment, their loss would be detrimental to repairing fate Gu.
Fang Yuan's target was also perfect.
For example, places like Xuanwu mountain range were too huge, it naturally had low defense. As for Imprisonment Valley and red river beach, he had looted them in the previous life, he knew their layout and defensive measures.
Together with his meticulous planning, Fang Yuan's subordinates had a high success rate. The ease of his plunder and immense gains lured all of the other four regions' Gu Immortals.
The Gu Immortals of all four regions quickly moved out to target the various resource points.
Central Continent had not given up on all their resource points, many important resource points were guarded by experts.
At once, all sorts of battles erupted, Gu Immortals fought and the moment they found that one resource point was too hard to take down, they would wisely give up and move to the next location.
Central Continent had so many resource points anyway, why would they be fixated on one area?
Western Desert earth path Gu Immortal Shi Gan Dang destroyed the earth qi rock forest and obtained a large amount of round kun stones.
Forgotten Daoist successfully stole the spirit bank spring water, even though it was defended by Ancient Soul Sect's expert Yang Feng.
Xiao Hu Chi, Xiao Shi Rang, and Pi Shui Han worked together and succeeded in their plunder, but because of the problem of distribution, they fought against each other.
Central Continent was full of conflict and fighting, it was utter chaos.
Fairy Zi Wei stayed in Heavenly Court, she felt that days were passing like years.
Eventually, Old Man Zheng Yuan spoke: "We have gathered enough human will now, we can use the first human path killer move."
Fairy Zi Wei was overjoyed, quickly asking him to make a move.
Old Man Zheng Yuan nodded, he stood up shakily as a grand and vast aura surged out of his body!
Immortal killer move — People's United Hearts!
The accumulated human will was expended rapidly, almost none was left.
At the same time, Central Continent's Gu Immortals, Gu Masters and even mortals became enveloped in a halo of light.
The halo flashed for a moment, it was like an illusion.
But Central Continent's people soon found something special.
Their hearts were connected, they could sense each other's thoughts and emotions.
The fear of being attacked, the sadness and hatred of having friends and family die, the worry towards one's own life, and the aspirations towards one's future…
Never had Central Continent's people been so tightly connected before in history.
Unfettered Scholar, who was hiding in the Gu refinement location, was discovered, he managed to exact revenge and kill the Central Continent Gu Immortal who was guarding the place.
Southern Border secluded immortal Zheng Qing was exposed too, but he had no animosity towards Central Continent or Heavenly Court, he was asked to leave politely.
"This human path killer move, people's united hearts, is truly amazing." Shen Shang communicated with Fang Yuan using treasure yellow heaven. His current location was unknown, Fang Yuan only knew that he had left Eastern Sea and could possibly even be in Central Continent now.
"What did you comprehend? Can we restrict these human path killer moves?" Fang Yuan asked, he had already given all of the information regarding these human path killer moves in his memory to Shen Shang.
Shen Shang sighed: "To negate these killer moves, the easiest way is to destroy the human will. Without human will as the foundation, these human path killer moves cannot be used. But I deduced that these human wills are kept in Heavenly Court."
"Then what about other ways?" Fang Yuan asked.
Shen Shang sighed again: "Then we can only unravel the killer move directly, this is very difficult, I will need a lot of time. Don't worry, since I promised you, I will do my best. I do not want to see a complete fate Gu either."
Fang Yuan continued to wait patiently.
Wu Yong led the Southern Alliance immortals as they appeared on Hairy Foot Mountain.
"Follow me, let us destroy Infallible blessed land, let's take all the success dao marks and make Heavenly Court taste failure!" Wu Yong announced.
"We will follow Lord Alliance Leader!!" The Southern Alliance immortals said together, they had high morale as they followed him.
Heavenly Court immediately received news about this.
Fairy Zi Wei's face was grim as cold light shined in her eyes: "This Wu Yong."
"Wu Yong has moved out. Longevity Heaven is also about to take action, it is time for me to make my move." After receiving the news, Fang Yuan smiled as he appeared near Yi Tian Mountain.
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Chapter 1922 Southern Alliance Destroys Formation
Myriad Year Flying Warship floated in the sky, Fang Yuan looked at the formation in front of him with a smile.
He arrived at Yi Tian Mountain again, this time, he would definitely take all of the dream realms away.
This timing was truly impeccable.
Firstly, Wu Yong had led the Southern Alliance experts to infiltrate Central Continent, Southern Border was at its weakest now. Secondly, the huge battle had just started, this was likely the final period of free time for Fang Yuan.
"Different from the previous life, I had all the initiative this time, I defeated Heavenly Court repeatedly. The secret of my rebirth is known to all, Heavenly Court must have ways to counter it. Their arrangements will be different from the previous life, I should let the four regions' Gu Immortals strike first while I observe their new methods."
Fang Yuan had a firm grasp of the situation.
At this point, Fang Yuan's rebirth advantage was mostly depleted. His previous life's memories were not reliable against a colossal force like Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court would not be so stupid as to not make changes.
If Fang Yuan took the lead as the vanguard, he would be stuck in endless battles, unable to get away from fighting. He might even die in the process.
After all, Heavenly Court's foundation was unfathomable, Fang Yuan could not be sure that the venerable methods in his memories were all the methods left behind.
Immortal killer move — Refinement Formation Rain.
Rain started to fall from the sky, gradually infiltrating the formation.
There were naturally defending Gu Immortals in the formation.
The Gu Immortals were in panic.
The formation could not block him, the periphery had already been refined by Fang Yuan.
Even though this formation was set up by Chi Qu You, Fang Yuan had secretly undergone dream realm transactions with him, he gained a lot of information about this formation.
Fang Yuan's formation path and wisdom path attainment, along with refinement formation rain, completely countered this formation.
"This demon Fang Yuan did not attack Central Continent, he came back to Southern Border!"
"What do I do?"
"Seek help?"
"Our rank eight Gu Immortals have all gone to Central Continent under the lead of Lord Wu Yong!"
"We still need to inform them about this!"
The Southern Border Gu Immortals conversed for a while, nobody dared to go out to fight Fang Yuan, but they had no reinforcements either. They had to use the immortal formation and add changes to it.
The immortal formation continued to change, Fang Yuan's speed of refining the formation became slower instantly.
But Fang Yuan became happy internally.
The more this formation changed, the more he could comprehend the profundity within it. With the help of the light of wisdom, he could easily understand all of these secrets.
Within Central Continent, the Southern Alliance's immortals had already entered the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation.
Wu Yong and the rest received this news.
"What? The dream realm was attacked?"
"That scoundrel Fang Yuan!"
"Can he see the big picture at all? He is actually attacking us at this time?!"
The Southern Alliance's immortals were furious.
Wu Yong was silent for a while before speaking: "Of course he can."
"What does Lord Wu Yong mean?" Ba De had a livid expression. Fang Yuan's actions were harming the benefits of all the Southern Border righteous path forces!
Everyone knew about the value of these dream realms, furthermore, they would get more important when the great era arrives.
Wu Yong smiled instead: "If Fang Yuan does not see the big picture, he would have attacked the dream realm long ago. He would not wait for us to go to Central Continent. Or maybe, he wants to make use of us as cannon fodder."
"Then aren't we sacrificing ourselves for him?" Someone asked in an indignant tone.
"No." Wu Yong shook his head: "If fate Gu is repaired, its threat will be far greater than the otherworldly demon Fang Yuan. He has been reborn, it seems we took the initiative to attack like now in the previous life. But there is no choice, we need to attack. This is for the sake of the five regions."
"Everyone, before we left, I already told you that our region would likely get attacked. Be they your family, friends, or our territory, all of the destruction and slaughter pale in comparison to the big picture! If Heavenly Court gains a complete fate Gu, we will all be helpless, there will be no future for anyone!"
Wu clan said this as his eyes shined like lightning, he looked around as he declared: "This is my order, let all of the defending Gu Immortals retreat from the formation, do not make unnecessary sacrifices. I know this is a risky move, but even if my Wu clan headquarters get destroyed, I will not retract my words!"
Wu Yong's determination shook the hearts of all the immortals.
They were all united now, the Southern Alliance immortals were tightly connected, they fought their way into the depths of the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation.
After Southern Border received Wu Yong's orders, the defending Gu Immortals sighed in relief, they brought as many Immortal Gu as they could with them as they started to teleport away.
A moment later, Fang Yuan refined the formation, not a single Southern Border Gu Immortal was in sight.
After he dismantled the formation, he received an information path Gu worm, it was a letter that Wu Yong had specially written to him.
Fang Yuan's divine sense swept through it, looking at the content.
The letter only had one sentence, it spoke of one viewpoint — The threat of Heavenly Court and Fate, Central Continent is strong, while the four regions are weak.
He did not say anything about asking Fang Yuan to stop.
"This Wu Yong…" Fang Yuan sighed to himself.
Earlier, he was a problem for Fang Yuan, using his political skills to restrict Fang Yuan's extortion and causing him great loss. But now, Wu Yong asked the Southern Border Gu Immortals to stop defending, he made them retreat and saved Fang Yuan a lot of effort.
If these Southern Border Gu Immortals continued to defend, it would waste a lot of time.
After Fang Yuan takes the dream realm, he would save a lot of time, that meant he could find trouble with the righteous path of Southern Border. Wu Yong's orders carried lots of risk, it was a bold move.
But Wu Yong was sure that Fang Yuan knew the big picture, he would not continue causing trouble in Southern Border.
It was like how Fang Yuan knew Wu Yong would not come back from Central Continent to defend these territories if he attacked.
And the truth was, Fang Yuan had no intention to find trouble with Southern Border's righteous path at this moment.
After some effort, Fang Yuan took away all of the dream realms here.
Yi Tian Mountain saw the light of day again, the huge Gu Immortal battles engraved here could be seen all around the mountain, there was no sign of life here, everything had changed.
Fang Yuan started to head to Central Continent.
As he traveled, he transformed these dream realms into Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies.
In the following battle, these Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies would be a huge force of his. In the previous life, Feng Jin Huang was able to resist the detonation of his Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies, in this life, it was likely that she could do the same.
But Feng Jin Huang was just one single mortal Gu Master. Fang Yuan had the initiative, he had several battlefields to approach.
Heavenly Court, Central Great Hall.
Duke Long, Fairy Zi Wei, and Qin Ding Ling watched over the situation.
Old Man Zheng Yuan was also invited here.
"The latest news, Southern Border's Gu Immortals broke the first formation, they are going to the second formation. Fang Yuan appeared in Yi Tian Mountain and destroyed the formation, taking all the dream realms." Fairy Zi Wei suddenly said.
Duke Long said grimly: "Fang Yuan will not continue causing chaos in Southern Border, he will definitely go fight in Central Continent. It seems that we need to deal with these dream realms."
Fairy Zi Wei nodded: "We are very lucky that Feng Jin Huang created the perfect Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique, she can resist Fang Yuan's dream path methods."
Duke Long chuckled: "You think this is luck? No, this is the power of fate! Heavenly Court will not lose this battle, we cannot lose."
At this moment, Fairy Zi Wei gasped as she showed a surprised expression: "Southern Border's immortals have broken the second formation, they are going to the third one now."
"So fast?" Even Qin Ding Ling was shocked.
Within nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, the immortals had high morale.
"Chi Qu You, good job."
"As expected of the sole formation path great grandmaster in Southern Border!"
"With Lord Chi Qu You around, how can any formation stop us? Hahaha."
Just earlier, when the immortals went into the second sub-formation, Chi Qu You spoke: "Stop."
Next, he observed the area and led the immortals to quickly and delicately destroy the formation.
The immortals praised him but Chi Qu You shook his head: "The truth is, I did not see through this formation, I had received information from Fang Yuan."
The expressions of the Southern Border immortals froze.
Chi Qu You continued: "Using my method, I can break this formation rapidly. But that is a forbidden method that will expend my lifespan. It seems that Fang Yuan had been reborn. In the previous life, he must have broken this formation too, he knows about it clearly."
The immortals nodded, agreeing with him.
What they did not know was, Chi Qu You was the one who explained the profundity of this formation to Fang Yuan.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan rushed to Hairy Foot Mountain from Emperor City battlefield, in order to destroy the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, the immortals wanted to use the five regional limit formation. But without the complete formation chart, and having to create it within the enemy's formation, it was too difficult.
Fang Yuan used his wisdom path and formation path attainment to cooperate with Chi Qu You and Black Extremity, working together to deduce the complete formation chart.
During this process, Chi Qu You gave Fang Yuan and Black Extremity an explanation on their experiences of breaking the earlier formations so that they could understand the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation.
Since Wu Yong asked the Southern Border immortals to retreat, displaying greater sincerity and determination, Fang Yuan was returning the favor by guiding them now.
After learning of this situation, Wu Yong had a slightly complex expression as he sighed: "It seems that Fang Yuan has already arrived in Central Continent."
Fang Yuan understood Wu Yong, but Wu Yong also understood Fang Yuan.
The two of them had an indescribable understanding.
Even though they wanted each other to die during normal times!
The truth was, in the previous life, in order to break the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, Fang Yuan also asked the Southern Alliance for dream realms.
Wu Yong did not hesitate but agreed instantly.
Fang Yuan was transported back to Southern Border, the defensive formation was opened and he managed to take the dream realms away.
But later, when Fang Yuan converted them into Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies, Feng Jin Huang resisted them and he failed to destroy the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation.
Using Fang Yuan's guidance, the Southern Alliance's immortals broke through another two formations, their efficiency was out of this world.
Heavenly Court finally reacted in time, Fairy Zi Wei frowned and thought about the countermeasure when suddenly, rainbow light appeared above Heavenly Court.
Bright lights spread everywhere, rank eight Immortal Gu House Calamity Luck Altar shot out from within!
"Heavenly Court, we're here." Bing Sai Chuan called out with great morale.
"We have been waiting." Qin Ding Ling slowly stood up.
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Chapter 1923 Stars During Daytime
Heavenly Court.
Colorful lights filled the sky, a huge rank eight Immortal Gu House flew out from within.
It had three floors of altars, grand and magnificent. There were multiple pillars holding each floor up, having white jade railings and shining aurora, it was eye-catching.
"Calamity Luck Altar!" Qin Ding Ling watched with shrunken pupils, her expression was complex.
She was looking at the Immortal Gu House that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable built personally, but the latter had passed away. Even if you were an Immortal Venerable, lifespan was limited.
"Heavenly Court." On the other hand, Bing Sai Chuan in Calamity Luck Altar was trembling with excitement.
At long last, he had finally attacked this place, commencing the great plan that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had entrusted to him — to seize fate Gu and refine destiny Gu!
"We really got in." The accompanying Five Elements Grandmaster was very shocked and surprised: "Is Heavenly Court's defense really this weak?"
"Of course not." Bull Demon explained in a deep voice: "This is the arrangement of our Ancestor Giant Sun. Back then, Golden Hoop Great Immortal invited our ancestor to come to the Heavenly Court for a visit, ostensibly proclaiming that he wanted to invite Ancestor Giant Sun into Heavenly Court. At that time, Ancestor Giant Sun secretly set up this arrangement, leaving it for the future."
Five Elements Grandmaster could not help but inwardly be astounded at the words, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's strategy was planned so long ago but he actually managed to use it so far in the future!
"Go! We'll use the route that Limitless Demon Venerable made when he previously attacked, we will attack Central Great Hall, ascend to Heaven Overseeing Tower, and seize fate Gu!" As soon as Bing Sai Chuan gave the order, the surrounding colored lights moved sharply.
Calamity Luck Altar was actually carried by the colored lights and moved to a distant place.
The qi wall left by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable had already activated, it sealed Calamity Luck Altar within the qi wall.
On the other side, Qin Ding Ling had a pale face as she fell to the ground.
She had already done her best to make some minor modifications to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's arrangements. The so-called trap against Northern Plains would naturally be most effective with the help of a venerable method.
Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable left behind the killer move qi wall in Heavenly Court, it was everywhere. When the three Demon Venerables attacked Heavenly Court, they created three paths that had no qi wall along them. But all other areas were filled by the qi wall.
Qin Ding Ling worked her hardest to relocate Calamity Luck Altar into the qi wall.
At once, Calamity Luck Altar became immobilized, it faced a huge pressure from all directions.
Fairy Zi Wei quickly helped Qin Ding Ling to stand up as she said in admiration: "Senior, it was all thanks to you!"
Qin Ding Ling sighed and said with a solemn tone: "To think that even after I worked my hardest after waking up, I merely managed to move his method to a slight extent. Sigh…"
Duke Long walked slowly with a calm expression: "Let's go, it is time to welcome our guests."
"Damn it! Heavenly Court knew that we were going to attack, they made use of that to set up an ambush!" Bing Sai Chuan's expression changed, turning ashen.
The surprise attack that he had anticipated for so long had just started, but he already lost control of the situation.
He manipulated Calamity Luck Altar with all his strength but the killer move qi wall was too strong.
Even though this rank eight Immortal Gu House could barely move now with a snail-like speed, the most despairing thing was that the qi wall had a strong self-recovery ability. As Calamity Luck Altar moved, the qi wall behind it healed and mended together.
Just as Longevity Heaven's people suffered a setback, Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals arrived in Hidden Dragon Cave.
"To think that Hidden Dragon Cave is here." Song Qi Yuan sighed deeply to himself.
Granny Rong snickered: "This place is quite secluded indeed, but there is no such thing as absolutely hidden in this world."
Yang Zi He added: "Back then, Di Zang Sheng wreaked havoc in Central Continent, Duke Long suppressed and sealed it here, it was a huge event. But because that was long ago in history, and because Heavenly Court wanted to exterminate the dragonman race, they were ruthless in eliminating the traces."
"Hehehe. Speaking of which, Duke Long is very vicious, for the sake of Heavenly Court, he sacrificed all of his children and descendants." Shen Cong Sheng criticized with a tone of disdain.
Eastern Sea's eight Gu Immortals arrived here.
It was the same situation as the previous life.
To achieve this goal, Fang Yuan had put in a lot of effort secretly. On one hand, he used his status as Qi Sea Ancestor to hint to Song Qi Yuan and Hua Cai Yun, on another hand, he contacted Shen Cong Sheng using his own identity, and finally, the four rank eight lone cultivators in Eastern Sea were all Dragon Palace Dragon Generals, they obeyed Fang Yuan's arrangements.
Fang Yuan was not sure about Hidden Dragon Cave's location originally, but after getting Dragon Palace, he saw related records in it.
Back then, when Duke Long suppressed Di Zang Sheng, the dragonman race had put in effort too.
After getting this secret information, Fang Yuan spread it using the mouths of the Four Dragon Generals, influencing the decisions of all the different Eastern Sea Gu Immortals.
These rank eight Gu Immortals from Eastern Sea were different from Southern Alliance and Longevity Heaven, they did not have any courageous spirit to take risks, in this life, they had no strong intention to gain Dragon Palace. Fang Yuan thus motivated them to release Di Zang Sheng from Hidden Dragon Cave and cause problems for Heavenly Court.
Once Di Zang Sheng gets released, the entire world would shake, blood would flow into rivers, living beings would die. There would be no need for these Eastern Sea Gu Immortals to fight.
Once Central Continent's attention was drawn and they sent Gu Immortals to deal with Di Zang Sheng, they would be weaker elsewhere, Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals would have a great opportunity.
There was another advantage, Di Zang Sheng would target and attack Central Continent's mortals.
The more people it killed, the more foundation Central Continent would lose.
Eastern Sea's righteous path rank eights would not attack mortals with their status, it would ruin their reputation. Having Di Zang Sheng do the dirty work was best.
At the fringe of Western Desert.
The thin regional wall was in front them.
"The five regions are indeed fusing. The regional walls that once restricted our movement are already so thin and weak." Fang Gong looked at the scene in front of him as he sighed.
Fang Yuan's clone, Fang Di Chang, had a high status in Fang clan, he managed to convince Fang clan's first supreme elder and many Western Desert super forces to take action together.
This was a much stronger group than in the previous life.
But gathering so many Gu Immortals used a lot of time, they only managed to assemble now.
"Oh no, that blood path demonic immortal is causing chaos in my clan." Right at this time, Sun clan reported bad news.
"There is a brand new immemorial desolate beast attacking my clan's oasis." Mo clan's Gu Immortal also received bad news.
"Everyone! This is likely Heavenly Court's scheme. They want to restrain us so that we cannot stop them from repairing fate Gu." Fang Di Chang analyzed.
Even though he had no proof, in order to stabilize these Gu Immortals, lying was fine.
"No, I need to get back."
"I objected earlier when you asked us to move out. Our base is too weak now, I was right after all."
"In my opinion, we should play safe. Western Desert's resources are all in the oases, if they are destroyed, our clans will lose our foundation without the support of resources."
The Western Desert Gu Immortals discussed, they wanted to retreat.
"Damn it, Fang clan took too long to develop, we do not have enough influence and authority." Fang Di Chang gritted his teeth, he watched as a portion of Sun clan and Mo clan left.
"The nature of these two clan's Gu Immortals is not so tough normally, I'm afraid Heavenly Court is involved with these two clans!" Fang Di Chang reacted at this time.
With the departure of a portion of Sun clan and Mo clan, the other clans also wanted to leave, otherwise, their balance would be disrupted.
Western Desert's Gu Immortal world had gone into chaos earlier because of the rise of Fang clan, their relationship was tense now and nobody trusted each other.
There was another fundamental problem, in history, Western Desert had never experienced any large scale cooperation between super forces.
Western Desert's Gu Immortal world did not have any domineering overlord in history, unlike Southern Border's Wu clan or Northern Plains' Longevity Heaven.
After some discussion, a portion of Western Desert's Gu Immortals returned to their base. The rest of them still exceeded the numbers in the previous life, they passed the regional walls and arrived in Central Continent.
Heavenly Court.
Reports of battles were sent over rapidly.
"Hidden Dragon Cave is attacked by Eastern Sea's rank eight Gu Immortals."
"Gu Immortal elites have appeared at Western Desert's fringe, they are heading towards Emperor City."
Fairy Zi Wei spoke.
At this time, Duke Long slowly retreated from the front of the battlefield.
Calamity Luck Altar was surrounded by the qi wall, there was a sizable area of movable space around it now, Heavenly Court's countless experts were attacking it from all directions.
If Calamity Luck Altar retaliated, these Gu Immortals would retreat into the qi wall and hide themselves, staying safe.
After several attempts, Bing Sai Chuan had to activate Calamity Luck Altar's defense as they pressed forward.
Because of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals' obstruction, Calamity Luck Altar could barely move forward slowly and with great difficulty.
Duke Long had nothing much to do, the battlefield in Heavenly Court was already secured, Longevity Heaven was trapped and they would eventually fall.
Duke Long heard Fairy Zi Wei's reports as he said calmly: "Qi Sea Ancestor and Fang Yuan, have they not made a move?"
"Nothing at the moment." Fairy Zi Wei shook her head.
The two people Duke Long was most wary of were these two. Qi Sea Ancestor had unparalleled strength, he rivaled Duke Long and was someone that Duke Long had to focus and keep his attention on.
Meanwhile, even though Fang Yuan had rank seven cultivation level, he inherited Red Lotus Demon Venerable's true inheritance, he might have some powerful method, he needed to be guarded against.
"Qi Sea Ancestor's attitude is unclear, meanwhile, ever since Fang Yuan snatched Southern Border's dream realms, he vanished. He has a lot of dream realms on his hands now." Fairy Zi Wei said slowly, she was going to analyze this further.
"What plan do you have?" Duke Long interrupted her.
Fairy Zi Wei said: "I plan to activate the formation and resist our external foes to force out Fang Yuan. There is also Qi Sea Ancestor who might possibly fight us, we need to force them to take action!"
Duke Long pondered before nodding: "Alright, we need to take the initiative. If we can establish our dominance in this battle, the five regions chaotic war will be much easier to deal with."
Fairy Zi Wei quickly left and sat down at the central area of a formation.
She activated the formation and released Star Constellation Chessboard. The chessboard floated in the air and rotated on its own, innumerable starlight specks that resembled fireflies flew in the sky, entering the formation.
Central Continent's people soon noticed a strange phenomenon.
Many pointed at the sky and screamed: "Quickly look! There is starlight, there are actually stars in bright daylight."
"What is going on?" Fang Di Chang had just crossed the regional wall when he saw such a scene.
"Heavenly Court took action. This did not happen in my previous life." Fang Yuan also arrived in Central Continent, he looked at the sky silently while frowning.
Heavenly Court had indeed prepared something new.
At this moment, in the sky of Central Continent, bright lights shined, stars appeared during daytime, radiating heaven and earth!
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Chapter 1924 Flesh Whip Immortal
Central Continent, Hidden Dragon Cave.
"What is going on?" Eastern Sea's eight Gu Immortals saw the change in the sky.
In broad daylight, Central Continent's sky was covered in stars that shined brightly.
"This is likely Heavenly Court's method, but we do not know what effect it has." Qing Yue An frowned as he spoke.
"What is there to fear? We will deal with it when it comes, with our force, who can stop us? Unless Heavenly Court sends their main forces to face us." Yang Zi He laughed loudly.
"Indeed." Qing Yue An's frown eased a little.
In this situation, Heavenly Court focused on repairing fate Gu, Hidden Dragon Cave was just a small area at the corner of the big picture, if Heavenly Court sent their main forces here to resist Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals, they would be disregarding the bigger problems, it would be a terrible decision!
"Enter the formation, destroy this formation and release Di Zang Sheng, he will cause chaos in the world, we will then gain our opportunity." Yang Zi He encouraged them without acting suspicious.
"Hmm… let's wait for a while. Since we are going to take action, why the need to rush now?" Song Qi Yuan had a composed mentality: "Since Heavenly Court has already used their method, we need to at least find out what it does, right?"
Song Qi Yuan's words made the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals hesitant again.
Yang Zi He and the other Dragon Generals cursed in their hearts, these Eastern Sea righteous path rank eights were truly indecisive. They had already shown hostility to Heavenly Court but still did not want to destroy the formation immediately!
They were concerned about this ridiculous starry sky because they were too worried about their own safety. If they were Northern Plains' Gu Immortals, they would have entered the formation already. No wonder Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world had the most wealth but still stayed suppressed and unable to resist Gu Immortals of other regions.
Fang Yuan did not want these Gu Immortals to wait outside.
The Four Dragon Generals were enslaved by Dragon Palace, they were undoubtedly loyal.
Among them, Granny Rong smiled as she said: "If this method has just materialized and needs three days to take effect, are we going to wait three days here?"
"This…" Song Qi Yuan and the rest were uncertain.
But at this moment, from the sky, grand starlight pillars shot down rapidly.
The light pillars were shining in a bluish light, it was a grand sight.
More than ten pillars of light shot down together, encircling all eight Eastern Sea Gu Immortals.
Next, the pillars faded away as a Heavenly Court Gu Immortal appeared in the location of each pillar.
The Eastern Sea immortals' expressions changed.
In an instant, they were surrounded by Heavenly Court, the situation took a turn for the worse!
"You crawling worms dare to offend Heavenly Court!" Zhang Fei Xiong said in a cold and domineering tone.
"You will die today." Wan Zi Hong licked her scarlet lips, oozing with killing intent.
"Those who offend Central Continent will be killed." Qin Song had a solemn expression.
"Enough talk, I'm going to attack now, yayaya!" A female Heavenly Court immortal could not wait anymore, she charged forward.
Her body was plump to its limit, she was like a meat cannonball that shot towards the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals fearlessly.
Eastern Sea's immortals were not united, they quickly split up.
The fat female immortal missed her target, she screamed in anger: "You cowards, why are you dodging, come, fight your mommy for three hundred rounds!"
"Flesh Whip Immortal is still so impatient." A Heavenly Court Gu Immortal who knew about this female immortal sighed helplessly.
"Flesh Whip Immortal is gentle and kind normally, but once she enters battle, she acts like what the rumors say." Many Heavenly Court Gu Immortals watched with surprise.
At once, the female immortal called Flesh Whip Immortal chased after Eastern Sea's eight Gu Immortals while shouting vulgarities non-stop, she was extremely noisy.
"Vile woman, don't be too arrogant." Qing Yue An could not take it, he turned around to battle.
Flesh Whip Immortal was overjoyed: "Someone finally stopped running!"
Boom!
The two used their killer moves that collided, causing a thunderous explosion.
A huge shock wave burst out and caused the surrounding clouds to disperse and change form.
"Quickly go and reinforce Little Whip." Qin Song ordered, among these Gu Immortals, he was the most senior, even Flesh Whip Immortal was his junior.
Central Continent's immortals all charged forward at once.
Among them, there was Zhu Que Er who cultivated fire path and transformation path. There was Vortex Space Boy who cultivated space path and had terrifying killer moves. There was Ye Qiao Zi, Z, Wu Shuang, Yu Zhu Zi, and others, they were all famous Heavenly Court experts in history.
Not only did Heavenly Court's side have more people, they even had excellent coordination, they created their battle tactic long ago, they erupted with great power.
Eastern Sea's eight Gu Immortals were forced back time and again, they could not hold their own.
"This is a trap, let's retreat!" Song Qi Yuan shouted with all his might.
His words immediately received the acceptance of the other three righteous path members, with the enemies being this strong now, they could not fight forcefully.
The Four Dragon Generals remained silent.
Without Fang Yuan's orders, they would not abruptly retreat.
Amidst the chaotic battle, Zhu Que Er suddenly pushed with her palm as a flame light was shot out.
The flame light resembled a beautiful blade light as it slashed towards Granny Rong.
Granny Rong and Zhao Shan He were currently fighting, seeing the approaching blade, she did not dodge it.
At the crucial moment, Zhang Yin suddenly moved, a shadow appeared and blocked the flame light.
"Oh? There's something weird going on with these two Gu Immortals." Zhu Que Er's expression changed, she felt something amiss.
Compared to the previous life, she had woken up much earlier, she made many preparations. She had already obtained information regarding Granny Rong and Zhang Yin.
These two were lone immortals but they actually trusted each other this much, it was really rare!
But soon, Zhu Que Er found out that it was not only Zhang Yin and Granny Rong, Yang Zi He and Shi Miao were also weird, these four rank eights trusted each other completely, they were willing to let themselves be defended by one another in dangerous situations!
Because of their coordination, they were able to resist the attacks of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals without losing.
Fairy Zi Wei was currently looking at the situation from her formation core in Central Hall.
Starlight flashed in front of her, displaying the scene in Hidden Dragon Cave.
Even though she was in Heavenly Court, she obtained firsthand information of the battlefield.
"What's wrong with these four Eastern Sea lone immortals? Their relationship should not be this close. Unless they set some sort of strict alliance agreement that allowed them to work together with complete trust?"
Fairy Zi Wei could not think more, it was not the time to deduce this now.
She considered it for a while before giving her orders.
After getting her orders, Old Man Bei Feng who was inside Hidden Dragon Cave became revitalized, he quickly activated the formation.
Intense lights appeared around the formation, its power spread out across the battlefield.
"Oh no!"
"Quickly leave!!"
"Once we enter the formation, they will take us out one by one."
Eastern Sea's immortals were flustered, they quickly shouted.
But how could Heavenly Court's rank eight Gu Immortals allow them to leave? Immediately, killer moves were used to obstruct the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals, they could not get out, they were swept into the formation along with the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals.
Both parties entered Hidden Dragon Cave's formation.
Old Man Bei Feng, who was controlling the formation, grunted as his face turned pale, blood flowed out of his nostrils.
Even though Hidden Dragon Cave's formation was powerful, taking in so many rank eight Gu Immortals at once was beyond Old Man Bei Feng's limits.
"Grandfather, are you okay?" Feng Chan Zi who was at the side asked with concern.
He was Old Man Bei Feng's beloved grandson, if he did not make a mistake and was forced to guard Hidden Dragon Cave along with his grandfather, Old Man Bei Feng would have become a member of Heavenly Court already.
"But if I can make some contributions in this battle, Heavenly Court might recruit me!" Old Man Bei Feng's eyes shined with bright light, he was filled with morale.
Eastern Sea's rank eights were trapped in the formation, they were split up.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were also split up into different areas.
"This formation is mainly used to suppress and seal Di Zang Sheng, it does not have any power to cooperate with Gu Immortals in battle. Every Gu Immortal that enters the formation will be sent to a different area. Unless the formation is destroyed, there will not be two Gu Immortals in the same area."
Fairy Zi Wei knew about Hidden Dragon Cave's formation, she ordered Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals to retreat.
While Eastern Sea's immortals were trapped inside.
"I will leave this place to you." Qin Song said before leaving.
"Don't worry, I will guard this place with my life. If anything happens, I will report it and seek reinforcements." Old Man Bei Feng said with a polite and serious attitude.
"Very good." Qin Song felt assured as he brought the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals to leave.
At this time, more than ten pillars of light shot down again, the blue starlight pillars enveloped all the Heavenly Court rank eights.
The pillars vanished, along with the rank eight Gu Immortals within.
Fang Di Chang and the rest traveled in their Immortal Gu House as they rushed towards Emperor City.
Even though the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention was disrupted by Fang Yuan in advance in this life and had slower progress than the previous life, it was not even at the final round of the competition yet.
But evidently, Emperor City was the only place that could protect them while not interfering with the Gu refinement and the restoration of fate Gu. That place was already heavily guarded by Heavenly Court, Fang Di Chang thus asked the Western Desert immortals to head to Emperor City.
Western Desert's immortals had surging morale.
But at the next moment, starlight pillars appeared again, as more than ten Heavenly Court Gu Immortals appeared.
"Kill!" Flesh Whip Immortal charged forward again.
But this time, Western Desert's Gu Immortals were not flustered.
They were within their Immortal Gu Houses, they felt very safe.
Watching as Flesh Whip Immortal attacked, even though she was a rank eight Gu Immortal, she could not destroy an Immortal Gu House instantly.
"What method is Heavenly Court using? They could transport so many rank eights at the same time!" Fang Di Chang did not think anymore, he mobilized several Immortal Gu Houses to resist the enemies.
As a wisdom path Gu Immortal who controlled the strongest Immortal Gu House Divine Bean Palace, he was selected as the leader of the group, he had the highest authority.
Immortal Gu Houses charged without care, it was Heavenly Court's time to dodge them.
But two Gu Immortals did not retreat.
One was Zhang Fei Xiong, he turned into a giant with a bear head and human body, he resisted Immortal Gu Houses with his body.
The other was Flesh Whip Immortal, she was a transformation path Gu Immortal, she transformed into a walking meat tree as her roots moved like legs, running rapidly, while her branches turned into countless whips that attacked in a frenzy.
Crack crack crack!
She was also resisting Immortal Gu Houses, several rank seven Immortal Gu Houses were forced to turn around and escape.
Within Divine Bean Palace, Fang Di Chang's expression was dark.
"Heavenly Court made changes, but this change is simply too huge."
"Zhang Fei Xiong, Wan Zi Hong, and Zhu Que Er woke up in advance, even experts like Flesh Whip Immortal appeared."
"And most importantly, what killer move is this? It can transport more than ten rank eight Gu Immortals at once! This is simply unheard of!"
With this move, Heavenly Court had the initiative to mobilize their main forces to attack anywhere they wanted.
This was a very significant trump card in battle.
As long as this move was not destroyed, Heavenly Court could fight in several battlefields at the same time, they could deal with anything that came at them.
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Chapter 1925 Heavenly Court“s Initiative
Crack crack crack!
The tower-like walking meat tree was charging at the forefront, thousands of octopus tentacle-like branches waved and created a sound of fierce wind whistling, they had awe inspiring might, the Western Desert Gu Immortal's Immortal Gu Houses were forced to retreat.
Flesh Whip Immortal was able to resist Immortal Gu Houses singlehandedly, she was truly a rank eight expert slumbering in the Heavenly Court immortal graveyard, her strength was unquestionable!
Of course, this was also the advantage of transformation path.
"Let us!" At the crucial moment, Dong clan's Gu Immortals spoke up.
Similar to the previous life, Dong clan still mobilized the rank seven Immortal Gu House Red River Wheel.
This Immortal Gu House looked like a water wheel or a giant tire, rotating while blazing with red flames, it crashed towards the walking meat tree.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals saw this and their gazes focused.
Immortal Gu Houses charged head on because it was the fastest method, it was usually not their strongest ability.
According to the different types of Immortal Gu used to construct them, Immortal Gu Houses had different immortal killer moves.
Right now, Red River Wheel had used its own killer move with overwhelming might to attack Flesh Whip Immortal.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were nervous, similarly, Western Desert's Gu Immortals were also nervous.
Red River Wheel was only a rank seven Immortal Gu House, it could resist rank eight, if it crashed into Flesh Whip Immortal, they would be evenly matched, it would be damaged too.
However, this result was still slightly favorable to Western Desert.
Even if both of them were harmed, Red River Wheel would be able to recover by replacing the dead Gu. Flesh Whip Immortal, however, would be physically injured, and subsequent healing and recovery would be quite troubling.
"Come!" At the crucial moment, Flesh Whip Immortal, instead of retreating, yelled in excitement and charged straight up.
"This person…"
"Defend her!"
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals reached a consensus in an instant.
Zhang Fei Xiong growled again, he turned into a giant with a bear head and human body, charging towards Red River Wheel.
"Red River Wheel is strongest at the front and back, but the sides are the weakest. Let's help out Dong clan!" Immortal Gu House Jade Toad Castle was like a green meteor that crashed into Zhang Fei Xiong.
Wan Zi Hong smiled delicately as countless petals drifted over the battlefield and landed on Red River Wheel, its momentum continued to decline.
Fang clan's Chicken Dog Coop came over to support, releasing chickens and dogs and other ancient desolate beasts to attack Wan Zi Hong.
Wan Zi Hong was still maintaining her killer moves and had no time to dodge, so Yu Zhu Zi and Ye Qiao Zi appeared around her. One of them sprinkled countless jade beads and made a tinkling sound, while the other emitted a mass of yellow light, sometimes slow, sometimes fast.
Chickens, dogs, and many other ancient desolate beasts were either smashed to death by the jade beads, or were temporarily trapped by the yellow light, hovering high in the air, unable to move.
"Damn it, this Wan Zi Hong is the demoness who scourged Western Desert in history and was recruited by Heavenly Court!" Dong clan's Gu Immortals were inside Red River Wheel, looking at Wan Zi Hong and gnashing their teeth.
Dong clan was a Western Desert righteous path force and hated Western Desert's demons the most, while this Wan Zi Hong was one of the most infamous demonesses in history.
Seeing the Dong clan's Red River Wheel's power was weakening, at this rate, it would be crushed by the walking meat tree. At the critical moment, a forest flower house-like Immortal Gu House was exerting its power behind the battlefield.
Wan Zi Hong gave a soft cry as she suddenly felt her killer move go out of control, countless petals rolled towards Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals instead.
Wan Zi Hong muffled a grunt as her killer move failed and the backlash caused her to suffer considerable damage.
Her eyes were like lightning as she stared at the culprit, it was Fang clan's rank seven Immortal Gu House — Fallen Flower Hall.
Boom!
At the next moment, the walking meat tree and Red River Wheel finally collided together.
Both sides immediately flew backwards.
The walking meat tree had hundreds of severed fleshy tentacles, while the surface of the Red River Wheel's wheel was battered beyond recognition, losing over three thousand Gu, Dong clan's Gu Immortals quickly started to repair it.
"This… is really satisfying!" Flesh Whip Immortal gritted her teeth and struggled to maintain the form of the walking meat tree, although her injuries were not light, her fighting spirit was instead more vigorous.
She was about to charge up again, but was stopped by Zhang Fei Xiong.
"Let me fight, you should go back and heal your injuries." Zhang Fei Xiong had been knocked away by the Immortal Gu House earlier, he returned and immediately took the place of Flesh Whip Immortal.
Flesh Whip Immortal, however, was stubborn and would not retreat in a deadly battle: "I won't! Let me charge, no one can stop me."
As soon as the words were said, a giant pillar of starlight shot down violently overhead, covering Flesh Whip Immortal.
Flesh Whip Immortal: "…"
In the next instant, she disappeared together with the giant pillar of starlight and returned to Heavenly Court.
In Heavenly Court's battlefield, Calamity Luck Altar was still struggling to move forward, trying to break free from the qi wall, but Duke Long was firmly blocking in front of it.
Duke Long's tall body was like cast steel, and even if it was just one man, Calamity Luck Altar could not deal with him.
Boom boom boom!
Every time Duke Long attacked, it was accompanied by a fierce explosion, and just by using transformation path killer moves, Calamity Luck Altar could not move forward.
After advancing ten steps, it would often be knocked back nine steps by Duke Long.
Flesh Whip Immortal swallowed a mouthful of saliva, gazing up at the heroic fighting stance of Duke Long, feeling envious in her heart, when would she have such powerful strength!
Light flickered around her, pale blue strands of flowing water wrapped around her, washing the dao marks away to heal her wounds.
This was a healing formation specially set up by Heavenly Court to greatly improve the efficiency of healing injuries.
"Heavenly Court's teleportation method can move groups as well as a single person to and fro! This is really troublesome." Fang Yuan's clone, Fang Di Chang, frowned deeply.
Although he could not see the healing formation in Heavenly Court, he could deduce it easily with his brain.
The key was that with such a method, Heavenly Court could quickly retreat. It was almost an extravagant hope for Western Desert's side to kill or injure the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals. They had to kill with a single blow, denying Heavenly Court any chance to teleport and heal their members.
But how difficult was it to kill such experts among rank eight!
It was not just Fang Di Chang, the vast majority of the Gu Immortals recognized this, the morale of the Western Desert immortals began to plummet.
Fang Di Chang secretly gritted his teeth: "This is not good."
Immediately, he activated Divine Bean Palace to move to the front line: "Everyone, let me do it!"
The Western Desert Immortals were energized greatly, they hurriedly made way for Divine Bean Palace, casting expectant glances at it.
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals saw an Immortal Gu House lofty as a mountain, majestic and imposing, rumbling and rushing as it attacked, all their hearts jumped.
The same name flashed in the hearts of the immortals — Divine Bean Palace!
Immortal killer move — Myriad Life Spring Lightning!
Divine Bean Palace shook intensely, countless sparks that resembled dragons or snakes coiled around the palace. Lightning gathered into beads of jade green lightning balls as they exploded around the palace.
Rumble…
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals dodged wildly, not daring to face the attack. Even transformation path Zhang Fei Xiong had reverted to his human body, flying around in a very sad state.
Myriad life spring lightning, life and death was interlinked, destruction and creation were gathered into one move. After exploding, dao marks would be left in the battlefield, creating an environment that was advantageous to the user.
"How can we fight this?" This time, it was the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals' turn to feel helpless.
"It is, after all, an Immortal Gu House created by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable himself."
"Sigh, how did it end up in the hands of Western Desert's Gu Immortals!"
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were resentful and without options, all of them were thinking of retreating.
One of the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals was pale and chubby, he was Zhao Shan He, who was now looking at Yu Zhu Zi.
Yu Zhu Zi nodded at him as they suddenly gathered together.
At the same time, the other Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were surrounding the two of them, planning and defending around them.
Zhao Shan He was a food path Gu Immortal and Yu Zhu Zi was earth path, they both unleashed a move together — Sitting and Eating the Mountain Empty!
The killer move enveloped the entire battlefield, Western Desert's Immortal Gu Houses could not dodge it.
After it was used, starlight pillars flashed in the sky for an instant.
At the next moment, all of the Heavenly Court rank eights left the battlefield, the intense and chaotic battle was left with only Western Desert's Immortal Gu Houses.
Even though Western Desert's Gu Immortals forced back Heavenly Court, their expressions turned ugly.
Because they found out that many of the Gu worms in the Immortal Gu Houses were weakening, soon, their aura fell to rock bottom as Gu worms died one by one.
Not only that, the Gu Immortals in the houses were also getting hit, many of their immortal essence beads started to disintegrate and disappear.
"This was all caused by that move."
"What kind of killer move was it, not only did the Immortal Gu Houses get affected, but even the Gu Immortals inside the houses were not spared?"
"This should be the profundity of food path. Because of that, it's hard to defend against using our Immortal Gu Houses."
The Western Desert Gu Immortals discussed and exchanged ideas, they soon guessed correctly.
Food path had been too limited in circulation, Western Desert's righteous path did not have a lot of food path inheritances, their defense against it was too low, it was a weakness.
And most importantly, Zhao Shan He was a food path expert on Heavenly Court's side.
"This will not do!"
"Heavenly Court fights and retreats when they want to, as long as they give Zhao Shan He and Yu Zhu Zi the chance to use this move each time, we will lose all our strength and resources over time."
"Everyone! We must hurry up and rush to Emperor City as soon as possible to force Heavenly Court to fight us to the death. There, they won't retreat so easily."
Fang Di Chang analyzed the situation and advocated.
The Western Desert Gu Immortals agreed.
In a short period of time, they had no way to counter Heavenly Court's teleportation killer move and could only use this method to restrain Heavenly Court.
Zhao Shan He and the others returned to Heavenly Court once again.
The injured ones all went to the healing formation to recover, while the rest were focusing on their recuperation while communicating with each other on how they should work better together.
After a fierce battle with Western Desert's various Immortal Gu Houses, these Gu Immortals suffered no losses, and the most seriously injured person, Flesh Whip Immortal, was almost healed completely, alive and well once again.
Unlike the previous life, these Gu Immortals, because of their early awakening, not only possessed a full range of Immortal Gu, but they also had a certain level of mutual cooperation.
"Immortal Gu Houses are just hard to fight. Divine Bean Palace is the most troublesome of them all."
"What are you worried about? A few more rounds and Western Desert's side will collapse. They won't be able to reach Emperor City!"
"Have Fang Yuan and Qi Sea Ancestor not done anything? Quickly do something, we can't wait anymore."
Gu Immortals were all experts that had huge reputation at some point in time, they were overflowing with confidence and morale.
The truth was, Fang Yuan was the one who caused this situation.
Since rebirth, Fang Yuan had been gaining victories over Heavenly Court multiple times, Star Constellation's will felt a huge threat from this and awakened many Gu Immortals in advance.
It was unlike the previous life when Longevity Heaven attacked, in which Heavenly Court had fallen into a crisis and had to awaken many Gu Immortals in a hurry, they were unable to display their true battle strength.
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Chapter 1926 Northern Plains“ Retaliation
"Quickly stop them!" Fang Di Chang shouted.
Western Desert's Immortal Gu Houses tried their best to stop Zhao Shan He and Yu Zhu Zi.
But in front of them, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were putting up a tight defense.
Roar!
Zhang Fei Xiong turned into a giant, obstructing an Immortal Gu House relentlessly.
Crack crack crack!
Flesh Whip Immortal turned into an immemorial walking meat tree, she waved her branches and whipped at the Immortal Gu Houses, they were knocked about and spinning around all over the place.
Bam bam bam…
All kinds of immortal killer moves erupted, as if they were large bursts of fireworks, incomparably splendid and powerful.
These were all rank eight killer moves of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals, the Immortal Gu Houses of Western Desert suffered a serious obstruction, inevitably hesitating.
Taking advantage of this time, Zhao Shan He and Yu Zhu Zi finished their preparation and unleashed their immortal killer move, sitting and eating the mountain empty.
Western Desert's Gu Immortals were hit again, they then helplessly watched as a giant pillar of starlight shot down, teleporting away the Central Continent Gu Immortals.
At the next moment, they returned to Heavenly Court.
As the Gu Immortals healed their wounds, they exchanged conversations.
"It's really getting harder and harder to use the killer move, sitting and eating the mountain empty."
"After all, the other side has elites of an entire region, so they cannot be underestimated. As the saying goes, if a fool suffers sufficient losses, he will become wiser."
"But their strength has also been weakened quite badly, so they probably won't be able to hold out after two more times."
The Gu Immortals were full of morale, and the more they fought, the higher their spirits became.
Guh.
At this moment, Qin Song's face turned pale and he coughed out a small mouthful of blood.
His blood was yellowish brown, and there were countless small insects jumping around in the blood foam.
"Senior Qin, are you injured?" Zhou Xiong Xin, who was standing right next to Qin Song, asked with concern.
Zhou Xiong Xin was dressed in a white robe, he had a strong physique and a squarish face with thick eyebrows. In his last battle with Fang Yuan, he activated the fastest battlefield killer move in the world, rumor cage, and once caused Fang Yuan to fall into a dangerous battle. In the end, Fang Yuan was even more calculating and used the arrangements left by the organization Defy to plot and kill Zhou Xiong Xin.
But this time, Fang Yuan was reborn, Zhou Xiong Xin was thus alive and one of the many Gu Immortals that fought along with Heavenly Court.
Qin Song weakly shook his head: "This is an old injury, it is not from the fight earlier."
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals all gathered around to check on Qin Song's state, even Fairy Zi Wei came here.
Qin Song was the key person now.
The reason why Heavenly Court was able to display such a powerful star cast killer move was not only with the help of the related formation and Star Constellation Chessboard, but also relying on Qin Song's strength.
Qin Song was most skilled at teleportation.
In the previous life, he was the one who brought the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals on a long journey to quickly make their way to Di Zang Sheng. At that time, he did not have his complete set of Immortal Gu, he used killer moves without caring about his own condition, causing him to die prematurely.
This life, however, he had awakened earlier, the situation was much better. Not only were his Immortal Gu comprehensive, he also got to use an advanced lifespan extension method.
Qin Song's seniority was very high, he had gone into hibernation long ago. During his hibernation, Heavenly Court had many new findings and improvement in their research on lifespan extension methods.
As time passed, there were bound to be improvements.
As a result, Qin Song's lifespan was extended to a certain extent, but the repeated battles made him repeatedly exert himself, and his health declined rapidly. His lifespan was greatly reduced.
"Based on your current physical state, I'm afraid you can only use four movement killer moves at most. Beyond that number, your flesh and soul will all collapse." Fairy Zi Wei calculated for a moment and spoke.
"Four times?" Qin Song smiled and coughed out another mouthful of yellow blood with a calm demeanor: "It is enough to defeat Western Desert, and there's still room to spare, so maybe we can deal a blow to Southern Border as well! Or maybe Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals. As for after my death, it will be up to all of you."
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were silent.
Only Flesh Whip Immortal grinned: "Don't worry, Old Man Qin, I'm here."
There was nothing they could do about Qin Song's state. The cause behind all of this was his old injury, an injury that he had brought with him from exploring Reckless Savage's grave, it could not be treated in the past, and now it was still fatal.
Fairy Zi Wei, however, did not order a further attack, she was pondering in her head.
Without Qin Song, Heavenly Court would not have the ability to teleport in groups. Relying on Star Constellation Chessboard alone would be too inefficient and it would seriously reduce her own ability to deduce and calculate.
Fairy Zi Wei had experience in using star cast, this killer move consumed too many thoughts. If she had to use this killer move, she would no longer have the extra energy to look over the big picture.
This was clearly not worth it for Heavenly Court.
It would be fine if it was just one battlefield, but Heavenly Court was fighting in at least three battlefields, they were facing not only the powerful elites of the four regions, there was still Fang Yuan, the demon who had yet to do anything.
As the leader and strategist of Heavenly Court in both the previous life and this life, Fairy Zi Wei had to oversee the whole situation.
"What a pity, there is no wisdom path Gu Immortal awakening in the immortal graveyard this time."
"Fang Yuan has yet to make a move, and Qi Sea Ancestor has made no movements either. If we waste Qin Song early at this time, it will be bad if there is a sudden change in the battle in the future."
Fairy Zi Wei pondered deeply, unwilling to expend a key force like Qin Song in advance.
She always considered one thing: Fang Yuan possessed a killer move using Fixed Immortal Travel, as well as the ancient battle formation Omni-directional Travel, he could quickly appear in any place in Central Continent.
If Heavenly Court preserved the remaining uses of their star cast method, when they deal with Fang Yuan in the future, it would be much easier.
"Right now, we have four battlefields, they are in Heavenly Court, Hairy Foot Mountain, Emperor City, and Hidden Dragon Cave." Fairy Zi Wei looked around, analyzing as she spoke.
"Of these four battlefields, Heavenly Court's battlefield is the most important. Once we are breached and fate Gu gets destroyed by Longevity Heaven, all hope is lost."
"The second most important is Hairy Foot Mountain. If Infallible blessed land is destroyed and we don't refine enough success dao marks, it will have a huge impact on our ability to repair Fate. However, this is not irrevocable. Even if the Infallible blessed land is destroyed and we don't have enough success dao marks, fate Gu would still be alive. In the future, with new developments in refinement path, we might be able to find other ways to repair fate Gu."
"After that is Emperor City. The Western Desert immortals are moving with their forces aimed straight at Emperor City. But after our repeated strikes, their vigor has been lost. Emperor City itself is already heavily guarded and defended by human path methods left by venerables. Even if it is destroyed and the elites are all dead, it is not very important. In a hundred years, more elites will emerge."
"Finally, there is Hidden Dragon Cave. Although there are many Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortals, they are not looking to kill and only want to seek gains. The formation and Old Man Bei Feng alone won't be able to defend against them, but delaying them for a while is more than enough. During this period of time, we only needed to support them once to stabilize the situation over there."
A Gu Immortal asked: "So, what is your decision?"
Fairy Zi Wei cast her gaze towards Calamity Luck Altar in the qi wall: "Let's take care of Longevity Heaven first! With Heavenly Court secure and fate Gu safe, even if the situation outside is completely lost, we will always be in an impregnable position."
After a pause, she continued: "In addition to that, it will also allow Senior Qin Song to preserve his health, preventing Fang Yuan and Qi Sea Ancestor from suddenly making a move ."
"Great!"
"These are truly the words of a great strategist."
"I'm also feeling uneasy about trapping Calamity Luck Altar in our headquarters. After all, they are the descendants of Giant Sun, so they might unleash a surprising attack anytime."
"We will listen to you!"
After listening carefully, the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals all approved of this plan.
As a result, the immortals stopped attacking at a long range, they entered the qi wall and fought Longevity Heaven fiercely.
The qi wall in Heavenly Court was left behind by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable. After so many years, except for the three paths that were opened by the three venerables, the rest of the qi wall was still strong and enduring.
And even worse was that the qi wall still retained its autonomous abilities.
Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were allowed to move freely in it, while Longevity Heaven's Gu Immortals were restricted by a strong force.
There was a hemispherical battlefield in the qi wall, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals bombarded Calamity Luck Altar with a barrage of attacks with their backs against the wall.
Once Calamity Luck Altar retaliates, these Gu Immortals would rapidly retreat, entering the qi wall and using it to block Calamity Luck Altar's attack.
Because of this, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were able to attack with their full strength, Calamity Luck Altar's surface was filled with cracks.
As an rank eight Immortal Gu House, Calamity Luck Altar itself was extremely sturdy, and it was created by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable himself, so it had a clear advantage in charging. It was simply unreasonable.
But all along, it was always obstructed by a Gu Immortal.
This person was Duke Long!
His body was slowly growing minute by minute, his face was like iron, his body was robust, and the defense of violet-gold dragon scales all over his body was extremely amazing.
Transformation path killer moves were being unleashed as he desired. The moves were domineering and fierce, blocking Calamity Luck Altar firmly.
Be they Calamity Luck Altar or killer moves of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals that he was in range of, he held firm, as if he was a pillar of heaven, all of the rank eight killer moves felt like just a light breeze.
In the previous life, Duke Long and the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals fought for Dragon Palace, and although he succeeded, he was seriously injured. By the time the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention was held, Duke Long was still injured, so his performance in battle was not so shocking at the start.
In this life, because Fang Yuan had obtained Dragon Palace in advance, Duke Long was in a fully intact state and could attack Calamity Luck Altar to the point where it could not inch forward.
"Duke Long… is actually so strong!" Bing Sai Chuan was livid.
The accompanying Bull Demon, Flower Lady, and Five Elements Grandmaster were all desperately trying their best to repair Calamity Luck Altar.
"This won't work. Without breaking through the barrier in front of us, we won't be able to get close to Heaven Overseeing Tower." In Calamity Luck Altar, Mao Li Qiu lay down on the ground, yelling out in dissatisfaction.
Bing Sai Chuan struggled for a while internally before he sighed: "There is no other way, activate the killer move call of the ancient."
Calamity Luck Altar suddenly stood still and abruptly exploded with a round of golden light.
The light was so dazzling that it caused Duke Long to squint his eyes.
Swish swish swish…
The sound of river waves surging through the battlefield resounded.
The phantom image of a segment of the grand River of Time appeared above Calamity Luck Altar.
"This is?!" Duke Long's heart was slightly shaken.
Then, following the astonished eyes of the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals, Northern Plains' Gu Immortals walked out of the phantom River of Time one by one.
"Come on, eat one of my explosive lightning bolts!" The tall-bodied Nu Er Bao Xiong laughed wildly.
"To think that I can use this move to come to the future and participate in a huge battle, I am truly fortunate." Hei Fan had a slight smile.
"Wow! What a huge battle, oh heavens, I better hide somewhere." Liu Liu Liu had a delicate white face, he had a crafty look as his body vanished on the spot.
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Chapter 1927 Asking Fang Yuan for Reinforcements
"What happened?"
"These are all historically famous experts from Northern Plains, they've actually been summoned here!"
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were all surprised.
Duke Long said in a deep voice: "Attention everyone, this is Red Lotus Demon Venerable's time path killer move, call of the ancient. It can summon closely related Gu Immortals from the upstream of the River of Time to the present to fight for the user!"
"That's interesting." Flesh Whip Immortal licked her lips, her fighting spirit surging as she rushed up.
"Let me do it." Zhang Fei Xiong transformed into a giant, together with Flesh Whip Immortal, they crashed into Calamity Luck Altar from the left and right.
But at this time, Calamity Luck Altar was already guarded.
Nu Er Bao Xiong roared wildly and used his immortal killer move, lightning balls flew everywhere, exploding fiercely.
For a moment, Flesh Whip Immortal and Zhang Fei Xiong were both blocked by the lightning balls, their attacks were thwarted.
Zhu Que Er squealed and used her movement killer move, drawing a bright and stunning red trail of light through the air and circling behind Calamity Luck Altar.
"Don't even think about it." A male immortal stepped out of the phantom River of Time to block Zhu Que Er.
He had a handsome face like jade, graceful and dashing, his gaze carried a faint smile, it was Dong Fang Yu.
Boom boom boom!
Zhu Que Er and Dong Fang Yu fought a fierce battle.
Immortal killer move — Sitting and Eating the Mountain Empty!
In the distance, Zhao Shan He and Yu Zhu Zi joined forces once again and successfully activated the killer move.
The killer move worked on Calamity Luck Altar with very little effect. Calamity Luck Altar was worthy of being created by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, its defense against food path was quite strong.
Ye Qiao Zi's killer moves followed one after another. Wooden stakes were created out of thin air, forming a circle to trap Calamity Luck Altar.
Ye Qiao Zi grunted in a low tone again, and countless bright green vines grew from the wooden stakes, wrapping around Calamity Luck Altar and spreading upwards in an attempt to stain the phantom River of Time.
"It's useless. This phantom River of Time cannot be attacked, only by defeating Calamity Luck Altar which is sustaining it can we put an end to this move." Duke Long was about to make a move.
But another Heavenly Court Gu Immortal suddenly teleported towards the phantom River of Time.
This Gu Immortal resembled a child with black hair, he had a small cowlick on the top of his head, his face was round and cute. It was none other than Vortex Space Boy.
His aura surged as a huge vortex appeared above it had, it had an immense suction force that destroyed anything that got drawn into it.
But the phantom River of Time remained unmoved, completely unaffected.
Another newly appeared Northern Plains Gu Immortal had just walked out, he could not react in time before the vortex sucked him in.
"Hahaha, at least I had some gains." Vortex Space Boy laughed as he exerted even more force.
Nian Er tribe's expert was trapped inside — Nian Er Nong Fu.
He looked like an old farmer, his pants were rolled up, his legs were covered in mud, his back was hunched, wrinkles covered his face.
Trapped at this moment, he sighed: "Oh my, I'm going to die in battle as soon as I get out. Seriously? Of all the Northern Plains Gu Immortals, I'm the least proficient at fighting."
The small face of Vortex Space Boy puffed up as he did his best to grind and crush Nian Er Nong Fu.
Nian Er Nong Fu was guarded by a pale yellow halo of light, it was thin but very strong, firmly resisting the crazy force of the spinning vortex.
Another Gu Immortal came out from the illusory River of Time, seeing that Nian Er Nong Fu was trapped, he was about to rescue him.
However, Heavenly Court Gu Immortal Zhou Xiong Xin also arrived in time to stop the man.
Ye Lui Kou also came out, his skin was dark and his eyes were like a falcon, scanning the battlefield, he suddenly found the weakest Gu Immortal in Heavenly Court, Qin Song.
Qin Song's weakened state was hard to conceal.
Ye Lui Kou sneered and attacked Qin Song straight away.
"Your opponent is me." A beautiful female immortal intercepted Ye Lui Kou while he was on his way.
Ye Lui Kou gazed at the female immortal, feeling a certain threat to his life: "Who are you?"
The female immortal smiled fawningly, but her words were murderous: "Your killer — Wan Zi Hong!"
As the two fought, golden light flashed and petals flew.
Figures flew in the sky or fought on the ground.
Intense explosions continued to resound, sparks were flying, bright lights were flashing.
Northern Plains' Gu Immortal experts fought against Heavenly Court's members.
Rumble!
Zhang Fei Xiong's flesh was torn by Nu Er Bao Xiong's explosions.
Crack crack crack!
Flesh Whip Immortal smacked Yuan Ben so hard that the white bone armor Yuan Ben was wearing got smashed to pieces, he was forced to retreat.
Nian Er Nong Fu was still resisting, while Vortex Space Boy was gritting his teeth, refusing to give up.
Surrounding the two who were deadlocked in battle, several Gu Immortals were also engaged in a fight.
The Gu Immortals were all beginning to suffer injuries, the air was filled with the thick smell of blood.
"Even though I used the killer move, call of the ancient, I am actually being pressured!" Bing Sai Chuan gritted his teeth, his heart growing heavier.
The trump card he had pinned his hopes on did not turn the tables around, it only saved him from defeat and deadlocked the situation.
In the previous life, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals had awakened hastily from the immortal graveyard, and despite the emergency deployment of the Immortal Gu by Fairy Zi Wei, their battle strength was still crippled.
But this life was different, these Heavenly Court Gu Immortals had great battle strength and were in good condition, enough to fight with the strong Northern Plains and even suppress them. After all, there had been a lot of cooperation between the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals, while Northern Plains' historically powerful experts had just been summoned, they had heard of each other at most, in their own lives, how could they have worked together?
"This can't continue. The longer call of the ancient lasts, the more experts it will continue to summon into battle." Fairy Zi Wei frowned, feeling both worried and glad.
Thankfully, she had placed priority on dealing with Longevity Heaven, this killer move was really troublesome. If they had used star cast earlier, the loss of Qin Song and the scattering of Heavenly Court's experts would likely allow Longevity Heaven to succeed and rush out of the qi wall.
After all, there were few Gu Immortals left in Heavenly Court, and Yuan Qiong Du and the others had to preside over the refinement path Gu formation, the only main force that could block Calamity Luck Altar was Duke Long.
Duke Long gazed at the phantom River of Time for a while, before slowly withdrawing his gaze.
He sighed in his heart, he could not unravel this killer move, it was like how he could not deal with the 'support of the future' killer move that Red Lotus Demon Venerable used back then.
"If it can't be broken directly, then all we need to do is to demolish Calamity Luck Altar." Thinking of this, Duke Long slowly clenched his fists and stepped into the battlefield.
Ye Qiao Zi suddenly coughed blood, the killer move backlash caused him to suffer heavy injuries.
He had been cooperating with Duke Long to investigate and restrain Calamity Luck Altar. But how could the rank eight Immortal Gu House be so easily restrained?
Ye Qiao Zi had to retreat into the qi wall, while Calamity Luck Altar stirred, trying to break through the qi wall.
Duke Long silently approached Calamity Luck Altar.
"Block him!" Bing Sai Chuan ordered coldly.
He was someone from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's generation, while most of the experts of Northern Plains were descendants of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, so they naturally listened to him.
Nu Er Bao Xiong was the first to strike, hundreds of lightning balls smashed towards Duke Long.
Boom boom boom!
With a series of deafening explosions, smoke and dust rose, Nu Er Bao Xiong laughed wildly: "Have you tasted my power yet? Hahaha… uh."
A figure gradually walked out of the smoke and dust.
Duke Long's face was indifferent, his body as straight as a spear, his violet-gold dragon scales still gleaming, leaving only a trace of ash at most.
Nu Er Bao Xiong was furious, he stared with glaring eyes, his aura soaring wildly: "Take this move from me again!"
He held his hands above his head and countless thunderbolts gathered into a huge deep blue lightning ball.
The surface of the lightning ball was lingering with electricity, but inside it was dark and deep, Nu Er Bao Xiong threw it like a meteor shooting towards Duke Long.
Duke Long was finally willing to avert his gaze, but only gave a glance at the lightning ball.
He waved his hand.
Rumble!
The air currents soared, forming a big hand, and with a slap on the back of his hand, the lightning ball was sent flying far away with ease.
Nu Er Bao Xiong's powerful killer move was thus dealt with by Duke Long.
At the next moment, Yu Yang Zi, Liu Hui, and Liu Liu Liu attacked one after another, while Duke Long went straight to Calamity Luck Altar without looking at them.
Only by destroying Calamity Luck Altar would call of the ancient be stopped!
Boom!
Calamity Luck Altar was punched by Duke Long and sunk into the ground.
A fist crater appeared on the surface of the Immortal Gu House, a large number of Gu worms died in battle, even the Immortal Gu were damaged.
The killer moves of the Northern Plains experts seemed like a downpour of rain, drowning Duke Long.
But after the continuous bombardment, Duke Long was still standing, only a light layer of soot was added on his face.
"How is this possible?"
"How can this person be so strong!"
"He is Duke Long, the master of Red Lotus Demon Venerable!"
Someone identified Duke Long as the Gu Immortals of Northern Plains drew a sharp breath of cold air.
He was an old monster!
But at the next moment, the morale of the people of Northern Plains soared again. They had a brave nature, the stronger Duke Long was, the more excited they became.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"Decapitate this old fellow!"
"Protect Calamity Luck Altar and break out of the qi wall."
The Northern Plains Gu Immortals roared wildly, fighting to break out and setting off a flurry of attacks.
"These Northern Plains lunatics!"
"Hmph, brutish cavemen."
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals had to retreat and back off for a while.
Faced with the relentless spirit of Northern Plains' Gu Immortals to fight to the death, Duke Long could not continue to ignore it this time.
He snorted lightly: "Annoying pests."
As soon as his words fell, the aura around him changed.
Qi currents rushed and spread everywhere, while Duke Long's body became firm like a mountain, his aura soared rapidly.
The killer move was prepared as Duke Long waved his hand.
Whoosh—!
Air was forcefully pushed aside, five grand qi waves flew forward overbearingly.
Everywhere they went, the killer moves of Northern Plains' experts broke apart like paper, they could not stop the qi waves.
It was immortal killer move — Qi Current Scissors!
Duke Long extended his hand to the sky and pointed.
Immortal killer move — Qi Breath Mountain.
Rumble!
A huge translucent mountain created from qi currents descended and pressed down immediately.
The Northern Plains Gu Immortals wanted to escape, but several of them could not dodge, they were pushed down by the qi breath mountain as it crashed towards Calamity Luck Altar, turning into meat paste on the spot.
The entire mountain of qi currents pressed down on Calamity Luck Altar so hard that the ground was shaking violently.
Calamity Luck Altar was originally ready to attack, but now, it was immobilized.
Duke Long unleashed two moves in a row, the effect was immediate, he suppressed the entire battle.
Bing Sai Chuan's expression was livid, his heart sank to rock bottom. He now realized that they could not break through the qi wall with their own strength alone! Ignoring the other Gu Immortals, just Duke Long alone was a mountain they could not pass.
It was not that Bing Sai Chuan had no other trump cards.
In the previous life, he asked Limitless to turn around, restraining Duke Long for a long time, he was unable to move entirely.
But in this life, Calamity Luck Altar was too far away from Imperfection Regret Pavilion, this method could not be used. In the previous life, Calamity Luck Altar reached Central Great Hall before asking for Limitless' help.
"We can only ask Fang Yuan for help!" Bing Sai Chuan had a thought in his mind.
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Chapter 1928 Fang Yuan Takes Action
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had once told Bing Sai Chuan: If the plan to attack Heavenly Court fails, and Longevity Heaven loses all hope of getting fate Gu, they would need to ask the crucial person for reinforcement.
"Who is the crucial person?" Back then, Bing Sai Chuan asked this question.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable then answered him: "Whoever destroys Eighty-Eight True Yang Building is the crucial person. When the time comes, you will definitely know."
Longevity Heaven's plan was to refine destiny Gu, they needed to snatch fate Gu first.
But unlike the previous life, Bing Sai Chuan had suffered a serious setback this time. He had no choice but to ask for help from Fang Yuan.
By the time he received the letter from Bing Sai Chuan, Fang Yuan was already in Central Continent, hiding inside a formation of the organization Defy.
This large formation was set up by Shadow Sect and left for Defy to use as a base camp. However, after the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, Shadow Sect perished, Defy was uprooted by Fairy Zi Wei, resulting in this formation turning vacant.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan used this formation to successfully kill Zhou Xiong Xin. In this life, the situation had changed and Fang Yuan retreated early, not tangling with Zhou Xiong Xin too much in order to guard against the killer move people's accusation. As a result, Zhou Xiong Xin survived and became a fierce member of the main force of Heavenly Court, while this formation in Defy was preserved.
"To think that Longevity Heaven would encounter such trouble." Fang Yuan's eyes flickered as he rapidly pondered.
He had been unaware of the situation in Heavenly Court now, this letter containing Bing Sai Chuan's request for help described their precarious predicament in detail.
Compared to the previous life, Fang Yuan soon found the key to Longevity Heaven's problem, they were relocated into the qi wall the moment they arrived.
"It should be because of Qin Ding Ling. With a luck path Gu Immortal like her, Heavenly Court could find out Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's arrangement in advance, they even managed to use this to ambush Longevity Heaven instead." Fang Yuan understood.
"This is yet another change."
"There is also call of the ancient… so it turns out that once Calamity Luck Altar activates it, it can teleport immediately. In the previous life, Bing Sai Chuan used this against Duke Long."
Before getting this information, Fang Yuan had been wondering about Heavenly Court's method to use star cast on a large scale, trying to find a way to break it.
How greatly Fairy Zi Wei valued it and did everything possible to preserve the method was how greatly Fang Yuan wanted to destroy it!
By now, Fang Yuan had deduced that this formation was in Heavenly Court, with the core being Star Constellation Chessboard and the countless stars scattered in the sky. The power of the formation was projected onto these stars, using them as the springboard to create a large scale star cast effect.
Fang Yuan did not deduce that Qin Song was the key figure.
In his previous life, Qin Song made a very brief appearance and died after escorting the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals to Hidden Dragon Cave.
Later, the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals did not inform Fang Yuan of this information.
Lacking this crucial clue, Fang Yuan's deduction had hit an impasse.
But now he had become somewhat aware of it.
"According to the information conveyed by Bing Sai Chuan, although Fairy Zi Wei did not participate in the siege, she also appeared outside the qi wall to observe the battle. That's a bit strange, this massive use of star cast should exert all her effort, yet she's still able to distract herself."
"Someone is helping her!"
"Who is that? Is there another wisdom path great expert? Or did others cooperate to create a successful large scale use of star cast?"
Fang Yuan quickly threw away this train of thought.
Now was not the time to contemplate this question, he had to make a decision as soon as possible!
As a wisdom path Gu Immortal, Fang Yuan was now like a chess player who was playing against Fairy Zi Wei.
Both sides had their own chess pieces.
Fairy Zi Wei was clearly a number of pieces ahead, not only in her own wisdom path attainment, but also Heavenly Court's unity, and in the current situation, she had a distinct advantage.
Fang Yuan had a seemingly huge force at his disposal, but in reality, they were fighting on their own, he could only exert influence and push his agenda on the people of the four regions subtly.
Although his subordinates were numerous and far surpassed the previous life, few were qualified to participate in a battle of such a level.
Fang Yuan fully considered the entire Central Continent battlefield once again.
In Infallible blessed land, the Southern Border Gu Immortals entered the battlefield and fought, breaking formations one after another, but this was not a concern for the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, there were endless sub-formations.
In the battlefield of Hidden Dragon Cave, the Eastern Sea immortals were trapped in a large formation and were struggling to break it. However, it was clear that Old Man Bei Feng could still hold on for a while longer.
As for Emperor City's battlefield, the Western Desert Gu Immortals were still on their way, their morale was low too.
In Heavenly Court's battlefield, Longevity Heaven was completely at a disadvantage, and since they were ambushed by Heavenly Court, they had completely lost the initiative.
"Of the four main battlefields, the most important is still Heavenly Court's battlefield. Fate Gu is in Heavenly Court, if we want to win this battle, we must destroy fate Gu." Fang Yuan thought, just like Fairy Zi Wei's analysis, both sides knew where the most important place was.
"That being the case, we cannot lose in Heavenly Court! Longevity Heaven's performance is so disappointing, I was hoping that they would cause problems for Heavenly Court and trigger Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's painting path methods first."
Fang Yuan knew that he had to support Bing Sai Chuan even though he had deceived Fang Yuan for his own interests in the previous life, and also in this current life. For the sake of the entire situation, Fang Yuan had to provide support.
Heavenly Court battlefield.
Immortal killer move — Chaotic Dragon Fist!
Steel fists shook Calamity Luck Altar, the force of the punch caused tremors as countless Gu worms perished instantly.
Within Calamity Luck Altar, Mao Li Qiu shouted: "Let me out! Let me hold him back."
Bing Sai Chuan had a cold expression and shook his head: "No, you are no match for him. You'll be courting death if you go. You're not like the others, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals will target you."
Duke Long ignored Northern Plains' generations of experts, he let the other Heavenly Court members deal with them.
Heavenly Court knew clearly that they could only stop call of the ancient by destroying Calamity Luck Altar.
But once Mao Li Qiu entered battle, it would be different. It was a fierce general of Longevity Heaven, it had great strength and killing Mao Li Qiu would greatly weaken Longevity Heaven, he would definitely take action.
Immortal killer move — World Shaking Dragon Hammer!
Duke Long shouted, he raised his fists above his head and smashed down like a giant hammer.
The surface of Calamity Luck Altar shattered, a huge amount of Gu worms died, their carcasses flying everywhere. A large hole was smashed open on the surface of Calamity Luck Altar, it was only the size of a finger but the inside could be seen!
Duke Long roared: "Longevity Heaven, only defeat awaits you. This outcome was already predetermined from the moment you tried to attack Heavenly Court."
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals cheered, their morale climbing to its peak.
"The might of Duke Long is overwhelming!" Bing Sai Chuan sighed long and hard, feeling a sense of powerlessness.
"Why hasn't Fang Yuan come to support us?" Five Elements Grandmaster called out, inevitably revealing a sense of trepidation.
"As far as I know, Fang Yuan is only rank seven, even if he repeatedly defeated Heavenly Court, he was only taking advantage of the River of Time. If he comes to support us, will he really be able to change the battle situation? Even if he brings out Myriad Year Flying Warship, the other side has Duke Long." Bull Demon spoke, expressing doubt.
Indeed, as of now, it would be difficult to resist Duke Long with just two rank eight Immortal Gu Houses.
Duke Long's battle strength was too astounding!
What was even more unbelievable to them was that with every passing moment, Duke Long grew stronger endlessly.
This was unreasonable!
Mao Li Qiu snorted: "That lad took Reverse Flow River in front of my very eyes, at least with that killer move alone, even if he's only rank seven, he can resist Duke Long and take the pressure off us."
"Fang Yuan will definitely support us." Bing Sai Chuan smiled: "I don't know much about him, but I believe in Lord Giant Sun Immortal Venerable!"
Just as this was said, the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals actually began to retreat.
They had the qi wall to rely on, thus retreating quite smoothly.
Soon, only Duke Long was left on the scene.
In the meantime, Zi Wei Fairy dispatched urgently: "Quick, we must send support quickly. The nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation in Infallible blessed land is about to collapse! Hidden Dragon Cave's formation is also facing destruction!"
Zhou Xiong Xin and the others were shocked as someone asked: "How could the situation change for the worse so quickly?"
Fairy Zi Wei said: "Fang Yuan is making a move."
"Oh? Even so, the unceasing formation won't collapse so swiftly!"
"He showed up in person?"
"Let's take him out! We will kill this source of chaos for the sake of the world!"
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were all excited.
Previously, Fang Yuan had repeatedly defeated Heavenly Court, causing many of the Gu Immortals to become angry. After Fang Yuan relied on his knowledge to extend his advantage in the River of Time, Heavenly Court lost the lead and failed miserably during the battle of the stone lotus island, suffering huge losses.
Now that the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention was held, Fang Yuan had to attack. The battlefield was placed in Central Continent, the Gu Immortals were eager to see how much territorial advantage Fang Yuan could exploit this time!
But Fairy Zi Wei shook her head slightly: "Fang Yuan has not shown himself, I'm afraid the ones outside are only his subordinates."
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were stunned.
Mere subordinates could cause the two immortal formations to break apart?
Fairy Zi Wei explained: "In Hidden Dragon Cave, Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace appeared, they used a large number of dream realms to erode the formation."
The truth dawned on the immortals, they had an understanding of Fang Yuan's dream realm methods.
They had already expected this, dream path was an era ahead, it was only natural that the formation would be broken.
"But we have Feng Jin Huang guarding the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation. Although she's only a rank five Gu Master, she can use the power of the immortal formation to unleash the dream path killer move shatter dream, and transform dream realms into Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies." Zhou Xiong Xin expressed his confusion.
Fairy Zi Wei said in a complex tone: "That's because he did not use dream path methods against the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, but rule path instead."
"Rule path?!" Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals gasped in amazement once again.
"Rule path?" Within the Infallible blessed land battlefield, the Southern Alliance immortals looked at the formation in front of them with great surprise.
They had broken several formations in a row, but they had learned from Fang Yuan that this was the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, while they were feeling annoyed and troubled, this nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation broke apart on its own.
When they exited the formation, the Southern Alliance immortals saw a large formation suspended high in the sky, constantly emitting a five-colored smoke miasma.
The smoke miasma infiltrated the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, forcing Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals to dismantle the sub-formations on their own.
"These are reinforcements of Fang Yuan, this formation was created by Southern Border Gu Immortal Tao Zhu, it is called the five regional limit formation, it can emit a smoke miasma and create a formation similar to the environment of the five regions' regional walls." Wu Yong received a letter from Fang Yuan at this time and explained with a rather complicated expression.
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Chapter 1929 Evil Dragon Escapes
"To think that there would be such an amazing formation that can counter the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation!"
"To think that our Southern Border's Gu Immortal, Tao Zhu, created it…"
"It seems that we had greatly underestimated this person."
"Fang Yuan actually possesses this method, when did he get it?"
The Southern Border Gu Immortals conversed as they sighed in amazement.
Fang Yuan had extorted and blackmailed them, but now it was Fang Yuan who had stepped in to support them, which made the Southern Border Gu Immortals all feel quite complicated.
At this moment, the voice of Zhan Bu Du came from within the five regional limit formation: "Southern Border, please do not lower your guard yet. Heavenly Court will not sit around as they lose control of this battlefield, they will surely send reinforcements."
"In that case, please also open the immortal formation and let us defend within it." A Southern Border Gu Immortal replied.
Zhan Bu Du smiled lightly, not hiding his contempt in the slightest: "There is no need to say such naive words. Whether you all fight or retreat, it depends on your willingness. If you don't want to fight, just scram."
"You…" The Southern Border Gu Immortal who answered had a change of expression from anger.
At this moment, more than ten giant pillars of starlight shone down, the main force of the Heavenly Court really did come to help out!
"This is the formation! Tear it down!" Zhang Fei Xiong took the lead.
Zhan Bu Du was silent and began to activate the formation with his concentration, the five-colored smoke miasma not only defended itself but also spread incessantly to the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation.
Even though the latter formation was created by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, it had to dismantle the sub-formations at the moment, it was stalling for as much time as possible.
"Let's take action and do our best to protect the five regional limit formation." Wu Yong did not hesitate and immediately ordered.
"Lord, but this is Fang Yuan. Haven't you been opposing…" Someone was unwilling.
Wu Yong gave this person a fierce stare and spoke in a stern tone, "Everything is for the big picture!"
His prestige was high, Wu clan was also the number one force in Southern Border's Gu Immortal world, their leadership had become a tradition.
The Southern Alliance Gu Immortals immediately engaged in a fierce battle with the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals.
With their help, Zhan Bu Du was relieved internally, the pressure on his shoulders dissipated mostly, and the five-colored smoke miasma spread even more menacingly.
With the cry of a phoenix, flames dazzled and the figure of Prince Feng Xian appeared.
He had sharp eyes and a golden cloak on his back, he opened his mouth to breathe out a monstrous flame.
The flames burned in the five-colored smoke miasma, sweeping towards the immortals of Southern Border.
A rank eight Gu Immortal of Southern Border, Yi Hao Fang, immediately transformed into a sea beast and rode the water waves to stop the flames from spreading.
Jun Shen Guang transformed into a white light, moving through the battlefield, avoiding the four rank eights of Southern Border and attacking the remaining rank seven Gu Immortals.
Moving along with him were Zhou Xiong Xin, Zhu Que Er and others.
Unfixed Manor, Flying Sand Pavilion, and Bay Pavilion were all taken out as Southern Border's rank seven Gu Immortals quickly entered them.
"Ahhh!"
A scream was heard as Vortex Space Boy carried the head of a Southern Border Gu Immortal in his hand.
Taking advantage of this moment, the rest of the Southern Border rank seven immortals entered the Immortal Gu Houses.
"You guys are moving too slowly." Vortex Space Boy looked at Zhou Xiong Xin and the others as he chuckled.
"Where are you going?!" Wu Yong snorted coldly and chased after him.
Vortex Space Boy retaliated with an immortal killer move, obviously prepared in advance.
Wu Yong raised his hand similarly, setting off a roaring tornado of wind blades, the two killer moves collided with a loud bang, air currents surged, the five-colored smoke miasma rumbled like a dragon.
Vortex Space Boy and Wu Yong grunted at the same time and their faces turned pale.
Immortal killer move — Sitting and Eating the Mountain Empty!
Taking advantage of this time, Zhao Shan He teamed up with Yu Zhu Zi once again to display this powerful killer move.
"Even if you have Immortal Gu Houses, so what?" Yu Zhu Zi snorted coldly.
All the Immortals in the Southern Border Immortal Gu Houses were hit by this move and their faces changed color, their Gu worms and immortal essence were all rapidly depleting out of thin air.
Wu Yong's pupils shrunk, he advanced instead of retreating: "Defend me!"
Ba De and Chi Qu You immediately moved to his side.
The Immortal Gu Houses stayed at the periphery.
"Stop him!" Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were all experienced in battle, Wu Yong immediately drew all their firepower as he looked like he was about to launch a powerful killer move.
Chi Qu You and Ba De struggled to resist them but soon lost the ability to continue holding them off.
One of them was a formation path Gu Immortal while the other had just advanced to rank eight, how could they be a match for the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals?
In terms of strength alone, Heavenly Court was clearly superior to the immortals of Southern Border. Fortunately, Southern Border had Immortal Gu Houses as well as the five-colored smoke miasma created by Zhan Bu Du, they were huge obstacles for both sides to fight with their full strength, the difference in strength between the two sides was somehow balanced.
However, even though the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals knew well that the stronger the attacks they used in this miasma, the deeper the backlash they would suffer, they were still brave enough to fight to the death, having a relentless stance as they approached the five regional limit formation without any fear of their lives.
After some time, the Southern Border immortals' battle formation started to show signs of crumbling.
Wan Zi Hong suddenly gave a delicate cry as flower petals flew, attacking the Southern Border Immortal Gu Houses in front of her and forcing them to move aside, forcefully creating a path to move on.
Zhang Fei Xiong followed, transforming into a bear-headed giant and slamming into the five regional limit formation.
Boom!
There was a loud bang and the formation trembled viciously.
Massive amounts of Gu worms perished, even Zhan Bu Du suffered backlash, spitting out a large mouthful of blood.
"Ah, that hurts!" The Formation Spirit was in the main formation, it howled miserably as its body suddenly became much more illusory, no longer as solid as before.
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were no better.
They also suffered enormous backlash, but one by one, they gritted their teeth and tried their best to destroy the five regional limit formation.
"Oh no, the Southern Alliance won't be able to defend against such a fierce attack from Heavenly Court." Zhan Bu Du secretly gritted his teeth.
The main power of the five regional limit formation lay in the five-colored smoke miasma, although its defense was also strong, it would never last long under the fierce attack of these Gu Immortals.
"But even if that's the case, I'll fight to the death and try to stall for as long as possible." Zhan Bu Du was already prepared to die.
Everything was for the big picture, even if it meant sacrificing this clone, he would have no regret.
Sacrifices should be made when necessary, clones were also merely chess pieces. It was just easier to fully utilize them.
Even if the five regional limit formation was broken and destroyed, it was still valuable.
On one hand, it temporarily maintained the Heavenly Court battlefield and protected Longevity Heaven's members. On the other hand, it gave a crucial amount of time for the battlefield in Hidden Dragon Cave.
Hidden Dragon Cave.
A large amount of dream realms were eroding the battlefield, Old Man Bei Feng was livid but unable to do anything about it.
"Call for help, call for help, grandfather!" Feng Chan Zi shouted in a hurry, his face was pale and covered in cold sweat.
Old Man Bei Feng did not speak.
He had already requested for support, but Heavenly Court's reinforcements were delayed, that did not make sense.
After all, Heavenly Court had a way to use a large scale star cast method, it would only take an instant for support to come over. If they did not appear at this time, they must have been held back by something.
A bad feeling filled Old Man Bei Feng's heart.
Roar!
Already sensing the weakening of its bindings, the suppressed Di Zang Sheng within the formation was also struggling at this time, adding onto the burden of the formation.
Immortal killer move — Mountain Suppression!
Immortal killer move — Broken Mirror Shard Light!
Qing Yue An and Song Qi Yuan were the first to break through the restraints, and because of their efforts, the power of the formation was greatly weakened once again. The other Gu Immortals were able to successfully break through one after another.
The eight Immortals converged, and although they were still inside the formation, they had noticed the change.
"How could there be so many dream realms!" Zhang Yin pretended not to know and looked surprised.
"Perhaps Fang Yuan is helping us." Shen Cong Sheng deliberately said, he had actually gotten a message from Fang Yuan: "Who else can control the dream realms besides him?"
"Why is Fang Yuan here!?" Hua Cai Yun frowned.
"As the saying goes, great people see eye to eye, he may also try to target Di Zang Sheng." Qing Yue An guessed as he healed his wounds.
"Then let Fang Yuan go release Di Zang Sheng, should we withdraw now?" Hua Cai Yun hesitated.
Right at this moment, there was a loud rumble as an Immortal Gu House broke the formation, charging towards the formation core.
This Immortal Gu House was a majestic palace, emitting an orange-golden glow, it was overbearingly magnificent, and the surface of the palace was filled with dragon-shaped carvings.
Hua Cai Yun, Qing Yue An and the others were stunned, although they were seeing it for the first time, they all guessed the name of this Immortal Gu House at the same time — Dragon Palace!
There was a loud rumble as Dragon Palace crashed through the core area.
Old Man Bei Feng howled and fell to the ground, he suffered a strong backlash, he was currently in a terrible state, having less than ten percent of his battle strength left.
Immortal killer move — Dreamy Light Smoke!
Dreamy light smoke, with a gentle movement, moved Old Man Bei Feng into the palace and sealed him with ease.
Feng Chan Zi who was beside Old Man Bei Feng also got swept into this smoke.
Seeing a rank eight Gu Immortal being suppressed so easily, the Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortals could not help but show changes of expressions. Only half of them were genuine, while the other half were disguising their emotions as they knew about the truth.
Wu Shuai controlled Dragon Palace, and after capturing Old Man Bei Feng, he plunged down into the depths of the Earth Trench, ignoring the eight Eastern Sea immortals.
Qing Yue An and the others looked very pale, realizing that they were being used as cannon fodder and bait by Fang Yuan.
A moment later, they heard another deafening dragon roar, the earth shook as heaven and earth changed color, a huge Evil Dragon slowly rose up.
The Eastern Sea Gu Immortals panicked and retreated, looking up.
The Evil Dragon Di Zang Sheng was so huge that it was like a mountain range, flying high in the sky, enveloping heaven and earth, it could shroud the brilliance of the sun and moon!
Thankfully, Di Zang Sheng did not find trouble with the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals and flew directly to the west.
"Central Continent is in for a world of trouble, haha."
"Strange, where did Dragon Palace go?"
"What? You want to fight against Fang Yuan? Let's leave now."
"You all saw the move that Dragon Palace just used to capture Old Man Bei Feng, right? It's a dream path killer move!"
The Eastern Sea immortals stopped their conversation, they did not dare to stay longer.
Fang Yuan's demonic might had shocked rank eights, after all, Heavenly Court had been defeated by Fang Yuan several times. Now that he used the methods of Dragon Palace, he shocked these unsuspecting Gu Immortals even more.
"Di Zang Sheng has been released, it will definitely create chaos in Central Continent, creating a good opportunity for us."
"No, don't forget how the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals appeared before the war started. I don't want a dozen or so Heavenly Court rank eights suddenly appearing around me when I'm on the move."
The Eastern Sea Gu Immortals were also communicating while flying away, they frowned when this was brought up.
They had originally planned to release Di Zang Sheng to deplete Central Continent's foundation and attract firepower to facilitate their actions. But Heavenly Court possessed the method to use a large scale star cast, nullifying the effectiveness of this plan.
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Chapter 1930 Qi Ci Lang
To continue with their previous plan, Eastern Sea's immortals would have to first unravel Heavenly Court's method, otherwise, it would be too dangerous.
Shen Cong Sheng looked at the sky, thinking of the information that Fang Yuan gave him, he spoke: "It is not impossible to unravel Heavenly Court's method. Heavenly Court purposely arranged a large number of stars in white heaven and used them to relocate Gu Immortals to anywhere in Central Continent."
The other Gu Immortals' eyes brightened at the news.
"Then we should destroy these stars."
"But if we attack white heaven, wouldn't we be provoking Heavenly Court, what if the main force of Heavenly Court besieges us again?"
Some Gu Immortals were hesitant.
Granny Rong spoke slowly and logically: "There is indeed such a risk."
Zhang Yin sneered: "What are you afraid of? If you can't beat them, can't you escape? Just pay some attention to prevent Heavenly Court from making use of a battlefield killer move, if we engage in a hit and run situation, can Heavenly Court waste their time chasing us?"
"Haha, Zhang Yin's words are reasonable." Yang Zi He's eyebrows raised, he caressed his palm and smiled: "Currently, the situation in Central Continent is chaotic with battles everywhere, Di Zang Sheng has even been released. We have already provoked Heavenly Court at this point, what is there to hesitate?"
Shi Miao acted like he was contemplating: "It seems that Heavenly Court cannot cope with so many battlefields at the moment. If not, why wouldn't they come over to fight us? Why would they let us free Di Zang Sheng?"
Song Qi Yuan nodded: "Heavenly Court is already overwhelmed, it seems that the Southern Border Gu Immortals have found the location of Infallible blessed land and are storming the battlefield, attacking Heavenly Court's formation. The Western Desert immortals are heading to Emperor City. The Northern Plains Gu Immortals are still nowhere to be seen, but these barbarians are bound to join in the chaotic battle. And with Di Zang Sheng rampaging as well… In my opinion, I'm afraid Heavenly Court won't be able to care about us yet."
With that, the Eastern Sea eight immortals reached a unified opinion once again and acted in unison, heading for white heaven.
They were still unaware that Longevity Heaven had already engaged with Heavenly Court in a huge battle.
In their case, Emperor City did not have anything valuable to loot. Infallible blessed land was attractive but Southern Border and Heavenly Court were already fighting there, it was better to avoid it.
Heavenly Court.
Fairy Zi Wei stayed in Central Great Hall to oversee the situation, all sorts of new information reached her continuously.
Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals entered white heaven, their motive was very clear, they wanted to destroy the stars that Heavenly Court had arranged.
But it was not a problem.
When they set up the stars as an arrangement, Heavenly Court made considerations. Fairy Zi Wei decided to ignore them.
These stars were placed in a scattered manner, they were far from each other, if Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals wanted to destroy them, they would need to spend a lot of time.
In other words, Heavenly Court was using these star immortal materials to stall eight rank eight Gu Immortals, this was extremely worth it, Fairy Zi Wei was happy to see them take action.
After all, with Qin Song's condition, they could only use a large scale star cast method four more times. Before Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals destroy all the stars, these four uses would likely be expended.
What worried Fairy Zi Wei was Di Zang Sheng.
In truth, Di Zang Sheng escaping was not too worrying to Fairy Zi Wei.
But the problem was, after escaping, Di Zang Sheng acted very strangely, it did not create chaos and destruction wantonly, it flew away calmly and was not in a maniacal state.
This was different from historical records.
"Was it subdued by Dragon Palace?" Fairy Zi Wei could not help but think of this.
It was easy to deduce it.
Firstly, Heavenly Court had records that Dragon Palace was an enslavement path Immortal Gu House, everyone knew that. Secondly, Fang Yuan sent Dragon Palace to attack Hidden Dragon Cave, he must have had some intention. Dragon Palace displayed powerful dream path methods, with its battle strength, Fang Yuan would not use it in a non-crucial battlefield!
"If Fang Yuan's previous idea was to use Dragon Palace to subdue Di Zang Sheng, then him dispatching his subordinates to set up a large formation to restrain the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation and attract the main force of our Heavenly Court to attack furiously is just bait. At the same time, the attack of the eight Eastern Sea immortals is also a smokescreen that he threw." Fairy Zi Wei's eyes flickered with cold light.
"Fang Yuan was actually able to influence the eight immortals of Eastern Sea? How did he do it? Among the eight immortals of Eastern Sea, it seems there are members of Fang Yuan's group, or those who secretly work with him. I'm afraid that there are quite a few of these members, there are at least two of them."
Fairy Zi Wei speculated: "But what if Fang Yuan coincidentally happened to be there? The eight immortals of Eastern Sea unexpectedly had the same goal as him, allowing him to benefit by chance. This is also quite possible. After all, Fang Yuan has Giant Sun's true inheritance, his luck has constantly been good. Qin Ding Ling is on our side, but she is still healing. Altering Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's arrangement had a much larger price than we expected."
Even if he was an opponent, Fairy Zi Wei could not help but admire Fang Yuan.
She also had to admit, Fang Yuan had done a beautiful job in the Hidden Dragon Cave battlefield!
The bad feeling in her heart was still deepening, Fairy Zi Wei's attention was mostly focusing on Di Zang Sheng.
"Most likely, it is being controlled by Fang Yuan. Then where exactly is it going to reinforce the enemy?"
"Emperor City is the nearest battlefield, the elite Gu Masters have just arrived, they have yet to officially begin the final round of the Refinement Path Convention. Destroying Emperor City will greatly delay the restoration of fate Gu."
"It is also likely to go to the Hairy Foot Mountain battlefield. Wiping out the main force of Heavenly Court at once is also Fang Yuan's style. Even if the main force of Heavenly Court is teleported back by me, he will still find a way to destroy Infallible blessed land. Once he destroys the blessed land, then at least this time, our restoration of fate Gu will have to be suspended."
"Of course, Heavenly Court's battlefield is also a possibility. Since Longevity Heaven can come in unannounced, it is also possible that Fang Yuan can come. After all, he has obtained Red Lotus Demon Venerable's true inheritance, so he might have access to such a backdoor secretly."
For the first time since the start of the war, Fairy Zi Wei felt passive.
If the large scale star cast method could teleport Duke Long as well, it would be great. However, unfortunately, Duke Long's might became an obstacle to the teleportation. To make a comparison, the Heavenly Court rank eights were like a dozen rabbits, while Duke Long was a full-grown elephant, the difference between the two was considerably big, the star cast method could not move Duke Long.
Immortal killer move — Decomposition!
Northern Plains Gu Immortal Yu Yang Zi used his signature method, this killer move was largely the reason why he was famous in history.
Decomposition hit Duke Long directly, his body paused for a moment, as he looked at Yu Yang Zi, he had a plain expression: "Oh, that's decomposition. You are Yu Yang Zi?"
When Duke Long said that, he was hundreds of steps away from Yu Yang Zi.
After he said that, purple-gold dragon-shaped qi flickered as he was teleported right in front of Yu Yang Zi.
At this moment, Yu Yang Zi's pupils shrank to pin size as his heart pounded wildly with alarms and warnings.
He tried to retreat but it was clearly just an extravagant hope — his neck was steadily choked by a large hand.
It was Duke Long's hand, covered in purple-gold dragon scales, with fingers as sharp as blades.
Yu Yang Zi had already activated his defensive killer move, but the killer move's light was like glass, it shattered under the force of the monstrous dragon claws.
Before dying, Yu Yang Zi roared and self-detonated, an intense explosion resounded, the terrifying shock wave spread out intensely, shaking all the surroundings.
The smoke and dust dissipated, the figure of Duke Long remained standing like a pillar of heaven.
"Immortals of Northern Plains, what else do you have other than a lack of fear for death?" Duke Long's tone was plain, but it spread throughout the battlefield.
The Northern Plains immortals gnashed their teeth, but could not refute it.
Although the main force of Heavenly Court had all withdrawn with only Duke Long left, even with only Duke Long alone, Calamity Luck Altar still could not make an inch of progress. They could only rely on call of the ancient to constantly summon powerful experts of Northern Plains in history to maintain the battle situation.
"And this!" Suddenly, Liu Liu Liu's figure appeared behind Duke Long's back.
Duke Long's body shook.
The grey light dagger in Liu Liu Liu's hand was thrust into his back, even the purple-gold dragon scales could not block this method.
This was Liu Liu Liu's signature killer move — Despicable Penetrating Blade!
In the previous life, Liu Liu Liu had killed many members of Heavenly Court with this move, and even severely injured Fairy Zi Wei. At that time, if not for Wu Shuang blocking most of the power, Fairy Zi Wei would have died tragically in his hands.
"Good!" Seeing this scene, the Northern Plains immortals were suddenly energized.
Since the start of the war, no matter how furiously the Northern Plains immortals attacked, this was the first time that Duke Long was wounded like this.
However, Liu Liu Liu's face changed abruptly, he could not hide his shock.
Although his killer move dagger had pierced into Duke Long's body, it was like the blade got stuck in a block of iron, unable to move a single inch!
"A human path killer move? Not bad, it fits your temperament." Duke Long slowly turned around and stretched out his hand, steadily grasping Liu Liu Liu's head.
At this moment, Liu Liu Liu suddenly realized: "Duke Long purposely got hit by my move, he used his body as bait to trap me!"
It was not that he did not want to escape, but he could not.
Like the dagger in his hand, he could not move.
Slap.
With a cracking sound, Liu Liu Liu's skull was like a watermelon easily crushed by Duke Long, his headless corpse immediately fell down, the grey dagger in his hand dissipated instantly.
"Who else?!" Duke Long raised his arms and shouted, his body was like iron, having grown to twice the size of a normal man, his long purple hair dancing wildly in a monstrous wave of sounds.
The Northern Plains immortals responded to him with countless killer moves.
Rumble…
There were dazzling light shadows, countless killer moves were stacked on top of each other, Duke Long rushed out brutally, displaying world shaking dragon hammer and ruthlessly slamming into Calamity Luck Altar.
With a loud bang, Calamity Luck Altar flew back dozens of steps, creating a long trench on the ground.
The front that was hit by Duke Long was completely caved in, forming a shockingly deep pit.
"There is no time to repair damage of such a level!" Bing Sai Chuan thudded, his heart sinking violently.
Bull Demon, Flower Lady, and Five Elements Grandmaster were trying to repair Calamity Luck Altar, they froze at this moment.
If Calamity Luck Altar broke, Longevity Heaven's members would immediately lose this battle, they would die without a proper burial!
But at the moment when Duke Long was about to attack again, a black light flew out from the River of Time.
The black light followed the hole in the front of Calamity Luck Altar and shot into its interior, transforming into a young and handsome looking Gu Immortal with curly black hair hanging down his waist.
With a wave of his palm, the young Gu Immortal's dark light surged, quickly repairing the damage of Calamity Luck Altar and saving Longevity Heaven from the brink of defeat!
Bing Sai Chuan's body shook intensely: "Seventh Prince!"
Duke Long snorted coldly: "So it's Giant Sun's child."
The young looking Gu Immortal was the seventh child of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, he was known as Seventh Prince, he nodded: "Duke Long, with me, Qi Ci Lang, here, it will be much harder for you to destroy Calamity Luck Altar now."
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Chapter 1931 Shen Shang“s Solution
"This is Central Continent's Emperor City?" Ye Fan followed the main group as they walked into Emperor City, he looked around and assessed the place.
He was a Southern Border Gu Master, but he had heard of Emperor City's famous name long ago.
This was the largest mortal city in Central Continent, or rather, the entire five regions world. Here, rank three Gu Masters were very commonly seen, but in Southern Border, rank three Gu Masters were normally authoritative elders in their clans.
This was the first time Ye Fan visited Emperor City.
Emperor City lived up to its name, it was well guarded and had a grand structure, Ye Fan was not disappointed.
"However, compared to an Immortal Gu House, Emperor City is far inferior." Thinking of this, Ye Fan looked at the sky.
In the sky, there were several Immortal Gu Houses floating silently.
There was a pavilion, exquisite and small, there were countless bird cages hanging on it, birds chirped continuously. This was Heavenly Lotus Sect's Canary Pavilion.
There was a garden that was exquisitely built, it was grand with white jade tiles and oozing with cold air, there were faint dragon roars heard occasionally, this was Ancient Soul Sect's Immortal Gu House, Frost Dragon Manor.
There was also a seven-story tower, curtains were fluttering in the building, it was Wind Cloud Manor's rank seven Immortal Gu House, Wind Sweeping Building.
There was also Combat Immortal Sect's Edge Link Camp which had grand flags fluttering with the wind.
Other than those, Illusion Garden, Yue Yang Palace, and Sun and Moon Temple were there.
Ye Fan's master was Lu Wei Yin, he learned a lot of information regarding Gu Immortals from him, he could discern most of the famous Immortal Gu Houses.
These Immortal Gu Houses were not as large as Emperor City, but they were much more dazzling, they were the center of attention that all of the city people were talking about.
At this time, a youngster beside him sighed: "It seems that the rumors are correct. The world is going to change, immortals are going to battle. A chaotic great era is coming, the difference between mortal and immortal will shrink! This is our plan too, isn't that right, Brother Ye?"
Ye Fan looked at the youngster as he nodded: "You are correct, Brother Hong."
Similar to the previous life, Ye Fan and Hong Yi met in the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention and became sworn brothers after they interacted.
Hong Yi smiled: "This Refinement Path Convention is unprecedented, let those Gu Immortals fight in the sky, it is not something we can interfere in."
"Haha, that makes sense, let us have a true competition this time!" Ye Fan patted Hong Yi's shoulders.
The two brothers were filled with fighting spirit.
Hong Yi said: "I have a feeling that the eventual winner of this Refinement Path Convention will be one of us."
Shen Shang's ears twitched, he heard the entire conversation between Hong Yi and Ye Fan without missing a word.
These two were mortals, but Shen Shang kept a trace of his concentration on them at all times.
"In the future five regions chaotic war, these two youngsters likely have an opportunity to become immortal." Shen Shang was a human path quasi-supreme, he had a strong premonition when it came to humans.
Over at Heavenly Court, people's united hearts and other human path killer moves were all used already, Unfettered Scholar and Zheng Qing had been expelled.
But Shen Shang still managed to disguise himself and enter the final competition ground, he was not suspected at all.
He was after all a rank eight Gu Immortal and also a human path quasi-supreme grandmaster!
Shen Shang observed his surroundings, he became gradually excited.
"My estimations earlier were not wrong, this Emperor City is one of the main human veins of Central Continent!"
Mountains had mountain veins, the earth had earth veins, and humans had human veins.
"Emperor City was created by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, after so many years of relocation and movement, it still remained as the largest gathering spot of humans, it stayed on the trail of Central Continent's human vein all along."
"This place produces human talents, it is because of Central Continent's main human vein. Heavenly Court's generations of Immortal Venerables have left their human path methods here, hmm… I can vaguely sense their existence."
Fang Yuan used his rebirth as the reason to urge Shen Shang to take action and try to unravel the various venerable human path methods.
This was a challenging mission, it spurred on Shen Shang's morale and ambition.
Fang Yuan and the rest could not sense any of the traces of these human path killer moves. But for Shen Shang, he could trace and locate them.
Thus, he disguised himself and entered Emperor City, he finally found a chance to destroy the venerable killer moves.
"Heavenly Court is collecting human will and storing it inside Heavenly Court for use."
"That place is too tightly defended, if we cannot enter Heavenly Court, we will not be able to destroy the human will. If we cannot destroy the human will, we cannot drain them of this resource."
"However… taking action here will also have superb effects."
"Heavenly Court is collecting human will, Emperor City plays a crucial role in this process, it is the largest shipment area they have to transport the human will."
"If I destroy this place, Heavenly Court's efficiency in gathering human will would fall greatly."
But Shen Shang did not plan to cause destruction.
He had a greater objective.
He wanted to follow the traces with Emperor City as the anchor to find the venerable human path killer moves and reverse-deduce the profundities of their human path methods, to try to steal their knowledge!
Shen Shang was confident and daring.
He was not satisfied with just the reputation of unraveling a venerable killer move, he wanted to master the venerable human path methods and gain much more strength in the process.
"If my human path methods improve, it might be possible to get rid of the problem of the black fire, I will not go berserk anymore."
Hairy Foot Mountain battlefield.
Five colored smoke miasma rumbled, Southern Border's Gu Immortals and Heavenly Court's main forces had already fought for a long time.
Bay Pavilion, Flying Sand Pavilion, and Unfixed Manor were heavily damaged, they went to the second defensive line to get repaired.
At the front lines, there were four rank eights from Southern Border, as well as two rank eight Immortal Gu Houses, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building and Great Space Temple.
Heavenly Court's main forces had no deaths, their morale was high.
Zhao Shan He prepared his killer move again, his aura was surging.
Zhan Bu Du quickly shouted: "Stop him! He is going to use that move again!"
Wu Yong and Yi Hao Fang gritted their teeth, they wanted to charge in but Ye Qiao Zi and Vortex Space Boy stopped them.
Zhou Xiong Xin and Flesh Whip Immortal joined hands to obstruct Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building.
Meanwhile, Zhu Que Er and Wan Zi Hong went from the right and left, bypassing the battlefield to attack the five regional limit formation directly.
Wu Yong and the rest were left with no choice, they had to return to being defensive.
They had too few people, it was hard enough to defend, they were not as agile and flexible as Heavenly Court's group.
Zhao Shan He successfully used his killer move, he opened his mouth, he sucked in all of the surrounding five colored smoke.
A large amount of smoke was sucked into his stomach, which expanded at an observable rate. At the same time, his face and muscles turned multicolored.
Zhao Shan He actually swallowed the five colored smoke, creating a temporary cleared out area.
Without the restraints of the five colored smoke, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were able to use their full power, they unleashed all sorts of killer moves with terrifying power.
Wu Yong and the rest resisted, but their defensive line was not tight, killer moves were directed to get through the cracks, after a rough filter by their defenses, the rest landed on the five regional limit formation.
The five regional limit formation shook intensely, a large number of Gu worms died, a weakened Formation Spirit quickly tried to repair it.
Zhan Bu Du's expression was ugly.
Relying on Zhao Shan He's food path method, Heavenly Court managed to make a breakthrough, each time they used this method, the five regional limit formation suffered immense damage.
Even though they were repairing it at full speed, it could not keep up with the waves of attacks that kept on coming.
As damage accumulated, the five regional limit formation started to get into a dangerous spot.
What to do?
Emperor City.
The final round of the competition was racing against the clock to start.
Shen Shang was secretly happy.
He started to refine Gu, using this as a cover, he secretly prepared his killer move.
"We finally arrived!" Fang Di Chang drove Divine Bean Palace as he charged at the front.
Behind him was Western Desert's main troops.
"To battle!"
"Force them back!"
"Defend Emperor City to the death."
Central Continent's troops cheered and shouted, they faced off against Western Desert's Immortal Gu Houses as battle erupted.
"Wonderful!" Shen Shang, who was paying attention to the outside world, cheered, with Central Continent's forces being restrained, he had no worries left.
Right at this moment!
Bam.
He erupted with a strong Gu Immortal aura, he shouted as profound white light pierced through the hall, radiating in the entire Emperor City.
"The venerables have passed away, all of your human path methods should go as well!" Shen Shang's eyes shined with piercing and blinding light.
Puff!
At the next moment, he spat out a mouthful of blood, his body cracked as his lungs burst, his intestines blew into tiny pieces that shot out of the wounds all over his body.
Failure!
"How can this be?!" Shen Shang could not believe this, he stared with wide eyes: "I had already…"
Not only did he fail to resolve the venerable methods, he even triggered them in advance.
This was human path killer move — Hope of the People!
White light flew around in the sky like a snowstorm, it gathered on the bodies of the Central Continent Gu Immortals, creating a pure white halo.
Human path killer move — Heroes Among People!
The white lights surrounding the Central Continent Gu Immortals started to shrink, while the Gu Immortals' auras started to grow.
Howl!
Central Continent's army roared, their morale soared as they charged towards Western Desert's troops.
"Oh no!" Fang Di Chang's expression changed.
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Chapter 1932 Heavenly Court“s Grand Migh
The white light that spread across the sky was like drifting snow, filling the heaven and earth of Central Continent.
The first to benefit was Emperor City's battlefield.
"So strong, such strong power!" Central Continent's Gu Immortals had an incredible feeling, their bodies were surging with new strength. This strength was so grand and vast, it felt like an endless tide, sweeping through their bodies and minds constantly.
All their fatigue was gone.
Their minds were clear, their fighting spirit also rose sharply.
Be it rank six, seven, or even rank eight, they felt the same.
"This is the foundation of my Central Continent's Heavenly Court!"
"My strength has at least doubled, and with such an increase, what enemies will I be afraid of?"
"Charge, kill them, we will defeat all the invaders! Let them know the might of Heavenly Court, the might of Central Continent!!"
The morale on Central Continent's side soared like a rainbow, setting off a ferocious frenzy of attacks.
Western Desert's side was retreating steadily.
"Retreat!"
"Quickly retreat!"
"Such an amplification is truly terrifying, what kind of killer move is this?"
"Let's avoid battle for now, such a powerful killer move cannot last long."
The Gu Immortals on Western Desert's side communicated in panic.
"It's useless. This is the method of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, the two human path killer moves are heroes among people and hope of the people respectively, they have no problem sustaining it throughout the entire battle." Fang Di Chang said.
The Western Desert side kept retreating, but Divine Bean Palace under Fang Di Chang's control always remained in place, as if it was their support pillar, with no intention of retreating.
Fang Di Chang had a cold look on his face.
He did not expect that Shen Shang's unraveling would actually cause the killer moves to activate in advance.
In the previous life, these two human path methods were a rather important trump card that changed the battle situation.
In this life, Fang Yuan had painstakingly plotted to ally with Shen Shang in order to resolve these two methods. But despite all of his efforts, the results were still unsatisfactory. As far as the current results were concerned, Shen Shang not only failed to restrain and get rid of the two killer moves, he even made the situation more troublesome.
Heroes among people targeted Gu Immortals themselves, causing their comprehensive battle strength to be amplified to at least double of the original!
The killer move had terrifying might, after gaining the amplification, the Gu Immortal's killer moves, including Immortal Gu Houses and immortal formations, would be powered up as well. In a certain aspect, it was even more useful than Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's perfect pair killer move.
The waves of attacks were like stormy waves, bombarding Divine Bean Palace incessantly.
Divine Bean Palace was created by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, but it could not resist such impacts. The surface was cracked and damaged, a large number of Gu worms died quickly and miserably, facing destruction.
But the power of Divine Bean Palace was in recovery, it followed the cultivation style of Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable.
Although a lot of the Gu worms perished, they would be replenished quickly. Injured Gu worms that did not die would even recover quickly!
Divine Bean Palace was like a golden reef, steadily supporting itself on the front lines, silently enduring the endless bombardment of Central Continent's forces.
"As expected of Divine Bean Palace!"
"Fang clan's Fang Di Chang is really a worthy leader."
"Let's fight, since we've come this far, are we going to constantly run away?"
The morale of the Western Desert army was finally stabilized, their Gu Immortals no longer retreated and faced the Immortal Gu Houses of Central Continent.
At once, battle started between Immortal Gu Houses.
Canary Pavilion opened several bird cages, groups of birds flew freely, when they flew out of the bird cages, they swiftly grew and formed a flock of birds, like an overwhelming patch of moving dark clouds.
Western Desert's Chicken Dog Coop was not falling behind, releasing a flock of desolate beast chickens and dogs to fight against it.
After a few moments of contact between the two sides, it became clear that the chicken and dog desolate beasts could not resist, many were killed.
"I'll help you!" Dong clan's Gu Immortals steered Red River Wheel to go and support them.
Red River Wheel was like a waterwheel, it rolled forward as a huge red light shot out of the wheel, it seemed to resemble a ribbon that tangled the bird group.
The molten flame birds were immediately suppressed, they were captured by the red light and were all subdued within Red River Wheel.
"Thanks for the molten flame birds!" Dong clan's Gu Immortals laughed loudly, the power of Red River Wheel rose by twenty percent because of this!
Although Western Desert's side gained a small profit, Chicken Dog Coop still had to cooperate with Red River Wheel to resist Canary Pavilion.
This was common sense.
In the battlefield, Western Desert's Immortal Gu Houses often had to team up against one enemy.
The Immortal Gu Houses on Central Continent's side all had great power. Yue Yang Palace shot out grand profound light, piercing the skies, Frost Dragon Manor emitted dragon soul and frost energy, Wind Sweeping Building rampaged with tornadoes, sweeping the battlefield.
From the first contact, Western Desert's group was pressured and could barely resist.
"This cannot go on." Fang Di Chang observed the battlefield, he was a little worried.
Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated.
Fang Di Chang knew about Central Continent's strength but he was even clearer regarding the strength of his forces. Western Desert's Gu Immortals would not fight to the death, this group that he brought was already the result of Fang Di Chang's maximum effort.
With such intense battles, once any deaths occurred on Western Desert's side, they would want to retreat.
Once someone retreats, others would follow.
In other words, this was not a real army, it was a gathering of dispersed forces, their morale could not be sustained.
Fang Di Chang led these people at such a crucial time, he had to be at the front lines, to ensure that they would remain in formation.
"I wanted to save this for the end… there is no choice." Fang Di Chang sighed, he sent out the divine bean soldiers that he had saved within Divine Bean Palace.
The quantity of yellow bean soldiers was the highest, they were the basic troops that were treated as cannon fodder.
Next were green bean soldiers that could shoot flying arrows, red bean soldiers could self-detonate, while black bean soldiers had the greatest defense.
As for blue and white bean soldiers, they had the lowest quantity, the former could reflect killer moves to an extent while the latter could heal bean soldiers.
Once the bean army was sent out, they stabilized the situation, causing a deadlock to occur. But the price to pay was that these soldiers were rapidly being expended.
Once the casualties hit a certain level, Western Desert's side would be pressured once again. By then, Fang Di Chang would be out of trump cards, he would need to wait for reinforcements.
Hairy Foot Mountain battlefield.
Immortal killer move — Rumors Become Tigers!
Zhou Xiong Xin used his information path killer move as tigers formed into groups, roaring and attacking Wu Yong.
Wu Yong waved his hands repeatedly, and used countless wind blades to stop the tigers from pouncing at him.
To the side, Zhu Que Er and Ye Qiao Zi joined forces to attack him.
Wu Yong sighed and wisely retreated.
If now was earlier, he might have been able to fight them head on, but now after the amplification from human path killer moves, Wu Yong could only retreat.
Speaking of which, he had repeatedly tried to use the killer move unlimited wind, but he was always obstructed by Heavenly Court, unable to gain the precious time he needed to unleash this killer move.
"Fortunately, our side has Immortal Gu Houses which can act as fortresses for us to rest and recover. Oh no!" Wu Yong had just returned to rest in Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building when his expression suddenly changed dramatically.
His departure had made Chi Qu Yu's position slightly more eye-catching.
Gu Immortals of other regions might not be able to make use of this, but Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were all experienced experts.
"Chi Qu You, quickly retreat!" Wu Yong transmitted.
Even without his warning, Chi Qu You already sensed something amiss, he quickly retreated.
"Where are you going?" Wan Zi Hong restrained Chi Qu You.
Wu Yong had to stop resting as he flew out.
Zhou Xiong Xin suddenly appeared above Chi Qu You, his five fingers spread out as he grasped.
Immortal battlefield killer move — Rumor Cage!
This was the fastest battlefield killer move in the world, the speed of setting it up was number one in the five regions.
Chi Qu You could not dodge in time, he was trapped in the battlefield.
Zhou Xiong Xin, Zhang Fei Xiong, and Zhu Que Er entered the battlefield, the other Gu Immortals stayed outside, blocking the reinforcement of Wu Yong, Yi Hao Fang, and Ba De.
"Chi Qu You is in danger!"
"Quick, we need to destroy this battlefield."
Wu Yong and the rest were anxious.
However, the rumor cage battlefield had already shrunk to a dot, it vanished. To find it, a lot of effort would be needed, and there were Heavenly Court Gu Immortals around obstructing them.
Immortal killer move — Sitting and Eating the Mountain Empty!
While the Southern Border immortals were trying to save him, Zhao Shan He and Yu Zhu Zi worked together again, using their killer move to heavily damage the Southern Border Immortal Gu Houses.
The Southern Border Gu Immortals suffered a great loss while their attention was diverted away.
And within rumor cage, Chi Qu You was in danger, at the brink of life and death.
This was an information path battlefield, Zhou Xiong Xin was the main attacker, while Zhang Fei Xiong and Zhu Que Er had transformation path attainment, they turned into information path immemorial desolate beasts to help with the battle.
Suddenly, Wu Shuang also entered the battlefield.
Human path killer move — Peerless!
This killer move was once used on Duke Long, it was very helpful. This time, it was used on Zhou Xiong Xin who was already amplified by a human path killer move, with this additional boost, his killer moves became even stronger.
Chi Qu You stared with furious eyes but he could not resist them, he was devoured by the information path tigers.
Rumor cage battlefield dissipated, Zhou Xiong Xin and the rest returned to the outside battlefield. Wu Yong and the rest could only see the torn and dismembered remains of Chi Qu You.
A formation path great grandmaster and first supreme elder of Chi clan had died!
Southern Border's Gu Immortals were shaken, such a terrifying sacrifice had happened before their eyes.
"First supreme elder Chi Qu You!"
"He died in battle."
"Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals killed him…"
The morale of Southern Border was rapidly declining.
"Oh no!" Wu Yong had an ugly expression, Chi Qu You's reputation was very high, his death was worse than if they lost Yi Hao Fang or Ba De, it was a huge blow to the Southern Border Gu Immortals' morale.
However, Wu Yong could not do anything.
Even though he had the killer move unlimited wind, Heavenly Court did not let him use it. His special move farewell friend wind could also not be used, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals had all been sleeping in the immortal graveyard, he had no opportunity to become 'friends' with them.
"Our situation was tough to begin with, now that Chi Qu You is dead, it is even worse now!"
"What do I do?"
Wu Yong had already tried his best but the situation still left his control gradually.
"Persevere!" The light of determination flashed in his eyes.
"Heavenly Court must not be allowed to repair fate Gu, this is the consensus of all four regions. Western Desert has attacked Emperor City now, Eastern Sea and Northern Plains' Gu Immortals will definitely also take action."
"And Fang Yuan…"
"I'll wait for reinforcements!"
"That's the only way now."
The Emperor City battlefield and Hairy Foot Mountain battlefield were completely suppressed and in a dangerous position, so was the battlefield in Heavenly Court.
Even though Duke Long was unaffected by the human path killer moves' amplification, he was still overwhelming, his strength alone suppressed all of Longevity Heaven's members.
And worse was that he had reinforcements.
"Qin Ding Ling!" Within Calamity Luck Altar, Qi Ci Lang looked at Qin Ding Ling while gritting his teeth.
Qin Ding Ling had recovered with the help of the human path killer moves, she joined the battlefield to assist Duke Long.
She had incredibly strong luck path attainment, she could target Calamity Luck Altar well, Qi Ci Lang and the rest were getting into a tight spot.
With a loud crash, Duke Long's fist defeated another Northern Plains' expert.
He looked at the phantom River of Time as he laughed loudly: "So what if you summon more people?"
"Longevity Heaven!"
"This time, none of you shall escape, you will all die!"
"No matter how many reinforcements you have, it will not change the situation."
Qin Ding Ling raised her head high as she snickered: "Exactly, how can the grand Heavenly Court be defiled by the likes of you!"
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Chapter 1933 Arrival of Reinforcements!
"Get him!"
"Don't let him get away!!!"
There was already chaos in the venue of the final competition of the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention.
Several rank eight Gu Immortals charged down.
Shen Shang's face was pale, he suffered a serious injury instead of unraveling the venerable methods. However, looking at the Central Continent rank eights that pounced down, he still sneered: "Just the few of you want to catch me?"
Next, his body flickered as he vanished.
Central Continent's rank eight Gu Immortals lost sight of their target, they used all sorts of investigative killer moves but could not find any traces.
"Where did he go?"
"Who is he, he is actually able to move freely in Emperor City!"
"This place is under the effect of people's united hearts, he could actually sneak in."
"The five regions are huge, hidden experts are everywhere."
The rank eight Gu Immortals exchanged words and after discussing, they each dispersed to continue their search.
Even if they searched Emperor City completely, even if they demolished it, they still wanted to find Shen Shang.
Shen Shang was currently hiding in a corner of Emperor City, far away from the venue of the final competition.
He was panting, but the fighting spirit in his eyes was not extinguished, instead, like adding fuel to a fire, it was growing stronger and stronger!
"Worthy of venerables, their methods exceeded my expectations." He exclaimed in his head and immediately sent another message to Fang Yuan.
"Fang Yuan, hold on! Give me some more time and I will definitely be able to unravel this move!" Shen Shang spoke with certainty.
Fang Yuan sneered: "How can I believe you?"
Shen Shang then explained: "I've already found out that the various human path killer moves of Heavenly Court's venerables are based on a massive amount of human will. Without this foundation, no matter how powerful the human path killer moves are, they are useless without enough fuel."
Fang Yuan retorted: "But the human will is stored in Heavenly Court, it is too far from our reach."
Shen Shang smiled lightly: "Precisely so, I deduced another method, instead of eliminating the human will, we should help to develop it instead."
Fang Yuan gained some interest: "Tell me."
Shen Shang then said: "Heavenly Court collected the human will of Central Continent, so their people's united hearts killer move can distinguish between friend and enemy. But if I add the human will of the other four regions, how can they possibly still have united hearts? The Heavenly Court and Central Continent Gu Immortals are also amplified by the killer move heroes among people because of Central Continent's human will. If it contains the human will of the five regions, then heroes among people's effect would also work on the rest of us."
Fang Yuan asked again: "Then how do you do this, how will we channel the human will of the other four regions into it?"
Shen Shang replied calmly: "On one hand, I have already made arrangements in Emperor City. On the other hand, the five regional walls are close to disappearing, not only will the five regions be unified by the earth veins, but the human veins will also be linked. In a way, we have to thank Heavenly Court for their propaganda. Now that the five regions all know that the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention is being held, the will of all five regions is concentrated here, except that Heavenly Court only collected the central part of it."
Fang Yuan was silent for a moment and suddenly said: "Then do it, I can't maintain all of the battlefield, I can only try my best to stall for you. You have to fight for every second!"
"Of course." Shen Shang said without any hesitation.
Emperor City battlefield.
"Kill!" Combat Immortal Sect's Gu Immortals shouted in unison.
Under their maneuvering, the Immortal Gu House Edge Link Camp suddenly surged in speed and rushed towards Western Desert Fang clan's Inquiry Dock.
Inquiry Dock retreated sharply.
Edge Link Camp suddenly shined with a dazzling light, the light condensed into a giant horn that rushed into the sky.
It was Edge Link Camp's killer move — Giant Horn Rush.
Normally speaking, Inquiry Dock would not be afraid of this method, but after the amplification of human path killer move heroes among people, giant horn rush's power doubled!
Inquiry Dock was only an information path Immortal Gu House, it could not resist this fierce attack alone.
Fallen Flower Hall quickly tried to help it and moved closer to Inquiry Dock, but Wind Sweeping Building restrained it.
"We cannot lose Inquiry Dock, our Fang clan's three Immortal Gu Houses can use the battlefield killer move peach blossom maze!" Fang Di Chang quickly gave orders to save it.
Peach blossom maze was able to trap rank eight Gu Immortals, and back then it was even able to trap Divine Bean Palace.
This killer move was famous and all the Western Desert Gu Immortals knew about it. It was just that since the battle started, Central Continent's side had taken the initiative and did not allow Western Desert to set it up, so there was no time to activate peach blossom maze.
Several Western Desert Immortal Gu Houses supported Inquiry Dock at the same time, but at the next moment, Central Continent's lineup changed and formed a large encirclement, separating Inquiry Dock from the reinforcements.
"Damn it!" Fang Di Chang's expression sank, he had to move Divine Bean Palace to help it.
Divine Bean Palace was the support pillar of Western Desert's troops, it should not be moved lightly. Once it was moved, it would cause Western Desert's entire arrangement to change, which would result in a gap to form and allow Central Continent's side to seize the opportunity.
But at this moment, there was nothing that Fang Di Chang could do.
At the sight of Divine Bean Palace moving, the Central Continent Gu Immortals were excited.
"Fang Di Chang fell for it!"
"He is a wisdom path Gu Immortal but the situation is forcing his hand after all."
"Attack, Western Desert's battle arrangement has gone chaotic, if we grab onto this opportunity, we will claim victory!"
Rumble…
Central Continent's Immortal Gu Houses erupted with a frenzy of attacks, it was like a tsunami that crashed towards Western Desert's forces.
"Oh no." This scene was so devastating that even Fang Di Chang's expression changed.
Western Desert's defeat was right before his eyes!
Boom!
With a loud explosion, a grand Immortal Gu House entered the battlefield.
It was larger than Divine Bean Palace, with giant red-gold bricks and black-gold tiles around its walls, countless statues were embedded on the surface of the palace, each one of them was lifelike and full of brilliance.
"This is?!"
"Rank eight Immortal Gu House — Myriad Statue Palace!"
Central Continent's attacks froze for a moment.
At the next moment, from within Myriad Statue Palace came the voice of Thousand Transformations Ancestor: "Central Continent's Heavenly Court is simply going overboard! This time, I, Thousand Transformations Ancestor, will make you pay with your blood!!!"
At the crucial moment, Thousand Transformations came to the rescue and finally salvaged the battle at Emperor City.
Fang Di Chang let out a long breath and muttered softly: "There's still some hope left in this fight."
Hairy Foot Mountain battlefield.
Rumble!
With a loud bang, a corner of the five regional limit formation broke again, it was like a pavilion that was see-through on all sides, the inside was visible to all.
The Formation Spirit was so weak that it was nearly transparent, Zhan Bu Du was heavily injured, he only manipulated the formation while kneeling, his seven orifices were bleeding, blood had gathered into a pool below him.
"Once we destroy this formation, there will be no obstacles left."
"Hmph, if you want to find trouble with Heavenly Court, you're all not qualified enough!"
"Mere rats, all of you will become prisoners of our Heavenly Court."
As always, the main forces of Heavenly Court fought fiercely and furiously, their attacks were unceasing and increasingly coordinated, while Southern Border lost the rank eight pillar Chi Qu You, they could barely sustain the fight, they could not protect the five regional limit formation.
"It seems that my life ends here. But I am not going to let you guys have it easy either!" Zhan Bu Du gritted his teeth and decided to use one final move to self-detonate the entire formation.
Roar—!
Just before Zhan Bu Du was about to self-detonate, the loud roar of a dragon could suddenly be heard.
The sound of the dragon resounded throughout heaven and earth, shaking the entire battlefield.
Next, the five-colored smoke swirled violently and was brutally pushed apart by a huge object!
At this moment, Heavenly Court and the Southern Border immortals stared at the newcomer in shock.
It was a giant dragon, unimaginably huge, the dragon head alone was like a chain of hills, and the dragon's body stretched endlessly!
A Gu Immortal's body could not even compare to a piece of the dragon's scales.
"Evil Dragon!"
"It is Di Zang Sheng!"
"Why is it here?"
Di Zang Sheng's dragon eyes swept over the five regional limit formation and the Southern Border immortals, quickly fixing on the main Heavenly Court forces.
Heavenly Court's immortals suddenly felt an extremely strong sense of danger that threatened their lives!
Roar—!
Di Zang Sheng roared again and rushed towards the Heavenly Court immortals.
"It's our reinforcements!" The morale of the Southern Border immortals was boosted.
Wu Yong's eyes narrowed, "Doesn't Di Zang Sheng hate all humans? How can it be manipulated and be an enemy of Heavenly Court? Who's controlling it? Who can manipulate it?"
For some reason, the image of Fang Yuan surfaced in Wu Yong's heart.
"We're finally saved." Zhan Bu Du sprawled on the ground in exhaustion. With the help of Di Zang Sheng, he was saved from the brink of self-detonating.
Heavenly Court battlefield.
Calamity Luck Altar was at its wits' end.
Duke Long's constant bombardment caused a huge accumulation of damage, Calamity Luck Altar was in tatters, Bing Sai Chuan who was controlling it suffered heavy injuries, Qi Ci Lang had already fainted long ago.
What caused this was just not Duke Long's divine might, but also the help of Qin Ding Ling and Fairy Zi Wei.
Qin Ding Ling was able to use luck path to effectively disintegrate the defenses of Calamity Luck Altar. Fairy Zi Wei collected information from the battle and made deductions on the spot, telling Duke Long the best spots to attack.
With these three Gu Immortals working together, Longevity Heaven was in a precarious position. The destruction of Calamity Luck Altar was close at hand.
Once it completely breaks apart, Longevity Heaven will suffer a devastating blow, and the result of the battle in Heavenly Court will be decided!
Far away from Central Great Hall, at the peak of Star Zone Mountain, the two chess players' figures playing against each other emerged at some point in the Imperfection Regret Pavilion.
No matter from any angle, one could only see a side of the faces of these two figures at most.
The woman had peerless beauty, while the man looked as cold as ice.
It was a contest between two venerables!
"It seems that our side has won this game by a little again." Star Constellation Immortal Venerable smiled slightly.
Limitless Demon Venerable nodded: "Heavenly Court awakened so many Gu Immortals in advance this time, aren't you afraid of getting completely assimilated by heaven's will?"
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable grasped a chess piece: "I still have some time. It seems that the person you are waiting for will not appear. Even if he arrives, it is too late."
Limitless Demon Venerable was silent but suddenly, his eyes shined with mysterious light, he seemed to have sensed something as he stood up and turned around to look at the Heavenly Court battlefield far away.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was stunned, she followed Limitless Demon Venerable's direction and saw that white profound light started to appear in the battlefield, with a shrill sound, a tunnel was opened.
Myriad Year Flying Warship flew in through the tunnel, a Gu Immortal was standing on it.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had a deep gaze as she analyzed, this Gu Immortal was dressed in a white robe, his sleeves were fluttering and his black hair was hanging down to his waist like a waterfall. His face was extremely handsome, almost delicate like a beauty, and what attracted people's attention most were his eyes, which were pitch-black as if they were connected to the ninth layer of the deepest abyss, devouring all light that approached it.
Fairy Zi Wei's body shook as she said uncontrollably: "Fang Yuan!"
"So this is Fang Yuan." Qin Ding Ling coldly smiled.
"Regardless of who comes here, you cannot do anything!" Duke Long did not raise his head, he still stared at Calamity Luck Altar as he tried to deal the fatal blow.
"Is that so?" On Myriad Year Flying Warship, Fang Yuan smiled lightly as he observed the battlefield.
He raised his hand slowly, his fingers outstretched as he aimed at the battlefield.
At the next moment, the killer move that he prepared for a long time burst out, grand qi surged as heaven and earth shook intensely.
Rumble!
The colossal qi wall that enveloped Heavenly Court lasted for a few breaths of time before shattering into countless qi currents, they were all drawn by a formless force into Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture.
At once, the entire place went silent!
Fairy Zi Wei and Qin Ding Ling stared in a daze as they shouted in disbelief:
"Rank eight?!"
"Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's qi wall was actually…"
Duke Long slowly raised his head, he ignored Calamity Luck Altar as his gaze became fixed on Fang Yuan, his expression was completely different from before.
Next, they heard Fang Yuan's plain voice reverberate in their ears: "This unlimited qi sea killer move was modified by me, how is the power? Please do give me your honest opinion."
"Hahaha." Loud laughter was heard from within Imperfection Regret Pavilion.
Limitless Demon Venerable raised his head as he laughed in joy and satisfaction.
"Look." He pointed at Fang Yuan, turning around to face Star Constellation Immortal Venerable: "The person I am waiting for is here!"
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable sighed deeply, she had a complex expression: "Indeed, he… has arrived."
At the crucial moment, Fang Yuan appeared in the battlefield personally, charging into Heavenly Court!
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Chapter 1934 Fang Yuan Fights Duke Long
Heavenly Court battlefield.
"This is the crucial person — Fang Yuan?" Bing Sai Chuan muttered, looking at Fang Yuan who was high in the sky.
Bull Demon and Flower Lady stared with their mouths wide open: "Didn't they say Fang Yuan was rank seven? When did he reach rank eight?"
"This lad!" Mao Li Qiu gritted its teeth, feeling deep emotions inside.
The last time it met Fang Yuan was in Reverse Flow River, Fang Yuan had used the river to escape. Other than that, he was weaker than Mao Li Qiu.
But in their next encounter, he was able to destroy the primordial qi wall!
Without the primordial qi wall, Calamity Luck Altar was like a fish in water, it regained freedom.
The restraint holding them back was gone, they could see ways to attack and advance now.
"Oh no!" Fairy Zi Wei's face turned pale, she could not think of a countermeasure immediately.
"Attack—!" At the next moment, Bing Sai Chuan's voice resounded from Calamity Luck Altar.
The Northern Plains immortals summoned using call of the ancient all became energized, their eyes shined with bright light as they split up and attacked the surroundings.
These Northern Plains brutes had been suppressed for too long!
Only Duke Long, Fairy Zi Wei, and Qin Ding Ling were here, the three of them could not deal with so many Gu Immortals at once.
At the crucial moment, there was a tiger roar as a Shabi emerged. There was the cry of a crane as a green jade crane flew out.
These were two legendary immemorial beasts of Heavenly Court, one was Shabi Ninety-five, the other was Ruan Dan.
The two legendary immemorial beasts joined the battle, desperately blocking the Northern Plains immortals.
Fairy Zi Wei quickly returned to Central Great Hall, she needed to protect Old Man Zheng Yuan who was there.
Meanwhile, Qin Ding Ling charged towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan stood on Myriad Year Flying Warship as he observed the battlefield, seeing the scattered Northern Plains immortals, he nodded in satisfaction.
In order to destroy the qi wall, he had prepared this move for a long time.
Unlimited qi sea was the move that made Qi Xiang famous throughout the world back then. It was grand and vast, complex and everchanging, it could attack and defend, it was a comprehensive method.
It had potential for growth on its own, capable of growing stronger by gathering all the different qi in the world. After Qi Xiang created this move, he collected all sorts of qi and stored them inside the immortal aperture, including life qi, death qi, sword qi, blade qi, dusk qi, dawn qi…
The more types of qi gathered on large scales, the stronger unlimited qi sea was.
Not only would this move expend immortal essence, it also used up the stored qi. Even if they were not used, as time passed, these qi would naturally dissipate slowly.
Back then, Qi Sea grotto-heaven's heavenly spirit used this move to survive many calamities and tribulations that the grotto-heaven faced, among which were myriad tribulations! When Fang Yuan was attacked by this move, unlimited qi sea was already weakened to its limit, even the heavenly spirit had to hibernate due to injuries.
Thus, the actual power of unlimited qi sea was not truly at the level when Fang Yuan saw it.
Since rebirth, Fang Yuan had been thinking of the method to destroy primordial qi wall.
After getting unlimited qi sea, he acutely sensed that this move was a counter to the qi wall.
However, the primordial qi wall was a venerable method, even if Fang Yuan had unlimited qi sea and great grandmaster qi path attainment level, he would need more than a decade to unravel the qi wall method while fully focused on making deductions.
The solution to this problem was Duke Long.
In order to recruit Qi Sea Ancestor, Duke Long used Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's qi path killer moves as bait. Even though Fang Yuan only obtained half of it, because of his insistence, the content included the primordial qi wall as well.
With it, Fang Yuan used the light of wisdom from wisdom Gu to barely deduce and modify unlimited qi sea before the great battle.
As for how Fang Yuan invaded Heavenly Court, he used heaven form. He added the time path killer move shrink time into heaven form, allowing him to rapidly invade the target area. After all, he had deep attainment in theft path and time path. As the Fang Di Chang clone was also comprehending the theft path Immortal Gu House, he gained a lot of inspiration and insight.
The qi wall was too crucial of an element!
With this qi wall, Heavenly Court's enemies only had three routes to choose from, those were the paths carved out by past Demon Venerables.
But once the qi wall vanishes, they could roam freely in Heavenly Court, with their current defense, they could not guard against everyone.
The situation of the battle in Heavenly Court immediately was overturned.
Once Fang Yuan took action, he gave Longevity Heaven and himself the initiative, they now had control over the battle.
"Fang Yuan, let me, Qin Ding Ling, see your skills." Qin Ding Ling turned into a golden ray of light as she flew in the sky, towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan took a glance at her, this was their first encounter.
She was taller than normal people, her shoulders were broad, she stood straight and had a heroic aura. She had an outstanding air, especially her long legs, she was like innate royalty that ruled above the common man. Her nose bridge was tall and a little sharp, her lips were thin and her eyes were narrow and long, her gaze was emitting a cold light now. She was not a traditional beauty, she had an authoritative aura that was bred naturally within her, people would lower their heads and not dare to look at her directly, it was as if they could only look at her feet in order to not offend her.
"No wonder Giant Sun Immortal Venerable chose you as his concubine back then." Fang Yuan replied plainly, Qin Ding Ling's attacks became even fiercer instantly.
Fang Yuan smiled coldly, he manipulated Myriad Year Flying Warship to move quickly, evading Qin Ding Ling.
Qin Ding Ling's heart jumped, she cried out in dismay internally.
She had great strength, having converted from metal path to luck path, her battle strength was second to Duke Long and nobody else in Heavenly Court, she had no clear weaknesses. However, her speed was inferior to Myriad Year Flying Warship.
At this moment, rapids surged below Myriad Year Flying Warship, pushing this rank eight Immortal Gu House to move through the battlefield, heading directly to the immortal battlefield.
Fang Yuan was passive earlier, but once he attacked, he aimed at Heavenly Court's weakness! The greatest weakness!
At this moment, even Duke Long could not let him pass.
The immortal graveyard was the most important place in Heavenly Court.
Even Duke Long did not know how many Gu Immortals were slumbering inside.
This was Heavenly Court's greatest wealth, it was their immense accumulation over millions of years since creation.
In the previous life, even though Longevity Heaven reached Heaven Overseeing Tower, they could not threaten the immortal graveyard. But now that the qi wall was broken, there were countless paths to take, they could approach the immortal graveyard.
Duke Long gave up on Calamity Luck Altar, he flew rapidly and blocked the path of Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Behind Myriad Year Flying Warship, Qin Ding Ling was chasing relentlessly.
At once, Fang Yuan was encircled by Duke Long and Qin Ding Ling.
"Don't worry, I'll help you!"
"Protect this person, he is the crucial person that Ancestor Giant Sun mentioned!"
"That's right, even if we die, we need to protect him."
The surrounding Northern Plains immortals gathered towards Fang Yuan.
Bing Sai Chuan did not hesitate, he immediately mobilized Calamity Luck Altar to reinforce Fang Yuan. Right now, they had the common enemy Heavenly Court, they needed to work together.
Since Fang Yuan came to help them, Bing Sai Chuan had to return the favor, they had to resist Heavenly Court's two strongest experts.
Bing Sai Chuan had no better option now.
If he let Duke Long kill Fang Yuan now, not only would they lose this source of battle strength, the rank eight Immortal Gu House Myriad Year Flying Warship would also become unmanned.
Facing this unprecedented attack, Fang Yuan had a calm expression. However, when he was about to use his method against the enemies, he suddenly felt a sense of fire qi emerging in his heart, causing him to burn with fury.
Next, a sense of sorrow qi pervaded his body, causing his defenses to fall rapidly.
Next, a lump of old qi entered his body and mind, causing his lifespan to decrease continuously.
There was also poison qi that spread around him, causing a lethal threat.
Unlucky qi crowded above his head, causing his luck to fall.
Silly qi filled his mind, the results of the collision of thoughts in his mind were all stupid ideas…
Frost qi entered his body, causing his movements to slow down…
All sorts of qi tangled around him, Fang Yuan's battle strength fell to rock bottom, in just a few breaths of time, he fell to the level of a rank seven Gu Immortal, after some more time, he was even weaker than an ordinary rank six Gu Immortal.
Duke Long saw Fang Yuan's aura weakening rapidly as he was surrounded by all sorts of qi, he felt overjoyed: "This is Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's method! Fang Yuan destroyed the qi wall, causing this move to attack him."
He had cultivated Primordial Origin's true inheritance after all, he could tell what had happened.
But at the next moment, Duke Long saw a mild light shoot out behind him, it resembled a chess piece, rapidly entering Fang Yuan's body.
Instantly, all of the qi around his body vanished, as if the former scene was an illusion.
Duke Long's body and mind shook, he turned around at lightning speed, seeing that Limitless Demon Venerable's silhouette had stood up from his seat for the first time in Imperfection Regret Pavilion, looking over at this battlefield from afar, Duke Long's pupils shrunk slightly.
At the crucial moment, Limitless Demon Venerable made a move, cleansing all of the qi currents around Fang Yuan's body.
The Northern Plains immortals saw this and their hearts eased.
Bing Sai Chuan was a little puzzled: "So Fang Yuan had a method to make Limitless Demon Venerable turn around. How did he do it? I did not see him make any actions earlier."
Immortal killer move — Dragon Roaring Wave.
Duke Long opened his mouth and roared loudly.
The sound waves of the dragon roar spread out rapidly, all over the place.
Immortal killer move — Body Flicker.
At the next moment, Duke Long teleported along with the dragon sound waves, directly appearing in front of Fang Yuan!
Fang Yuan was still standing on the bow, the two were less than an arm's length away.
One was the master of Red Lotus, the dragonman ancestor, Duke Long. The other was the inheritor of Red Lotus, the new dragonman ancestor, Fang Yuan!
"Oh no!"
"Fang Yuan is overconfident."
"Quickly return to the Immortal Gu House!"
The Northern Plains immortals felt like they were falling into despair, they screamed. Duke Long's divine might was engraved in their minds, nobody could face him head on. Even Calamity Luck Altar, the legendary Immortal Gu House that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable personally created, could not resist Duke Long's offensive methods. Longevity Heaven's members were suppressed by Duke Long's power, they had to hide inside Calamity Luck Altar, not daring to fight outside.
Immortal killer move — Dragon Claw Strike!
Duke Long snorted coldly, his right hand turned into a dragon claw as he slashed at Fang Yuan's skull.
Slap.
At the next moment, there was a soft sound as Fang Yuan raised his furry left arm, blocking Duke Long's dragon claw.
"He… he blocked it?!"
Be it Northern Plains' immortals, Qin Ding Ling, or Fairy Zi Wei, they were all stunned.
Nobody had ever been able to resist Duke Long in a frontal assault, but he had managed to block it with such ease.
Fang Yuan's appearance was completely changed, he turned into a bandit monkey.
Bandit monkeys were of strength path, their fur was golden and black tiger stripes covered their body. Fur grew out from their waist naturally to cover the crotch and the butt area, just like a kilt made of skin.
Bandit monkeys respected strength and arm wrestling was their main social activity. Young monkeys could arm wrestle immediately after being born. Arm wrestling was not only a game for bandit monkeys, it was also a commonly used method to resolve disputes.
There were Gu Immortals who recognized the bandit monkey, feeling surprised: "Since when did bandit monkeys become so strong?"
Ordinary immemorial bandit monkeys could not resist Duke Long's attack, if they acted like Fang Yuan, their left arm would have been cut off on the spot.
Fang Yuan's transformation was not so simple of course.
Before this, he had already used the killer move myriad beings assimilation transformation.
This was the ultimate method of Beast Calamity Immortal, it contained the highest profundity of transformation path, able to turn dao marks of all other paths into transformation path dao marks.
How many dao marks did Fang Yuan have now?
Qi path had over a million, refinement path had three hundred thousand, transformation path had two hundred thousand, and that was not all, they were just the three highest paths.
Just these alone, after using myriad beings assimilation transformation, gave him one million and five hundred thousand transformation path dao marks.
After Fang Yuan transformed into the bandit monkey, all of these transformation path dao marks turned into strength path dao marks.
One million and five hundred thousand strength path dao marks!
With just the dao mark amplification alone, Fang Yuan could resist Duke Long's killer move.
Duke Long's dragon claw strike landed on Fang Yuan's left arm, it felt like he was punching a mountain.
A sense of danger appeared in Duke Long's mind, but Fang Yuan's right fist had already been launched.
Boom!
With a loud sound, Duke Long felt like he was a paper boat riding a ferocious wave, he felt like a mountain had slammed into him. An unimaginable force caused him to fly away at a speed that could not be observed with the naked eye.
Duke Long flew like a comet, crashing into the ground at lightning speed, with a loud crash, the surroundings shook, a huge dust cloud spread out.
Everyone was silent!
This time, fear and disbelief appeared on the faces of the Northern Plains and Heavenly Court Gu Immortals.
Everyone's attention was on Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan stood at the bow of his ship while transformed into the bandit monkey, he looked down plainly at the pit he created.
It was the pit created by Duke Long who had been sent flying, it was thirty feet deep!
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Chapter 1935 Star Constellation Versus Limitless
Ever since the start of the battle, this was the first time anyone had seen Duke Long be sent flying far away from an attack.
Not only did Fang Yuan defend against Duke Long's attack, he even retaliated and sent him flying!
This was far out of anyone's expectations.
"He actually became so strong! What sort of growth speed is this!!" Mao Li Qiu opened its mouth, it stood up subconsciously, no longer lying on the ground.
"The crucial person that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable is waiting for… indeed, he lives up to Ancestor's expectations!" Bing Sai Chuan sighed with a complex expression.
Unknowingly, Qin Ding Ling's speed had fallen as she chased after Fang Yuan.
What a joke!
Fang Yuan sent Duke Long flying, what did that mean?
Even though Qin Ding Ling was strong, she knew her limits, she knew the difference between Duke Long and her. Back then, in order to perceive Duke Long's luck, she paid a huge price and had to rest for many days to recover. Right now, the result of this collision eliminated any thought she had of observing Fang Yuan's luck.
Qin Ding Ling was in quite an awkward predicament now.
She wanted to fight and kill Fang Yuan earlier, but now, after seeing this, oh heavens! What a fierce person!
Qin Ding Ling directly stopped moving, she did not dare to approach Fang Yuan anymore.
The transformation path cultivation level that Fang Yuan displayed earlier showed that close combat was not his weakness, it was his strength instead.
Qin Ding Ling changed her mind instantly, she decided to assist Duke Long instead, she did not want to fight Fang Yuan directly anymore.
"This is a monster!"
"To think that in the future after I died, such a demonic immortal would appear, this is so interesting."
"Let's go, he does not need our help."
Northern Plains' immortals quickly turned around, they left, spreading out to the surroundings.
Fairy Zi Wei frowned tightly, she had a heavy heart. Northern Plains' immortals were moving around all over the place, all of them had their own chosen routes to advance, if they destroyed everything along their path, how could Heavenly Court stop them all?
Even if a large number of Gu Immortals woke up in the immortal graveyard now, they would need time to gather their Immortal Gu, it was too late now.
"I can only defend the most important areas now!" Fairy Zi Wei gritted her teeth, she made a painful decision, deciding to abandon the deadweight.
Dust clouds dissipated, within the huge pit, Duke Long stood up slowly.
"You really surprise me time and time again, Fang Yuan." Duke Long raised his head to look at Fang Yuan, he had a calm expression but his tone was eerie.
He was hit by Fang Yuan's fist directly, his chest only caved in slightly. While he spoke, his wound healed completely as his chest returned to normal.
He was the dragonman ancestor after all, his recovery speed was shockingly fast.
Fang Yuan looked at Duke Long as well, upon seeing this, his expression did not change.
Everything was within his expectations.
Duke Long was not heavily injured, the attack earlier had a huge commotion but the effect on the enemy was small. He had only caught Duke Long off guard.
After all, Fang Yuan did not use any immortal killer moves then. He only raised his fist and attacked with the amplification of strength path dao marks.
With the support of over a million strength path dao marks, Fang Yuan's bandit monkey form had immense strength, Duke Long could not compare to it. But he had many immortal killer moves defending him, he was tough as steel, even if he was sent flying, he was still intact.
Below Myriad Year Flying Warship, the water of the River of Time surged as this time path Immortal Gu House moved suddenly, it was like a huge flying sword, tearing through space and creating a dazzling rainbow behind it, it pierced towards the immortal graveyard.
Duke Long snorted coldly, a frenzied light flashed in his eyes as his deep killing intent surged without concealment, it was as if a fierce tide was raging.
He was now in a passive spot, with Fang Yuan's attack, he had no choice but to defend, this was a terrible feeling.
Once the primordial qi wall was broken, Fang Yuan's side gained the initiative, their target was the immortal graveyard.
Duke Long was sent flying by Fang Yuan's fist earlier, his air of intimidation took a beating, he decided to focus on the enemy ahead now. The truth was in front of him, trying to engage in close combat with Fang Yuan in order to kill him was an impossible dream.
Immortal killer move — Qi Breath Mountain!
Rumble!
A grand qi current gathered and formed into a translucent mountain.
The mountain was hundreds of li large as it slammed down.
Fang Yuan was at the bottom of the mountain now, raising his head to look at it, the mountain pressed down like the entire world, he could not evade it.
Fang Yuan did not intend to evade it either.
He stopped his bandit monkey transformation as he turned into a majestic astral wind flying heavenly boar!
Astral wind flying heavenly boar lived in the sky, they were qi path beasts that could fly freely. They were agile like flying fish, they had agility incomparable with their boar bodies, they could charge into the heavenly wind qi wall with ease. With a leap, they could enter the heavenly wind qi wall and swim inside like fish in water.
Fang Yuan's four legs stepped on Myriad Year Flying Warship, he did not raise his head, he only growled slightly.
Immortal killer move — Rampaging Qi Roar!
This was a qi path killer move but it originated from Lang Ya Sect's treasury.
In the past, when Lang Ya land spirit controlled Heavenly Giant Solor, he used this move against the sharp tusk boar, killing this ancient desolate beast with one move on the spot.
Now that Fang Yuan used it, with his one million and five hundred thousand qi path dao marks, the power had risen by one thousand five hundred times!
Boom!!
The qi breath mountain exploded from Fang Yuan's roar, countless currents spread out and formed tornadoes that swept the battlefield.
His killer move was broken, Duke Long suffered a backlash.
But this Dao Guardian of Red Lotus Demon Venerable still had great morale after suffering a setback, he used another move.
Immortal killer move — Qi Current Scissors!
He raised both fists, spreading out his ten fingers.
Countless pale qi currents moved out from his palms, they slashed towards Fang Yuan like thin threads.
In a few breaths of time, tens of thousands of pale white thread qi currents moved like a torrent or swarm of moths, approaching from all over the place.
Every qi current was like a blade, even if an immemorial desolate beast faced this move, they would be covered in cuts and injuries, until all of their flesh was removed and only a skeleton was left.
Against this move, Fang Yuan's astral wind flying heavenly boar form was not useful, he changed his form again.
This time, he turned into a crane.
It was a qi path immortal beast as well, single qi crane.
The flying crane was as large as a horse, it was beautiful and had a long proud neck, its wings were huge like two capes, spreading out on the bow of Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Fang Yuan spread his wings and waved them, at once, thousands of feathers gave off shining light.
At the next moment, immortal killer move divine flick[1] was ready to strike, Fang Yuan unleashed it.
Cling cling cling…
Countless shrill sounds could be heard as qi currents shot out of his feathers, crashing into Duke Long's qi current scissors.
As the two offensive methods collided, most of them were dispersed by each other, only a small amount got past and hit Duke Long and Myriad Year Flying Warship respectively.
No matter which side, against such trivial lingering attacks, they did not even blink.
Immortal killer move — Moving Qi Ring!
Fang Yuan used another move as his beak opened, he blew as white qi came out.
The white qi spread out rapidly, entangling with the back of Myriad Year Flying Warship, causing its speed to rise sharply, shooting forward.
Duke Long's expression changed, he realized the problem and quickly chased.
According to conventional wisdom, moving qi ring was a qi path killer move, it would not be useful when it supported a time path Immortal Gu House. But Fang Yuan had modified this move himself, it was rank eight. With the support of a vast number of qi path dao marks, its power rose by a thousand times, it pushed Myriad Year Flying Warship forward while defying common logic!
Fang Yuan quickly got past the several Northern Plains immortals in front, he reached the immortal graveyard before anyone else.
Looking at the immortal graveyard, it was wide and large, there were countless gravestones on the lush grassland, each of these gravestones were different, some were golden, some were short, some did not even have gravestones but were half exposed coffins instead that were buried under the soil.
The sacred atmosphere of dignity and solemnity, filled with history, enveloped the immortal graveyard.
Fang Yuan smiled coldly, he turned into the bandit monkey again, ready to attack the immortal graveyard again.
At this moment, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette sighed in Imperfection Regret Pavilion, grabbing three chess pieces and tossing them out.
The pieces did not attack Fang Yuan, they fused into the formation here.
Fairy Zi Wei was inside the formation core now, she controlled Star Constellation Chessboard to observe the situation.
After these pieces fell into Star Constellation Chessboard, Fairy Zi Wei felt the power of this formation rise as it broke its limit, reaching an unimaginable level!
Fairy Zi Wei was overjoyed, she quickly activated the formation and aimed it at Fang Yuan.
A huge starlight pillar shined down as Fang Yuan and Myriad Year Flying Warship vanished within the starlight.
At the next moment, another starlight pillar appeared behind Duke Long as Fang Yuan and Myriad Year Flying Warship appeared.
With the help of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette, Heavenly Court's formation gained the ability to teleport people of Fang Yuan and Duke Long's level.
"This is Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's method?" Fang Yuan noticed the situation and let out a breath of air, this did not happen in the previous life.
"I have so many dao marks but the starlight pillar can still teleport me forcefully. Impressive! However, I'm afraid this distance is its limit?" Cold light shined in Fang Yuan's eyes.
Next, he saw that several Northern Plains immortals were also forcefully teleported away from the immortal graveyard.
But these people vanished from Heavenly Court directly, they were likely sent outside.
Fang Yuan looked at other places.
A few Northern Plains immortals had already succeeded, they either destroyed resource points or Immortal Gu Houses.
He immediately realized something else: "It seems that the formation's power is limited even after receiving the help of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. It can only allow Heavenly Court to defend some important areas."
Even so, it was enough for now.
Heavenly Court finally stabilized the situation, their losses were not severe.
Within Imperfection Regret Pavilion, Limitless Demon Venerable's silhouette turned around and looked at Star Constellation Immortal Venerable: "You are quite generous, using three pieces like that."
"But now, you have the disadvantage in this game." Saying so, Limitless Demon Venerable's silhouette smiled, he returned to his seat and sat down calmly.
"Back then, I threatened to destroy Heavenly Court and forced you to accept this game. A million years passed, our powers weave and influence this chessboard, we have been stuck at a deadlock. Now, I only used one piece but you used three, if I attack now, you will be in trouble." Limitless Demon Venerable smiled as he placed his finger at one spot on the chessboard, a brand new chess piece appeared on the board when he retracted his finger.
This chess piece contained the power of Limitless Demon Venerable's silhouette, the spot it occupied was where one of the three pieces that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used earlier was situated.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette smiled indifferently: "Back then, your main body wanted to gain the heaven path foundation of Heavenly Court, so you set up this game. This chess game secretly connects to the Dao field that you created in your later years, Crazed Demon Cave, the more you win, the more heaven path foundation you gain, and the more helpful it will be for the derivation over in Crazed Demon Cave."
"That's right, you're absolutely right." Limitless Demon Venerable admitted to his greed, this was an open scheme, there was nothing to hide.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette smiled again: "There was no helping it in that situation, so what if you gained some heaven path foundation? Times are different now, your main body's lifespan ran out long ago, you are already dead."
Limitless Demon Venerable's silhouette was slightly stunned before his eyes shined with bright light, he realized: "Heavenly Court made arrangements in my Crazed Demon Cave as well."
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette praised truthfully: "Crazed Demon Cave is uniquely blessed, the venerables that came after you were unwilling to destroy it, a few of them even left behind their Dao fields. Over there, the few of us will definitely have a huge contest, but that is something for the future."
[1] Originally Qi Zai's mortal killer move from chapter 1040.
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Chapter 1936 Heavenly Court“s Three Elites Against Fang Yuan
"It seems that to destroy Heavenly Court's immortal graveyard, I will need to destroy this transportation formation first!" Fang Yuan's gaze flashed like lightning, he started at the formation far away.
The Myriad Year Flying Warship below his feet moved according to his will, the ship shot out like a large flying sword towards the formation.
Fairy Zi Wei was guarding the formation in the Central Hall.
Seeing Fang Yuan's assault, she took a deep cold breath, she felt immense pressure towering over her!
"Fang Yuan, with me here, you will not move freely!" Duke Long roared as he stepped forward to block Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Seeing this, Fairy Zi Wei let out a sigh of relief: "Thankfully, we have Lord Duke Long guarding us!"
Boom!
Fang Yuan and Duke Long clashed, Duke Long was sent flying while Fang Yuan and Myriad Year Flying Warship only flew back by a thousand steps.
The aftermath of the combat stirred up thousands of storm clouds and set off monstrous air currents, the aftermath of which was so vast that it resembled a hurricane. The rank eight Gu Immortals were swept and blown away by the aftershocks. Even Calamity Luck Altar halted, Bing Sai Chuan and the others inside were unable to stand on their feet firmly, their bodies were shaking violently.
Subconsciously, everyone started to avoid Fang Yuan and Duke Long.
"Fang Yuan was blocked."
"As expected, only a monster can block a monster!"
"Let the two of them fight."
Only Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth and forced herself to fly over, intending to reinforce Duke Long as his support.
Fang Yuan and Duke Long clashed again, tornadoes formed, lightning flashed and thunder roared.
Because of heavenly dragon's last stand, Duke Long was getting stronger by the minute! Meanwhile, Fang Yuan had a large number of dao marks and Myriad Year Flying Warship, he had the upper hand for now.
Duke Long continued to move back as the two of them fought closer and closer to the teleportation formation.
Immortal killer move — Self-Moving Dragon Qi Wall!
Left without a choice, Duke Long roared as he spread his arms, a huge invisible qi wall appeared before Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan pushed Myriad Year Flying Warship to charge forward, after moving for a few dozen steps, he was stopped by the qi wall, unable to move further.
Duke Long started to cultivate Primordial Origin's true inheritance long ago, he naturally knew about the killer move qi wall. This move was modified by him, Fang Yuan could vaguely see countless qi currents inside the wall. These currents were all dragon-shaped, the dragon heads spun around while chasing the tail, creating countless whirlpools.
These dragon-shaped qi currents were very profound, they could reduce the force of external impacts and greatly increase the qi wall's durability.
Duke Long's self-moving dragon qi wall could not be as firm as the primordial qi wall but it was very durable, it successfully obstructed Fang Yuan.
Even though Fang Yuan used unlimited qi sea to destroy the primordial qi wall, he had modified it according to his understanding of the qi wall in the first place.
Currently, Fang Yuan knew little about this dragon qi wall, it was impossible to replicate his former success now.
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with brilliance, since he could not unravel this move, he had to use force instead.
He turned into a bandit monkey again, stretching his arms as he pushed forward.
Immortal killer move — Strength Path Giant Hand!
Rumble!
The surrounding thousand feet of air was pushed side, two translucent hands that were the size of mountains crashed towards Duke Long's qi wall with immeasurable might.
Within the qi wall, Duke Long raised his head and spread out his arms, sustaining his qi wall killer move.
The two strength path giant hands moved for several hundred steps before becoming slower, unable to advance further.
Fang Yuan and Duke Long had solemn expressions as they exerted strength, falling into a deadlock.
"Good chance!" Seeing this, Qin Ding Ling realized that her chance to attack had arrived.
In the earlier battle, she could not find a chance to attack, she could only prepare her killer moves.
Once the chance arrived, she immediately threw out a small golden dagger.
The dagger was only the size of a thumb, it flew into the air and grew larger as it moved, by the time it reached the top of Fang Yuan's head, it was already the size of a horse carriage.
Swish swish swish.
The golden blade swung down, attempting to slice off Fang Yuan's luck advantage.
But Cooking Luck Pot suddenly appeared above Fang Yuan, it flew up and resisted the attack of the golden blade.
Clang clang clang…
The golden blade landed on Cooking Luck Pot, golden sparks appeared due to the collision.
In a few breaths of time, the golden blade slashed for several hundred times before fading away on its own.
Cooking Luck Pot completely defended against this killer move, even though cracks appeared on the surface, it was intact overall.
The golden blade was a rank eight luck path killer move, while Cooking Luck Pot had been elevated to a rank seven Immortal Gu House, it could resist rank eight attacks.
"Cooking Luck Pot?" Qin Ding Ling exclaimed in shock, recognizing it immediately.
She was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's concubine after all, she knew about the existence of Cooking Luck Pot.
"Your Cooking Luck Pot is only rank seven, even if it can block me ten times, can it stop me twenty times? Thirty times?" Qin Ding Ling snorted coldly in her mind, attacking Fang Yuan furiously.
Cooking Luck Pot was only rank seven, even though it could resist rank eight, Qin Ding Ling was not an ordinary rank eight Gu Immortal, she was specialized in luck path. Cooking Luck Pot could block her now but the duration would not be long.
Fang Yuan noticed this too, he immediately withdrew his strength path giant hands and stopped this immortal killer move.
Duke Long was still sustaining the qi wall, he could not attack, Fang Yuan was able to retreat with ease.
"Qin Ding Ling, you did well." Duke Long praised secretly.
In the deadlock earlier, Duke Long was in a disadvantage, over half of his dragon spirals in the qi wall had dissipated.
Thankfully, Qin Ding Ling interfered and forced Fang Yuan to retreat.
Thoughts clashed like lightning in Fang Yuan's mind as he analyzed the situation.
He had abundant methods, but as long as the transportation formation existed, he could not use most of his methods casually.
Once he activates these methods and Fairy Zi Wei tries to teleport him forcefully, it might greatly disrupt Fang Yuan, causing his activation to fail.
Once his killer move fails, he would suffer varying extents of backlash.
If Fang Yuan suffered a backlash now, the consequences would be unthinkable!
Because of his dao mark amplification, the power was at least one thousand five hundred times! The backlash would be equally amplified.
And more terrifyingly, the sovereign immortal body had non-conflicting dao marks, Fang Yuan had to endure the complete backlash. That way, as long as Fang Yuan faced one backlash, he would likely die.
Only moves like strength path giant hand with low activation time could be used as they only needed few thoughts to maintain. Even if the killer move was destroyed, only the strength path giant hands would break apart, the Gu Immortal's own backlash would be very marginal.
"In that case, let me try another move." Fang Yuan began to prepare his killer move.
He cultivated all paths, he had abundant methods, in this regard, even Duke Long and Thunder Ghost True Monarch, these dual cultivators, could not match up.
In a few breaths of time, Fang Yuan's killer move was prepared.
Immortal killer move — Myriad Self!
Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh…
Countless Fang Yuan spread out into the sky from Myriad Year Flying Warship, a ten thousand person army was formed instantly.
The original myriad self killer move was turned into an Immortal Gu recipe by Fang Yuan, in which he refined Immortal Gu Myriad Self.
But the myriad self killer move that Fang Yuan used now was not the original version, it was a human path killer move that used myriad self Immortal Gu as the core!
At the next moment, all of the Fang Yuan clones charged towards the qi wall.
Their strength was lower than the main body of course, but because his main body had too many dao marks, all of these myriad self clones all had at least desolate beast level battle strength.
After using this killer move, Fang Yuan gained a desolate beast army that numbered to ten thousand. All of these clones were controlled by Fang Yuan with ease, as if they were extensions of his limbs.
A portion of the myriad self army charged towards the qi wall, some charged at Qin Ding Ling, while the bulk of them got past the qi wall and attacked the transportation formation behind instead.
Even though Duke Long's qi wall was strong, it could not compare to the primordial qi wall. Duke Long's heart jumped, he tried to cancel this move but Fang Yuan's main body came charging with Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Duke Long grunted as he dispelled that thought, continuing to maintain the qi wall.
In a battle between experts, activating killer moves was not easy, but dispelling them was similarly difficult.
On the other end, Qin Ding Ling was surrounded by Fang Yuan's clones as they fought. Qin Ding Ling was very powerful, these clones were no threat to her, but they were enough to distract her, she had to waste time and effort to deal with them.
Fairy Zi Wei took in a deep breath of shock.
She instantly realized, this was a huge test to her. If she failed the test, the transportation formation would be destroyed, it would cause a series of problems, the entire battle situation would crumble, the plan to repair fate Gu would fail!
"There is no time to mobilize Heavenly Court's forces. I can only rely on myself!" Fairy Zi Wei had a determined expression as she did her best, instilling all of her attention into the formation.
She was wholeheartedly concentrating!
Star Constellation Chessboard buzzed incessantly, its chess pieces were shining in starlight on the surface of Star Constellation Chessboard, with three of them being the brightest.
These were the three pieces that Star Constellation's silhouette had tossed over earlier!
Fairy Zi Wei's mind had countless thoughts that resembled the starry sky, they shined brightly.
The formation activated, shooting out waves of starlight specks. Countless specks landed on Fang Yuan's clones, very few missed their target, even though Fang Yuan's clones were doing their best to dodge.
As long as they were hit by the starlight specks, they would be teleported outside of Heavenly Court, vanishing instantly.
These clones did not have the killer move heaven form, they could not rejoin the battle.
"Good!" Duke Long and Qin Ding Ling let out sighs of relief.
Fairy Zi Wei did not disappoint them, at the crucial moment, she gave a display of a wisdom path great expert!
Fang Yuan frowned lightly: "This will not do. Fate Gu is slowly being repaired, Heavenly Court has the overall momentum in this battle. Fairy Zi Wei cannot last long but she is planning to stall for time. Over here, I am obstructed by Duke Long and Qin Ding Ling…"
Fang Yuan looked at Longevity Heaven's side again.
These people were obstructed by the transportation formation too, Calamity Luck Altar was charging towards Heaven Overseeing Tower but a starlight pillar was moving them back each time.
"If I ask them to reinforce me, they would receive the same treatment too. Furthermore, if they come here, I will not be able to use my methods freely, I should let them attack the surroundings to pressure and drain Fairy Zi Wei's energy."
Duke Long's qi wall could move, it could not block the myriad self clones but it could block Myriad Year Flying Warship wholeheartedly.
As Fang Yuan fought against Duke Long, he contacted Eastern Sea's immortals.
Heavenly Court's transportation formation had one great weakness, it needed stars as the springboard. Even within Heavenly Court, that was the case, the starlight pillars shot down from white heaven's countless stars.
Fang Yuan could not destroy the transportation formation now, but it was the same if the stars in white heaven were destroyed.
Luckily, a group of Eastern Sea rank eights were there!
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Chapter 1937 Rod Transformation!
Eastern Sea's eight Gu Immortals had already arrived in white heaven, they destroyed many stars.
Their ambition was not as large as Southern Border, Northern Plains, and Western Desert, they only wanted to plunder some Central Continent resources and expend its foundation.
Because they were worried that Heavenly Court would send reinforcements to stop them, they targeted the stars in white heaven instead.
Their strategy had coincidentally become the most crucial point in the entire battle right now!
Among them were Zhang Yin, Granny Rong, and the other dragon generals, Wu Shuai did not recall them, they were left in this group, to try to destroy the stars.
Wu Shuai made a wise decision.
If only Shen Cong Sheng, Qing Yue An, Hua Cai Yun, and Song Qi Yuan were left, they might not have enough guts to destroy the stars.
Eastern Sea's eight immortals were quite efficient in destroying the stars.
The eight of them arrived in front of a giant sized star.
The star was so huge that these eight immortals felt very minute.
Heavenly Court scattered countless stars in white heaven, they were mutually connected, creating a web that had its own arrangements.
Each area had a giant star as the formation core, around the giant star were many large sized stars.
And around the large sized stars were countless mid and small sized stars, flying around casually, they did not have fixed locations.
Song Qi Yuan first flew onto the giant star as he shut his eyes, quietly sensing the connection between the stars.
More than ten breaths later, he shut his eyes, activating a light path killer move as he pointed far away.
Each time he pointed, a sharp profound light would shoot out of his finger at lightning speed, vanishing into the horizon.
Far away, mid and small sized stars exploded into smithereens.
This light path killer move was very special, it could trace the source of any light and attack it. It could even target gazes.
In the previous life, Song Qi Yuan used this move to destroy a star that Fang Yuan refined, causing his star eyes Immortal Gu to fail.
In this life, Song Qi Yuan used this move against Heavenly Court, the effect was immediate as well.
After Song Qi Yuan destroyed all of the stars he could sense, he stopped and nodded at Qing Yue An.
Immortal killer move — Myriad Mountain Ranges!
Qing Yue An gave a cry as the phantom image of countless mountains appeared, the entire mountain range crashed into the giant star.
The giant star was huge but it was just an immortal material, under the attack of the rank eight killer move, it shattered and was destroyed, breaking into countless star fragments.
Almost at the same time the giant star was destroyed, Fairy Zi Wei, who was within Heavenly Court's transportation formation, sensed it.
Her expression changed.
The destruction of one giant star was not an issue. Heavenly Court scattered many stars in white heaven, the loss of one was insignificant.
But in this situation, it had a different implication.
Currently, Northern Plains' immortals and Fang Yuan's clones were attacking all the important areas of Heavenly Court, Fairy Zi Wei had to activate the formation to transport them away.
The formation was constantly activated, it was like a person running while keeping a dangerous balance. If the person steps on a rock, no matter how small it is, they would lose their balance and fall, getting injured. The faster they are running, the heavier their injuries when they fall.
The transportation formation was being used so intensely now, if any errors happen when the destroyed star is needed for the process, the transportation formation would be severely damaged by its own backlash, it might get destroyed.
Fairy Zi Wei had thought that these Eastern Sea immortals held the lowest threat to them, but to think that in this situation and time, the eight Eastern Sea immortals were her most fatal threat!
She had to be careful now, any suspicious stars could not be used now.
Fang Yuan acutely sensed the changes in the formation, he attacked wildly while activating myriad self, and also transmitting information to Shen Cong Sheng.
Shen Cong Sheng received Fang Yuan's message and understood Heavenly Court's situation, he became very excited.
He urged the seven immortals: "Now is our best chance, Fang Yuan has already made his move, Heavenly Court cannot divert its attention. The more stars we destroy, the more problems Heavenly Court will face. Heavenly Court's main forces are restrained in Hairy Foot Mountain, while Heavenly Court itself is being attacked by Longevity Heaven and Fang Yuan. If we do well here, we might have a chance of destroying Heavenly Court!"
Shen Cong Sheng's words raised the morale of the other seven immortals, their efficiency went up at once.
Hairy Foot Mountain battlefield.
The sharp sound of phoenix chirping pierced the eardrums and ran through the battlefield.
The source of the sound was Prince Feng Xian's killer move — Phoenix Chirping Divine Flame!
The flames burned with raging intensity, coiling around Di Zang Sheng's body as it was set ablaze.
At the other side, Bai Cang Shui also used her killer move, countless water waves rushed towards Di Zang Sheng's body without stopping even for a moment.
Di Zang Sheng was attacked by more than just these two people, it was just too large, Heavenly Court's immortals had their own area to target and attack.
Di Zang Sheng roared continuously, it was attacked by flames and water, lightning and poison, but it still rushed towards the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, the attacks of the Heavenly Court immortals did not distract it successfully.
Its performance did not fit historical records, back then, Di Zang Sheng caused chaos and attacked everything in its sight, it was easily drawn away, it had never shown such a clear objective.
"Oh no! This legendary immemorial beast has likely been enslaved." Zhou Xiong Xin shouted.
Heavenly Court's main forces did not have wisdom path Gu Immortals, but Zhou Xiong Xin cultivated information path, he was most skilled at collecting information and clues.
He even had information path killer moves that could mimic wisdom path effects.
After fighting for some time, Zhou Xiong Xin immediately deduced the truth behind Di Zang Sheng.
Di Zang Sheng was attacked by the Heavenly Court immortals, it was covered in injuries. In terms of defense, it was inferior to Duke Long, it also had no wild Immortal Gu, it was fighting with its own innate abilities.
Every time it waved its claws, it could create a gale. The Heavenly Court immortals avoided them, none of them wanting to try the feeling of being caught by Di Zang Sheng.
Each of its roars could set off shocking waves of sound, violently impacting everyone's eardrums and hearts.
Its size was too large, even if it suffered countless blows, it was not a big deal to its entire body.
It endured the furious attacks of the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals, it persevered towards the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation as it began to cause destruction.
Heavenly Court's immortals felt a sense of helplessness, against Di Zang Sheng, even if they used their full strength, they were like rats trying to topple an elephant.
"What do I do?"
"At this rate, the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation cannot sustain itself."
"Attacking the enemy will save it, we have to face offense with offense!"
Heavenly Court's immortals had rich experience, they quickly found a countermeasure.
Vortex Space Boy and Jun Shen Guang moved ahead while Zhu Que Er and Zhu Que Er became the middle group, they all moved towards the five regional limit formation.
At this moment, Di Zang Sheng opened its mouth, an Immortal Gu House flew out.
This Immortal Gu House was shining in orange-gold light, it was grand and overbearing, this was the rank eight Immortal Gu House — Dragon Palace.
A wave of smoke flew out of Dragon Palace like an illusory dream.
"Dream path killer move?!" Heavenly Court's immortals recognized it, they were shocked and fearful, quickly dodging.
Wherever dreamy light smoke went, Heavenly Court's immortals dodged and gave way.
The light smoke covered the five regional limit formation and quickly retrieved it.
Heavenly Court's immortals tried to use methods to attack dreamy light smoke but dream path killer moves were unstoppable in this era, all of their hard work ended up in vain.
The five regional limit formation was brought into Dragon Palace, Zhan Bu Du stored it away, after landing inside Dragon Palace, he met with Wu Shuai.
Wu Shuai used Dragon Palace's methods to immediately heal him.
Heavenly Court was a strong foe, even though they were in a disadvantage, they could still retaliate. Heavenly Court's main forces used the best tactic, forcing Zhan Bu Du to store the five regional limit formation.
This formation had already been attacked countless times, it was at its limits already.
Not only did Zhan Bu Du need healing, this five regional limit formation also needed to be repaired.
Without the formation, even though there was still five colored smoke in the battlefield, it lost its source and quickly dwindled.
Wu Shuai drove Dragon Palace directly into the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation with Di Zang Sheng, without tangling with Heavenly Court's members.
"Hold on! We need to hold on!" The Gu Immortals controlling the formation shouted, the atmosphere was tense and solemn.
In order to protect Hairy Foot Mountain and Infallible blessed land, they had to keep the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation up.
However, be it the five colored smoke or Di Zang Sheng, they were fatally dangerous to the formation.
After entering the formation, Di Zang Sheng's strength rose greatly.
It was restricted in the five colored smoke earlier, after all, it was a Central Continent legendary immemorial beast, it was not from the nine heavens.
Immortal killer move — Unlimited Wind!
While Heavenly Court's main forces retreated, Wu Yong found a chance and permanently expended wind path dao marks to unleash the unceasing tornado.
The tornado rampaged, suppressing the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation from the outside, adding an additional problem to Heavenly Court.
Emperor City battlefield.
Myriad Statue Palace and Divine Bean Palace helped each other, firmly holding Western Desert's ground.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor charged into the battle alone, using all sorts of powerful transformation path killer moves to force back Yue Yang Palace and Frost Dragon Manor.
Like Zhang Fei Xiong and Flesh Whip Immortal, Thousand Transformations Ancestor also had the ability to fight Immortal Gu Houses with his body!
But the overall situation was, Central Continent still had the upper hand.
They were all affected by heroes among people, this human path killer move was indeed a venerable method, it could not be assessed with common sense.
Within Emperor City, the competition was also at a crucial stage.
Hong Yi stared at the fire with his full concentration. No matter how the immortals fought outside, they could not disturb him.
Ye Fan was the same, he wholeheartedly wanted to compete with Hong Yi. But different from Hong Yi, he was using a light path refinement method, aurora lights constantly moved vividly, reflecting off his face.
In the competition ground, one by one, Gu Masters failed, success dao marks were sent to Infallible blessed land by batches.
Next, the success dao marks in Infallible blessed land were extracted by Heavenly Court and sent to Yuan Qiong Du.
Yuan Qiong Du controlled the refinement path Gu formation, he continued to repair fate Gu, he was making quick progress.
Within this refinement path Gu formation, there were Cong Yan and Che Wei defending the place with their full strength.
As Northern Plains' Gu Immortals got near the formation, starlight would land on them, they would be teleported out without resistance.
"As expected of Lady Zi Wei."
"She is so dependable."
Che Wei and Cong Yan sighed.
"Persevere, persevere!" Fairy Zi Wei was covered in sweat now, her face was pale and her head was emitting steam from overheating.
She encouraged herself continuously: "The situation is still within my grasp, persistence will lead to victory!"
But at the next moment, Fang Yuan, who was on Myriad Year Flying Warship, laughed loudly.
Immortal killer move — Myriad Beings Assimilation Transformation.
Immortal killer move — Falling Star Rod Transformation!
He suddenly turned into a huge rod, black and thick.
Next, he used a star path killer move — Leading Countless Stars!
"Oh no!" Fairy Zi Wei's expression changed, she felt like she was sitting on a wild horse carriage that could not stop.
The horse pulling it was rampaging, even if she held the reins, she could not stop this horse carriage anymore.
Boom!
At the next moment, the entire transportation formation self-detonated, starlight specks faded away, no longer shining down.
Fairy Zi Wei suffered an immense backlash, she was at the point of near death, falling unconscious.
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Chapter 1938 Heavenly Court“s Crisis
The transportation formation's self-detonation shook all the surroundings as Heavenly Court's battlefield froze for a moment.
Next, Northern Plains' immortals erupted with cheers and caused a huge commotion.
"Zi Wei!" Qin Ding Ling turned pale with shock as she turned into a flash of light, saving Fairy Zi Wei from the rubble of the transportation formation.
Fairy Zi Wei had fainted, she was in poor shape, Qin Ding Ling needed to save her immediately.
Qin Ding Ling had no hesitation, she immediately retreated, no longer assisting Duke Long in battle. She knew her limits, she was not very useful for Duke Long, while Fairy Zi Wei was the strategist of Heavenly Court, she was vital and could not be lost.
Fang Yuan wanted to use this chance to kill Fairy Zi Wei of course, but Duke Long blocked his advancement each time.
Undeniably, Duke Long's modified qi wall was very strong, it got past the immobile weakness of the primordial qi wall, it was agile and durable. After Duke Long used this move, even Fang Yuan's Myriad Year Flying Warship could not break through it.
Within the qi wall, Duke Long had a grim expression, he treated Fang Yuan as the greatest enemy of his life, the disdain and contempt he showed earlier were completely gone.
Only until Fang Yuan destroyed the transportation formation did Duke Long realize: Fang Yuan's myriad self killer move earlier was just a distraction, it was intended to stall for time.
Fang Yuan's true method was waiting all along in the dark, once used, it caused a huge impact!
"Why does Fang Yuan have the method to break the formation so coincidentally?"
Duke Long knew that Fang Yuan was able to break the qi wall earlier because of his rebirth. But this transportation formation was definitely out of Fang Yuan's expectations, he was troubled by it earlier after all, if he had seen it in a previous life, he would have been prepared against it.
"This means that Fang Yuan deduced the method to break the killer move during battle? How can that be possible?" Duke Long was perplexed.
Heavenly Court made such an arrangement, they naturally guarded against Fang Yuan, they knew about his wisdom path attainment.
With Fang Yuan's foundation, he would need a lot of time to unravel this transportation formation.
Speaking of which, this was quite a coincidence.
When Fang Yuan explored the Dragon Whale Paradise, he had obtained the falling star rod tree from Shen Cong Sheng.
The growth conditions of this immemorial desolate plant were still a mystery as it had been extraordinarily rare and low in quantity since ancient times.
It had the unique trait of constantly attracting stars, falling into the trunk of the tree and turning into a single star mark. That was why it was called falling star.
According to rumors, one of the motives that Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable had when he traveled the world alone was to collect this tree.
The value of the falling star rod tree did not just lie in itself.
By planting it in the immortal aperture, the Gu Immortal could use it to create an entire system of orbiting stars. It was a unique ecology that brought incremental gains every year, and the total amount of gains over time, day after day, year after year, was almost impossible to estimate.
Without this tree, even if Fang Yuan knew about the falling star rod tree, he could not transform into it. But after obtaining it, he observed and studied it, gaining the falling star rod tree transformation.
Other than the rod tree transformation, Fang Yuan also had Dong Fang Chang Fan's myriad star fireflies, and Ye Lui Qun Xing's leading countless stars killer move. These were all loot he gained in the past.
Leading countless stars was exceptional. It used the star fragments primarily and expended little immortal essence. Using the attractive force of star fragments, it could generate starlight magnetic force to continue manipulating stars. The more stars there were, the stronger this move would be.
Back then during the Northern Plains battle, Ye Lui Qun Xing used this move and was virtually unstoppable.
The killer move leading countless stars was targeted against stars and made use of them. On top of that foundation, Fang Yuan also had star path and formation path grandmaster attainment level, as well as the light of wisdom. By modifying the killer move in battle, he was able to achieve amazing results.
Duke Long was very shocked that he could destroy the transportation formation.
In Duke Long's eyes, Fang Yuan started to become unfathomable.
On Myriad Year Flying Warship, Fang Yuan dispelled falling star rod tree transformation and returned to his human form.
Immortal killer move — Myriad Self!
Bam bam bam…
A vast number of Fang Yuan's clones appeared again, filling the sky, they were like fireflies that spread out to the surroundings.
Heavenly Court felt a little troubled, in this battle, they were suffering from a lack of manpower.
Even though Star Constellation's will awakened many Heavenly Court rank eights earlier, because the transportation formation was destroyed, they were all stuck in Hairy Foot Mountain now.
"Troops far away cannot salvage the situation!" Duke Long sighed, he had no choice but to use a method.
Qi path immortal killer move — Qi Engulfing Mountains and Rivers!
At that instant, an unparalleled force descended from the sky, pressing down on the entire place.
The world became still, nothing was left unaffected.
Fang Yuan's clones were all destroyed, Calamity Luck Altar was forced to the ground, resisting stubbornly with creaking sounds. The Heavenly Court Immortal Gu Houses within the range of this killer move were even more badly affected, they were directly destroyed as the place turned into ruins.
Fang Yuan and Myriad Year Flying Warship were not spared either, they were enveloped by qi engulfing mountains and rivers, the warship's speed fell as it rapidly descended from the sky while bearing the weight of mountains and rivers.
Fang Yuan laughed loudly, instead of shock, he felt joy.
Duke Long's qi engulfing mountains and rivers was quite familiar to him, in the previous life, when fighting for Dragon Palace, he had used it to claim victory.
But now, Duke Long had to use this move to destroy Fang Yuan's myriad self. He was truly in a passive spot, he had to give up Heavenly Court's own Immortal Gu Houses.
Immortal killer move — Immemorial Year Monkey Transformation!
Fang Yuan transformed again, all of his dao marks turned into one million and five hundred thousand time path dao marks.
Myriad Year Flying Warship itself was a time path Immortal Gu House, it was activated by Fang Yuan with full force now, its power rose drastically, it was re-energized and shot out like a flying sword, as if qi engulfing mountains and rivers did not exist!
Duke Long stared at Fang Yuan furiously, he could not catch up now, he watched as Fang Yuan charged towards the immortal graveyard.
Fang Yuan did not intend to target Heaven Overseeing Tower. Firstly, Heaven Overseeing Tower was defended by a formation now, time was needed to get in, secondly, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's painting path method was still around, Fang Yuan was wary against it.
The immortal graveyard was an important place of Heavenly Court, it was likely to have a venerable method, but Fang Yuan had to take the risk.
The immortal graveyard was a huge variable, destroying it now would greatly benefit Fang Yuan and the rest!
Within Imperfection Regret Pavilion.
Seeing that Fang Yuan approached the immortal graveyard, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette's expression changed as she grabbed a chess piece, preparing to toss it.
But at this moment, Limitless Demon Venerable's silhouette smiled lightly as he placed a piece on the chessboard.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette stopped her action, if she tossed this chess piece, Limitless Demon Venerable would gain an absolute advantage, she would not be able to turn this game around anymore!
"Limitless, you really think highly of Fang Yuan." Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette sighed, she placed the chess piece back onto the board.
Next, her gaze turned sharp as blades, she said coldly: "But it is not so easy to stop me."
Before she finished her words, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable made several moves at once, placing pieces on the chessboard continuously.
Limitless Demon Venerable quickly followed after her, not giving her any advantage.
Both sides exchanged moves, they placed over a hundred pieces in a few breaths of time, the entire chessboard was filled with pieces but the strange thing was, this chessboard seemed to have no size limit, no matter how many they placed, the chessboard could hold them!
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette was restrained by Limitless Demon Venerable, Fang Yuan managed to reach the immortal graveyard by moving straight ahead without obstacles.
"Fang Yuan! If you do anything to it, I will make sure you die without a proper corpse!!" Duke Long was still chasing him from behind.
Fang Yuan smiled coldly, using strength path giant hand.
Slam, his giant hand was huge but extremely fast, it slammed down rapidly.
But the process of the giant hand's movement became very slow, space seemed the same but it was actually tens of thousands of li long now.
At the crucial moment, someone interfered, but it was not a venerable method.
"Who is it?!" Fang Yuan shouted, his eyes shined like lightning as he looked towards his left.
In Fang Yuan's vision, a female immortal slowly revealed her appearance.
She had a peculiar appearance, her entire body was made of wood, she wore a green dress made from vines, even though she had a human face, one could see the trunk rings on her tree bark skin, her eyes were clear as a tranquil lake.
Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk, from her aura, this female immortal was close to Di Zang Sheng's level!
"Human immortal, stop. Don't try to destroy Heavenly Court, otherwise, I, Cang Xuan Zi, will have to stop you." The female immortal spoke, her voice was gentle but contained immense determination.
"Cang Xuan Zi?" Fang Yuan realized after a moment.
Heavenly Court had three legendary immemorial beasts, they were Shabi Ninety-five, Ruan Dan, and Cang Xuan Zi.
Cang Xuan Zi was a vast heaven vine, it was a unique existence in Heavenly Court, it did not need to follow orders, but only had to provide a batch of vast heaven fruits every thousand years.
In the previous life, when Longevity Heaven attacked Heavenly Court, Cang Xuan Zi watched the battle without doing anything. But to think that she would take action in this life when Fang Yuan invaded!
"It seems that Cang Xuan Zi and Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable had some sort of special agreement, nobody else knows about it!" Fang Yuan snorted coldly, he mobilized Myriad Year Flying Warship to charge towards the immortal graveyard.
Cang Xuan Zi sighed, she turned into a green light and blocked Myriad Year Flying Warship.
With a loud sound, Myriad Year Flying Warship crashed into Cang Xuan Zi's body, its momentum was halted while Cang Xuan Zi was sent flying away.
She spat out a mouthful of green blood, but she continued to attack Myriad Year Flying Warship.
"Fang Yuan, your life is mine!" At this moment, Duke Long arrived, he opened his mouth and bore his fangs, turning into blades that slashed at Fang Yuan.
Instantly, Fang Yuan became trapped from the front and back.
He was not flustered, he first pointed at Duke Long to use spring scissors, before pointing at Cang Xuan Zi as the Myriad Year Flying Warship below him shot out countless flying swords, they were all daybreak flying swords!
Spring scissors flew out and snipped the dragon fangs, before approaching Duke Long with an unstoppable force.
Duke Long had to retreat.
Daybreak flying swords shot out like a waterfall towards Cang Xuan Zi, after enduring it for a few moments, Cang Xuan Zi could not hold on anymore and retreated.
Fang Yuan yelled, Myriad Year Flying Warship soared into the sky again, before rapidly descending towards the immortal graveyard.
But distance was extended once again, an unobservable profundity was occurring around the surrounding space!
Fang Yuan turned around and stared at Cang Xuan Zi, saying a sentence fiercely: "You are courting death."
Cang Xuan Zi was covered in sweat, she had tried her best to use the space path killer move, but she could only stall Fang Yuan temporarily.
Thankfully, Duke Long was around, he attacked Fang Yuan once more but was forced to retreat yet again.
Fang Yuan's strength suppressed both Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi.
The two sides fought for over a hundred rounds, the more they fought, the stronger Fang Yuan's aura and the more injuries gathered on the bodies of Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi.
Rumble!
With a loud sound, Fang Yuan's Luo Po seal landed on Cang Xuan Zi as she screamed, his giant hand slammed Duke Long to the ground.
"Duke Long, you are already old! With this aged body of yours, how long can you last?" Fang Yuan smiled coldly.
"Until I die." Duke Long was filled with determination and battle intent, one of his dragon horns was broken, his dragon scales were cracked, he was covered in blood.
But he would rather fight to the death!
Within the refinement path formation, Northern Plains' past generation experts surrounded Cong Yan and Che Wei.
"Kill, kill them both!"
"They are already at their limit."
"How can merely two people stop us? Hmph, they are overestimating themselves!"
Northern Plains' immortals were ready to attack, killing intent surged and filled the entire space.
Che Wei and Cong Yan were covered in blood, as long as they stood at the same spot for a few seconds, a pool of blood would gather below them.
"It seems that we are going to die here."
"Hehehe, then we will die. Even if we die, we will use our lives to get as much time as we can for Yuan Qiong Du."
The two looked at each other, they smiled with the determination to die.
"Come, this is our final battle!" As the weaker side, they shouted even louder than the Northern Plains immortals.
The Northern Plains immortals' expressions changed.
"These are two respectable opponents."
"I will use my strongest killer move to send you off, this is my respect towards you both!"
Boom boom boom!
Intense battle erupted once again.
Emperor City.
Countless gazes were heatedly locked onto the final competition grounds.
Most of the Gu Masters had failed, they all left the stage.
There were only two people left, one was Ye Fan, the other was Hong Yi. The final victor would be either one of these two!
"The competition is ending, our mission to defend is about to succeed!"
"Persevere, everyone!!"
Central Continent's troops cheered in advance.
"What do we do?" Thousand Transformations Ancestor could not take them down, he started to feel anxious.
Fang Di Chang was silent but he snorted coldly in his heart: "You are all too naive, so what if we are blocked? Hahaha, it has finally arrived!"
At this precise moment, the ground cracked open, the earth shook as a huge Earth Trench appeared, the terrifying crack expanded towards Emperor City!
"What is happening?"
"An Earth Trench! Damn it, Emperor City is in the path of the Earth Trench."
"Quick, save the people!!"
Central Continent's troops were flustered, they wanted to salvage the situation. But Fang Di Chang was prepared from the start, he manipulated Divine Bean Palace and charged out to block the Central Continent troops.
Central Continent's Gu Immortals had no choice but to block Divine Bean Palace in a panic, they did not have the strength to save the mortals in Emperor City.
"We are doomed!"
"Who can save us?"
"No, we cannot give up hope!"
Emperor City was in complete chaos.
River of Time.
The river water moved in waves, Feng Jiu Ge stood in a time path Immortal Gu House as he pondered with his eyes closed, he was quietly comprehending.
Suddenly, his eyes opened, his expression was of utter shock.
A stone lotus island slowly appeared in Feng Jiu Ge's vision.
"This is…" At this instance, Feng Jiu Ge thought of the words Qin Ding Ling said before he left —
"I observed your luck for you, it shows that your fortuitous encounter is in the River of Time. Go, your fortune is there, it will lead you to great accomplishments! You originally wanted to go to the River of Time and increase your comprehension to complete destiny song, this is a wise decision, it cannot go wrong."
"Don't tell me, this is my fortuitous encounter?" Feng Jiu Ge restrained the shock in his mind as he entered the stone lotus island.
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Chapter 1939 Blood-Kin Heart Revenge
Heavenly Court battlefield.
"You finally woke up!" Qin Ding Ling looked at Fairy Zi Wei who was slowly opening her eyes, she let out a breath of air.
"I…" Fairy Zi Wei was a little dazed but she soon regained her senses: "How is the battle situation now?"
"The situation is not good!" Qin Ding Ling said grimly, she spread her palms as a golden silhouette appeared.
Within the silhouette, one could see the scene of Fang Yuan suppressing Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi.
Immortal killer move — Purple-Gold Dragon-Shaped Qi!
After using this killer move, be it offense, defense, healing, or movement, all of Duke Long's actions would have accompanying purple-gold dragon-shaped qi.
This was his main method in qi path, it was very comprehensive.
In the previous life, Five Elements Grandmaster died from this move by Duke Long.
But even in this state, Duke Long was repelled by Fang Yuan continuously.
Duke Long was still very strong, but Fang Yuan relied on Myriad Year Flying Warship, displaying unprecedented time path battle strength!
Spring scissors and summer fan had incredible power, even Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi could not block these attacks.
Fairy Zi Wei took a few glances and exclaimed: "Fang Yuan's battle strength is so terrifying! He seems to have a transformation path method to turn all of his dao marks into the same path. Not only did he advance to rank eight, his dao marks are at an absurd number. How did he do it?"
"Rather than thinking about this, you should think about how we can resolve this crisis now!" Qin Ding Ling urged.
Fairy Zi Wei was silent for a while before analyzing as she pointed at the silhouette: "Lord Duke Long's strength is not inferior to Fang Yuan, it is just that he is too passive now as a result of protecting the immortal graveyard. This gives Fang Yuan the initiative, Lord Duke Long has to endure every offensive killer move he uses to make sure the immortal graveyard is intact."
Fang Yuan could casually dodge Duke Long's attacks but Duke Long had to block Fang Yuan's attacks. This was too great of an advantage.
If one analyzed this, they would see that Duke Long and Fang Yuan were quite similar in power level. But Fang Yuan's tactic was too wise, Duke Long would not be overly concerned if he attacked Heaven Overseeing Tower with high defense, but the immortal graveyard was different.
The primordial qi wall was destroyed by Fang Yuan, that was truly a huge move, it was crucial. It caused Duke Long to be taxed with defending against Fang Yuan's attacks now.
Star Constellation's will could have awakened more Gu Immortals from the immortal graveyard, but Limitless Demon Venerable was stopping her at the moment.
How could they resolve this issue?
Fairy Zi Wei started to think about this deeply but she felt a strong headache, the intense pain made her body shake as she almost fainted again.
"Be careful, your injuries are still quite severe!" Qin Ding Ling called out in concern.
Fairy Zi Wei nodded, frowning and enduring the headache, she spoke with difficulty: "The immortal graveyard is the biggest foundation and accumulation of Heavenly Court, we cannot lose it! We need to get rid of the problem which is Fang Yuan now, go and reinforce Senior Duke Long, get Gu Yue Fang Zheng to fight as well. He has been cultivating in the Demon Judgment Board recently, he progressed quite a bit. If you enter the Demon Judgment Board and coordinate with him, there will be good results."
"What about you?" Qin Ding Ling looked at Fairy Zi Wei with worry.
Fairy Zi Wei spat out a mouthful of blood: "I need to heal my injuries. Thankfully, there is a healing hall that can help me greatly. Don't worry, this Immortal Gu House is at the periphery of the battlefield, it will not attract attention."
"Okay, be careful!" Qin Ding Ling hesitated for a moment before gritting her teeth and flying away.
Fairy Zi Wei felt her vision turning dark, after taking several huge breaths for a while, she stabilized her injuries and decided to move towards the healing hall.
Immortal killer move — Summer Fan!
Whoosh! Intense winds blew, sweeping everything in their path, rampaging through heaven and earth.
Duke Long grunted as he flew back by three hundred steps, countless purple-gold scale fragments were scattered along the way.
The storm also engulfed Cang Xuan Zi, the female immortal cried out in pain as her vines snapped, she used her defensive killer moves with much difficulty to resist the attack.
Her space path defensive killer move was quite amazing. Any move that landed on her would have to travel through a huge distance to reach her.
But no matter how long the distance was, the time path tornado still went into the immortal graveyard. Even though it only suffered a minor loss, still far from total destruction, Heavenly Court's immortals still felt deeply pained when they saw that.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, looking at Cang Xuan Zi coldly.
He was not happy with the current situation.
Cang Xuan Zi… he did not expect her to participate, Fang Yuan knew nothing about her. Especially when she cultivated space path, Fang Yuan's attainment level in this path was too low.
Without enough space path attainment level, even though Fang Yuan had wisdom path attainment level, he could not deduce anything useful.
"The bigger threat between them is Duke Long." Standing on Myriad Year Flying Warship, Fang Yuan looked at Duke Long again.
Not long ago, when Fang Yuan used summer fan, Duke Long flew back by five hundred steps, but now, it was only three hundred steps.
Summer fan was an old killer move, even though Fang Yuan modified it, it had already been used before. At this point, Duke Long was getting used to dealing with it.
Of course, the bigger reason was that Duke Long was continuously getting stronger!
"Heavenly dragon's last stand…" Fang Yuan muttered, he could feel what the Northern Plains immortals felt in the previous life when they fought Duke Long.
Duke Long was strong to begin with, and more terrifyingly, he was continuously getting stronger.
Fang Yuan knew that even though he had the upper hand now, it was because of his wise tactic of targeting the enemy's weakness! Duke Long was forced to defend it.
In terms of real battle, if he fought Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi, they would be evenly matched.
Fang Yuan had Myriad Year Flying Warship, he coordinated well with it. This was the first time Duke Long was fighting with Cang Xuan Zi, and even though Cang Xuan Zi had deep foundation on par with Di Zang Sheng, she was unfamiliar with fighting techniques, it showed that under normal times she faced combat rarely.
Thus, Fang Yuan could also sense that she was getting more proficient in her methods as the fight went on.
After all, a battle of life and death was the greatest form of training.
"Time is pressing, if I cannot succeed soon, I will need to give up on this target." Fang Yuan took a look at Heaven Overseeing Tower, once Genesis Lotus' method was activated, he would attack that place.
Before that, he should destroy the immortal graveyard first. After all, nobody knew which monster would emerge from it next! After all, including Duke Long, Heavenly Court should have a total of four Dao Guardians.
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with bright light, countless thoughts moved in his mind at rapid speed, countless battle tactics were being created.
At this point in time, he still had many trump card killer moves left. There was time cutting edge, unlimited qi sea, five finger fist heart sword, lead soul into dream, and other killer moves.
If he faced other enemies, these methods would decide the battle and kill them. But Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi were not simple characters, against them, if his move failed, they would be prepared against the attack, Fang Yuan would not be able to use them effectively anymore.
Kill Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi? It was not impossible for Fang Yuan!
But at the same time, Duke Long still had the killer move triple qi retraction, it was very threatening. If Fang Yuan got hit by it, the consequences would be severe. Fang Yuan was similarly wary of it.
Furthermore, other than triple qi retraction, did Duke Long have other methods of similar strength?
Fang Yuan was not sure.
At the same time, Cang Xuan Zi was quite an unknown factor, she had lived much longer than Duke Long and also had a complex relationship with Genesis Lotus, who knew what methods she could bring out, it would not be surprising.
Fang Yuan continued to attack, he aimed attacks at the immortal graveyard while looking for an opportunity.
Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi were experienced monsters, their battle experience was incredibly vast.
Fang Yuan tried for a long time but he could not create any opportunities.
Amidst the intense battle, a cloud of blood suddenly appeared.
The cloud of blood approached Fang Yuan, it had a peculiar aura.
Fang Yuan stepped softly as Myriad Year Flying Warship shook, a group of daybreak flying swords flew out and attacked the cloud.
The blood cloud was pierced by Fang Yuan, it was easily torn to shreds and vanished, but Fang Yuan's expression changed.
At the next moment, Cooking Luck Pot appeared above him, blood markings appeared and stuck themselves onto Cooking Luck Pot, attempting to corrode Fang Yuan's luck.
"Blood path killer move?" Fang Yuan's heart shook, his attacks slowed down as he split his attention to mobilize Cooking Luck Pot.
But no matter how he tried to cook his luck, he could not get rid of the blood markings. To get rid of them, Fang Yuan would need to concentrate fully, it would expend a lot of his time.
Fang Yuan cast his gaze far away as an Immortal Gu House approached him.
This was a red tombstone with countless words moving on it, it was the rank eight Immortal Gu House — Demon Judgment Board!
"Fang Zheng… is that you?" Although lacking a clear reason, Fang Yuan guessed the identity of the person inside the Demon Judgment Board.
Within Demon Judgment Board, there was Gu Yue Fang Zheng and also Qin Ding Ling.
"Fang Yuan was hit!" Fang Zheng was surprised and joyful: "Thank you for amplifying the power of my killer move."
At this moment, behind Fang Zheng, Qin Ding Ling was placing both palms on his back as she helped him with her full strength.
Seeing that this move had effect, Qin Ding Ling was surprised too, she looked at Gu Yue Fang Zheng in a new light.
Fang Zheng only had rank seven cultivation level but like what Fairy Zi Wei predicted, the killer moves he created were very effective on Fang Yuan.
"Worthy of Fang Yuan's nemesis, the pawn left behind specially by heaven's will." Qin Ding Ling sighed to herself.
Heaven's will attempted to destroy Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's plan, using Fang Yuan as the pawn. But Fang Yuan as an otherworldly demon was the greatest variable himself, thus heaven's will arranged for Fang Zheng as well, to become the counter to Fang Yuan.
Thus, after Fang Zheng became the Demon Judgment Board Lord, he used the experience of the previous generations of Board Lords to create his own killer move, blood-kin heart revenge.
This blood path mimicked luck path, it also contained the profundity of human path. Qin Ding Ling's amplification was only icing on the cake.
Blood-kin heart revenge activated again!
The blood cloud approached while Fang Yuan dodged it.
But the blood cloud followed him closely, it did not stop chasing after him.
"I've already used sovereign immortal fetus Gu, this body has no bloodline relationship with him, why is the blood cloud still approaching me?" At once, Fang Yuan's gaze flickered with uncertainty.
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Chapter 1940 Limitless, Please Turn Around
Fang Yuan's current main body was made from sovereign immortal fetus Gu.
Sovereign immortal fetus Gu was a consumable Gu worm, it could turn any life form into a pure bred human. Because the body was not created by normal birth, it had the trait of being half an otherworldly demon.
The sovereign immortal body had no blood relationship with Gu Yue Fang Zheng, he was only related to Fang Yuan's rank six time path clone.
But his clone was currently hidden in the sovereign immortal aperture, isolated from the world. Could Fang Zheng's method pierce through that boundary and sense the clone in his immortal aperture?
"Most likely, this move does not use our bloodline relationship but the mental connection with the user." Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk, he felt that this deduction was more logical.
He had very little understanding of Fang Zheng's killer move as he had just seen it.
Fang Yuan tried for a while and could not get away from the blood cloud. If he destroyed the cloud, blood markings would appear and attack his luck.
If others used this killer move, there would not be this effect.
But Fang Zheng was closely connected to Fang Yuan, not just in terms of bloodline. He was an arrangement of heaven's will, both of their lucks were connected in some way. For example, after Fang Yuan obtained Cooking Luck Pot, Fang Zheng's luck turned into a pot lid, it showed that he was a counter to Fang Yuan.
The connection of blood-kin heart revenge was much more complex than Fang Yuan thought.
The first aspect was bloodline connection, the second was the mental connection, and the third was their luck's connection.
Using the resonance of their luck, the blood markings were able to corrode Fang Yuan's luck.
This was a huge problem for Fang Yuan!
Fang Yuan changed his target now, trying to destroy Demon Judgment Board and kill Fang Zheng directly. But whenever he made this choice, Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi would interfere, they would thwart his plan each time at the perfect timing.
Even if Fang Yuan's attacks landed, it would only cause Demon Judgment Board to shake and crack. Afterwards, the Gu Immortals inside would repair it fully.
Demon Judgment Board was different from most of Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses, it was comprehensive in defense, movement, recovery, and others, it had no clear weaknesses.
"If I had the all living beings luck inheritance, no, as long as I had heart blood Immortal Gu… even if I cannot unravel this move, it will alleviate my situation." Fang Yuan had a sensation back then, it was a pity that he could not obtain heart blood Immortal Gu during the qi sea banquet, that was truly a huge pity, to think that it would take effect here.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan lost the five regional limit formation, it was a huge pity. In this life, it was heart blood Immortal Gu.
Even though Fang Yuan had Spring Autumn Cicada and had the advantage of rebirth, when he changed things, the influence would spread out, his enemies and the entire world would generate new changes that would target him once again.
It was like someone shouting at a valley, no matter how he adjusted his voice or tone, the echo would also come back to find him.
At the qi sea banquet, Fang Yuan already felt something. But it was a pity that all sorts of undercurrents and circumstances forced Fang Yuan to let go of this opportunity.
From this aspect, one could see Spring Autumn Cicada's weakness.
The rebirth provided by Spring Autumn Cicada was merely a second chance. Afterwards, especially later into the future, the situation would still depend on the user's own actions.
If one kept relying on the advantage of rebirth, they might gain a lot during the initial stage, but they would be like overconfident swimmers in the sea, eventually drowning themselves.
Thus, even after being reborn for countless times, Red Lotus Demon Venerable only managed to damage fate Gu.
This way, with Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi as the main force, with Fang Zheng and Qin Ding Ling as the supplementary force using Demon Judgment Board, they attacked Fang Yuan together, finally resisting this demon's great might.
"Fang Yuan is trapped!" Within Calamity Luck Altar, Bull Demon spoke, he had kept a lot of attention on Fang Yuan.
Of course, he was not the only one, all of the other Gu Immortals did too, after all, Fang Yuan's victory or defeat would influence this entire battle.
Flower Lady hesitated: "Should we help him?"
The two look at Bing Sai Chuan. They knew that he was still concealing a trump card, they could ask Limitless to turn around.
In the previous life, Bing Sai Chuan used this trump card to temporarily trap Duke Long.
Furthermore, in this situation, as long as Duke Long was trapped, Fang Yuan would not have any restraints, he could break the stalemate.
But Bing Sai Chuan shook his head, his gaze was heated: "Let them fight, this is our best chance, let us take fate Gu and return to Longevity Heaven, we will refine rank nine destiny Gu!"
His original goal was this, with rank nine destiny Gu, Longevity Heaven would replace Heavenly Court's position, they would rule the five regions.
Earlier, Bing Sai Chuan was trapped in a predicament, he had to give up on this thought and ask Fang Yuan for help. Now that Fang Yuan has taken action and changed the situation, Bing Sai Chuan's situation turned for the better.
Be grateful to Fang Yuan and help him?
Bing Sai Chuan laughed coldly in his heart. Their grand ambitions were about to be fulfilled, after years of waiting and expectation', Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's goal of domination was close! How could he give up?!
As long as there was hope, he had to try, he could not give up!
At this moment, even though the refinement path formation was not destroyed, a path was already opened.
"Go! For Longevity Heaven, for Northern Plains, for Lord Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, go and retrieve Fate!" Bing Sai Chuan screamed in a loud voice.
The phantom images in the River of Time stirred, the historical experts of Northern Plains roared and echoed Bing Sai Chuan's words.
Mao Li Qiu had entered battle long ago, using the killer move perfect pair to fight Shabi Ninety-five and Ruan Dan.
Bull Demon and Flower Lady also flew out of Calamity Luck Altar, engaging in their attack. Many Northern Plains Gu Immortals were with them, they had a much larger force than in the previous life.
"No!" Yuan Qiong Du's eyes were red, he shouted for reinforcements but nobody came to help.
Yuan Qiong Du was inside the refinement path formation, he could not leave. At this moment, he was in grave danger himself.
Rank nine Fate was about to be repaired but if it was snatched away, their efforts would have been in vain.
Seeing this situation, Duke Long became anxious, he called out: "Fang Yuan, to think that they are also making use of you."
Fang Yuan casted his gaze at Heaven Overseeing Tower, with just this action, Bing Sai Chuan held his breath.
If Fang Yuan turned around now and attacked Longevity Heaven, what would they do?
Bing Sai Chuan had made this decision after shouldering huge pressure.
The truth was, Fang Yuan had been paying attention to Heaven Overseeing Tower's situation. When he saw that Northern Plains' Gu Immortals were going to Heaven Overseeing Tower, he became happy: Somebody was finally going to step on the land mine for him.
"Duke Long, you should be more concerned with yourself. I will kill you first before dealing with Longevity Heaven!" Fang Yuan shouted.
Duke Long was silent, his attacks went beyond his original limit yet again, becoming even stronger.
"Fate Gu!" Bull Demon and Flower Lady shouted, they charged up to the top of Heaven Overseeing Tower, seeing fate Gu.
But at the next moment, Genesis Lotus' method activated.
"Ahhh!"
"What is this?!"
"Painting path, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's method!"
Like what Fang Yuan had expected, these Northern Plains Gu Immortals were all stuck inside the bamboo forest painting now.
This change was so unexpected that all the other immortals were stunned. Within Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan was dumbstruck.
Yuan Qiong Du, Cong Yan, and Che Wei gained some time to recover, they quickly rested.
Bing Sai Chuan gritted his teeth, phantoms moved in the River of Time but no Gu Immortals appeared, Mao Li Qiu was the closest to it but it was fighting against two legendary immemorial beasts, it could not leave.
In this situation, only Bing Sai Chuan could go himself.
At this moment, Qi Ci Lang woke up slowly.
"What are you hesitating for? Use Calamity Luck Altar to crash into Heaven Overseeing Tower!" Qi Ci Lang said.
When he was unconsciously, he still collected information about the outside world, once he woke up, he received the information.
Fate Gu was inside Heaven Overseeing Tower, it was the core component.
Fate Gu could only be destroyed by otherworldly demons, if Heaven Overseeing Tower was destroyed, the other core Immortal Gu might be destroyed but fate Gu would be intact.
But Heaven Overseeing Tower was a genuine rank nine Immortal Gu House, it had great defense. If Heaven Overseeing Tower attacked it, they would lose precious time. This was why Bing Sai Chuan sent Gu Immortals to invade Heaven Overseeing Tower.
Bing Sai Chuan could not decide.
He looked at the phantom River of Time again, some time had passed but no Gu Immortals came out. There were still many experts in Northern Plains' history, like those forming Seven Extreme Desolation, they did not show up despite Bing Sai Chuan's expectations.
Bing Sai Chuan's expression was uncertain, even though he did not know the previous life's situation, he sensed something amiss!
He was a time path great expert after all.
Being appointed by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable as the West Desolation Immortal, having slumbered for three hundred thousand years due to Giant Sun's request, he was the crucial leader that was designated to achieve Longevity Heaven's grand ambitions!
"This call of the ancient killer move is quite fishy, I cannot rely on it solely. Red Lotus Demon Venerable was once a righteous path member after all, nobody knows what his true objectives are."
Thinking of this, Bing Sai Chuan said to Qi Ci Lang: "Seventh Prince, please take action."
Qi Ci Lang spat out: "Are you a luck path cultivator? I am! I am more suited than you to control Calamity Luck Altar. How much of this Immortal Gu House's power can you use? The urgent matter at hand is to… Bing Sai Chuan, fuck your ancestor!"
Qi Ci Lang had just said his words when suddenly, Bing Sai Chuan teleported him out, he could not help but curse.
Calamity Luck Altar's control was in Bing Sai Chuan's hands. Qi Ci Lang was able to control it earlier because Bing Sai Chuan gave him a portion of the authority.
"Seventh Prince, please attack quickly." Bing Sai Chuan spoke politely but Calamity Luck Altar was ready to attack.
Qi Ci Lang suspected that if he refused to act, Calamity Luck Altar would attack him first.
"Bing Sai Chuan, very good!" Qi Ci Lang gritted his teeth in deep anger.
Bing Sai Chuan was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's old general, his status and seniority gave him the assurance to deal with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's own son like this.
"Just you wait. If not for father's ambitions…" Qi Ci Lang was furious and helpless, he charged into Heaven Overseeing Tower.
Yuan Qiong Du and the rest were helpless to stop him.
Since when could enemies enter and leave Heaven Overseeing Tower at will?
Yuan Qiong Du and the other two felt sadness in their hearts, they could only bank on Genesis Lotus' arrangements activating again.
Qi Ci Lang carefully stepped onto the top of Heaven Overseeing Tower, he was immediately attacked by a jade light.
He received a shock, looking at Genesis Lotus' painting on the walls, he tried his best to maintain his position but he could not resist it.
Right as he was about to be dragged into the painting, Bing Sai Chuan shouted: "Limitless, please turn around!"
In Imperfection Regret Pavilion, similar to the previous life, Limitless Demon Venerable did not turn around, he only tossed out one chess piece.
The chess piece flew into Heaven Overseeing Tower and floated above Qi Ci Lang's head.
Qi Ci Lang's body immediately regained freedom as the jade light got blocked by this small chess piece, only a faint amount of jade light remained around him.
Qi Ci Lang was overjoyed, as long as he got rid of the jade light, he would be able to move freely and snatch fate Gu!
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Chapter 1941 Contented Lifestyle
Emperor City battlefield.
Rumble, dust clouds spread.
The earth cracked open, a large trench spread out and extended forward, swallowing everything in its path, approaching Emperor City.
Emperor City's destruction was about to occur!
At this moment, there were still several Central Continent Gu Immortals guarding Emperor City, but to save the lives of everyone in such a short time, none of the Gu Immortals could do it.
Earth Trenches were formed naturally, nobody could predict where the next Earth Trench would appear. But only Fang Yuan knew.
Because this Earth Trench appeared in his previous life and destroyed Emperor City.
Both Central Continent's and Western Desert's forces were caught off guard, the Earth Trench was truly a huge shock to them!
But Western Desert was shocked and happy while Central Continent was shocked and fearful.
Right when Emperor City was about to be destroyed, an Immortal Gu House emerged and turned into jade light as it flew into the sky rapidly.
It was Divine Bean Palace!
"Stop him!" Central Continent's Gu Immortals subconsciously shouted.
"What is Fang Di Chang doing?" Thousand Transformations Ancestor and the rest were quite surprised, Divine Bean Palace's action was not what they had planned.
Fang Di Chang was shocked at the moment, not only could he not connect to the outside world, his entire body was immobilized.
Divine Bean Palace shook intensely, a formless force was restraining him completely.
On the painting that surrounded the walls, a lump of will emerged.
The will quickly gathered into human form, he had the appearance of a young man with a gentlemanly air, wearing green clothes and a white headband, his long hair extended to his shoulders.
Seeing this will, Fang Di Chang's expression turned ashen, he shouted: "Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable!"
Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable… the venerable with the most abundant immortal essence in history, the third generation Immortal King of Heavenly Court, the creator of Heavenly Lotus Sect, he was the one who cleansed the demonic trend, he restored order to the world.
Indeed, this was Genesis Lotus' will!
"Damn it, he was hiding in the painting so I could not discover him?" Fang Di Chang understood at once, he had no understanding of painting path after all.
"But why did I lose control of Divine Bean Palace the moment Genesis Lotus' will appeared, I am restrained here without any freedom left?" Instantly, Fang Di Chang thought of Qing Chou.
His heart turned cold, he had once thought he completely refined Divine Bean Palace but the cruel truth was exposed here, Divine Bean Palace still continued secrets, its owner was still Genesis Lotus' will all along.
This method was a secret to both the real Fang Di Chang and Fang Yuan's clone, they were unaware of it.
How could a venerable's Immortal Gu House be taken so easily?
Boom, Divine Bean Palace landed on the ground, right in the center of Emperor City as if it was overseeing the situation.
An endless amount of green light spread out from Divine Bean Palace, the light was as warm as water, it was not glaring at all, radiating half the sky.
The whole of Emperor City was covered in green light. Within the light, paintings in all the corners of Emperor City started to surface and show themselves.
These were all paintings of the lives of people, they portrayed the scene of Emperor City at certain points in time.
There were marketplaces, crowded with people, vendors vied for attention while selling a wide variety of goods.
There were the silhouettes of courtyards of several houses, and on the tall trees in the courtyard, a few birds' nests had young chicks waiting to fly. Under the trees, there was a group of children playing and chasing each other, full of hope for the future.
There was a group going towards the bride's house, they traveled from the north with the groom riding on a large horse, behind him was a mortal Gu House carriage[1]. This kind of mortal Gu House was usually only used during marriage ceremonies in Central Continent, and the surface of the carriage was decorated with colorful blooming flowers. Behind the carriage was a group of servants carrying the bride's generous dowry.
There was a teahouse, the street in front of the entrance was crowded with pedestrians, and the upper level of the teahouse was filled with guests who were eating breakfast while looking through the windows, watching the street. The banners of the teahouse, used to attract customers, fluttered along with the slight morning breeze.
There was also a painting depicting dusk. At the corner of the street near the city gate, there was a stall where a blind old Gu Master, who perhaps owned a wisdom path Gu worm, was acting as a fortune teller, predicting the future prospects of a female customer.
…
Be it dusk or dawn, the city gates or the vibrant markets, the contented lifestyles of the people in Emperor City could be clearly seen in these respective paintings.
Undeniably, this was a painting path method filled with the profundities of human path.
Immortal killer move — Contented Lifestyle!
"Emperor City actually has such a hidden method from Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable?"
"Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable had once lived in Emperor City as a mortal for some time… Don't tell me that these rumors were actually true?"
"Painting path is truly profound!"
Central Continent's Gu Immortals were joyful.
Western Desert's side felt that the situation was turning bad.
Divine Bean Palace was connected with Emperor City and formed a gigantic Immortal Gu House. The central area was Divine Bean Palace, while the periphery was the former Emperor City.
As the Earth Trench approached, the monstrous mouth opened, attempting to engulf Emperor City.
But Emperor City had transformed already, it floated in the sky without moving at all.
The countless people in the city cheered loudly.
They jumped in joy as they cheered and shouted, they had escaped a certain death situation!
A group of people were sobbing with joy, they knelt down on the ground and started to kowtow to the paintings.
Suddenly, many new paintings appeared all over the place, the content of the paintings were the scenes of these kowtowing people.
This killer move, contented lifestyle, was able to draw power from mortals to strengthen itself.
As the power of the paintings accumulated unceasingly, it was transmitted into Divine Bean Palace.
Genesis Lotus' will controlled this power, he had a form grasp of Divine Bean Palace, he looked towards Fang Di Chang with a seemingly smiling face: "Fang Yuan, I have to thank you for bringing Divine Bean Palace here, you prevented a catastrophe for the mortals."
This was Genesis Lotus's arrangement when he was alive! In the previous life, Divine Bean Palace was not brought here by Fang clan, thus Emperor City was destroyed. In this life, using Fang Yuan's clone as the tool, Divine Bean Palace appeared to save the mortals.
As his feeling of danger increased, Fang Di Chang struggled intensely.
But a profound power restrained him and directly sent him into the painting of Divine Bean Palace.
Fang Di Chang's vision changed, when he took a second look, he was already inside the painting.
The scene was quite familiar to him, he saw a grey-white land with deep pits in it, he had planted the immortal beans here back then.
Right now, most of the beans were used up in the fight, there were only some sprouts left here, slowly growing.
Fang Di Chang found that he could move again but it was useless, no matter how he tried, he could not escape from this painting.
"I am sealed within the painting!" Fang Di Chang thought about Flower Lady in his previous life, she had been suppressed in the painting that was in Heaven Overseeing Tower.
Fang Di Chang tried to connect to his main body but he found that he could not communicate with the outside world. He could not even sense treasure yellow heaven, all of his communicative methods were ineffective.
"Calm down, calm down, I still have my final hope!" Fang Di Chang pondered for a moment before activating the killer move karma divine tree.
Thankfully, this move had been modified already, once he activated it, Genesis Lotus' will, which was outside the painting, had a change of expression.
This method was truly the only way to resist, even Genesis Lotus' will could not stop him.
At this time, in Emperor City, the final competition of the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention was undergoing.
This great competition was finally at its last moment, the victor was about to be decided.
"I succeeded."
"Success!"
Hong Yi and Ye Fan spoke at the same time, they refined the Gu refinement at the same time.
To decide the victor, a time path Gu Master would need to inspect the specific timing of their completion.
But at this moment, jade light shined, the two were enveloped by it, dragged by it and flying far away.
This jade light was extremely fast, it brought Hong Yi and Ye Fan into Divine Bean Palace almost instantly.
Genesis Lotus' will in Divine Bean Palace gritted his teeth, seeing this, the two people brought by the jade light were extremely close to Fang Yuan, they were either his pawns or his capable subordinates!
Genesis Lotus' will quickly activated Divine Bean Palace, the light that carried Ye Fan and Hong Yi took a twist as it landed in a painting of Emperor City, both of them were sealed as well.
"What is going on?"
"Who won?"
Hong Yi and Ye Fan looked at each other with a dumbfounded expression, they were currently inside a painting created by the killer move contented lifestyle, all they saw was a peaceful and serene environment in front of them.
This made them feel extremely confused.
"Where in the world are we?"
"Aren't there Gu Immortals fighting outside Emperor City? Why can't we hear anything?"
"Am I dreaming?"
Hong Yi gave himself a hard pinch, he gritted his teeth as he felt a sharp pain!
[1] We call it a Chinese Sedan, otherwise known as Litter(Vehicle), google for image.
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Chapter 1942 Destiny Song
Hairy Foot Mountain battlefield.
Only a small portion of the five colored smoke remained, Di Zang Sheng roared as it used its mighty strength to tear the formation. Its mountain range-sized body was still charging forward.
"Stop it!"
"Another sub-formation has been broken!"
"How many sub-formations do we still have?"
"Only one is left!"
"Quickly construct the sub-formations!"
"We can't, its destructive force is too great, we won't make it in time!"
The nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation was in chaos. Many Central Continent Gu Immortals were stationed here but got restricted by the five colored smoke, be it controlling the formation or constructing sub-formations, they had to face backlashes. The more powerful the person and the more strength they used, the stronger the backlash would be.
Di Zang Sheng was extremely powerful, it could break the sub-formations so quickly with just its physical strength!
And it was constantly becoming stronger.
The five regions' regional walls grew increasingly fragile, the earth veins of the five regions were gradually merging into one, the Earth Trench that spread to Emperor City was huge evidence. Earth Trenches had already spread to the central region of Central Continent, this meant that the merging of earth veins had reached the highest point.
Be it the other four regions or Central Continent, the rapid spread of new Earth Trenches led to countless tragedies and deaths, human emotions were surging.
Di Zang Sheng was different from other legendary immemorial beasts, it was born from the power of earth veins fused with the negative emotions of humans.
Right now, Central Continent's earth vein expanded to become the five regions' earth vein, Di Zang Sheng's strength rose to five times of before. Negative emotions were also increasing wildly in the humans of all regions, Di Zang Sheng's strength was further soaring because of this!
Duke Long was growing stronger continuously because of heavenly dragon's last stand.
And Di Zang Sheng's strength was growing at an even more horrifying speed than Duke Long's. As such, even though Heavenly Court's main force was here, using all their abilities and staking their lives, they were unable to stop Di Zang Sheng's charge.
Heavenly Court's main force was furious.
"We can't let it move forward."
"We must stop it even if we die!"
"Damned Evil Dragon."
"Get out of my way, let me stop it!" Zhang Fei Xiong suddenly roared, becoming a giant with a bear head and human body. He attacked with no fear of death.
Bam.
A muffled sound echoed, he was directly crushed into meat paste, dying on the spot.
This rank eight transformation path great expert could only obstruct Di Zang Sheng for a brief moment.
"Zhang Fei Xiong…" The eyes of Heavenly Court's immortals were filled with tears.
At the crucial moment, the Heavenly Court members showed no hesitation towards sacrificing themselves!
"Let me." At the next moment, Flesh Whip Immortal went forward. She transformed into an immemorial walking meat tree, which was her strongest form.
Bam.
Another muffled sound echoed, Flesh Whip Immortal was smashed to pieces, her blood splashing everywhere.
"Flesh Whip Immortal!" The group of immortals cried out.
When she was needed, she charged ahead without any regard for herself. A grand rank eight, a genius of her generation, could only stall it for a breath of time.
Even the Southern Border immortals were visibly moved.
What was urging them to do so?
Seemingly… Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals had all been like this since ancient times.
Their spirit had never waned, it had instead been fostered and enhanced.
Heavenly Court had never lacked brave members!
Primordial Origin might have passed away, but his spirit did not!
"Unfortunately, your efforts are futile." At Wu Shuai's will, countless clones flew out of Dragon Palace.
They were Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies!
These dream path clones turned into a huge vanguard army and flew in front of Di Zang Sheng, attacking the final sub-formation.
"Watch this!" Under the immortals' expectant gaze, Feng Jin Huang stood up, her youthful face was filled with seriousness and solemness.
She borrowed the immortal formation's strength to activate immortal killer move shatter dream.
Bam bam bam…
Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies exploded directly, becoming lumps of dream realms on the spot that rotated and moved slowly.
Immortal killer move — Pure Dream Reality Seeker Transformation!
Feng Jin Huang activated another method.
These restored dream realms transformed back to human form again, but this time, they belonged to Feng Jin Huang.
With Feng Jin Huang here, dream path was no longer Heavenly Court's weakness.
"What about this then!" Before Heavenly Court's force could relax, a large formation was sent out from Dragon Palace at this crucial moment.
Five regional limit formation!
Five colored smoke spouted once again and rapidly spread to cover the whole area.
Heavenly Court's main force had bloodshot eyes as Zhu Que Er shouted hoarsely: "Destroy it!"
Vortex Space Boy and Jun Shen Guang had already moved towards the formation.
"Too late." Zhan Bu Du exclaimed with joy from inside the formation.
He did not let down everyone's expectations, at this crucial moment, he finished repairing the whole formation and joined the battle again!
Five colored smoke expanded and covered the sub-formation.
Puff puff puff.
The Central Continent Gu Immortals were still setting up the formation, they were caught unprepared and coughed blood repeatedly, most fainted on the spot while some even died from the backlash!
By now, they were all exhausted and the five regional limit formation became their death warrant.
As for the Gu Immortals controlling the main formation, they were forced to ease their strength while resisting the injuries from the backlash.
Roar—!
Di Zang Sheng took the chance to attack, it directly smashed into the final sub-formation. The nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation was finally broken at this moment!
The formation collapsed, the obstruction disappeared, Hairy Foot Mountain that had been hidden by the formation got exposed.
This mountain was small and inconspicuous, it was as ordinary as could be but it held Infallible blessed land.
The Gu Immortals who had been controlling the main formation were lying on Hairy Foot Mountain.
The formation's destruction inflicted serious injuries on these Gu Immortals again, almost none of them were in a clear-headed state.
Most of the Gu Immortals had already lost their lives, while a small portion were in a dazed state. Feng Jin Huang, who had been protected tightly, also had a pale face, she fell down to the ground in exhaustion and did not have any strength to escape.
At this moment, she could only look on as Di Zang Sheng came charging, she could do nothing but wait for death.
A strong sense of death suffocated Feng Jin Huang.
"Am I going to die?" At this moment, this young female Gu Master felt a sense of loss.
"Protect Feng Jin Huang!"
"Save her."
"No need to care about Infallible blessed land, the final batch of success dao marks have already been sent to Heavenly Court."
Heavenly Court's main force staked all their energy to rescue Feng Jin Huang.
"Wishful thinking!" The Southern Border Gu Immortals laughed wildly as they used their strength to hold back these Heavenly Court Gu Immortals as much as possible.
Wu Yong's unlimited wind blew while making heavy sounds. This giant tornado stalled a large number of Heavenly Court Gu Immortals.
Jun Shen Guang and Vortex Space Boy charged to the front again. One cultivated light path, another space path, their activation speed of killer moves was fastest.
Immortal killer move — Dreamy Light Smoke!
Dragon Palace withstood all sorts of explosions and forcibly attacked Jun Shen Guang and Vortex Space Boy.
Jun Shen Guang and Vortex Space Boy finally could not dodge, they were carried away by dreamy light smoke the moment they were struck.
After capturing these two, Dragon Palace had reached its limits and could not capture any more people unless these two were killed.
"Destroy Hairy Foot Mountain and Infallible blessed land!" Wu Yong shouted as he took the lead to charge in front. He was not on Heavenly Court's side and naturally was unaware that Heavenly Court had already completed the task. Even if he were to destroy Infallible blessed land now, it did not have any influence on the big picture.
"Don't even think about it!" A lump of fire obstructed Wu Yong, from which Prince Feng Xian flew out.
"By you alone?!" Wu Yong's eyes shined with sharp killing intent, he suddenly disappeared and when he appeared, he was already behind Prince Feng Xian.
Immortal killer move — Farewell Friend Wind!
"We became friends at first sight, yet you have to go now. This is farewell, my good friend, let me send you off." Wu Yong smiled lightly.
Hearing these words, even Prince Feng Xian, a person who infiltrated and went undercover in Northern Plains for many years, turned pale with fright.
Next, Prince Feng Xian lost control over his body and slowly floated towards the front.
While floating, his hair, clothes, and limbs started to disintegrate.
"Damn it! Farewell friend wind is actually in Wu Yong's hand!" Prince Feng Xian shouted inwardly but was unable to articulate his words.
He could not move at all, none of his methods could be used.
With the final obstruction gone, Wu Yong charged down towards Hairy Foot Mountain like an eagle hunting its prey.
The remaining Heavenly Court members wanted to reinforce but were held back by others.
Wu Yong revealed awe-inspiring might, before he had even truly descended, the wind pressure from him was already as heavy as a mountain, Feng Jin Huang could not even budge from this pressure and slowly closed her eyes in despair.
But the pain that she anticipated did not manifest.
Feng Jin Huang slowly opened her eyes in doubt and saw a figure blocking Wu Yong in front of her like an impenetrable fortress.
The moment she saw this extremely familiar figure, she cried out in joy: "Father!"
The rank eight Gu Immortal who appeared at the crucial moment was none other than Feng Jiu Ge.
He wore a red and white robe, standing straight like a spear or sword.
Hearing Feng Jin Huang's cry, Feng Jiu Ge turned sideways and looked at Feng Jin Huang. His eyes under his sharp brows revealed warmth and concern as well as confidence.
Feng Jiu Ge did not say anything and only nodded at Feng Jin Huang before facing Wu Yong.
But just that nod made Feng Jin Huang feel immense security and let her relax completely. This groundless comfort was completely baffling and had no basis, but Feng Jin Huang believed in it, this was her father Feng Jiu Ge.
Wu Yong's eyes emitted dangerous light.
"Feng Jiu Ge," Wu Yong mumbled this name as he exposed his killing intent: "You stopped me from chasing Fang Yuan before, I will settle the score with you properly now."
He then prepared his killer move, trying to use farewell friend wind again.
Feng Jiu Ge did not dodge or evade, he remained floating in the air as he slowly sang with a smile on his face.
His voice was illusory and deep, it was filled with conflict and was very unique.
Wu Yong was unconsciously influenced by the song, his attack paused.
Initially, the song was like a small stream of water in the mountains, flowing slowly. Gradually, the stream turned into flowing lava that expanded the river's width, in the range of mountains, like a wandering dragon.
"Damn it, what song is this?" Wu Yong's expression changed intensely, he began to struggle with difficulty, he had been the first to be struck by the move because he was the nearest.
The song made Wu Yong feel unwell, it made him feel like he had returned to when he was young, he was always shrouded under his mother Wu Du Xiu's shadow and had received her strict teaching and restrictions. During that time, he could only receive her lessons obediently.
At the next moment, Wu Yong's eyes opened even wider.
The farewell friend wind killer move he had used earlier on Prince Feng Xian had actually stopped.
"What song is this? It can actually break farewell friend wind?" Wu Yong was shaken.
Prince Feng Xian felt a different sensation.
He felt like he had returned to the past when he had disguised his identity and finally cultivated to rank eight in Northern Plains. He had a grotto-heaven and finally had a feeling of joy, no longer having to endure the overbearing attitude of Northern Plains' super force Gong tribe.
Under the effect of destiny song, the Southern Border immortals were weakened and dispirited, on the contrary, Heavenly Court's side felt free and elated, their condition picked up and their injuries recovered.
Destiny song's ability was extremely comprehensive, what was even more amazing was that it could distinguish between allies and enemies. This was something that the previous life's destiny song could never compare to.
Even Wu Shuai and the rest were constrained by the song, only Di Zang Sheng roared and forcibly endured the song, still continuing to charge forward!
Feng Jiu Ge concentrated on Di Zang Sheng. Di Zang Sheng's body was so huge that it almost covered the sky and earth, just its dragon head was as big as a mountain. Feng Jiu Ge, in comparison, was as minuscule as an ant.
But at the next moment, the effects of the song concentrated and focused on Di Zang Sheng.
Di Zang Sheng felt like it had returned to the time when it was suppressed in Hidden Dragon Cave; it was in a dark cage, unable to regain freedom even though it had a thousand desires and endless strength.
Helplessness.
Di Zang Sheng started to slow down.
It wanted to roar and cry out, but it ended up letting out whimpers.
The immortals were shocked.
This scene was too shocking.
Feng Jiu Ge defeated Di Zang Sheng in one move!
This was the strongest legendary immemorial desolate beast of this age!! In the previous life, it could fight Duke Long who was at his final moments of life, if he had not captured Dragon Palace, it would have been impossible for him to handle Di Zang Sheng so easily.
"This is my personal creation, destiny song. It has just been completed, please feel free to critique it." Feng Jiu Ge continued to sing while transmitting his voice.
"Destiny song!!" The immortals, be they enemies or allies, engraved the name of this killer move deep in their hearts.
The moment this move appeared, it became famous.
From today onwards, everyone in the world would know of it!
Destiny was constantly moving, it had ups and downs. Who would not have low points in their life? Even Fang Yuan, even the venerables had times when they were at their lowest points. Destiny song could bring out the lows and highs of the destiny of all living beings.
At times, even heaven and earth will help you, at times, even heroes cannot emerge unscathed!
Feng Jiu Ge's ninth song, sound path rank eight immortal killer move — Destiny Song!
"This is troublesome." Wu Shuai's expression was extremely heavy.
"He actually created the complete destiny song. As expected of Feng Jiu Ge." Zhan Bu Du sighed heavily.
This battle situation was transmitted to Heavenly Court, Fairy Zi Wei was naturally overjoyed.
Feng Jiu Ge had been in a state of comprehension, he took the initiative and requested to explore the River of Time. Qin Ding Ling inspected his luck and saw his fortuitous encounter, so she fully supported it. Fairy Zi Wei had thus secretly arranged a time path Immortal Gu House to send Feng Jiu Ge to the River of Time quietly.
Fairy Zi Wei believed Qin Ding Ling's words and she also saw Feng Jiu Ge's potential, but she had never imagined Feng Jiu Ge would actually give her such a huge surprise!
Rank eight immortal killer move destiny song, just this move alone raised Feng Jiu Ge's strength to the peak, he became one of the strongest people in the world.
Heavenly Court wanted to restore rank nine fate Gu and seize fortune rivalling heaven Gu to try to refine rank ten destiny Gu. Longevity Heaven also had the same plan, but their target was set lower, they wanted to use the damaged fate Gu to refine rank nine destiny Gu.
But both sides had not expected that ahead of them, a Gu Immortal actually created the initial draft of the Immortal Gu recipe of destiny Gu!
Immortal killer moves could be condensed into Immortal Gu recipes.
The best example was Fang Yuan's myriad self Immortal Gu, the refined myriad self Immortal Gu recipe had been derived from the killer move myriad self.
It was no exaggeration to say that this move alone allowed Feng Jiu Ge's name to be written down in history.
Worthy of a Dao Guardian!
Such overwhelming talent, even Fairy Zi Wei felt stunned and dazzled, she admitted her inferiority.
"Father, you are amazing!" Feng Jin Huang stared at Feng Jiu Ge's back with her eyes wide open, feelings of idolization and love almost overflowed.
The girl's heart was filled with pride and joy at this moment.
"Yes, my father has never disappointed me."
At this moment, Feng Jin Huang was filled with bliss as she cheered inwardly: "Father, you are most amazing, your broad shoulders will forever be my most reliable support!"
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Chapter 1943 Fang Yuan“s Strongest Offense!
Heavenly Court's battlefield.
Immortal killer move — Dragon Roaring Wave.
Immortal killer move — Body Flicker.
Duke Long's figure suddenly appeared on the right of Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Too close!
Almost at the same time, the daybreak swords that were floating around Myriad Year Flying Warship swarmed in and submerged Duke Long.
Countless dragon shaped tattoos floated around Duke Long's body, blocking the powerful sword attacks.
This was Duke Long's main defensive killer move — Nine Dragons Protection.
Nine was just a general number implying countless tattoos. This was a rare passive defensive method and usually stayed hidden on Duke Long's skin, but when there was an attack, it activated automatically and did not need Duke Long's wills or thoughts to be maintained.
Duke Long forcibly withstood the daybreak swords' attacks with this move, then clenched his hands into fists.
Immortal killer move — World Shaking Dragon Hammer!
Boom!
The dragon hammer's strike directly sent Myriad Year Flying Warship flying.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was sent flying, but it stopped suddenly. The surrounding space crumbled like countless pieces of glass. These glass pieces were extremely sharp and as long as they touched Myriad Year Flying Warship, they would leave behind deep marks, killing many Gu worms. Fang Yuan, who was standing on the deck, also got a cut on his cheek.
This was Cang Xuan Zi's ability, she used space path killer moves to set up countless traps everywhere in the battlefield, they had extremely high power!
But this scene only flashed in Fang Yuan's mind, it had not happened yet.
This was time path killer move — Three Breaths Future Vision!
Three breaths future vision was an investigative killer move that came from Hei Fan's true inheritance, it allowed the Gu Immortal to see three breaths into the future related to them.
Due to Fang Yuan's dao mark amplification, its power had increased by fifteen hundred times and thus could show its effect even when battling an expert at the level of Duke Long. However, this move was essentially only rank seven, so it did not show effect every time, it succeeded sometimes but failed at other times as well.
At the next moment.
Immortal killer move — Dragon Roaring Wave.
Immortal killer move — Body Flicker.
Duke Long's figure suddenly appeared on the right of Myriad Year Flying Warship, just like the scene displayed by three breaths future vision.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly and controlled Myriad Year Flying Warship to move far away, brushing past the countless space path traps.
"What a pity!" Cang Xuan Zi sighed deeply in her heart, just a little and Fang Yuan would have triggered the space path traps.
She was floating in the air without any obvious movement, but she was secretly and quietly forming and laying space path traps.
After fighting Fang Yuan for a long time, the battle experiences that had remained deep within her memories were coming to life and her methods became more experienced.
After Cang Xuan Zi and Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable made a secret agreement three hundred thousand years ago, she had moved to Heavenly Court and lived a peaceful life, never having to fight again. But before this, Cang Xuan Zi's name and the legendary immemorial beast's position were personally established by her!
Fang Yuan controlled Myriad Year Flying Warship and dodged while observing Cang Xuan Zi.
Although Cang Xuan Zi's battle strength was recovering, her combat style was obvious. She retained the habits of fighting as an immemorial desolate plant; her battle style leaned towards staying at one spot and attacking with long ranged attacks, using space path methods to create distance from her enemies before laying space path traps.
Her nature could be seen from her combat style, she liked to fish patiently, this also meant she was not aggressive and would not take risks.
Although many of Cang Xuan Zi's methods were still mysterious, Fang Yuan had already begun to understand the details of Cang Xuan Zi. On the contrary, Duke Long was still unfathomable and not easy to comprehend.
Fang Yuan fought Duke Long in the previous life and he also knew Duke Long's methods for the most part, but Duke Long's combat style was ever-changing, he defended at times while becoming aggressive at other times. He suddenly attacked and evaded at times, making others unable to see a clear pattern.
This combat attainment was not just due to Duke Long's battle experience but also his innate talent!
As far as Fang Yuan was concerned, defeating Cang Xuan Zi might be difficult but he had a high chance. But he was still unable to see even the slightest chance of defeating Duke Long till now.
"Unless I can break Duke Long's defensive killer move!" Fang Yuan analyzed inwardly.
Duke Long's main defensive killer move was nine dragons protection. Fang Yuan was collecting information during the battle and breaking it down.
But his gains were minimal.
It was extremely difficult to break a strong enemy's killer move during a battle.
Compared to nine dragons protection, Fang Yuan wanted to break heavenly dragon's last stand much more. But this killer move left no trace, Fang Yuan did not even have a way to gather its information.
Based on his original expectation, Steal Life was the best method to deal with Duke Long, but it showed no effect even after hitting…
"Wait, I seem to have neglected something?" Suddenly, a light of inspiration flashed past Fang Yuan's mind.
But when he wanted to explore this inspiration, it was interrupted by an attack.
Fang Yuan did not even have to look to know that this was an attack from Demon Judgment Board.
This rank eight Immortal Gu House was truly an annoyance!
It did not have any weakness, its speed was so fast that it did not lose to Myriad Year Flying Warship and had extremely powerful defense. If it was one versus one, Demon Judgment Board could never be Fang Yuan's match, but it would definitely consume some time.
Theft path methods were the best way to deal with this Immortal Gu House, but it was not easy to use them in front of Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi.
Fang Yuan had currently transformed into the immemorial year monkey which coordinated well with Myriad Year Flying Warship. If he transformed his dao marks to theft path, his battle strength would fall greatly, giving Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi an opportunity instead.
What made Fang Yuan even more wary was that even if he were to transform into a theft path immemorial desolate beast and used great thief ghost hand, his attack might not hit Demon Judgment Board. Even if it hit, it might not be able to steal Immortal Gu. Fang Yuan's luck path superiority was already dealt for most part by Qin Ding Ling, Demon Judgment Board moreover had Gu Yue Fang Zheng who restrained Fang Yuan in terms of luck.
So, theft path methods were not the correct methods to change the situation.
"Fang Yuan…" At this time, Fang Zheng who was in charge of Demon Judgment Board had a complicated mood.
Could Fang Yuan be considered his own brother?
No.
Fang Yuan's physical body had changed, his soul was also of an otherworldly demon.
Then, was he a stranger?
No.
The memories of childhood could not be erased, they had once been in each other's company.
Anger?
There was.
Fang Yuan toyed around with him and disregarded his life, he definitely had a sinister scheme for putting him in Lang Ya blessed land.
Hatred?
Definitely.
Fang Yuan killed his own clan and had been the shadow and nightmare of Fang Zheng's childhood.
What else beyond these?
Having experienced many things, Fang Zheng had slowly begun to understand Fang Yuan and even felt some admiration for Fang Yuan.
People often had to compromise in this world. Fang Zheng had started realizing his shallowness and gained an understanding of himself. The so-called A-grade aptitude was just a kind of narcissism, Fang Zheng had already become mature.
Besides understanding and admiration, Fang Zheng even felt a trace of gratitude towards Fang Yuan.
He was grateful to Fang Yuan for creating obstacles for him, for giving him suffering and hardships. These were all wealth that helped Fang Zheng grow to what he was now. If it were not for the hardships during the continental war in Lang Ya blessed land, how could Fang Zheng have merged the various cultivation experiences of the past Demon Judgment Board Lords and created the killer move blood-kin heart revenge?
Fang Zheng had once dreamed of a day where he could fight Fang Yuan and take revenge with his own hands.
But now that the moment really came, Fang Zheng felt a lot different from what he had imagined; he neither felt the pleasure of taking revenge nor felt satisfaction.
His thoughts were complicated, very complicated.
"Duke Long, Cang Xuan Zi, Fang Zheng, and Qin Ding Ling, besides them, there is also Fairy Zi Wei." Fang Yuan's expression turned increasingly serious as he received attacks from all sides.
As Duke Long continued to grow stronger and the coordination of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals became more tight, Fang Yuan's thoughts were almost fully used to maintain this battle.
His ability to analyze the whole situation was continuously falling.
Be it activating killer moves or controlling Myriad Year Flying Warship, both expended a lot of energy. Fang Yuan also needed to be aware of the overall situation, to keep an eye on all the battlefields, and secretly influence the Gu Immortals of other regions.
In fact, Duke Long's group was also in the same state. The battle was becoming more intense, powerful and complicated killer moves involving many Gu worms were activated more frequently, which demanded more attention and control.
"If Fairy Zi Wei recovers, I will be at a disadvantage whether she joins the battle or takes charge of the overall situation." Fang Yuan's eyes shined with coldness.
"Hahaha!" Duke Long suddenly laughed as he got the latest report of the battle in Hairy Foot Mountain, "Fang Yuan, no matter how many times you are reborn, it is useless. Use all your abilities, otherwise it will be too late."
Fang Yuan's expression was grim as he also learned of the recent battle situation.
In the Emperor City battlefield, his clone Fang Di Chang was lost and Divine Bean Palace had defected to the enemy's side. In the Hairy Foot Mountain battlefield, Feng Jiu Ge appeared and used the extremely powerful destiny song, which even made Di Zang Sheng fall into a disadvantage!
Heavenly Court's foundation was truly too deep.
Fang Yuan was not only fighting against Duke Long's group, he was also contending against Heavenly Court's millions of years of accumulation!
The situation in the outside world was not dependable, as such, all the pressure was on Fang Yuan's shoulders.
Fang Yuan's gaze suddenly turned sharp like lightning: "Indeed, I cannot hold back anymore."
He was not able to find Duke Long's weakness, but with the situation forcing him, even if there was no weakness, Fang Yuan had to use his full strength.
Myriad Year Flying Warship rose to the air, rapidly creating distance as Fang Yuan began preparing a killer move.
Duke Long did not give chase, he remained standing in the air, looking above with concentration. His expression looked like he was facing a great enemy, he no longer looked down on Fang Yuan.
Cang Xuan Zi took a deep breath and was extremely vigilant.
Qin Ding Ling, Fang Zheng, as well as Fairy Zi Wei who was recuperating at the edge of the battlefield fixed their gazes on Fang Yuan.
Even Bing Sai Chuan, who was crazily attacking the refinement path formation and bombarding Heaven Overseeing Tower, split a portion of his attention towards Fang Yuan's every move.
Everyone was aware the victory or defeat in the following battle could very likely determine the outcome of the whole situation.
Immortal killer move — Twelve Zodiac battle formation.
Fang Yuan first summoned twelve immemorial year beasts, this method had already been revealed before.
But different from before, the Twelve Zodiac battle formation did not condense into a giant monster but transformed into a golden helm.
The helm was like a carriage wheel, it had six spokes and twelve handles; each handle had a carving of a year beast.
The Twelve Zodiac battle helm flew towards Myriad Year Flying Warship and merged into it rapidly. The dazzling silver Myriad Year Flying Warship suddenly had a large golden image that looked like flying sand, transforming at every moment. The golden image transformed into a coiling dragon at one time, a giant tiger at other time, a crowing rooster, or a ramming ox…
The twelve immemorial year beasts combined perfectly with Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Fang Yuan's previous concept was fully displayed to the world at this moment.
"He actually merged an ancient battle formation into an Immortal Gu House perfectly!" Qin Ding Ling's eyes opened wide.
Fang Zheng looked on, dumbfounded.
"Such amazing talent!" Even Duke Long could not help but praise.
He had never seen this sight, Fang Yuan was the first to achieve this in history!
Although it was said that ancient battle formations and Immortal Gu Houses were immortal killer moves in essence, no one had succeeded in combining these two killer moves prior to Fang Yuan!
"Careful, it is attacking!" Cang Xuan Zi shouted with a trace of panic. Myriad Year Flying Warship was letting out a frightening aura that even shook her.
Immortal killer move — Daybreak Torrent!
Myriad Year Flying Warship swooped down, leaving behind a trail of sonic booms.
It was already an outstanding rank eight Immortal Gu House, the Twelve Zodiac battle formation that merged with it even possessed a mighty strength that could match Duke Long's. After they merged, their strength combined to a horrifying level!
Duke Long roared as he unleashed a qi wall.
Myriad Year Flying Warship's momentum was slightly slowed before it broke through Duke Long's qi wall.
Duke Long frowned as he activated qi wall again.
Myriad Year Flying Warship broke the qi wall again.
Duke Long erected the qi wall again while Myriad Year Flying Warship broke it again. After five times, Myriad Year Flying Warship's momentum finally fell sharply.
Fang Yuan sneered, immortal killer move — Myriad Year Hunting!
At the next moment, the River of Time phantom under Myriad Year Flying Warship enlarged suddenly, countless year beasts surged out like a huge tide!
The sky-covering year beast army began attacking the immortal graveyard like a giant tsunami that engulfed everything.
The large army had countless year beasts, with large numbers of ancient year beasts, and even immemorial year beasts were not in a small quantity.
What was even more terrifying was that this year beast army moved to Fang Yuan's will!
"Terrifying! Just this move alone can let Fang Yuan attack any super force in the world by himself!"
"Does he want to summon all the year beasts in the River of Time?"
"This is almost like a copy of call of the ancient! It is just that while Red Lotus's method summons past Gu Immortal experts, Fang Yuan is summoning the year beasts in the River of Time!"
"But didn't myriad year hunting only attract year beasts and had no ability to control them?"
"This is probably the qualitative change caused by the merging of Twelve Zodiac battle formation!"
Heavenly Court's side was shaken.
Fang Yuan's trump cards were truly peerless, he just used one and it showed towering might. Duke Long, Cang Xuan Zi and the rest immediately felt troubled.
The scale of this year beast army was too large, moreover, Fang Yuan was still summoning them with no end in sight.
The year beast army scattered and spread everywhere like a blossoming flower, attacking every corner of Heavenly Court; Heavenly Court's side, which lacked manpower, was unable to defend properly.
Cang Xuan Zi clenched her teeth as she continuously activated space path killer moves to kill as many year beasts as possible in an attempt to ease the current pressure.
"Be careful!!" Duke Long suddenly shouted.
"Huh?" Cang Xuan Zi seemingly saw the image of a small knife, her pupils shrunk to the size of pins as she reacted but it was too late, she was already struck!
"How is this possible… so fast? I clearly arranged…"
Cang Xuan Zi gazed at Fang Yuan in incredulity. Her body stiffened, a bloody hole appeared on her forehead, piercing through the back of her head. The injury was filled with dense time path dao marks that even a legendary immemorial beast's self-recovery could not regenerate.
Immortal killer move — Time Cutting Edge!
This was the supreme method of Central Continent's Bo clan, once this knife was shot out, it would not miss, anyone hit by it would die. It had once shaken the whole Central Continent with terror.
The killer move's contents were extremely complex and its steps were ever-changing. Among Fang Yuan's methods, it was no doubt the number one in terms of complexity.
The more absurd thing was its activation conditions, its activation time could not cross three breaths. For this, Fang Yuan had to use the supplementary killer move shrink time every time he activated this move.
Its side-effect was also terrifying, every time it was used, a portion of the memories related to it would disappear. It was like an eraser, erasing the enemy while consuming itself.
After Cang Xuan Zi was struck, Fang Yuan's mind immediately turned blank, most of the memories of time cutting edge turned vague.
"At this rate, after I attack Duke Long with it, I will completely lose this move." Fang Yuan's mind was as calm as the snowy plains.
He glanced at Duke Long.
Without realizing, Duke Long retreated several steps.
Boom!
A loud sound resounded as Cang Xuan Zi fell to the ground. Her body returned to its original form in mid-air, turning into a giant green vine.
This green vine once held the sky and was like an extremely eye-catching heavenly pillar, but now it collapsed in the immortal graveyard without moving and had no life force.
The damage to the immortal graveyard from this crash was much more than the sum of all previous damage, but Duke Long did not care about this. His gaze was fixed on Fang Yuan.
He needed to concentrate fully to have a chance at blocking the time cutting edge that was amplified by at least fifteen hundred times!
In Demon Judgment Board, Fang Zheng's mouth was opened wide and his head was soaked with sweat as he looked at the vast heaven vine that had collapsed on the ground.
Qin Ding Ling who was behind him was rigid like a statue.
"If this move had struck Demon Judgment Board, could we block it?" The same doubt flashed in the two's minds but neither had the confidence to say they could defend against it!
This move was too horrifying, one move and it was unknown whether Cang Xuan Zi was still alive, her aura could not be detected.
"Don't be terrified, he used myriad year hunting's aura to conceal this move. If he used this move alone, its aura would be too grand and would not be hidden." At the crucial moment, Fairy Zi Wei's words spread throughout the battlefield.
"As expected of a wisdom path great expert." Fang Yuan snorted coldly as the flaw was exposed.
Duke Long's expression eased a little.
But at the next moment, Fang Yuan left Myriad Year Flying Warship and charged forward alone.
"He is going all out!" Duke Long's heart shook.
Immortal killer move — Myriad Beings Assimilation Transformation.
Immortal killer move——Immemorial Sword Dragon!
Roar—!
Fang Yuan immediately transformed into a giant dragon.
Immemorial sword dragon!
The dragon was over three hundred meters in length, its two horns were long and sharp, its eyes were silver-white, its scales were pure-white and emitted dense sword intent.
All of Fang Yuan's dao marks were transformed into sword path dao marks.
And everyone knew that sword path's superiority lied in offense!
At this moment, Fang Yuan finally showed his strongest attacking form.
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Chapter 1944 Swords Destroy Immortal Graveyard
Roar—!
The tyrannical immemorial dragon roared as it swung its tail and moved, its speed was so fast that it left behind a white afterimage at its original spot.
Bam.
Demon Judgment Board was hit head-on and fell like a meteor.
Duke Long immediately rushed forward to reinforce it.
Fang Yuan sneered and rose to the air suddenly, leaving behind an afterimage.
In the air, he suddenly changed from an extremely active state to extremely still and his aura erupted.
Sword path killer move — Triple Layered Sword Wave!
The offensive killer move that was amplified by at least fifteen hundred times had power that was completely different from the past.
Giant waves surged and filled the battlefield. Every drop of the silver-white waves had sword path's strength and was extremely sharp.
The sword waves did not target Demon Judgment Board or Duke Long but attacked the immortal graveyard.
From the start, Fang Yuan's main target was the immortal graveyard.
Duke Long clenched his teeth as he used self-moving dragon qi wall.
The qi wall could only hold back the sword waves for eight breaths of time before crumbling to pieces.
Duke Long let out a muffled groan as blood flowed out of his nose.
He wanted to continue using the qi wall killer move but the towering sword waves had already reached the immortal graveyard.
Heavenly Court could defend with ease earlier because of Cang Xuan Zi's space path methods that could shorten and lengthen distance. This gave Duke Long enough time to repeatedly activate qi wall to put up defense.
But now that Cang Xuan Zi's vitality was gone and was lying dead on the ground, there was no more protection of space path methods, Duke Long had no time to activate the qi wall killer move again.
Duke Long was not a rank nine but a rank eight like Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan's dao marks far surpassed his and he could only count on heavenly dragon's last stand. But regretfully, till now, although Duke Long was becoming stronger constantly, there was still some gap between him and Fang Yuan. Especially when Fang Yuan revealed his trump cards and showed his strongest attacking form.
"No—!" Duke Long let out a sad and furious roar as he looked at the sword waves engulf and sweep through the immortal graveyard.
The Gu Immortals sleeping in the immortal graveyard could not resist at all, they were sliced into pieces by the sword waves.
Even the enormous vast heaven vine was being cut down repeatedly by the extremely sharp sword waves. Cang Xuan Zi did not wake up during the whole process, it seemed she was truly dead!
Demon Judgment Board rose to the air but Fang Zheng was dazed: "He really did it, he destroyed the immortal graveyard!"
"The immortal graveyard!!!" Compared to Fang Zheng, Fairy Zi Wei and Qin Ding Ling had a greater reaction. They were veteran rank eights and genuine members of Heavenly Court.
The immortal graveyard was not just an important area of Heavenly Court, it was even more a spiritual sacred land to them, it was defiled by Fang Yuan now. Countless predecessors sleeping inside were killed like chickens without being able to resist!
"Fang Yuan, I want you to die!" Qin Ding Ling cried out in sorrow.
"We have failed you all, seniors…" With a loud thud, Old Man Zheng Yuan fell as he knelt on the ground in Central Great Hall, crying silently.
Fairy Zi Wei felt her entire body turning numb, the immortal graveyard was heavily damaged, and as the leader and planner of Heavenly Court, she could not shirk this responsibility!
"It's me, I am too incompetent…" Tears of sorrow trickled down Fairy Zi Wei's face.
In Imperfection Regret Pavilion, the images began to fluctuate intensely.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette wanted to make a move but was firmly held up by Limitless Demon Venerable's silhouette, she could only stare at Fang Yuan slaughtering Heavenly Court's members and destroying the immortal graveyard.
Shock and anger filled Star Constellation's silhouette's face, her gaze was icy cold as she looked at her opponent: "Good, very good!"
Limitless' silhouette smiled: "This is pretty good. Back when I invaded Heavenly Court, I also wanted to destroy the immortal graveyard. But bearing in mind that the scale of variant humans at that time was still enormous, and thinking for the humans, I did not make a move."
"Hmph, so what if you destroyed the immortal graveyard or even the whole of Heavenly Court. As long as you don't destroy fate Gu, with heaven's will continuing to favor humans, Central Continent can still establish a second Heavenly Court, or third or fourth immortal graveyard!" Star Constellation's silhouette retorted.
"You are right." Limitless Demon Venerable's silhouette heaved a sigh: "Fate Gu is the fundamental cause of your Heavenly Court, as long as it remains, your Heavenly Court will stand erect no matter how many losses you suffer. Instead, the more you suffer defeat, the tougher you will become, old will be eliminated and new blood will be brought in, you will be closer to the tides of the new era."
Eras changed constantly and Gu Immortal cultivation also developed without stopping.
The prosperity and decline of qi path and strength path was proof of this.
Limitless Demon Venerable had not touched the immortal graveyard back then because of this consideration. It was better to spare the qi path and strength path Gu Immortals who were left behind by the eras than let Heavenly Court bounce back by absorbing large amounts of rule path, wisdom path, and other paths' Gu Immortals who would emerge in response to this.
"I am really curious, how long can you last over there now that the immortal graveyard is destroyed?" Limitless' silhouette said with a smile.
Star Constellation's silhouette could no longer be indifferent: "You are disregarding the big picture and bringing demise to the rule of humanity! You are unworthy of being a human venerable."
Limitless' silhouette smiled coldly: "My main body was bound by this responsibility back then, but now… hasn't humanity already achieved this goal? Humans should now pursue an even greater goal. You should know what I mean."
Star Constellation's silhouette narrowed her eyes, falling into a rare silence.
"Fang Yuan, I will tear out your tendons and burn you to ashes!!" Duke Long roared, his anger and hatred had accumulated to an extreme level and he charged towards Fang Yuan without regarding anything.
Fang Yuan dodged and did not fight with Duke Long, he continued to activate triple layered sword wave.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
The immortal graveyard was completely covered by sword waves, the sword waves even dug into the ground, not letting go of any hibernating immortal.
Heavenly Court's millions of years of accumulation was destroyed overnight!
"Ahhhhh!" Duke Long's hair was a mess, his face was distorted, and his eyes were bloodshot.
Every attack to the immortal graveyard was like a strike to his heart; he was bleeding internally and overwhelmed with grief.
Immortal killer move — Dragon Offspring.
At this critical juncture, Duke Long roared with fury; his purple dragon scales flew out and mixed with his blood, transforming into dragonman Gu Immortals.
They were of all shapes and sizes, with all kinds of appearances. There were rank six, rank seven, and even rank eight dragonmen.
Duke Long was not an enslavement path Gu Immortal but he had a similar killer move.
"This is a transformation path killer move that contains human path profundity!" Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk as he ridiculed: "Duke Long, oh Duke Long, you massacred the dragonman race back then, so the reason was to refine them into a killer move. Hahaha, how is your action any different from a demonic immortal? You disregarded morals and ethics, you trampled on your own blood and kin. Not only did you kill all your children and grandchildren, you even refined them into puppets to fight for you!!"
Duke Long did not refute Fang Yuan's accusation, deep sadness showed in his eyes as he charged towards Fang Yuan again.
At the same time, the large number of dragonman Gu Immortals spread like a blooming flower, blocking the sword waves as well as countless year beasts.
At the level of Duke Long, there were indeed no apparent weaknesses.
A huge chaotic battle unfolded in Heavenly Court.
Demon Judgment Board was paving paths of blood through the year beast army. But the atmosphere inside Demon Judgment Board was stifling, Qin Ding Ling and Fang Zheng were both silent.
Duke Long's dragon offspring killer move was indeed using the members of the dragonman race, Fang Yuan's accusation was not false. It was no wonder Duke Long rarely used this move, he was forced to use it now because of Fang Yuan.
Many dragonman Gu Immortals surrounded the immemorial sword dragon.
Fang Yuan smiled coldly, he had already activated triple layered sword wave, he now activated another immortal killer move, golden thread sword.
Immediately, the sword dragon's body turned hazy and its every scale emitted soft yellow light.
Each scale suddenly shot out a golden thread.
The number of scales on the immemorial sword dragon was the number of golden threads shot out, they were incomparably fast.
The golden threads pierced every obstacle in their way, the encircling dragonman Gu Immortals resembled honeycombs as the countless golden threads passed them.
Bam bam bam…
Suffering such a heavy injury, these dragonman Gu Immortals were unable to maintain their shape as they detonated softly, returning to scales and blood droplets.
Fang Yuan cleared all the enemies in his surroundings, the sword waves which he had activated just before were still spreading as he rode the waves down.
The immortal graveyard was already wiped out, the greatest variable was destroyed, and now, Fang Yuan charged towards Duke Long.
Cang Xuan Zi had no vitality, her vine body was also in a miserable state. Demon Judgment Board was unable to fight Fang Yuan by itself, if Duke Long fell, who could stop Fang Yuan?
Immortal killer move — Five Finger Fist Heart Sword!
Dragon claws clenched tightly, Fang Yuan's aura suddenly fell to almost a negligible level.
However, warning signs were ringing in Duke Long's mind. He shot forward, his purple-gold dragon-shaped qi flickered constantly and his figure appeared and disappeared, moving in all directions as he tried to evade crazily.
First sword!
Fang Yuan's dragon pupils let out a strange light as a sword light shot out of his claws.
Fast! Fast! Fast!
The sword light's speed was beyond belief.
Duke Long had just seen the light shoot out of Fang Yuan's claws when he found the sword light was already in front of him.
In an almost impossible situation, he forcibly turned his body to one side.
The sword light brushed past him.
Blood splattered, a large cut spread from his left shoulder to his left chest. The cut was clean; bones, scales and even a part of the left lung were gone completely.
Five finger fist heart sword was truly horrifying!
If this had struck Duke Long's head, it would have been severed immediately.
Since the start of the battle, this was the first time Duke Long felt a fatal threat. It had been a long time since he felt such a feeling.
Duke Long gave a loud roar and shot towards Fang Yuan like lightning.
Fang Yuan applauded inwardly.
Every sword in five finger fist heart sword required time to prepare. Duke Long saw through this weakness and took the chance to attack.
Fang Yuan's dragon body moved as he retreated, trying to pull some distance from Duke Long.
Sword path's offensive advantage was obvious, if it were an ordinary opponent, Fang Yuan could directly smash through them. But Duke Long was an extremely powerful expert, he could not be careless.
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Chapter 1945 Combat System
Fang Yuan's immemorial sword dragon form similarly possessed an advantage in speed. Duke Long tried his best in chasing but found that he could not shorten the distance easily.
Immortal killer move — Dragon Gate!
A dragon gate appeared, there were two red pillars by the side with a dragon coiling around each of them, their upper body left the pillars and gathered in the middle, forming the top of the gate. The dragon mouths were open with a radiant dragon pearl in each of them, forming a scene of two dragons and two pearls.
Two dragon gates appeared simultaneously, one appeared in front of Duke Long while the other appeared behind Fang Yuan.
Duke Long disappeared into the dragon gate in front of him and appeared from the dragon gate behind Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's mind rang with warning signals as he dodged immediately, but Duke Long used qi engulfing mountains and rivers to delay his speed.
Immortal killer move — Chaotic Dragon Fist!
At the next moment, Duke Long's fists smashed upon immemorial sword dragon's head and kept on punching it, forcefully knocking Fang Yuan down to the immortal graveyard.
Bam.
The immemorial sword dragon crashed fiercely on the ground, dust, soil and stones flew everywhere.
Although the immemorial sword dragon struggled to raise its head, its claws were still intact and it continued to shoot the second sword light.
Five finger fist heart sword, second sword!
Duke Long was already on maximum alert. The moment Fang Yuan moved, he immediately dodged and appeared on Fang Yuan's dragon back.
The second sword struck air, brushing past the dragon body and piercing the sky, forming a vacuum along the way.
Five finger fist heart sword's sword lights were extremely fast but they could not curve. Duke Long might not be able to ward off the sword light but he could dodge. It was somewhat difficult to dodge the sword light, but he could observe Fang Yuan's movement and judge when he was going to use the sword light, and thereby, dodge in advance.
Undoubtedly, five finger fist heart sword was an extremely powerful killer move and it had a huge advantage compared to time cutting edge — it would not be forgotten.
But because of Duke Long's proper battle tactic, five finger fist heart sword became useless, Fang Yuan's immemorial sword dragon had to face Duke Long in close combat.
In just a dozen or so breaths of time, Fang Yuan had already received many heavy strikes from Duke Long's dragon fists.
There had never been a strongest Immortal Gu or killer move, only Gu Immortal!
Five finger fist heart sword's most ideal environment was when the first sword was released. Fang Yuan was quite far from Duke Long and could use it for long-range attack while he was in an invulnerable position. Even if Duke Long's reaction was extremely keen, he would be hard-pressed to defend against them and every sword could push him to a near-death state.
But when Duke Long closed in the distance and forced close combat, Fang Yuan's dragon body instead became the obstacle for the sword lights and even became a cover for Duke Long.
Looking over the battle, Duke Long could be said to have restrained Fang Yuan's five finger fist heart sword by using dragon gate. Without some distance, there was no space to effectively use five finger fist heart sword.
So, after the second sword, Fang Yuan immediately stopped using five finger fist heart sword and turned to golden thread sword.
Duke Long saw Fang Yuan's dragon scales beginning to flicker with yellow light, he immediately chose to retreat far away with dragon gate.
Countless golden threads covered every inch around Fang Yuan, but Duke Long had already retreated.
But there was no issue, Fang Yuan once again pulled apart some distance between him and Duke Long, he could continue using five finger fist heart sword.
Duke Long's situation turned dangerous, he had no choice but to get near Fang Yuan again and attempt close combat.
When he approached Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan would need to cancel five finger fist heart sword and change to other methods to fight Duke Long.
"This demon has modified five finger fist heart sword to this degree! He can casually cancel the killer move with no backlash. Or should I say that he has modified every sword strike into an individual move." Duke Long's thoughts moved rapidly.
Five finger fist heart sword was Bo Qing's trump card, how could Heavenly Court not know of it?
Duke Long knew a lot of information and it would have been easily countered if Fang Yuan had not modified it.
Duke Long's dao marks were lower than Fang Yuan's so he could not use defensive killer moves to ward off Fang Yuan's various sword path methods, his best option was to dodge.
Fortunately, he had much more battle experience than Fang Yuan.
More importantly, as long as he did not die, he would continue to grow stronger along with his shrinking lifespan!
"Although I modified five finger fist heart sword and am able to cancel it freely, the amount of thoughts required have increased sharply, which makes me unable to use other offensive methods at the same time… the other problem is that Duke Long is getting stronger!" Fang Yuan was feeling anxious.
Previously, he could suppress Duke Long and Cang Xuan Zi, mostly because of his battle tactic — Fang Yuan attacked the immortal graveyard, Heavenly Court had no choice but to defend with all their strength and take a beating passively.
Now, the immortal graveyard was destroyed by Fang Yuan. There might be some hibernating Gu Immortals still alive in there somewhere, but Duke Long no longer was burdened.
Duke Long could now advance or retreat, he immediately showed his true strength and aura in battle.
Fang Yuan battled Duke Long, both were in a stalemate.
Duke Long was happy to see this, but Fang Yuan was not.
So, he turned his head and spat out a waterfall.
Immortal killer move — Myriad Thought Sword Waterfall.
The sword waterfall crashed down with a huge momentum, every drop of water was a sword thought.
Immortal killer move — Swordsman!
Sword thoughts surged and collided, forming human shaped warriors. They had the appearance of Fang Yuan and were wielding long swords. Countless swordsmen charged forward.
Fang Yuan created this move after becoming a human path grandmaster, it contained the profundities of sword path and human path.
The moment Duke Long saw this killer move, he retreated.
Fang Yuan took the chance to get free and charged towards Heaven Overseeing Tower.
Outside Heaven Overseeing Tower, Calamity Luck Altar was destroying the refinement path formation with ease. And inside the tower, Qi Ci Lang was struggling against the remaining jade light on his body.
Duke Long paled with fright when he saw Fang Yuan's movement.
Demon Judgment Board went forward to block the path but was sent flying by one strike from Fang Yuan.
Right at this crucial moment, the sound of singing suddenly appeared in the battlefield and coiled around the immemorial sword dragon's body.
Fang Yuan suddenly felt his condition slipping rapidly, like he had returned to the low point of his life where his actions were controlled by others, his talents and ambitions unable to be expressed, his freedom was lost and his future was dark.
The immemorial sword dragon's speed fell sharply.
Duke Long quickly caught up and blocked Fang Yuan: "Great job, Feng Jiu Ge! Fairy Zi Wei!"
At the crucial moment, Feng Jiu Ge's destiny song successfully obstructed Fang Yuan.
And the one who had guided him in time was Fairy Zi Wei.
Fairy Zi Wei had opened Central Heaven Gate.
This Immortal Gu House was the gateway to Heavenly Court, it had the ability to transport people but it was far inferior to the enormous teleportation Gu formation and was only for convenience.
Destiny song continued, Fang Yuan's battle strength kept falling while Duke Long strength's kept increasing.
Boom boom boom!
The immemorial sword dragon was beaten back repeatedly by Duke Long and had no way to approach Heaven Overseeing Tower.
Since the battle started, this was the first time Fang Yuan fell into such a disadvantage. With no other choice, he stopped all sword path killer moves and began preparing reverse flow protection seal.
Duke Long saw him retreating and his aura fluctuating, he immediately knew Fang Yuan was preparing some other killer move but why would he give him the chance?
Duke Long roared, the purple-gold dragon-shaped qi around him chased and attacked Fang Yuan like a storm.
Fang Yuan's immemorial sword dragon body was lacerated with scales and blood flying everywhere. What was even more terrifying was Duke Long's that chaotic dragon fist could disturb thoughts, causing Fang Yuan's killer moves to fail when activating.
At this difficult time, Fang Yuan opened his immortal aperture slightly and released the accumulated Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies.
Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies flew towards Duke Long and self-detonated.
Duke Long was extremely wary and dodged immediately, stopping his offenses. Fang Yuan got some time and successfully activated reverse flow protection seal.
Duke Long could not help but sigh when he saw this move. The timing just now was perfect but he did not grab it, he had exchanged many moves with Fang Yuan and saw through Fang Yuan's fighting style.
When Fang Yuan transformed into an immemorial beast or plant using the transformation path killer move, he could also transform all his dao marks into the same path. On such a basis, any killer move he used would have amplified strength. Even rank seven killer moves would be able to threaten rank eights.
Fang Yuan had many methods, it was very difficult to imagine that he had accumulated and cultivated them to such a degree in less than one hundred years. Even if he had venerable inheritances, it was still a shocking achievement.
Duke Long was certain: As long as Fang Yuan had enough time, he could reach an unprecedented height. Fortunately, fate Gu's recovery was the crucial point and Fang Yuan had no choice but to invade Heavenly Court in advance.
Fang Yuan might be able to rely on some profound and terrifying methods to win against most of the enemies in the world. But facing an existence like Duke Long, a few methods were far from enough, he also needed a combat system that was sufficiently powerful and stable, with ample trump cards.
Just like Duke Long, his transformation path and qi path methods formed two sets of combat systems.
Nine dragons protection formed powerful defense, clear dragon vision was used for scouting, dragon claw strike, chaotic dragon fist, spiraling dragon fangs, and world shaking dragon hammer were in charge of offense; these four methods covered close, mid-range, and long range combat. World shaking dragon hammer was even more powerful and had the strength to turn around a situation. Dragon roaring wave and body flicker were standard movement methods and there was also dragon gate for long distance movement. Dragon offspring made up for the lack of capability to fight a group. In this combat system, the strongest method was heavenly dragon's last stand.
As for his qi path system: there was qi wall and self-moving dragon qi wall as defensive methods; qi breath mountain, hidden dragon qi explosion, qi engulfing mountains and rivers, great qi hand explosion, and qi current scissors were offensive killer moves. Compared to his transformation path system, these offensive methods had much more obvious long range power. Purple-gold dragon-shaped qi was a jack of all trades, this killer move was so excellent that it provided help to Duke Long in all aspects. Naturally, its most important use was still for movement. Reverse worm dragon was a killer move that was specially prepared to target battlefield killer moves. The trump card of this qi path combat system was triple qi retraction.
Duke Long's two combat systems included all aspects like offense, defense, movement, and so on, they also did not have weaknesses or gaps in the various aspects. What was remarkable was these two battles styles could complement each other. For instance, transformation path's offensive methods were stronger in close and mid-range combat, while weak in long-range combat. Meanwhile, qi path's offensive methods were the exact opposite.
Comparatively, there was no need for many trump cards. One for each system, two methods were enough.
In a real battle, the most useful were still those standard killer moves. For example, Duke Long had triple qi retraction, but he had not used it once in the fight with Fang Yuan. The battle was extremely fierce and Fang Yuan was not stupid enough to give Duke Long the opportunity to use it.
Another example was Fang Yuan's five finger fist heart sword, this was a trump card method. But even though Fang Yuan used it, the effect was not decisive for the battle. Duke Long was still able to maintain the stalemate and it was essentially because his combat systems were even more comprehensive than Fang Yuan's.
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Chapter 1946 Zi Wei“s Eerie Change
How many combat systems did Fang Yuan have?
Form what Duke Long saw, Fang Yuan only had two mature combat systems.
One was time path, and the other was sword path.
The time path system was the most comprehensive; three breaths future vision, year beast summoning, Myriad Year Flying Warship, spring scissors, winter coat, autumn perception, summer fan, as well as spring ploughing, summer hoeing, autumn harvest, winter storage, and so on covered the two main domains of battle and immortal aperture management. There were two trump cards; time cutting edge that was combined with shrink time, and the other was spring autumn success, the core of which was Spring Autumn Cicada!
Sword path had immemorial sword dragon transformation, triple layered sword wave, golden thread sword, dark assassination, myriad thought sword waterfall, swordsman, and other methods. Its trump card was five finger fist heart sword. This combat system took offense to the extreme, being even more powerful than time path style in this aspect, especially five finger fist heart sword which was modified by Fang Yuan. But there was nothing to commend about it in other fields, Duke Long's combat systems were much superior in terms of movement, healing and other aspects. This formed shortcomings. In front of an enemy with extremely rich battle experience like Duke Long, these shortcomings turned into weaknesses which held back the offensive prowess of the sword path system.
Besides these two systems, Fang Yuan had many qi path methods as well, but as far as Duke Long was concerned, it was incomplete. Unlimited qi sea was clearly a trump card with a power that could break the primordial qi wall, but it had not been used after the first time, and it looked like the possibility of it being used again was low.
In the soul path aspect, Duke Long knew Fang Yuan had plenty of methods and the trump card killer move was no doubt Luo Po seal. But Heavenly Court and Duke Long had already made sufficient preparations for this. Fang Yuan not using any soul path methods from the start was a wise move.
Besides these, reverse flow protection seal was of rule path, myriad self was human path, strength path giant hand belonged to strength path, familiar face was transformation path, lead soul into dream, Pure Dream Reality Seeker Transformation, and switch soul in dream were dream path killer moves. These methods were terrifying, but they were all independent moves resembling large pearls, while a mature combat system was a pearl necklace formed from methods that complemented each other. This necklace formed from small pearls was more valuable than the large pearls.
Against most Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan could rely on the large pearls to change the situation and determine victory. But in front of Duke Long, the weaknesses of Fang Yuan's combat systems became conspicuous.
"Fang Yuan, what you lack is time and I believe you have already felt it, it is such a pity, a mature combat system needs at least a few hundred years of accumulation!" Duke Long looked at Fang Yuan, his gaze sharp as blade: "Even if you used the inheritances left by predecessors to hasten your growth, it is still not perfect enough."
He activated spiraling dragon fangs to attack Fang Yuan from a distance but they were blocked by reverse flow protection seal.
Duke Long was not discouraged, reverse flow protection seal was quite powerful but it lacked a mature style to support it and make up for its weakness. Reverse flow protection seal's greatest weakness was that it expended Reverse Flow River, despite Fang Yuan conserving it as much as possible after his rebirth, how could it endure such intense expenditure?
Reverse flow protection seal was an immortal killer move that used Reverse Flow River as the core, its defensive strength was terrifying and could reflect almost all external attacks. This move was created by Fang Yuan, from which one could see his astonishing talents. Unfortunately, Fang Yuan lacked a stable combat system for this trump card. For instance, supplementary defensive killer moves to defend and reduce external attacks, or a killer move to increase the power of reverse flow protection seal, or methods to restore Reverse Flow River itself.
Suppose reverse flow protection seal was a fish with exquisite flavor. Although it would be a delicacy even if it was eaten raw, if it was seasoned with salt, it could be turned into salted fish that could be stored for a long time. If it was accompanied with other ingredients like sugar, ginger, spring onion, or garlic, it could turn into all kinds of delicious meals, providing much more flavors.
Compared to Heavenly Court and Duke Long, Fang Yuan's accumulation was still insufficient.
He could not avoid falling into a predicament.
Duke Long attacked again and again while enduring reverse flow protection seal's backlash, forcefully expending Reverse Flow River. His healing methods were also extraordinary.
Feng Jiu Ge's destiny song was shrouding over Fang Yuan all the time. Destiny song interchanged between strong and weak, triggering counterattacks from reverse flow protection seal. The profundities of the song actually weakened Fang Yuan even with reverse flow protection seal activated, but the weakening was much smaller.
What was even worse was that destiny song weakened Fang Yuan while amplifying Duke Long's strength. Duke Long's battle strength soared, growing increasingly stronger, he had the complete upper hand and his attacks were like tidal waves, showing extreme power!
Fang Yuan canceled immemorial sword dragon transformation and returned to his human form. The sword dragon's body was enormous, using reverse flow protection seal on it expended Reverse Flow River much faster, it was much more steady with a human body.
Fang Yuan counterattacked continuously using Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies.
But soon, these Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies were also targeted, they detonated and turned into dream realms. The dream realms then transformed back into new Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies which fought for Heavenly Court.
It was Feng Jin Huang!
Fairy Zi Wei had not only recalled Feng Jiu Ge through Central Heaven Gate, she had also recalled Feng Jin Huang. With her here, Fang Yuan's dream path methods would be highly restrained.
Sure enough, Fang Yuan's dream path methods were all targeted and dealt with.
"Feng Jin Huang!" Fang Yuan frowned inwardly: 'In the previous life, she used the immortal Gu formation to activate immortal level dream path killer move and spoiled my plan. And now, she is using immortal formation or an Immortal Gu House to target me once again?'
Fang Yuan really wanted to find her precise location and deal with her, but he did not have the freedom to do so at this moment.
He was not even able to approach Heaven Overseeing Tower, becoming further and further away from it.
The reason was that his opponents were Duke Long and Feng Jiu Ge!
The current and previous Dao Guardians had joined hands!
As for Fang Zheng and Qin Ding Ling in Demon Judgment Board, they were no longer able to interfere and began to deal with the year beasts and swordsmen that were all over Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court's main force also started returning to Heavenly Court from Hairy Foot Mountain through Central Heaven Gate and joined in the clearing up work.
Year beasts and swordsmen were not their opponents and were defeated again and again.
Calamity Luck Altar was the focus of the joint attacks of Heavenly Court's main force, some even entered Heaven Overseeing Tower; Qi Ci Lang could not move properly, his situation turning perilous.
"Not good! Heavenly Court's main force has returned, doesn't this mean Infallible blessed land has lost its purpose? Heavenly Court possesses enough success dao marks and can restore Fate completely." Fang Yuan's face was grim, bad news was coming one after the other, and the situation was turning extremely disadvantageous and dangerous.
"Fairy Zi Wei, use benevolent equality quickly, his reverse flow protection seal will shatter soon!" Duke Long transmitted his voice.
"Yes!" At this moment, Fairy Zi Wei had already stabilized her injuries and could battle again. She activated an Immortal Gu House and flew to the sky, her sight contained Duke Long, Fang Yuan, as well as Feng Jiu Ge and the rest.
Immortal killer move — Benevolent Equality.
"Benevolent equality activated successfully, Fang Yuan won't be able to escape this time!" Fairy Zi Wei transmitted her voice.
"Good job, Zi Wei." Duke Long laughed heartily and his attacks became more violent.
Fang Yuan was forced to retreat again and again.
"It is useless now, Fang Yuan, no matter how you persist, you will still be defeated." Fairy Zi Wei smiled.
But at the next moment, she heard a female voice: "Is that so?"
"Who said that?" Fairy Zi Wei was shocked, this voice was familiar and yet strange, what made her shocked was she had never detected any Gu Immortal existences near her.
"What are you looking for? I am you." Fairy Zi Wei was horrified to discover that she was actually replying to herself.
What is going on?
My body is actually out of control!
Soul, there is an issue with my soul!
Suddenly, the eerie light in her pupils grew and spread rapidly. The white part of her eyes were completely covered and turned pitch-black.
Fairy Zi Wei struggled and resisted with all her strength, but it was all in vain. In her last moment of clarity, she suddenly realized: She was controlled by Spectral Soul, every time she soul searched Spectral Soul, her soul had actually been tampered with slowly. Spectral Soul's methods were too advanced, she had not been able to detect it at all. She had already been corroded and infiltrated by Spectral Soul's power, the various decisions she made before Central Continent's Refinement Path Convention also had Spectral Soul's influence in them.
It was just that Spectral Soul's interference was small at the start. But later on, this secret influence kept on growing. And now, he could even cause Fairy Zi Wei to be under an illusion.
Just earlier, Fairy Zi Wei had not used benevolent equality but she thought she had already successfully activated it and even informed Duke Long!
"Maybe in the previous life too, I was taken over like this by Spectral Soul. Although I have benevolent equality, I did not truly use it." This was the last clear thought of Fairy Zi Wei.
At the next moment, she slowly raised her head and looked at the battlefield quietly with a black light in her eyes. Her lips curled up to form an extremely sinister smile.
She maintained the opening of Central Heaven Gate while approaching Soul Suppression Hall quietly.
She had the clearest picture of the locations here.
She quickly cleared all kinds of shackles and restored Spectral Soul's freedom.
"Zi Wei pays respects to master!" She knelt down and prostrated before Spectral Soul with not even a trace of pride of a Heavenly Court member.
Spectral Soul was extremely weak, he turned into a translucent soul sphere which slowly floated towards Fairy Zi Wei: "Let's go watch the show first."
Fairy Zi Wei held the soul sphere in both hands and walked out of Soul Suppression Hall.
At this moment, Wu Yong, Wu Shuai, and others also appeared in Heavenly Court's battlefield.
"What's going on? Fairy Zi Wei!" Duke Long roared, Central Heaven Gate was still being activated and actually brought these enemies as well.
Duke Long was unable to contact Fairy Zi Wei, his heart sank and he wanted to directly destroy Central Heaven Gate. But at this moment, Fang Yuan charged towards Heaven Overseeing Tower again.
Duke Long was seething with anger, but he was forced to intercept Fang Yuan and give up on his previous plan.
Gu Immortals entered one by one through Central Heaven Gate.
"Follow Lord Wu Yong!"
"So Heavenly Court actually looks like this."
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"Heaven Overseeing Tower is there, follow me!"
The final decisive battle unfolded in Heavenly Court.
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Chapter 1947 Paradise Earth Takes Action
"Come, come, take a look, this is high grade silk!"
"Candied fruits, candied fruits, buy three sticks and get one free."
"Sir, what do you need?" Inside a store that sold Gu worms, a clerk welcomed Hong Yi passionately.
Hong Yi first fixed his gaze on this clerk before carefully scanning the layout and decoration of the store. He frowned on the inside: "Everything here is so lifelike, what is going on?"
"I heard you have scholar Gu for sale?" Hong Yi asked.
"Oh, yes. But lord, this scholar Gu is a rank five Gu worm." The clerk was somewhat hesitant.
Hong Yi smiled lightly and released his rank five Gu Master aura, immediately causing a huge disturbance in the store.
The clerk's face was filled with shock, the store manager was also drawn in by the aura. He cupped his hands and greeted Hong Yi respectfully, personally taking out a scholar Gu for him to observe.
"It is indeed scholar Gu." Hong Yi examined it carefully for a while, the doubts in his heart growing deeper, "May I test it?"
"Go ahead, sir." The store manager immediately gave scholar Gu to Hong Yi.
Hong Yi poured his primeval essence into scholar Gu. This scholar Gu immediately flew out from Hong Yi's finger and landed on the ground, turning into a young handsome scholar.
The young scholar bowed respectfully towards Hong Yi with cupped fists: "Student greets teacher."
Hong Yi nodded in excitement. Scholar Gu was extremely rare, it was a human path Gu worm, and Hong Yi had only heard of it in rumors.
Hong Yi took out a wisdom path mortal Gu and an information path mortal Gu from his aperture, throwing them to the scholar: "Use them."
The scholar received these two Gu worms and used them without any need for gaining familiarity, and he used them rather proficiently at that. In particular, some small habits during the activation were the same as Hong Yi's.
"What do you think, sir?" The store manager asked with a smile.
Hong Yi nodded repeatedly: "Great, I want this Gu."
The store manager was exulted: "Great, it will be six hundred thousand primeval stones."
Hong Yi's brows furrowed.
This price was not expensive, in fact, it was too cheap. The price for a rank five mortal Gu ranged from one hundred thousand to one million primeval stones, but this scholar Gu was a rare top quality rank five Gu, its price was definitely above one million. Moreover, there was no market for it, so it was difficult to get even with sufficient funds.
But it was being sold for only six hundred thousand primeval stones here!
Hong Yi had many fortuitous encounters and was wealthy, he immediately paid the sum and received this scholar Gu.
Coming outside the store, Hong Yi's heart was fluctuating with waves: "This place is like Emperor City, but weren't there immortal battles going on around Emperor City? But this place is peaceful. What is going on?"
"Also, there doesn't seem to be any difference between here and reality, but looking carefully, there are a large number of human path Gu worms here. Scholar Gu is only one of them. Moreover, there are so many human path Gu worms here that it can even be called overflowing, but it is commonplace to these people. And the common fire path, water path, and other paths' Gu worms are instead rare here. It seems like human path is the main cultivation path here."
"Really strange! I wonder what Brother Ye found on his end? I better go join him quickly."
After Ye Fan and Hong Yi were sent to the painting by Genesis Lotus's will, they split up to explore the area after discussing with each other.
Hong Yi's discovery was also discovered by Ye Fan.
But at this moment, in the corner of a street, Ye Fan saw an unexpected person.
"Master!" Ye Fan was astonished.
He had also bought a rank five human path Gu worm from a store, it was called hero Gu. He had just come to a corner to activate it, and the situation became different from when he activated it in the store.
Hero Gu actually transformed into his master's appearance!
"No need to be shocked, my disciple. This is our chance encounter." Lu Wei Yin smiled.
Ye Fan immediately understood the meaning behind the words and was joyous: "Master, you know the oddity of this place? What place is this? Why did we suddenly end up in this place?"
Lu Wei Yin smiled lightly: "I need to explain from the beginning. Three hundred thousand years ago, in the Medieval Antiquity Era, Central Continent gave birth to an Immortal Venerable named Genesis Lotus. He created the killer move karma divine tree, and when he roamed Western Desert, he refused a child's request to resurrect his parents, as a result, he saw a certain scene in the future where Emperor City was destroyed by an earth trench and all lives were extinguished."
"Therefore, he placed Divine Bean Palace in Western Desert. When he returned to Central Continent later, he used the painting path killer move contented lifestyle on Emperor City, forming a painting world. You two have your luck connected to Fang Yuan tightly, Genesis Lotus's will was wary and thus it locked you in here."
Ye Fan was dumbstruck, the wealth of information made him unable to react for a while.
He was extremely shaken: "This matter is actually related to Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable? Also master, when did I connect luck with Fang Yuan?"
"That was done by Fang Yuan secretly, he wanted to accomplish something with the help of your luck. The upper extreme heavenly eagle was also his immemorial desolate beast." Lu Wei Yin replied calmly.
"Fang Yuan took the initiative to connect luck with me to get help from my luck?" Ye Fan was even more shocked.
Ye Fan had acknowledged Lu Wei Yin as his master and was thus half a step into the Gu Immortal world, and knew much more secrets than Hong Yi. He was extremely clear on what kind of big shot Fang Yuan was! Fang Yuan was an unparalleled demon, a powerful character that even Heavenly Court was without options against. He was actually connected to him, this was simply like a fairytale!
Lu Wei Yin shook his head: "Disciple, don't look down on yourself. You are a person favored by the Heavenly Dao, you possess an innately strong luck. Although you are insignificant at the start, you will definitely make huge accomplishments in the future. In the entire five regions, there are not even ten people with luck like yours. It is not strange for Fang Yuan to want to get help from your luck."
"However, the Heavenly Dao balances everything, he once used your luck and obtained great benefits, now, you are also using him to obtain an enormous immortal fortune. The upper extreme heavenly eagle was only one of them, in front of you now is Genesis Lotus' true inheritance!"
"Genesis Lotus' true inheritance?!" Ye Fan exclaimed in shock once again, he suddenly understood and his gaze towards Lu Wei Yin changed: "Master, you know all this like the back of your hand. Does this mean this was all your plan?"
"Haha, my disciple, you overestimate me. This was all Lord Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's arrangement, I am only his inheritor."
When Ye Fan heard the great name of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, he realized he had also become a follower of Paradise Earth, but he did not feel exulted as he was already numb from the shock.
Lu Wei Yin waved at Ye Fan: "We don't have much time, we will talk as we move."
Ye Fan quickly followed, the two followed the crowd in the street and walked towards the front.
Lu Wei Yin explained in detail: "This Genesis Lotus true inheritance has extremely high value, it is divided into three parts. The first part is this contented lifestyle killer move, the second part is the luck of being the child of humanity, and the third part is the rank eight Immortal Gu House formed from Divine Bean Palace and Emperor City — Divine Emperor Palace!"
Lu Wei Yin continued after a slight pause: "We will first take the second part and make you the child of humanity."
Ye Fan questioned: "Master, what is the child of humanity? What should I do?"
Lu Wei Yin replied: "Central Continent is different from the other four regions, it uses the sect system and human path is most prosperous here with the deepest foundation. Emperor City is the greatest congregation of Central Continent's human vein. Why do countless geniuses emerge here? It is because of the human vein. As long as you absorb the strength within the human vein, your luck will get a huge boost and you will gain the favor of human path, becoming the child of humanity. And to achieve this, we need Hong Yi's help."
"Hong Yi? He is my sworn brother, how is this connected to him?" Ye Fan continued to be shocked.
Lu Wei Yin replied: "Fang Yuan connected luck with him as well, but his luck is different from yours, you are the favored child of the Heavenly Dao while he is one of the children of humanity of Central Continent, he is favored by human path. With his help, you can smoothly make use of Shen Shang's actions and quietly obtain the recognition of the human vein. With the status of a child of humanity, we can then borrow Fang Yuan's strength to attempt to get the first part of the true inheritance, or even the third part as well."
Divine Bean Palace, painting world.
"Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan…" A voice was heard intermittently in Fang Di Chang's ears.
Fang Di Chang had already stopped using karma divine tree and was using wisdom path killer moves to think of how to get rid of this predicament when he heard this voice.
"It is Shen Shang's voice! He learned of my identity from the main body?" Fang Di Chang hesitated, he had some guesses in his mind but he did not respond immediately.
Sure enough, Shen Shang's voice continued to transmit: "Fang Di Chang, I already learned of your true identity from your main body. Who could have thought Fang Yuan had such an arrangement, he actually placed his clone inside a Western Desert super force. I am going to help you escape."
"Hmm? How are you going to help me?" Fang Di Chang was puzzled.
Shen Shang laughed: "You should know that I have been trying to decipher the venerable human path methods and I have already found the key to them."
"I know." Fang Di Chang nodded.
Shen Shang continued: "Divine Bean Palace and Emperor City have merged into one, I have all along been hiding myself and haven't let Genesis Lotus' will discover me, so I am still deciphering human path killer moves."
Fang Di Chang asked: "And what about them?"
Shen Shang explained patiently: "This is a perfect opportunity! I have been constantly transferring the four regions' human will inside here. Originally, I had been unable to involve myself with Emperor City and disrupt the venerable methods from inside so I had to infiltrate it quietly. But now, Divine Bean Palace and Emperor City have merged. You previously refined Divine Bean Palace, it is just that your authority is lower than Genesis Lotus' will. Use your karma divine tree killer move to shake the whole Immortal Gu House and coordinate with me to spread out the venerable methods so that everyone's power is amplified."
"You want me to cooperate with you to break the venerable human path methods?" Fang Di Chang got to the point.
Shen Shang laughed: "We are helping each other!"
"Alright, I'll work with you." Fang Di Chang did not hesitate, agreeing directly.
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Chapter 1948 Restoration Halted
Heavenly Court's battlefield.
Immortal killer move — Finger Wind Dragon!
Wu Yong activated his killer move but was met with the joint attack of three Heavenly Court members.
"Die, Wu Yong!" Prince Feng Xian used inexhaustible flames that charged ahead while he stood behind, covered in flames. His offensive attack also had defensive properties, it was a stable choice of attack.
Zhou Xiong Xin attacked from behind, the killer move rumors become tigers roared, like a group of tigers that pounced towards Wu Yong.
And Ye Qiao Zi activated long range killer moves, vines grew out of thin air and spread towards Wu Yong, trying to bind him.
Wu Yong sighed internally, he had to retreat repeatedly. He moved back into Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building.
With the help of the Immortal Gu House, he resisted the fierce attacks of the three immortals.
But as such, his plan to approach Heaven Overseeing Tower was stopped.
"The amplification of the human path killer moves to Heavenly Court is too big….wait a moment, this is?!" Just as Wu Yong was getting a headache, specks of white lights appeared on Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building and even entered his body.
Human path killer move — Hope of the People!
Human path killer move — Heroes Among People!
"Ahhhh." Inside the Immortal Gu House, other Southern Border Gu Immortals beside Wu Yong were roaring with vitality.
"This strength, this strength…." Old Treeman Ba De, who was fighting outside, looked at his own hands with shock.
Transformation path great expert Yi Hao Fang was similarly puzzled: "Why are Heavenly Court's human path killer moves helping us?"
This heavy doubt was pressing down on the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals' minds like a mountain.
"Shen Shang, you really didn't let down my expectations, great job." Fang Yuan laughed heartily, he had also received the amplification and his condition was improving rapidly.
Duke Long's face was ashen!
He was a dragonman, a variant human, he could not receive the amplification of heroes among people unlike Fang Yuan. When Fang Yuan returned to his human form, even if it was created with sovereign immortal fetus Gu, it was still a pure human!
Boom!
Duke Long was sent flying by Fang Yuan.
"What in the world is going on?" Qin Ding Ling transmitted her voice to Old Man Zheng Yuan, asking him anxiously.
Old Man Zheng Yuan was not dead yet and had already moved out of Central Great Hall. He was all along responsible for activating the human path methods left behind by Central Continent's venerables.
The old man transmitted his panicked reply to Duke Long, Qin Ding Ling and the rest: "There is a problem in Emperor City. Someone is causing trouble, he poured in the human will of other four regions into Central Continent. Hope of the people and heroes among people distinguish allies based on human will. There was only Central Continent's human will previously, but now the human wills of all five regions are gathered, so everyone will receive amplification."
Duke Long warded off Fang Yuan's attacks while asking: "How can we resolve this issue?"
Old Man Zheng Yuan replied with a heavy voice: "I am giving it my all but I don't have any confidence in succeeding!"
Duke Long's heart sank further: "Who could have tampered with our venerable human path methods to this degree?"
He had never imagined the venerable human path killer moves to have such changes. The enemy did not break these two killer moves directly but instead expanded the effectiveness of the killer moves to everyone, this was no different from breaking them.
"Is it Shen Shang?" The soul sphere in Fairy Zi Wei's hands shook lightly as if it was laughing to itself.
Back then, the information Fairy Zi Wei had given to Duke Long contained details of Shen Shang's location. This action was made under Spectral Soul's influence.
Duke Long, however, had full trust in Fairy Zi Wei. Moreover, at that time, Fang Zheng had been detained by Shen Cong Sheng and had to be exchanged for urgently, thus there was the series of later events. In the end, Shen Shang left Dragon Whale Paradise, infiltrated Emperor City and achieved this accomplishment.
"Perhaps I should say, this is worthy of Paradise Earth." The soul sphere shook once again.
Fairy Zi Wei was holding the soul sphere and continuously using wisdom path methods to imitate soul path and heal the soul sphere.
The soul sphere was becoming increasingly solid under her healing.
On the other side, Central Heaven Gate was still open, bringing in Gu Immortals from the outside world into Heavenly Court.
"Hahaha, bring all those people in, let them kill, let them die! The more they kill the better it is, the more deaths there are the better this is, hahaha." The soul sphere laughed madly.
The first batch who came were the Southern Border immortals in Hairy Foot Mountain, as well as Wu Shuai, Zhan Bu Du, and others.
Right now, the second batch of Gu Immortals was teleported over. They were Northern Plains' reinforcements who allied with Southern Border's group in the previous life.
The leader was an old man with a walking stick, Yao Huang.
As well as Heavenly Lord Bai Zu who was walking forward proudly.
Behind the two great rank eight Gu Immortals were Domination Immortal Chu Du who was famous throughout the five regions, Black Extremity Sun Ming Lu who schemed against Old Ancestor Xue Hu, as well as other Gu Immortal experts.
"Rank seven Gu Immortals will enter Immortal Gu Houses." Yao Huang swept his gaze around the battlefield and gave the command.
Even Chu Du had to listen obediently.
He was shaken by the fierce battle in front, this battle was not something rank sevens could interfere in.
Northern Plains had few Immortal Gu Houses, but they brought over three this time!
"Follow me, we will reinforce Calamity Luck Altar." Heavenly Lord Bai Zu took the lead to charge forward.
Yao Huang and the three Immortal Gu Houses followed closely behind.
Bing Sai Chuan cheered loudly inside Calamity Luck Altar, his attacks towards the refinement path formation were obstructed by the golden pearls left by Golden Pearl Immortal King. And now, he was being besieged from all directions by Heavenly Court's main force.
Bing Sai Chuan was attacking the refinement path formation while repairing Calamity Luck Altar, he needed help and this batch of reinforcements came at a perfect timing.
"Kill!" Heavenly Lord Bai Zu shouted. His figure shook and split into countless clones that fought against the soldiers formed from the golden pearls.
Yao Huang did not want to appear weak, he waved his cane, a strong medicinal fragrance pervaded the battlefield immediately.
The three Immortal Gu Houses also arrived and defended Calamity Luck Altar.
Heavenly Court's main force was immediately divided.
"Don't even dream of leaving." Wu Yong used killer moves one after another, wishful wind whip, soft vajra wind chief, yin wind rope and many others were used alternatively to tie down the enemies.
Ba De, Yi Hao Fang and others also mimicked this.
"Damn it!" Most of Heavenly Court's main force could only curse inwardly as they were pinned down.
If it were before, the Southern Border immortals would never have been able to pose such troubles, but with heroes among people's support now, Wu Yong and others were amplified. Overall, they were still weaker than Heavenly Court's members, after all, the latter were elites in rank eight, but it was still enough for them to become a threat.
"Charge!" Dragon Palace crashed through the battlefield, Wu Shuai and Zhan Bu Du were controlling it from inside.
Feng Jiu Ge had to avoid the collision, destiny song slowed down.
Fang Yuan immediately felt the suppression on him receding sharply, and adding on the amplification from heroes among people, he sent Duke Long flying once again.
Dragon tattoos wriggled around Duke Long, dragon fangs flew around and obstructed the incoming attacks.
Suddenly, a huge figure appeared.
"This is?!" Duke Long's pupils shrank rapidly as he saw the giant figure.
Evil Dragon — Di Zang Sheng had taken the stage!
"Duke Long!!!" Di Zang Sheng spoke human voice, its roar gave rise to endless shock waves. It slammed down its claws on Duke Long like he was a ball.
Di Zang Sheng's claws were cut by the dragon fangs and dripped with blood, while Duke Long collided into the ground, creating a hundred feet deep crater.
Di Zang Sheng's enormous body pressed down.
Rumble!
The entirety of Heavenly Court shook violently, smoke and dust flew, covering the whole battlefield.
Di Zang Sheng flew up slowly, the ground that its stomach pressed on had already formed a shallow trench that spanned from the east to west of Heavenly Court. All the buildings, mountains and rivers in its path were turned into waste.
"He is above!" Zhan Bu Du suddenly pointed.
Duke Long was floating in the air, looking down at Di Zang Sheng. The dragon gate behind him disappeared slowly.
At the crucial moment, he had escaped the dangerous situation by using dragon gate.
"This Evil Dragon!" Duke Long clenched his teeth, his sunken chest bulged up rapidly and soon recovered to its previous state. Clearly, Di Zang Sheng's attack had not been without effect.
On the other side, Myriad Year Flying Warship flew back and took in Fang Yuan again.
Fang Yuan looked at Duke Long and sneered, he directly ignored him and charged towards Heaven Overseeing Tower.
Duke Long's eyelids twitched at this sight.
The force at Heaven Overseeing Tower's side was barely resisting Calamity Luck Altar and was on the verge of collapse. If Fang Yuan and Myriad Year Flying Warship joined, the situation would directly collapse.
"Fang Yuan, don't even think about it! Everyone gather and protect Heaven Overseeing Tower!" Duke Long sent his command, he himself was the first to move as he used dragon gate and blocked the path of Myriad Year Flying Warship.
"Get lost!" Dragon Palace came to reinforce, its owner Wu Shuai was resolute and direct, he released the suppressed Jun Shen Guang and Vortex Space Boy, and thus could activate the killer move dreamy light smoke again.
Dreamy light smoke engulfed Duke Long.
Duke Long's heart pounded crazily, he had no choice but to dodge, leaving behind a path through which Fang Yuan moved forward.
"Damn it, this is a dream path killer move, my methods are useless." In a corner far away, Feng Jin Huang was hiding in an inconspicuous Immortal Gu House, stomping her feet in anxiety.
Right at this time, destiny song reverberated through the battlefield once again.
Heavenly Court's condition rose rapidly and Duke Long also received great benefits, while Fang Yuan and the group's offenses immediately weakened.
"Unbelievable, we entered Heavenly Court!" Eight Eastern Sea immortals joined the battlefield through Central Heaven Gate.
"Heavenly Court's side is being besieged!" The eight immortals' eyes brightened, especially when they saw Fang Yuan, Di Zang Sheng, Myriad Year Flying Warship, and Dragon Palace forcing back Duke Long and Feng Jiu Ge.
"Good, we will join and deal the final blow to them!!" The eight immortals' morale soared as they joined the chaotic battle.
"How did they come here?" Fang Yuan was slightly surprised.
Zhang Yin, Granny Rong and the other dragon generals joining the battle was a given, but Qing Yue An and the rest were very conservative, why would they take risk in joining the battle?
"Hehehe, this is the side effect of heroes among people. When they received the amplification, they also received the influence of the four regions' human will and hate Heavenly Court even more now." Shen Shang's voice transmitted over: "A pity that Western Desert's side is still in a stalemate against Central Continent's Immortal Gu Houses and cannot participate in this battle."
"Shen Shang, well done." Fang Yuan did not hesitate to praise.
Shen Shang laughed heartily: "Naturally. But then again, you being able to control Central Heaven Gate was truly beyond my expectation. This move was truly spectacular. Ah, I can also feel Central Heaven Gate's transportation power, we will join in a while and flip Heavenly Court upside-down, hahaha!"
Fang Yuan only smiled: "Then come fast!"
Central Heaven Gate's change was beyond Fang Yuan's expectations, but why would he cut himself short at this time? Even if someone was scheming from the dark, Fang Yuan would only follow the tides and prioritize in defeating Heavenly Court as well as destroying fate Gu.
"Damn it, why at this time…" Just as Shen Shang was about to accept the transportation, black fire appeared on his body. His internal threat had erupted again.
"I used all my strength to decipher the venerable killer moves and my injuries were left unattended…" This was Shen Shang's last clear thought before he sank into madness and chaos.
The moment Shen Shang turned mad, Old Man Zheng Yuan sensed it.
The old man's spirit was roused: "The enemy's strength has disappeared! Regardless of the reason, I can use this chance to take control again and there is even a chance to turn around the situation. Hmm? Who is it?!"
Old Man Zheng Yuan suddenly shouted, Fairy Zi Wei appeared in front of him with empty hands and a smile on her face.
"Zi Wei? No, you are not normal!" The old man's eyes shone sharply as he quickly retreated.
But at the next moment, a solid pitch-black soul sphere appeared behind him and entered his body.
"No!" Old Man Zheng Yuan seemed to have suffered a heavy attack as he collapsed on the ground, his eyes rolled and saliva foamed from his mouth while his body quivered continuously.
The twitching lasted for a while before Old Man Zheng Yuan became still all of a sudden, his eyes were the same as Fairy Zi Wei, turning completely black.
He stood up silently and wiped off the saliva, he lowered his hands and greeted the floating soul sphere respectfully: "This old servant pays respects to master!"
Spectral Soul let out a light grunt of agreement, he did not have any Immortal Gu currently but he was not without methods. The soul beast modification killer move he developed in the past had already become a type of innate ability of his soul. This innate ability could let him modify any soul and make the target offer their complete loyalty.
"Now, we should subdue Feng Jin Huang, I know her location as well and can also cut off that Immortal Gu House's teleportation ability." Fairy Zi Wei said of her own initiative.
"No hurry." Spectral Soul, however, rejected her suggestion: "Feng Jin Huang is not only favored by the Heavenly Dao, she also receives the adoration of humanity itself, her luck is strong enough to be second only to Red Lotus Demon Venerable. Don't think she is alone right now, the moment we make an attempt on her, we will be met with obstructions. Forget others, just Feng Jiu Ge alone is a huge problem. This person is strong enough to match Duke Long right now! We will observe the changes in the battlefield, let these people kill each other as their luck dissipates, then we will see if there is a chance to make a move on Feng Jin Huang."
Spectral Soul and the two servants walked out of the Immortal Gu House and observed the battlefield from far away.
Right now, Heavenly Court's side was gathered around Heaven Overseeing Tower and defended with all their strength. Their situation had become extremely perilous.
The other immortals' attacks were unusually fierce, they were under the amplification from heroes among people, but also the weakening from destiny song. With Fang Yuan and Di Zang Sheng at the lead, every minute action made Heavenly Court's side nervous.
Duke Long and Feng Jiu Ge were like main pillars, one person blocked Fang Yuan while the other suppressed Di Zang Sheng, but both were disadvantaged since they had to defend Heaven Overseeing Tower as well.
Demon Judgment Board was struggling to defend against Myriad Year Flying Warship and Dragon Palace's joint attacks.
Golden pearl soldiers were completely destroyed, Heavenly Court's main force was on a constant retreat and the defensive line continued to pull back.
"Heavenly Court's defeat is imminent." Fairy Zi Wei commented, the eerie light in her eyes flickered.
Only Yuan Qiong Du was standing on the top floor of Heaven Overseeing Tower. Cong Yan and Che Wei were lying on the floor, on the verge of death, there was no one to heal them and Heavenly Court also did not have the ability to spare manpower.
Originally, Qi Ci Lang was resisting the jade green light, but when Heavenly Court's main force arrived, they easily handled him. Qi Ci Lang was still bound and could not resist at all, he was directly beheaded and died with grievance.
The refinement path Gu formation was already destroyed, Yuan Qiong Du could only continue restoring fate Gu by himself.
"Almost there, almost there!" Yuan Qiong Du mumbled, a fire was burning in his palm.
Boom!
Heaven Overseeing Tower suffered a heavy attack and shook violently. Yuan Qiong Du's refinement was disturbed, he coughed out a large mouthful of blood and fell to the ground, unconscious.
Fate Gu's restoration was forcefully halted!
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Chapter 1949 Beheaded By One Slice!
Immortal killer move — Five Rotational Destruction!
Five Elements Grandmaster shouted in fury, he faced the sky with his palms and pushed, a five colored ring appeared.
The ring flew to the sky and let out a powerful attraction force, absorbing all kinds of killer moves and even desolate beasts.
Heavenly Court's defensive line fell into chaos.
"Charge!" Southern Border's Gu Immortals grasped this chance and activated rank eight Immortal Gu House Great Space Temple to charge in through the gap.
Heavenly Court's Yu Zhu Zi gritted his teeth as he pointed at Great Space Temple and shouted: "Go!"
Most of the jade pearls floating around him flew out and struck Great Space Temple before detonating.
Bam bam bam…
The detonation of jade pearls resounded like thunder, jade fragments scattered everywhere and attached themselves onto Great Space Temple, actually slowing this rank eight Immortal Gu House by several times.
With this chance, Heavenly Court's members quickly reinforced and used all their strength to force Great Space Temple out.
But, although Great Space Temple was forced out, Wu Yong made his move on the other side.
Immortal killer move — Finger Wind Dragon!
Immortal killer move — Chaotic Shooting Blades!
Wu Yong flicked his fingers repeatedly, throwing out several dark jade worms.
The small worms grew larger as they flew in the sky, expanding to ten feet, fifty feet, a hundred and fifty feet!
In just a few breaths of time, they turned into vicious wind dragons that was two hundred and twenty feet long, baring their fangs as they attacked Heavenly Court's defensive line.
Wu Yong's eyes flashed with a green light, the wind dragons roared and turned into countless jade wind blades, shooting everywhere.
The wind blades were sharp, cutting everything in their path, Heavenly Court's main force could only grit their teeth and face the killer moves forcibly.
Using this chance when they were too occupied, Wu Yong turned around and infiltrated the defense line.
"Don't even think about it!" A delicate voice sounded, flower petals flew in the sky; Wan Zi Hong blocked Wu Yong.
She had been paying heavy attention towards Wu Yong without daring to be careless. The moment Wu Yong made the move, she went to fill the gap.
Wu Yong sighed and could only drop the plan.
The Southern Border Gu Immortals inside Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building were shouting towards the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal Hua Cai Yun: "Go in quickly!"
Previously, Wan Zi Hong had been fighting with Hua Cai Yun and Qing Yue An. Right now, Wan Zi Hong went to fill the defensive gap which left behind a hole, letting Hua Cai Yun and Qing Yue An infiltrate the defensive line.
Hua Cai Yun and Qing Yue An glanced at each other and sensed the other had no intention to charge in, so they both chose to battle in the same place without having any intention to invade.
The human wills influenced the Eastern Sea immortals' resoluteness, but the influence was limited. Right now, Hua Cai Yun and Qing Yue An were already feeling regret, how could they have joined the decisive battle in Heavenly Court because of a moment of hotheadedness?
Wasn't it quite good and satisfying to plunder immortal materials in Central Continent?
Why did they have to fight to the death here!
They were not fools, the first ones to invade the defensive line would definitely be met with fierce counterattacks from Heavenly Court's forces, they might even die if they were just a little bit careless.
Because she had seen through this, Wan Zi Hong boldly went to fill the defensive gap and block Wu Yong.
"The nature of Eastern Sea Gu Immortals is like this." Wan Zi Hong's eyes shone sharply, she had a deep understanding regarding Eastern Sea.
But at the next moment, Shi Miao suddenly charged into Heavenly Court's defensive line.
He was also an Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, Heavenly Court's main force were barely able to maintain the defensive line and when they were forced, they would let the defensive gap appear in front of the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals. But Heavenly Court's main force would have never imagined that Shi Miao was already controlled by Dragon Palace and had become a dragon general, unafraid of death in battles.
Heavenly Court's main force was dazed and allowed Shi Miao to smoothly charge into the defensive line and near Heaven Overseeing Tower. Just as he was about to charge inside, a figure suddenly appeared in front of Shi Miao.
"In your dream!" Duke Long's voice resounded in Shi Miao's ears.
Shi Miao had already put up his defenses, his skin was like a layer of rocks, extremely firm. But his tough skin was immediately pierced by Duke Long's right hand and his neck was grabbed firmly.
Shi Miao immediately felt suffocation, an intense force spread from Duke Long's right hand and cracked the rock skin on his neck.
"What kind of strength is this!" Shi Miao was horrified, he struggled with all his might but it was fruitless.
Just as his neck was about to snap, a sword light arrived.
Duke Long dodged immediately, but this was predicted, the sword light struck his waist, then passed through behind like a ray of light.
Duke Long's body was almost cut apart by this sword light, an enormous wound appeared on his stomach from where blood flowed out without stopping.
The sword light continued with its momentum and struck Heaven Overseeing Tower. Fortunately, defensive measures were already activated around Heaven Overseeing Tower, it was not unprepared like when Bo Qing's sword light cut it, a white barrier flickered around the tower before finally stopping the sword light.
"Fang Yuan!" Duke Long turned his head towards where the attack came from, at that direction was Fang Yuan who had once again transformed into an immemorial sword dragon.
The sword dragon's claws were clenched into a fist, the attack just now was five finger fist heart sword!
This killer move had terrifying might, Duke Long absolutely could not sit idly and watch Fang Yuan use it casually. He immediately gave up on Shi Miao and used dragon gate to approach Fang Yuan.
But at this time, Shi Miao suddenly revealed a strange smile, his whole body melted and rapidly covered Duke Long's body.
This change caught Duke Long off guard, and Fang Yuan was able to activate five finger fist heart sword again!
Second sword, third sword, fourth sword!
Every sword light struck Duke Long and passed through his body, the remaining force struck Heaven Overseeing Tower till it shook.
"Lord Duke Long!!!" This unexpected situation caused Heavenly Court's immortals to pale in fright.
Even Duke Long had never expected Shi Miao to willingly give up his life to pin him down! Fang Yuan's five finger fist heart sword struck him but Shi Miao was also struck.
There were three terrifyingly large sword wounds on Duke Long's body, he was dripping with blood but he still had a breath of life left in him.
Shi Miao, however, could not be anymore dead. His form was a severed corpse, he died with a smile on his face.
"Duke Long, your life shall end here." Fang Yuan said softly before pointing the fifth sword of five finger fist heart sword!
The sword light seemed to pierce through time and space, no one could block its speed.
Heavenly Court's immortals watched the sword light strike Duke Long with a horrified gaze.
At the moment of death, Duke Long's eyes lost their light as he fell into a whirlpool of memories.
Childhood…
Duke Long was lying on the bed and crying: "Father, mother, don't die, don't leave me behind!"
"Child." Duke Long's father rubbed his head and showed a carefree smile even when death was impending: "Don't cry and don't grieve. We suffered these fatal wounds to stop Di Zang Sheng's rampage, this is our responsibility as members of Heavenly Court, and it is also something we are willing to do."
"Death is the final destination of life,the crucial thing is whether we died a worthy death."
"You will understand this when you grow up, my child." Duke Long's mother spoke: "You will understand what our sacrifices signify. Although this leads to separation, it is also our honor and duty to protect humanity. The stronger one is, the greater their responsibilities. Protecting our people is the noble task that has been inherited by us and countless seniors. When you grow up, you will also continue to walk our path. We will be looking forward to your growth in the other world. You need to work hard and persevere."
Adolescence…
Young Duke Long was breathing heavily, he was knocked down by a puppet and was lying down on the ground.
A Gu Master laughed loudly from the side and clapped: "Little Long, your performance is already great. Get up, rest for a while."
"No, I can still continue to fight!" Young Duke Long used all his strength and stood up unsteadily: "I will double my efforts, work hard in cultivation and keep on growing stronger. This puppet in front of me is nothing. There will be a day when I will become an expert like my parents, I will become a Gu Immortal of Heavenly Court and follow their path!"
"Hahaha, such aspirations, I am really looking forward to your future." The Gu Master praised sincerely.
Adulthood…
"This is how it feels to be a Gu Immortal?" Duke Long passed the ascension tribulation and became a rank six Gu Immortal.
"Amazing, kid. You have become an immortal at such a young age. Thinking back to when I was your age, I was still competing with my rival in love, hahaha." A Heavenly Court Gu Immortal laughed.
"Thank you for guarding me during this period." The adult Duke Long bowed towards the Gu Immortal and said with great sincerity.
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortal waved his hand: "You should have realized it by now, your identity is special. You are the Dao Guardian of the future Immortal Venerable, so your cultivation path will always be smooth, even if there are setbacks, it will only signify that you are going to reap even greater harvests later."
"Heavenly Court needs you, the future Immortal Venerable needs you, humanity needs you. Kid, becoming an immortal is not your end point, it is just your starting point. You can't get complacent, you can't stop moving forward. We all need you."
"Yes, I will persevere till I die. I will contribute every bit of my strength and every drop of my blood and sweat for Heavenly Court, for humanity, and for the future!" Duke Long swore.
Middle age…
"Rank eight cultivation, unimaginable… you actually accomplished this at your age!" Duke Tong said with a moved voice.
"Perhaps we should say, worthy of a Dao Guardian? Hahaha, with you, Heavenly Court can be even more prosperous." Duke Mei laughed brightly.
"I am flattered, seniors." The middle-aged Duke Long spoke modestly.
Duke Mei and Duke Tong glanced at each other, the former said: "So, have you considered our suggestion? Become one of us, lead Heavenly Court and guide the future Immortal Venerable seed."
Duke Long nodded with no hesitation: "Yes, I have already prepared myself!"
"Hahaha, then from today onwards, you are Duke Long."
"One of the three dukes of Heavenly Court, and also the most important one. Heavenly Court's heavy responsibility will mainly rest on your shoulders."
Duke Long nodded his head slowly and said with a solemn expression: "This is the path I have been pursuing. This is the expectation that my parents and the countless seniors I have met in life hold, it is the result that Heavenly Court and humanity needs! This responsibility… I, Duke Long, will undertake it with no hesitation!"
Old age…
"Come back, Hong Ting, you can still turn around!" Duke Long called.
"Master, I failed to live up to your teachings and expectations, I am sorry, but I must revive them!" Red Lotus did not turn around, disappearing into the night.
Duke Long closed his eyes in pain, his body on the verge of collapsing. The disciple he had taught with all his heart for so many years chose to walk on such a path.
"I guided an Immortal Venerable to become a Demon Venerable, I have sinned!" Duke Long knelt before Duke Tong and Duke Mei.
"Get up, get up quickly." Duke Tong and Duke Mei held Duke Long's arms and consoled him.
"You need to have faith, Duke Long, we still have hope."
"It is not your fault, Duke Long, we have all seen the efforts you have put in. It is Hong Ting who has disappointed us, not you."
"No." Duke Long shook off the two's hands and said with an extremely solemn expression: "He is my disciple, if he is walking on the wrong path now, it is my mistake! It is my sin! I must pay for this, I will stake all my strength to make up for this mistake!! For Heavenly Court and for humanity, even if I have to give up everything, I will pull Red Lotus back to the righteous path!!!"
And finally, in his twilight years…
Duke Long was sitting cross-legged in the hall, his head lowered and his hair was disheveled.
Two trails of tears quietly trickled down his face.
In front of him on the cold floor were the corpses of people he was familiar with, these were dragonman corpses.
The pain in his heart submerged everything and roared like a tsunami, threatening to drown Duke Long.
He was originally blessed with the joys of familial bonds, but who could have thought he would have to suffer such an impact in his twilight years. What was even more sad was that the killer of his children and grandchildren was he himself!
This was the tragedy that he singlehandedly created.
"It is my fault, back then I should not have…" Duke Long's voice was choked with emotions. He slowly raised his head, his gaze seemed to be under extreme weight as he slowly looked at each corpse. Joyful conversations and laughter along with blissful scenes of him with his grandchildren surfaced in his mind.
"It is not your fault, my children! Everything is my fault!" Duke Long's back bent down, he used his powerless fist to pound his chest, light thumping sounds echoed in the hall.
"I was negligent in my care towards you, I did not guide you well, you ended up walking on the wrong path. I was wrong, I am not a good master, I am also not a good ancestor. But for the prosperity of humanity, for Heavenly Court, I had to sacrifice you."
"Believe me, I never wanted this outcome. But I have no choice, I might be a dragonman but my heart has always stood with humanity. I cannot let you disrupt the rule of humanity, that is the result gained after countless generations sacrificed themselves. And most importantly, your roots also lie in humanity!"
"If you want to blame someone, then blame me, I cannot beg for your forgiveness neither do I dare to do that. Let me bear all the sins, let me pay for them!"
"My children… I cannot bring myself to separate with you. You will merge with me, we will never be apart! As your ancestor, I have failed you and did not give you a beautiful life and stable environment to live in. But this is all I can do."
"I, Duke Long, am just a dying old man."
Present…
The fifth sword flew towards Duke Long so fast that it was already in front of Duke Long!
Whoosh.
There was a soft sound, time seemed to have been slowed down by countless times.
Duke Long's head lightly separated from his neck.
Blood flowed out slowly and spurted out just as slowly.
He was beheaded by Fang Yuan with one slice!
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Chapter 1950 The True Triple Qi Retraction
"Lord Duke Long!!!" The Heavenly Court immortals' horrified cries resounded, but to Duke Long, these voices became increasingly weaker, at the start, they were like roaring waves, but almost at the next moment, they became light echoes from the horizon.
Is this the feeling of death?
I, Duke Long, am finally going to die?
Die here?
Thoughts were still flashing past Duke Long's mind.
Die here?
He asked himself again.
Tired, I am really tired!
He had walked till now while bearing heavy duty and expectations, he withstood the burden of endless sins.
There were times when he really wanted to die!
When he first stepped into the immortal graveyard and hibernated, he had let his imagination run wild: If I died like this, it feels like it might be a pretty good thing.
But could he?
Could he?
He asked himself.
No….
He could not!
He, Duke Long, lived all his life while carrying a heavy burden: He shouldered the expectations of his parents, master, and companions, he shouldered the responsibility of Heavenly Court and humanity, he took on the blame for his disciple's betrayal and the calamity he caused, he took on the sin of exterminating his offspring by his own hands.
He got injured, he got old.
His back slowly bent down, his gaze slowly dimmed.
He slumbered in the immortal graveyard, but when the time came, he crawled up and continued to bear his responsibility and mission!
"That's right, I cannot die, I cannot!"
"I still need to deal with the enemies, I still haven't cleared my sins, I still haven't corrected my mistakes!"
"The immortal graveyard is already destroyed, if I fall now, Feng Jiu Ge will not be able to salvage the situation alone. Heavenly Court will be destroyed by the enemies."
"How can I fall now?"
"I cannot fall!"
"My companions need me, Heavenly Court needs me, humanity needs me!"
"They need me, Duke Long!!"
"So…."
"No matter how tired I am, even if I am extremely exhausted, even if I hibernate in the graveyard, even if I die, even if I have been beheaded!"
"I, Duke Long… cannot afford to fall!"
"I need to stand up, I need to…"
"Continue fighting!!"
Instantly, as if the entire universe was responding to his unyielding will!
A miracle happened!
Duke Long's dimmed pupils suddenly burst out with shocking light that rushed towards the sky. The blood that spurted out of his neck returned rapidly, the countless qi in the surrounding condensed and brought his head back to his neck.
An extremely profound aura carried a true inheritance and entered his body, the wounds on his body started healing rapidly, he completely healed within a few breaths.
"It is Lord Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's method! And this qi path true inheritance… so triple qi retraction can actually be used in this manner!" Duke Long immediately comprehended, great joy surfacing on his face.
"Lord Duke Long, he has revived!" The miracle happened right in front of them, Heavenly Court's morale bounced back.
Fang Yuan's expression was still tranquil: "It is Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's method. There was a backup after all!"
"This is Heavenly Court's foundation?" Wu Yong mumbled, his expression was dark, he felt powerlessness.
Duke Long raised his head and floated in the air, he spread out his arms and legs as he said: "I, Duke Long, will not fall right now. Oh Fang Yuan, let me show you the genuine… Triple Qi Retraction!"
"Triple qi retraction?!" This move's reputation was too huge, the moment Duke Long said this, the three regions' immortals slowed down their offenses in fright and uncertainty.
Fang Yuan's expression was also solemn, he had personally witnessed the terrifying might of triple qi retraction.
Back then, Duke Long had used this move to determine his victory, directly defeating Purple Mountain True Monarch.
"Triple qi retraction has a total of three styles: First style, human qi retraction; second style, earth qi retraction; and third style, heaven qi retraction. Human qi retraction greatly reduces a Gu Immortal's human qi and their condition will fall sharply. Earth qi retraction will extract earth qi and cause heavy damage to the immortal aperture. Heaven qi retraction will extract heaven qi and combined with the damage from the previous two styles, the immortal aperture will shatter directly. If one is hit by the first style, the second style and third style cannot be blocked. So, the key is in the first style!"
All kinds of information flashed through Fang Yuan's mind.
He moved his dragon body and retreated cautiously. Although he had transformed into an immemorial sword dragon and seemed to have gotten rid of his human status, he was not certain if human qi retraction could extract his human qi or not.
Since this move was created by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, even if there was no transformation path back then, Duke Long would have definitely made relevant modifications to fill this gap.
Whoosh!
At the next moment, vast qi surged from all directions and winds moved like waves, gathering around Duke Long's body.
Endless amounts of human qi, earth qi, and heaven qi gathered in Duke Long's body, turning into countless qi path dao marks while also drastically raising his power in every aspect!
Fang Yuan's eyes narrowed: "What is this? Triple qi retraction's three styles are being activated at the same time, plundering a vast amount of qi to empower Duke Long. Is this a condition triggered by Primordial Origin's method?"
Triple qi retraction's effect had already deviated from its usual ability.
Power, power, an unprecedented power!
The feeling of power filled Duke Long's body and mind. He stepped lightly, boom!
The air below him directly exploded as his body flew like a purple meteor and appeared in front of Fang Yuan in an instance.
Fast, extremely fast!
But Fang Yuan had no fear since reverse flow protection seal was still activated.
Boom!
Duke Long's fist struck his head.
Fang Yuan was knocked down like a cannonball, he smashed into the ground, creating a deep pit.
Reverse flow protection seal immediately appeared shallow and illusory from this attack.
Fang Yuan shook his giant dragon head, shaking off the dizziness, when Duke Long appeared in front of his eyes again. Both sides were within one hundred steps.
Duke Long charged over, his whole body emitted blazing qi that raised his mighty disposition to the extreme.
Fang Yuan's eyes were cold as he snorted inwardly.
Whoosh—!
Myriad Year Flying Warship had already been lying in ambush, and when Duke Long charged forward at this moment, it immediately pierced through the air, like a giant blade that cut towards Duke Long with a heavy shadow of death.
Struck!
Myriad Year Flying Warship was like a giant broadsword that cut Duke Long.
Boom!
Dust and soil flew before they were dispelled by the violent qi around Duke Long.
Duke Long was struck by Myriad Year Flying Warship, he was half-crouching on the ground, one hand holding the ground while the other hand released a powerful strength as it grabbed the front bottom part of Myriad Year Flying Warship — he actually held off the whole of Myriad Year Flying Warship's weight with a single hand!
Crack, crack…
A series of sharp sounds could be heard, the muscles on Duke Long's hands bulged as he slowly pushed back Myriad Year Flying Warship inch by inch.
Fang Yuan's pupils shrank slightly, the Myriad Year Flying Warship of this moment was not the same as before, it was merged with Twelve Zodiac battle formation and was enough to rank among the top five Immortal Gu Houses in the world!
Duke Long actually resisted its full-powered collision with one hand.
The strength amplification Duke Long received from triple qi retraction had far surpassed Fang Yuan's estimation.
Hah!
Duke Long breathed out as he exerted strength and stood up, he brought his other hand together and actually threw Myriad Year Flying Warship far away.
Fang Yuan observed the whole process with indifference, his dragon pupils reflecting Duke Long's clear face. Fang Yuan swung his dragon tail and retreated quickly, leaving the Heaven Overseeing Tower battlefield.
Duke Long's speed already surpassed Fang Yuan's but he could only watch as Fang Yuan left. Because at this moment, Dragon Palace and three Immortal Gu Houses were attacking Feng Jiu Ge. Feng Jiu Ge had to split his attention to resist them, so destiny song unavoidably weakened. Di Zang Sheng was free and charged towards Heaven Overseeing Tower once again!
"Evil Dragon! Stop!" Almost in an instant, Duke Long appeared on Di Zang Sheng's head.
Immortal killer move — Qi Breath Mountain!
An enormous translucent qi mountain took shape in a blink of an eye and pressed down fiercely.
Boom, heaven and earth shook, Di Zang Sheng's head was pressed down to the ground by qi breath mountain.
Triple qi retraction increased the might of Duke Long's qi path methods to a horrifying level.
However, after using this move, the qi around Duke Long fell sharply by thirty percent.
"A chance!" Seeing this, Five Elements Grandmaster, Wu Yong, and Zhang Yin attacked at almost the same time. Three long range killer moves attacked Duke Long.
Duke Long did not dodged and also did not use self-moving dragon qi wall, he actually let the killer moves engulf his body.
Smoke and fire rose, thunder rumbled.
The dazzling scene dissipated, Duke Long was still standing in the sky, standing tall and upright.
"Did you want to scratch my itch with these three small tricks?" Duke Long ridiculed loudly. The faces of Wu Yong, Five Elements Grandmaster, and Zhang Yin reddened with anger and shock.
"Triple qi retraction!" Duke Long shouted once again.
In an instant, vast qi surged and appeared from all corners of Heavenly Court before gathering inside Duke Long's body within a few seconds.
Rumble!
Duke Long's aura expanded once again, not only did he return to his earlier state, he even gained an extra layer. From the original ten feet, it broke through to twenty feet. The aura covered his whole body and the translucent fire burned high.
Duke Long's purple hair waved wildly and his scales shone brightly.
Because of heavenly dragon's last stand as well, Duke Long's body right now had already far surpassed the size of an ordinary human, his body expanded several times and gave an extremely oppressive feeling.
Di Zang Sheng roared, unreconciled as it lifted its giant dragon head out from the pit.
Duke Long suddenly appeared to the side of Di Zang Sheng's head and gave a straight punch. The huge force twisted Di Zang Sheng's head and even its enormous body rolled away, destroying countless buildings of Heavenly Court in its way.
But Duke Long no longer cared about these, everything had to prioritize Heaven Overseeing Tower.
In the previous life, Di Zang Sheng's battle strength could match Duke Long's, but in this life, it was directly suppressed!
If it was said that Feng Jiu Ge used the profundity of destiny song to defeat Di Zang Sheng, then Duke Long suppressed Di Zang Sheng by relying on his own strength.
"I understand now. Although I destroyed the immortal graveyard, Heavenly Court still exists. When a Gu Immortal joins Heavenly Court, they will contribute their immortal aperture; countless grotto-heaven worlds merged together to form the current Heavenly Court. Every immortal aperture is a balance of three qi and contains heaven qi, earth qi, and human qi. Currently, Duke Long is using triple qi retraction not against us but on Heavenly Court." Fang Yuan's thoughts moved lightning fast as he deduced the general details.
Heavenly Court's three qi were naturally exploited by Duke Long and it could even be said to be an infinite supply. With such a powerful supplement, Duke Long's battle strength exploded and suppressed Di Zang Sheng with just his body.
But out of Heavenly Court, the killer move triple qi retraction would lose such might. No such vigorous triple qi were around in the outside world and they could not be used by Duke Long freely.
That meant, Duke Long's strength had limitations, he must stay inside Heavenly Court.
However, even though Fang Yuan saw through this weakness, it was useless.
Heaven Overseeing Tower was also inside Heavenly Court, Fang Yuan had to strive to destroy fate Gu, so he could not bypass Heavenly Court or the current Duke Long!
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Chapter 1951 Deadlock
"No matter how strong Duke Long is, he is only one person. Charge! We will attack together, Heavenly Court's defensive line is so wide, let's see how he will defend it." Wu Yong shouted, his sharp gaze containing a trace of restlessness. Duke Long's astonishing performance had already triggered subtle changes in people's hearts, he could not let him act so unbridled!
Wu Yong controlled Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building and took the lead, this move immediately made the Immortal Gu Houses around him start attacking once again.
Duke Long snorted, he suddenly disappeared and appeared to block Wu Yong's path. His expression was grim and was about to attack Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building when Dragon Palace also attacked him.
Immortal killer move — Dreamy Light Smoke!
Duke Long stared with wide eyes as he had no choice but to dodge.
One skill to dominate the world!
Facing the dream path killer move, no matter how strong he was, Duke Long did not dare to test it.
His evasion immediately made Wu Shuai, Wu Yong and others let out a sigh of relief.
Duke Long's mighty image that gave a feeling of being invincible was broken by this action.
The three regions' immortals' falling spirits became concentrated again.
"Fortunately, he dodged it." Thin beads of sweat covered Wu Shuai's head.
Dreamy light smoke might be a dream path killer move but it had a limited strength. Facing such a powerful Duke Long, it was like using a small fish net to capture a giant shark.
Duke Long could not resist dream path killer moves, the giant shark could definitely be trapped, but what about after that? The shark would struggle to break free and could tear the small fish net.
Back to the present, even if Wu Shuai captured Duke Long, it was far beyond Dragon Palace's ability to force such a powerful expert inside the palace, let alone suppress him.
The final conclusion might very well be Dragon Palace crumbling apart while Duke Long would be temporarily trapped inside a dream realm. But there was Feng Jin Huang who could deal with dream realms and quickly rescue Duke Long.
So, Wu Shuai's move was only a bluff. Duke Long took the bait because he was not aware of this dream path killer move's details.
This was also why Gu Immortals kept their killer moves hidden and would not display them easily. And when they showed their killer moves several times, they would actively modify them.
Duke Long retreated, the three regions' immortals led a massive attack once again under Wu Yong's lead, using this opportunity to gather and attack.
"Hmph, besides Lord Duke Long, Heavenly Court also has us!"
"You will definitely pay for underestimating us."
"With us around, don't even think of succeeding."
At the crucial moment, Zhu Que Er, Bai Cang Shui, Zhao Shan He and others of Heavenly Court's main force stepped forward, welcoming the violent attacks without fearing death.
"A bunch of old geezers. How much time do you even have left?" Hua Cai Yun sneered, countless thunder clouds shot out from beside her.
Boom boom boom!
The thunder clouds detonated ahead of time, they were all accurately intercepted by Yu Zhu Zi.
"How much time? We never cared! As long as we have a breath of life in us, we will crawl out from our graves!" Yu Zhu Zi shouted and pushed forward the back of his hand, a large patch of jade powder flew forward like fog.
"Retreat!" Facing the unknown killer move, Hua Cai Yun did not dare to test it and immediately retreated to be on the safe side.
"We will never lose this battle! Do you know why?" Zhou Xiong Xin wore a white robe and had thick eyebrows and a square face. He used information path methods, shooting out countless white arrows.
"Because since three million years ago, we have always been the pioneers of the eras, the backbone of humanity, the heroes of Central Continent. We will never forget the disgrace of becoming slaves to variant humans, we will never forget that peace is something we have fought for using our lives, and we will never forget that the happiness of the people needs to be guarded by each generation."
"As for you, you are petty people who don't care about endangering humanity for your selfish interests. Short-sighted fools who cannot even see the future! Come, no matter what methods you have, no matter how many times you attack, you will only receive defeat!"
Zhou Xiong Xin shouted loudly, his endless arrows became stronger with his words; using attack as defense, the arrows forced back Five Elements Grandmaster, Yi Hao Fang, and other rank eights. They could only prioritize defense, the offense they had just started as well as their morale shrank rapidly."
"Look, this is our Heavenly Court's perseverance!" Zhu Que Er and Prince Feng Xian combined their skills, flames surged and formed a completely new defensive line, firmly blocking the charge of several rank seven Immortal Gu Houses.
"Hmph, a bunch of babbling geezers. The immortal graveyard is already destroyed now, after killing you, let me see who else will stand up in Heavenly Court?" A famous expert in Northern Plains' history, Liu Hui had just finished speaking when he felt his vision darken.
Duke Long suddenly appeared right before him!
Boom!
Immortal killer move — Dragon Claw Strike!
Liu Hui's whole body let out a bright green light, his defensive killer move was activated with full power. But it only lasted for a second before it shattered, his whole body was slashed into pieces.
Liu Hui died immediately from Duke Long's one attack.
Five Elements Grandmaster and others quickly retreated in fright, entering their respective side's Immortal Gu Houses.
Duke Long swept his gaze around the battlefield and shouted: "You colluded with the otherworldly demon and attempted to overthrow Heavenly Court, you are all traitors to humanity. You don't understand, even if we battle to the death, our three qi will still remain. This is the grand qi of humanity, it will last forever with mountains and the land itself. Triple qi retraction!"
Boom!!
A huge explosion sounded, the whole sky turned dark. Three qi flocked and gathered into Duke Long's body from all areas of Heavenly Court.
Duke Long's translucent blazing qi expanded wildly, giving a heart-shaking feeling to everyone.
Immortal killer move — Great Qi Hand Explosion!
Duke Long stretched his left arm and spread his five fingers, his palm pointed towards a rank seven Immortal Gu House.
At the next moment, he clenched his left hand.
Bam.
Great qi exploded, the rank seven Immortal Gu House split into pieces, exploding into countless fragments. Immortal Gu were all destroyed, the Gu Immortals inside also met with calamity, none survived and only bones, blood, and meat pulp were left behind.
The three regions' Gu Immortals were horrified and stupefied.
Heavenly Court's side cheered loudly.
"This is Heavenly Court's power!" Inside Demon Judgment Board, Qin Ding Ling's eyes shined brightly. Fang Zheng, however, was silent as he was shaken mentally.
The shock was not only to Duke Long's strength, there was also a kind of turbulence going on in his mind.
At this moment, Fang Zheng began to understand the spirit of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals!
"Yes." Fang Zheng thought inwardly: "If there were no Heavenly Court in history, could there be the current human race? Generations of Heavenly Court Gu Immortals cleared away obstacles with their blood, making countless sacrifices to bring about the rule of humanity. Comparatively, Fang Yuan and these people disregard the big picture, destroying fate Gu is giving the variant humans a chance to rise up. They are indeed traitors to humanity."
Swish!
Right at this time, a sword light pierced through the battlefield, bringing forth a soft sound and a bloody figure.
Zhu Que Er slowly fell to the ground like a sparrow whose wings were cut, her body was directly slashed into two halves.
Immortal killer move — Five Finger Fist Heart Sword!
It was Fang Yuan! He was sinisterly roaming at the edge of the battlefield in his immemorial sword dragon form.
"Fang Yuan!" Heavenly Court's immortals were furious.
Fang Yuan sneered: "I am here for my own interests! I don't give a damn about what you are, you can be noble or insignificant for all I care. Today, I will destroy fate Gu, I will kill whoever dares to stop me, if an immortal blocks me, I will slay the immortal, if a demon comes, I will slaughter the demon in my way! Heavenly Court? Since you obstruct my path, you will meet with the same outcome!"
"Hmph, demon! You need to be executed!"
"Kill him!"
"Murderer, I will crush you to pieces!!"
Heavenly Court's immortals cursed.
Roar—!
Di Zang Sheng recovered and collided into the defensive line again.
Dragon Palace cooperated and used dreamy light smoke.
Wherever the dream path killer move went, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals evaded. Feng Jiu Ge gave a light sigh, activating a killer move and turning it into a song warrior.
The song warrior threw itself into the dreamy light smoke. Dreamy light smoke thus had no more offensive ability and returned like a python that had eaten its fill.
Feng Jiu Ge could not directly break the dream path killer move, but he was able to block it by using this method.
Destiny song resounded once again, Di Zang Sheng roared discontentedly but was without options, and was once again suppressed by Feng Jiu Ge.
Far away, Spectral Soul and his servants had already arrived in front of a treasury.
Looking back at the battlefield, Fairy Zi Wei sighed: "I did not think triple qi retraction still had this use. Duke Long's battle strength has risen to an astonishing level. Adding on Feng Jiu Ge's assistance, Heavenly Court's defensive line looks to be on the verge of collapse but is actually able to keep on lasting."
According to overall strength, Heavenly Court was naturally stronger.
But they had to defend Heaven Overseeing Tower and were thus extremely passive, even Duke Long was shackled by this.
Duke Long could easily kill rank eight Gu Immortals or rank seven Immortal Gu Houses, and Fang Yuan could similarly kill Heavenly Court members easily by using five finger fist heart sword. Duke Long had to leave the defensive line and choose to fight Fang Yuan far away.
If these two were allowed to attack the other side's Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan would not feel even a little heartache, but Heavenly Court needed enough manpower to defend the place. Duke Long would never let Fang Yuan continue his slaughter.
On the contrary, if Fang Yuan endured Duke Long's attacks, wholeheartedly attacking Heavenly Court's main force was also an option. But if he chose to do this, he would have to bear Duke Long's heavy attacks. Fang Yuan was not willing to do this, after all, he and the other three regions' Gu Immortals allied only because of the situation. Sacrificing himself for them was too stupid and too risky.
Thus, Fang Yuan and Duke Long pinned down each other.
Feng Jiu Ge instead became the core of the battle, he took charge of Heaven Overseeing Tower's defense while blocking Dragon Palace and Di Zang Sheng. His battle strength surpassed both enemies and allies' expectations time and again.
Old Man Zheng Yuan narrowed his eyes: "Now, we just have to see who can break the stalemate. The crucial point is fate Gu. Heavenly Court has already harvested the success dao marks, but the refinement path Gu formation is destroyed, can Yuan Qiong Du alone be able to restore fate Gu in time? Master, if we interfere now, can't we seize fate Gu?"
Spectral Soul laughed: "What will we gain by snatching it? Don't think that they are fighting with all they have got, they are still holding back. There is more to this situation than meets the eye! The past venerables have gotten involved in this battle. We will talk after plundering this treasury and getting back the Door of Life and Death."
"Yes, master!"
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Chapter 1952 Responsibility and Sacrifice
On the side of a sect's mountain, the landscape was green, clear water flowed by it and birds' chirping could be heard.
"Little Du, what are you lying on the ground for?" A gentle and soft voice could be heard.
"Senior sister." The young Yuan Qiong Du opened his eyes and saw a girl bending over to look at him with her bright and smiling eyes.
The girl's gaze moved to Little Du's hand and let out a gasp: "Wha, Little Du, you refined a rank three Gu again. You are really amazing."
"But I am not happy, you know I don't like cultivating refinement path." Yuan Qiong Du stood up while mumbling.
"Don't be so dispirited, your talent is envied by so many people." The girl patted his shoulder and consoled.
But Yuan Qiong Du was still dispirited and his head slumped forward.
"Haha, how about this, I will share a secret with you. Few days ago, I found clues to a Gu Master inheritance in my father's study room, it is hidden at some corner of the mountain. What do you think, do you want to search for it?" Senior sister's beautiful gaze turned towards Yuan Qiong Du.
As expected, teenage Yuan Qiong Du could not endure boredom, his eyes brightened when he heard what was said: "There is such a fun thing? Wonderful, our sect's mountain has inheritances left behind by predecessors after all. Gu Immortal inheritances are extremely rare but Gu Master inheritances are plentiful. Tell me the clues quickly, senior sister."
"Okay. The clue is a line of a poem, I have been pondering about it these few days, I will read it to you." Senior sister did not conceal it, and this was only a Gu Master inheritance. Her father was also Yuan Qiong Du's master, a Gu Immortal existence.
Yuan Qiong Du clapped his hands after hearing it just once: "I understand. The clue is solved like this, match the first and last characters, then match second and the second last characters; it gives us a location."
Senior sister pondered for a bit and jumped with joy: "So it is there! Little Du, you are really smart, you guessed it immediately."
"Let's go find it quickly." Yuan Qiong Du moved ahead.
"Wait for me." Senior sister quickly followed.
"Don't worry, senior sister, I will give this inheritance to you, I won't snatch it from you, haha." Yuan Qiong Du's figure disappeared into the depths of the mountain forest.
Finally, the two found the inheritance inside a mountain cave.
"This is a fire path inheritance." Yuan Qiong Du and his senior sister inspected the inheritance carefully: "Will flame? A fire that uses will as the fuel. This method is quite original and stunning. How did the Gu Master who created it think of this? Interesting. Eh, this name, how could it be master?"
Yuan Qiong Du was extremely surprised.
Senior sister also felt surprised, saying uncertainly: "They might just have the same name?"
Yuan Qiong Du, however, pondered and his eyes shone: "Maybe not! Senior sister, I remember you saying that you found this clue in master's study room."
"Yes, I was tidying up father's bamboo scrolls, you know my father's hobby is to collect these antiques. And by chance, a bamboo stick slipped from an aged scroll, and on it was the inheritance clue." Senior sister recalled her memory.
"This inheritance was set up by me when I was young." Right at this time, Yuan Qiong Du's master slowly walked into the cave and appeared before Yuan Qiong Du.
Walking alongside him was Yuan Qiong Du's sect uncle, who was short in stature, had a round face, and looked amiable.
Yuan Qiong Du and his senior sister quickly bowed and greeted at the same time: "We pay respects to master (father) and sect uncle."
Yuan Qiong Du curled up his lips: "Master, are you making fun of your disciples?"
"Of course not." His master shook his head, looking at the inheritance in Yuan Qiong Du's hand with a trace of reminiscence.
"Hahaha, you clever brat." The fat sect uncle pointed at Yuan Qiong Du: "Your master and I just returned from Spirit Resonance Peak, we were just chatting along the way when we discovered your traces. I can guarantee that this inheritance was indeed left by your master during his youth. He wholeheartedly liked fire path back then and used five years to painstakingly gather primeval stones and purchase a rank three fire path Gu."
"But master clearly cultivates water path." Yuan Qiong Du's eyes were wide open, having not expected his master also liked fire path, like him, when he was young.
"There was no other choice." The fat sect uncle sighed: "Our sect's water path inheritance required an inheritor. How could an individual's preference compare to the sect's situation? Every Gu Immortal inheritance needs to be inherited from generation to generation. Every inheritor will improve the inheritance on the foundation of their predecessor, making the inheritance keep up with the times and not be eliminated. This is our responsibility. When your master gave up fire path, he personally arranged this inheritance. I was there at that time and saw him crying his eyes out."
"Cough cough." Yuan Qiong Du's master interrupted: "Since you two discovered this inheritance, then it shall belong to you. Let's go."
The two seniors left, leaving behind Yuan Qiong Du and his senior sister in the cave.
"Junior brother, I cultivate wood path, I don't need this, so I will give it to you." Senior sister also said goodbye to Yuan Qiong Du.
Yuan Qiong Du gazed at the inheritance in his hand, slight waves undulated in his heart as he mumbled: "Master…"
He opened his eyes again.
Yuan Qiong Du saw that he was still inside Heaven Overseeing Tower.
"Damn it! I suffered a backlash during the refinement and fainted!" Yuan Qiong Du's heart pounded madly as he recalled the scene.
The biggest taboo in Gu refinement was to be disturbed. It did not matter how heavy his injuries were, the main thing was whether fate Gu was alright or not. This was related to the plan that Heavenly Court had been executing for millions of years!
Yuan Qiong Du was almost already without hope.
As the only Gu Immortal to refine Gu, he had actually fainted. Could fate Gu, that was the target of the refinement, be unharmed?
Fate Gu would not be destroyed because of this, but it was very likely that most of the previous restoration results would disappear, it might even return to the original damaged state.
Right now, Yuan Qiong Du could only hope fate Gu's situation was slightly better, his and Heavenly Court's countless years of efforts must not go to waste.
But when Yuan Qiong Du raised his head to look at fate Gu, he was stunned.
"What?!"
A lump of fire had taken his place in the Gu refinement, fate Gu was quietly lying in the fire and was just half a step away from complete recovery.
After the shock, warmth surged in Yuan Qiong Du's heart.
This was his will flame!
A fire which used will as fuel, he had obtained it from his master's inheritance when he was young. Later on, he cultivated refinement path but did not forget fire path as well, he continued to improve the will flame and developed it to immortal level.
"Will flame has already become my most familiar and most skilled Gu refinement method. I probably activated will flame unconsciously when I fainted!" Yuan Qiong Du guessed.
This was not the first time this happened. In fact, throughout his life, in his countless Gu refinement experiences, there were many times when will flame took his place in emergencies. Every time he was unable to hold on, he would activate will flame to temporarily replace him and stabilize the situation.
After countless times, using will flame at the crucial times had already become his subconscious habit.
Yuan Qiong Du let out a breath of air.
He looked at the burning will flame quietly while thinking: "Rather than calling it a habit, more accurately, this is a type of responsibility."
He thought of his master and smiled: "Responsibility… Master, looks like I haven't disappointed you."
Yuan Qiong Du knew his condition, his injuries were too heavy and he was not able to continue the Gu refinement. But hope was in front of him, he used his last bit of life and willpower to reinforce this lump of will flame.
"Burn, burn more." Yuan Qiong Du mumbled, he used his own life to light the will flame!
The will flame burned quietly, the fire brightened and became extremely stable.
Inside the fire, fate Gu finally moved past the final step, it achieved complete recovery!
While Yuan Qiong Du was already lifeless.
Like his master, like his senior sister, and like the countless Heavenly Court's seniors, they had given their blood and sweat for the cause of Heavenly Court, using their own lives to build the foundation of Heavenly Court!
He was a true hero even in death!
Heavenly Court's foundation, the large Central Continent was paved with blood and sacrifices.
The will flame dissipated.
"Hehehe." Cong Yan's weak laughter resounded in the quiet top floor of Heaven Overseeing Tower: "Yuan Qiong Du has already accomplished his task, it is our turn now."
"But with our state, even transmitting our voices is troublesome, let alone activating Heaven Overseeing Tower." Che Wei said, his tone was quiet and deep.
Cong Yan replied back almost as if he was not worried: "There is still a way. The immortal essence remaining in my aperture is enough for me to activate my trump card, isn't it so coincidental?"
Che Wei and Cong Yan were close friends, Che Wei immediately realized Cong Yan's meaning: "Don't do this, if you absorb my injuries, you will die immediately."
"What is there to fear about death? Right now, our companions are fighting outside, the defensive line is on the verge of collapsing, they probably don't have the chance to send anyone else. Brother Che Wei, we have known each other for many years, your abilities are stronger than mine. But your journey has not been completed yet, you will soon create your own path, I really look forward to it… but it is such a pity that I won't be able to witness it."
As Cong Yan spoke lightly, a light blue radiance spread from his body and covered Che Wei.
The two Gu Immortals had wounds everywhere, even their bones and flesh were smashed in. But following the blue light's effect, Che Wei's body began to recover while Cong Yan's became more severe.
"My friend…" Che Wei closed his eyes before opening them, two trails of tears flowed down quietly.
Cong Yan was dead, Che Wei's injuries were still severe but he used all his strength to barely crawl towards fate Gu.
"Activate, activate… I beg of you." Che Wei's vision turned dark, he poured in all his immortal essence and could only pray quietly at this point.
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Chapter 1953 Fang Yuan Falls
A long time seemed to have passed, but it was only an instant.
The grand Heaven Overseeing Tower began to slowly let out a pure-white light, the light gradually grew brighter and began to rise.
Several breaths later, the light shot to the sky and illuminated the whole battlefield like an emperor had descended!
The chaotic and violent battlefield paused immediately.
Almost all Gu Immortals raised their heads and looked towards Heaven Overseeing Tower.
The three regions' Gu Immortals were pale and ashen, while tears and snot flowed down the faces of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals.
"Rank nine fate Gu has been restored!"
"Yuan Qiong Du did not fail us! He did it! This is too amazing."
"Heaven Overseeing Tower has returned to its peak state, we have won!"
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals cheered, their morale rose to the peak at once.
"Retreat, retreat!" Be it Wu Yong, Yao Huang, or Shen Cong Sheng and others, they all shouted to retreat with no intent to battle.
Bing Sai Chuan was still controlling Calamity Luck Altar, he transmitted his voice to Fang Yuan with an unresigned expression: "Do something quickly!"
Fang Yuan's immemorial sword dragon transformation, however, began to retreat rapidly.
Duke Long gave up on Fang Yuan and used dragon gate to rapidly travel to Heaven Overseeing Tower.
"Fate Gu, fate Gu…" When he saw the completely intact fate Gu, he could not restrain his intense emotions anymore, tears flowed down as if he was released from a heavy burden.
The one who had injured fate Gu back then was his disciple Red Lotus, to make up for this mistake, Duke Long resolved himself and took on the heavy responsibility of restoring fate Gu.
"Hong Ting, master has atoned for your mistake. I did not let down Heavenly Court, I did not let down humanity!" Duke Long took deep breaths before he regained his cool. He looked outside the tower with a sharp gaze.
"Now, it is time for you all to die!" Duke Long shouted and activated Heaven Overseeing Tower's strongest offensive method.
Immortal killer move — Fate Vanquish!
Light, light that filled heaven and earth, it was omnipresent, illuminating the universe and people's hearts.
In just an instance, all the rank seven Immortal Gu Houses in the battlefield crumbled, the Gu Immortals inside fortunately survived.
Even Calamity Luck Altar and Dragon Palace were in miserable states. Bing Sai Chuan, Wu Shuai, Zhan Bu Du and others immediately used all their efforts in repairing the Immortal Gu Houses.
The surviving historical rank eight experts of Northern Plains dissipated after the light shone on them.
Countless year beasts and swordsmen of Fang Yuan that caused disaster to Heavenly Court were mostly destroyed, blood flowed like a river.
Mao Li Qiu's perfect pair killer move was forcefully broken, Di Zang Sheng was suppressed to the ground and was actually unable to get up immediately!
Only Fang Yuan's immemorial sword dragon form was completely safe.
He was a complete otherworldly demon who could not be targeted by the killer move fate vanquish and had a natural immunity towards it!
"Only you remain now, Fang Yuan!" Duke Long stared at the immemorial sword dragon with an intense killing intent and hatred.
It was this otherworldly demon that destroyed the immortal graveyard, destroying the largest portion of the millions of years of foundation of Heavenly Court!
This sin could not be forgiven, he must suffer a cruel death!
Boom—!
Duke Long flew out of Heaven Overseeing Tower and pierced through the sky towards Fang Yuan.
"Block him, stop Fang Yuan!" Duke Long roared, his voice resonated throughout the whole Heavenly Court.
Destiny song started in time as Fang Yuan's retreating speed fell sharply.
Immortal killer move — Qi Current Scissors!
Duke Long neared and opened his palm; countless sharp qi currents formed extremely sharp qi blades that shrouded Fang Yuan like a storm.
Fang Yuan canceled reverse flow protection seal and charged through the qi blades' encirclement, leaving behind a bloody trail in the sky.
Myriad Year Flying Warship quickly flew over and reunited with Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan stepped on the deck and transformed into the immemorial year monkey, he then turned around and waved his arm. Immortal killer move — Summer Fan!
Wild winds surged, scattering all of the qi current scissors.
Fang Yuan stomped on the deck, Myriad Year Flying Warship gave off a buzzing sound and let out dazzling radiance as it activated a time path killer move — Myriad Year Hunting.
Splash splash splash.
The River of Time phantom under Myriad Year Flying Warship continued to bubble, countless year beasts were summoned once again and participated in the battle, spreading out everywhere.
At this time, Feng Jiu Ge moved ahead of Duke Long.
Immortal killer move — Submission Song!
Immortal killer move — Song Warrior!
Submission song's power condensed into human form as it ran amok through the army of countless year beasts. Wherever it went, the year beasts, regardless of strong or weak, betrayed Fang Yuan and submitted to Feng Jiu Ge.
"Great job!" Even Duke Long felt surprised and joyous at this sight.
Previously, Feng Jiu Ge had been using destiny song mainly to maintain the battlefield and was unable to use other methods. Now that there was a chance, he immediately showed his abundant methods.
Duke Long once again neared Myriad Year Flying Warship and used killer moves like world shaking dragon hammer alternately, destroying daybreak swords. Cracks spread in Myriad Year Flying Warship and large numbers of Gu worms died instantly.
Fang Yuan was forced to retreat again and again, he had to use all his strength to repair Myriad Year Flying Warship while also blocking Duke Long and Feng Jiu Ge's joint attacks.
"It is our turn to counterattack!" Prince Feng Xian led the wave of counterattack.
A sharp phoenix cry resounded, his whole body transformed into a phoenix. He spread his wings and flew, fire burned everywhere he went and turned into a sea of fire.
Bai Cang Shui attacked almost at the same time from the other end of the defensive line, pale towering waves shot out.
Jun Shen Guang was like a meteor as he moved across the battlefield.
Zhou Xiong Xin was accompanied by fierce information path tigers. Vortex Space Boy and Ye Qiao Zi attacked together. Zhao Shan He and Yu Zhu Zi once again used sitting and eating the mountain empty against the enemy Immortal Gu Houses.
Previously, because of Duke Long's might, the three regions' Gu Immortals were all withdrawn inside the Immortal Gu Houses.
Facing Heavenly Court's wave of counterattacks, Calamity Luck Altar, Dragon Palace, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building, and other Immortal Gu Houses were unable to resist and retreated while fighting.
Heavenly Court's side continued to push with Heaven Overseeing Tower and Demon Judgment Board as the cores, continuously reducing the movement area of the three regions' Gu Immortals.
Qin Ding Ling also flew out of Demon Judgment Board and used all kinds of luck path methods to amplify her side's offenses to the maximum degree. After all, the enemy Gu Immortals were hiding inside Immortal Gu Houses, they could not attack casually and had to use the Immortal Gu Houses' methods.
The three regions' Gu Immortals were forced to retreat again and again, their conditions were already bad because of fate vanquish. Most of the Gu Immortals had to concentrate on repairing the Immortal Gu Houses, they could only endure the beating passively.
With no alternatives, Mao Li Qiu, Wu Yong, and some others took the risk to fly out of the Immortal Gu Houses and fought Heavenly Court's side to strive for precious time for the repair of the Immortal Gu Houses.
"Hold on! If we can't hold on now, leaving Heavenly Court will only be wishful thinking."
"Be careful of Heaven Overseeing Tower, especially fate vanquish!"
"How is Fang Yuan's situation? Only he can resist fate vanquish."
Like in the previous life, the immortals entrusted their hopes to Fang Yuan once again.
Despite many of the Gu Immortals hating Fang Yuan, the current situation forced them to rely on him.
But what disappointed the immortals was that Fang Yuan's situation was also similarly bad.
He was being pincer-attacked by Feng Jiu Ge and Duke Long, he was barely resisting the attacks with the help of Myriad Year Flying Warship.
The killer move fate vanquish with fate Gu as the core had no effect on Fang Yuan. But Feng Jiu Ge's destiny song that was only rank eight was of an even higher plane, it not only included fate but also contained luck.
Luck was naturally effective against Fang Yuan. Before this, Fang Yuan had used luck path methods many times to help in his cultivation.
Destiny song was effective against Fang Yuan, greatly weakening him, almost offsetting the amplification from heroes among people.
On the contrary, Duke Long could not enjoy heroes among people but he was empowered by heavenly dragon's last stand, triple qi retraction, and destiny song, increasing his battle strength to an unimaginably shocking level.
With Duke Long attacking and Feng Jiu Ge supporting him, Fang Yuan was unable to take them head-on and had to retreat again and again.
"Heavenly Court cannot be defeated!" Duke Long's punches and kicks exploded the air as they landed on Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was like a small raft in a storm, it was sent flying and crashed on the ground.
"Fang Yuan, here's another move for you." Duke Long charged down like a meteor, wanting to collide directly.
Fang Yuan looked at the sky and snorted, golden lights shone around Myriad Year Flying Warship as the Twelve Zodiac battle formation separated and transformed into a grey stone giant.
The giant stood on Heavenly Court's ground and waved its hands, attacking Duke Long head-on.
Boom!
An explosion rang, Duke Long collided with the giant. Killer moves clashed, creating a powerful explosion.
The terrifying heat wave inflated like a giant balloon before bursting on the spot.
Tornadoes and shock waves engulfed everything, Fang Yuan and the almost crumbling Myriad Year Flying Warship retreated smoothly using this propulsion force.
Whoosh.
Wind roared as Duke Long's monstrously tall figure suddenly appeared behind Fang Yuan.
Immortal killer move — World Shaking Dragon Hammer!
Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk rapidly, he did not have the time to even turn around as he activated reverse flow protection seal.
Rumble!
Reverse flow protection seal finally reached its limits and broke apart.
Fang Yuan suffered Duke Long's attack, although he had transformed into the immemorial year monkey, his back was almost pierced.
The enormous force sent Fang Yuan flying. After he fell to the ground, his body was dragged along the ground, leaving behind a long trail of blood and only stopping after crashing through three Immortal Gu Houses.
Duke Long gave a muffled groan, his body was shaking. Reverse flow protection seal reflected external attacks, the strength he struck Fang Yuan was also reflected to him in full, he had to suffer an even more serious impact than Fang Yuan. After all, Fang Yuan had reverse flow protection seal to weaken the strength of the attack as well as the powerful body of the immemorial year monkey.
Duke Long panted heavily, he was not able to move immediately and concentrated on healing his wounds quickly.
At the edge of the battlefield, the immortal treasury was already looted clean by Spectral Soul and his servants, but they had yet to find the Door of Life and Death.
"Strange, the Door of Life and Death was clearly placed here." Fairy Zi Wei frowned.
"Looks like Duke Long has hidden many things from you." Spectral Soul said coldly. The Door of Life and Death was a secluded domain of heaven and earth and contained countless souls. Its importance to Spectral Soul was huge, but unfortunately, they could not find it.
"Master, Fang Yuan is not able to hold on, do we give him a hand to maintain the stalemate and get more time for ourselves?" Old Man Zheng Yuan asked.
Spectral Soul gazed at the battlefield and when he saw Fang Yuan's position, he suddenly smiled: "There is no hurry, there is still a venerable who has not made a move yet."
Fang Yuan was collapsed in his own pool of blood in front of Embroidered Tower.
Three blood skins of Reckless Savage Demon Venerable were sewn in the air. Blown by the violent winds of the battlefield, these three blood skins actually loosened and waved around like banners.
In an instant, Fang Yuan sniffed a dense, fishy stench of blood!
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Chapter 1954 Pursue — Freedom!
Fang Yuan's whole body was bathed in blood and filled with injuries. He snorted coldly and stood up, looking at Embroidered Tower in front of him.
Embroidered Tower was originally a mortal object that was left by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable to his disciple Star Constellation as her dowry. But according to the customs back then, its symbolic meaning was much greater. Later, when Star Constellation became Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, she turned Embroidered Tower into an Immortal Gu House that had extremely mystical powers.
Over a million years ago, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable invaded Heavenly Court. He stormed through Heavenly Court, passing Immortal Emperor Court, Hidden Space Pavilion, Sumeru Lake, Eternal Sand Cave, Million Heavenly King Gallery, Embroidered Tower, Central Great Hall, and finally stopping at Heaven Overseeing Tower.
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable suffered some loss when he reached Embroidered Tower, Embroidered Tower used its trump card method — Dao Embroidery. Seven embroidery needles flew out elegantly. Reckless Savage Demon Venerable was forced to discard three pieces of his skin before he was able to go past it.
These three bloody skins were sewn into the air by countless dao mark threads.
After that, Embroidered Tower's damage could not be repaired. And later, it was used to attack Spectral Soul in Yi Tian Mountain, the new damage added to the previous ones. This damage ruined Embroidered Tower and it could not be of any use right now.
Not only Fang Yuan, even Duke Long and other Gu Immortals saw the movement of the three bloody skins in the air above Embroidered Tower!
They looked like three bloody banners, fluttering savagely in the wind.
The left banner had a bird drawn on it, the bird had six legs but no wings.
The middle bloody banner had a drawing of a beast which was getting increasingly clearer. It opened its mouth but had no teeth.
The right bloody skin had a fish, it grew increasingly vivid and lifelike but it was clear that it had no gills.
Blood skins made wild sounds like an ancient gale that crossed a million years and roared in people's ears. Or like a grand army that went to battle, clashes and collisions of steel and horses resounded!
The blood banners' fluttering continued to amplify in commotion, they were like volcanoes that had been suppressed for countless years or like wild beasts that had accumulated their energy and was about to strike their prey!
Roar—!
The wild beasts roared.
They violently broke the dao mark threads that bound them, and turned into three blood red lights that landed around Fang Yuan.
Three beastly bizarre and resounding roars sounded and the blood red light dissipated, revealing three enormous beasts.
A glowing monstrous yellow bird that was like a small mountain, its six legs were thick and rough, its beak was hard and long, but it had no wings.
An azure-blue leopard with a big belly was sprawled on the ground, it kept on yawning and one could see it did not have even a single tooth.
And a fish with dark green scales was floating in the air, its head was raised high and its mouth was closed tightly. There was no trace of gills next to its eyes. The huge fish was motionless like a jade statue.
The immortals were shaken, even Duke Long's expression turned solemn as he halted his attacks.
"There is an abnormality in the three bloody skins left by Reckless Savage Demon Venerable!"
"These three monsters have such shocking auras."
"Did Fang Yuan trigger a venerable's method?"
"Wait a second, these three monsters, why do they resemble those three recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]?"
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]], chapter four states —
Ren Zu wandered alone on the vast land, his hair was disheveled and he seemed to have lost his mind: at times, he wailed, at times, he sat down in a daze, and at times, he laughed like a fool.
Fate Gu's manipulation had separated him from his children, he also lost wealth Gu, Ren Zu was forced into a state of madness.
"Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?" Ren Zu was at a loss and went crazy again.
One morning, a group of birds ran past Ren Zu.
These birds did not have wings, their six legs moved alternately as they ran on the ground, raising clouds of dust in their path.
Ren Zu jumped with joy when he saw these birds.
"So I am a bird!" He also spread his legs and ran wildly, joining the bird group.
The birds growled strangely towards Ren Zu: "You are a human, you use two legs to walk, you are not a bird. Leave, don't disturb us, we are pursuing freedom Gu, we want to retrieve our freedom."
Ren Zu asked: "Why are you all searching for freedom Gu?"
The birds said with a heavy tone: "We once possessed freedom Gu, but we did not realize that. Only after losing it, we found that we no longer had wings and could not fly anymore. When we regain freedom, we will be able to spread our wings and soar to the sky again."
Ren Zu realized: "I understand, humans also need freedom. If humans don't have freedom, they will be like birds who have lost their wings."
"Right! I remember now!" Ren Zu clapped and laughed madly: "I also need to search for freedom to get rid of fate's shackles. After that, I can go wherever I want to go, and be with whomever I want to be forever."
The birds casted a strange look at Ren Zu: "Oh human, how can you have such preposterous thoughts?"
"Look at us, how can birds not have wings? So, chasing after freedom is part of our duty."
"But you humans are destined to be alone, all gatherings will end up in separation. Oh human, you want to pursue freedom but you also need to abide by your nature, you should not indulge in wild fantasies."
Ren Zu scratched his head, puzzled: "Is that how it works?"
The birds left behind their last words: "Oh human, let us give you some sincere advice. If you obtain freedom in the future, you must cherish it, don't be like us and let go. Don't let freedom Gu fly away, otherwise you will regret it."
After Ren Zu parted ways with the birds, he slowly forgot his identity and goals once again.
One afternoon, a leap of blue leopards passed by him.
The insane Ren Zu saw the group of leopards and shouted in joy: "So I am a leopard."
Ren Zu rushed into the group.
But the leopards pushed him away and shouted: "You are a human, not a leopard. You use two legs to walk, while we have four legs. Leave, don't disturb us. We are pursuing freedom Gu, we want to retrieve our freedom."
Ren Zu asked: "Why are you searching for freedom Gu?"
The blue leopards looked depressed: "Sigh, we once possessed freedom Gu, but we did not realize it. Only after losing it, we found that we no longer had teeth and could not bite and tear apart our prey. When we regain freedom, we will be able to eat happily again."
Ren Zu realized: "I understand, humans also need freedom. If humans don't have freedom, they will be like beasts with no teeth."
"Right!" Ren Zu clapped and laughed madly: "I need to search for freedom to get rid of fate's shackles. I will possess countless delicacies and wines, endless wealth, and all kinds of comfortable and beautiful clothes."
The blue leopards were stunned before laughing loudly as they mocked Ren Zu: "Oh human, how can you have such preposterous thoughts?"
"Look at us, how can beasts not have fangs or claws? So, chasing after freedom is part of our duty."
"But you humans were born with empty hands and will pass away with nothing. Oh human, you want to pursue freedom but you also need to abide by your nature, you should not indulge in wild fantasies."
Ren Zu scratched his head, unsatisfied: "Is that how it works?"
The leopards left behind their final words: "Oh human, let us give you some sincere advice. If you obtain freedom in the future, you must cherish it, don't be like us and let go. Don't let freedom Gu fly away, otherwise you will regret it."
After Ren Zu parted ways with the leopards, he slowly forgot his identity and goals once again.
One evening, a school of fish swam past him.
Ren Zu saw the fish and shouted in joy: "So I am a fish."
Ren Zu joined the fish group and tried to swim like them.
There was a commotion in the fish group as they pushed Ren Zu away and shouted: "You are a human, not a fish. You use two legs to walk, while we have no legs. Leave, don't disturb us. We are pursuing freedom Gu, we want to retrieve our freedom."
Ren Zu asked: "Why are you searching for freedom Gu?"
The fish sighed: "We once possessed freedom Gu, but we did not realize that. Only after losing it, we found that we no longer had gills and could not breathe in the water again. When we regain freedom, we will be able to swim in the water again."
Ren Zu realized: "I understand, humans also need freedom. If humans don't have freedom, they will be like fish with no gills and cannot breathe."
"Right!" Ren Zu clapped and laughed madly: "I need to search for freedom to get rid of fate's shackles. I will breathe freely and live on forever, I want eternal life!"
The fish sneered: "Oh human, how can you have such preposterous thoughts?"
"Look at us, a fish must have gills, so chasing after freedom is part of our duty."
"But you humans are destined to have no relation with eternal life, you will die of old age and illnesses. Oh human, you want to pursue freedom but you also need to abide by your nature, you should not indulge in wild fantasies."
Ren Zu frowned, feeling irritated: "Is that how it works?"
The fishes left behind their final words: "Oh human, let us give you some sincere advice. If you obtain freedom in the future, you must cherish it, don't be like us and let go. Don't let freedom Gu fly away, otherwise you will regret it."
After Ren Zu parted ways with the fishes, he slowly forgot the advice of the birds, leopards, and the fish.
"I am a human, I need to pursue freedom!"
"I need to get rid of the shackles of fate, I want to live forever with my loved ones, I want to enjoy life with enough wealth, I want to live on forever."
Many beings that walked past Ren Zu heard him, they shook their heads and stayed away from him.
"Let's quickly leave, he is Ren Zu and he is talking nonsense again."
"He has already gone mad completely."
"How could he dare to have such thoughts?"
One day, freedom Gu flew towards Ren Zu on its own accord.
Ren Zu was joyous as he grabbed it.
"Oh freedom, I finally obtained freedom." Ren Zu was extremely happy but also felt puzzled as he asked freedom Gu: "This is really strange, the wingless birds are pursuing you, the toothless beasts are pursuing you, the gill-less fish are pursuing you, but you flew to me, what is going on here?"
Freedom Gu replied: "I didn't fly to you, human, you once used attitude Gu to bully me, used love to bind me, and used wealth to bribe me. I loathe and hate you! I flew over because I was attracted by the cognition Gu on you."
Cognition Gu floated out of Ren Zu's body and explained with a smile: "Ren Zu, because you have gone mad, you are thinking deliriously all the time. A human that desires companionship forever, a human who has an extravagant hope of living a life with no worries, a human who pursues eternal life; what else can this be other than a lunatic?"
Freedom Gu sighed: "Freedom of cognition is the greatest freedom. These delirious thoughts can strengthen me. Ren Zu, although you captured me, I will never work for you. Release me now!"
Ren Zu shook his head and grasped even tighter: "Freedom Gu, I will not let you go."
Freedom Gu sneered: "Then prepare yourself, don't collapse from the pressure."
The moment it finished speaking, responsibility Gu flew over, pressing on Ren Zu's shoulder.
"Heavy, so heavy!" Ren Zu almost bent over from the pressure.
Cognition Gu sighed: "Freedom and responsibility coexist, oh Ren Zu, you want to obtain freedom so you need to shoulder the responsibility. At least, you need to be responsible for yourself."
Ren Zu clenched his teeth and persevered, sweat flowed down his body like a river, soon, he knelt down on the ground.
He saw spider webs again.
Fate Gu's spider silk wrapped around his whole body. Ren Zu was barely shouldering the heavy responsibility and had no strength to break free from the spider silk's bindings.
Fate Gu's spider silk constricted tightly, forming blood wounds everywhere on Ren Zu's body.
Ren Zu shouted: "What is going on?"
Cognition Gu explained: "Oh human, the more freedom you experience, the more you will feel the restriction around you."
Freedom Gu laughed: "Just let me go, the longer you hold on to me, the more spider silk will bind you, the binding will become tighter and will even constrict you to death!"
Ren Zu shook his head: "No, I won't let go, oh freedom Gu, I must have you!"
Countless spider silk pierced into Ren Zu's flesh, Ren Zu howled in pain and rolled on the ground but did not let go.
"Hahaha!" Ren Zu began laughing foolishly again: "I can sense a Gu far away. Just this feeling alone makes me happy and satisfied."
Cognition Gu admitted frankly: "That is natural. Whoever obtains freedom Gu will also be able to sense the location of happiness Gu."
Ren Zu continued to persevere, he cried in pain at times and laughed happily at other times. The spider silk constricted tightly, tearing into his bones and leaving deep marks on them, but Ren Zu still did not loosen his hands.
In the end, he fainted from the pain.
After a long time, he slowly woke up.
Fate Gu's spider silk was no longer constricting him, responsibility Gu also did not exert heavy pressure, while cognition Gu had disappeared.
"Wait, what about freedom Gu?" Ren Zu did not sense freedom Gu's existence, and in his moment of panic, he opened his hands.
The moment a gap appeared, freedom Gu flew away and left Ren Zu behind.
Humans often did not understand freedom when they possessed it, only after losing it, they would come to a sudden realization.
Ren Zu was stunned when he saw freedom Gu flying away, he remembered the advice of the birds, leopards, and fish, he felt extremely regretful.
He tore out his hair painfully and rolled on the ground.
"I am better off dead." Ren Zu was overwhelmed with grief: "I would rather lose love, I would rather lose my life, I don't want to lose freedom!"
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Chapter 1955 Crucial Person at the Crucial Time
In Heavenly Court's battlefield, be they enemies or allies, everyone's gazes were gathered at one place!
Fang Yuan looked around him, he was surrounded by the three giant monsters. But the three giant monsters did not do anything to him, they were instead guarding him and looking at the surroundings with hostility, their affiliation could be seen with one glance.
"Reckless Savage Demon Venerable…" Fang Yuan's expression was one of shock.
"Even if Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's method is helping you, you will still be defeated!!" Duke Long shouted, his voice resounding throughout the surroundings. He swooped down from the air like a red meteor, his determination did not waver even in front of Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's method — He was going to exterminate all demons, he would quell all opposition in the world!
Immortal killer move — Qi Breath Mountain.
Duke Long's palms aimed at Fang Yuan from afar and pushed.
Rumble!
With a loud sound, a giant qi mountain pressed down towards Fang Yuan and the three monsters.
Through triple qi retraction, Duke Long had a massive amount of qi path dao marks. Right now, all his qi path killer moves like qi breath mountain had their power amplified by countless times.
This qi mountain was much larger than before, its composition was also extremely solid. Be it in quality or quantity, both had a breakthrough!
Seeing this scene, whether it was Wu Yong, Bing Sai Chuan or others, they all revealed solemn expressions.
Just this qi breath mountain was difficult to resist, the best method was to dodge. But after qi breath mountain, there was a monstrous expert like Duke Long who could block all escape routes!
Fang Yuan clenched his teeth and was about to move.
But right at this moment, one of the three monsters transformed from the blood skins, the giant blue leopard, suddenly opened its mouth and took a deep breath.
Boom.
The whole qi breath mountain shrank rapidly and was absorbed by some formless force into the blue leopard's belly!
The immortals were given a great shock, food path cultivator Zhao Shan He's pupils shrank as he saw signs of food path from the blue leopard's body.
Even Duke Long was stunned.
This powerful qi breath mountain was actually broken this directly.
After the blue leopard swallowed the qi breath mountain, its shriveled belly bulged by ten percent. Its eyes glistened as it stared at Duke Long with a chilling gaze like it was looking at a luxurious dinner!
Duke Long was utterly fearless, the three monsters might be unfathomable, but he still charged towards Fang Yuan. His speed even increased, bursting the air and producing sonic booms.
Fang Yuan was fully prepared for combat when one of the three monsters, the green fish, moved.
It only waved its tail slightly when it appeared before Duke Long all of a sudden. Its speed was so fast that it looked like instant teleportation, but it did not feel abrupt at all, everything happened smoothly and fluidly!
Duke Long's field of vision had been wide a second ago, but now, his whole sight was filled with the enormous body of the fish monster.
The fish monster slammed its head fiercely.
Boom!
The monster's head directly sent Duke Long flying with speed that was faster than earlier when he arrived.
He possessed transformation path and qi path dao marks, he was unprecedentedly strong. After using triple qi retraction several times, he did not even need nine dragons protection to guard against ordinary rank eight attacks! But when he knocked into the fish monster's head, he felt like he had used his bare fist to strike a boulder!
In an instant, all the bones in Duke Long's body shattered, his internal organs almost burst from the force, there were massive amounts of internal and external bleeding.
"Triple qi retraction!" Duke Long shouted, his sharply declining qi surged immediately.
Duke Long immediately activated qi path healing methods, and with shocking speed, his injuries recovered in a few breaths of time.
But because he chose to heal himself, he let himself crash through all the way, directly crashing into the boundary of Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court was a shared grotto-heaven, its limits were the aperture walls. Duke Long crashed into the aperture walls, the enormous force that still remained in his body poured into the aperture walls in the sky.
The immortals heard a loud collision, then they saw several cracks suddenly appearing in the sky behind Duke Long before quickly spreading like a spider web.
The immortals could not help but draw in sharp breaths.
The strength of the fish monster's attack was simply unimaginable! Even Duke Long seemed to be unable to resist it.
And the fish monster was only an arrangement left behind by Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, it had already existed for over a million years but it still had such might.
If so, how much strength did Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, who left this method, have?
Simply unimaginable!
The immortals recalled the evaluation about Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, he was publicly recognized as the venerable with the highest physical strength.
And now they saw this sight, it was truly so!
"This is Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's method!"
"We have not lost yet, we can still fight."
"Lord Duke Long has returned, his injuries have recovered and his aura has become even stronger!"
"What are you afraid of? We have the fully repaired fate Gu, the heavenly fate sides with us!"
The three regions' Gu Immortals felt shocked and exulted at the unexpected reinforcements of three powerful beings, and their morale soared. Heavenly Court's immortals similarly had a high morale, they had complete confidence in fate Gu and Duke Long.
Duke Long once again swooped in and fought with the three monsters. But he learned his lesson this time and prioritized using qi path's long range attacks, avoiding close combat.
These three giant monsters' strength was truly horrifying, even Duke Long did not want to be sent flying so miserably again.
His battle tactic was wise, the three giant monsters had terrifying strength but they had almost no methods.
After exchanging a dozen or so moves, Duke Long got a clearer understanding of them.
The six legged yellow bird's speed was extremely fast and could shoot out yellow lightning from its mouth, but it was unable to fly. Its beak was extremely hard and sharp, even able to pierce through Immortal Gu Houses.
The green fish monster could float around with speed that was akin to teleportation of space path, it appeared extremely seamlessly and caught enemies off-guard. It could recover from any attacks almost instantaneously. Its strongest aspect was this — a horrifying regeneration rate that was much stronger than Duke Long using his qi path healing methods. But it had a weakness, its attack was fierce but the tempo was slow, the frequency of attacks was also quite low. After attacking once, it would be still for a while before it could attack again.
As for the toothless blue leopard, it could fly by stepping on air. Its strongest method was to devour all attacks. Not only this, it could even devour the heroes among people killer move from Gu Immortals' bodies. This sight made Zhao Shan He feel dazzled. His food path methods were far from being able to devour amplifications, this contained food path profundities that he did not possess. If he could comprehend this, his enlightenment of food path would definitely progress one step further!
At the same time, the toothless blue leopard's greatest weakness was also this almost innate devouring ability. Every time it devoured, its belly would bulge. After Duke Long and others intentionally fed it various attacks, the toothless blue leopard's belly had become round and full, it started having trouble moving.
However, even though Heavenly Court's side had probed the three monsters' details, they still could not defend against them and were gradually falling into a disadvantage.
The three monsters had flaws, their strengths and weaknesses were extremely conspicuous. But no one dared to block their brutish rampage.
Adding in Fang Yuan, Wu Yong, Bing Sai Chuan, Shen Cong Sheng, Song Qi Yuan, and the rest supporting from the side, as well as restraining and getting rid of Heavenly Court's various methods, Heavenly Court's side was in a passive situation.
The three monsters' target was Heaven Overseeing Tower, they seemed to have an enormous hatred towards fate Gu.
Heaven Overseeing Tower did not dare to confront the three monsters' power, it could only retreat constantly. To defend Heaven Overseeing Tower, Duke Long shouldered huge pressure and was heavily injured time and time again, retreating to heal his injuries before joining the battle again. His purple hair was swaying wildly, his eyes were bloodshot, his whole body was bathed in blood that dyed his scales completely! His fighting spirit kept on rising, it had not fallen once.
Both sides fought around the three monsters and Heaven Overseeing Tower. The attacks went back and forth, it was highly intense. The battle kept on moving, wherever it went, the aftermath of the terrifying killer moves destroyed everything, creating countless ruins. The great Heavenly Court that was managed meticulously by Gu Immortals was heavily damaged from this battle.
Just as the three regions' Gu Immortals were firmly holding onto the upper hand, Heaven Overseeing Tower suddenly stopped.
At the next moment, immortal killer move fate vanquish burst out again.
"Careful!" Wu Yong shouted. The three regions' Gu Immortals were already on guard and reacted quickly.
After the white light dissipated, explosions resounded in Heavenly Court battlefield once again as the battle resumed.
But this time, Heavenly Court held the momentum. The three regions' Gu Immortals could only defend while repairing the Immortal Gu Houses' and their own injuries.
The three regions' Gu Immortals gradually found their footing. Compared to the first fate vanquish attack, their situation was much better. The reason was that they had three giant monsters to rely on.
The giant monsters rampaged around the battlefield, under their attacks, Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were gradually dragged into a stalemate before being suppressed by the three regions' Gu Immortals again.
At this time, Heaven Overseeing Tower activated fate vanquish again.
After this happened over and over again, the whole of Heavenly Court was filled with ruins.
The three monsters' aura had clearly fallen, the Gu Immortals' offense was also not as fierce as before. They were at a point where they had to consider the issue of immortal essence expenditure.
"Damn it, the situation is becoming increasingly bad." Wu Yong's face was solemn, the three monsters were weakening from the repeated devastation of fate vanquish
"Back then, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable failed in his invasion of Heavenly Court, these three giant monsters are only arrangements left by him, they naturally won't be able to resist the power of fate vanquish!" Bing Sai Chuan's heart was turning cold.
If the three regions' Gu Immortals failed to obtain a breakthrough when the three monsters were still active, they would definitely suffer a miserable and disastrous defeat after that.
This was something extremely obvious!
But Heavenly Court's side used the wisest battle tactic. They moved continuously while avoiding the enemy's attacks, making the enemy expend more energy. Especially, when fate vanquish activated, the advantage the three regions' Gu Immortals obtained with difficulty turned into nothing, everything went back to square one.
And because they had Demon Judgment Board and Heaven Overseeing Tower, there was always a base camp around the front lines. The moment the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals faced danger, they could hide inside, thus there were no casualties. Naturally, this was also because the offense had weakened as both sides were beginning to conserve immortal essence.
"Master, the situation does not look good. Even Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's method cannot change the outcome. The current Heavenly Court has an intact fate Gu after all." Far away, Fairy Zi Wei was analyzing coolly.
Spectral Soul had already recovered his human form but his body was translucent. He held his hands behind his back as he observed the battlefield before glancing at the far away Imperfection Regret Pavilion.
Inside Imperfection Regret Pavilion, the two venerables' silhouettes were still playing chess.
The chessboard was already filled with chess pieces, but the mysterious thing was whenever the venerable silhouette put down a piece, there would always be another free spot.
However, compared to before, the frequency of the two venerables placing the chess pieces had reduced by a lot.
Star Constellation's silhouette held a chess piece and looked at the chessboard before glancing towards Spectral Soul's direction.
"Are you okay with this? Spectral Soul stole a portion of the results of our game." Star Constellation's silhouette said.
Limitless' silhouette laughed: "Since he could get free and even steal our results, this is his own capability. These gains will help him, I am looking forward to the day when he can reach the realm that we were unable to reach."
Star Constellation's silhouette was silent for a while before sighing: "You are truly a pure Dao pursuer."
"Unfortunately, heaven and earth is a cage that stopped me from pursuing my Dao." Limitless' silhouette said: "Which is why I want to pursue freedom."
Star Constellation's silhouette immediately refuted: "Your freedom, however, will break this cage. And we both know what kind of scenery exists outside this cage!"
Limitless' silhouette shook his head: "Our positions are different, saying anything else is of no benefit."
His silhouette was becoming increasingly illusory right now, only his eyes were still bright and letting out sharp lights. Limitless' silhouette held a chess piece and looked at the chessboard for a long while, but he did not place the piece.
This match had already reached the most crucial point.
On the chessboard, Limitless' silhouette's situation was very bad, he was greatly disadvantaged. His pieces were surrounded from every direction by Star Constellation's silhouette's chess pieces, she had an obvious superiority.
Even though it was because of Heavenly Court's accumulations, it was enough for Limitless' silhouette to see the strength of his opponent, Star Constellation.
Star Constellation's will was resisting heaven's will on one hand, while also making arrangements throughout the five regions, she thought of countless aspects, her plans spanned across the past and present, throughout the universe. Forget about the arrangements that made three venerables' invasions fail, just look at the current situation, Spectral Soul had regained freedom but did not obtain the Door of Life and Death.
This was probably Star Constellation's ploy, even Fairy Zi Wei was in the dark, which was not likely to happen with just Duke Long's scheming ability.
Indeed, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was worthy of being the only wisdom path venerable in history!
However, Limitless' silhouette had not lost yet. His main chess pieces were all gathered together, the opponent could hardly defeat them. A forceful attack would definitely result in heavy losses, and it would also give the initiative to Limitless' silhouette instead.
But for Limitless' silhouette to counterattack and break through by himself, he was still lacking some strength. The whole encirclement was a dense congregation of the plans of Star Constellation's silhouette, if Limitless' silhouette attacked rashly, he would fall into a trap.
Thus, Limitless' silhouette could only choose to defend while waiting for reinforcement.
This game between two venerables that had started in the Olden Antiquity Era and continued for a million years, it had finally welcomed the most crucial moment!
Indeed, Limitless' silhouette still had reinforcements.
He had waited for a million years for this aid, both sides were aware of it.
"Now, we have to see the quality of our pieces." Star Constellation's silhouette swept her gaze through the battlefield, when it stopped at Fang Yuan's body, her gaze revealed complicated expressions.
Limitless' silhouette was similarly looking in the same direction, mumbling: "Oh Fang Yuan, you have been like this since the start. You… how long are you planning to conceal your abilities?"
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Chapter 1956 A Man Must Be Cool!
Fang Yuan had all along been fighting on the front lines.
On one hand, he had been fighting with Duke Long and the rest, on the other hand, he kept on maintaining a cold and indifferent expression while pondering about the overall situation.
But ever since Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's method activated, he had an extra voice resounding in his ears.
"Have a good look, junior! The three monsters in front of you were transformed from my three immortal moves. These three immortal moves were created from the insights I gained after reading 'Pursuing Freedom' in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], they were all created to pursue freedom."
"First move — Thunder Rush Yellow Bird Transformation, it uses attitude Gu as the core. Have you ever envied birds and wanted to fly freely in the sky? However, we humans are restricted since birth, we don't have wings, why even talk about flying? But an even crueler situation is like the wingless birds, they already experienced the wonderful feeling of flying but they lost their wings. No matter who you are, where you are, you will face all sorts of limitations. If we are unable to change, unable to break away from all these, we will be like wingless birds, pursuing freedom but unable to catch it, what should we do then?"
"This is the core concept of this move, remember it, junior. Even if we face the strictest restrictions and are unable to pursue freedom, we still have a kind of freedom, we can freely choose what kind of attitude we use to face the cruel reality. Remember, your attitude is very important!"
"Second move — Devouring Blue Leopard Transformation, it uses mutation Gu as the core. Freedom is not a bad thing, but it is also not a good thing either. It can make you better and can also make you worse, just like the effect of mutation Gu. The fierce beast lacks teeth, but does that mean it can't live on? If it does not have the freedom to bite, what's the harm in devouring the food? Maybe it can even train your digestive system to become stronger."
"Third move — Internal Breathing Green Fish Transformation, it uses adaptation Gu as the core. Compared to it, how ugly does the world seem? We are assaulted by cruel facts, we are tormented by pain and hopelessness. When we are walking our respective paths, we will be covered in bruises sometimes, even being exposed with nowhere to escape. Humans change, the world is also going through countless changes, if we cannot keep up with the changes of time, we will be left behind by the whole world. Therefore, adaptation is key. If you don't have gills, use your mouth to breath; if you don't even have a mouth, then create a self-circulating internal respiratory system. Even if that means you have to walk slowly, even if you become nothing like a human in the end."
The voice was powerful and forceful as it explained the origins and details of the three monsters. These monsters were transformed from three transformation path killer moves left behind by Reckless Savage Demon Venerable.
After Fang Yuan triggered Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's method, this voice had peculiarly accompanied Fang Yuan, but no one else could detect it.
"Is this Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's voice?" Just as Fang Yuan was guessing, the voice changed.
From the stable and serious voice to a lively and flippant tone.
"Hey, you have already spoken so much, it's my turn, it's my turn!"
"Haha, kid, no matter who you are, you are definitely an otherworldly demon. Because only an otherworldly demon has hope of destroying fate Gu. So, when I left behind this true inheritance back then, I made it so that only an otherworldly demon can inherit it."
"But besides this, you still need to possess at least one of three Gu worms - attitude Gu, mutation Gu, and adaptation Gu. These three Gu worms correspond to three killer moves that can trigger my killer moves. When you arrive in the sky above Embroidered Tower, you can summon the giant monsters transformed by the killer moves and they shall be your strongest helping hand."
"Use them however you please, kill or loot if you like, or help people if you wish to. Of course, the best use would be to destroy fate Gu because seeing it really annoys me. Hahaha!"
"Of course, if you can trigger all three moves, then you can merge them into one move! This is a super, super, super powerful killer move that I created with great effort!"
"Once you grasp this move, you can use your human form to possess all the advantages of the three moves, moreover, there is no weakness in any aspect. That means, you will be like the wingless bird, moving as fast as lightning and shooting out lightning. You will also be like the gill-less fish, possessing extremely powerful regeneration ability. You will be like the toothless beast as well, devouring everything and storing them into your stomach."
"Are you stupefied? Isn't it super amazing? Hahaha, come, bow before me!"
The flippant male voice spoke until here, when it seemed like it was kicked out and was replaced by the previous solemn male voice.
"The final combination move is called incomplete freedom transformation, it has three cores - Attitude, Mutation, and Adaptation. It has numerous steps and is highly complicated. Although you can use the three monsters to merge them into one, which is much easier than you using them independently, I still ask you to not attempt it lightly. Because this move's effect works on your body, if it fails, you will be heavily injured at best, or even die in severe cases. Bear this in mind, bear this in mind!"
The heavy and solemn voice spoke earnestly, but soon, the previous flippant voice replaced it.
"Please, what you said is not important at all! Kid, let me tell you the important point! Once you activate this move successfully, you will have the strength to suppress all immemorial desolate plants and immemorial desolate beasts, the three monsters' methods will become your innate abilities. You will become a human shaped beast that can battle through heaven and earth, rampaging around all over the world unhindered! You will immediately possess quasi venerable battle strength!"
"Of course, if you meet an old venerable like me, you will still kneel in the end."
"But these are not the most important points. There is one most crucial point, you must remember it."
Fang Yuan could not help but concentrate as he heard this.
He then heard that flippant and lively voice continue: "The most important part of the most important thing is once you activate this move, the three monsters will combine into a bloody cape and will hang on your back. This cape is truly… super cool! Junior, you must try it, it is really too stunning, you absolutely won't regret it!"
Fang Yuan was speechless.
Following the voice, all kinds of information flowed in his mind, allowing him to understand all the contents of the three killer moves clearly.
Different from what the voice described, these three killer moves and the combination move were not complex at all and their steps were also not numerous.
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable lived in the Olden Antiquity Era after all, Gu cultivation styles were not overwhelming and were crude back then, unlike the present age's delicate complexity.
It was not difficult to master these killer moves, especially for Fang Yuan who possessed deep wisdom path attainment.
"So, I should combine it like this…" Fang Yuan's thoughts finished as he suddenly retreated and activated a killer move.
In an instant, the three monsters that were fighting at the front lines turned into three light rays - yellow, blue, green - and entered Fang Yuan's body.
Such a strange change caught both sides unprepared.
The three lights covered Fang Yuan, emitting a majestic aura that spread in all directions and repelled all beings and objects.
The three lights merged quickly and turned blood red.
The blood red light suddenly condensed into one and covered Fang Yuan's back, turning into a large blood red cape.
The cape fluttered with the wind like a war banner; the fluttering sounds echoed in every person's ears.
"What change occurred again?"
"It seems like Fang Yuan inherited Reckless Savage true inheritance?!"
Both allies and enemies were shocked once again.
Looking at this familiar cape, inside Imperfection Regret Pavilion, Star Constellation's silhouette recalled past memories.
A million years ago, a man charged into Heavenly Court.
He walked step by step, the ordinary steps, however, shook the land and sky of Heavenly Court.
He was clothed in beast skin, his body was extremely robust with muscles bursting out. Tattoos covered all the skin on his body, portraying countless beasts and plants of all shapes and sizes, some were vicious beasts, some were smart and exquisite life forms.
The aura he released was as lofty as mountains and as vast as oceans. The Heavenly Court immortals only took one look at him and felt a suffocating pressure.
He was wearing a cape. This beast skin cape was extremely wide and was sewn using human skins. It suited a large physique like Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's, if this were an ordinary person, a large portion of the cape would be dragging on the ground.
Every time Reckless Savage Demon Venerable killed a rank eight enemy, he would peel their skin and sew onto the beast skin cape. This was the custom of the beastman race, but Reckless Savage had learned and imitated it in his youth, before he became a venerable.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!
Halfway through Heavenly Court, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable stopped in front of Embroidered Tower.
In the air, Star Constellation's will manifested: "Reckless Savage, you cannot destroy fate Gu. Your strength originates from your fate. It is like how you cannot lift yourself up without relying on other methods."
"Of course I know this." Reckless Savage Demon Venerable laughed.
"Then what did you come for?"
"To fight!" Reckless Savage Demon Venerable raised his head and said it as a matter of fact with a flippant voice.
Star Constellation's will: "…"
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable continued to laugh: "After becoming venerable and being invincible in the world, I felt an intense loneliness! No one could fight with me, I have killed almost all those variant human rank eights, the old and weak ones that are still alive have all hidden themselves. I also don't have the interest to find them. Looking at the five regions, only Heavenly Court is somewhat interesting. To protect fate Gu, you guys must have left behind many methods. Even Limitless was stopped by you back then. Come, use all your methods, let us have a match."
Star Constellation's will was silent for a long while before entering Embroidered Tower: "This Immortal Gu House in front of you is one of the methods my main body left behind."
"Roar!" Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's eyes brightened: "If so, I am attacking!"
The battle ended quickly.
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable clenched his fists and licked his lips, mumbling unsatisfied: "What is this, after just two or three moves, your Embroidered Tower is almost on the verge of collapse. But the start was pretty good. Relax, I won't destroy your tower, we are all humans after all."
"Also, I will leave behind these three bloody skins. This is my inheritance!"
"No matter who, even if it is someone from your Heavenly Court, if they can inherit my inheritance, then it shall belong to them."
"Treat it as a memento of my visit to Heavenly Court. Don't dismantle it, hehehe."
"I am really looking forward to it. I wonder which junior will obtain my inheritance, will they be shaken by my grand strength, or be bowled over by my incredible thinking?"
"Haha, it naturally is best for this junior to destroy fate Gu. If they can't do this, I will truly be displeased!"
Star Constellation's will was silent for a long while before speaking: "So your intention is to destroy fate Gu."
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable shrugged his shoulders: "That goes without saying. I have left my bloody skins here, if you have the skill, then destroy them! But I will leave you some kind advice, these three bloody skins are already connected with Heavenly Court's dao marks. If you attack them recklessly, it will be the most direct attack towards Heavenly Court. Unless there is someone who has transformation path attainment rivaling mine, no one will be able to safely dismantle it."
Star Constellation's will spoke: "There is a better way for you to destroy fate Gu, be an Immortal Venerable, become the Lord of Heavenly Court and be in contact with fate Gu all the time. I think with your wisdom, you will definitely think of a way to destroy fate Gu."
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable directly shook his head without even thinking: "I don't want to!"
Star Constellation's will frowned: "Why?"
"Because the title of Demon Venerable sounds much cooler than Immortal Venerable!"
Star Constellation's will: "…"
It was strange, when Reckless Savage Demon Venerable said this reason, it actually gave off a feeling of being a natural fact.
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable turned around and looked at himself before waving his arms: "Take a good look!"
"Look at my thighs, they are so sturdy. Look at my arms, they are so muscular and well-defined."
"This is beauty, this is coolness!"
"And this cape, it is so bloody, it is also created from human skins, how domineering is it!"
Star Constellation's will was unable to think properly for a moment, it could only respond after a good while: "So, you created this cape not for payback and revenge against variant humans?"
"Of course, there is the secondary reason, but the important thing is still its coolness!"
Star Constellation's will: "…"
"Oh oh, right. These three bloody skins can combine into one move and its form is a bloody cape. It is quite similar to the one I use now. If there is a junior who wears it in the future, they will definitely be extremely cool beyond belief!"
"Men!" Reckless Savage Demon Venerable raised his arms and bent his elbows, showing his bulging muscles and praising himself: "Must be this cool."
...
Chapter 1957 Final Showdown
Because of the change in Fang Yuan's body, the fight in the battlefield had paused temporarily.
Duke Long was the first to react.
Immortal killer move — Spiraling Dragon Fang!
Fang Yuan's condition was unknown, the three monsters actually transformed into a blood-soaked cape that hung on his back. Duke Long did not dare to be overconfident, he still had apprehension from the attacks of the three monsters, so he used a long range attack, spiraling dragon fangs, to probe.
Dragon fangs, sharp as blades, danced in the air. Fang Yuan did not dodge, he wanted to test his current defensive strength.
Chink chink chink!
Dragon fangs slashed his body, producing a series of sparks. After wearing the bloody cape, Fang Yuan's defensive strength had increased to an outrageous level.
Duke Long's pupils shrank at this sight.
Fang Yuan's current defensive strength was already much higher than his, there were at least white marks left behind on Duke Long's dragon scales if he let the dragon fangs strike him. But there was no damage to Fang Yuan, not even a trace of marks or wounds could be seen.
"The defensive strength is so astonishing, other aspects should also be similar." Looking at how Fang Yuan dealt with the dragon fang killer move, the immortals had such thoughts.
Heavenly Court's side was very wary, while the three regions' Gu Immortals looked at Fang Yuan with eager anticipation.
These Gu Immortals did not know that Fang Yuan's ears were ringing with criticism at this moment: "Kid, you are the junior who inherited my true inheritance? Damn it, you look really ugly! Look at yourself, your face is like a woman's, your arms and legs are so thin. How can your skin be so white and smooth? Where is your toughness as a man? Heavens! My inheritance is wasted in your hands."
Fang Yuan: "…"
During the process of combining the three monsters into incomplete freedom transformation, Fang Yuan needed to transfer his own will. However, after the bloody cape formed, Fang Yuan's will transformed into Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's image, turning into Reckless Savage's will!
This method was truly inconceivable! This showed that Reckless Savage might be a transformation path Gu Immortal but he also had an astonishing attainment in wisdom path.
However, Fang Yuan soon discovered that the source of the will transformation were the three monsters. As far as he was concerned, the so-called 'Reckless Savage's will' possessed no harm to him but had many benefits instead.
Reckless Savage's will could attend to the bloody cape and help maintain the killer move, he could even quicken Fang Yuan's understanding of the true meaning behind incomplete freedom transformation!
"Kid, make a move quickly. After so many years, there is not much left of the strength left behind by my main body. Quick, quick, charge, destroy fate Gu!" Reckless Savage's will laughed loudly as he clamored in impatience.
"You talk too much, can you shut up?" Fang Yuan replied indifferently.
"Eh!" Reckless Savage's will was stunned, he placed his hands on his cheeks and shouted in disbelief: "I was scorned upon! I, the great Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, was actually scorned by a junior! And by such an ugly guy at that!!"
Reckless Savage's will kept on mumbling. Who could have expected the domineering Reckless Savage Demon Venerable to be such a chatterbox?!
Even without his reminder, Fang Yuan could sense that although incomplete freedom transformation was terrifyingly powerful, it consumed the foundation of the three monsters very quickly.
This move had a time limit.
"Since that is the case…" Fang Yuan squinted, looking at Heaven Overseeing Tower wickedly.
At that instant, every Heavenly Court Gu Immortal controlling Heaven Overseeing Tower felt a chill in their hearts!
"Be careful of Fang Yuan!"
"He is attacking!!"
"Steady, steady!"
Heavenly Court's side was tense, their nerves stretched to the limits.
Boom!
At the next moment, Fang Yuan attacked. His figure crossed the sky like a bloody ray, he was directly charging towards the area with the most enemies — Heaven Overseeing Tower!
Fang Yuan's speed was so astonishing that even Duke Long, who was already fully prepared, felt a great shock.
"Fang Yuan, stop!" Duke Long reacted and chased with all his strength.
"Hehehe, it is finally getting interesting." On the edge of the battlefield, Spectral Soul laughed loudly and commanded: "Old Man Zheng Yuan, start, activate everybody's vision. I want everyone in the world to see this interesting sight."
"Yes, master." Old Man Zheng Yuan was a key that held the authority to activate Heavenly Court's venerable human path methods.
And this move, everybody's vision, was created by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable. Its unique power had been shown in Fang Yuan's previous life.
It used people's united hearts as the foundation and could let Central Continent's mortals, Gu Masters, and Gu Immortals share their vision. As such, the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals could observe all the enemy activities in Central Continent and could even stimulate the hatred of Central Continent's people, gathering even more human will.
The more human will they accumulated, the more power the other human path killer moves like heroes among people would possess. In such a feedback loop, their strength would keep on growing stronger, this was the style that Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's killer moves had.
Immortal killer move — Everybody's Vision!
In an instant, Central Continent was in an uproar, the five regions were in an uproar.
"What in the world is going on?"
"My eyes, my eyes have a problem!"
Mortals were shocked.
"It is the scene in Heavenly Court, what kind of method is this, it can allow everyone to witness the current situation!"
"Which side has the upper hand?"
Almost all the Gu Immortals of the five regions knew the inside story.
In the previous life, Central Continent's people enjoyed the effects of everybody's vision, but in this life, because of Shen Shang's interference, human wills of the five regions were gathered together.
Because of this, everybody's vision allowed everyone in the five regions to observe the battle in Heavenly Court.
The first scene the five regions' mortals saw was Fang Yuan fighting his way to Heaven Overseeing Tower!
"Who is that person?" Even ordinary mortals felt intense suffocation when they saw Fang Yuan's overbearing aura.
"Fang Yuan, you won't succeed!" At the crucial moment, Gu Yue Fang Zheng and Qin Ding Ling controlled Demon Judgment Board to defend in front of Heaven Overseeing Tower.
"That is the rank eight Immortal Gu House — Demon Judgment Board!" The Gu Immortals who saw this scene, no matter which region they belonged to, cried out in shock.
"Fang Yuan is not stopping, he is charging right into Demon Judgment Board!"
"Has he gone crazy?"
"This is a rank eight Immortal Gu House."
However, at the next moment, the mouths of the five regions' Gu Immortals opened wide in shock.
Fang Yuan directly collided into Demon Judgment Board.
The enormous collision force sent Demon Judgment Board flying, even though Gu Yue Fang Zheng and Qin Ding Ling were already controlling the Immortal Gu House with all their strength.
"Get lost!" Fang Yuan shouted as he punched with great force.
A huge dent appeared on Demon Judgment Board, countless fragments scattered and turned into Gu worm corpses.
Gu Yue Fang Zheng coughed out a large mouthful of blood and fell on the ground with a horrified expression on his face. Fang Yuan's punch had almost pierced Demon Judgment Board!
After Demon Judgment Board was knocked down, Fang Yuan stomped it fiercely, an enormous and irresistible force pressed down on Demon Judgment Board like a mountain and it rapidly fell to the ground.
Fang Yuan jumped, his speed increasing as he continued charging towards Heaven Overseeing Tower.
But the next moment, Duke Long had already caught up to Fang Yuan.
"Fang Yuan!" He shouted wildly, his voice shaking the skies.
Fang Yuan turned around, his bloody cape swung and he started punching, creating a storm of fist shadows!
Duke Long had come prepared with a killer move, his palm pressed, it was qi breath mountain.
His left hand then formed into a claw shape as he activated immortal killer move dragon claw strike, while his right hand clenched into fist and activated chaotic dragon fist. At the same time, he spat his fangs, they turned into countless spiraling dragon fangs which moved around his body. The dragon images of nine dragons protection on his body floated out on their own initiative.
Bam Bam Bam Bam…
Fang Yuan and Duke Long fought fiercely, exchanging blows with each fist hitting raw flesh.
On one side was an inheritor of various venerables, an otherworldly demon, on the other side was a Dao Guardian, master of an Immortal Venerable. Their fight had broken the record of intensity in this battle so far!
Just the aftermath of their moves resulted in wild winds that pushed away all the people and objects. The terrifying collisions could directly destroy Immortal Gu Houses. Even rank eight Immortal Gu Houses like Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building and Calamity Luck Altar stopped fighting. Those rank eight Immortal Gu Houses even retreated far away.
"Are these two monsters?"
"What kind of terrifying fight is this!"
The five regions' Gu Immortals saw this scene through everybody's vision, they gulped as their hearts pounded wildly.
In the absence of a venerable, Fang Yuan and Duke Long's fight could be considered to be at the peak level of the current world!
Mortals gradually began to realize something.
"This is incredible! We are looking at immortals!"
"This world really has immortals!"
"Fights of immortals really are too terrifying. Look quickly, even the heavens seem to have been broken by them."
Mortals exclaimed in shock, the scene had far surpassed the limits of their imagination.
The storm of attacks did not stop, both sides were in a deadlock.
Duke Long could not receive amplification from heroes among people, but he had heavenly dragon's last stand and destiny song's help, as well as triple qi retraction. This method was an arrangement left by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, Duke Long was only a key to activating it.
At the edge of the battlefield, Spectral Soul smiled as he looked at Fang Yuan and Duke Long's battle: "Since it has already reached this stage, then let me push it further. Zheng Yuan, release all the human wills."
Old Man Zheng Yuan was dazed, weren't the human wills already released completely, were there any remaining? If there were, wouldn't Old Man Zheng Yuan have used them before?
However, Spectral Soul pointed towards a direction, Old Man Zheng Yuan astonishingly discovered there truly was a portion of human will stored in a corner of Heavenly Court.
Spectral Soul's understanding of Heavenly Court was actually clearer than Old Man Zheng Yuan himself!
'How many secrets of Heavenly Court does he grasp? Also, why would the past venerables retain a portion of the human will so secretly?' Old Man Zheng Yuan was filled with questions.
"You don't need to guess, just release them. What happens next will give you your answer." Spectral Soul chuckled.
Old Man Zheng Yuan had already submitted to Spectral Soul completely, he immediately nodded and activated his methods with no hesitation.
The human wills were released completely!
At the next moment, the power of heroes among people soared.
...
Chapter 1958 Complete Human Will
The moment the human wills were released, both sides' Gu Immortals seemed to hear whispers of countless people.
"You must grow up healthily, my children."
"Lovers being able to be married is truly a great thing."
"May peace last for generations and generations. I'd rather be a dog living in peace than a person living in chaotic times!"
"Kill these lawless people, place judgment upon these atrocious evil-doers!"
"The righteous path will definitely be victorious."
"I believe that fairness and justice might come late sometimes, but they will never be absent."
"You must win, Heavenly Court. I can't do anything, but I can pray for you."
The morale of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals soared, but soon, doubts surfaced on their faces.
Their enemies similarly received amplifications, moreover, it seemed like the three regions' Gu Immortals received a slightly stronger amplification than them?
"Kill those righteous path hypocrites!"
"Destroy Heavenly Court, it sits in an ivory tower, who knows how many generations of Central Continent's people it has exploited!!"
"Although I respect Heavenly Court's spirit, I will never be able to achieve it. I am a Central Continent Gu Immortal, I admit my selfishness, I am only an ordinary Gu cultivator. However, Central Continent's resources are plundered and occupied by the ten great ancient sects and Heavenly Court. Join Heavenly Court? That is too difficult. They even want me to offer my immortal aperture! How can I be willing to do that?"
"Bring down Heavenly Court, the more losses Heavenly Court suffers, the less the pressure on our four regions when the five regions merge."
"Heavenly Court has occupied the throne of the number one force for far too long. If it is overthrown, hehe, this will be interesting!"
…
Both sides fought once again, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were astonished to discover that heroes among people's effect on the enemies was indeed stronger than themselves.
Why?
Heroes among people is clearly our Heavenly Court's method!
Why was heroes among people helping the enemies more?!
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were bewildered as they began to fall into a disadvantage.
Wu Yong led his alliance once again, he was the first to charge out of Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building and began to valiantly pave a way through battle. At this moment, he fully displayed the prestige and courage of Southern Border's Wu clan!
His face was solemn and his eyes flickered with cold lights. The determination to destroy fate Gu had always been so intense and overwhelming!
In the past…
He stood in front of his mother Wu Du Xiu's coffin, mourning in silence.
While he felt pain, he found there was a feeling of release and delight in the depths of his heart.
"Does this mean I am not filial?" Wu Yong questioned himself and slowly understood his true feelings: "No, it is not so. I am full of filial piety and respect towards my mother. But she was truly too strong, I could only choose to curl up and hide under her shadow. Now that she is gone, I finally have space to stretch myself."
Returning to the present.
Wu Yong's determination was firm and his gaze was cold, he revealed the heated emotions inside his heart!
"Therefore, be destroyed, fate Gu!"
"I will mourn for you just like I mourned for my mother."
"Only with you gone can I, Wu Yong, have the freedom to chase after my ambition!"
On the other side, Calamity Luck Altar suppressed Demon Judgment Board.
Bing Sai Chuan had never felt such power!
Blood flowed wildly inside his body.
"You still don't realize it, Qin Ding Ling! Despite the fact that you were the person sleeping beside Lord Giant Sun."
"Fate is fixed while luck is a variable. Why do you think Lord Giant Sun created luck path, why could he create luck path?"
"From a certain perspective, this is the wish of countless beings for luck path to appear! When your life is fixed, when every encounter you have is already determined, is there still any meaning in living? What difference is this from puppets or mindless zombies?"
"This is not my speculation, Lord Giant Sun said this to me personally!"
"And I inherited his will, after three hundred thousand years, I am still staking my life to fight, I am an old man who is willing to fight for such an aspiration!!"
Immortal killer move — Grand Collision!
Shen Cong Sheng actually took the initiative to attack Feng Jiu Ge.
Under Shen Cong Sheng's attacks, Feng Jiu Ge had to retreat constantly, but he kept on maintaining destiny song, prioritizing on supporting his allies.
Shen Cong Sheng roared: "Feng Jiu Ge! We are both sound path Gu Immortals, even if you can't see it, can't you hear it?"
"Listen!"
"These are the innermost voices of almost all the world's people!"
"They don't want to be shackled any more, they thirst for freedom, even if this freedom is beyond impractical! Sometimes, people are like lunatics, they have foolish thoughts."
"I will be honest with you." Shen Cong Sheng actually cried tears of deep emotions: "I have never felt such feelings. It is as if there are countless people standing behind me, cheering and encouraging me. Perhaps this is how Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals felt when they fought for humanity back then."
"It was really the right decision for me to come to this battlefield!"
Bam Bam Bam Bam…
Close combat continued, moves after moves were exchanged as Fang Yuan and Duke Long fought head-on.
After the stalemate lasted for a while, Duke Long began to fall into a disadvantaged position.
Despite Duke Long gritting his teeth and wanting to endure, it was to no avail. Right now, he started to feel a sense of weakness and helplessness despite his overwhelming determination!
Among all the people present, heroes among people's amplification on Fang Yuan was actually the strongest.
"Why? Why!? You are clearly a demon who brings disaster to the world, you are an atrocious demon who commits countless sins! Why would you receive the greatest help from the human wills?" Duke Long roared in shock and fury.
"Do you still not understand it? Duke Long! The current era is no longer the same, the hearts of the people have already changed!"
"In the Olden Antiquity Era, humanity sought for survival space. Thus, the three Demon Venerables held back when they invaded Heavenly Court."
"And now, it has already been over a million years since the Olden Antiquity Era has ended! Your Heavenly Court is unable to represent the will of all the humans in the world by now!"
Fang Yuan's words were very vicious, they seemed to be sharper than dragon fangs as they pierced into Duke Long's inner heart.
Fang Yuan used more than just his fists, every joint of his body turned into weapons as he attacked Duke Long.
Qi breath mountain was destroyed by him, spiraling dragon fangs were broken, Duke Long's dragon claw strike and chaotic dragon fist were suppressed again and again by Fang Yuan!
Bam Bam Bam Bam!
Fang Yuan's every attack produced sonic booms.
The blood cape let out a dark red radiance that covered Fang Yuan's whole body, empowering his strength in all aspects to a terrifying degree.
Duke Long's fingers were snapped by Fang Yuan, his fist fractured as he struck Fang Yuan's fist directly! The nine dragon tattoos were howling in misery! They were already destroyed to a huge degree by Fang Yuan!
…
Countless years ago, there was a couple.
The male was called Tu Ji, the female was Ruo Li.
Tu Ji was a rockman and Ruo Li was a human immortal.
"I cultivate rule path, I have to believe in the rules of this world. All things have their own ordained path of which is fate. I believe I was able to meet you because I followed my fate, falling in love with you is the kindness of fate towards me." Tu Ji replied.
Ruo Li said: "What if I told you fate decreed that I would die at Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's hands?"
"What?!" Tu Ji was shocked: "Ruo Li, how many times have you checked this prophecy?"
Ruo Li gave a bitter smile: "Only once is enough, but I checked it many times indeed, every result was the same. Do you know why a wisdom path Gu Immortal's prophecy is so accurate? That is because fate is always fixed. I will die at Reckless Savage's hands, that is my fate."
Tu Ji was silent for a long while before he said with an almost decisive tone: "Then I… do not believe in fate!"
On what basis must she die at Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's hands?
On what basis must my lover not live a happy life?
If this is fate's arrangement, then — I won't accept it!
…
Duke Long was beaten back again and again by Fang Yuan. First, blood flowed out of his mouth, then all of his seven orifices started bleeding, this was because Fang Yuan's punches had landed on his body and caused internal bleeding of his organs.
"Great! This feels really refreshing!" Reckless Savage's will shouted from inside the cape, waving his hands in excitement: "Kid, although you look ugly, your style resembles me! I have to say, my opinion of you has changed. But I wonder why I feel that there is something lacking?"
Reckless Savage's will thought for a while before clapping: "I know! You should roar in excitement, shout happily, this is the excitement of a man during battles!"
However, Fang Yuan's face was cold as ice, his eyes were dark as the abyss with no trace of needless emotions.
As far as he was concerned, he was using this style of fighting to maximize the advantage of incomplete freedom transformation, there was nothing else to it.
With the powerful strength of the three monsters, Duke Long was already in a huge disadvantage when fighting him in close combat. But Fang Yuan maintained the attitude of attacking Heaven Overseeing Tower, which forced Duke Long to fight him in close combat.
Duke Long's situation became increasingly grim, he was clearly defending more and attacking less.
He howled, he roared, but he was still forced back over and over again by Fang Yuan.
…
In Southern Border, there was a Gu Immortal called Tao Zhu.
"He is Tao Zhu?"
"Is he stupid? In order to research the pointless secret of the five regions, he gave up on that marriage!"
"He is a lunatic. I've often seen him heading to the regional walls for his research, he often ends up injured and in a sorry state."
He sacrificed almost everything to research the five regions' regional walls, he endured countless people's ridicule and even had to resist the secret oppression of many people.
The most fatal blow to him was the biggest joke that fate played on him!
Not long in the future, the five regions' regional walls would disappear completely.
Even if Tao Zhu's research made progress, it seemed to lose its meaning.
"But so what?"
"If this is fate, and I, Tao Zhu, am unable to resist or change it, so what?"
"I will still continue researching! Even if I fail in the end and obtain nothing, even if my life becomes a complete failure!"
"I will never resign myself to fate! Even if I understand there is a wall called fate in front of me, I will charge into it!"
"Even if I die from the collision, I will die with a smile and my head held high."
On what basis must I accept my fate?
Who gives a crap!
That is what I want to do!
This is how I want to live!
...
Chapter 1959 People“s Hearts Have Changed
"Quick, reinforce Duke Long!" Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals moved, they did not dare to continue watching.
Duke Long and Feng Jiu Ge were two pillars of Heavenly Court, once Duke Long was defeated, the whole situation would again turn precarious.
Boom!
Fang Yuan suddenly kicked Duke Long's hand.
Duke Long's defense was wide open, Fang Yuan used the chance to approach closer and grabbed Duke Long's purple hair with his left hand.
Then, he raised his right fist and punched. Punches after punches landed on Duke Long's face and chest like cannonball strikes.
Duke Long was unable to free himself, he could only shout in desperation: "Triple qi retraction!"
Qi surged once again and gathered in Duke Long's body, Duke Long's condition strengthened by three times.
Bam bam bam! Fang Yuan continued to rain punches on Duke Long.
He kept on punching!
…
Over a million years ago, when Genesis Lotus became a venerable, he wandered the world disguised as a mortal.
One day, he arrived at a poor oasis village in Western Desert.
There, he helped the villagers solve some issues using a Gu Master identity, he was welcomed warmly by the young and old in the village.
A child was the most excited, even revering Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable to the point of prostrating himself.
Because he saw new hope in his life.
"Lord Gu Master, Lord Gu Master. I beg you, I beg you!" The child knelt on the ground and grabbed the hem of Genesis Lotus's cloth as he looked up towards Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, his pure eyes were filled with tears and pleading.
"Speak, child, don't kneel. I will definitely help you if I can." Genesis Lotus lifted the child warmly.
The child revealed a joyous expression: "It would be really great if you can help! Please resurrect my mother, she is my most important person and also the person who loves me the most in this world. My father abandoned us long ago. I could grow up all because she worked hard to raise me."
"But my mother died a few days ago, she died from exhaustion and illness. Even on her deathbed, she used her trembling hands to put the last half remaining biscuit in my hands, she saved it for me!"
"I cannot be without my mother!"
"I cannot be without my mother!"
"I beg you, Lord Gu Master. You could dig such a deep well and precisely find a water source. You can definitely resurrect my mother, right?!"
Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable was silent.
The child was innocent, he did not know resurrecting the dead was far more difficult than digging a well. But Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable was the current venerable, the things that were impossible for others were possible for him.
But he could not!
He was an Immortal Venerable, he was Heavenly Court's Immortal Venerable.
Thereupon, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable rubbed the child's head and sighed: "This is not possible. No matter who it is, they will experience life and death. Your mother's death is just her reaching her final destination, isn't it a kind of release? Cheer up and live on bravely and happily , I believe your mother will definitely want you to live like that."
"No! I don't want to!" The child shook his head rapidly: "I want my mother to revive!"
Genesis Lotus shook his head and sighed again: "I cannot resurrect your mother."
"Why? You can clearly do it!" The child opened his eyes, looking at Genesis Lotus with fury.
Genesis Lotus shook his head, not speaking anymore.
The child pointed at Genesis Lotus and shouted: "I hate you, I hate you, Gu Master! You can clearly resurrect my mother, but you don't want to do it! You are too cold-blooded, you are really cruel. Is it because she is not your mother? If it were your mother, would you refuse so indifferently?"
Genesis Lotus sank into silence, he put himself in the child's place and thought, then came to a conclusion as he said with extreme sincerity: "Yes, I will still do this. Everyone needs to accept death, no matter who they are. Because I know, this is all fate's arrangements."
"To hell with your fate!" The child roared: "Do I care about your damned fate, I need my mother, I want my mother back!"
The child was quickly stopped by the nearby villagers, the villagers repeatedly apologized to Genesis Lotus.
Genesis Lotus waved his head, expressing he did not mind it.
He looked at the villagers stopping the madly struggling child when he suddenly went into a daze and his body shuddered!
At this moment, he suddenly understood.
The reason why he felt a vague unease when he traveled around the world.
Human hearts have changed, their greed is insatiable!
When humans became the rulers of the world, their desire was no longer about resisting the rule and suppression of variant humans, they had become increasingly insane and delusional.
Genesis Lotus looked at the child in front of him dazedly as he came to a realization: Weren't the humans of the present age like the child in front of him? He was struggling wildly under the shackles of fate for an impractical wish. But was it truly impractical? Was resurrecting a dead person impossible?
Genesis Lotus was aware that this was possible. But… he could not do it.
This was not allowed.
However, does not being allowed mean that there won't be anyone doing it?
Genesis Lotus suddenly felt loss and hesitation, a deep helplessness shrouded him. Even though he was a rank nine venerable, the number one person in his era!
He could stop the people from doing this with all his strength, but what about after his death?
Even if he used all his strength and energy in this life, and no one attempted to revive the dead, could he, Genesis Lotus, stop the people from having such thoughts?
The most terrifying thing were these types of thoughts!
How could he stop everyone's wishful thinking?
He could not stop the desires that emerged in people's hearts!
…
Duke Long was beaten to a pulp by Fang Yuan!
At the start, he counterattacked with all his strength, but Fang Yuan endured Duke Long's counterattacks head-on with an unchanging expression.
Duke Long's appearance was completely different now, his chest had caved in, his scales were scattered everywhere, and his aura had fallen sharply.
"Triple qi retraction!" Duke Long roared again, his aura rose and his injuries recovered immediately.
Bam bam bam! Fang Yuan still rained punches on Duke Long.
Duke Long had just recovered his features when his face was messed up by Fang Yuan once again. Soon, his bones fractured and blood flowed out from everywhere.
Duke Long did not retreat, he defended with all his strength while shouting: "Triple qi retraction!"
His condition recovered once again.
Reckless Savage's will cheered from the cape: "Beat him, beat him! Beat him hard, squeeze him dry! I want to see how much accumulation Heavenly Court has to be able to let him expend it like this! Hahaha."
But Fang Yuan was calm all along, calculating the remaining strength of the three monsters' combination.
His strength was weakening constantly.
Back when the three monsters had first appeared, the green fish was able to destroy all the bones in Duke Long's body with just one headbutt. But after many fierce battles and being struck by fate vanquish several times, the three monsters did not have much strength remaining.
Fang Yuan activated incomplete freedom transformation and combined the strength of the three monsters, but all aspects of strength like defense, movement, and healing were being expended intensely.
Comparing accumulation, it truly could not match Heavenly Court!
Endless fist shadows converged, Fang Yuan suddenly raised his fist and struck with all his strength!
Boom!!
A loud sound was heard as Fang Yuan's right fist lodged into Duke Long's face. The horrifying strength burst forth, Duke Long instantly lost consciousness and crossed the sky in a blink of an eye like a meteor before crashing heavily on the ground.
He continued to fall deeper, his strong body pierced into Heavenly Court's ground and created an unprecedentedly deep crater!
Duke Long was lying in the depths of the crater without moving. But triple qi retraction was activated once again, another round of endless qi converged into him.
Fang Yuan snorted and loosened his hand, a large handful of purple hair scattered with the wind, they were ripped out when he punched Duke Long.
Fang Yuan analyzed calmly.
Triple qi retraction was not activated by Duke Long, it was essentially a method left by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable. Even if Duke Long lost his consciousness for the moment, triple qi retraction still continued to support Duke Long.
Incomplete freedom transformation did not have much strength remaining. If this killer move was stopped midway, he could not use Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's strength to activate it again. Next time he used it, Fang Yuan would have to rely on his own strength.
Duke Long had stopped temporarily, Fang Yuan immediately turned around and charged towards Heaven Overseeing Tower.
Heaven Overseeing Tower had been continuing to move, but because of the interference from the three regions' Gu Immortals, it was not able to go too far away from Fang Yuan.
"Stop him, stop him!"
"Stop Fang Yuan!!"
"No matter the cost, we must stop him!"
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals charged towards Fang Yuan like moths flying towards fire.
Ye Qiao Zi blocked the path.
Fang Yuan's punch pierced through his wooden armor and killed him.
Zhao Shan He pounced at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan kicked, directly bursting his body!
Vortex Space Boy screamed as he appeared behind Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan grabbed the tiny head with his fingers, he then clenched his fingers into a fist, forcibly turning Vortex Space Boy's head into a mush of blood and brain matter.
"Hahaha, this is the way!"
"Kill them, rip them to shreds!"
"Then, charge through the entire way!!"
Inside the bloody cape, Reckless Savage's will laughed loudly while waving his hands as he cheered on Fang Yuan.
"Fang Yuan, don't even think about it!" Duke Long flew once again, trying to stop Fang Yuan.
A palace suddenly appeared above him.
Dragon Palace!
…
The former Lord of Dragon Palace — Wu Shuai's life seemed to be filled with tragedies.
Dragonman extermination was like an executioner's blade that was always hanging above his and the dragonman race's head.
Dream revelations came time and time again, in order to settle the matter of dragonman extermination, he had to use rank eight Dragon Palace while doing experiments on the dragonman body.
But to do that, Wu Shuai alone was not enough, he gathered all of the dragonman Gu Immortals and told them the truth, he begged them for help.
In the huge Dragon Palace, there was an unprecedented meeting, almost all of the dragonman Gu Immortals had gathered together.
"To do experiments, we need a vast number of dragonmen, almost all these people will die, even if they survive, they will wish they were dead. Thus, I cannot make this decision alone, if anyone objects, speak up now."
"I object!" Immediately, someone stood out.
Everyone turned to look, it was Wu Shuai's cousin, the beloved seventh young master that Duke Long doted on the most.
Seventh young master pointed at Wu Shuai who was on his throne as he scolded: "You scoundrel, you are insane!!!"
"In order to gain Heavenly Court's trust, you killed your most loyal sworn brother!"
"To conceal the secret of dragonmen reign supreme, you caused the death of your own father!"
"To refine dream token Immortal Gu, you actually used your most beloved wife as the Gu material!"
"Now, to deal with dragonman extermination, you even want to sacrifice all of your innocent dragonmen and do experiments on them?"
"Why is your heart so wicked, why are you so cold-hearted?!"
"You think that this so-called evidence will make us believe you? Hehe, you are too laughable, do you think we are all fools?!"
"Hehehe, no, you are not laughable, you are pitiful and sad!"
"You wanted to give your wife happiness, and in the end? You sacrifice her to refine a Gu. Hehehe."
"You wanted to make your father proud, and in the end? You killed him! You killed him with your own two hands!!"
"You promised Huang Wei a bright future, you gave him hope. But in the end you killed him. And now, what future is there?"
"Hehehe, hahaha!" Seventh young master laughed maniacally, his tears were almost falling out: "You tried so hard to lead the dragonman race to rise up, and in the end? In the end, the dragonman race is about to be wiped out, we are going to be extinct!"
"It was you, it was you! If you were not ambitious and took over South Flower Island, relocating our people, developing rapidly and causing conflict with the humans, why would all this happen? If the dragonman race lived quietly and peacefully, ancestor would not have the intention of wiping us out!"
"Wu Shuai, oh Wu Shuai, you are the strongest person in the dragonman race besides our ancestor, but what you gave us was not glory or hope, it was neither equality nor dignity. It was… destruction!"
"You are a real tragedy! Your whole life is a tragedy!!"
The entire hall was silent.
Wu Shuai sat on his dragon throne, expressionless.
At this time, a dragonman Gu Immortal slowly walked out from the crowd and stood in front of Wu Shuai, he then turned to face the crowd. This dragonman Gu Immortal said in a deep voice: "I support Lord Wu Shuai."
Seventh young master was astonished: "Third… third uncle, you?"
A second dragonman Gu Immortal walked out of the crowd and stood in front of Wu Shuai and faced the dragonman Gu Immortals. This dragonman Gu Immortal said in a loud voice: "I agree greatly with Lord Wu Shuai's plan!"
Seventh young master was shocked: "Fifth uncle?!"
Then, the third, fourth, fifth person… all the dragonman Gu Immortals stood in front of Wu Shuai.
In the blink of an eye, seventh young master was left all alone.
He shouted in disbelief: "Have you all gone insane?!"
"If this is insanity, then we are all lunatics!"
"Hehehe, to become a lunatic like Ren Zu, I have no objections."
"Little Seventh, do you still not understand? How big of a tragedy is it for our lives and deaths to be in the hands of others! Even if this person is our ancestor, our progenitor, he cannot do this!!"
Wu Shuai slowly stood up from his dragon throne, his face was covered in tears.
"Everyone… I, Wu Shuai, hereby swear!" Wu Shuai's voice was extremely hoarse: "I will stand with the dragonman race regardless of survival or extermination, I will contribute my heart, my blood, and all the spirit and determination that I have!"
"Even if I were to fail in the end, I will fight to the final moment of my life."
"Even if I die in the end, my spirit and determination will be inherited by others."
"Even if my spirit and determination are no longer in existence… even if only my name is left, I will continue to fight, I will never stop resisting!!"
...
Chapter 1960 Destroying Fate!
Boom!
Under the amplification of heroes among people, Dragon Palace was barely able to ward off Duke Long.
"Get lost." At the next moment, Duke Long sent Dragon Palace flying with dragon claw strike.
Duke Long's field of vision became broad again, but he was not happy at all because Fang Yuan had already gotten close to Heaven Overseeing Tower.
Not only him, Wu Yong, Bing Sai Chuan, Shen Cong Sheng, and others had also moved in like a fierce tide. This wave of offense was terrifying.
Duke Long was already unable to block them in time and looked at this sight with overwhelming anger.
Right now, at this moment, even if Heaven Overseeing Tower turned phantom, it could not avoid this danger. Because Fang Yuan possessed dream path methods!
Feng Jin Huang could restrain his methods, but she was only a mortal Gu Master. Her strength was insufficient to go against the current Fang Yuan.
"Use fate vanquish quickly!" Duke Long shouted.
The Gu Immortals inside Heaven Overseeing Tower shuddered and did not care about enemies or allies, they activated fate vanquish again with desperation and anxiety.
The sky turned white!
Light was everywhere.
White light.
It filled the entire world, all the space in this world was filled with white light.
This was Heaven Overseeing Tower's strongest method, it used rank nine fate Gu as the core to activate a supreme killer move!
Be they Heavenly Court or the three regions' Gu Immortals, both sides were extremely familiar with this killer move.
White light filled the whole battlefield ruthlessly, not differentiating enemies or allies!
In an instant, regardless of which Immortal Gu House it was, they were all heavily injured or damaged!
"Damn it, damn it!" Wu Yong gritted his teeth as blood flowed out of the corners of his lips. He felt his ambition melting like snow in the white light: "This again, it is this move again! Whenever there is some breakthrough, fate vanquish will turn around the situation for Heavenly Court!"
"Huh?" Wu Yong's gaze suddenly focused before revealing a complex expression.
There was still a blood red trace remaining in the empty battlefield!
What was that?
It was a cape, fluttering like a war banner!
"Oh oh oh oh oh!" Inside the cape, Reckless Savage's will clenched his fists and beat his chest like an ape in heat.
He was extremely excited, shouting wildly: "This is it! This is it! Within heaven and earth, who else is there but me? At the crucial moment, you still need to rely on me! Cool, I am damn cool!!"
If it were just the three monsters, they naturally would not be able to resist the power of fate vanquish easily.
However, when they combined into one move and became connected to Fang Yuan as the core, using Fang Yuan's complete otherworldly demon identity, fate vanquish was no longer able to harm them.
In the endless light, Fang Yuan's white robe, black hair, and bloody cape were fluttering wildly with the wind.
He charged!
He pushed forward!
He did not stop at all!
"We still have… hope." From within the retreating Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan opened his eyes wide and stared at that bright red image moving in the white space.
Shen Cong Sheng coughed out blood repeatedly as he fell from the sky. He was also looking at Fang Yuan, using all his strength to fix his gaze on him!
He shouted inwardly: "Fang Yuan, you damned demon! Everything depends on you now!!"
Fang Yuan shot forward like a sharp arrow, he was like a star of calamity that rose to the sky from the ground, bringing chaos to the world and defying heaven itself!
"Charge, charge! The grandeur of men can be seen when they charge ahead, oh yeah!" Reckless Savage's will continued to shout as his voice rang in Fang Yuan's ears.
Be they Duke Long, Feng Jiu Ge, Heavenly Court's immortals, or the three regions' immortals, they forced their eyes open and fixed their gazes on Fang Yuan.
Heaven and earth was a scene of pure white, and in this whiteness, the path seemed to be exceptionally long and endless.
As if it spanned across history, from the past until now!
…
Over three million years ago, when variant humans were in prosperity, there was an inconspicuous human slave.
He was called Wei Yu Shu.
He heard of Heavenly Court's location, he was not willing to be a slave anymore, he escaped and was chased after.
His master berated him coldly.
"Wei Yu Shu, when I bought you back then, you were only a child who did not even know about cultivation!"
"I taught you step by step and raised you into a Gu Immortal. Was it my protection and indulgence that allowed you to have such guts?"
"Tell me, why did you betray me?"
"Have I, Princess Ye Tong, mistreated you?! You lived in luxury and peace, you only needed to serve me and I have never treated you cruelly."
Wei Yu Shu smiled sadly: "But, even if I lived a much better life, I was still only your slave!"
The female inkman immortal was furious: "What is bad about becoming my slave? Many inkmen want to live your life but don't get such a chance!"
Wei Yu Shu was dazed for a moment before he spoke slowly: "I did not think it was bad before, but when I heard there was a Heavenly Court in this world where humans live… I realized why I was always in low spirits and felt unhappiness. It was because I lacked one thing."
"Hehehe, I have read [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], I am truly too stupid. I am even more stupid than those wingless birds, toothless beasts, gill-less fish! At least, they know they lost their freedom and are staking their lives to chase after freedom. But what about me? I did not even know I lost my freedom!"
"So, you want to escape, you want to reach Heavenly Court?" The female inkman immortal sneered: "You are too naive, you actually believe in the temptation of these devils?!"
Wei Yu Shu closed his eyes, his voice was hoarse: "It is not that I believe it, but I want to believe it."
"Heavenly Court was never the important point!"
"Without Heavenly Court, there can be Earthly Court, or even Human Court!"
"There will always be a place where a group of humans gather and pursue freedom!!"
…
A million years ago.
Duke Long snorted coldly: "Tell me, Hong Ting, who can do as they please in this world? Your thoughts are too childish, you think becoming an Immortal Venerable and leading the righteous path would not need sacrifices? What is there in this world that has no price to pay for? How shallow do you think the words 'righteous path' are? Wrong! Maintaining Heavenly Court's righteous path requires you to pay a price, it requires sacrifices. If you don't even have this sacrificial mentality, then I will tell you, you don't have the qualifications to enter Heavenly Court!"
Duke Long's brows raised, his face cold as ice: "Who do you want to revive?"
"Every person who sacrificed themselves for me. My parents, Liu Shu Xian, and many others."
"Even if there are crueler tragedies, I will accept them! Master, disciple always had a question. Why? Why must we accept fate's arrangements? If there was no fate, would the world truly fall into chaos? Is it not possible that the world will become a better place?" Hong Ting asked in an anxious tone.
…
The current era.
Duke Long looked at Feng Jin Huang and said solemnly: "Huang Er, you need to understand that you are the future Great Dream Immortal Venerable who will surpass all the past venerables! You will create dream path and be invincible in the whole world. Your glory will shine and spread for ages, becoming the eternal symbol and support of humanity. Don't fear, don't hesitate, take each success to press forward indomitably until you reach the supreme peak of this world!"
Feng Jin Huang's eyes got brighter and brighter as she listened. She smiled with unparalleled beauty.
Duke Long also smiled.
Feng Jin Huang said: "If all this is predestined by fate, then… I do not believe in fate!"
…
Boom!
Fang Yuan directly broke through the roof of Heaven Overseeing Tower and entered inside.
A Heavenly Court Gu Immortal inside stood up to stop him.
Fang Yuan directly pierced his hands into his chest and pulled fiercely, ripping the Heavenly Court Gu Immortal into two halves!
Blood splashed on Fang Yuan's face; his skin was white like snow, cold like ice.
Blood splashed on Fang Yuan's black hair; the hair was like the night sky, letting out profound eerie light.
Blood splashed on Fang Yuan's blood cape; the cape was touching the ground like it was paving a bloody path for the tyrant's domination.
Fang Yuan took large strides and reached the center of the top floor. Fate Gu was right in front of him, it had always been there, as if it were constantly receiving offerings, offerings that it had been receiving for millions of years!
Fang Yuan grabbed fate Gu!
At this instance, even Reckless Savage's will inside the cape was quiet, closing his mouth as he stared at Fang Yuan blankly.
Because he realized: This was the moment of truth for the whole of humanity, no, for the whole world.
At this time, Fang Yuan held fate Gu in his hands, his gaze was flickering with complex emotions.
He had finally caught fate Gu, this was a scene which he had imagined countless times.
His goal was achieved at this moment, but he did not think of himself and instead thought of [[The Legends of Ren Zu]].
Ren Zu said: He wanted freedom and to get rid of fate's shackles. After that, he could go wherever he wanted to go, and be with whoever he wanted to with forever.
The birds berated him: You humans are destined to be alone, all gatherings will end up in separation. Oh human, you want to pursue freedom but you also need to abide by your nature, you should not indulge in wild fantasies.
Ren Zu said: I want freedom and to get rid of fate's shackles. I will possess countless delicacies and wines, endless wealth, and all kinds of comfortable and beautiful clothes.
The beasts ridiculed him: But you humans were born with empty hands and will pass away with nothing. Oh human, you want to pursue freedom but you also need to abide by your nature, you should not indulge in wild fantasies.
Ren Zu said: I want freedom and to get rid of fate's shackles. I will breathe freely and live on forever, I want eternal life!
The fishes rebutted: But you humans are destined to have no relation with eternal life, you will die of old age and illnesses. Oh human, you want to pursue freedom but you also need to abide by your nature, you should not indulge in wild fantasies.
Ren Zu was puzzled.
Ren Zu was disgruntled.
Ren Zu was irritated.
Ren Zu became insane!
How can you have such thoughts?
Why can't I have the same thoughts?
Why can't a human be together forever with their loved ones?
Why can't a human live life without worries and have endless wealth?
Why can't a human have eternal life?
Because fate does not allow it?
Because it does not allow, therefore I cannot do it?! I cannot even think about it?!
On what basis?
On what damned basis?
On what basis am I not allowed to think about it?!
On what basis is eternal life forbidden?!
If such thoughts turn me insane.
Then let me become a lunatic!
If such pursuit makes me demonic.
Then let me become a demon!!
Fang Yuan looked at fate Gu and sneered coldly.
He clenched his fist lightly.
Crack.
A soft sound echoed.
Fate Gu was directly crushed into pieces.
Rank nine fate Gu —
Destroyed!
...
Chapter 1961 So What If It Was Destroyed?
The moment fate Gu was destroyed, the whole battlefield returned to its previous state.
The white light formed by fate vanquish killer move disappeared completely.
Crack crack.
A series of crisp sounds echoed as countless cracks spread throughout Heaven Overseeing Tower. At the next moment, the whole of Heaven Overseeing Tower crumbled into pieces!
The grand Heavenly Court fell into deathly silence.
There was no trace of wind in the battlefield, but the immortals felt a hurricane blowing in their hearts!
Heaven Overseeing Tower turned into countless fragments that fell down along with Gu Immortal corpses. Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's painting path method turned into a ray of light that crossed the sky and flew far away.
Fang Yuan ignored it and quietly floated in the air, looking at Duke Long, Feng Jiu Ge, and the rest.
He had no expression and did not say anything, he only opened his palm slowly. Under everybody's vision killer move, everyone in the five regions saw — the fragments of the destroyed fate Gu!
"Fate Gu has been… destroyed?"
"We won?!"
The three regions' Gu Immortals looked at each other, seeing the astonishment and daze on each other's faces.
"Unbelievable, we really did it!"
"This battle will definitely be remembered by later generations."
After coming to their senses, the three regions' Gu Immortals cheered wildly!
On the contrary, Heavenly Court's remaining Gu Immortals had ashen expressions and were dazed like puppets.
Fate Gu was Heavenly Court's banner, their spiritual pillar.
It was more than a rank nine Gu worm, Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable had relied on this Gu to create the rule of humanity, it gave humans the hope of freedom and courage to revolt.
After over three million years of inheritance and development, the significance of fate Gu was much greater to Heavenly Court. It was Heavenly Court's foundation, a symbol, and also an eternally fluttering banner.
But now, this banner was taken down and torn by Fang Yuan!
Heavenly Court's immortals felt that the pillar in their mind was taken away, their world had collapsed!
Even without the three regions' Gu Immortals attacking or any external stimulation, they were dazed and did not know what they should do.
Even Feng Jiu Ge was silent, his destiny song that had kept on resounding throughout the battlefield stopped at this moment.
Far away, Feng Jin Huang was hiding in a secret underground Immortal Gu House, she was weeping silently: "Fate Gu… has been destroyed! How did this happen? Everyone clearly put in so much effort, not even hesitating to sacrifice themselves!"
Qin Ding Ling's gaze was blank, she was like a lifeless statue.
The greatly damaged Demon Judgment Board rose to the sky, Fang Zheng who was inside looked at Fang Yuan with a highly complicated expression: "Fang Yuan, you actually accomplished it. In Heavenly Court, in front of the venerable methods, you destroyed fate Gu! So the gap between you and I is simply this big."
This gap made Fang Zheng feel despair, but a strange thing was Fang Zheng did not feel bitterness at this moment, instead he felt a trace of relief.
It was time to give up.
A person like Fang Yuan was different from everyone from the start. Thinking of rivaling him was wishful thinking from the start, a delirious thought even.
"Damn it, damn it…"
"We failed, fate Gu has been destroyed."
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals cried. They had used all their strength, given their everything, some crawled out of their graves to fight, some held on till the end, but they still failed.
"We have really failed our comrades who sacrificed themselves!"
"I am too ashamed to face my seniors!"
Shame surfaced on the Heavenly Court immortals' faces, many even had the impulse to kill themselves.
"Don't panic!" At this moment, Duke Long suddenly spoke, his voice spreading throughout the battlefield, shaking every Gu Immortal's mind.
Duke Long flew to the sky, his expression was solemn as he knew this was the crucial moment.
Fate Gu had been destroyed, Duke Long could not afford to be upset or blame himself. He was the leader of Heavenly Court, he needed to try his hardest to deal with this issue!
What made him anxious was that even the deeply experienced Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were shaken like this. What would the people all over the world think about this sight?
If Fang Yuan scheming and defeating Heavenly Court time and again earlier was like a heavy slap to Heavenly Court's face, then Fang Yuan destroying fate Gu was like shaking Heavenly Court's foundation completely, destroying the status and reputation Heavenly Court had accumulated for over three million years!
Duke Long had to restore their morale and fighting spirit.
"Fang Yuan, you really think you destroyed fate Gu?" Duke Long suddenly laughed with no trace of listlessness, one could not sense any form of wavering in his tone.
Fang Yuan did not reply and only slightly raised his hand as he looked at Duke Long.
Immediately, the three regions' Gu Immortals ridiculed: "Duke Long, have you gone blind? You can't see the fragments of fate Gu?"
Some of the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals looked with bright gazes, a spark of hope rising in their hearts: "Is the fate Gu that Fang Yuan destroyed a replica?"
But Duke Long shook his head, still laughing: "Hehehe, the destroyed fate Gu is the real one. But Fang Yuan, even though fate Gu is destroyed, has it really been destroyed forever, can we not refine it once again?"
"Huh?" The immortals were stupefied.
Immortal Gu were unique, this was an irrefutable truth of the world. If I had an Immortal Gu, others could not possess the same one.
But when this Immortal Gu was destroyed, others would have the chance to possess it.
Fate Gu was destroyed by Fang Yuan now, this was an ironclad truth. But this was not a genuine ending because Heavenly Court could refine it again!
"Does Heavenly Court have fate Gu's recipe?" Shen Cong Sheng's expression was grim as he asked.
"Heavenly Court has held fate Gu for over three million years, we had countless refinement path great experts and three Immortal Venerables in this period. Take a guess if our Heavenly Court has fate Gu's recipe or not?" Duke Long smiled, his entire body letting out confidence and calmness.
"Damn it!" The three regions' Gu Immortals were exasperated.
Duke Long laughed: "However, even if Heavenly Court did not have fate Gu's Immortal Gu recipe, so what? Everyone, let me ask you, was the fate Gu in the Immemorial Antiquity Era refined by Ren Zu?"
"Of course not." Qin Ding Ling replied, she understood Duke Long's intention and her eyes shone with life again: "Fate Gu was born from heaven and earth itself."
Duke Long nodded: "That's right, Immortal Gu are born from nature which is why there are many wild Immortal Gu. Even if we cannot refine it, heaven and earth will refine fate Gu. The new fate Gu might be rank six or even rank nine directly. Who can say for sure?"
This time, the three regions' Gu Immortals looked at each other.
After Duke Long mentioned this point, they suddenly realized that destroying fate Gu might not be a big deal!
If fate Gu was destroyed, so be it, it could be refined again.
"Even if it is refined, we can destroy it again!" A Gu Immortal shouted angrily, but even he himself did not have much confidence.
To destroy fate Gu this time, they had paid a huge price! Could such success really be replicated? Forget about anything else, just the point that only an otherworldly demon could destroy fate Gu blocked the path of many heroes and conquerors. Didn't even three Demon Venerables fail?
"Damn it, how could we have failed to notice this?" A Gu Immortal was vexed, but thinking about it, he could blame himself for not considering everything properly.
After all, invading Heavenly Court and destroying fate Gu was already an enormous goal and could even be said to be wishful thinking. To realize this goal, the Gu Immortals had already exhausted their minds and energy. This was an impossible mission akin to a mortal ascending to heaven, even if they used all their strength and had inexhaustible will, it was still difficult to achieve.
Under such circumstances, who could afford to think of the matter after ascending to heaven?
In fact, when Central Continent held the Refinement Path Convention and four regions' Gu Immortals invaded, who could say for sure that they could destroy fate Gu?
No one!
Even Fang Yuan, even venerables did not have such confidence.
Everyone was giving it a try.
After the attempt succeeded, the Gu Immortals were exulted. But what happens after realizing this goal?
Duke Long's words were also the truth. The three regions' Gu Immortals suddenly discovered that the price they paid, the battles and the effort they invested were all in vain, was it just an empty victory?
The three regions' Gu Immortals were silent, their expressions gradually turning unsightly.
Wu Yong was sharp and sensed the change in people's hearts and the fallen morale, he immediately refuted coldly: "Lord Duke Long, you have a sharp tongue. However, Heavenly Court's failure is still a failure, you took great pain to defend and even hide fate Gu in Heavenly Court, yet we were still able to destroy it. In the future, even if you obtain fate Gu again, so what?"
"Hehehe, in fact, you need to be careful. Otherwise, when heaven and earth gives birth to the new fate Gu, you won't be able to refine it yourselves. At that time, fate Gu will become a wild Immortal Gu, anyone will be able to possess it, it might not necessarily be obtained by your Heavenly Court anymore."
The three regions' immortals' eyes brightened and their morale soared.
Duke Long was smiling calmly: "Wu Yong, you are not wrong about it at all. Let's say fate Gu becomes a wild Immortal Gu and is obtained by one of you, so what? Can you all… use it? Do you know how to use it?"
Even Wu Yong could not reply to this question.
Duke Long smiled proudly: "Fate Gu can never be used by Gu Immortals! Before the Remote Antiquity Era, it was held by variant humans but they could not use it. Over three million years, my Heavenly Court had several Immortal Venerables, but no one could directly use this Gu. Countless geniuses racked their minds and then conceptualized Heaven Overseeing Tower, it took three million years for us to research a killer move that could make use of fate Gu, and that is fate vanquish!"
"Do you understand the killer move fate vanquish? Do you know how to construct Heaven Overseeing Tower?"
The three regions' Gu Immortals fell into silence.
Duke Long continued: "Only heaven's will can use fate Gu. Back then, for the sake of humanity, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not hesitate to sacrifice herself and merged with heaven's will, disturbing and influencing heaven's will. Which is why, humanity that rose three million years ago is still flourishing now, we remained as the rulers of the world."
"And my Heavenly Court built the immortal graveyard to support Star Constellation's will. Heavenly Court members all chose to hibernate in the immortal graveyard to provide constant help for Star Constellation's will. Only then are we able to influence fate Gu and thus influence the position of humanity in the whole world!"
"Among you, who can achieve this?"
Duke Long swept his gaze throughout the battlefield, the three regions' Gu Immortals were silent while Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals stood proudly, someone even added arrogantly: "No one! In the vast five regions, only Heavenly Court can accomplish this!"
"No, you are wrong, Duke Long." Bing Sai Chuan's retort came from inside Calamity Luck Altar: "Even if we are unable to use fate Gu, we can use it as a Gu refinement material to refine destiny Gu! Fate Gu cannot be controlled by others, but destiny Gu can. This is the plan of our Lord Giant Sun Immortal Venerable."
Duke Long looked towards Calamity Luck Altar and gave a disdainful smile: "Even if you refine destiny Gu, does it mean fate Gu won't exist?"
Bing Sai Chuan was unable to reply.
If fate Gu was used as a Gu material, when Longevity Heaven refined destiny Gu, fate Gu would be used up. In the future, there could still be a new fate Gu.
Duke Long sighed: "No matter what you do, fate Gu will still exist. Even if it destroyed now, it will appear again in the future. As long as it appears, will your efforts today have any meaning?"
The three regions' Gu Immortals were silent.
"Of course there is meaning!" Duke Long answered himself with solemness and hatred: "The meaning of this is to give a chance for variant humans to rise up, for them to create an unimaginably bad influence on humanity."
"You cannot use fate Gu and how long will it take for you to refine destiny Gu? You don't even have an incomplete Gu recipe of fate Gu! Once fate Gu reappears, it will be controlled by heaven's will. Humanity will decline and variant humans will rise."
"And the one who led to this is all of you!" Duke Long berated and suddenly pointed towards Fang Yuan: "Especially you! You are the greatest evil! You destroyed the immortal graveyard, Star Constellation's will won't be able to interfere with heaven's will like before. If humanity is exterminated in the future, you will be the main culprit behind everything!!"
"Fang Yuan, oh Fang Yuan, you think you obtained victory by destroying fate Gu?"
"Hehehe, at best, this is only a giant joke."
"My Heavenly Court thinks for humanity in all aspects, we offered our blood and sweat for the benefits of humanity, even sacrificing ourselves. And you people, for your own selfish interests, destroyed the great position that my Heavenly Court had maintained meticulously for millions of years."
"My Heavenly Court can refine fate Gu again in the future, we can refine it secretly! We won't let the five regions know of fate Gu's refinement, will you find out about it?"
"Can you all stop us in time?"
"Even if you stop us the second or the third time. What about after that? Who can guarantee you can stop us from refining it again and again?"
"We will only refine rank six fate Gu, it is far easier than restoring it to rank nine!"
"Also, every time we fight because of fate Gu, humanity will suffer heavy losses and greatly expend its foundation. This will give variant humans the opportunity to rise up against us!"
Duke Long lamented with deep emotions as he said this.
"Who is this old man? I did not know that Heavenly Court did so many things in consideration for our entire human race!"
"Why did they invade Heavenly Court, what were these Gu Immortals thinking?"
"These people are all demons, they disregarded the big picture for their own interests! They are accursed sinners!"
The five regions' mortals resonated with Duke Long.
Most of the mortals had extremely little understanding of the Gu Immortal world.
And the Gu Immortals scattered in the five regions were also silent when they heard Duke Long.
Heavenly Court was powerful, Heavenly Court was domineering, Heavenly Court occupied almost all the cultivation resources of Central Continent, Heavenly Court's ambition stretched extremely far and actively interfered in major events of the other four regions.
But no one was able to deny Heavenly Court's contribution in protecting humanity.
This was a fact!
"Ahhh, this is somewhat troublesome. Although it felt extremely satisfying to destroy fate Gu, there is some emptiness after the adrenaline rush, this is a bit of a problem." Inside the blood cape, Reckless Savage's will mumbled while holding his head.
"Hehe, Duke Long, are you done?" Fang Yuan's expression was indifferent, after destroying fate Gu, this was the first time he spoke and broke the silence.
Duke Long looked at Fang Yuan, his brows furrowed as he started feeling uneasy.
Fang Yuan was too calm! According to Fang Yuan's intelligence, how could he not see the crucial point? Duke Long tried to think from another perspective, if he were Fang Yuan, he would definitely use all his strength to attack and not give the enemies the chance to speak.
Because once Duke Long spoke, he would create this current situation.
Indeed.
Duke Long's words restored Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals' morale and also suppressed the enemies' spirit, he also raised Heavenly Court's prestige and it was simply turning the situation around!
Duke Long was worthy of being the leader of Heavenly Court, he not only possessed terrifying strength worthy of the main pillar, at the crucial time, he could even lead and boost morale, changing people's hearts.
How could Fang Yuan not see this?
But he did not stop Duke Long, Duke Long could even vaguely see a trace of anticipation in his eyes.
So what was Fang Yuan anticipating?
At the next moment, Fang Yuan chuckled: "Oh Duke Long, who told you that destroying fate Gu meant the end of this battle? You seem to have forgotten someone."
Duke Long's pupils shrank as he realized something.
He followed Fang Yuan's gaze and saw a river.
That was a phantom silhouette of the River of Time!
Calamity Luck Altar carried Red Lotus Demon Venerable's method — Call of the Ancient. From the start of the battle, this killer move's power had condensed into a phantom River of Time in Heavenly Court.
Northern Plains' past Gu Immortal experts walked out from this phantom river and created an extremely huge threat to Heavenly Court.
But as the battle continued, the phantom River of Time seemed to have gradually grown powerless as fewer and fewer of Northern Plains' experts were summoned.
At the late stage of the battle, this phantom River of Time seemed to be motionless and showed no traces of new figures emerging.
However, when Fang Yuan destroyed fate Gu, this phantom River of Time seemed like a beast that had broken free of its shackles, it started surging wildly and turbulently.
Swish swish swish…
The river water surged, raising astonishing waves.
A figure walked out slowly and naturally from the giant waves.
All the immortals present heard his voice:
"In my youth I shined in the light of spring, horses trampled on flowers as fragrance of wine spread.
Love and hatred came with the waves, summer cicadas sang as I woke up in the middle of the night.
Planting red lotuses in the River of Time, going back in time with my tears run dry.
Through the vicissitudes of life I return to this stage, the myriad beings anticipate a life unbound by fate!"
He had the appearance of a young man, his gaze seemed to have experienced countless vicissitudes, he wore a red robe, his face was pure as jade, his eyes were bright like stars, and his skin was white as snow.
He walked out from the phantom River of Time and stepped into Heavenly Court's battlefield.
Everyone watched, there was complete silence all around.
His gaze moved around before fixing on Duke Long's body.
Duke Long shook, his expression was extremely complicated as he opened his mouth, his lips moved but no words came out.
The young man smiled: "Master, have you been well?"
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Chapter 1962 I Have Destiny Immortal Gu“s Recipe!
"Wow, this person came out of the river!"
"Why is there a river in the sky?"
"The young man who walked out is really handsome!"
"I still think that the fairy in the red cape looks nicer."
Because of the killer move everybody's vision, the mortals of the five regions saw this scene, they discussed enthusiastically and rowdily.
Mortals and Gu Masters might not understand the severity of the situation, but most of the Gu Immortals knew who this mysterious young man was.
At once, Gu Immortals of the five regions were shaken, it was as if a world destroying tornado was rampaging in their hearts.
"This Gu Immortal, it can't be?"
"Is he Red Lotus Demon Venerable?!"
Among the generations of venerables, Red Lotus Demon Venerable was the most mysterious one. Back then, Heavenly Court used everything to nurture him but their efforts were in vain. Not only did Red Lotus not become an Immortal Venerable, he even became a Demon Venerable, betraying the righteous path and damaging fate Gu. There was also the problem of the dragonman race mixed within this, Heavenly Court had to disregard costs and make information path great experts use their most profound methods to eliminate the influence of this event.
Moreover, Red Lotus Demon Venerable had constantly been reborn, he changed his style of action and wanted to preserve Heavenly Court's reputation for the sake of his master, he started to act secretly in the dark.
Thus, most Gu Immortals did not know the true appearance of Red Lotus Demon Venerable.
But they all heard the mysterious young looking Gu Immortal call Duke Long his master. He had also walked out of the phantom River of Time…
Everyone knew that Duke Long was the master of Red Lotus.
"But why did this happen? Didn't Red Lotus Demon Venerable die?"
"He might be a new disciple of Duke Long."
The Gu Immortals of the five regions were uncertain, but Heavenly Court's battlefield was full of experienced experts, there were many super forces behind them that had secretive information regarding Red Lotus Demon Venerable, they knew quite a lot of things.
Thus, be they Heavenly Court or the three regions' Gu Immortals, they looked at the young Gu Immortal while dazed like rocks, they were numb from shock.
They recognized the young Gu Immortal's identity.
It was really Red Lotus Demon Venerable!
The three regions' Gu Immortals were shaken, Red Lotus Demon Venerable was the disciple of Duke Long, seeing his attitude towards Duke Long, it still carried concern and respect.
Heavenly Court did not dare to act rashly. After all, Red Lotus Demon Venerable had invaded Heavenly Court in the past, damaging fate Gu. After that, in order to repair fate Gu, Heavenly Court spent over a million years, countless resources and manpower. They managed to repair it in the end, but it was a pity that Red Lotus' inheritor, Fang Yuan, destroyed it! It was truly infuriating!
And most importantly, there was Red Lotus Demon Venerable's cultivation level!
He was a venerable with rank nine battle strength, once he appeared, who could face him in combat?
Even the powerful Duke Long, even the colossal Di Zang Sheng, even Fang Yuan who wore the blood battle cape, were no match for the rank nine Red Lotus Demon Venerable.
Nobody held any doubt regarding this.
The young looking Red Lotus guessed everyone's thoughts, he walked on thin air as he got to the center of the battlefield, he smiled: "Everyone, no need to worry, I have already died. Now that fate Gu is destroyed while call of the ancient has barely any power left, I am merely Red Lotus' will."
Red Lotus' will was vivid and solid like it was the real person.
But upon close inspection, one would realize that there were differences between it and an actual Gu Immortal.
The immortals managed to discern this as they let out sighs of relief.
Red Lotus did not lie, this was his will, not his main body.
His reputation was too great, he appeared in a shocking manner, everyone could not help but think of it as the worst case situation. After Red Lotus informed them, they realized the truth.
The bad feeling in Duke Long's heart was getting heavier.
Duke Long snorted coldly, shouting: "Red Lotus, even though you have died, you are still not willing to give up that heretical thought? You won this time, thanks to you, fate Gu has been destroyed by your chosen pawn."
Red Lotus shook his head: "Master, this is not a win, precisely so, I had to show up."
"What are you trying to do?" Duke Long frowned, the bad feeling in his heart intensified.
Red Lotus replied with action, his body flickered as he appeared before Fang Yuan instantly.
Fang Yuan looked at Red Lotus' will with a calm expression, his gaze was dark like the night sky.
He had very deep ties with this venerable. The Spring Autumn Cicada that he had used to turn situations around many times was the time path Immortal Gu created by this person.
"You did very well. I am sure you've guessed what I am going to do now?" Red Lotus' will smiled at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan replied: "Somewhat."
"Even though fate Gu is destroyed, the truth is that to use it as a Gu material to refine destiny Gu, we will need an otherworldly demon like you. Thanks to someone's help, you finally became a complete otherworldly demon." Red Lotus' will said this as he looked far away, towards the periphery of the battlefield where Spectral Soul and his servants were hiding.
Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan were perspiring profusely. Even though this was just Red Lotus' will, he was simply too terrifying, finding out their hiding spot with one glance.
At the hiding spot, Spectral Soul had already returned to human form, he looked at Red Lotus' will with a complex expression.
This was not the first time he had met Red Lotus' will, his memories surfaced from the depths of his mind.
Back then, he became a soul path venerable, he entered the River of Time to explore its secrets. Even though Spectral Soul Demon Venerable cultivated soul path, with his foundation, he could freely enter and exit the River of Time.
As the mysterious fog appeared, a stone lotus island appeared in front of him of its own initiative.
He stepped onto the stone lotus island as Red Lotus' will smiled and invited him: "I have been waiting, Spectral Soul. Let us make a deal?"
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable agreed to the transaction. Therefore, he learned of fate Gu, and also the truth behind the historical invasion of Heavenly Court by the three Demon Venerables. He gave up on the plan to attack Heavenly Court, he went to design and create sovereign immortal fetus Gu instead.
Red Lotus' will looked at Spectral Soul, using his gaze as an indication — it is time to carry out our transaction.
Spectral Soul chuckled as he ordered Old Man Zheng Yuan: "Gather all of the human will, send it all to Fang Yuan."
Old Man Zheng Yuan immediately moved.
At once, the vast amount of human will from Heavenly Court surged. These wills were of all varieties and colors, they were filled with ugly desires or beautiful dreams, one could indulge in them and lose their way, they were beautiful and ugly at the same time. People wanted them but also hated them.
Red Lotus' will looked at the vast amount of will that resembled a rainbow sea.
He turned around and smiled at Fang Yuan, before entering the ocean of human will personally.
The human wills engulfed him instantly, next, fire started burning out of nowhere, resembling blazing red lotuses that burned the sea of wills.
Duke Long saw this and became enraged, this was not something a mere will could achieve: "Red Lotus, back then when you attacked Heavenly Court, you actually left this arrangement behind!"
Before he finished speaking, Duke Long flew up, wanting to destroy the human wills.
"Don't even think about it!" Wu Shuai was prepared for this, he manipulated Dragon Palace to stop him.
Both sides fought, Dragon Palace was soon forced to retreat.
"What are you all waiting for?" Duke Long shouted at all the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals jolted, they started to approach Fang Yuan and the vast sea of wills.
The three regions' Gu Immortals were not going to watch, a huge battle erupted again!
"No matter what Red Lotus is doing, it must be disadvantageous to Heavenly Court, this is something we want to see." Wu Yong's eyes shined with bright light, he shot out countless wind blades around him.
Di Zang Sheng roared angrily, it coiled his body around Fang Yuan and the human wills, resisting killer moves using its body as a shield, growling in pain but refusing to retreat.
Bing Sai Chuan rode in Calamity Luck Altar as he resisted Demon Judgment Board. He had a complex gaze, it looked like Red Lotus Demon Venerable was going to refine destiny Gu as well. This went against Longevity Heaven's goal but he could not stop it or retreat now, he had to fight first.
The flames burned the human wills, emitting a dense, sharp fragrance.
After Red Lotus' will fused into the human wills, the vast sea of wills cooperated with Fang Yuan, entering the flames.
Lumps of flames spread out, quickly expanding into a sea of fire.
The surrounding temperature rose, if rank six Gu Immortals were not putting up a defense, they would instantly melt due to the flames.
Fang Yuan breathed in deeply, the bloody cape protected him, he stood in the sea of fire but he did not make a move.
A Heavenly Court Gu Immortal could not help but laugh: "Fang Yuan is not making a move, he looks like he does not have destiny Immortal Gu's recipe!"
Fang Yuan looked at the person who was speaking from within the flames, he smiled coldly as he tone carried a hint of pity: "I do not have it, but here in this battlefield, somebody does."
"Who?!" The fighting immortals all had this question in their heads.
"Find them and kill them!" The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals subconsciously had such thoughts.
"Find them and protect them!" The three regions' Gu Immortals instantly made their decision.
Fang Yuan silently shifted his gaze towards Feng Jiu Ge.
Feng Jiu Ge also looked at him.
The two looked at each other through the sea of fire, they stared at each other as if the surrounding fights in the battlefield were far away from them.
Feng Jiu Ge breathed in deeply, he slowly shut his eyes.
Next, he opened his mouth and started to sing, the tune of destiny song spread throughout the battlefield.
"Feng Jiu Ge has attacked again!"
"Let's kill Fang Yuan, let's exterminate the human will!"
"Exterminate the human will first, Fang Yuan is secondary."
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were energized, but at the next moment, they screamed in shock.
They were not powered up by destiny song, instead, the three regions' Gu Immortals gained a boost in strength.
"Feng Jiu Ge, what are you doing?!" Duke Long was furious and shocked, he turned around and looked at Feng Jiu Ge like a furious blood dragon.
"Father!" Feng Jin Huang's voice was filled with utter shock, it could be heard clearly as well.
"Feng Jiu Ge, why are you doing this? You betrayed Heavenly Court! How dare you, how can you do this!!" Qin Ding Ling screamed in a shrill voice, she was extremely furious. In order to nurture Feng Jiu Ge, she had even given him her responsive luck Immortal Gu.
But Feng Jiu Ge actually 'repaid' her like this!
Feng Jiu Ge had a calm expression, he did not stop singing.
At this very moment, he betrayed Heavenly Court unhesitantly, joining Fang Yuan and the three regions' allied forces!
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Chapter 1963 Feng Jiu Ge“s Red Lotus True Inheritance
The tune of destiny song filled the battlefield, but at this moment, Feng Jiu Ge's opponent was Heavenly Court.
Regardless of the shock and perplexity of both sides, Feng Jiu Ge was immersed in his own singing, at the same time, memories surfaced in his mind.
During the second invasion of Lang Ya blessed land…
Fang Yuan set up a formation in the blessed land, Feng Jiu Ge and Chen Yi were isolated.
Feng Jiu Ge faced Fang Yuan alone.
"My Gu worms are vanishing mysteriously! How can this be? This should be a theft path method. Is it Fang Yuan's method or this formation's?" Feng Jiu Ge was shocked.
Because Fang Yuan had theft path methods, Feng Jiu Ge was at a disadvantage.
As time passed, his Gu worms got stolen one by one, among them were several sound path Immortal Gu.
Feng Jiu Ge's battle strength fell greatly, he had to choose to use fixed immortal travel Immortal Gu to escape for now.
Suppress space Immortal Gu!
But Fang Yuan suddenly used his prepared method, Feng Jiu Ge failed to escape.
Immortal killer move — Great Thief Ghost Hand!
Next, Fang Yuan even stole the Fixed Immortal Travel that he was after.
Feng Jiu Ge's heart turned icy cold, he knew that he was in a desperate situation!
But at this moment, he received Fang Yuan's secret transmission: "Oh Feng Jiu Ge, I will not kill you, I will not steal fate armor Immortal Gu either. You and I are not on the same side, but you and Heavenly Court are not aligned in beliefs either. Face your true inner self, what do you truly want? Let me ask you, have you started comprehending destiny song already?"
Feng Jiu Ge initially thought that this was a trap by Fang Yuan to affect his fighting spirit and determination, but soon he became very perplexed.
Fang Yuan actually slowed down his attacks, he stopped forcing him.
This made Feng Jiu Ge think involuntarily —
"What does Fang Yuan mean by this?"
"He knows I have fate armor Immortal Gu? He reacted so perfectly when we attacked Lang Ya blessed land this time, he made ample preparations, does this mean he used Spring Autumn Cicada to rebirth?"
"If he really is reborn, what happened in the previous life? From his words, why does it seem like I will diverge from Heavenly Court?"
At this time, Fang Yuan transmitted again: "Oh Feng Jiu Ge, I know you are full of questions and suspicions. Don't worry, as time passes, you will understand what I mean. Next, I will open the formation and give Chen Yi the false impression that he broke it. I am sure he will teleport you away, hehehe, we will meet again, Feng Jiu Ge."
"Fang Yuan, explain yourself clearly!" Feng Jiu Ge transmitted.
But at the next moment, an explosion occurred as the formation space that was isolated became connected.
Chen Yi saw Feng Jiu Ge in danger and quickly shouted loudly: "Hang on, I'm coming!"
"Be careful, the enemy has a way to steal Gu worms." Feng Jiu Ge hesitated briefly before immediately giving Chen Yi critical information.
During the fight, Fang Yuan attacked ferociously, he critically injured Feng Jiu Ge, fate armor Immortal Gu was activated.
In order to save Feng Jiu Ge, Chen Yi used karma relocation.
Feng Jiu Ge was shocked: "Fang Yuan was right, Chen Yi really had a way to send me out!"
"Feng Jiu Ge, you managed to escape this time, but next time will be different." Fang Yuan had a plain expression.
This sentence had a different meaning when it was heard by Feng Jiu Ge.
…
In the battle of Lang Ya blessed land, Heavenly Court lost.
After the battle, Feng Jiu Ge considered Fang Yuan's words.
"He could have killed me but he did not take my life. Why?"
"Fang Yuan is a demon with a ruthless and vicious personality, he only cares about benefits! He let me go, there is only one reason, I will be a big help to him in the future."
"But I am a Central Continent member, a prospective member of Heavenly Court, the Dao Guardian of my daughter Feng Jin Huang! Don't tell me… there will be conflict between me and Heavenly Court?"
"If Fang Yuan is reborn from the future, does that mean that in his previous life, I opposed Heavenly Court, I was his natural ally?"
As he held such concerns, Feng Jiu Ge did not inform Fairy Zi Wei of this situation.
The thing that moved him the most was the destiny song that Fang Yuan mentioned.
"Destiny song…" Feng Jiu Ge had a vague sensation and inspiration, but his inspiration was too faint and far away, he could not grab onto it.
But he knew that this was a direction.
He continued to explore it, soon gaining some fragmented comprehension.
Until one day, when he was stationed at Embroidered Tower, he looked at the three bloody skins left behind by Reckless Savage Demon Venerable.
All of the comprehension that he had during this period underwent a qualitative transformation.
Feng Jiu Ge's soul was deeply stirred, he could not help but smile: "It seems that my next song will be — Destiny Song!"
…
In the battle of the River of Time.
Fang Yuan and Feng Jiu Ge met again.
"How is the creation of destiny song going?" They fought intensely on the surface but Fang Yuan was secretly transmitting to him.
Feng Jiu Ge: "Fang Yuan, what is it that you know?"
"Hehehe. Come to the River of Time more often, you should have realized that being here greatly helps your comprehension and creation of destiny song. But the most helpful thing is still the Red Lotus true inheritance on the stone lotus island." Fang Yuan said.
"What do you mean?" Feng Jiu Ge asked.
"According to my estimations, that should be a true inheritance that Red Lotus Demon Venerable specially left behind for you, it will help you greatly." Fang Yuan said.
Feng Jiu Ge hesitated for a moment before answering: "I will not owe you this favor without repaying it. Let me tell you this, in Heavenly Court's Embroidered Tower, there are three true inheritances left behind by Reckless Savage Demon Venerable. Each one requires a key, they are attitude Gu, mutation Gu, and adaptation Gu."
"Oh?!" A sharp light flashed across Fang Yuan's eyes.
He did not think that Feng Jiu Ge was lying, the items were inside Heavenly Court, there was no need to lie. Back then, to repay the favor of saving him in the winds of assimilation, Feng Jiu Ge blocked Wu Yong's assault. Now, it also fitted Feng Jiu Ge's nature to expose this secret true inheritance to him.
In this battle, Fang Yuan still let him go, causing Feng Jiu Ge to survive again.
…
Central Continent's Refinement Path Convention started, multiple battlefields were created as Gu Immortals fought intensely.
At such a crucial timing, Feng Jiu Ge was instead inside the River of Time.
"That… really is a stone lotus island?" Feng Jiu Ge was shook internally, the stone lotus island within the mist appeared in front of him, as Fang Yuan had predicted.
He saw Red Lotus' will on the island.
Red Lotus' will smiled: "You are finally here, Feng Jiu Ge. This is the true inheritance that I left specially for you."
Feng Jiu Ge frowned: "No matter how much you give me, it will not change my stance."
Red Lotus' will shook his head: "I had never thought of bribing you, your choice is your own decision. I just feel that this true inheritance should be left to you. Of course, you can refuse to take it. Even if you destroy it, I am not going to stop you."
Feng Jiu Ge believed in himself, after considering it, he decided to accept the true inheritance, he immersed himself in a certain segment of the memories of Red Lotus' life.
Red Lotus was undergoing tribulation, trying to get to rank nine venerable realm.
The terrifying might of the calamities and tribulations made Feng Jiu Ge extremely shocked and fearful!
After the tribulation was over, only half of the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals who helped Red Lotus were alive. The most painful thing to Red Lotus was that his wife Liu Shu Xian had died.
This was his most beloved woman.
"Don't leave me, Shu Xian!" Red Lotus hugged Liu Shu Xian as tears poured down his face.
Liu Shu Xian smiled: "It's no use, I have been struck by the tribulation. Having a trace of my soul left to take a final look at you is already an enormous fortune. How could I possibly ask for more?"
"I am useless, I am useless! I underwent tribulation but implicated you!" Hong Ting's head was lowered with tears rolling down his eyes.
"No, Hong Ting. That tribulation could only have been blocked by my special physique. Even if you all sacrificed your lives, you would only have failed. I was born with one of the ten extreme physiques and encountered you, it was all fate's arrangement. In your fatal moment, I suddenly understood the greatest meaning of my life, it was to protect you, to block the tribulation for you and help you ascend to the position of an Immortal Venerable! Now… I have accomplished it."
"No, No! Xian Er, I would rather not be an Immortal Venerable, I only want you to live, I only want you to live!" Hong Ting roared helplessly, his body was shaking and his tears were falling.
"Everything and everyone in this world has its own respective fate, it is fixed. Hong Ting, you cannot have such thoughts, you need to live on properly, your fate is to become an Immortal Venerable, lead Heavenly Court and spread the glory of the righteous path throughout the five regions… Do you know? I had always been wanting to see that scene, standing by your side and accompanying you as you bring fortune to the world with invincible might. Unfortunately, I won't be able to see it…"
Liu Shu Xian's life force gradually fell, until she died.
Hong Ting's head was lowered and his back was bent deeply like an old man, a heavy shadow shrouded his face.
At this moment, he seemed to have lost all signs of life.
Incomparable grief, it was as if his heart had died!
Regret Gu formed in Red Lotus' immortal aperture, he decided to change everything. For the sake of this, he turned on Duke Long and Heavenly Court.
He went on the opposite path!
Red Lotus used Spring Autumn Cicada to rebirth tens or hundreds of times.
The tribulation faded, this time, even though Liu Shu Xian was heavily injured, she still had one breath left.
"Xian Er, you are still alive, you are still alive, this is great!" Red Lotus was overjoyed.
Guh.
Liu Shu Xian suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, her last breath was used up.
"Xian Er!!" Red Lotus was shocked, he looked at Liu Shu Xian's corpse in a daze as his eyes turned red.
"I can still do it, I can see hope. As long as I continue working hard, I will definitely become strong enough to save Xian Er's life!" A fierce light flashed in Red Lotus' eyes, he muttered to himself as if he had gone into a demonic trance.
Rebirth after rebirth, he continued to be reborn.
Using the advantage of rebirth, he got stronger and stronger, he became more capable of handling different situations. He had abundant experience, he made use of every portion of resources and elevated his strength to his greatest limit.
However, like an endless loop, each time, he had to face the tribulation of becoming a venerable.
The scale and might of the tribulation was adjusted according to the changes that happened to Red Lotus! This made sure that the result of the tribulation had never changed.
Those Gu Immortals that should have died still died, including Liu Shu Xian.
Red Lotus continued to try without giving up. Ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times!
He analyzed, he calculated, he maximized the value of every single resource he had, he asked for all the help he needed from Heavenly Court to the best of their ability.
…
"Xian Er!" Red Lotus hugged Liu Shu Xian.
Liu Shu Xian gave him a final glance: "It is great that you are safe." After saying that, she died.
…
"Xian Er!" Red Lotus hugged Liu Shu Xian again.
Liu Shu Xian did not have the strength to talk, she exerted her strength and wanted to raise her hand to touch Red Lotus' face but she did not succeed. Midway, her arms fell to the ground.
…
"Xian Er!" Red Lotus shouted furiously, he watched as Liu Shu Xian was reduced to ashes within the lightning tribulation.
…
"Shu Xian." Red Lotus looked at Liu Shu Xian who was badly poisoned, his footsteps slowed down.
Liu Shu Xian's entire body was black-purple, poisonous blood flowed out of her seven orifices, she smiled pitifully: "Hong Ting, don't be sad because of me. All the sacrifices are worth it, you must become a venerable, you will lead Heavenly Court and the whole of humanity."
These were her final words.
Red Lotus stopped walking, he stared at the pool of poisonous water formed from Liu Shu Xian's corpse, he held his fist as he gritted his teeth: "She died again! I need to continue working harder!!"
…
"Shu Xian!" After the tribulation, Red Lotus flew towards Liu Shu Xian again.
Liu Shu Xian shook her head, she was pale: "I am going to die, I can no longer accompany you, my most beloved."
"It will depend on the situation to see if you die. Let me check!" Red Lotus had not given up.
"I know my own condition, listen to me, at the final moment of my life, I want to tell you…" Liu Shu Xian's aura got weaker as she spoke weakly with pauses in the middle.
Red Lotus did not listen to her, he was focused on inspecting her body condition.
The result was that there was no way to save her, by the time he reacted, Liu Shu Xian who was in his arms had already died.
"There must be some way, I can definitely improve further!" Red Lotus reminded himself.
…
Attempts after attempts, failure after failure.
It was as if Hong Ting was trapped, no matter what method he used, even if he avoided the tribulation, Liu Shu Xian still died.
Feng Jiu Ge watched Red Lotus fail time and time again, he repeated attempts after attempts, an intense feeling of sadness and grief accumulated in his heart.
He watched as Red Lotus screamed, he watched as Red Lotus got agitated, he watched as Red Lotus gritted his teeth, he watched as Red Lotus left in hatred, as he went through another cycle of rebirth.
Each time, Red Lotus carried hope, but he gained disappointment instead.
The tribulation to become venerable was unavoidable, he could not give up on it, but he could not control it either.
Liu Shu Xian was a wall that could not be avoided. Each time Red Lotus was reborn, he would need to accept this cruel fact. Each time he tried, he would see his beloved woman die in the end. Each time he got injured, the pain in his heart would be the same as physical pain on his body, but Red Lotus still continued to rebirth, it was as if he were holding a knife to his heart, stabbing at it continuously.
Even though Feng Jiu Ge held deep admiration and sympathy for Red Lotus, he alerted himself to control his emotions, this might be a venerable method after all.
As an observer, Feng Jiu Ge kept a cool perspective, he gradually realized: In the initial stages, Red Lotus would still scream at heaven in great agony whenever she died.
But towards the later stages, Red Lotus stubbornly analyzed the situation with a rational mind, his expression was dark.
At the final stage, Red Lotus' efficiency got higher and higher, whenever he saw that Liu Shu Xian could not be saved, he would instantly rebirth without any hesitation.
Finally, there was one attempt.
Liu Shu Xian fell on the ground, the bones in her entire body were broken, she laid in a pool of blood with her final breath left.
Red Lotus descended rapidly, quickly approaching her.
"Hong Ting… I am going to die, you must…" Liu Shu Xian smiled, watching as Red Lotus rapidly approached her.
Red Lotus had a cold expression, he looked at her impassively: "There is no saving you. I failed again but it is alright, I will never give up, I am going to try once more."
Liu Shu Xian was shocked: "Hong Ting, what are you saying?"
Red Lotus turned around and left as Liu Shu Xian who was behind him called out with her dying breath: "Hong Ting…"
Red Lotus moved quickly initially but when he heard Liu Shu Xian's desperate cry, his footsteps slowed down as he came to a halt.
He looked down at his two hands.
In the deathly silence, Red Lotus stared with wide eyes, his body started to shake.
Suddenly, he felt like he could see himself, at this moment, he felt utter shock, there was a sense of immense fear in him.
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Chapter 1964 Red Lotus“ Death
"Why? Why did I become such a scary person?"
In the past, Hong Ting would feel grief at Liu Shu Xian's death, he would feel regret and hatred. He would hug Liu Shu Xian's corpse as he knelt on the ground, crying his heart out.
But now?
Facing Liu Shu Xian's death, seeing the final moment of Liu Shu Xian's life, towards the lover who only wanted to spend her final breath talking to her most beloved, Red Lotus turned around and left!
Was this Liu Shu Xian not the real Liu Shu Xian?
Of course she was real!
Red Lotus was clear about this.
She was still her, that same Liu Shu Xian, regardless of how many times Red Lotus was reborn, her determination and actions had never changed. She was willing to sacrifice herself to protect her lover, she used her life to block his venerable tribulation!
But…
Liu Shu Xian was still Liu Shu Xian, but Hong Ting was no longer the same Hong Ting.
"Since when did it start? Since when did I turn into this?" Red Lotus asked his inner self.
This question was not hard at all, he soon found the answer.
His countless rebirths, his countless attempts, the countless times Liu Shu Xian died, and the countless times he received disappointment!
His heart was hurt time and again, he bled each time, before the scab formed, Hong Ting tore open his wounds once more.
He was hurt too many times, he felt pain too many times, he regretted too many times.
Too many times indeed, eventually, he got used to it, he became… gradually numb.
Thus, he started to calculate with precision.
Thus, he started to analyze rationally.
He used every resource he had to strengthen himself and equip himself. He tried different methods in search of the strongest and most likely solution to preserve Liu Shu Xian's life when he underwent his tribulation.
When he started to think rationally, when he started to feel rational about Liu Shu Xian's death, even though he forced himself to be rational at the start, he changed.
Next, slowly, step by step, he turned into someone that he did not recognize.
This person made him feel extremely shocked and fearful.
Followed by a deep sense of helplessness!
This scene left an extremely deep impression in Feng Jiu Ge —
Red Lotus stood on the spot, lowering his arms, he was young but his back was hunched, like an old man about to die.
Silently, two trails of tears flowed down his cheeks.
Silently weeping.
Behind Red Lotus, there was Liu Shu Xian who called him with her dying breath, hoping that he would turn around, so that she could see her most beloved person at the final moment of her life.
But Red Lotus did not turn around to look at her.
Red Lotus no longer loved her.
After all, if he really loved this person in his heart and she was about to die, would he coldly turn around to leave?
Of course he would not!
Even though his goal was to use rebirth to save Liu Shu Xian, that was only a deeply rooted objective that he had.
The reason behind it was no longer love.
It was truly laughable.
He wanted to save the most beloved person in his life, but along the way, Red Lotus lost his love.
No matter how many times Liu Shu Xian died, she did not betray him, she sacrificed herself for him.
But Red Lotus himself had changed.
He betrayed his past self, he betrayed Liu Shu Xian.
He wanted to rebirth and change the past, but to think that it was rebirth that changed him.
From now what, what should he do?
Since he no longer loved Liu Shu Xian, why should he continue to rebirth and try to save her?
Of course, he had other regrets, he loved his parents deeply.
But did Red Lotus dare to attempt this?
He could almost tell the results already. After witnessing the death of his parents time and again, he would get used to it, he would get numb, he would accept this result that was decreed by fate.
Red Lotus did not dare!
Then, should he accept this result? After rebirth, should he pretend to be unaware of everything, to follow the path set by Fate and become a venerable, before becoming the Heavenly Court Immortal Venerable that everyone including his master wanted to see?
Red Lotus did not want that!
He still had love in his heart, towards his parents and master. Because there was love, there was also regret.
He also had hatred in his heart, he hated Fate, because he no longer loved Liu Shu Xian, he also hated himself. He had all sorts of complex emotions in his heart, Red Lotus was unsure about them himself.
Red Lotus asked himself truthfully, he inspected his inner self.
He still wanted to destroy fate Gu.
But the intention was already different.
He started to research and found more of the hidden profundities within [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]. When he comprehended the crucial factor, love Gu, he successfully used it to save Liu Shu Xian's life!
Of course, the price was that Red Lotus succeeded in the tribulation but did not become venerable.
As an observer, Feng Jiu Ge understood clearly: This was definitely a major breakthrough!
The venerable tribulation could not be controlled by man.
No matter how Red Lotus stalled it, he had to undergo tribulation eventually.
But using love Immortal Gu, he finally changed a fixed result! Instead of dying, Liu Shu Xian managed to survive.
Of course, there was a backlash of Red Lotus not becoming venerable, that was also a result.
Both results changed!
"Shu Xian, Shu Xian, you are still alive! You finally survived!" Red Lotus who succeeded was very excited, he hugged Liu Shu Xian.
Liu Shu Xian was in low spirits: "What is going on? Hong Ting, you did not become venerable?!"
Red Lotus laughed loudly: "That is because I used love Gu. Do you know how many times I was reborn while trying to save you? You should have died during the tribulation, but because of my countless attempts, I researched the human path methods contained within [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]…"
Red Lotus was incredibly excited, he talked about his difficult journey, his experiences and hard work, the trials and ordeals that he went through each time in his experimentation.
"But I finally succeeded, I finally succeeded!" Red Lotus raised his arms and cheered: "Even though this is a minor change, this is the proper direction. One day, I will succeed completely!"
Slap.
A crisp sound was heard as Liu Shu Xian gave Red Lotus a slap.
Red Lotus instantly froze, his cheering came to a stop as he stared at Liu Shu Xian.
Liu Shu Xian's eyes had tears: "Hong Ting, are you still yourself? You actually had such heretical thoughts? You actually wanted to change the past! You defied fate, no wonder you failed to become venerable after the tribulation! You did all these just so I could survive?"
"All those people who helped you in the tribulation, what about the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals who were sacrificed? You said that you are doing all this for me, but have you ever considered my feelings?!"
"I, Liu Shu Xian, was born with one of the ten extreme physiques and encountered you, it was all fate's arrangement. In your fatal moment, I understood the greatest meaning of my life, it was to protect you, to block the tribulation for you and help you ascend to the position of an Immortal Venerable!"
"But you actually did this! For me, you abandoned the most precious chance to become venerable!"
"If you cannot become venerable, what will happen to Heavenly Court? What will happen to the world? What about humanity?"
"You forgot your master's teachings, you let down the expectations of your deceased parents! I am truly hurt, my heart really hurts!"
"I would rather sacrifice myself!"
"Your love towards me is just a small love. Greater love is for humanity, for the myriad living beings in this world!"
"Hong Ting, I am truly disappointed in you."
Liu Shu Xian cried profusely.
Red Lotus stared at Liu Shu Xian in a daze, after a long while, he let out a breath of air.
"So that was it." Red Lotus had a calm expression, his gaze became eerie and dark.
Liu Shu Xian grabbed his arms: "Quickly think of a method, you must have some way, right? Let everything return to its original path as decreed by Fate, even if I have to be sacrificed. How can our love compare to the greater love of heaven and earth, how can it compare to the grand ambitions of Heavenly Court?"
"Guh!" Liu Shu Xian's body suddenly shook, she lowered her head as she looked at her chest.
Red Lotus's hand directly stabbed into her heart, it was a fatal blow!
Liu Shu Xian looked at her lover in disbelief.
"Maybe killing you will return everything to its original path." Red Lotus looked at Liu Shu Xian in the eye as he said plainly.
Liu Shu Xian showed a blissful smile as he said: "Hong Ting, I was not wrong about you. Please… please become a venerable."
At the next moment, she died again.
Similar to the countless times Red Lotus had experienced, Liu Shu Xian died again.
But compared to the countless times Red Lotus had experienced, there was a difference.
Liu Shu Xian was truly dead!
In Red Lotus's heart, she was completely dead!
From then on, she never lived again.
Red Lotus looked at her corpse with calm emotions, there was not even any ripple in his heart.
The woman he had once loved deeply, he was willing to give up anything for her, he was reborn time and time again, working hard to save this woman who he had never given up on.
But now, he killed her.
He personally killed her!
Red Lotus felt no regret in his heart, he even gained some insight.
The cause of this tragedy was in Heavenly Court, it was fate Gu.
At this moment, his determination to destroy fate Gu could not be any firmer!
Feng Jiu Ge felt the scene in front of him change.
Heavenly Court.
The battle was over, the entire area was in ruins.
On the damaged top floor of Heaven Overseeing Tower, Duke Long and Red Lotus faced each other.
Duke Long had evidently undergone a tough battle, he was covered in blood and injuries.
He looked at Red Lotus as he sighed deeply: "Oh Hong Ting, one mistake leads to countless mistakes, to think that you have already reached this point. You want to destroy fate Gu? Go ahead."
Saying this, Duke Long took the initiative to give way!
Red Lotus was slightly shocked, he walked towards fate Gu. Most Gu worms had fragile bodies, but no matter how much force he used, fate Gu was like the strongest object in the world, he could not destroy it.
"Regardless of what method you use, you cannot destroy fate Gu. Hong Ting, you are not the only one, be they Limitless Demon Venerable or Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, they came here in the past, but their methods were all useless against fate Gu."
"In this world, only a complete otherworldly demon can destroy fate Gu! But otherworldly demons are not complete when they come into our world. Thus, nobody in this world can destroy fate Gu."
Duke Long said this as he showed intense fatigue: "Hong Ting, come back! It is not too late to turn over a new leaf! Even though you have sinned greatly and made many mistakes, Heavenly Court and I are willing to give you a chance to redeem yourself, we can start over again!"
Even at this point, Duke Long was still urging Red Lotus, he was unwilling to give up.
Red Lotus was silent for a long time, he turned around to face Duke Long, smiling: "Oh master, since the two Demon Venerables could not destroy fate Gu, why did you not place fate Gu in front of me from the start, to let me try doing so and give up?"
Duke Long was silent.
Red Lotus continued as he smiled: "That means you are afraid too, right? You are afraid that I might have a brand new method that is able to destroy fate Gu."
Duke Long smiled bitterly: "Of course. Times are changing, Gu cultivation paths are emerging endlessly. Many theories in the past are no longer appropriate now, even I am unsure if there is really a way to destroy fate Gu. But at this time, I can no longer stop you, I can only take a risk and try. But you've seen the result yourself, too?"
Red Lotus pondered: "Fate Gu arranged the lives of everyone and everything in this world, you and I, even a rock or a ripple in a lake is part of this. But master, have you ever thought about it?"
"A human is not a rock nor a ripple, we have cognition. If a person is not happy with the life arranged by fate, what should this person do?"
Duke Long looked at Red Lotus: "You've read [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] too, when Ren Zu met fate Gu, he tried to escape from its restraints and pursue freedom Gu. What happened to him? He did not manage to grasp freedom, he lost himself and became insane, he sank into madness!"
"This is the outcome, this is the warning! A person has to accept their fate and live their life, they have to shoulder the responsibilities given to them by fate, they need to do what they are tasked to do!!"
Red Lotus laughed loudly: "I understand, thank you master for the teaching."
Duke Long saw that his expression was strange, he felt something amiss.
At the next moment, extreme fear and shock appeared on Duke Long's face.
He found that as Red Lotus exerted strength in his fingers, the fate Gu in his hand was actually shaking lightly, cracks appeared all over its body.
"Red Lotus!!" Duke Long was furious, he attacked.
He went all out!
Red Lotus did not dodge at all, he was hit by Duke Long.
This was a fatal injury!
"You?!" Duke Long was shocked, he suddenly realized that Red Lotus had purposely angered him so that he would deal a fatal blow.
At the final moment of his life, Red Lotus still smiled as he faced Duke Long: "Master, I've always admired and cared for you, even after countless rebirths, my admiration towards you have never decreased."
"But now, I need you to understand something. Look at me."
"Fate has given such preferential treatment to me, arranging such high status and accomplishments. But I was not happy, I wanted to rebel. Then let me ask you, in this world, there are countless others who lead worse lives than me, what do they think of Fate?"
"People are not rocks or ripples, we have cognition. The truth is, cognitive madness is the most scary thing, it is the most powerful!"
Saying so, Red Lotus handed fate Gu to Duke Long.
"This is all I can do."
"Love Gu is able to damage Fate. Hehehe, master, are you shocked?"
"It is a pity that I am not an otherworldly demon."
"But I tried my best to make arrangements, I did everything that I could. I left hope for the future! Other than that, there is nothing to look forward to in my life, I might as well die like this now."
"But I believe that one day, one day in the future, fate Gu will be destroyed! Even if it is not me, someone else will do it."
"I want to believe that in the future, I will not be alone, a group of people will attempt to destroy Fate."
"Master, you cannot stop it, Heavenly Court cannot stop it, because you cannot stop people from thinking with their free will!"
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Chapter 1965 He Was Still Feng Jiu Ge
On stone lotus island, Feng Jiu Ge browsed through the memories left behind by Red Lotus.
He returned to reality.
Red Lotus' will was like a real person, extremely vivid: "Other than my memories, I have two things for you. One is rank eight future self killer move, the other is the Immortal Gu recipe of destiny Gu."
Next, Red Lotus' will explained in detail: "Rank eight future self killer move will allow you to instantly gain pseudo venerable battle strength. After all, you are the Dao Guardian of the predestined Great Dream Immortal Venerable. In history, as long as Dao Guardians matured, they would have such a cultivation level. Future self will also allow you to utilize your strongest state in the future at this moment."
"As for destiny Gu's Immortal Gu recipe, even though it is just an incomplete Gu recipe, it was created according to the destiny song that you will create in the future. It has the same origin as your destiny song."
"A thousand years later, you will create the complete destiny song. But I cannot give it to you directly, because fate Gu is not destroyed completely yet, it will not allow this."
"Thus, I used another method, converting it into a rank nine destiny Gu recipe, it will be a huge help to you, you will comprehend destiny song in its initial form."
Feng Jiu Ge was moved.
The true inheritance from Red Lotus' will was completely suited for his needs, he could not refuse.
But he did not lose his cool, he acutely sensed the meaning behind Red Lotus' will's words.
"The initial form of destiny song?" Feng Jiu Ge asked.
Red Lotus's will nodded: "Indeed. For the following thousand years, you will modify destiny song many times. Eventually, you will make this killer move extremely profound, at the last modification, this killer move will actually possess the ability to grow on its own. The more Gu Immortals hit by it, the more it can extract the power of destiny from them to grow further. This is an excellent killer move."
"However, I need to remind you something. As long as fate Gu still exists, your destiny song will be suppressed and sealed."
Feng Jiu Ge shook his head: "Red Lotus Demon Venerable, thank you for the true inheritance. I understand what you mean, in fact, before now, Fang Yuan had already reminded me many times. But I will not destroy Fate or resist Heavenly Court just because of your true inheritance."
Red Lotus' will smiled lightly: "I am not asking for anything. I am only sharing my experience with you, I placed this crucial strength to break free from fate in your hands, as for your choice, that is up to you. The decision will be made by you in the end, won't it?"
Feng Jiu Ge left the stone lotus island with a heavy heart.
Fate showed preferential treatment for Red Lotus Demon Venerable, even though it took his parents and lover, he was given unparalleled talent and aptitude, he had supreme strength and status. But Red Lotus was not willing to accept this.
People were not puppets, they had their own thoughts.
"Even the venerable Red Lotus was like this, what about me, a Dao Guardian?" Feng Jiu Ge thought about himself.
Seeing the growth of Feng Jin Huang could truly bring joy and happiness to her parents.
Let alone his Dao Guardian status, even without it, why would Feng Jiu Ge not defend his own daughter?
"But, is this Dao Guardian status something I like and truly desire?" Feng Jiu Ge asked himself in his heart.
The truth was, nobody had ever asked him about it.
Be they Duke Long, Qin Ding Ling, or even the supreme elders of Spirit Affinity House, nobody asked him.
It was as if this status was glory, it was something natural to accept, Feng Jiu Ge should have been overjoyed to receive it, there was no need to ask such a redundant question.
But was it really that case?
Feng Jiu Ge thought of another deeper question: "Why do people live?"
This problem was just too broad and deep, the answer varied according to the person, a thousand people would come up with a thousand answers, in fact, even the same person would have different answers at different time periods.
Feng Jiu Ge could not answer this question.
He could only take a step back and ask himself truthfully: "For what purpose do I live?"
Feng Jiu Ge could not help but think back to his life experience.
He loved music when he was young, he did not hesitate to cultivate sound path.
From the start of his cultivation journey, he wanted to create a total of nine songs, to express himself, to express all living beings, and to express heaven and earth.
After that, he found a fortuitous encounter in a mountain valley, he by chance discovered the inheritance left behind by a sound path great expert, Spatial Sound Immortal Master.
He started to cultivate in the valley alone, feeling no loneliness at all. He was immersed in the delight of music, he cultivated and lived every day in a fulfilling manner. In this valley, he easily passed the crucial tribulation and became a rank six Gu Immortal without causing a commotion.
After becoming a Gu Immortal, Feng Jiu Ge did not have any emotion of pride or desire to show off.
Everything was natural, plain and simple.
He continued to cultivate in the valley and develop his immortal aperture, going from rank six to rank seven.
One day, two Gu Immortals arrived in the valley, they sang with Feng Jiu Ge.
Back then, it was nighttime with the moon hanging high and light wind blowing gently, causing ripples in a glittering lake in the valley.
As the three Gu Immortals sang in harmony, time flew by rapidly, and they had sung till dawn.
The three stopped singing and started laughing. They did not greet each other, but left full of joy.
Afterwards, the two were framed and hunted by the righteous path, after Feng Jiu Ge learned of this, he did not hesitate, he stepped forward to help them.
Thereafter, the unstoppable legend was created, he fought against all ten great ancient sects alone, he became a renowned champion in the world!
The ten great ancient sects lost their reputation, they accused Feng Jiu Ge of being a demonic cultivator and joined forces to resist him.
Feng Jiu Ge was not afraid, fighting as he continuously traveled a huge distance, suddenly changing his tactic and going for the enemy headquarters, causing the ten sects to lose miserably. The scene was total chaos and there was nothing anyone could do.
During this process, Feng Jiu Ge met with Spirit Affinity House's Fairy Bai Qing, they developed feelings for each other, Feng Jiu Ge went into Spirit Affinity House and became a righteous path member.
Afterwards, Spirit Affinity House's reputation soared, by relying on Feng Jiu Ge's strength, their territory expanded, firmly suppressing the other nine ancient sects.
Following that, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building collapsed, Feng Jiu Ge led his group to investigate the situation.
Thus, a series of future events occurred, he was by chance saved by Fang Yuan and repaid the debt in Southern Border, blocking Wu Yong for him. After repaying the debt, Feng Jiu Ge chased after Fang Yuan again.
Until this point, Fang Yuan let Feng Jiu Ge go multiple times and even reminded and guided him to the stone lotus island, gaining a Red Lotus true inheritance.
"If my entire life's journey was arranged by fate Gu, was I willingly living this life?"
Feng Jiu Ge shook his head, he was more willing to see it from another perspective: "It was all my choice! Back then, I chose to stand up for the two immortals, I gave up my life of peaceful seclusion because of the anger in my heart, I wanted to seek justice."
"I married Fairy Bai Qing and had a child with her, that was because I loved her. I taught my daughter Feng Jin Huang and raised her into an adult, that was also my love to my child. It was not decreed by Fate."
"If Fate wants me to lose Bai Qing and Jin Huang, will I do the same as Red Lotus?"
"If I have a good chance at this moment, in which as long as I make a move, I can destroy Fate, will I do it?"
Destroying Fate went against his own benefits. After all, Feng Jin Huang was the Great Dream Immortal Venerable decreed by fate Gu!
"But does Feng Jin Huang herself really want to become Great Dream Immortal Venerable?"
Feng Jiu Ge suddenly realized that just like how nobody had asked him if he wanted his status as a Dao Guardian, nobody had asked Feng Jin Huang if she really wanted to become Great Dream Immortal Venerable.
Including Feng Jiu Ge himself!
It was as if everything was natural and a matter of fact, there was nothing to question.
Feng Jiu Ge asked himself an even deeper question.
"If Huang Er likes the fate of becoming Great Dream Immortal Venerable, while fate Gu is right in front of me and I can easily destroy it. Then, will I do it?"
This question made Feng Jiu Ge hesitate, he was unsure, he was perplexed, he was lost.
Reality did not give him time or space to think about this closely.
The battle to repair fate Gu was still in heated commotion now, Feng Jiu Ge had to join the battle.
On Hairy Foot Mountain, he saved Feng Jin Huang by singing destiny song.
With rank eight future self, he was one of the strongest Gu Immortals in the world. Destiny song's power made even Di Zang Sheng falter.
On the battlefield, Feng Jiu Ge met with Fang Yuan once again.
Fang Yuan transmitted secretly: "Oh Feng Jiu Ge, you finally created destiny song. What do you think of this killer move?"
Feng Jiu Ge was silent.
He had to admit that this was truly his song, it was a song that he would create with his personality. His voice was contained in this song.
Yes, he did not want to acknowledge the existence of fate, but he felt deep emotions towards the cruelty and profundity of fate. He observed the lives of countless people, they had their highs and lows, he saw the hope, struggle, joy, happiness, sadness, and despair of these people…"
"If one says that fate is fixed while luck is a variable, then I desire that variable to exist within the people and all lifeforms, these changes should occur from one's own choice!"
Feng Jiu Ge understood the truest intention in his heart.
"I did not create fate song, I created destiny song! This is the most honest thought I have in my inner heart."
At this moment, he realized the scheme that Fang Yuan and Red Lotus Demon Venerable had plotted.
They knew about his nature, so they did not try to convince him. They only passed destiny song to Feng Jiu Ge, and used Feng Jiu Ge's voice to convince himself.
Indeed.
This destiny song that Feng Jiu Ge sang allowed him to support the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals and raise their strength. When he sang for the enemies, they would weaken. But the truth was, he was singing for himself, he was singing to understand his true feelings!
And thus, he understood.
He loved Fairy Bai Qing, he also loved his daughter Feng Jiu Ge. But Feng Jiu Ge was not alive for their sake.
His wife and daughter were just choices he made in his life journey, they were part of his life, but not the entirety.
"For what purpose am I alive?"
This question brought him back to the starting point, he wanted to sing nine songs, to express life, to express heaven and earth!
Currently, he had already created nine songs. But he has not sang everything about life and the world yet, he had to continue singing.
But as he sang, fate restrained him, it was like an invisible pair of hands strangling him, how could he sing freely like this?
Seeing that Feng Jiu Ge did not reply to him, Fang Yuan transmitted while in intense combat: "Oh Feng Jiu Ge, your voice is your aspiration, how can the person who created destiny song be aligned with Heavenly Court?"
Feng Jiu Ge was calm as he replied secretly: "You know me well! But even so, I will not join you. Unless you can create a situation where we can easily destroy Fate, otherwise, I will not help you before that. Heavenly Court and Central Continent have treated me well, so everything still depends on you."
Fang Yuan chuckled: "Then watch properly."
Next, he purposely got hit by Duke Long, he fell towards Embroidered Tower, activating Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's hidden arrangement.
Unexpected to Feng Jiu Ge, Fang Yuan used Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's strength to overwhelm heaven, directly destroying fate Gu.
After that, upon hearing Duke Long's words, Feng Jiu Ge realized that the battle had not ended yet.
When Red Lotus' will appeared once more, Feng Jiu Ge gradually realized the plot that Red Lotus Demon Venerable had set.
Thus, when Fang Yuan asked for destiny Gu's recipe, Feng Jiu Ge finally took action.
He helped Fang Yuan, he was also making his own choice!
In the past, when he helped the two immortals while challenging the ten great ancient sects, he had once said: "Neither demonic nor righteous, there is only Feng Jiu Ge in this world. To leave or to stay, I decide my own life and death."
Now, should he stay or leave?
This question could not puzzle him anymore.
He, Feng Jiu Ge, had turned from the demonic path to the righteous path, now, it was time to go back!
Because Feng Jiu Ge was still Feng Jiu Ge in the end.
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Chapter 1966 Great Era!
"Feng Jiu Ge!" Duke Long screamed, charging towards him.
Immortal killer move — Dragon Claw Strike!
Immortal killer move — Spiraling Dragon Fang!
Claw marks emerged, nearly ten feet long, cutting through the air with invincible might. Dragon fangs flew everywhere, like piercing sharp blades, circling and flying while emitting murderous aura.
Feng Jiu Ge retreated slowly as he continued to sing his destiny song.
Around him, there were several clones, they looked like him but had mystical powers.
Immortal killer move — Song Warrior!
Song warriors fought for Feng Jiu Ge, not only blocking the dragon claws and fangs but even fighting against Duke Long.
After several rounds, Duke Long destroyed a song warrior.
But next, a brand new song warrior appeared on the battlefield, engaging with Duke Long in combat.
Duke Long instantly understood that killing these clones was pointless, the true way to fight was to go after the source, to directly deal with Feng Jiu Ge.
Immortal killer move — Dragon Gate.
Duke Long crossed a large distance and approached Feng Jiu Ge.
Feng Jiu Ge calmly activated yang pass tune as he pulled apart their distance once again.
Duke Long was unable to fight Feng Jiu Ge in close combat, he could only use qi path killer moves to attack at a distance.
Feng Jiu Ge showed no fear, his destiny song continued to weaken Duke Long while he used his hands to unleash the triple extreme sound killer move, with drum fist, bell palm, and finger whistle.
Feng Jiu Ge fought against Duke Long while exchanging many blows, they unexpectedly were evenly matched!
Rank eight future self brought a qualitative transformation to Feng Jiu Ge's battle strength.
While the three regions' Gu Immortals hesitated on whether to help Feng Jiu Ge, they were shocked to realize: Feng Jiu Ge did not need anyone's help!
The battle strength he displayed shocked everyone.
Duke Long was unable to take down Feng Jiu Ge, he was shocked and furious. At this point, he realized that even though Feng Jiu Ge was fighting earlier, he had been keeping his true strength hidden, he did not use his full power at all.
Right now, Duke Long wanted to destroy Red Lotus' scheme. But Fang Yuan was a tough enemy, Duke Long knew about his strength, so he chose to fight Feng Jiu Ge instead.
As long as Feng Jiu Ge was disrupted and destiny song failed to activate, then Fang Yuan and the others would not have the Immortal Gu recipe, they would not succeed.
But Feng Jiu Ge's strength far exceeded Duke Long's expectations, he could only attack more aggressively while trying to take down Feng Jiu Ge as soon as possible.
Duke Long was stalled by Feng Jiu Ge, while Wu Shuai controlled Dragon Palace to defend Fang Yuan's main body, Calamity Luck Altar was blocking Demon Judgment Board.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals unleashed a storm of attacks but the other three regions' Gu Immortals and Di Zang Sheng stopped them.
The battle situation was tilting in the favor of the three regions' Gu Immortals, but Fang Yuan was facing a problem now.
The sea of human wills was vast and turbulent.
Using the human wills as Gu material to refine destiny Gu was wishful thinking.
But it was a possible method.
Under the effect of destiny song, the human wills and flames merged, refined into a mystical Gu material that was formless and colorless.
Fang Yuan, who was controlling this Gu refinement session, had to endure the terrifying waves of human wills. He had to calm the human wills like subduing tides, sending them to the respective tributaries.
Fang Yuan's expression quickly turned dark, his veins were bulging on his forehead, thoughts collided endlessly in his mind, he could not keep up with this expenditure, his storage of thoughts was rapidly used up, about to be emptied!
At the periphery of the battlefield, Spectral Soul and his servants kept a close watch on the situation.
Fairy Zi Wei saw Fang Yuan's expression as she analyzed: "Oh no, Fang Yuan is not in good shape. I know about his wisdom path foundation, he is most skilled at blocking deductions and concealing his true location. But this refinement expends his thoughts and focuses on his cognitive ability. The sea of human will is truly terrifying, even I myself cannot last long in it."
But Spectral Soul smiled lightly, saying calmly: "Don't worry, a certain venerable has already prepared for this. Fang Yuan should know what to do."
Spectral Soul could not help but recall the past.
When he was still alive, exploring Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
There, he found wisdom Gu, he also saw Giant Sun's special will left behind by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
Back then, he wanted to immediately take wisdom Gu for himself.
"Spectral Soul, I would like you to let wisdom Gu remain here." Giant Sun's special will had to show up and stop him.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable smiled coldly: "You can't stop me."
Giant Sun's special will nodded: "Of course, you are the current Demon Venerable, invincible in the world, I have no way of stopping you. But I am sure you have made a deal with Red Lotus Demon Venerable already?"
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's expression changed, before coming here, he had obtained one Red Lotus true inheritance, he made a deal with Red Lotus Demon Venerable.
"You mean to say?" Spectral Soul Demon Venerable hesitated.
"That's right, my main body has made arrangements in this wisdom Gu. When the crucial person arrives, he will destroy Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, this wisdom Gu will go along with him." Giant Sun's special will said openly.
"So that's it." Spectral Soul Demon Venerable looked at wisdom Gu deeply but did not take it.
At this moment.
"I've already given it my best effort… it seems I need to use wisdom Gu after all." Fang Yuan sighed.
By now, he had already guessed many of the venerable arrangements.
Wisdom Gu was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's arrangement, but unlike those of Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable and Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, it had activated long ago. Back then, Fang Yuan was unaware of this.
Fang Yuan had just opened his immortal aperture's entrance when wisdom Gu flew out by itself, floating above Fang Yuan as it emitted a divine radiance.
Fang Yuan instantly felt relaxed as his expression went back to normal, he felt a sense of ease.
"So that's it." He inspected it closely, realizing: "Wisdom Gu is one of the Gu materials, no wonder it is so effective. With the addition of wisdom Gu, my thoughts are expended more slowly, but my immortal essence expenditure is huge. This rate of consumption is not something I can sustain."
Even though the sovereign immortal aperture's rate of time was very fast and could accumulate immortal essence rapidly, Fang Yuan had undergone many intense battles, the expenditure was high as well.
Once he fails to keep up with the expenditure, the Gu refinement would be forced to stop, Fang Yuan would suffer an overwhelmingly terrifying backlash!
But Fang Yuan was not flustered, he was cool as ice.
He knew clearly, at this point in time, the venerables were not going to watch by the side.
As long as he still had a trace of value, he was irreplaceable, the venerables could not allow him to die at this moment.
"Next, it should be your turn to take action, Giant Sun…"
Far away in black heaven, a dark gold palace floated quietly in the sky.
In the palace, immortal zombie Giant Sun slowly opened his eyes.
He looked towards the south, the scenes in Heavenly Court were reflected in his eyes.
"We have finally reached this moment." Immortal zombie Giant Sun smiled before sighing to himself lightly: "Red Lotus, it was your scheme that worked after all."
Certain memories in his life started to surface.
On the stone lotus island, Gu Immortal Giant Sun who had yet to become venerable received Red Lotus' gift.
At the same time, they also made a transaction.
"This is the incomplete Immortal Gu recipe of destiny Gu?" Giant Sun received this incomplete recipe and was immediately drawn to it. He was the creator of luck path, it had never failed him, but from this incomplete recipe, he saw a whole new world!
"Red Lotus, you are the one who damaged fate Gu, giving me the chance to create luck path. Now, you are gifting this incomplete recipe of destiny Gu to me, I owe you an immense favor!" Gu Immortal Giant Sun said solemnly.
"I will make the arrangements according to our agreement. I will leave wisdom Gu behind and create responsive luck Immortal Gu to help that unparalleled genius who will create destiny song. Furthermore, I will retain my final attack, as long as the situation advances to reach that stage, I will take action and help your million year plan succeed!"
Red Lotus' will smiled: "I will thank you in advance. If my plan fails, please follow our agreement and try your best to refine destiny Gu yourself."
"Of course!" Gu Immortal Giant Sun said resolutely.
…
Within Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, immortal zombie Giant Sun slowly raised his right hand.
Boom—!
An enormous beam of light flew through the sky and shot towards Heavenly Court's direction at an extreme speed.
This beam of light was so gigantic, like a large river that spanned across heaven and earth.
Wherever it went, it pushed aside all the air, the beam's movement was accompanied by a deafening and majestic sound.
Such a grand and powerful killer move shocked everyone and sent them into a daze.
Even Duke Long, Feng Jiu Ge, and Fang Yuan felt incredibly small and insignificant upon seeing this move.
The beam of light started from black heaven above Northern Plains, piercing through the regional wall and directly bombarding Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court shook intensely, the world seemed to tremble as countless Immortal Gu Houses cracked and broke.
Within Imperfection Regret Pavilion, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's silhouette gritted her teeth.
She watched as Giant Sun's attack approached, but Limitless' silhouette was drawing her attention, forcing her to have no time to deal with it.
Giant Sun's attack landed with unstoppable might, instilling itself into the sea of human wills and flames.
The three sources gathered and instantly formed a golden ball of light that was the size of a mountain.
Within the ball of light, flames flicked, human wills shined with rainbow light, incredibly dazzling. Fang Yuan remained unmoved at the center, he was controlling the situation.
Traces of pale white light started to spread out from his tightly grasped hands.
These traces of light were so familiar, Fang Yuan had a deep impression of them.
He was internally shaken: "Heaven path dao marks!"
Tens or hundreds of heaven path dao marks slipped out from the cracks between his fingers.
Fang Yuan opened his hands wide at this moment, with a loud sound, countless heaven path dao marks flew into the sky, entangling with each other.
Traces of dao marks went towards Fang Yuan's body.
Fang Yuan grunted, intense pain assaulted him, causing his body and mind to shake!
"These are newly added heaven path dao marks on my body? Wait no, not just me…" Fang Yuan's eyes shined with bright light, he acutely sensed that many of the heaven path dao marks vanished all of a sudden, following the sources of the human wills.
"As expected." At this moment, Fang Yuan was finally certain about Red Lotus Demon Venerable's plan.
He wanted to refine destiny Gu but he was not truly trying to refine a Gu.
Fang Yuan grasped this chance, doing his best to collect these heaven path dao marks.
With every single heaven path dao mark carved in his body, his sovereign immortal aperture's foundation would rise by a level.
This was an unprecedented and huge fortuitous encounter!
Each complete heaven path dao mark would cause a small qualitative change in Fang Yuan's immortal aperture world.
After his trip to Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan became even clearer of the immense value of this opportunity.
But the fusing of heaven path dao marks was very painful, even someone with a firm mind like Fang Yuan started to feel dizzy after gaining ten complete heaven path dao marks.
But he was the main person refining this Gu, he could not use other methods, otherwise, he would disrupt the Gu refinement and fail the process, that would be a huge problem.
Fang Yuan relied on his determination as he gritted his teeth and held on.
He was not the only Gu Immortal enduring pain, he was just one of countless people.
At the same time, in the vast five regions, countless mortals screamed in pain, the heaven path dao marks found their way to the sources of the human wills and carved themselves into these people's bodies.
Each of these mortals could not endure even one ten-thousandth of a complete heaven path dao mark, many of them fainted at the first moment.
Those who could remain awake were fortunate, they were able to absorb more heaven path dao marks.
Pain!
Intense pain, pain that went beyond words.
Fang Yuan soon tore the skin of his lips as his eyes opened wide, even the corners of his eyes were torn, blood flowed out.
His entire body was shaking and covered in sweat, he still tried his best to continue fusing with each additional heaven path dao mark.
Soon, the Gu Immortals scattered across the five regions also started to endure this process.
Heavenly Court's fighting came to a stop, all of the Gu Immortals' expressions changed, they gritted their teeth as their faces turned red. With the addition of heaven path dao marks that automatically went to them, they were caught off guard and could barely endure this.
"No—!" Duke Long screamed in agony, at this moment, he finally realized what Red Lotus' plan was.
Duke Long was unable to take down Feng Jiu Ge after so long, he could only turn around and hope for the best as he tried to attack Fang Yuan, but the intense pain also assaulted him.
Feng Jiu Ge persisted in using destiny song, seeing that Duke Long was leaving, he quickly attacked more intensely to stall for time instead.
With a loud sound, like splattering water, the mountain-like human wills vanished on the spot.
Success!
"People of this world, I have entrusted fate to you. All of you hold a portion of fate, from today onwards, there will no longer be fate in this world!" Red Lotus' will spoke through the human wills, his voice was transmitted into the minds of everyone in the five regions.
The five regions' humans were still in agony and indescribable pain.
Because of the intense and unbearable pain, there were many cases of suicide on the spot.
"Red Lotus—!" Duke Long shouted in anger, he finally got away from Feng Jiu Ge as he arrived in front of Fang Yuan.
But it was too late.
The last bit of Red Lotus' will managed to gather into human form as it blocked the ferocious Duke Long for Fang Yuan.
"Master." The young looking Red Lotus smiled: "I succeeded at long last. Fate Gu has been split into countless portions by me and distributed to everyone in this world. It still exists, it has not been destroyed, but because fate has been fused with luck, it can no longer be used by heaven's will."
Duke Long was furious, his eyes were red, his hair standing on end.
"Traitorous disciple!" He screamed, he charged even quicker now.
At the next moment, he completely destroyed Red Lotus' will as he arrived in front of Fang Yuan.
Duke Long's aura broke through its limit again, reaching an unprecedented level, his strength was so overwhelming that even Di Zang Sheng and Feng Jiu Ge felt a threat to their lives!
Fang Yuan did not move, he did not even put up a defense.
Duke Long charged with unparalleled might, but when he was still a step away from Fang Yuan, his expression changed.
His aura froze at once, his advancement stopped.
His lifespan — was exhausted!
It was slightly earlier than in the previous life.
Fang Yuan was not surprised, he had found the truth when he saw a bit of the scattered light earlier.
The truth was, back then in Eastern Sea, when his Qi Sea Ancestor identity used steal life on Duke Long, it was effective.
But the effect was low and not easily observable, Duke Long also had incredible concealment abilities.
Afterwards, in order to avoid fighting Qi Sea Ancestor, Duke Long even took out Primordial Origin's true inheritance to successfully deceive everyone. This was because Duke Long did not know that Fang Yuan's steal life killer move had a limited number of usages.
This also caused Duke Long to become even stronger than in the previous life at the same time period.
The hero of a generation, the pillar of Heavenly Court, the master of Red Lotus, and the creator of the dragonman race — Duke Long!
Finally, his life was over.
Before dying, he still charged at the forefront.
For Heavenly Court, for the sake of humanity, he had truly done everything that he could until his death.
During the intense war, he forgot the limit of his own lifespan. Thus, at the moment of his death, other than rage and killing intent, there was also confusion on his face.
"Lord Duke Long…"
"Damn it, you must be feeling very unwilling to die like this!"
"Senior Duke Long!!!"
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals cried out loud, their morale rose sharply, this was the will of the mourning troops!
Intense battle occurred again, the Gu Immortals of the three regions were actually suppressed by Heavenly Court which had fewer numbers.
Fang Yuan no longer participated in the fight.
He still endured intense pain as his gaze pierced past Heavenly Court, overlooking the entire five regions.
Earth shook as it produced waves of deep, rumbling noises.
At this moment, the regional walls that separated the five regions had completely disappeared. The earth veins were connected as the five separate regions merged into one!
Without the obstruction of the regional walls, people could freely move through the five regions with no obstructions. At the same time, the differences in heaven and earth qi also disappeared gradually.
The bloody cape on Fang Yuan's back slowly disintegrated, he raised his head slightly and took in a deep breath.
Ah, the air was filled with freedom.
From now on, there was finally a possibility of pursuing eternal life.
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan's lips curled up as he revealed a faint smile.
"The great era… has finally arrived!"
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Chapter 1967 New Otherworldly Demon
Volume 6: Demon Venerable's Eternal Life
"Wake up! Hey, wake up kid."
Peng Da opened his eyes with difficulty, in his blurred vision, he saw a human face. It belonged to a middle aged man, he had a beard and a pair of crystal clear triangular eyes, there was a white headscarf covering his head.
Peng Da was shocked.
He remembered sleeping in his room earlier, why did a stranger barge into his room suddenly?
He exerted force to sit up but at the next moment, he was stunned.
"Where am I?!" He was shocked to find himself in the middle of a desert, there were no clouds in the sky, the sun was blazing and it was extremely hot.
"Hahaha, this kid is dazed."
"He is really lucky, he was attacked by the desert wolves but managed to survive."
There was not only the bearded middle aged man, there were several others surrounding him.
Not far away, there was a group of camels resting on the ground.
"Kid, this place is called wolf desert, when we found you, your companions were already dead. The desert wolves ate their corpses, after we chased them away, we found that you were still alive."
"My name is Mo Li, I am the leader of this caravan, I saved you and healed your wounds. You are quite lucky to have met us, do you remember anything now?" The bearded middle aged man spoke and explained.
Peng Da was dazed in the desert, the heated sand and glaring sunlight made him gradually accept this.
It was not a dream!
"I transmigrated!"
"Damn it, something like transmigration really exists, and it happened to me of all people!"
"But how did I get here? Yesterday, I was still doing some programming and coding, but today, I ended up here."
"Looking at their attire and speech mannerisms, this is obviously another world."
"Also, why do I know this world's language? It seems like speaking this foreign language is part of my innate ability!"
Peng Da could not help but feel nervous, his heart was pounding rapidly. This situation was really out of his expectations, he started to panic as he felt troubled internally.
But around him, there were several strong men staring at him, Peng Da had to force himself to stay calm as he held his head, shaking it: "I… I only remember my name is Peng Da. As for the rest… damn it, why don't I remember a thing?"
"No way, you lost your memories?"
"This is so disappointing."
Everyone discussed.
The bearded middle aged man looked at Peng Da deeply, bright light flashed in his eyes: "Since you do not remember, forget it. I hope you can regain your memories one day, now, what plans do you have? Do you want to travel with my merchant caravan?"
Peng Da quickly nodded his head, he did not dare to travel alone in the desert: "Uncle Mo Li, I will definitely repay this debt of saving my life. No matter where you are going, please bring me along, I do not know where to go now."
He had a lost expression but he spoke truthfully. He had just arrived in this world, he did not know what to do.
"Then follow us." Mo Li nodded, instructing a person beside him: "Provide a camel for this kid Peng Da."
"Yes." Someone responded immediately: "Kid, follow me."
Peng Da was brought away to the camel, he stared with wide eyes, feeling shocked: "This is a camel?"
The Gu Master who brought him here felt strange: "Kid, are you really from Western Desert? You don't even know about the fire pit camel?"
The fire pit camel did not have a hump, instead its back was concave, forming an oval pit. The person riding the camel would lie in the round pit, with soft fur and warm body temperature, it was very comfortable. The Gu Master started nimbly packing away the goods in the round pit and building a tent on top of it. A portion of the cargo was tied to the camel's sides and the bottom of the tent.
Peng Da continued to pretend that he was in pain as he said: "I don't remember, damn it, I don't remember anything!"
That Gu Master gave him a glance: "I don't care what you forgot, but remember this, our leader saved your life. Since you are joining our caravan, you are eating our food, drinking our water, and living in our quarters, you need to work. Understood?"
Peng Da quickly nodded: "Of course, please give me the instructions. I will do my best!"
"Mm." The Gu Master nodded lightly, showing slight satisfaction.
But at this time, the bearded man's voice could be heard: "Don't make life difficult for him, let this young man rest for now and recover from his mental fatigue. It was fate that we met in this huge desert, it is not easy to live here, no matter who you are."
The Gu Master sighed as he quipped: "Leader, you are still so kindhearted."
Peng Da heard this, he felt a sense of deeper gratitude towards Mo Li, he shouted loudly: "Uncle, thank you so much, I will definitely repay you!"
Mo Li laughed loudly: "Good, kid, go and recover on your camel for now."
Next, he shouted at everyone: "We've had enough rest, let's continue on our way."
Thus, the camel bells rang as the merchant caravan moved forward again, traveling over this vast desert.
Peng Da lay on the fire pit camel's back, he felt very comfortable.
After being alone, he was shocked to find that his body was not his original body, it was a body that belonged to this world. His skin was brown from tanning, his arms and legs were thick, his joints were bulging.
"So only my soul came over, I went into the body of an inhabitant of this world."
"No wonder I can speak their language. It is a pity that I did not gain this inhabitant's memories."
"But this is not bad either. My original body was weak as I did not train it, but this body is very strong and young too."
Peng Da could not sleep, after inspecting his body, he started to look around and observe this world.
There was nothing in the desert, but the travelers were quite an eye-opener to him.
The food of the fire pit camel was actually some bright red charcoal.
The people in the merchant caravan could create water from nothing, they did not need to find oases or water sources. Moving in this desert was very secure because of them.
By night time, they started to prepare dinner. A Gu Master planted some seeds in the desert as trees grew out after a few breaths of time, bearing fruits.
Peng Da did not know what fruit this was but the flesh was tender and sweet, it was fragrant and filled his stomach with satisfaction.
Peng Da was amazed at every small detail of this world. When he ate dinner, he could not help but ask the leader Mo Li.
"Kid, it seems you really have amnesia! We are Gu Masters! These are Gu Master methods." Mo Li looked at Peng Da with a strange gaze.
"Gu Master?" This was the first time Peng Da heard this phrase.
Mo Li's expression was even stranger now as he pointed at Peng Da: "Kid, you are also a Gu Master, in fact, you are a rank two Gu Master."
"What?!" Peng Da was shocked.
After some explanation, Peng Da realized what that meant, he became more excited.
"So a certain group of people of this world are called Gu Masters. They are able to cultivate using Gu worms!"
"Gu Masters rank from one to nine, most of the caravan members are rank two, Uncle Mo Li is the highest at rank three. Meanwhile, I am a rank two Gu Master, or rather, this body's original owner was a rank two Gu Master."
"When Gu Masters cultivate to rank six, they will be known as Gu Immortals, they will be able to overturn mountains and seas, they can collect the stars and moon!"
"By rank nine, they will be invincible in this world, unparalleled and unmatched!"
"Oh heavens, this is such a wonderful world. Since heaven transmigrated me here, there must be a reason for my arrival."
"I must be unique, I will definitely rise above all others. Right! Once I get rank nine cultivation, I will be invincible in this world, that feeling must be very amazing!"
In Peng Da's original world, he was a very ordinary person. He was an orphan with no parents, lovers, or any other attachments.
He was extremely excited, by night time, he could not resist the fatigue, he fell deeply asleep.
What he did not know was, the Gu Masters in the merchant caravan were talking about him.
"This kid actually lost his memories. What should I say? Is he really lucky or unlucky?"
"Is he really amnesiac or pretending to be so?"
"There is no need to do that? From what I saw, he was very shocked by the fire pit camels and our Gu Master methods, it is unlikely to be an act."
"Whether he lost his memories or not, he is still a rank two Gu Master, he will be useful to us, there was no loss in saving him." Mo Li said.
Nobody could refute this.
Gu Masters were far more valuable than mortals, if Peng Da was a mortal, these Gu Masters would not have bothered to save him after realizing he was still alive back then. But since he was a Gu Master, he had value to them, thus he was able to travel on the camel and also got food and water from them.
While they were talking, Mo Li suddenly frowned, his expression turned grim: "Listen, do you all hear something?"
Everyone's expressions changed, at the next moment, this sound became louder, it was such a huge commotion that heaven and earth shook.
"Damn it! It seems like a hurricane, a super-sized hurricane!"
"This is a desert, why are there hurricanes?"
"Quickly move, protect the caravan and move out!"
The Gu Masters left the tent hurriedly but once they got out, they were stunned.
There was a boundless qi tide approaching from all directions, it was like a grand tsunami that overwhelmed heaven and earth. The qi tide was everywhere, it carried sand along with it and had an unstoppable might.
Extremely shocked expressions were shown all over the Gu Masters' faces.
This was a calamity far worse than any hurricane, at once, the Gu Masters felt an intense threat of death.
The merchant caravan was doomed, they only wanted to save their own lives now!
"Escape!" Mo Li gritted his teeth, before he finished his words, he quickly retreated with all his strength.
The other Gu Masters quickly reacted as they mimicked him and escaped.
In the abandoned merchant caravan, the mortals screeched, the camels were stirred too.
They were helpless now, only death awaited them.
But within this chaos, Peng Da was still deeply asleep, he had no idea that this fatal danger was upon him.
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Chapter 1968 Spectral Soul Hunts
The sky was dark, there was only two to three faint starlight specks.
This was black heaven.
The surroundings were quiet, three Gu Immortals were moving stealthily in black heaven.
At the left was an elderly hunchbacked Gu Immortal, he had many wrinkles on his face, he was thin and dry like a stick, he was truly resembling a man about to step into his grave.
At the right was a female immortal, she had a graceful figure with hair that extended to her waist, and was adorned in a beautiful purple robe. Her eyes were like deep pools, with a sense of sorrow shrouding her face.
And at the center was a black robed Gu Immortal, he looked like a middle aged man with a pale face, his black hair was chest length, he had a deep and cold killing intent that surrounded his entire body.
They were Old Man Zheng Yuan, Fairy Zi Wei, and Spectral Soul Demon Venerable!
The three were moving quietly in black heaven, at this time, Spectral Soul paused and said plainly: "It's here again."
Fairy Zi Wei's and Old Man Zheng Yuan's expressions did not change, they guarded Spectral Soul as they started to put up their defensive methods.
Soon, the three immortals heard a loud sound.
Next, a huge and wild qi tide came from all directions. Wherever the qi tide went, lifeforms perished, it was a terrible sight.
The qi tide crashed towards the three immortals, after several minutes, it went past them.
The three including Spectral Soul finally let out a sigh of relief, they canceled their defensive methods as they came out again.
Old Man Zheng Yuan looked towards the qi tide with an expression of sadness towards the people, he sighed deeply: "After the five regions fused into one, such a change actually happened. Once in a while, qi tides will surge, rampaging wildly all over the world. Not just the five regions, even the two heavens are not spared, they cause destruction everywhere they go, I wonder how many people will suffer from this."
Even though Old Man Zheng Yuan was subdued by Spectral Soul, he was only absolutely loyal to Spectral Soul, his original personality did not change.
Fairy Zi Wei's eyes flickered with uncertainty, she seemed to be deducing something but she soon gave up in dejectedness.
Fairy Zi Wei analyzed: "The heaven and earth qi of the five regions vary. Thus, when Gu Immortals go to different regions, absorbing the heaven and earth qi there would cause problems in their immortal aperture. This is also why Gu Immortals often have to return to their region to undergo tribulations. The difference in heaven and earth qi also caused the regional walls to form. Now that the five regional walls are gone, the heaven and earth qi of the five regions are converging into one, this is the reason for the birth of these qi tides."
"But it is impossible to calculate how long this qi tide phenomenon will last, or whether it will get stronger or weaker, we can't even predict a trend."
To deduce the result of this question, it was likely that Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable was needed, he had the deepest understanding of qi path after all. Other than that, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could also make such a large scale deduction.
Spectral Soul snorted coldly, his voice was hoarse and icy: "This qi tide is a hindrance to us! Wherever it goes, soul beasts are unable to resist it, even if they survive, their soul cores will be damaged."
Spectral Soul wanted to recover his strength now.
Devouring souls was the fastest method.
Originally, he wanted to retrieve the Door of Life and Death, but it was actually moved away in secret.
The fight in Heavenly Court was over now, in Spectral Soul's current state, he could not take action rashly.
Thus, he brought his two subordinates to leave Heavenly Court and come to black heaven, they prepared to hunt soul beasts instead.
Within black heaven, there were countless soul beasts that formed into hordes. They often rampaged in black heaven with nether ants paving the way, they often had hundreds of thousands or even millions of soul beasts in an horde.
"Master, the qi tide is a calamity, please let us stay to help you." Old Man Zheng Yuan advised as a loyal servant.
Spectral Soul snorted coldly: "What use is there in staying by my side? I alone am sufficient, furthermore, I have tasks for you two."
Old Man Zheng Yuan and Fairy Zi Wei looked at each other as they said: "Please give us your instructions, master."
Spectral Soul squinted as he said eerily: "Back then, I expended my assets to refine sovereign immortal fetus Gu, leaving it for Fang Yuan to create a complete otherworldly demon. Now that fate Gu is destroyed, the plan succeeded, it is time to retrieve sovereign immortal fetus Gu now. I want you two to find and capture Fang Yuan alive, I will refine him back into sovereign immortal fetus Gu."
Spectral Soul's strength was at its lowest now, otherwise, he would have taken action during the battle in Heavenly Court.
If he wanted to grow stronger now, there were three crucial things: Door of Life and Death, dream realms, and sovereign immortal aperture.
Now that the Door of Life and Death was gone, Spectral Soul felt slightly disappointed. But he could use soul beasts instead.
Most of his dream realms were taken by Fang Yuan. Even though Fang Yuan used a portion of them in Heavenly Court's battle, the rest were still stored in Fang Yuan's possession.
Spectral Soul needed to take back his dream realms, only with his dream realms could he regain his attainment level of great grandmaster in all paths.
Other than that, the sovereign immortal aperture was necessary too, it could ensure that Spectral Soul would quickly reach the apex of his strength.
Spectral Soul had reason to believe that the sovereign immortal aperture was well developed by Fang Yuan. If he could take it back, it would be the same as gaining Fang Yuan's hard work.
If he could retrieve all three crucial keys, Spectral Soul would rise to the top, he would be unstoppable in this world!
He could not find the Door of Life and Death, but both the dream realms and sovereign immortal aperture were in Fang Yuan's hands, it was understandable that Spectral Soul targeted Fang Yuan first.
Old Man Zheng Yuan frowned as he recalled: "Master wants to deal with Fang Yuan? After this demon destroyed fate Gu, he left Heavenly Court immediately and did not participate in the battle afterwards. He acted very strangely then, nobody knows where he went after that."
Spectral Soul smiled coldly: "That is because of the heaven path dao marks, Fang Yuan could barely save himself, he had to make that choice. Since he could discern the arrangement that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable placed on wisdom Gu and thus used it in the refinement unhesitantly, he naturally can infer the arrangements I placed in sovereign immortal fetus Gu as well."
"Thus, when refining the Gu, he used Red Lotus' method to restrict me. Fang Yuan is very crafty, he managed to thwart my plan by borrowing others' strength. Red Lotus wanted to see that happen as well, hmph, after I get rid of Fang Yuan, I will deal with this old scoundrel Red Lotus."
Spectral Soul and Red Lotus worked together to destroy fate Gu for good. Now that the plan succeeded, Spectral Soul and Red Lotus returned to being enemies.
Two tigers cannot share one mountain, not to mention two venerables.
"But how do we locate Fang Yuan now?" Fairy Zi Wei felt a headache.
Why was it that after changing sides and betraying Heavenly Court, she still had to face this troublesome problem!
When she was in Heavenly Court, she tried all ways possible to deal with Fang Yuan.
As a wisdom path great expert, she had noticed Fang Yuan's threat long ago.
But so what?
Fang Yuan was too good at hiding and concealing himself, his most skilled wisdom path aspect was in blocking deductions.
And he was too vigilant, he never left any traces behind. Even if Heavenly Court wanted to find him, they were helpless and clueless.
Like how humanity had Immortal Venerables and Demon Venerables that the variant humans could not resist, they went into hiding and left even Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable without options against them.
Fairy Zi Wei lacked crucial clues, she could not deduce Fang Yuan's location.
That was the case when she was in Heavenly Court, until now, it was still true!
Thus, she had to get help from Spectral Soul, hoping that this Demon Venerable's soul had some way to deal with him.
But against this question, even Spectral Soul was silent for a while.
Sovereign immortal fetus Gu was refined by him personally, he had made an arrangement to sense the sovereign immortal body. But after the heaven path dao marks were absorbed by Fang Yuan, he lost his method. The connection was completely cut.
Eventually, Spectral Soul ordered: "We temporarily can't find Fang Yuan, we have to force him to show up."
"How? Fang Yuan is a solitary demon, he has no attachments at all. Even if he did have friends or family, with his cruel nature, if we threaten him, he will not appear." Old Man Zheng Yuan felt very troubled.
Spectral Soul snorted coldly: "During Heavenly Court's battle, everyone saw the scene of Fang Yuan destroying fate Gu through the killer move everybody's vision. You will go spread the secret of the sovereign immortal aperture, tell everyone in the world that Fang Yuan was able to reach rank eight and destroy Fate because the sovereign immortal aperture can annex immortal apertures to avoid tribulations and raise his cultivation level rapidly."
"Once in a while, Fang Yuan will have to annex immortal apertures to sustain his life. Whoever kills Fang Yuan will gain countless venerable inheritances, they will even possess the sovereign immortal aperture, they will be qualified to become a venerable and become invincible in the world!"
After pausing, Spectral Soul continued: "In that case, Fang Yuan will be an enemy of everyone. We also have to tell everyone about his current weakness, that he has no battle strength due to the heaven path dao marks troubling him. If not, he would not have escaped immediately after refining the Gu."
"With everyone in the world helping us find him, where can Fang Yuan hide? Even if he can hide for a while, he cannot hide forever. Both of you will go and find the secret treasuries that I left behind afterwards, the cultivation resources that I did not need when refining sovereign immortal fetus Gu are kept there, they are not of low value. Using these resources, you can rebuild Shadow Sect and help me recruit more members."
"Fang Yuan's subordinates like Bai Ning Bing and Hei Lou Lan are all outside now? If we find them, we might find clues to Fang Yuan."
Old Man Zheng Yuan and Fairy Zi Wei quickly responded.
Spectral Soul looked down at his feet, his gaze seemed to be piercing through the darkness and looking at the five regions: "The five regions fused into one, heaven and earth qi is converging as qi tides form and spread around the world. If the heaven and earth qi does not fuse completely, there will not be peace, it will be as if the five regional walls are thinned and spread all over the five regions. Thus, the Gu Immortals of the five regions will feel tremors in their immortal apertures as the two qi collide, they are forced to recuperate now. The stronger the immortal aperture foundation, the longer they need to recuperate."
"Fang Yuan will be forced to lay low for a very long time. But you two are ex-Heavenly Court members, you had phantom apertures so you are unaffected by this. We need to make use of this time, work hard!"
"As master decrees." Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan replied respectfully.
Spectral Soul waved his sleeves: "Then why are you still here?"
"Master, please take care! We will take our leave." Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan left quickly.
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Chapter 1969 Black Heaven“s Gu Immortals
Roar—!
Within black heaven, an ancient soul beast was escaping in a hurry.
This soul beast resembled a horse but had a human face. On its face now was terror and fear.
The ancient soul beast was panicking and escaping in a random direction, soon, its movements slowed down as its anguished cries became softer and weaker.
After several breaths of time, it completely stopped in the sky, floating silently in the night sky.
Soundlessly, its colossal body disintegrated as a Gu Immortal appeared.
This Gu Immortal had a pale face and chest-length hair, he was Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul grabbed the soul core, which was the soul path essence of the ancient soul beast. But Spectral Soul was not satisfied, he placed this soul core into his mouth and ate it like a candy, swallowing it after a few seconds.
"Without using a soul path killer move, I need to wait a while to digest it completely." Spectral Soul said unhappily as he snorted.
After splitting up with Old Man Zheng Yuan and Fairy Zi Wei, he had been hunting soul beasts in black heaven.
But for some reason, maybe due to bad luck or the extermination of lifeforms due to the qi tides, he met very few soul beasts.
Until now, he had only met lone soul beasts or those that formed into groups of five or fewer. The quantity was so small that he even felt like he was not in black heaven!
"This efficiency is just too low!" Spectral Soul continued his journey.
"If my attainment level was still around, I can find the soul beast armies with just my instinct. Even Fang Yuan would not be able to escape my detection. It is a pity I need to start over!"
"However, fate Gu is finally destroyed. Heaven's will cannot obstruct my path to becoming venerable again, after I succeed, I want to see who dares to obstruct me, even if it is a venerable, I will kill them."
"Oh?" While Spectral Soul moved stealthily, a flash of joy suddenly appeared on his face.
He finally found an army of soul beasts.
He got closer and saw that this soul beast army had over three million members. The quantity was not small, and what made Spectral Soul happy was that they had high quality.
He had only taken a quick glance but he already saw six immemorial soul beasts and over thirty ancient soul beasts!
"Kill!" The desire to kill emerged in Spectral Soul's heart as he was about to charge over, but he noticed something.
This discovery was quite surprising: "Why are there soul path Gu Immortals?"
There were three Gu Immortals controlling the soul beast army.
Two males and one female immortal.
The female was at the center as the leader, she had a plain appearance and grey eyes, her rank eight aura was naturally emitted.
Of the two male immortals, one was tall and armored, with strong arms exposed and soul beast markings on his arms. The other was tall and thin, holding a bamboo staff.
The three immortals wore black robes of similar design, they were obviously from the same force.
"They are black heaven Gu Immortals." Spectral Soul soon discerned their aura, he snickered as he changed his earlier idea of charging in, he stealthily mixed in with the soul beast army.
The three immortals controlled the soul beast army with much difficulty, the two males were showing signs of tiredness, sweat gathered on their foreheads.
The rank eight female immortal seemed to have rested earlier, she spoke at this moment: "You two can stop, I will control the army now."
Hearing this, the two male immortals let out sighs of relief, the thin one started to boot-lick her: "Aunt, only you can control a soul beast army of such a size, even if the two of us cultivate for eight lifetimes, we would not even reach half of your strength."
The rank eight female immortal looked at the male immortal with displeasure: "If eight lifetimes are not enough to reach my level, you should just end your own life!"
"Ugh." The thin man knew that his boot-licking had backfired, he showed some awkwardness on his face.
The female immortal sighed: "You two are the most likely Gu Immortals in the clan to advance further besides me. Now that fate Gu has been destroyed, we are taking control of our own fate. The great era has arrived, the peaceful and quiet life of the past is long gone. You must have the spirit to work hard, if you do not have such an awareness, sooner or later our Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven will be drowned by the tides of the era!"
"Aunt, you have taught me a lesson." The tall and thin man nodded his head in succession.
As for the male immortal at the side, he remained silent.
The female immortal sighed again and continued: "The five regions were fused, the heaven and earth qi are merging, to the extent that qi tides swept across the whole world, even black heaven and white heaven are not exempted. Wherever the qi tide reaches, heaven and earth will shake, grotto-heavens can no longer be concealed, their positions will be exposed. This time, we as Gu Immortals of black heaven's grotto-heavens are meeting to discuss how to face this situation. At that time, the two of you will be representing yourselves as well as our Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, don't forget this."
"Yes, aunt (madam), don't worry, we will remember this!" The two immortals responded respectfully.
The three immortals did not know that Spectral Soul had already gotten near them, he heard their entire conversation without missing anything.
"So that's it." Spectral Soul realized: "With the convergence of the heaven and earth qi, the grotto-heavens concealed in black heaven and white heaven are affected too. The reason is the same as why the five regions' Gu Immortals are forced to recuperate. but the five regions' Gu Immortals are more affected while the two heavens are not as troubled, the Gu Immortals are still able to move around with difficulty."
Within black and white heaven, many grotto-heavens were hidden.
Even Spectral Soul could not precisely count the number of grotto-heavens here.
This current change in the world was unprecedented, all of the grotto-heavens were unable to hide anymore, they were like fish forced out of the water.
Spectral Soul felt that this was a perfect opportunity, he immediately continued to hide, following the three immortals.
After spending half a day, the three immortals controlled the army of soul beasts and finally arrived at their destination.
This was also a grotto-heaven.
The grotto-heaven's entrance was open, many people were already waiting outside, the commotion was not small.
The soul beast army of millions that the three Soul Pacifying immortals brought here was not exceptional at all, they were only superior to the norm.
"So our friends from Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven have arrived." Seeing the three immortals, a Gu Immortal flew out from a pack of night heavenly wolves.
This Gu Immortal had rank eight cultivation level, he had a pair of sharp eagle eyes and had an appearance of a resolute character.
"Night Heavenly Wolf Lord, you arrived early." The rank eight female immortal from Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven replied while smiling.
"Actually, we were late, Lady Cold Ash." Night Heavenly Wolf Lord smiled bitterly, pointing at the grotto-heaven entrance: "Those variant human Gu Immortals have entered already. I waited for you to enter together, otherwise, as lone rank eight Gu Immortals, we will be pushed aside."
Lady Cold Ash nodded with a grim expression: "We have gathered here today because of Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's request. He is a snowman Gu Immortal to begin with, he opened up his Ice Crystal grotto-heaven as well, this will definitely be dominated by variant human Gu Immortals. Let's go in and see first."
Lady Cold Ash quickly arranged for the two rank sevens to stay behind and look after the soul beast army.
She only brought some immemorial soul beasts with her into the grotto-heaven.
Unknown to her, Spectral Soul had already possessed one of her immemorial soul beasts, he followed after them.
Once they entered the grotto-heaven, the temperature fell drastically, it was an icy world.
Looking at the ground it was all white. The mountain stood tall, made entirely of frost crystals, this was very rare.
At the peak of the frost crystal mountain, there was a palace made of ice and snow.
Lady Cold Ash and Night Heavenly Wolf Lord arrived in front of the palace hall, they left their accompanying immemorial soul beasts and immemorial night heavenly wolves outside, entering themselves.
After Spectral Soul looked for a while, he successfully saw through the foundation of this icy palace, he immediately found a loophole and entered the hall.
There was a snowman Gu Immortal sitting at the main seat, he had a squarish face and dignified demeanor, he was Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
Other than that, there were three rank eight variant humans, they were rockman, hairy man, and eggman respectively.
"To think that in black heaven, variant humans are the superior force, they actually have four rank eights while the humans only have two." Spectral Soul thought about it for a moment before understanding why.
After humans dominated the world, variant humans could not live in the five regions anymore, they were chased into the peripheries of the world to live pitiful lives.
Black and white heaven became their top choices to relocate and live.
This place was extremely huge, once their grotto-heavens were concealed, even venerables would not be able to find them without sufficient clues.
Thus, black and white heaven became the foundation of the variant humans, they developed here.
Even though human Gu Immortals also explored both heavens, they only explored them to seek resources. Few rank eight Gu Immortals would place their grotto-heavens within the black and white heavens.
Human grotto-heavens were different from variant human grotto-heavens, the latter were taken care of by heaven's will, their tribulations were weaker, but the former were different.
As time passed, more and more human grotto-heavens that were placed were destroyed, few could develop successfully. Meanwhile, the variant human grotto-heavens were able to last a long time, their forces grew stealthily.
The six rank eight Gu Immortals discussed for a long time.
"The five regions have become one, qi tides rampage the heavens. Our grotto-heavens will be exposed, I propose that we unite ourselves and resist the enemies of the five regions together!"
"How will we resist them? Even though our grotto-heavens are doing well, how can our resources compare to the five regions? Even if we all work together, we are not the match of the five regions' humans!"
"Moreover, we cannot cooperate sincerely with each other, we are of different identities after all."
"Everyone, don't worry, even though we are humans, our Soul Pacifying Ancestor was forced to live in black heaven, we have already broken all ties with the five regions."
"I'll be more straightforward, my Night Wolf grotto-heaven does not want to expose ourselves. After all, we have an immense enmity with Northern Plains' Longevity Heaven!"
"Friends." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch spoke: "Do you all only want to go on the defensive, do you not want to progress further? Now that fate Gu has been destroyed, the reign of humanity has been disrupted. The five regions' Gu Immortals need to recuperate now, this is the best chance for us to take action!"
"Because we were in black heaven, we became the least affected ones, we can move around with difficulty. If we don't make use of this chance, we will regret it in the future."
"Immortal Monarch, what plan do you have?"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch sighed as he said with a grim expression: "The five regions are huge, they have abundant resources, even if our grotto-heavens are added together, we cannot compare to them. The world will definitely go into chaos, if we do not try to improve ourselves, when the five regions settle down, they will find a chance to eliminate us all. Only by taking this lead can we have a hope of survival."
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Chapter 1970 Heavenly Court“s Dilemma
Lady Cold Ash flew first towards the entrance of Ice Crystal grotto-heaven.
The two rank sevens from Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven quickly went to receive her.
"Aunt." The tall and thin Gu Immortal asked in concern: "How was the discussion?"
Lady Cold Ash shook her head lightly, at this time, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord also flew out of Ice Crystal grotto-heaven.
The two conversed for some time before parting ways. Night Heavenly Wolf Lord brought his wolf group along while Lady Cold Ash led her soul beast army, going back to their respective grotto-heavens.
Along the way, the three immortals conversed, not knowing that Spectral Soul was lurking around them.
Spectral Soul had originally wanted to hunt the soul beasts, but after seeing this, he changed his mind.
Just by the name of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, he could tell its foundation was soul path. Seeing that Lady Cold Ash and the two rank sevens were soul path Gu Immortals, Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven must be a place filled with abundant soul path cultivation resources.
Let alone anything else, just the soul beast army that they controlled was a scrumptious meal to Spectral Soul.
"Qi tides rampage in the five regions and two heavens, the grotto-heaven forces in black and white heaven will not lay low. Hehe, I can use this to my advantage and assault the other venerable forces and speed up my growth!"
Spectral Soul not only had to deal with Fang Yuan, there were also venerable forces like Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven.
Now that fate Gu was destroyed, Spectral Soul was able to revive, the other venerables were also able to revive themselves.
With Fang Yuan missing at the moment, Spectral Soul had to consider the whole situation. Even though his true nature was killing, there were many ways to kill. Using others as one's lethal weapon was also a high level killing method, he was going to use it now.
Lady Cold Ash and the rest did not know that their Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven was currently targeted by a huge monster, Spectral Soul. Meanwhile, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord returned to his Night Wolf grotto-heaven.
Many Gu Immortals in Night Wolf grotto-heaven quickly greeted him.
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord said: "Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch wants us to form an alliance to resist the five regions. This is quite a difficult situation."
Gu Immortal Ye Zhi nodded: "It is quite difficult. In the current situation, fate Gu is destroyed, the five regions merged, as the heaven and earth qi fuse together, qi tides rampage in the world, no grotto-heaven can conceal itself. We are small and lone forces, when the five regions attack us, we will not be able to resist them. However, we do not need to fight the five regions, we are humans but Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and the rest are variant humans after all. The five regions are stronger than the two heavens, this is an obvious fact, why can't we join the five regions instead?"
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord laughed: "Ye Zhi, you know me best, that is how I feel too. If we work with the variant humans, we will be considered spies of humanity. Even if the five regions do not want to attack us, if we ally with the variant humans, they will want to."
Ye Zhi frowned: "But we cannot join the five regions. Firstly, Northern Plains of the five regions is impossible. Secondly, the other four regions might not welcome us. And finally, if we join them, we will be attacked by Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and the rest."
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord sighed: "Indeed, that is why I made an agreement with Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven's Lady Cold Ash, we will advance and retreat together, we will combine the forces of the human grotto-heavens here. As for which region to join, in my opinion, Central Continent's Heavenly Court is the most appropriate. We can secretly contact them first."
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord was an experienced leader, not only did he have rank eight cultivation level, he was shrewd in politics, nobody in Night Wolf grotto-heaven defied his rule.
Since he made a decision, the Gu Immortals in Night Wolf grotto-heaven did not dare to raise objections.
Heavenly Court.
Central Great Hall was finally repaired, Qin Ding Ling was currently the person taking charge.
They failed to repair fate Gu, Heavenly Court had undergone an intense battle, the damage was huge, even now, many areas were still in ruins.
"This is a humiliation!" Qin Ding Ling put aside the letter Gu as she rested temporarily. Her expression was calm but her eyes flickered with light, as memories surfaced in her mind, rage built up within her.
After Red Lotus' goal was achieved, Duke Long died while fighting and Fang Yuan retreated rapidly. But the three regions' Gu Immortals wanted to destroy Heavenly Court, nobody backed off.
At the moment of life and death, Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's method started to activate. All sorts of rage qi, unlucky qi, grief qi, and others plagued the three regions' Gu Immortals, their physical conditions weakened.
This move was originally meant to deal with Fang Yuan, but Limitless Demon Venerable blocked it for him. After Red Lotus' plan succeeded, the battle between two venerables in Imperfection Regret Pavilion also concluded, with Limitless laughing as the two venerable silhouettes faded away. Without Limitless' power to restrict it, Primordial Origin's method started to work again.
And the other good news was that even though Feng Jiu Ge turned on them, he only helped Fang Yuan to refine the Gu, he did not do anything against Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court was able to recover because of this and retaliate, maintaining their position in this difficult battle.
The three regions' Gu Immortals had no choice, with Dragon Palace, Calamity Luck Altar, and Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building as their foundation, they retreated gradually.
After leaving Heavenly Court, some people wanted to loot Central Continent but the first qi tide happened at this moment.
The immortal apertures of the three regions' Gu Immortals became unstable, they had to leave.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals stopped chasing them, after witnessing Fang Yuan refine destiny Gu in front of them, their morale and fighting spirit had fallen.
After the battle ended, Heavenly Court, which was greatly damaged, tried to reduce its losses and take care of the aftermath.
Duke Long died while Fairy Zi Wei betrayed them for Spectral Soul, after Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals talked over it, they decided that Qin Ding Ling would be the new leader.
During this period of time, Qin Ding Ling had been the one in charge, taking care of all the matters, big or small.
Qin Ding Ling had a plain expression but a fire was burning in her heart. The great Heavenly Court had actually lost, it was a complete loss! She was eager to make up for this humiliation, but logic told her to not act rashly. Because everything had changed, Heavenly Court was no longer the old Heavenly Court, the enemies were no longer the same, even the world had changed.
After resting for a while, Qin Ding Ling continued to deal with the matters at hand.
"Oh?" She held an information path mortal Gu as her expression changed slightly: "Night Wolf grotto-heaven?"
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord was not willing to fight alongside the variant humans, he wanted to join the stronger side of the five regions. Among them, although Heavenly Court had lost this fight, it was still the number one human force for the last few million years.
Night Wolf grotto-heaven had grudges with Longevity Heaven, in the five regions, only Heavenly Court had the foundation to stand up against the vicious Longevity Heaven members.
In this information path Gu worm, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord also explained the ill intentions of the variant humans.
"Hmph, those of other races have such motives! Once fate Gu got destroyed, these variant humans jumped out immediately." Qin Ding Ling snorted, deep killing intense rose in her heart.
After calming down, Qin Ding Ling started to think about this situation.
Qin Ding Ling knew very little about Night Heavenly Wolf Lord and Night Wolf grotto-heaven. With just one information path Gu worm, she could not confirm if Night Heavenly Wolf Lord was really trying to sincerely join them, or if they were scheming against Heavenly Court.
"If this Night Heavenly Wolf Lord is sincere, how should we deal with Longevity Heaven and the variant human forces of the grotto-heavens?"
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord talked about the history of his ancestor truthfully in the letter, he did not conceal the grudges they had with Longevity Heaven.
Qin Ding Ling was slightly troubled.
Heavenly Court was at an unprecedented level of weakness.
Qi tides rampaged in the world, heaven and earth qi converged, the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals who had phantom apertures were even more mobile than the Gu Immortals in black or white heaven.
But Heavenly Court could not move them.
Firstly, most of Heavenly Court's members had limited lifespan. Secondly, they had to reinforce Star Constellation's will.
Thus, a portion of Heavenly Court's members had to enter the immortal graveyard to hibernate and help Star Constellation's will, to prevent her from being completely assimilated with heaven's will.
But in that case, Heavenly Court's battle strength would be far lower.
Thus, Qin Ding Ling could not make up her mind.
"If only Fairy Zi Wei was still around." Qin Ding Ling sighed, the worry in her heart intensified.
Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan were enslaved by Spectral Soul, they left with him. The two of them knew a lot about Heavenly Court's secrets, together with the soul of a Demon Venerable, who could underestimate them?
Qin Ding Ling thought about it for a while before feeling the severity of this situation, she decided to discuss it with Zhou Xiong Xin and the rest.
Zhou Xiong Xin suggested: "This is an important matter, but the situation is not very clear now. The six Gu Immortals including Night Heavenly Wolf Lord are merely the rank eights of the black heaven above our Central Continent. What about the other four regions' black heaven? We do not know how many grotto-heavens there are, or how many rank eight Gu Immortals exist in these grotto-heavens. I am willing to go and investigate the two heavens myself!"
Zhou Xiong Xin cultivated information path, he knew the importance of information.
He had a phantom aperture and was not afraid of the heaven and earth qi convergence.
Qin Ding Ling agreed with his suggestion, she chose to continue keeping in contact with Night Wolf grotto-heaven while investigating the situation.
Jun Shen Guang took out an information path mortal Gu, saying: "The list of names have been chosen, they are all Gu Immortal seeds with great talent and aptitude. Most importantly, they are loyal to Heavenly Court and the ten great ancient sects. But there is one person whom I need everyone's input and discussion on."
Jun Shen Guang's list contained the names of many mortal Gu Masters, they were all exceptional geniuses.
Heavenly Court lost this battle and the immortal graveyard was even destroyed by Fang Yuan, everything had to be rebuilt from scratch. With the threat of the five regions chaotic war, Heavenly Court decided to nurture new Gu Immortals, disregarding the costs.
Qin Ding Ling received the Gu worm and looked into it.
There were many names on this list: Immortal Crane Sect recommended Sun Yuan Hua, Spirit Butterfly Valley recommended Xiao Qi Xing, Ancient Soul Sect had Gu Ting, Heaven's Envy Manor had Wei Wu Shang… but at Spirit Affinity House's section, the list was empty without a name.
Qin Ding Ling sighed as her expression turned complex.
She knew about the person Spirit Affinity House nominated, it had to be Feng Jin Huang.
But after the battle over Fate, Feng Jiu Ge betrayed Heavenly Court and went missing, his daughter Feng Jin Huang ended up in an awkward position.
She was originally Duke Long's disciple and the future Great Dream Immortal Venerable. But with the death of Duke Long and the destruction of Fate, she was no longer certain to be Great Dream Immortal Venerable.
Zhou Xiong Xin's concern was: If Heavenly Court continued to nurture Feng Jin Huang and she betrayed them like her father, what would they do?
Even though Feng Jin Huang was Duke Long's disciple, the disciple that he nurtured wholeheartedly spent a million years to plot and destroy Heavenly Court's fate Gu. Would his second disciple Feng Jin Huang also inherit this 'great tradition'?
"We will talk about this again next time."
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Chapter 1971 Struggle Between Feng and Zhao
Central Continent, Lake Heart Mountain.
Spirit Affinity House's public blessed land headquarters was situated here.
Within the blessed land, there was an area called Quiet Rain Valley.
When Feng Jin Huang was strolling in the valley, it started to rain.
A drizzle.
The rain was mild and quiet.
Bathed in the rain, Feng Jin Huang slowed down subconsciously as she walked.
The air was fresh with the smell of grass, all around her was a faint field of greenery.
This rain did not feel cold, it was like jade, mild and calm.
Feng Jin Huang knew that this was called quiet rain. When it rains, all sounds would be absorbed and the surroundings would be silent. Heaven and earth would be soundless, one would be able to hear their own heartbeats and breathing.
Quiet rain was a rank six immortal material, this valley was the resource point that created quiet rain, this was why it was named Quiet Rain Valley.
After Feng Jiu Ge betrayed Heavenly Court and went missing, his wife, the mother of Feng Jin Huang, Fairy Bai Qing, requested to be transferred to Quiet Rain Valley to collect quiet rain, she said she would not leave this place.
Whenever there was quiet rain, the valley would have music that sounded like zither and flute, it was akin to Fairy Bai Qing's anguished cries of sadness.
Feng Jin Huang had heard of this rumor and felt worried, she came to the valley to visit her mother.
The quiet rain was drizzling, there was indeed the music of zither and flute being emitted.
The sound of the zither spread out all around, like white clouds in the sky, ancient, melodious and pleasant to the ear. The sound of the flute, however, was high pitched, fluctuating almost abruptly, like a fierce hawk flying across the sky, sharply piercing the wind, tearing the sky.
At first, the sound of the zither resounded and the sound of the flute reverberated, alternating with each other, as if both sides were speaking, one sentence after the other.
Then, the zither and the flute began to approach each other, and gradually merged into one another. The white clouds were misty, and the eagles were flying across the clouds. The two abrupt sounds of music merged together, creating an indescribable beauty.
In the end, the sound of the zither and the flute become one and the same, forming a kind of mix, with the melodious sound of the zither and the clarity of the flute, it was unique and beautiful!
Feng Jin Huang was enchanted by the beautiful sound of the music. She went deeper into the valley and managed to meet her mother.
Fairy Bai Qing was sitting in a bamboo pavilion, with two Gu flying around her like white jade pearls. They were sound path mortal Gu, zither Gu and flute Gu.
When Feng Jin Huang entered the pavilion, the music slowly stopped.
Fairy Bai Qing had already known of Feng Jin Huang's arrival, she turned around slowly: "This demonic immortal unification song was composed by your father when we fell in love, it is the symbol of our relationship. I still remember the first time your father played it for me, he told me: Immortals and demons are one to begin with, initially, Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable was known as Primordial Origin Demon Venerable by the variant humans as well. This song contains deep meaning and your father has been treasuring and not using it, but he played it during the fate war."
Saying so, Fairy Bai Qing's tone changed as she looked at Feng Jin Huang fixedly: "The list of names has been announced already."
Feng Jin Huang nodded: "I know. The last time the sect recommended me, there was no reply from Heavenly Court. This time, the sect put Sun Yao's name and it was quickly approved by Heavenly Court."
Fairy Bai Qing said plainly: "Originally, the sect still wanted to recommend you to go there, but Li Jun Ying and Xu Hao got in the way, they ended up promoting Sun Yao instead. How do you feel about such an outcome, my dear daughter?"
"Hehe." Feng Jin Huang smiled slightly, her smile brilliant as a flower, bringing a bright sunshine to the bamboo pavilion for a moment.
"Mother, why do you have to test me on this? Ever since father betrayed and turned against Heavenly Court, I've already prepared myself. Right now, the situation is already not bad, my dream path Immortal Gu was not taken." Feng Jin Huang said.
Fairy Bai Qing also smiled slightly at her words: "It's not like there isn't any forceful seizure in the righteous path, but it's just that the act is often cloaked in a layer of righteousness and morality. It's already good that you have come to this level of understanding. However, don't worry too much, your father left Heavenly Court but created destiny song, his outstanding battle strength is evident to the world, Heavenly Court and Spirit Affinity House will not dare to touch you."
Feng Jin Huang revealed a look of displeasure: "Mother, you don't need to make an explanation for father. Although I can understand father, I will not forgive him. For him to suddenly turn his back on Heavenly Court and not even telling us beforehand is simply abandoning his wife and daughter! One day, I will settle the score with him."
"Hehehe." Fairy Bai Qing laughed and shook her head, walking up to Feng Jin Huang and holding her hand: "You misunderstand your father. That demonic immortal unification song, which he kept as a symbol of our love, has never been used for anything other than singing in front of me. But he used it during the fate war to tell me that righteous immortals and demons are the same, his feelings for me had never changed, and even when he left the righteous path and returned to the demonic path, it wouldn't end the relationship of our family."
"Do you believe me? As long as I give out the slightest hint of inclination to leave Spirit Affinity House, he will definitely take the initiative to bring me away. He understands me well and knows that I do not want to become a demonic path member. Therefore, he gave us both the opportunity to choose our side freely. He didn't want his ideals to become a burden on us."
Feng Jinhuang snorted coldly: "Father would rather help Fang Yuan, the great demon, than help my master. It's true that master was stubborn and was always nagging about fate and all that, but he was ultimately kind to us and truly had my best interests in mind. Father was simply too cold and heartless."
"Mother, since you are fine now, I'll be leaving."
"Oh you." Fairy Bai Qing sighed, but did not ask her daughter to stay.
When Feng Jin Huang left Quiet Rain Valley, she met with two female Gu Masters.
One was beautiful while the other was cute, they were acquaintances of Feng Jin Huang, they were anxiously waiting outside the valley.
After seeing Feng Jin Huang, they showed joy on their faces as they went to her.
"Senior sister, we heard you came here so we rushed over to find you!" The beautiful woman was Qin Juan.
"Senior sister, sorry, I… I did not want to snatch your opportunity…" Sun Yao had a cute and round face, she was very anxious now.
Qin Juan and Sun Yao were good friends with Feng Jin Huang, they had always followed behind her.
But in the recent years, Feng Jin Huang followed Duke Long and went away to cultivate dream path, they did not meet much during this period.
Feng Jin Huang laughed aloud and stretched out her hand to nudge Sun Yao's forehead: "Oh, you've done well this time, so why are you apologizing. The nomination quota is just a small matter, am I unable to become immortal without this funding? For me, becoming a Gu Immortal is by no means an obstacle. It's just that I have to consider the kind of Gu Immortal I want to become. But for you, this is a rare opportunity, so seize it well."
After speaking to Sun Yao, Feng Jin Huang looked at Qin Juan: "You've always been quite active and have good perseverance, but this time, when fusing with the dao marks, why did you faint? If not, the nomination would have been yours this time."
Qin Juan did not dare to retort: "Senior sister, you are right, I have slacked off on my cultivation."
"No, that is not so, senior sister. Sister Qin Juan was injured at that time, she could not endure the ordeal and fainted." Sun Yao quickly clarified.
"So that's how it was." Feng Jin Huang nodded her head and said regrettably: "It is indeed a great loss. Fang Yuan destroyed fate Gu and refined it into countless heaven path dao marks, which were dispersed to the people in the world. The more heaven path dao marks you absorb, the more beneficial it will be in the future. Be it cultivation or developing the immortal aperture, it will benefit with no harm. But there's no harm in not having any, at best it's just an opportunity. What determines your achievements in life will still depend on your own talents and efforts."
"Yes, Qin Juan will listen to senior sister's teachings." Qin Juan bowed.
Feng Jin Huang smiled again: "Let's go, I will give you two some guidance."
Qin Juan and Sun Yao revealed joyful expressions, the latter jumped around cheering: "That's great, we haven't been together for such a long time."
The three of them walked together, gradually leaving Quiet Rain Valley.
Within the valley, Fairy Bai Qing retracted her investigative method.
"Daughter, you've grown up." Fairy Bai Qing had a relieved expression.
Feng Jin Huang was very clear about her own circumstances, as well as Heavenly Court and the ten great ancient sects. Towards Feng Jiu Ge's actions, she had her own opinion, but she was able to put it aside and make a clear judgment, she had a solid foundation of skills.
"Maybe, your betrayal has hastened our daughter's maturity. We should let her walk on her own path."
"As a mother, all I can do is to wish the best for her."
"Of course, if some people in the sect do not know what is good for them and go overboard, I will not avoid conflict either." Fairy Bai Qing's expression turned cold.
At the same time, on another mountain, Affection Peak.
Spirit Affinity House's Li Jun Ying and Xu Hao went to visit Zhao Lian Yun.
Zhao Lian Yun had already become an immortal, she was assigned by Spirit Affinity House recently and became the Affection Peak Lord.
She was able to achieve what she had today thanks to the support of Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying, in addition to her own efforts. Zhao Lian Yun was also guided by the two immortals during her Gu Immortal cultivation journey and the management of her immortal aperture, so she was able to avoid many pitfalls.
Zhao Lian Yun remembered these debts in her heart, so when Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying visited her, she quickly came out of cultivation and attended to them personally.
But hearing their request, Zhao Lian Yun felt troubled.
"Seniors, you want me to use my status as the current generation fairy to deal with Feng Jin Huang and Fairy Bai Qing?"
"Indeed, now is the best opportunity! Feng Jiu Ge betrayed us and caused Heavenly Court to lose and Fate to be destroyed. If we target them now, we will definitely win." Xu Hao had a fierce expression.
The hatred between him and Feng Jiu Ge had a long history. In the past, he had hated Feng Jiu Ge so much that he held back key information and intelligence, almost causing him to die. Feng Jiu Ge had a very strong stance in his political manipulation, ostracizing the couple to the fringe of Spirit Affinity House in this power struggle. Most of the time, the two immortals were at a disadvantage against Feng Jiu Ge, they could only support each other with difficulty.
For them, Feng Jiu Ge's betrayal was great news, it was worth celebrating.
"This…" Zhao Lian Yun hesitated: "Feng Jiu Ge has already betrayed Heavenly Court, seniors, I know that you have grudges with him, but why do you want to implicate his family?"
"Oh Lian Yun, we cannot be too kindhearted sometimes. Think about it, think about the time you competed with Feng Jin Huang over the fairy position." Li Jun Ying urged: "If we do not use this chance, we will regret it in the future. You do not need to worry about it, I will tell you something, our sect's nominee was originally Feng Jin Huang but now she has been removed from the list."
"Seniors, people should let others off when possible." Zhao Lian Yun explained, she was not willing to do that. Conflicts should be resolved and not deepened, back then, when competing for the fairy position, both of them had used above board methods, Feng Jin Huang had a deep background but did not use any unscrupulous ways to deal with her as well.
Even though Zhao Lian Yun and Feng Jin Huang were competitors, Zhao Lian Yun admired Feng Jin Huang's personality, she had no ill feelings towards her.
Xu Hao did not listen to her words: "Back then, did the demon Feng Jiu Ge spare us?"
"You are too kind for your own good, Lian Yun." Li Jun Ying frowned.
Zhao Lian Yun sighed to herself, she changed her words and explained: "Seniors, we need to analyze this situation deeply. Even though the sect nominated someone else, Heavenly Court did not directly take away Feng Jin Huang's status. From that, we can see the attitude of Heavenly Court is still unclear towards her."
"Precisely because they are uncertain now, we need to deal the fatal blow and affirm their decision! The fight over authority will never cease, only when a true victor is decided can there be peace." Li Jun Ying said with deep meaning.
Zhao Lian Yun sighed again, she could only accept their request.
There was no choice, she owed them a big favor after all. Even though she was unwilling, people had to do some things that they did not want to in this world. They had helped her greatly, if she rejected them, what would others think?
Zhao Lian Yun was half an otherworldly demon, even though she was the current generation fairy, Spirit Affinity House still ostracized her. If she lost her relationship with Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying, she would truly become a loner.
The two immortals saw that Zhao Lian Yun agreed, they were overjoyed, they promised her a huge reward.
Zhao Lian Yun was not interested in the reward, after the two of them left, she continued her closed cultivation.
The destruction of Fate was actually great news to Zhao Lian Yun. With this, Ma Hong Yun's revival would be much easier and less troublesome.
But Ma Hong Yun's soul was still in Fang Yuan's hands.
Thus, Zhao Lian Yun had to cultivate and raise her strength, to make preparations to save her beloved.
In the secret room, Zhao Lian Yun calmed down and inspected her own immortal aperture.
Lian Yun blessed land had 5700km2 of land, the rate of time was one-to-thirteen. The terrain was mostly grassland and plains.
But after the heaven path dao marks were absorbed, Lian Yun blessed land started to change in many aspects.
Firstly, the ground cracked to form huge trenches, next, there was torrential rain as huge rivers were formed. The rivers overflowed and floods plagued the surroundings.
After three days and three nights, the floods receded, leaving behind vast expanses of fertile mud. Small ditches and rivers connected to the main channel of the giant river, forming an elaborate and dense network of rivers.
Zhao Lian Yun witnessed the transformation of her immortal aperture the entire time, she was dazed and greatly shocked internally.
"With heaven path dao marks, the immortal aperture will transform and become closer to a truly balanced environment. Even though there are temporary losses, the potential and prospects will rise by many times."
Zhao Lian Yun had divine concealment from Thieving Heaven's true inheritance. She did not face calamities and tribulations, this was beneficial and also detrimental, her immortal aperture development had always been a problem. But with the addition of heaven path dao marks, this problem was reduced greatly.
"If only I had more heaven path dao marks!"
"Sigh, what a pity that I only obtained six and a half heaven path dao marks, and they are all segmented too, I do not have a single complete heaven path dao mark."
"How many heaven path dao marks did Fang Yuan get? He was the person refining the Gu, he was the closest to these heaven path dao marks."
Zhao Lian Yun sighed.
She could not imagine it or find the answer, but she knew that the difference between her and Fang Yuan had been greatly increased again.
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Chapter 1972 Fang Yuan“s Disaster Relief
"Wake up, wake up, kid!"
Peng Da groaned and barely opened his eyes to see a bearded uncle, slapping him in the face with a rough palm.
Peng Da was in a trance, and it was only then that he recognized the man in front of him.
"Uncle Mo Li." He called out: "Wasn't I sleeping on the camel?"
Peng Da looked around, he could not help but be stunned once more.
There was sand everywhere, the caravan was nowhere to be seen, leaving only him and Mo Li, both were in a messy state.
"Ouch." Peng Da groaned as he realized he had bruises all over his body.
Uncle Mo Li looked at Peng Da and sighed: "You kid, I don't know what to say about you, you are so lucky! Many Gu Masters fled desperately, they all died. You were deeply asleep but survived. However, if I hadn't discovered your faint breath in time and dug you out, I'm afraid you would have been buried alive."
"Uncle Mo Li, you've saved me once again." Peng Da grabbed both of Mo Li's hands, saying gratefully: "But what in the world had happened?"
"It's a natural disaster, I've never seen it before." Uncle Mo Li let out a heavy sigh.
"So… what about our caravan?"
"Sigh, it's just the two of us now."
What?! Peng Da could not help but stare with wide eyes and scream in his heart: "How can this world be so vicious, there was a natural disaster with no warning! I just slept for a bit and almost died again! My lord, what kind of world have I come to. It is simply a brutal and terrible place to live!"
"At least we're still alive." Mo Li knocked Peng Da on the head: "Kid, you don't look satisfied? To be alive after a natural disaster like that is the greatest of all blessings!"
"Look at me." Mo Li pointed his finger at his chest: "I've worked hard most of my life to own such a caravan. And now it's all gone! Look on the bright side, otherwise we won't survive until tomorrow. Sigh, it would be great if I could become an immortal!"
"Immortal? There are immortals in this world?"
Mo Li looked at Peng Da: "Did you forget everything?! You forgot even immortals? Sigh, I'll explain in the future, let's leave first."
Peng Da followed Mo Li as they left, heading towards the closest oasis.
Peng Da followed behind Mo Li and asked with caution: "Are there many disasters like this?"
"Of course!" Mo Li said in a vicarious tone: "It's not easy for us to make a living in the desert. Sandstorms are the killers that visit often. Sometimes there are also flying blade hurricanes, and each gust of wind can condense into a huge wind blade that cuts everything wherever it goes. In addition to natural disasters, there are also vicious beasts. For example, we are in wolf desert, desert wolves are most plentiful here."
Howl—!
As Mo Li was saying that, a group of desert wolves suddenly emerged from under the desert.
"Wolves, wolves!" Peng Da jumped up in fright: "Oh heaven, they're coming out from under the sand! So many heads, what do we do, uncle?!"
Mo Li looked pale and cursed out loud: "Damn it! Why weren't these desert wolves wiped out by the natural disaster?"
It was not strange.
The qi tides were the phenomenon of fusing heaven and earth qi, it originated from the Heavenly Dao. But the Heavenly Dao would not wipe out all life, there was a chance of survival in every situation. Mo Li and Peng Da were able to survive, other lifeforms naturally had such an opportunity as well.
The desert wolves emerged from everywhere, but strangely enough, although they spotted Peng Da and Mo Li, they did not come to attack, instead they quickly assembled, howling and staring at the desert ground.
Rustle rustle….
With a series of moving sand sounds, golden scorpions emerged from the ground. These golden scorpions were all the size of a millstone, Peng Da watched with chills in his heart.
The golden scorpion group and the desert wolf group were engaged in a brutal fight.
Whenever a desert wolf was stung by a golden scorpion's needle, it would immediately foam saliva at the mouth, fall to the ground, and eventually die. On the other hand, the golden scorpions could not fight against the desert wolves' claws and teeth, and were often torn apart by the wolves' claws.
The two groups of beasts fought, because they were weak in intelligence, they paid no attention to Mo Li and Peng Da who were close by.
Peng Da looked frightened and pale. This world was too dangerous, no matter which beast group won, they would surely still end up attacking the humans.
"We must break out!" Mo Li gritted his teeth with a firm expression.
"But uncle, we're surrounded by golden scorpions and desert wolves." Peng Da wanted to cry.
"Do you want to wait to be eaten?" Mo Li said, about to move: "Kid, can you fight?"
"Huh? I, I can't, I have amnesia."
"These desert wolves and golden scorpions don't care if you have amnesia. Stay close to me and do your best to save yourself. There is at least hope for breaking out." Mo Li said and laughed, "If breaking out fails, you'll have to go fill the bellies of the beasts. But don't worry, you won't die alone, there's still me."
Peng Da could not help but roll his eyes, rather than dying like this, he would prefer to be buried alive!
Mo Li started to break out and Peng Da yelled: "Uncle, wait for me!"
He could only desperately follow behind Mo Li.
It was fine when they were still, but when they moved, they alerted the scorpion and wolf groups.
Almost at the same time, there were several golden scorpions and desert wolves, one left and one right, attacking them.
Mo Li grunted and activated his mortal Gu, but he only managed to repel two of the beasts before they got encircled by the groups.
"Breaking out has failed!" Mo Li sighed and gave up the fight.
Peng Da clutched his head and fell into despair, he stuttered: "Am… am I going to die?!"
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
At this moment, be they the mini five regions or the mini nine heavens, chaos was everywhere, the entire place was in a commotion.
Mini Southern Border's mountains collapsed, the terrain became disorganized, Mini Central Continent's river channels changed paths and caused torrential floods, Mini Western Desert had sandstorms everywhere that devoured cities and oases.
Mini Northern Plains.
An intense snowstorm was blowing, a pure white flame, fluttering in the blizzard, attached itself to wherever it burned.
This was the special fire immortal material — frost ice flame.
In places where the ice and snow path dao marks were dense, there would be a certain degree of probability that this special flame would be produced. Most of this flame was filled with ice and snow path dao marks, but the heart of the flame had dense fire path dao marks.
"We cannot let this frost ice flame spread everywhere!" Snowman Gu Immortal Xue Er was in charge of the situation, she tried to salvage it.
She was tasked by Fang Yuan to manage Triple Sacred Mountain, she controlled the snow crystal formation and focused on the growth of the snowman tribe's expansion.
Frost ice flames started to spread on triple sacred mountain, once the flames grew to a certain size, be they snowmen or snow monsters, they were burnt to death while crying in agony.
The snowmen were in chaos, they escaped and trampled on each other, causing unnecessary deaths.
Amidst the raging chaos, only a handful of snowman Gu Masters were trying to maintain order. But unfortunately, even with their cultivation, it was difficult to do anything against the immortal material frost ice flame.
"Oh no, the frost ice flame has reached the ice path crystal essence!" Xue Er's face turned pale, she became anxious.
She had just now tried to save more of the snowmen, and as a result, she had lost sight of this, allowing the frost ice flame to appear in the snow crystal formation.
The ice path crystal essence was the core of the snow crystal formation, Fang Yuan used the formation to spread out the frost energy created by the ice path crystal essence, that would constantly alter the environment inch by inch, creating a living habitat that suited the snowmen.
Xue Er felt deep regret as she watched the frost ice flame burn the ice path crystal essence, while being helpless against it.
Xue Er could not help but tear up and blame herself. The snow crystal formation was entrusted to her by Fang Yuan, it was the foundation for the snowman tribe's growth, but it was actually going to be destroyed because of her mistake.
She felt that she had let down the snowmen, she had let down Fang Yuan.
But at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared.
"Fang Yuan!" Xue Er was stunned before happiness appeared on her face.
Fang Yuan grabbed the empty space in front of him, all of the frost ice flames within the formation were drawn away.
Fang Yuan suddenly grunted as his body shook, pale white traces appeared around his body all of a sudden.
From these pale white traces, Xue Er felt a vast power that surged in heaven and earth!
"These are… heaven path dao marks! Oh heavens, there are so many heaven path dao marks, he must have at least a thousand!" Xue Er covered her mouth in surprise.
"I will leave the rest to you." Fang Yuan smiled at Xue Er as he brought the frost ice flame away with him and vanished on the spot.
Xue Er felt relaxed but worry soon appeared in her heart: "My dear fiance has so many heaven path dao marks, no wonder he went into seclusion after the fate war and rarely fought. Sigh, I am so useless, I could not help him at all. I could not even defend this snow crystal formation!"
Fang Yuan appeared to help Xue Er alleviate the crisis of the snowmen in Mini Northern Plains, he immediately went back to his secret room to continue his closed cultivation.
When he was refining fate Gu, Fang Yuan had the best position, because he was doing his best to absorb the heaven path dao marks, he had more than three thousand heaven path dao marks on his body, they were all complete and intact dao marks!
One could say that he was the biggest winner in this plan that Red Lotus created.
But this benefit was too great, he could not process it in the meantime. The sovereign immortal body had non-conflicting dao marks, with the addition of heaven path dao marks, that also meant that Sovereign grotto-heaven gained three thousand heaven path dao marks all of a sudden.
These heaven path dao marks created a huge impact on Sovereign grotto-heaven.
The impact was in many different aspects and had varying effects. They could be as large as mountains and rivers shifting, but also small like a changing tributary channel.
"The way of heaven is to take away surpluses while replenishing deficits. It focuses on the balance of living beings, they limit each other. Even in an extreme environment like the snow crystal formation, the Heavenly Dao could alter it and create fire path dao marks within the ice and snow path dao marks, once the frost ice flame spreads its destruction, Mini Northern Plains would be completely altered beyond recognition."
"Of course, if we ignore it, my Sovereign grotto-heaven will benefit from this, we will create a complete ecosystem that has balance and good prospects in the future.
"However, this method consumes too much of my foundation, it is also what Red Lotus Demon Venerable wants to see!"
Fang Yuan smiled coldly.
Fate Gu was destroyed, Red Lotus Demon Venerable's plan succeeded, Fang Yuan no longer had any value to him. Thus, Red Lotus Demon Venerable schemed and used the heaven path dao marks to restrict Fang Yuan, to limit his growth speed.
However, even though Fang Yuan saw through this, he had to take the bait. It was because Fang Yuan noticed that sovereign immortal fetus Gu was tampered by Spectral Soul, he needed the heaven path dao marks to counter Spectral Soul's arrangements.
Red Lotus Demon Venerable had been making use of Fang Yuan, it was evident from the rank seven future self killer move. But Fang Yuan also made use of Red Lotus, he used this Demon Venerable's plan to destroy fate Gu, which was his biggest problem, he used Red Lotus' million year plan to escape from the clutches of Spectral Soul's arrangement.
Zhao Lian Yun allowed the heaven path dao marks to make the alterations but Fang Yuan decided to interfere with them.
The heaven path dao marks altered the sovereign immortal aperture, he actively participated, resisting and cooperating with the alterations to preserve his immortal aperture's foundation.
This cooperation and resistance gave Fang Yuan a lot of insight.
Heaven path was merciless and impartial, human path was putting up a resistance, these two intertwined in Fang Yuan's heart, shining in different radiance.
"Time is about right." A while later, Fang Yuan moved again.
This time, he stored the sovereign immortal aperture, his main body arrived in the world of the five regions.
He stood in Western Desert as he looked at a tree in front of him.
This tree was not even eight feet tall, the branches were short, thin and twisted like monstrous claws, making it look extremely ugly. But the strange thing was, it had an enormous shadow of light. This shadow of light was extremely large, reaching five or six hundred feet. The shadow of light was like a flourishing tree with many branches and leaves. The tree branches were white as snow, the flowers were pink like cherries. There were clusters of small fruits among the floral leaves that had yet to ripen, with all sorts of colors.
It was the thousand wish tree.
Around the thousand wish tree was Fang Yuan's immortal formation.
Right now, he stored the immortal formation and took the thousand wish tree along with him, they were all sent into the sovereign immortal aperture.
This action caused a storm to surge, a vast air current spread out to the surroundings.
Fang Yuan did not care about this, he turned into a flash of light and flew into the sky.
The air currents rampaged in the surrounding deserts, causing loud sounds to be emitted.
Peng Da and Mo Li failed to breakout, they were surrounded by desert wolves, right when they were about to die, the air currents arrived.
The desert wolf group went into chaos as they scattered and escaped.
Peng Da jolted: "Another disaster!"
Mo Li stared with wide eyes as he looked and laughed: "Haha, we are saved! This is not a disaster, it is merely a normal hurricane. Let's go!"
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Chapter 1973 Going After Fang Yuan
After the qi tide passed, clouds were sparse in the sky, it was a refreshing sight.
A yellow cloud flew high in the sky, sprinkling light sand behind it along the way.
There was a female immortal sitting on the yellow cloud. She had a corpulent body, her belly was bulging, her entire body resembled a water vat, she was a member of Mo clan, a super force in Western Desert. There was a title for her in Western Desert's Gu Immortal world — Plump Lady.
Plump Lady did not dislike this title at all. She felt beautiful for being fat, and upon learning of this title, she liked it so much that she publicly called herself this from then on. In time, even her original name was forgotten in place of this title.
"Huh?" As the yellow cloud flew, Plump Lady suddenly had a change of expression, sensing something unusual.
Thus, the yellow cloud slightly contracted and flew down diagonally, changing its course slightly before suspending in mid-air.
Plump Lady stood up from the yellow cloud and looked down at the giant pit beneath her feet.
This giant pit was partially hidden by the wind blowing yellow sand and covering it, but Plump Lady was a native of Western Desert, she was all too familiar with the landscape of the sand pit.
"This isn't a naturally formed sand pit, but rather an empty space left behind after something in it was drawn away."
"This aura… it's the aura of an ancient desolate plant!"
Plump Lady's eyes shined with bright light, she immediately understood: a Gu Immortal had secretly made a move to steal an ancient desolate plant from here.
Plump Lady snorted coldly as anger rose in her heart. Although she did not know what this ancient desolate plant was, this place was wolf desert, the territory of Mo clan. Stealing this ancient desolate plant was the same as stealing the Mo clan.
"This ancient desolate plant must be quite valuable since it is able to hide and conceal itself from the detection of our clan. I'm afraid that it has already been discovered by some people long ago but they just did not take it. Now that qi tides is causing disasters, this person who stole the ancient desolate plant must have been worried that they would endanger this ancient desolate plant, and that's why they took it."
Plump Lady secretly analyzed the scene and carefully examined it.
The thief's actions were very clean, no obvious clues were left behind. Feeling disappointed, she had to use an information path Gu worm to inform the Mo clan, hoping that the clan would send good investigators to track down and capture this damned thief!
And finally, Plump Lady used information path Gu worms to record the scene before leaving. She had a mission right now, she could not waste time here.
As she flew along, she saw an oasis. The oasis was vast, and there was a stone city at the center. The city walls were short, but the overall length was long, there were a huge number of mortals living in the city, it was Sand Wolf City.
Sand Wolf City was one of the main cities of Mo clan.
Plump Lady did not cover her tracks and flew directly from high in the sky to the City Lord Manor.
There were already people at the City Lord Manor who were ready to receive her, when they saw the arrival of Plump Lady, they all fell to their knees and shouted: "We pay our respects to revered immortal!"
"Get up." Plump Lady stored the yellow cloud and stepped on the ground in front of everyone.
"Revered immortal, the arrival banquet has been prepared. It contains the best wine and delicacies of Sand Wolf City, as well as fresh fruits that were just picked today." The city lord spoke.
Plump Lady, however, waved her hand, she was not interested, she only said: "Prepare a secret room for me to undergo closed cultivation. Also, I asked you to gather Gu Masters with aptitude and loyalty, how is it going?"
"It's almost done. The vast majority of the city's Gu Masters have already been screened." The city lord replied quickly.
"Very well. After three days, I will take them away. Now, you can go and attend to your own matters."
"Yes, I will do my best to complete this task to the best of my ability." The city lord promised in succession.
The door of the secret room closed slowly, Plump Lady activated the formation here with a wave of her hand.
She looked exhausted as her divine sense probed into her immortal aperture, when she saw the scene inside the immortal aperture, she inevitably let out another deep sigh.
Her immortal aperture was originally a land of yellow sand and it was flat. At the heart of the desert, Plump Lady had carefully laid out more than six thousand acres of sand farms.
Her sand farms mainly produced two types of immortal materials, they were light sand and cold-warm flowing sand. They were the main sources of goods that Plump Lady produced for a long time.
But after the fate war, Plump Lady absorbed five heaven path dao marks, her immortal aperture started to change. The landscape became uneven, more and more sand dunes were created. Furthermore, there was a trench, as if a knife had come straight down across the center of the desert, splitting the entire desert, thousands of acres of sand farms were lost.
"I don't have wisdom path methods to make deductions and restrain this kind of natural development. Unless I hire a wisdom path Gu Immortal to take action, but my assets are not enough, I can't afford it. I might as well save this expense in case of future mishaps." Plump Lady lamented in her heart.
Mo clan had Gu Immortals that cultivated wisdom path, but they were not close to Plump Lady. In fact, even if the relationship was close, the wisdom path deductions would still cost Immortal essence, they could not work for Plump Lady for nothing, right? Therefore, there had to be a reward.
"Furthermore, I recently absorbed heaven and earth qi, my immortal aperture is unstable."
Right now, the five regional walls were gone, the five regions' heaven and earth qi had no obstruction and started to fuse. Western Desert's heaven and earth qi was changing gradually, this caused the foundation of Western Desert Gu Immortals' immortal apertures to start differing from the heaven and earth qi of the outer world.
When Gu Immortals absorb this heaven and earth qi, their immortal aperture would be unstable, there would be tremors.
The best way to deal with it was to cooperate with the change and continue absorbing and releasing heaven and earth qi. If one keeps themselves in closed cultivation, after the heaven and earth qi changes drastically, when they open the immortal aperture entrance to absorb heaven and earth qi, the tremors would be huge, the immortal aperture would suffer even more damage.
"If I had qi path attainment, I would be able to reduce the losses caused by the heaven and earth qi to a great extent."
Wisdom path was a difficult path while qi path had been declining for years, there were few qi path Gu Immortals left.
Plump Lady was only having dreams that were not realistic. In the end, she consoled herself: Even though she did not have wisdom path or qi path methods, other Gu Immortals were like her. Thus, she was not left behind in the dust by the majority of them.
But Plump Lady still felt intense danger in her heart.
This was something that all of the five regions' Gu Immortals were feeling.
The five regions were unified, everyone knew that life was no longer going to be peaceful anymore. Be they lone cultivators or super forces, they were making preparations for the huge battles in the future.
This time, Plump Lady was tasked to go to Sand Wolf City and bring back Gu Immortal seeds for Mo clan to nurture.
In fact, Mo clan or Western Desert were not the only ones, all of the forces in the five regions and two heavens were making preparations now.
In the past, the five regions and two heavens were quite peaceful, super forces nurtured Gu Immortals while considering the provision of resources and their storage.
But now, everyone was preparing for war, they were going to mobilize these resources!
Thus, all of the forces focused on nurturing Gu Immortals than keeping resources. There was a common view: If they did not nurture enough Gu Immortals, their enemies would get all of their resources if they were wiped out in the future. If they did not use up those resources beforehand, that would be too wasteful.
Plump Lady looked at her sand farms in the immortal aperture while feeling heartache. She could not discard these farms, they were her only sources of revenue, they were her biggest financial support pillar.
Plump Lady had to preserve them.
The future was uncertain, she did not know how long the qi tides would continue, but she had to salvage them regardless.
"In the current world, I'm afraid only Fang Yuan will know how long these qi tides would last, he has Spring Autumn Cicada and can rebirth from the future after all." Plump Lady felt deep envy and admiration regarding this.
Plump Lady rebuilt the sand farms in her immortal aperture, fixing the Gu formations inside.
The area where the Earth Trench appeared could not be fixed. Thus, her six thousand acre sand farm was split into two.
"If only I had an immortal Gu formation." Plump Lady felt a bit of regret, Mo clan also had formation path Gu Immortals, when she created the sand farm, Mo clan's formation path Gu Immortal had asked her if she needed help.
But Plump Lady rejected him.
On one hand, she did not want to expose her immortal aperture, on the other hand, she wanted to save cost.
After all, creating an immortal formation would use one of her Immortal Gu as the core. Plump Lady only had two rank six Immortal Gu herself.
Also, the payment of hiring the formation path Gu Immortal was not cheap.
"If I had created an immortal formation back then, my losses would be much lower. Sigh, how can anyone expect their own immortal aperture to be unsafe?"
Plump Lady thought of this and felt some envy towards the formation path Gu Immortal. During this period of time, he had been extremely popular with everyone, they were looking for him to create immortal Gu formations around their immortal aperture's resource points to protect them.
Plump Lady felt a little bitterness towards the earth path she cultivated, earth path was skilled at changing terrain, but Western Desert had the most number of earth path Gu Immortals. Plump Lady's earth path inheritance was also quite ordinary.
As for cultivating a second path?
Plump Lady did not even dare to think about such an absurd idea.
She was already facing problems cultivating just earth path in terms of time and finances.
Trying to juggle another path was courting death!
Moreover, only those rare and exceptional inheritances could allow one to dual cultivate. For example, an inheritance left by Thunder Ghost True Monarch or Duke Long.
After repairing her immortal aperture's sand farm, Plump Lady still had to buy some fertile sand.
Sand farms nurtured sand using sand, without enough sand-type immortal materials, the production would fall greatly.
Plump Lady took out her Gu worms and connected to treasure yellow heaven.
Treasure yellow heaven had all sorts of news, a large number of wills were conversing as they interacted.
Because of the huge change in the world, Gu Immortals could not move around now, on one hand, they had to absorb and release heaven and earth qi continuously to adapt to the main world, on the other hand, they also had to take care of their immortal apertures and repair them continuously like Plump Lady. Cases like Zhao Lian Yun who ignored the damage caused were quite rare.
Thus, Gu Immortals needed immortal materials or the help of Gu Immortals of other paths, treasure yellow heaven became a very popular destination for them.
"Another qi tide happened over here, a lot of deaths occurred."
"When are these qi tides going to end! Damn it, my fisheries have all been destroyed."
"I hate the fact that we cannot move around, the stronger the immortal aperture foundation, the longer we need to adapt to the heaven and earth qi and keep up with the five regions' transformation."
The Gu Immortals sighed as they talked about the news of these qi tides.
Other than that, there was Fang Yuan's arrest warrant!
A mysterious force described Fang Yuan's circumstances, they were willing to pay a huge sum for his latest information.
Fang Yuan had the sovereign immortal aperture, his sovereign immortal body had non-conflicting dao marks. More terrifyingly, he could annex people's apertures to skip calamities and tribulations, increasing his cultivation level. But now, Fang Yuan obtained too many heaven path dao marks, his strength had hit an all-time low. Whoever discovered his location would get a huge reward!
The sovereign immortal fetus Gu's secret was completely exposed, this was not Heavenly Court's doing. Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan had released the arrest warrant due to Spectral Soul's orders.
"Too strong! This sovereign immortal body is too terrifying, it can cultivate all paths."
"I finally understand why Fang Yuan's cultivation level rose so quickly! In the blink of an eye, he became a rank eight great expert."
"Who can have such a great fortuitous encounter?"
"Why does heaven favor this otherworldly demon! If I had his fortuitous encounters, I could achieve such great accomplishments as well."
The Gu Immortals were filled with jealousy and hatred.
"We cannot let him grow further, he can annex apertures, he is the enemy of all Gu Immortals."
"Let those experts handle him. I am just a minor character, why would I ever encounter Fang Yuan?"
"The reward is a huge amount of immortal materials, I wonder which lucky person will get them."
"Lucky person? Exposing the great demon Fang Yuan's location would be offending him, you call that lucky? We have all seen Fang Yuan's battle strength ourselves, even if he is at his weakest, how weak can that be? No matter how weak a person is, killing an ant is extremely easy regardless. Even if I find his location, I will not dare to expose him."
Plump Lady heard these discussions, she felt conflicting emotions within her.
The information had been released in treasure yellow heaven several days ago. It had received huge attention, it was the hot topic currently, without showing signs of dying down.
Everyone in the world had seen the fate war. Fang Yuan's performance was shockingly terrifying. The world knew about his pseudo venerable battle strength, the title of the number one demon in the world belonged to him, nobody dared to contest this!
"Hopefully, I never meet such a person in my life. No matter how fat I am, my size cannot compare to such a huge demon. If I get involved in his matters, I will die without doubt."
Plump Lady was quite aware of her situation, she was only enjoying the show as a spectator.
But she did not know that she had once fought against Fang Yuan. In fact, the ancient desolate plant that was stolen earlier was taken by Fang Yuan!
While Plump Lady entered closed cultivation, two figures in sorry states supported each other as they moved towards Sand Wolf City step by step.
The city guards did not chase them away, they could tell that these two were Gu Masters.
The guard walked towards them and extended his hand: "Entry fee of one primeval stone per person."
"There's still an entry fee?" One of the downcast Gu Masters started with wide eyes, he was Peng Da.
The middle aged Gu Master that he was supporting was naturally Mo Li.
The two of them were saved by the air currents generated when Fang Yuan took the thousand wish tree, after exerting effort, they finally reached Sand Wolf City.
"I have them." Mo Li was already prepared, he took out two primeval stones and handed them to the guard.
Peng Da took a look at these two primeval stones.
Along the way, he was taught by Mo Li, he could now inspect his aperture, he found that he had three Gu worms. He even understood the value of primeval stones, it was used as currency but also as a way to replenish a Gu Master's precious primeval essence!
"Two primeval stones to enter a city." Peng Da sighed: "Uncle Mo Li, I will return this sum to you."
Mo Li patted his shoulder: "Let's go kid. No matter how poor I am, I can still afford this fee. During this period, you should stay at my home, you are penniless and have no memory of this city, how can you live alone?"
Mo Li had guided Peng Da along the way, after finding that he knew nothing about Gu Master cultivation, he believed the words that he was amnesiac.
"Uncle, thank you so much. You saved my life and even helped me this much…"
"Don't say that!" Mo Li interrupted Peng Da and brought him into the city.
Mo Li's house was at the central area of Sand Wolf City, it was a huge house with a garden that had flowers growing in it.
"I am back!" Mo Li knocked on the door as his wife opened the door.
"You are finally back!" Mo Li's wife was a rank two Gu Master, seeing her husband, she was happy and surprised: "I heard the qi tide appeared, I thought you…"
"I was lucky and lived, but my caravan is completely ruined, only the two of us survived. Sigh!" Mo Li sighed deeply.
"Being alive is the greatest blessing!" Mo Li's wife turned her eyes.
"Auntie." Peng Da greeted after their conversation.
Mo Li's wife chuckled: "Little lad, thank you for taking care of my husband along the way."
Peng Da's face turned red as he said: "I am ashamed, it was uncle who took care of me during this journey, without his help, I would have died in the desert."
"As travelers outside, helping each other is necessary. Quickly come in." Mo Li's wife was very welcoming.
Mo Li and Peng Da had a rough journey, but they were finally safe now.
After showering in Mo Li's house, the two of them went to bed and fell sound asleep.
After sleeping from noon to night time, Peng Da was woken up by Mo Li for a scrumptious dinner.
After dinner, Mo Li said to his wife: "We still have some money left, even though my caravan was destroyed, as long as I am alive, I can rebuild a new caravan!"
But his wife had a hesitant look: "I haven't told you this, I was hesitating, thankfully, you returned alive."
"What is it?" Mo Li was curious as he asked.
"After you left, the city lord sent orders that they would select Gu Masters that had A grade aptitude and were loyal to Mo clan. Supposedly, this is an order from the higher-ups, they want to nurture Gu Masters to become Gu Immortals."
"Oh? There is such a thing?" Mo Li hesitated: "The city lord put up a public notice? I went past the city gates quickly, I did not see it."
Mo Li's wife continued: "Our son heard the news and wanted to sign up."
Mo Li laughed unconsciously: "To think our son would have such aspirations, but he only has B grade aptitude."
Mo Li's wife laughed: "Aptitude is not too important, loyalty to Mo clan is most important. If we show enough loyalty, our son might be selected."
Mo Li realized at once, asking:" How much?"
Mo Li's wife said a number, Peng Da's mouth became wide open.
Mo Li's wife was very troubled: "Even if we use all our remaining savings, it will not be enough. Husband, the decision is up to you."
Mo Li was silent for a moment before he resolved himself: "I will borrow! It is rare that our son is no longer lazy and wants to improve himself, this is a good thing. I will go and borrow shamelessly, I am sure we will gather enough funds."
"Husband…" Mo Li's wife was touched but felt worried as well: "But our caravan was destroyed, I am afraid…"
Mo Li smiled as he patted his chest, feeling confident: "Don't worry, I am a rank three Gu Master, my body is strong and my strength is intact. Everyone knows that I only need time, as long as my luck is not bad, I can recover from this loss!"
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Chapter 1974 Creating An Opening
The sky was light purple in color, gathered in mid-air was a large area of grey clouds resembling thick fog, making the view of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven quite unclear.
But the layout of this place was good, even Spectral Soul could not help but praise it.
He had disguised as a soul beast, he successfully infiltrated the grotto-heaven, after many days, he finally found out a lot of information about Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven.
This was a soul path grotto-heaven, there were a lot of soul path cultivation resources here, it had at least ten giant resource points! In history, it had once produced two rank eight soul path immortals at the same point in time, it was a very rare situation.
The biggest trait of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven was that it had a soul pacifying immortal killer move that influenced all lifeforms in this grotto-heaven. This killer move could pacify soul beasts and bring peace to Gu Immortals' souls, it had a huge supplementary effect in soul cultivation.
There were three aspects in soul path cultivation, strengthening, refining, and pacifying the soul.
The most effective method to pacify the soul was using the water of Bewitching Lake, it was known as pacifying soul soup, the most delicious wine in the world. This was recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]].
The soul pacifying killer move in Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven was created by mimicking the pacifying soul soup. Even Spectral Soul thought that the effect of this move was good.
Within Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, soul beasts were the most plentiful of beasts.
It had raised soul beasts to begin with, now that Fate was destroyed and the five regions unified, in order to prepare for war, the Gu Immortals of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven went outside to hunt and store more soul beasts.
But the higher-ups with Lady Cold Ash as the leader still did not think this was enough, they sent even more Gu Immortals outside to search for even more soul beasts.
Thanks to the soul pacifying killer move, even if immemorial soul beasts went into Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, they would remain peaceful and would not rampage.
After An Xun returned to the grotto-heaven to rest for a few days, he received orders to go out and hunt soul beasts again.
"I am letting you command three thousand soul beasts with one immemorial soul beast as the guardian, do your best." Before leaving, Lady Cold Ash called for him.
An Xun was the tall and skinny Gu Immortal from earlier, he was the nephew of Lady Cold Ash, and also the Gu Immortal with the best prospects to go beyond rank seven in Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven.
"Thank you for the concern, aunt." An Xun said with difficulty: "But such a huge soul beast group, I do not have the ability to command them."
Lady Cold Ash waved her hand: "My killer move can allow you to command this soul beast group with ease for twenty days."
An Xun was overjoyed, he quickly thanked her.
He understood that his aunt was helping in secret and taking care of him. Even though Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven did not lack resources and had deep foundation, when nurturing Gu Immortals, seniority mattered.
Lady Cold Ash helped An Xun secretly, hoping that he would emerge victorious in the contest against An Chong and become the rank seven Gu Immortal who received the most support.
She was his aunt after all!
An Xun led the soul beast army and left Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, heading to black heaven for his hunt.
For the next few days, his gains were little, he became a little anxious.
"Logically speaking, after the qi tide passes, there would be many dead lifeforms, their souls would be left behind and form more soul beasts." An Xun could not understand why this was not happening.
Along the way, he did not meet many soul beasts, but he gathered a lot of qi path immortal materials, he did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven was a soul path grotto-heaven, these qi path immortal materials were almost unusable, they could only be traded away.
An Xun could not understand why, but Spectral Soul knew: "It seems that after the qi tide passes, qi path dao marks flood the area, causing other paths to be suppressed. Soul path is no exception, it is hard to form new soul beasts. In contrast, qi path immortal materials are going to increase in numbers, they will be at an absurd number in the future."
Spectral Soul saw the trend and felt a little strange internally: "To think that qi path would regain its former glory!"
Qi path had been declining, but with the current situation where qi path immortal materials get produced widely in the five regions and two heavens, the abundance of resources would lower the cost of cultivation. It would create a trend of numerous qi path cultivators.
Spectral Soul turned into an ancient soul beast and secretly followed An Xun, he left Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven for his own objectives.
He had already inspected Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, but he could not take action inside. Outside, it was a different story.
However, Spectral Soul did not act immediately, he patiently waited for a chance.
As expected, after more than ten days, An Xun encountered a group of soul beasts that numbered to more than a thousand.
"I finally met some." An Xun was overjoyed, he quickly manipulated the soul beast army to attack.
A huge battle began.
Initially, An Xun had the advantage, but soon, he found that an immemorial soul beast appeared in the enemy's group.
He quickly let out his guardian, it was also an immemorial soul beast.
The two immemorial soul beasts fought intensely, creating a small battlefield for themselves.
The enemy immemorial soul beast was much stronger than An Xun had expected, his immemorial soul beast quickly fell into a disadvantage, about to be defeated.
An Xun was shocked, he quickly acted to help out his immemorial soul beast.
Eventually, An Xun paid a huge price of suffering injuries to exterminate the enemy immemorial soul beast.
An Xun felt regret that he could not capture the wild immemorial soul beast, he had tried many methods to subdue it but he failed, he had no choice but to kill it in the end.
After the battle, An Xun counted his gains and losses, despite his heavy injuries, he gained eight hundred soul beasts overall, among which were many ancient soul beasts.
"This should be enough." An Xun let out a sigh of relief, these gains were sufficient, he did not let down Lady Cold Ash and her expectations.
But right when An Xun relaxed his mind, Spectral Soul struck at lightning speed, flying into An Xun's body.
An Xun's face distorted as he shook intensely, after a while, he returned to normal.
Spectral Soul came out of his body as An Xun knelt down: "I pay respects to master!"
"Mm." Spectral Soul nodded with a tired expression.
He had an ability to enter a life form's soul and forcefully modify it so that they would obey Spectral Soul from the depths of their soul with absolute loyalty.
But there were many limitations to this, he could not use it casually.
Back then, Spectral Soul subdued Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan when they were at their weakest. Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan were in poor conditions then, while she had also been subconsciously influenced by him over time.
Thus, in order to deal with An Xun, Spectral Soul had to wait until he was at his weakest.
The reason he caused this huge soul beast battle instead of directly attacking because he needed to deceive Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven. An Xun was a rank seven Gu Immortal, it was not easy for him to explore black heaven, there were investigative methods used on him. If anything happened to him, Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven would react to it rapidly.
"After subduing An Xun, I have an opening in Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, is Lady Cold Ash still far from my grasp? Hehe." Spectral Soul chuckled.
Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven had the most suitable cultivation resources for Spectral Soul, he could take control of it and use it to interfere in the world affairs to accomplish his goals.
"I have already created my opening here, it is far better than hunting soul beasts myself! I wonder what breakthrough Fairy Zi Wei has made already."
At the same time, in a certain Central Continent valley.
"Fang Yuan, you cannot escape." Fairy Zi Wei called out, using a purple meteor attack.
The purple meteor landed on Fang Yuan as it pierced his chest, creating a gaping hole.
Fang Yuan stared at Fairy Zi Wei, he fell with a loud sound and scattered into smoke.
"Another clone!" Even though Fairy Zi Wei was prepared for it, she still felt tired seeing this.
Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan had already killed hundreds of Fang Yuan's clones.
She immediately captured and stored the smoke that the myriad self clone turned into.
Next, she took out a sealed clone of Fang Yuan from her aperture.
She instilled the smoke of the destroyed myriad self clone into the sealed clone.
Soon, the white smoke was absorbed by the clone, its cultivation level rose again.
These myriad self clones were summoned by Fang Yuan during the battle in Heavenly Court, Fairy Zi Wei had used the transportation formation to send them all over Central Continent.
Fairy Zi Wei was ordered by Spectral Soul to find Fang Yuan, after putting up the arrest warrant, all the information she received involved these clones.
Fairy Zi Wei had no choice but to pay them the reward as they had provided information. But she also went around laboriously to capture the Fang Yuan myriad self clones all over the continent.
If she left them unattended to, these clones would be the best concealment for Fang Yuan's main body. Fairy Zi Wei also had another idea, what if Fang Yuan was hiding among these clones?
This was not impossible.
"Thankfully, these myriad self clones can sense each other, when I capture one, I can use the connection to find the next clone."
"But…"
Fairy Zi Wei watched as the sealed clone of Fang Yuan rose in cultivation level, she felt worried: "Fang Yuan's human path attainment level is so high. These clones can actually devour each other and show such autonomy…"
"Fang Yuan's strength is low because because of two reasons. Firstly, the heaven and earth qi are converging and forming qi tides, immortal apertures are becoming unstable, secondly, the heaven path dao marks he absorbed are also like a seal."
"Among the different paths, human path is the most suitable for dealing with heaven path. Who knows how many heaven path dao marks Fang Yuan gained, how long can they suppress him for?"
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
The thousand wish tree was planted in Mini Central Continent.
An immortal formation with the thousand wish tree as the core was already set up, it started to activate now.
Due to the influence of the heaven path dao marks, Sovereign grotto-heaven had been encountering disasters and calamities endlessly, but even in this situation, Fang Yuan still spent effort to create and defend this formation.
"Good." After observing for a while, Fang Yuan smiled as he saw the formation working normally.
This was a human path formation, the thousand wish tree was a human path ancient desolate plant, with his formation path and human path attainment levels, Fang Yuan finally made such progress.
The formation in Mini Central Continent was the main formation, there was going to be four more human path sub-formations created in the other mini regions.
"I am trying to use human path to restrict heaven path, let's see how well it works!" Fang Yuan held high expectations for this plan.
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Chapter 1975 World Poetry Competition
Immemorial black heaven.
"They're here!" An Xun shouted excitedly.
Under his silent supervision, a soul beast army of a thousand charged towards his ambush.
Once they entered his range, An Xun activated his ambushing soul beasts, attacking all of the wild soul beasts from all sides.
While An Xun controlled the soul beast army, he activated Immortal Gu and unleashed all sorts of immortal killer moves.
As his killer moves landed on them, the soul beasts on his side gained a boost in battle strength, speed, and defense to some degree.
This battle lasted for several minutes, An Xun successfully killed four hundred wild soul beasts while the rest were captured.
"Master!" An Xun gathered a pile of soul cores and offered them to Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul opened his mouth and absorbed all of these soul cores into his body, starting to digest them.
After last time when he secretly followed An Xun and enslaved him, Spectral Soul managed to get his plan started.
He secretly passed the profundities of soul path cultivation to An Xun, according to the soul path Immortal Gu that An Xun had, he personally created soul path killer moves for him.
An Xun's strength continued to rise, he took many missions to capture soul beasts.
For this purpose, Spectral Soul created two methods, one could find out the location of wild soul beasts, the other was a simplified immortal formation that could lure soul beasts after it was set up.
With these two methods, An Xun captured wild soul beasts with much higher efficiency, each mission was completed to a high degree.
Lady Cold Ash saw that her nephew did not let down her expectations but even went beyond that and shined brightly, she was very happy about it.
Within Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, Lady Cold Ash was the only rank eight, she was naturally their leader.
Below her were An Chong and An Xun. Last time, when Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch opened his grotto-heaven and invited them, Lady Cold Ash brought the two of them with her, she wanted to let them gain some experience, and also let them meet up with others to become acquainted with other Gu Immortals.
When Lady Cold Ash was in the meeting in the grotto-heaven, An Chong and An Xun stayed outside the grotto-heaven and talked with the other rank seven elites of other grotto-heavens.
But Lady Cold Ash did not know that An Xun was already turned into Spectral Soul's slave. In fact, the entire Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, including herself, was currently targeted by Spectral Soul, their future was bleak.
The more missions he completed, and the higher the completion rate, the more advantage An Xun would have in this competition.
Lady Cold Ash could see this, the other Gu Immortals in the grotto-heaven also noticed this.
One day, Lady Cold Ash summoned An Chong as she instructed: "Since the last time Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch called for us to have a meeting, he was very active in asking the grotto-heavens to work together. But in Central Continent's black heaven, there are many variant humans but only two rank eight humans including me. Thankfully, I have already contacted Granny Skeleton, she is a rank eight Gu Immortal of Eastern Sea's black heaven. In this journey to Eastern Sea, you are representing Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, you will meet with Granny Skeleton and show our sincerity to cooperate."
"Yes." An Chong replied, feeling bitter inside.
He knew Lady Cold Ash's intention.
By sending him on this mission, she was helping An Xun to claim victory, he was going to become the nurturing target of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven.
If An Xun performed similarly to himself, An Chong would feel unresigned and angry. But An Xun did really well, far better than him, even An Chong felt that he had no chance to win.
He accepted this mission, he took some immortal materials from Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven's inventory as a meeting gift.
After leaving Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, he passed the heavenly wind qi wall and arrived in the five regions.
He concealed his traces and went from Central Continent to Eastern Sea. Next, he went through the heavenly wind qi wall in Eastern Sea and to Granny Skeleton's area.
When the regional walls existed, Gu Immortals had a lot of trouble crossing regions. Many strong Gu Immortals would choose to travel using the two heavens.
But now that the regional walls had vanished, even a black heaven Gu Immortal like An Chong could travel through the five regions.
Black heaven had a dangerous environment, it would be troublesome if one met an immemorial desolate beast. Even though An Chong had an immemorial soul beast hiding in his immortal aperture, he only had rank seven cultivation level after all. Especially now when the qi tides were rampaging, the five regions Gu Immortals had to recuperate, they rarely moved around. Thus, it was easy for An Chong to travel.
Along the way, An Chong found that the five regions were facing huge disasters, the qi tides had caused much destruction.
Regardless, he did not meet with any unexpected mishaps, he successfully arrived in Eastern Sea and went up to immemorial black heaven. According to the communication method left by Lady Cold Ash, he successfully went into Shattered Bone grotto-heaven and met with Granny Skeleton.
"Fate has been destroyed, the qi tides are surging. With the current changing world, if we do not cooperate, the future will be uncertain. We are all humans, we should work together and stay united." Granny Skeleton did not create problems for An Chong, she agreed immediately.
Granny Skeleton continued: "However, in Eastern Sea's black heaven, variant human forces are more dominant. Lady Cold Ash wants us to cooperate, why would Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch do nothing? He must be gathering the variant human forces of the other regions' black heaven as well."
An Chong knew that Granny Skeleton would not say unimportant things, he quickly asked: "Senior, what insight might you have?"
Granny Skeleton said: "Since we are uniting the humans of immemorial black heaven, why don't we include white heaven as well? I will not hide it from you, I have contacted many people already, the response is quite good. Among them, there is one key person, we need your help to persuade them."
Granny Skeleton paused and continued: "This person is a rank eight Gu Immortal, he is known as Old Immortal Hua Yu, he controls Profound Literature grotto-heaven. He has quite the reputation in Eastern Sea's white heaven, if we can ally with this person, it will definitely bring along a number of white heaven Gu Immortals, we will save a lot of effort."
An Chong heard this and thought: Going to meet Old Immortal Hua Yu was not part of his mission, but if he could accomplish this feat, he would have a chance to compete with An Xun again.
Thinking of this, An Chong made his decision, saying to Granny Skeleton: "Since senior has already planned this, junior will set out for Profound Literature grotto-heaven."
Granny Skeleton praised: "Good, as expected of a member of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven. Old Immortal Hua Yu does not like to fight or kill, that is why he has little interest in an alliance. If you can succeed in this trip, I will reward you greatly!"
An Chong left Shattered Bone grotto-heaven and went to immemorial white heaven, meeting with Old Immortal Hua Yu.
Even though Old Immortal Hua Yu had little interest in an alliance, An Chong was representing Lady Cold Ash in this trip. The other party was also a rank eight Gu Immortal, Old Immortal Hua Yu did not dare to ignore them, he opened the door and invited An Chong in.
After seeing Old Immortal Hua Yu, An Chong gave the speech that he thought up along the way but Old Immortal Hua Yu was unmoved.
"My Profound Literature grotto-heaven does not involve itself in worldly affairs, we are a neutral party. Even though we do not want to make an alliance, the two of us can still exchange resources."
Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven produced soul path resources, it was quite useful for Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
Seeing that he could not convince Old Immortal Hua Yu, An Chong thought that this transaction was at least better than nothing. This was the first time they were interacting, after several transactions, wouldn't they get closer?
With a deeper relationship, requesting for an alliance would be much better hopes.
After saying goodbye to Old Immortal Hua Yu, An Chong was asked to stay by another Gu Immortal.
Gu Immortal Hua Song attended to him, he said: "You have traveled a long journey to come here, you should stay for a few days. During this period, the mortal imperial court is holding a world poetry competition, many beautiful poems will be created and recited then, it is quite interesting to watch."
An Chong had already heard from Granny Skeleton about the poetry culture of Profound Literature grotto-heaven. All of their Gu Immortals were scholarly and preferred literature works over beautiful women or wine.
An Chong wanted to improve his relationship with Profound Literature grotto-heaven, even though he had no interest in poetry or recital, he could not refuse their kind invitation, he agreed to stay.
The world poetry competition commenced.
This was an unprecedented event, Profound Literature grotto-heaven had never held such a huge competition before. Thus, all sorts of talents gathered from all over Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
Other than the talented scholars who wanted to display their abilities in the poetry competition, many people came here to watch the grand event.
Thus, the capital city that was holding the world poetry competition became filled with people since a month ago.
People moved on the bustling streets, Li Xiao Bai and Teacher Jiang walked side by side.
"The world poetry competition has eighteen rounds, Xiao Bai, if you want to change your circumstances, this is the best chance. I understand your talent, you can pass the first ten rounds, but the latter eight will depend on your luck. Sigh, teacher cannot help you this time, we might even end up as opponents." Teacher Jiang sighed.
This was a grand event, Teacher Jiang also wanted to participate and compete with the other talented scholars!
After Li Xiao Bai heard this, he held down the urge to roll his eyes as he thought: "I am almost certain now that you will end up as my opponent, dear teacher."
Li Xiao Bai was Fang Yuan's clone, he was sent into Profound Literature grotto-heaven as a pawn to take over this grotto-heaven.
Initially, Li Xiao Bai had a smooth sailing journey, he even received the affection of Su clan's young miss, Su Qi Han. As a result, Li Xiao Bai became one of the ten great scholars, he had a chance to become Su clan's son-in-law.
Next, while Li Xiao Bai was on his way to the capital city, the world shook as mountains collapsed and rivers flooded. The people in Li Xiao Bai's group got injured while some died, they were trapped in the valley for months before Li Xiao Bai managed to escape for his life.
Because of this, he missed the opportunity and did not meet with the emperor. Without the emperor's decree, his ten great scholar title was conferred to others.
Li Xiao Bai wanted to contact Su Qi Han but found that after hearing about his situation, she went to look for him and went missing as a result, even now, she had not returned yet.
After arriving in the capital city, Li Xiao Bai encountered many setbacks, people tried to target him secretly, he offended officials or royalty without knowing it, he had a tough time. If not for Teacher Jiang's help, he would have ended up on the streets as a beggar.
But he knew why.
"Even though my main body destroyed fate Gu, our strong luck was almost completely expended in this battle. The result is that I as a clone also became really unlucky."
"This world poetry competition is the event created by Profound Literature grotto-heaven to choose new Gu Immortal seeds. Even though teacher does not know the details, he still chose to join, he is going to become my obstacle."
"I am so unlucky now, I will definitely face him. If I defeat him, this teacher might hate me for life. But this chance is too rare, if I do not use it to deal with the difficulties ahead, I will meet with more problems in the future!"
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Chapter 1976 Li Xiao Bai“s Spring Poem
"Lord Gu Masters, please come in!" The waiter bent his back as he invited Hua Song and An Chong into the shop.
"This is a famous teahouse of the capital city, it is very crowded, I have come here many times in the past." Hua Song transmitted as he explained to An Chong.
The two had disguised as Gu Masters as they came to the capital city of Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
An Chong was more willing to observe the capital city from above the clouds. But since Hua Song had such interests, he could only accompany the person who invited him.
"I want a table on the fifth floor." Hua Song was very familiar with this place.
The two came to the fifth floor, they entered the room and saw through the windows that the streets were bustling with people outside, the street with the bronze gate where the first round of the competition was held was completely packed with people.
"These are the current generation scholars of my Profound Literature grotto-heaven, they are the hope of our future as well. Please observe." Hua Song sighed as he handed a rank five investigative Gu worm to An Chong, it could observe the target's talent qi.
An Chong took a look and used it immediately, his field of vision changing immediately. He could now see the talent qi above the heads of countless scholars. These talent qi had all sorts of colors, some were taller than others, they all had different forms, it was an eye-opener.
"Since you have such a Gu worm to observe talent qi, what is the point of holding this competition?" An Chong asked.
Hua Song chuckled: "You might not know, talent qi is like cultivation level, even if one possesses a larger talent qi, they might not be able to use it properly in actual competition. Furthermore, this competition requires them to make poems on the spot, they cannot cheat. We want to test the upbringing of these scholars, some who have abundant talent qi might not have sufficient inspiration to create the highest quality poems."
An Chong nodded: "I see that the formations here are interlinked, they are able to amplify the creative thinking of the scholars?"
Hua Song nodded: "Indeed, you are very perceptive! Within the immortal formation, scholars are able to display greater abilities than usual, they will make full use of their talents."
As they spoke, the door was knocked.
After getting Hua Song's permission, the waiter brought over an array of dishes and wine.
"Eight treasure duck, golden thread crispy sparrow, panda crab meat, they are all signature dishes of our teahouse, please enjoy the food." The waiter said.
Hua Song gave the waiter one primeval stone as a tip before he left the room.
Hua Song explained to An Chong: "Envoy, even though the tea here is mortal tea, it was created by Lord Hua Yu in his youth, when he was still a rank four Gu Master, he became the top scholar and thus this tea was named by him as the top scholar tea."
"Oh?" An Chong became interested now, this was the creation of a rank eight Gu Immortal in his youth.
"Then I will have to savor this well." An Chong drank it, he shut his eyes as he tasted the tea, in a daze, he felt a rush of excitement in his heart, it was as if he had attained success after decades of hard work, he finally gained the reputation and fame that he deserved, life was at its peak!
"Good tea, good tea." An Chong praised sincerely: "Even though this is a mortal tea, it has a trace of human path ingenuity within it!"
During the fate war, Central Continent's Heavenly Court used multiple human path killer moves with shocking power, the entire world knew about it. Thus, human path became renowned in the world, everyone knew about it.
While the two immortals were enjoying their tea, the bronze gate of the first competition ground opened slowly.
The crowd of people waiting before the gate erupted into a huge commotion.
"It's opening, it's opening!"
"Don't squeeze."
"Quickly let me in."
The crowds charged through the gate.
Li Xiao Bai was among them, but he was at the back instead.
He moved along with the people as he analyzed the rules of this competition.
"The world poetry competition has eighteen rounds, each one has a question, everyone has to answer it, regardless of how many people, their final product will be assessed and only half will be able to pass."
"Towards the later rounds, the numbers will continue being halved. Like this, once someone passes all eighteen rounds, they will fulfill the condition."
"If someone fails once, they will have to return to the previous round. If they keep losing and fall out of the first round, they will be out."
"However, this poetry competition will last for seven days. Everyone has three opportunities to try even if they get kicked out of the first round."
"This way, Profound Literature grotto-heaven will be able to pick the most eligible Gu Immortal seeds. Even if someone makes a mistake, they will have a chance to try again. But if any scholar fails to perform throughout the seven days, it will mean that they are not up to standard, they are not qualified to receive the grotto-heaven's help to become an immortal."
Li Xiao Bai retracted his thoughts, he had already arrived at the first arena.
The arena was large but packed with scholars.
There were males and females, young and old, the number of people exceeded the thousands.
This was just the first day.
Li Xiao Bai waited for another fifteen minutes in the arena before all of the scholars had joined the first round.
There was truly a sea of people, the liveliness was overwhelming.
Thankfully, the first arena was an immortal formation space, it could expand casually and hold so many scholars without problems.
Bang… bang… bang!
As the drums rolled, a voice was transmitted into the scholars' minds: "World poetry competition, first question — Spring, the time limit is five minutes."
After saying that, the voice vanished.
"The first question is spring?"
Many scholars frowned while many scholars showed happy expressions.
Li Xiao Bai thought to himself: "There are simply too many spring poems in existence, this question seems really easy. After all, most scholars would have some sort of verses related to this theme. Even though the world poetry competition requires the creation of poems on the spot, a person can easily modify existing verses to create their own new poems."
"But in reality, this question is quite the tough one." Li Xiao Bai had an expression of deep thought.
He knew that his poem was going to compete against the surrounding people. As long as he was stronger than half of them, he would progress to the next stage.
Many scholars noticed this as well.
Many people started to think, some sat down on the ground while others paced around with their arms behind their backs, some lowered their heads, muttering softly to themselves.
Li Xiao Bai's thought was: "Which poem do I use, or steal?"
There were many spring related poems in his memory, they were all amazing classics.
But using a legendary classic from the start was not good, this would not allow Li Xiao Bai to explain himself in the future. He did not have top tier talent qi, if he took out a shocking poem now, he would attract suspicion.
If his luck was good now, Li Xiao Bai might take slight risks. But now that he was having bad luck, Li Xiao Bai decided to play safe.
While Li Xiao Bai was thinking about it, many scholars already started to make their poems.
Thus, all kinds of lights shining in all colors, weak or strong, appeared. Whenever the light fades from a scholar's body, they would have some gains.
Some gained Gu worms, some gained a rise in cultivation level, some recovered primeval essence, while others recovered from fatigue.
This was the killer move known as assisting literary talents.
Profound Literature grotto-heaven's creator, its original owner, had used this move before his death. Because of assisting literary talents, more and more scholars were encouraged to study, it eventually created the environment of Profound Literature grotto-heaven where most people were scholars.
Li Xiao Bai decided on his poem.
He coughed lightly before starting his recital.
"A moonlit night[1]."
"Deep into the night the moon shines on half a cottage, across the sky the Big Dipper lies, the Little Dipper tilts an incline."
"The warmth of spring is readily felt tonight, through the green window screen, insects buzz and hum."
After Li Xiao Bai finished his recital, a light buzzing noise could be heard around him, his entire body shined in an intense green light.
Whoosh.
The scholars around Li Xiao Bai felt an invisible pressure as the green light forced them to move aside, a huge empty space was created with Li Xiao Bai at the center.
"Such, such a strong light!"
"A famed poem has appeared!"
"To think that a famed poem would appear so quickly. I wonder who created it?"
Many scholars lost their train of thought, they all looked towards Li Xiao Bai with admiration and suspicion.
Li Xiao Bai had a calm expression but he was a little conflicted inside: "Sigh, I went overboard a little, the effect was so eye-catching, I gained too much attention."
He looked around, hoping someone would step up and take the attention away from him.
As the green light entered his aperture, his cultivation level rose.
"Oh! A famed poem has appeared, let me go read it." At the teahouse, Hua Song had a sensation.
After reading Li Xiao Bai's work, Hua Song nodded in satisfaction: "Brilliant, brilliant! This Li Xiao Bai is very young but his poems are very mature."
"Normally, spring poems would use verses involving greenery or peach blossoms. But this poem uses another train of thought, using the night scene to conceal the spring light, it is quite interesting."
"The final verse must be created using Li Xiao Bai's personal experiences. It has a refreshing, happy, and lively feeling."
"Poems take after the creator, this Li Xiao Bai has a superb mindset!"
Hua Song praised it for a while, as if he had just eaten a delicacy of the world. He looked at An Chong as he smiled: "I wonder what envoy thinks of this poem?"
An Chong felt a headache as he thought: "If you didn't tell me, I wouldn't know what's so good about this poem. Sigh, he wants me to critique it, what should I say?"
[1] Poem by Liu Fangping.
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Chapter 1977 Li Xiao Bai“s Inner Conflic
Li Xiao Bai's expectations were not disappointed.
After his recital, three more people stepped up.
One was a strong man wearing a golden mask, he was shining in a glaring golden light.
There was an old man wearing a cone hat, he was holding a cane as a green light moved around him.
There was also a woman, she had a slim body and wore a pink dress, her face was covered by a veil, after her recital, butterflies flew around her, it was a beautiful sight.
These three had created famed poems on the same level as Li Xiao Bai's moonlit night.
Li Xiao Bai let out a sigh of relief: "This world has Gu worms to assist with poem creation. Gu Masters are also able to extend their lifespan and gain more experience in life. Thus, famed poems are more likely to appear than on Earth."
On Earth, moonlit night was a rare creation. But in Profound Literature grotto-heaven, it would not be unmatched.
Including Li Xiao Bai, the four of them had their own territory as they looked at each other.
The strong man, old man, and woman placed their gazes on Li Xiao Bai.
They knew each other, they had some sort of understanding towards their works, but Li Xiao Bai was a newcomer.
"Who is this young man?"
"His talent qi is not dense, how can he create such a famed poem?"
"Hehe, interesting guy."
Li Xiao Bai's teacher, Teacher Jiang, also saw his student's performance. He nodded in satisfaction: "Very good, Li Xiao Bai, it seems you are performing well today. Continue working hard."
In the end, no accidents happened, Li Xiao Bai moved to the next round and was teleported away.
After he regained his senses, he arrived in another arena.
"This is the fifth round, scholars, please wait patiently." Li Xiao Bai heard a voice in his mind.
Li Xiao Bai understood at once: "So the advancement has differences as well. The poem I made is enough to pass three rounds and directly reach the fifth round."
"This is quite a logical rule."
"But this means that the Gu Masters who reached this round are all people who created famed poems. Only half of these people can pass, the pressure has intensified now."
Li Xiao Bai looked around, he found two familiar faces.
It was the strong man and the woman from earlier.
After noticing Li Xiao Bai's gaze, the woman nodded at him, she seemed to be smiling under the veil. Meanwhile, the strong man had an air of arrogance, after giving Li Xiao Bai a glance, he started to shut his eyes and meditate.
In the fifth round, there was only the three of them now.
"I wonder which round that old man went to."
"I should pretend to rest now."
When scholars made poems, they had to think with all their effort, but he only had to select a suitable poem for his use. This was too easy, he had to conceal the fact.
After waiting for several minutes in the fifth round arena, the second competition began.
He had more than twenty competitors, Li Xiao Bai felt a certain level of pressure in his heart.
The theme of the second competition was out — Travel, the time limit was the same as before.
"Travel? This question is the same as spring, it is so broad and easy to write, but creating a famed poem will be very hard!" The strong man sighed to himself.
The woman was thinking: "I am not well versed in this, what should I do?"
Li Xiao Bai was also contemplating: "Which poem do I copy?"
After thinking for a while, he felt that he could not use a classic poem, the effect would be too overwhelming, but he could not use a bad poem. Otherwise, he would fail to advance and be kicked back to the previous round.
Li Xiao Bai was a little troubled, it was not easy to gauge this situation.
He knew his own ability, but he did not know about others, he did not know what sort of poem to use to win but not gain too much attention.
"In the first round, I went overboard. I should not try for first place now." Li Xiao Bai told himself.
He waited patiently.
After a few minutes, some scholars already created their poems. After that, a few more started to recite their poems, colorful lights appeared.
Li Xiao Bai sighed to himself, thinking: "It seems that famed poems are not easy to create, these people did well in the first round but currently, they are only performing at an average level."
Li Xiao Bai soon had an idea of the situation but he did not start working, he was still waiting.
As the time limit was about to be up, he finally saw some famed poems.
One from the strong man.
He recited a poem with great battle intent, resembling the march of horses and spears, his entire body was flickering with golden light, one could hear the clash of spears and blades.
The second famed poem came from the woman.
She created a gentle poem, describing a young lady looking outside her room's window, listening to the stories of travelers outside, imagining her own travel journey, it was quite impressive.
"Alright, it is my turn now." Li Xiao Bai coughed as he recited:
Date flowers fall on the villagers' clothes,
The sound of reeling carts heard from every household,
Old men dressed in simple clothes sell cucumbers under the willow tree.
Feeling drunk and drowsy from the long journey,
The bright sun makes my throat dry, I thirst for a refreshing drink,
I knock on the door of a mortal house, hoping to request for some tea.
He had copied Su Shi's Silk-washing Stream.
After the recital, be it the strong man or the woman, they were evidently moved as they analyzed the poem.
"Good poem! This poem starts with description of the scenery and actions at the back, with the fusion of both, one can feel interested in the event."
"Even though he is writing about a scenery, he uses his voice to create an image, compared to normal descriptions, this is very vivid. The emotional part is also very interesting. This kid might be a Gu Master but he is very polite and courteous, he does not barge into a mortal's house, he is truly a gentleman and has incomparable elegance."
"Reading his poem shows his nature. This young scholar is really promising!"
The surrounding scholars looked at Li Xiao Bai with a different gaze now.
Li Xiao Bai let out a breath of air, pretending that he was extremely exhausted.
"After this round, I should be able to advance. Not just that, my performance was really good, I did not gain too much attention but I also did not show inability."
Li Xiao Bai was quite satisfied with himself, after waiting for a while, the time limit was up.
He became stunned.
Most scholars failed to create a poem.
"This is the world poetry competition, I need to display my best abilities. If I use any inferior work, it will be too shameful."
"I did my best but could not create a satisfactory poem, even if I fail, I will not regret it!"
"This trip was worth my time, I got to hear three famed poems."
"Haha, in the worst case scenario, I might fall to the first round, so what? Goodbye!"
Those scholars that did not create a poem left in a carefree manner, while those scholars who made inferior poems showed shameful expressions.
Li Xiao Bai was calm on the outside but internally flummoxed: "How can you guys act so graciously?"
Even though he advanced, he had gained too much attention again. Earlier, he was quite satisfied with the situation, but to think these scholars would be so useless.
"Hmph, I had overestimated them." Li Xiao Bai thought.
There was nothing to say, he successfully advanced to the ninth round.
After patiently waiting for a while, the people gathered. This time, there was less than ten of them.
Many of them were famous scholars, they knew each other and greeted politely, they were calm and elegant on the outside, but were all feeling nervous internally.
At this point, the pressure of these competitors intensified again.
"I need to be stable, I cannot create a commotion again!" Li Xiao Bai clenched his fists, he kept reminding himself.
But this time, his opponents all performed well, more than half of the Gu Masters created famed poems.
Li Xiao Bai was the last one left.
Li Xiao Bai had a nervous expression but he was calm internally, he recited the poem that he had already prepared in advance.
With some flickering light, his cultivation level rose to rank four, he gained a new Gu worm.
This time, he planned meticulously, the poem he created was just borderline in the middle, he managed to advance successfully but he was at the bottom of the batch.
Right when Li Xiao Bai was feeling happy.
Cough!
Someone coughed out a mouthful of blood.
Ugh.
Someone fainted on the ground.
The strong man shook as he sat down with difficulty. The woman coughed for a long time with a pale expression.
Only Li Xiao Bai was left standing on the spot, unaffected.
At once, everyone's gazes were on him again.
"This young man is very strong! Currently speaking, he has already created three famed poems."
"He did not get injured at all, it seems that he had not gone all out when he made his poem earlier."
"Impressive! After this competition, I need to befriend him!"
Li Xiao Bai: "…"
He was speechless.
Oh heavens, why did everyone overexert themselves?!
Wasn't it just a poem competition, why were they risking their lives?
He wanted to pretend to cough blood too but it was too late now, he could not disguise himself anymore.
Li Xiao Bai had to continue moving to the next round with a plain expression.
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Chapter 1978 Human Path, Changing Luck
Sovereign immortal aperture, Mini Central Continent.
Fang Yuan stood under the thousand wish tree, looking up only to see a blazing light in the sky, there were specks and lumps, fading and flickering, it was truly a dazzling sight.
Looking at the ground, sand and dust rumbled as wind was blowing wildly.
Fang Yuan's eyes flickered with cold light.
His heaven path dao marks were increasing in number!
He had originally gained three thousand or so dao marks from the Gu refinement, but now, he was approaching three thousand five hundred dao marks.
With the increase in heaven path dao marks, the number of other dao marks in Fang Yuan's immortal aperture was reducing in number.
This scene reminded Fang Yuan of his time in Crazed Demon Cave.
At the second lowest floor of Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan saw the development of worlds. Countless worlds were destroyed as heaven path dao marks formed. The heaven path dao marks interlinked with each other or spread out themselves, forming new worlds.
At this moment, even though the sovereign immortal aperture was not destroyed and turned into heaven path dao marks, they were still modifying the various dao marks within this immortal aperture.
Of course, the heaven path dao marks were not just increasing. Sometimes, they fell in numbers, one heaven path dao mark turned into many dao marks of other paths, spreading throughout the world.
Using the transformation of these dao marks, in accordance with the Heavenly Dao, the environment of the entire sovereign immortal aperture was modified.
Like the scene that Fang Yuan was observing now, light was appearing in the sky, it meant that light path dao marks were increasing in numbers. There was also wind and rumbling sand on the ground, it meant that wind path and earth path dao marks were also increasing in numbers.
"If this goes on for a long time, the surroundings of the thousand wish tree would turn into a barren desert." The trend was too obvious, Fang Yuan smiled coldly to himself.
He had originally thought that the thousand wish tree was meant to be planted in a desert, but now, even though he was not wrong, his understanding was distorted.
The thousand wish tree was a human path ancient desolate plant, it used human will to create fruits. It was most suited to be grown in a bustling environment like a large city or market filled with people, the more human will the better.
However, the Heavenly Dao did not want the thousand wish tree to grow properly, it changed the heaven path dao marks to create a blazing sun and a vast area of sand, to isolate it from the living people.
In order to survive, the thousand wish tree had to change its own traits to adapt to this difficult environment and live.
But now that it was placed in Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture, the immortal formation created its own desert environment for it to slowly adapt and change, it would not be destroyed because of an unsuitable environment.
But outside the immortal formation was a fertile land with lush greenery and warm sunlight.
The immortal formation was not isolated, the thousand wish tree's human path aura could be sensed by the Heavenly Dao. But these heaven path dao marks were not under Fang Yuan's control, they could not change according to the environment within the immortal formation, they modified the environment outside the formation to stop the thousand wish tree's growth.
Thus, Fang Yuan learned about some things.
"The thousand wish tree will finish growing in three hundred years, flower at its six hundredth year and bear fruit at the nine hundredth year. It will create exactly a thousand fruits at that time."
"This is something that everyone knows as a fact, but now it seems, this is not true."
"The thousand wish tree is restricted by the Heavenly Dao, its actual potential is much larger!"
"From now on, I will water it with human will, I will gradually change its habitat, its production will definitely rise greatly!"
This was a future plan, Fang Yuan came to the thousand wish tree today for another matter.
At his will, Cooking Luck Pot revealed itself above him.
Rank seven Cooking Luck Pot was large as a basin, it was shining in golden and white light, sacred and royal.
The pot had thick sides, about the thickness of a thumb, there were eight dragons at the base of the pot, coiling around each other and extending their claws to become the legs of this pot. At the top of the pot, one could see Fang Yuan's exposed luck, it looked grey and damaged.
Even though Cooking Luck Pot was only rank seven, unable to contain all of Fang Yuan's luck in this one pot, it was still possible to observe something from it.
Fang Yuan's colossal luck was almost fully consumed in the fate war, after the fight, his luck became very low. This was his third hidden threat, aside from the qi tide and heaven path dao marks.
Fate was constant while luck was variable.
When one's luck was poor, it meant that unfavorable developments might happen.
But now, Fang Yuan's main body had immense battle strength that was pseudo venerable level, no matter how bad his luck was, he had the power to resist problems.
This was not a big issue for the main body, but he was worried about the luck of his clones.
Outside of Cooking Luck Pot were the luck of his respective clones.
The time path clone's luck still resembled the River of Time, but the water was no longer flowing smoothly, it was chaotic and the front of the river was cut off, it looked quite worrying.
Zhan Bu Du's luck was originally a mature eagle spreading its wings and flying, but now the eagle had fallen into water, it was covered by flowing water that made things difficult for him.
Li Xiao Bai's luck was like a bright blooming flower. The flower was bright red and burning intensely in a red color. Within the flame, the petals bloomed, it might look like good luck but the hidden threat was huge. He was basically playing with fire, he would die if he could not control the flames.
Wu Shuai's luck was like a coiling dragon, three of its dragon claws were holding onto a dragon pearl each. One had the silhouette of Dragon Palace, one had countless ants in it, while the third pearl had the image of Di Zang Sheng. Wu Shuai had the strongest luck among them, but he was surrounded by blade and sword qi, approaching from all directions.
Fang Yuan's main body had poor luck, his clones were in even worse states.
Fang Yuan had sensed his clones' problem long ago, it was not that he did not try to resolve it but his methods failed.
The heaven path dao marks restricted him, whenever he tried to use a killer move, they would interfere and cause his killer move activation to fail. Even if he succeeded, the power of the move would be greatly lowered.
"But this time, it should be different." Bright light flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes.
Fang Yuan multitasked, manipulating the formation around the thousand wish tree while also activating Cooking Luck Pot.
The thousand wish tree's branches continued to shake, bright rainbow light shot out of the formation, entering Cooking Luck Pot.
Cooking Luck Pot started to modify the luck of his clones.
The surrounding world started to rage with intense winds and fierce lightning. Heaven path dao marks appeared one by one, some were all over the place while others appeared on Fang Yuan's body.
The way of heaven was to take away surpluses while replenishing deficits.
The way of humans was to take away deficits while magnifying surpluses!
With the help of the human path immortal formation, Fang Yuan forcefully made modifications of certain degrees to the luck of his clones.
The time path clone's river luck stabilized and became smoother.
Zhan Bu Du's eagle luck started to shed its feathers in the water, it seemed like it was turning into a fish, adapting to the environment.
Li Xiao Bai's flower luck started to crystallize under the intense flames, it no longer had a threat of turning to ashes.
Meanwhile, Wu Shuai's dragon luck still remained in a coiling state, there was no change to the luck. The surrounding blade and sword qi, however, became much weaker, turning from dense smoke to light smoke. This meant that there would still be a fight but the scale of the battle would be much smaller than before.
"The problem of the clones is settled. The truly troublesome thing is the heaven path dao marks." Fang Yuan could increasingly understand the deeper intentions of Red Lotus as time passed.
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Chapter 1979 Merman Court“s Vicious Gues
Eastern Sea, Merman Imperial Court.
The sound of instruments was complemented with delicious wine and food.
At the grand banquet, the three female immortals leading the Merman Imperial Court sat on the main seats as they entertained an unexpected guest.
"Good wine, good music, and even better dance!" The guest drank his wine in one gulp as he slammed the cup on the table, laughing loudly.
He had a square face, he was muscular and strong, his skin was snow white, his eyes and hair were icy blue in color.
Rank eight aura permeated from his body.
He was a snowman Gu Immortal from black heaven's Ice Crystal grotto-heaven, it was the current generation Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
Ever since the last meeting of the black heaven forces, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord secretly contacted Central Continent's Heavenly Court, while Lady Cold Ash contacted the human experts like Granny Skeleton. Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch did not stay motionless, his target was not white heaven or black heaven, but the five regions instead. Thus, he went to Eastern Sea and approached the merman force.
Eastern Sea's merman force had three leaders, they were all mermaid immortals, they were called Lian Ke Xin, Yu Zi, and Xie Ning Si.
Even though this was the first time the three female immortals were seeing Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, seeing that he was a variant human rank eight Gu Immortal, they held this banquet to welcome him.
Upon hearing Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's praise, Lian Ke Xin smiled and replied: "Thank you for the praise. These dancing Gu Masters all are the hope of our merman tribe, our Gu Immortal seeds. It is their honor to be praised by you, Immortal Monarch."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch laughed again: "Pardon my insolence, but if these merfolk are the hope of your tribe, I'm afraid you are going to be wiped from existence soon."
These words made many of the merfolk's expressions change.
The dancing merfolk even became disorganized for a moment.
Lian Ke Xin remained smiling: "We already understand your intention in coming here. We are not going to be provoked by your words. For countless years, mermen have lived in Eastern Sea peacefully and harmoniously, we have been neutral all along, we will not participate in any conflict outside."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch shook his head: "Preposterous! Who does not want to live in peace? But in history, such peace can only be gained through conflict and war. The merman race received the help of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable back then, that is why you could live like this until now. In the entire five regions, only you are still a super force among the variant humans."
"But we have all seen the fate war already. Fate has been destroyed, the five regions have merged, the world is changing right in front of our very eyes. With disasters and calamities, conflict will ensue and last for a long time."
"Your Merman Imperial Court wants to stay out of this? Hehehe, how long has it been since Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable died? How much influence does he still have to protect you?"
Lian Ke Xin had a grim expression, she could not rebuke him.
Yu Zi snorted coldly beside her: "We have more than ten Gu Immortals and Immortal Gu House Floating Reputation Boat, how is it completely Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's credit that we are able to develop to today's scale?"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch nodded: "I have heard of your Floating Reputation Boat long ago, but so what? It is just a rank seven Immortal Gu House. You have many Gu Immortals, but do you have a single rank eight Gu Immortal? Not a single one! Hehehe, forget about everything else, if I want to attack you now, can anyone stop me?"
The three mermaids had cold expressions, Xie Ning Si said: "Immortal Monarch, if you want to fight, you can attack now, we will show you the power of our merman race!"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch quickly waved his hand: "Don't misunderstand, I am not trying to become enemies with you. We are all variant humans, in the current world where humans dominate, I want us to cooperate. Variant humans are friends, not enemies. I am here to seek an alliance, how can I possibly fight you?"
"I understand why you do not want to cooperate. But think about this, as long as I spread the word that the three of you have invited me here and show signs of wanting to join up with black heaven's variant human forces to resist the humans, what will happen? Hehe."
The three mermaids looked at each other, they all had grim expressions.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch spoke gently but he had a tough tone, it was a forceful cooperation. If they rejected him, he would spread rumors and lie that the merfolk want to join him.
At this time, the fate war was known to everyone.
The things that Duke Long said to Fang Yuan exposed to the world that variant humans were going to rise up!
Once this news was spread out regarding the Merman Imperial Court and the variant humans, it would raise the paranoia of the humans, they would become a public enemy.
By then, with the usual behavior of humans, they would form into an allied army and eliminate the Merman Imperial Court first!
The human forces had been wanting to take down the Merman Imperial Court long ago, they were only restricted by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's influence. If the mermen wanted to harm the humans, regardless of whether anyone believed this lie, they would use it to deal with the Merman Imperial Court.
The Merman Imperial Court would be forced to resist, they would only be able to survive if they worked with Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch or other equally powerful alliances.
Thus, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's objective had already been fulfilled.
The three mermaids were troubled, they knew about the trend of the world, they were actively choosing Gu Immortal seeds and nurturing them.
They were mermen, they were variant humans, this status placed them in an awkward spot all along throughout the eras. During the five regions chaotic war, they would be in an even worse position when everyone was paranoid.
Thus, the merman tribe felt a strong sense of danger.
The three mermaids did not have much ambition, they only wanted to preserve their members during this new era. Thus, they did not want to antagonize Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, but they did not want to side with this ambitious leader and wage war on the humans either.
Seeing that the mermaids were silent, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch smiled again: "How about this, we are all variant humans, I do not want to force you. Let's make a bet."
The three mermaids looked at each other, Yu Zi asked: "What bet?"
"We will have a three round competition, no matter what methods your tribe uses, as long as you can defeat me in one round, I will forget about the suggestion to make an alliance, I will leave without exposing anything about your tribe or spreading any rumors. But if I win all three rounds, it will mean that your merman tribe is just too weak, unable to even defeat a rank eight Gu Immortal like me, you will be in great danger anyway, you should work with me to ensure that your tribe survives the tides of time." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch said slowly.
The three mermaids had no choice, they nodded and agreed to this bet.
In the first round, the three mermaids went all out, gathering the Gu Immortals of the tribe and creating the battle formation, merman wave sacred spiritual formation.
"Good formation, it can actually trap enemies." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch took a look and praised it.
"Immortal Monarch, do you dare to enter?"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch laughed loudly, he went into the formation and attacked several times, the tides turned into ice and shattered, allowing him to escape easily.
The merman Gu Immortals suffered backlash, they were either lightly or heavily injured, they all had grim expressions.
"It is a pity you do not have any rank eight expert controlling the formation." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch critiqued.
During the second round, the Merman Imperial Court used their Immortal Gu House Floating Reputation Boat.
After a hundred rounds of fighting, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch claimed victory again.
The three female mermen went into anxious discussions.
"Only the third round is left, what do we do?"
"If we lose again, we will need to cooperate with Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, what do we do?"
"Why don't we use that?" Xie Ning Si suggested.
Lian Ke Xin and Yu Zi were stunned, they shook their heads: "No, we cannot use that, the influence is too large. Even without Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's rumor, we will become the target of everyone, our tribe will be exterminated!"
"If we do not use that, what will we do? Do we request help from Eastern Sea's human forces?"
"No, we are all affected by the qi tides now, why would those humans come here to help us? Even if they come, the price will be too large."
"Oh? I thought of someone. Why don't we ask Gu tribe's leader for help?" Xie Ning Si asked.
Lian Ke Xin sighed, denying this possibility: "He is Gu tribe's leader, even though he has rank eight cultivation level, he is a beastman that is in seclusion. We have a good relationship with him but if we ask him for help, that will be making things difficult for him. Furthermore, he might not defeat this Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch."
Yu Zi's eyes suddenly brightened: "I thought of someone, this person might be able to help us, he might even win against Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch."
"Who?"
"Indeed, at this point in time, who can help us?"
Yu Zi blinked as she said: "Did you forget, there is currently a great expert at Gu tribe's headquarters."
"Oh, him." Lian Ke Xin suddenly realized.
"Brilliant, I will contact Gu tribe's leader now, we will ask Lord Wu Shuai for help!" Xie Ning Si said that as she rapidly got to action.
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Chapter 1980 Admitting Defea
Eastern Sea, Gu tribe's blessed land.
A grand palace was stationed here.
The whole palace shined with slight orange-gold light and was richly decorated, the pavilions and terraces were all grand and beautiful. It was the rank eight Immortal Gu House — Dragon Palace.
Within Dragon Palace, dream realms were spread out. In other Immortal Gu Houses, nobody would dare to do this. But although Dragon Palace was an enslavement path Immortal Gu House, it had dream path Immortal Gu and was not at risk of the dream realm corroding it.
In front of the dream realm, Fang Yuan's clone, Wu Shuai, had his eyes shut.
His body was here, but his soul was inside the dream realm, continuously exploring it.
Within the dream realm, Wu Shuai was the disciple of a medical clinic, he was trying to learn their skill.
A young man with broad shoulders and a thin waist stepped into the clinic with a valiant aura.
The young man had quite the status, the old doctor who owned the clinic had to attend to him personally.
"Doctor, ever since I won the fight last time, I have been feeling that my body has some lingering issues." The young man said.
The old doctor chuckled: "Come, I will check your pulse."
"Check my pulse?" The young man frowned, having a perplexed expression.
The old doctor said slowly: "This is a unique investigative method from my hometown, it can inspect illnesses. As a person's heart continues to beat, their blood will flow through their veins and create pulses. Through my specially created healing Gu worm, I can inspect your pulse and find out the cause of your illness."
The young man had a surge of admiration: "Worthy of an experienced doctor. I've heard that heaven has heaven veins, earth has earth veins, and humans have human veins. Does this method to inspect the pulse make use of a human vein to target the cause of the problem?"
"Hahaha, that is precisely so, extend your hand." The old doctor smiled.
The young man extended his hand, the old doctor placed his finger on his wrist, closing his eyes to inspect it.
A moment later, the old doctor opened his eyes: "This is indeed an illness but it is not obvious on the outside, this is quite vicious. You were hit by a phantom path method."
The young man nodded: "Senior is completely right, my opponent was a Gu Master specializing in phantom path. I was hit by his attack and although I did not suffer injuries, it still felt weird. Usually at night, I could undergo activities with more than ten of my concubines, but now, I get extremely tired after engaging with one. Also, my waist often aches and my body feels hot, I perspire a lot when I sleep, I even feel dizziness at times."
The old doctor nodded: "This phantom path method is quite wicked, it targets your kidney. In other words, you have kidney deficiency[1]."
"Phantom path is troublesome indeed, what should I do now?" The young man asked.
The old doctor replied: "I will prescribe you some medicine, take it for a month, during this month, you should not engage in bedroom activities."
The young man had a difficult expression: "Senior, can you use Gu worms to heal me directly? If I have to hold it for a month, I'll go crazy."
The old doctor shook his head: "Phantom path methods alternate between reality and illusion, we need ample time to deal with it. Even though my medicine is not a healing Gu worm, it is not far from an actual Gu recipe, it can definitely treat your problem. Other than this method, it will be hard to cure you. Unless you can find a doctor who has greater skill than me, he might be able to resolve your issue."
The young man sighed: "Senior is the greatest healer I know, I will follow your prescription."
The dream faded away, the exploration was successful.
"Human vein…" Wu Shuai's soul returned to his body, he was still savoring the true meaning in this dream.
This dream realm gave him the true meaning of two paths, phantom path and human path.
Fang Yuan's human path attainment level was at grandmaster but phantom path was only at ordinary. His main body still had the corpses of many Heavenly Court Gu Immortals, they had phantom apertures. But earlier, his phantom path attainment level was too low, even with wisdom Gu, he could not deduce the profundity of phantom path.
After the fate war, all of the dream realms were given to Wu Shuai to explore.
These dreams were all obtained from Yi Tian Mountain by Fang Yuan, even though a portion were used in the fate war, a large amount was still left.
After Wu Shuai left Heavenly Court, he returned to Eastern Sea and stayed in Gu tribe's blessed land. Other than opening his immortal aperture's entrance to draw in heaven and earth qi, he kept in closed cultivation, exploring dream realms to gain more true meaning, to raise the attainment levels of his main body's many paths.
"Currently, my main body needs human path attainment level. After this exploration, even though we did not gain much human path attainment level and are still at grandmaster, it should be of some help to my main body."
Wu Shuai started to rest, preparing for his next dream realm exploration.
"Hmm?" He saw that there was an information path mortal Gu from Gu tribe's leader in the hall.
"Gu tribe's leader would not bother me with trivial matters, something important must have happened." Wu Shuai retrieved the information path mortal Gu and checked it.
"Oh, a rank eight snowman Gu Immortal called Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch is finding problems with the Merman Imperial Court?"
In the letter, the three mermaids promised that as long as Wu Shuai taught this evil visitor a lesson and forced him away, they would thank him with rewards. Gu tribe's leader also used a polite tone to subtly request for Wu Shuai's help.
"Of course I will help." Wu Shuai smiled lightly.
He had a portion of Fang Yuan's five hundred years of memories.
Wu Shuai learned that in the previous life, when the regional walls vanished and the five regions united, there were qi tides too.
The five regions' Gu Immortals were forced to recuperate, during this period, the forces in the two heavens came out and acted arrogantly for some time.
"To think that I would have a chance to interact with these grotto-heaven forces. This is a great opportunity! For my main body's plans, I should do my best."
Bam.
The door of Dragon Palace opened, Wu Shuai came out of his closed cultivation.
At the banquet, the fragrance of wine spread but the atmosphere was very grim.
The three mermaids had cold expressions while Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch smiled at them.
The song and dance had ended, the hall was silent.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch drank a mouthful of wine as he asked: "I wonder if you have already decided on who to send for the final round?"
The three mermaids' expressions turned darker but at this time, they received a letter, their faces glowed with joy.
Xie Ning Si said: "Since Immortal Monarch is eager, let's start the third fight."
"Good." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch placed down his wine cup: "How will we do this final fight, do tell me."
"We have invited someone to go against Immortal Monarch." Lian Ke Xin said.
"This lord has arrived already, prepare yourself, Immortal Monarch!" Yu Zi smiled coldly.
After a few breaths of time, following the mermaid immortals, Wu Shuai stepped into the hall.
"Who wants to fight me?" Wu Shuai asked, his voice reverberating in the hall.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch saw Wu Shuai and his expression changed, his casual and carefree attitude was no more, he said in shock: "You?"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had gained a lot of information about the fate war, Wu Shuai was one of the stars that shined, everyone in the world knew about him now.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch understood at once why the three mermaids had such confidence.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's heart sank, he knew about Wu Shuai's strength, there was little hope in beating him.
But in this situation, he had no choice but to ask: "Greetings, Wu Shuai, to think that you are in the Merman Imperial Court. I wonder where Fang Yuan is?"
Fang Yuan snorted coldly: "I gained Fang Yuan's help to revive, we were merely working together to resist Heavenly Court earlier. You are my opponent? Go ahead and attack."
Wu Shuai had a lofty expression, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was angry, his expression turned cold: "Wu Shuai, you have rank seven cultivation level, but your tone is very arrogant."
Wu Shuai smiled: "Whose tone is more arrogant? In terms of seniority, I am someone from Red Lotus Demon Venerable's era! When I died of old age, your grandfather was not even born yet."
"You…" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch stared with wide eyes.
"What? You came to look for problems with the mermen, let's not waste time." Wu Shuai stared: "Not attacking? Then I will make my move!"
Saying so, he waved his hand, an Immortal Gu House flew out.
"Dragon Palace!" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's pupils shrunk, he watched as the Immortal Gu House came crashing towards him.
He was not a transformation path great expert, he could not resist this famous Immortal Gu House head-on, he quickly dodged.
The three mermaids did not expect Wu Shuai to act so quickly, he attacked with no warning.
Xie Ning Si quickly urged: "Senior Wu Shuai, this is the merman hall, if you are going to fight, it would be better to do it outside…"
Boom!
Dragon Palace expanded again, the entire merman hall was blown apart.
As dust clouds rumbled, the mermaids and Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch flew out pitifully.
Dragon Palace rose to the sky as Wu Shuai stood at the door, looking down at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch: "Don't run, little fellow."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's heart was pounding from the sudden assault, his throat felt dry: "Wu Shuai, you are a senior! Don't rely on the power of the Immortal Gu House if you have guts."
"Oh, is that so?" Wu Shuai snickered.
The three mermaids felt something amiss, Yu Zi quickly shouted: "Senior Wu Shuai! These are the headquarters of merfolk, if you are going to fight, please do it outside…"
Before she ended her sentence, with a loud sound, Di Zang Sheng was released from Dragon Palace by Wu Shuai.
Roar——!
The Evil Dragon roared, creating colossal waves. Its body was like a huge mountain, squeezed within the blessed land. Its dragon tail waved as several mountains and valleys were flattened.
Countless merfolk scrambled and ran away, screaming in chaos.
The three mermaids were stunned, they did not know what to do.
"Come, fight." Wu Shuai crossed his arms as he said to Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch with a plain tone.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch looked at the grand palace and the huge vicious Evil Dragon, he felt that he was very insignificant.
Even as a snowman who was extremely resistant to cold, at this moment, he felt a deep chill flowing down his spine.
After being quiet for some time, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch cupped his fists and said: "Senior, you are very powerful, junior admits defeat. Senior has won this battle."
The three mermaids were silent.
Wu Shuai only had rank seven cultivation level now, but nobody felt strange that Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was admitting defeat to him.
Even without Dragon Palace, just the Evil Dragon alone could slaughter Heavenly Court's two transformation path experts and survive the attack of countless Gu Immortals.
During the fate war, Di Zang Sheng had only lost to Feng Jiu Ge and Duke Long!
"Hmph, little fellow, you are quite smart." Wu Shuai chuckled as he stored away Di Zang Sheng and Dragon Palace.
"Next, let's talk about the alliance." Wu Shuai descended and said this.
"Senior Wu Shuai!" The three mermaids were shocked.
"What? You still think you can isolate yourselves from everything?" Wu Shuai's eyebrows were raised, he spoke in displeasure.
The three immortals did not dare to rebuke him.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was overjoyed, to think that there would be a turn of events, he stammered: "Se… senior, you mean to say?"
Wu Shuai patted his shoulder: "Come, let's talk in the hall."
[1] The character for deficiency here is the same as phantom.
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Chapter 1981 I Will Be The Alliance Leader!
Because of Wu Shuai's interference, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had to admit defeat. He had originally thought that his plan to ally with the mermen had failed, but to think that Wu Shuai had the same intention as him.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and the Merman Imperial Court made a bet, the loser won while the winner lost.
After the battle, Wu Shuai used the Merman Imperial Court to hold a talk with Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, their discussion got more animated, the three mermaids' expressions turned grimmer.
Wu Shuai heard that Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had already gathered the grotto-heavens for a meeting, he immediately requested to join them and even urged Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch to gather the remaining forces for a second meeting.
In Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's plan, the second meeting was going to happen much later, but Wu Shuai was urging him, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch thought: "With Wu Shuai's reputation, I can use it to my advantage, it is possible to push the meeting forward without issues."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch knew that even if they gathered the grotto-heaven forces in black and white heaven, there would still be a huge internal threat. Among these forces, there was a small group of human forces.
He wanted variant humans to lead the alliance, thus, he had been looking for allies aggressively during this period. He had already contacted all of the variant human forces that he knew. Even the Merman Imperial Court in Eastern Sea was visited after all.
If he knew that Gu tribe was at the bottom of the sea, he would visit them too.
"But with this dragonman great expert Wu Shuai that everyone knows, even if the human faction gathers more people, they cannot match his influence, right?"
Wu Shuai attacked Heavenly Court as a dragonman and ended up as the victor, this result gave him huge prestige and reputation.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch thus held the second meeting in Ice Crystal grotto-heaven, the group was even bigger now.
"Golden Fur Immortal Monarch has arrived!"
"Blitz Cloud Heavenly Immortal has arrived!"
"Great Wisdom Immortal Mother has arrived!"
"Green Forest Great Sage has arrived!"
Many rank eight great experts of the variant humans came.
Golden Fur Immortal Monarch was a hairy man, he was covered in thick golden fur. Blitz Cloud Heavenly Immortal was a featherman, he had the appearance of a handsome young man. Great Wisdom Immortal Mother was an old female inkman. Green Forest Great Sage was a miniman, his entire body was covered in a green light.
This was the first time these four variant human Gu Immortals had attended the meeting.
As for the human rank eight Gu Immortals, other than Night Heavenly Wolf Lord and Lady Cold Ash, there were also newcomers, light path cultivator Crossing Heaven Immortal Monarch, wood path cultivator Black Locust and earth path female immortal Rainbow Rock Immortal Concubine.
There were only five human rank eights but almost ten variant human rank eights. Even though Lady Cold Ash tried to get more people to join, they were still unable to match the variant humans, in fact this gap was widening.
After a long discussion, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch announced: "We invited everyone here today, other than to discuss the matters of the world, there is also another important matter. Let me introduce you to a senior great expert!"
Everyone followed Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's hand gesture and looked towards the person.
Wu Shuai walked out from behind the veil, under everyone's supervision, he sat down on the main seat.
"This is?" The immortals were shocked.
"So it is Wu Shuai." A variant human rank eight who was close with Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch quickly said.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch showed a look of displeasure: "Call him Senior Wu Shuai!"
The variant human rank eight had an embarrassed expression, under Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's gaze, he changed his sentence: "Junior greets senior."
With this adjustment, all the other immortals had to call Wu Shuai senior.
"Good." Wu Shuai nodded in satisfaction: "Seniority is important, but I would rather everyone call me Alliance Leader instead!"
"Alliance Leader?" The immortals looked at each other.
Wu Shuai laughed: "Indeed, now that grotto-heavens are exposed, the five regions' Gu Immortals will attack us. They have not done anything now because of the qi tide, they cannot move around yet. We need to strengthen and help ourselves, we can only form an alliance to have any hopes of resisting the five regions!"
"Since ancient times, the most capable person will become the alliance leader. I have observed that nobody here can match me, if anyone does not agree, you can challenge me."
Before anyone could respond to Wu Shuai's words, they heard a dragon roar.
Di Zang Sheng's colossal body was exposed to everyone, blocking out the sun.
Next, an Immortal Gu House flew out of Wu Shuai's immortal aperture, it was small and delicate, it floated in his palm while shining with radiance.
It was a miniature Dragon Palace!
Wu Shuai looked at the Dragon Palace in his palm before turning to the immortals, threat was clearly shown in his eyes.
The immortals' expressions turned ugly, some went silent, they were furious but did not dare to say anything.
Even though Wu Shuai had rank seven cultivation level, everyone knew about the might of Dragon Palace and Evil Dragon. If everyone cooperated, they might have a chance against him. But the grotto-heavens were not close with each other, this was unlike the five regions where super forces interacted and conflicted with each other, they were familiar with one another. The black and white heavens were huge and dangerous, forces rarely met with each other, not to mention any cooperation.
"Hahaha!" Seeing no objection, Wu Shuai laughed loudly as he called out: "You are still not accepting your alliance leader?"
The immortals were silent, the atmosphere was heavy.
A moment later, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch stood up and cupped his fist at Wu Shuai: "Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch greets Alliance Leader!"
"Good, good." Wu Shuai pointed at him: "You will be the vice alliance leader."
Next, he looked at the other Gu Immortals with a vicious gaze.
The Evil Dragon shook its body outside, causing winds to form and clouds to scatter.
Seeing this, and with Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's initiative, all the immortals had to acknowledge Wu Shuai's status with a cold tone.
Wu Shuai sat at the main seat and looked at the Gu Immortals: "I know what you think, your acknowledge my alliance leader position because of the situation, but I am really not trying to force you."
"This is a very rare opportunity for us all, it is likely our only chance to resist the five regions. If we do not use this chance, when the five regions go after us and our grotto-heavens get encircled, regret will do us no good."
"However, at the rate your discussion is going, when can you take action? By the time you come to an agreement, the qi tides will be over already. Without a strong leader like myself to unify the grotto-heavens, how can we take action swiftly?"
Wu Shuai spoke with a harsh tone but he made good sense, the Gu Immortals' expressions became less hostile.
"Alright, enough of the useless talk, let's discuss our next target to attack." Wu Shuai continued.
This time, even Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch felt surprised: "Lord Alliance Leader, isn't it too early to attack now? Black and white heaven are too huge, there are still many grotto-heaven forces that we have not gathered yet."
"We can't wait anymore. As long as we succeed in our attack and create a commotion, these people will approach us themselves. This is how the hearts of the people work." Wu Shuai waved his hand and said.
The immortals fell into silence.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had to continue asking: "Then in Lord Alliance Leader's opinion, which place is most suitable for us to attack?"
"Heavenly Court of course!" Wu Shuai answered without hesitation.
"Heavenly Court?!" The Gu Immortals shouted in astonishment.
"Heavenly Court is weak now, we did not retreat of our own accord earlier. As long as we take down Heavenly Court, the five regions will be shaken, who would dare to target us?" Wu Shuai laughed loudly.
"This is not wise!"
"Heavenly Court has immense foundations, it is not a place we can target."
"Lord Alliance Leader, please reconsider."
The immortals shook their heads, nobody agreed.
"Hmph, cowards!" Wu Shuai smiled coldly in displeasure: "Then we will go after Divine Emperor City."
"This Immortal Gu House is known as the largest Immortal Gu House, it is made from combining Divine Bean Palace and Emperor City. It has a huge significance to Heavenly Court, it is the gathering spot of the human vein, it is the land-based Heavenly Court. If we can obtain it, it will be a huge blow to Central Continent, we can even gain a rank eight Immortal Gu House, and also Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's true inheritance."
Lady Cold Ash pondered: "Since Divine Emperor City is so important, if we attack it, we will infuriate Heavenly Court, the whole of Central Continent will resist and attack us. Since we are going after them as well, what difference is there compared to attacking Heavenly Court directly?"
"Of course there is a difference! If these people are all lured to Divine Emperor City, we can send another group to attack Heavenly Court." Wu Shuai raised his eyebrows.
The immortals heard this and broke out in cold sweat.
"He still wants to attack Heavenly Court after all."
"Doesn't this mean that the group attacking Divine Emperor City will end up as cannon fodder?"
"Senior Wu Shuai is too aggressive, he wants to go against Heavenly Court no matter what!"
Wu Shuai had a look of displeasure: "What? You do not dare to attack Divine Emperor City?"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had an ugly expression, he spoke like he had constipation: "Please reconsider, Lord Alliance Leader, we…"
Wu Shuai waved his hand, saying unhappily: "Enough, I don't want to hear more excuses. How about this, let's get rid of Eastern Sea's Xia clan first."
Wu Shuai finally exposed his true motive.
Southern Border had Xia clan, Eastern Sea also had Xia clan, these Xia clans were not the same but they were similarly super forces.
Wu Shuai had a huge appetite, his first target was a super force.
If he mentioned this earlier, he would face the objection of the immortals. But his first two targets were Heavenly Court and Divine Emperor City, the immortals found that compared to them, they could accept this target, Eastern Sea's Xia clan, more easily!
Wu Shuai continued to analyze: "Eastern Sea's Xia clan has the weakest foundation of all the super forces, they are at the bottom of Eastern Sea's righteous path forces. Not just that, Xia clan is at the eastern most part of Eastern Sea, the location is remote, it suits our needs as a base."
"And even better, the territories of Xia clan and the Merman Imperial Court border each other, the Merman Imperial Court is our ally now, they can provide us a lot of help."
Saying this, Wu Shuai did not give anyone the chance to speak: "I have decided! Our target will be Xia clan."
Faced with such a domineering alliance leader, the immortals were quite displeased. But under the pressure of the Evil Dragon and Dragon Palace, they had no choice.
And most importantly, they were forced by the situation, they knew that if they did not use this opportunity well, if they did not gain an advantage now, the five regions would not let them off in the future.
"Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, this alliance leader position should have been yours. Are you really going to let him have it?" After this meeting, some Gu Immortals were not satisfied, they hinted towards Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch smiled coldly to himself, he replied: "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down, the winds howl around the highest peaks. This Lord Wu Shuai is helping us charge forward as the vanguard, so what if I give him the alliance leader position? We have now gained the help of both the Evil Dragon and Dragon Palace."
"If our plan fails in the future and the five regions' Gu Immortals come after us, we can put the blame on Wu Shuai and get away ourselves."
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Chapter 1982 Xia Clan“s Catastrophe
Eastern Sea.
Reflecting shadow sea area.
The surface of the sea was like a smooth mirror without waves. Even when winds howled, the seawater remained unmoving.
Xia clan Gu Immortal Xia Zheng Qing was stationed here.
Reflecting shadow sea area was a giant resource point, it produced dark path and rule path cultivation resources in large quantities. Even though Xia clan primarily cultivated water path, these resources could be traded for huge profits.
Xia Zheng Qing was in closed cultivation now, suddenly, alarms rang in the formation around him.
"Is there an ancient desolate fish attacking the territory again?" Xia Zheng Qing initially thought that the sea beasts were causing chaos, he flew out of the formation.
But next, his entire body shook as he realized: "Enemies are attacking!"
Three rank seven Gu Immortals charged towards him together.
Xia Zheng Qing quickly activated the defensive formation.
At this time, there was a loud explosion as the formation shattered, a hairy man Gu Immortal carrying a huge hammer was covered in golden light as he charged into the formation, causing destruction!
Xia Zheng Qing spat out a mouthful of blood, looking fearful.
He immediately realized that the three immortals earlier were a distraction, this person was their main force.
"A rank eight hairy man Gu Immortal?" Xia Zheng Qing knew that he was not their match, he quickly transmitted to the clan as he activated the inner immortal formation, teleporting himself away.
At the next moment, he was transported to somewhere a thousand li away from the formation.
"Hahaha, he was transported here after all. Great Wisdom, very impressive." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch praised.
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother shook her head: "If not for Lord Alliance Leader's precise information, how could I have made such accurate deductions?"
Xia Zheng Qing took a look and felt despair!
There were two variant human Gu Immortals here, they both had rank eight cultivation level.
"Since when did rank eight Gu Immortals become so common?"
"Three variant human rank eights!"
Xia Zheng Qing could not believe it, he gritted his teeth: "Who are you people? Why are you going against our Eastern Sea's Xia clan?"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch could not be bothered to talk with him, he waved his hand, his killer move was unleashed.
Xia Zheng Qing only had rank seven cultivation level, how could he resist a rank eight killer move, he was instantly frozen in ice.
Eastern Sea Xia clan's headquarters, Hot Springs blessed land.
"Oh no! A strong group of enemies attacked, reflecting shadow sea is lost, even though Xia Zheng Qing used the immortal formation to escape, we have lost all contact with him!"
Xia Zheng Qing's call for help had reached Xia clan.
Most of Xia clan's Gu Immortals were gathered in the headquarters, they did not expect such bad news to appear out of nowhere.
"As the saying goes, while a person stays in their house, calamity descends from the sky!"
"Xia Zheng Qing sent information that there are both human and variant human Gu Immortals among the enemies, among them is a rank eight hairy man."
"Where did these people come from?"
"I'm afraid they are forces from black and white heaven. During the qi tide rampage, grotto-heavens are all exposed. To think there are still so many variant humans left, they even came to create trouble for us!"
"This is somewhat understandable. If they do not grasp onto this chance, when the qi tides subside, the five regions will investigate the grotto-heavens of black and white heaven. If we find any variant human force with rank eight Gu Immortals, we will exterminate them."
"Hehe, back then, even Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could not find all of the hidden variant human grotto-heavens. But now that the world has changed, these variant humans are forced to expose themselves."
Xia clan's Gu Immortals were not flustered, even though the information said that there was a rank eight variant human Gu Immortal, they still had an Immortal Gu Houses to resist the enemy.
But soon, more bad news came.
Light ripple sea and shooting fish sea were also taken down by these variant human Gu Immortals! The Xia clan Gu Immortals defending the two resource points were even weaker, they did not even manage to send any information over before losing contact.
Xia clan's Gu Immortals were furious.
"We need to teach these variant human Gu Immortals a lesson!"
"Mere variant humans dare to bully us human super forces."
"Hmph, Whom the heavens would destroy, they first make mad. These variant humans have gone insane."
"First supreme elder, let use mobilize both Immortal Gu Houses and kill them all!"
"Yes, our clan's three Gu Immortals have fallen into their hands. We need to save our clansmen and take revenge for this humiliation!!"
The Gu Immortals were filled with fighting spirit, they requested to fight.
Xia clan's first supreme elder was Xia Rui Zhi, hearing the Gu Immortals' words, his face was dark.
He shook his head: "It is not wise to attack now! We lost three resource points at once, these are all important places, we have powerful immortal formations protecting them. It is not normal that we lost them so quickly."
"Our clan does not have rank eight Gu Immortals defending us. If we mobilize both Immortal Gu Houses, our headquarters will be severely weakened. Right now, we are close to completing the Human Sea, we cannot be complacent!"
"In my opinion, we should defend ourselves fully until we complete Human Sea. By then, our foundation will rise greatly, we will be one of the top Eastern Sea forces. By then, dealing with the variant humans will have much greater effect."
Even though Xia Rui Zhi only had rank seven cultivation level, he had high reputation, after hearing his words, Xia clan's Gu Immortals felt that it was logical, they no longer had such a strong desire to fight.
But at the next moment, a thunderous sound erupted as an Immortal Gu House broke through the defensive barrier, entering Xia clan's public blessed land.
"Eastern Sea's Xia clan, today, you will face extermination!" The door of the Immortal Gu House opened as Wu Shuai and the other grotto-heaven Gu Immortals appeared.
Xia clan saw this group of enemies, fear and shock became plastered on their faces.
"Dragon Palace!"
"Wu Shuai!!"
"So many variant human rank eights, oh heavens!"
Xia clan's Gu Immortals turned pale, they were immensely fearful.
But Wu Shuai did not give them time to accept reality, he waved his hand: "Attack!"
Thus, at the next moment, the rank eights around him charged down and attacked.
Seeing this terrifying scene, Xia clan's Gu Immortals felt their vision turning dark, some almost fainted on the spot.
Such a group completely overwhelmed and dominated Xia clan's Gu Immortals.
Xia clan did not have a single rank eight while Wu Shuai had more than ten, how could they fight?
"My Xia clan's blessed land is not Heavenly Court, why are there so many rank eight Gu Immortals attacking us?!" Xia Rui Zhi mumbled, facing such a strong foe, he felt despair.
"The enemies are too strong, we must retreat!" At this time, female immortal Xia Ying shouted at the Xia clan immortals.
Xia Rui Zhi shook as he gritted his teeth: "Go, we will leave, let's get into the Immortal Gu Houses!"
Xia clan had two Immortal Gu Houses, they were both rank seven.
One was Whale Fishing Boat, the other was Golden Star Tower.
"You want to leave? Not so easy!"
"None of you will escape."
The variant human Gu Immortals attacked quickly, unleashing a myriad of attacks, the explosions resounded heaven and earth.
At the crucial moment, Xia Ying dodged an attack, managing to enter Golden Star Tower.
But she did not escape, she steered Golden Star Tower and went in front: "Everyone, leave, I will block them!"
Golden Star Tower charged relentlessly, using killer moves, golden stars shot out everywhere, the variant humans quickly dodged them.
The remaining Xia clan Gu Immortals found the chance and went into Whale Fishing Boat, escaping their headquarters.
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Chapter 1983 You Have A Problem With Me?
"Even though these variant human Gu Immortals have rank eight cultivation level, their battle strength is not high. Only Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch is passable."
"As for Eastern Sea's Xia clan, even without a rank eight, they can rely on rank seven Immortal Gu Houses to put up a fight."
Wu Shuai stood near the door of Dragon Palace, he looked at the battlefield and observed the fight, he did not make a move.
Earlier, when attacking the three resource points, due to the difference in cultivation level, he could not tell. But in the current deadlock, he sensed many details.
Wu Shuai analyzed, he quickly realized the reason.
The variant humans were able to survive until today and develop well because of the help of heaven's will.
Heaven's will was disrupted by Star Constellation's will, it could not make fate Gu show the sign of variant human supremacy. But heaven's will could still influence calamities and tribulations.
Tribulations were the biggest obstacles in the rise of a Gu Immortal's cultivation level.
The more prosperous humanity was, the more help heaven's will would provide to the variant human grotto-heaven forces.
The difficulty of tribulations that these variant humans faced was many times simpler than normal human Gu Immortals! In fact, even for the human Gu Immortals in black and white heaven, because they were at odds with the five regions human forces, they were also given some special treatment. This was thanks to heaven's will.
There were clear historical records about this.
Back then, variant humans ruled the world as overlords. Heaven's will thus affected fate Gu and showed the revelation of humanity reigning supreme. On one hand, heaven's will aided Primordial Origin and helped him to become an Immortal Venerable, it also took care of the humans, helping humanity develop and grow. On the other hand, heaven's will also influenced the variant humans, dividing them and causing them to undergo intense internal conflict, they greatly weakened themselves.
"And because the two heavens are too huge, with each heaven having the total area of all five regions, there are so many rank eight Gu Immortals in black and white heaven. Other than the group I brought here, a small group are still left in the two heavens."
Wu Shuai thought about this as he started to move.
Dragon Palace slowly activated.
Xia Ying, who was inside Golden Star Tower, became anxious. It was very tough to deal with these rank eights now, she seemed to have the upper hand but she could not last long. Even if the battle tilted in the enemy's favor at the next second, it would not be surprising.
"Good, Lord Wu Shuai is making his move!"
"I'm looking forward to it."
"It is a pity that our grotto-heavens have no Immortal Gu Houses. Only after fighting can we see that they really are the foundation of a super force."
The rank eight Gu Immortals had excited expressions, they were anticipating his action.
But under everyone's gaze, Dragon Palace flew away from the battlefield.
The rank eight Gu Immortals were stunned.
What was going on?
At the next moment, Wu Shuai's icy voice could be heard: "If more than ten rank eights cannot deal with one rank seven immortal and a rank seven Immortal Gu House, what is the point of your existence?"
The rank eight Gu Immortals were tongue-tied, they could not respond.
Eventually, they could only watch as Dragon Palace flew away.
"Oh no, he is flying towards Human Sea!" Xia Ying saw this, her heart jumped.
Xia clan felt very suspicious: "How does Wu Shuai know that our Xia clan's base contains Human Sea? No, Human Sea is very deeply hidden, maybe he just wants to find some resources."
Wu Shuai left the battlefield, he went to the top of a certain lake, he stopped Dragon Palace's movement.
"Human Sea should be here." Wu Shuai's eyes shined with bright light, he activated his method.
A mystical light shot out from his palm, piercing hundreds of feet of lake water, reaching the bottom.
Next, the mystical light spread out towards the entire lake surface.
The water evaporated, turning into mist and dispersing, one could hear countless human voices from the dense white fog.
The voices of people became louder, the white fog turned into human silhouettes as they flew around in the sky.
At once, Dragon Palace was surrounded by white fog, countless silhouettes moved around Dragon Palace like ghost phantoms, there were tens of thousands of them.
"Come." Wu Shuai willed, the fog quickly gathered and condensed into white lake water that flowed into Dragon Palace.
The commotion created was huge, the two parties fighting in the battlefield could see it clearly.
"Wu Shuai actually went to collect loot while we are fighting with our full effort!"
"The fog is very special, it emitted dense human path aura. It must be a great treasure for Wu Shuai to retrieve it personally!"
"Don't fear, as the alliance leader, how can Wu Shuai not lead by example? How can he gain our acceptance otherwise? He will definitely give a portion of the white fog to us later."
The rank eight Gu Immortals conversed with each other.
Xia Ying's heart sank to rock bottom: "Wu Shuai actually knows about the existence of Human Sea! In fact, he has a method to take Human Sea away, how can this be possible?"
"The plan of constructing Human Sea was only known to us Xia clan Gu Immortals, we kept it as a secret all along. Even if Xia Zheng Qing and the rest were captured by Wu Shuai, only our first supreme elder knows how to retrieve Human Sea. How can he find an alternate method so quickly?"
"To think that the current Human Sea is still incomplete." Wu Shuai looked at the white fog in Dragon Palace, it was still showing human figures and shadows from time to time, it was creepy but quite amazing as well. Two different types of images had fused together in a natural way.
Wu Shuai smiled, he did not mind it.
To replenish Human Sea, he only needed to kill enough humans.
Because of the main body's information, Wu Shuai knew that Human Sea was the work of Xia clan for many years, they were attempting to create a human path secluded domain in secret.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, during the five regions chaotic war, Human Sea was dazzling and impressive, it helped Eastern Sea's Xia clan to rise up to the top.
But it was still far from an actual secluded domain after all.
In the future, Southern Border's Chai clan gained some key comprehension from Human Sea, they started to create a similar artificial secluded domain — Human Mountain.
Wisdom path Gu Immortals of that time had deduced that if Human Sea and Human Mountain were fused together into one, they could form an actual secluded domain of heaven and earth!
"Human Mountain and Sea is too far away, but just Human Sea alone is sufficiently helpful to my main body." Wu Shuai was quite happy.
The most important thing was Fang Yuan's main body after all.
The current biggest obstacle of Fang Yuan's main body was the restriction of heaven path. This was Red Lotus' scheme, Fang Yuan was trying to find a way to break out of this predicament.
He found that human path was a countermeasure, even though the thousand wish tree was a human path ancient desolate plant, it could not match the numerous heaven path dao marks.
Thus, Fang Yuan placed his sight on the Human Sea of Eastern Sea's Xia clan.
Because of Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, Fang Yuan did not need to go personally, his clone Wu Shuai was able to head there and retrieve Human Sea easily.
After Wu Shuai stored Human Sea away, the battle had also concluded at the other side.
Xia Ying was unable to escape in the end, but many of the rank eights were injured as well. The one who defeated Golden Star Tower was Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
"Lord Alliance Leader, you took the chance to take the human path treasure, that's not fair, right?" As the immortals gathered at the door of Dragon Palace, an anxious rank eight Gu Immortal questioned.
Wu Shuai glanced at him as Dragon Palace used its killer move — Dreamy Light Smoke!
The rank eight Gu Immortal who spoke was unguarded, the smoke easily swept him away into Dragon Palace before he was even able to say another word.
The immortals were stunned and fearful.
"Who else has a problem with me?" Wu Shuai crossed his arms, looking at the immortals.
He only had rank seven cultivation level, he was surrounded by a group of rank eights.
But the rank eight Gu Immortals looked at each other, they were pale and chose to keep silent, they did not dare to say a thing.
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Chapter 1984 Wu Shuai“s Political Skills
Facing Wu Shuai's aggressive stance, the Gu Immortals of the two heavens lowered their heads, they did not dare to look at him directly.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch saw this, he cheered internally, Wu Shuai's actions would cause him to lose the support of everyone. However, he also felt envious, when would he gain such huge battle strength to make everyone lower their heads in front of him?
After a while of silence, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch stood up at an appropriate timing, saying respectfully: "Lord Alliance Leader, dear allies, the most important thing now is to go after the remaining Xia clan members. Most of Xia clan's Gu Immortals have escaped using Whale Fishing Boat, if we do not chase them now, it will be too late."
"Yes, yes." The immortals nodded, they started discussing this topic.
Many people casted gazes of gratitude towards Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, his words had undeniably given them a way to escape the embarrassment.
"Haha." Wu Shuai laughed loudly: "Chase? Why must we chase them?"
Wu Shuai continued: "We were able to take down the headquarters of Eastern Sea's Xia clan, it was because we acted quickly and caught them off guard. From now, it will be difficult if we want to expand our territory. The whole of Eastern Sea and even the righteous paths of the five regions will become very cautious now."
"But if we allow this group of Xia clan Gu Immortals to escape, they will invite members of Eastern Sea's righteous path to try to recover their territory."
"This way, those Eastern Sea righteous path members will need to leave their territories and come here to seek death. Isn't that great?"
The immortals were stunned, they nodded in unison, agreeing that Wu Shuai's analysis was sound.
"Lord Alliance Leader is very knowledgeable, it is natural that we cannot compare to him." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch ingratiated.
But Wu Shuai had a grim expression: "I don't care about all of these Eastern Sea super forces! There is only one person I am wary about, Qi Sea Ancestor."
"This old man can fight evenly with Duke Long, he had once held the qi sea banquet, he also did not help Fang Yuan nor Heavenly Court during the fate war. His stance is very important now!"
"It is likely that the righteous path will convince him now to fight against us. Of course, it is not strange if he chooses to continue staying in seclusion and not face us."
"I let these Xia clan members go, I am also trying to probe Qi Sea Ancestor's intentions."
The Gu Immortals of the two heavens heard Wu Shuai's words, they nodded as their expressions turned dark.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch took a glance at Wu Shuai, he thought: "Wu Shuai is Wu Shuai after all, he cannot be underestimated. He has both wisdom and political skills, it is just that he does not feel the need to use tricks against us."
But he quickly thought: "Qi Sea Ancestor's attitude is very ambiguous. He had once worked with Fang Yuan and went against Duke Long, but later they reconciled. On the other hand, he also held the qi sea banquet, he welcomed Heavenly Court's Gu Immortal Jun Shen Guang, while also letting a demonic Gu Immortal sell blood path Immortal Gu in public."
"Alright." Wu Shuai waved his hand, breaking the immortals' train of thought: "We chased Xia clan away, it is time to split the loot."
Thus, the atmosphere changed instantly, everyone got excited.
Eastern Sea was the richest of the five regions, as an Eastern Sea super force, Xia clan had ownership of many resource points, their inventory was filled.
These assets of Xia clan were split up by Fang Yuan and given to the Gu Immortals, each of them gained a considerable sum of wealth.
The Gu Immortals of the two heavens smiled, they felt extremely happy.
"The five regions are so rich!"
"This is merely the foundation of one Eastern Sea super force, it is already so much."
"Xia clan is useless! If my grotto-heaven had such resources, we would be far stronger than now."
And what surprised the Gu Immortals of the two heavens was that Wu Shuai took a much smaller portion of the gains that they had expected.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had a change of thought, he quickly said to the surrounding Gu Immortals: "Everyone, listen to me. We gained so much loot because of Lord Alliance Leader. He was the one who guided us towards victory. Without his information and plan, how could we take down Xia clan so easily? But currently, Lord Alliance Leader is taking the smallest portion of loot, this is not fair to him."
The Gu Immortals were stunned, they looked at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had a look of sincerity and admiration.
Wu Shuai looked at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch deeply in the eye: "I am a lone person, I do not need much in cultivation resources, nor do these resources suit me. If I need anything in the future, I will definitely take them. Since I have distributed this loot already, I will not take them back, but Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, your words reminded me of something."
"Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch." Wu Shuai spoke.
"This subordinate is here." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch cupped his fists, showing a respectful attitude.
Wu Shuai smiled: "You are quite good."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch quickly bowed: "To receive such compliments from Lord Alliance Leader, it is my greatest blessing!"
Wu Shuai nodded: "Of course, my leadership is the greatest blessing that all of you have. As for you, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, as the vice alliance leader, you should not get the same amount of loot as the rest of the allies. I will make the decision, shooting fish sea will belong to you now."
"Lord Alliance Leader?" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch quickly raised his head, feeling shocked.
Wu Shuai laughed: "I said you'll get it, just take ownership of it. Don't worry! I am here to back you up. If anyone dares to make problems for you, if you dislike anyone, just tell me, I will take care of them!"
Wu Shuai said this as he looked around, his dragon eyes emitting an aggressive light. The Gu Immortals all turned away, not daring to meet his gaze.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch obtained a giant resource point but he felt no joy internally.
He looked at Wu Shuai, seeing that seemingly smiling face, he could not help but shudder in a chill.
"As expected of the dragonman who once ruled his race, I underestimated him! This old monster must have realized my intentions." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch noticed this, his back was covered in cold sweat.
He wanted to cause Wu Shuai to lose even more support from the rest of the people. But Wu Shuai had made use of his action and acted this way, it made all the other Gu Immortals feel that Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was not happy with his gains, he wanted to use his status and the alliance leader's dominance to gain more benefits.
After all, if the alliance leader gets more benefits, wouldn't it be logical if the vice alliance leader also got more loot?
"Hmm? Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, you are not thanking me?" Wu Shuai stared at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, showing a smile filled with deep meaning.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch shuddered in his heart as he gritted his teeth and said with a hoarse voice: "This subordinate thanks Lord Alliance Leader."
Seeing that he had submitted, Wu Shuai did not feel any happiness, he was actually quite disappointed.
The Gu Immortals of the two heavens had been in seclusion for too long, due to their identities, they did not dare to move around or compete against each other.
Without competition, they could not be trained well. Even if heaven's will helped them, Gu Immortal elites could not be nurtured.
Wu Shuai looked at the Gu Immortals of the two heavens, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was the only one with passable battle strength and attitude. The rest of the rank eights were simply a disgrace to other rank eight Gu Immortals!
It was no wonder that in Fang Yuan's previous life, these people did not manage to create any big commotions.
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Chapter 1985 Truly Incredible
While Wu Shuai and the rest were splitting up the fortune of Xia clan, the atmosphere inside Whale Fishing Boat was grim and sad.
"First supreme elder, what do we do now?"
"The enemies are too powerful, there are more than ten rank eights, there was no way we could defend our headquarters!"
"Especially their leader Wu Shuai! If we retaliate, there is little hope of success."
"Sigh, it is a pity that Xia Ying and the rest sacrificed themselves."
Xia clan's Gu Immortals were furious and helpless, they felt that the future was bleak.
Xia clan's first supreme elder Xia Rui Zhi snorted coldly: "I don't care who the enemy is, be it Wu Shuai or the rank eight Gu Immortals of the two heavens, they should not have taken our Xia clan's territory. They will not stay arrogant for long! We are going to get help from Eastern Sea's righteous path."
"Hmph, so be it if they are human Gu Immortals. But they are mostly variant human Gu Immortals with Wu Shuai leading them, we have already kept a copy of the battle scene, it is the best evidence against them. Eastern Sea's righteous path and even the five regions' righteous path will not allow this group of variant humans to grow stronger and larger!"
Xia clan's Gu Immortals heard this, they recovered a bit of their morale.
Seeking reinforcements was the only way out, but the important thing to consider was which clan to approach.
Xia clan was situated at the eastern most area of Eastern Sea, towards their west was the Merman Imperial Court, towards the southeast was Tang clan, and towards the northeast was Xie clan. These three were not good targets to request for help.
The three of them were directly connected to Xia clan in territory, Xia clan's relationship with the Merman Imperial Court was best but they were variant humans. Even though there were no mermen in the battle earlier, Xia clan did not dare to take the risk.
As for Tang clan and Xie clan, these two clans had conflict with Xia clan during normal times, if they went to ask these two clans for help, Xia clan's Gu Immortals would not want to face their mockery.
After a round of discussion, Xia clan's Gu Immortals moved in Whale Fishing Boat, they carefully went past the Merman Imperial Court, approaching Shen clan, which was further west, for help.
But because of this, their journey became much longer.
During Xia clan's journey to seek help, information that they were invaded by Gu Immortals of the two heavens spread like wildfire in treasure yellow heaven, it shook the world.
"There are so many rank eight Gu Immortals among the variant humans! Is this information reliable?"
"It is nothing strange. Be it black heaven or white heaven, each of them is as large as the five regions together."
"These damned variant humans are hidden too deeply!"
"They are too daring, they dared to wage war on our human forces, they are courting death!"
"The thing that makes me angrier is that among these people, there are human Gu Immortals. What are they thinking? They are betraying their own race!"
At once, all of the Gu Immortals in the world discussed this matter.
Shen clan was no exception.
The letter requesting help from Xia clan had already reached Shen clan.
This was an important matter, Shen clan's first supreme elder, Shen Cong Sheng, called all the Gu Immortals for a meeting.
"The reason why Xia clan is asking our Shen clan for help is obvious, there is no need to explain it. But should our Shen clan help them? Everyone, tell me your view." Shen Cong Sheng said.
"The enemy is too strong, why must our Shan clan face such a strong foe alone? Remember that Wu Shuai has Dragon Palace and Di Zang Sheng, he even possesses dream path methods, their battle strength is too overwhelming."
"That's right, and even more worrying is that Wu Shuai has a relationship with Fang Yuan. Nobody knows how good their relationship is, but we know that they are close. If we target Wu Shuai, we might cause the great demon Fang Yuan to come after us!"
Shen Cong Sheng nodded: "You are correct."
He did not show any change of expression.
During the blue dragon whale trip, he had cooperated with Fang Yuan. But because they worked in secrecy, even Shen clan's Gu Immortals did not know about it, Shen Cong Sheng could preserve his clan's reputation as a result.
"I feel that we cannot refuse to help Xia clan! Xia clan is also a member of the righteous path, they came all this way to ask us for help, if we do not agree, what would Xia clan think of us? What would Eastern Sea think of us? What would the whole five regions think of us?"
"I agree, this is not just a conflict between us humans, this is the battle between humans and variant humans! If Shen clan does not show a clear stance, the people of the world will accuse us of our inaction."
Shen Cong Sheng nodded: "This is correct too. But the enemy is too strong, they have more than ten rank eights and even Wu Shuai leading them. Even if we have Ancestor Shen Shang here, we cannot resist such a group of enemies."
After the fate war, Shen Shang went missing after going insane. Even though Shen clan wanted to find their Ancestor Shen Shang, they did not succeed.
The entire world was watching now, it was likely that news in treasure yellow heaven had spread from Xia clan themselves.
Xia clan was using this method to force Eastern Sea's righteous path forces to help them.
With the entire world watching, Shen clan had to help Xia clan. But Wu Shuai's group was simply too powerful, they were too terrifying.
Even though Shen clan was a super force, against the allied forces of two heavens, it still felt very wary and unsure.
"Elders, I have a plan to resolve this problem." Ren Xiu Ping spoke.
After returning from the blue dragon whale trip, Ren Xiu Ping became Shen clan's external supreme elder. Ren Xiu Ping was a person who followed the rules and kept a low profile, but now that they were in this situation, if Shen clan falls and chaos descends, he would also be implicated.
Ren Xiu Ping continued: "Wu Shuai has very high strength, but in this current Eastern Sea, there is another ancestor capable of resisting the Evil Dragon."
"You mean to say that person in qi sea?" Someone's eyes brightened up.
"Indeed, Qi Sea Ancestor." Ren Xiu Ping nodded.
"Good plan, let's do that." Shen Cong Sheng laughed and clapped, deciding on the spot.
For the next few days, Xia clan arrived in Shen clan, they wanted to borrow strength to reclaim their territory. Shen Cong Sheng came out to speak to them, they attended to Xia clan's members warmly.
But when asked to fight against Wu Shuai, Shen Cong Sheng said that he had too little strength, he suggested that they should gather more righteous path forces.
Currently, qi tides were surging everywhere, almost all the five regions' Gu Immortals were recuperating and resting, they did not dare to move abruptly.
Thus, Eastern Sea's righteous path could not use much of its strength now.
But Shen Cong Sheng suggested that Xia clan should inform Qi Sea Ancestor of this situation, they should request for the ancestor to uphold justice for them.
Shen Cong Sheng copied Xia clan, before they asked Qi Sea Ancestor for help, they already published the news in treasure yellow heaven.
Thus, the entire world's attention went to qi sea.
Almost all the Gu Immortals were waiting to see Qi Sea Ancestor's response.
All the human Gu Immortals were hoping that Qi Sea Ancestor would step up as the senior of the rank eights, the person who resisted Duke Long on equal footing, he had the responsibility to lead them.
But many people were pessimistic about it. Because Qi Sea Ancestor was a secluded cultivator, he had an ambiguous relationship with the righteous path and demonic path, he had even worked with Fang Yuan before. From this aspect, there was quite a chance that Qi Sea Ancestor would not entertain these worldly affairs.
Qi Sea Ancestor's response was rapid.
He announced in treasure yellow heaven: "There are those of other races having such motives, first there was Primordial Origin, now there is Qi Sea, we will not let these variant humans with ulterior motives bear roots here on our soil!"
Once he said that, the world world resounded with praises.
Qi Sea Ancestor, you are truly incredible!
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Chapter 1986 Heavenly Court“s Tactic
Heavenly Court.
The damage caused during the fate war was starting to recover. Having collated their losses, they really had suffered a huge setback.
Discussion hall.
Qin Ding Ling sat at the main seat as she looked around, observing the Gu Immortals and their wills.
Most of the Heavenly Court members had gone back to hibernating in the immortal graveyard. More than half of the immortal graveyard was destroyed by Fang Yuan, but Heavenly Court still had sufficient members left.
These members had little lifespan remaining, rather than dying of old age, they could display greater value by hibernating in the immortal graveyard.
What worried Qin Ding Ling was that even though these Gu Immortals went back into slumber, she did not receive any sort of message from Star Constellation's will.
It was as if the fate war caused Star Constellation's will to suffer a huge loss.
This made already become Qin Ding Ling's greatest worry. Star Constellation's will could interfere with heaven's will but heaven's will was also able to assimilate Star Constellation's will. If she lacked support and got assimilated by heaven's will, it would be a huge nightmare to humanity and Heavenly Court.
But Qin Ding Ling came here and gathered the immortals for a meeting, it was not because of Star Constellation's will.
"Qi tides are rampaging, the two heavens are making a move. Wu Shuai is leading an allied army of the two heavens and has already taken down Eastern Sea's Xia clan. Now, Xia clan has requested for Qi Sea Ancestor's help, the two sides are opposing each other. What do you think we should do at this key moment?"
Qin Ding Ling asked.
She was a luck path Gu Immortal, she did not cultivate wisdom path like Fairy Zi Wei. Thus, when faced with this matter, Qin Ding Ling could not make a resolute decision, she needed to discuss it with the other Gu Immortals.
"Undeniably, the allied army of the two heavens is made up of variant humans, enemies of our Heavenly Court, we need to exterminate them!"
"In this aspect, Qi Sea Ancestor is quite a responsible person."
"Right now, the conflict between Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor is akin to the conflict between humans and variant humans. But the truth is, whoever wins between them is not the key, the most important element is someone else — Fang Yuan!"
"Indeed, be it Wu Shuai or Qi Sea Ancestor, they are both related to Fang Yuan. Wu Shuai claims that he has only cooperated with Fang Yuan, he has revived after a million years, aspiring to grow the dragonman race once again. As for Qi Sea Ancestor, he had once made an agreement with Fang Yuan, he went against Heavenly Court but changed his mind later when Lord Duke Long gave him half of the qi path true inheritance. During the fate war, Qi Sea Ancestor did not show up at all, it showed that Lord Duke Long had made a wise decision."
"I have a different opinion! Qi Sea Ancestor can likely be Fang Yuan's disguise. In the past, we did not think of this because Fang Yuan only had rank seven cultivation level, but now that we know about the secret of the sovereign immortal body, it is likely that Fang Yuan had rank eight cultivation level then and disguised himself as Qi Sea Ancestor. Don't forget that during the fate war, Fang Yuan destroyed the qi wall with a qi path method."
"His qi path method is called unlimited qi sea, it is the signature method of Qi Xiang of the Heaven Surveying Five Xiangs in the past. But the qi path methods that Qi Sea Ancestor used against Duke Long were very different from unlimited qi sea. It is quite unlikely that the two of them are the same person."
"But we cannot rule out this possibility."
"Speaking of which, Wu Shuai is much more suspicious than Qi Sea Ancestor. He might not be a disguised Fang Yuan, he could simply be Fang Yuan's clone. As the leader of Shadow Sect, Fang Yuan definitely has a portion of Spectral Soul's foundation. And a method Spectral Soul excels in is creating split souls. That was how he created Shadow Sect singlehandedly."
The immortals discussed among themselves.
Qin Ding Ling was hesitant, she felt a huge headache.
The immortals had their own viewpoints, nobody could convince the other. In the end, Qin Ding Ling had to make the decision after all.
Qin Ding Ling thought about it for a while before sighing: "Everyone, listen to me. Fang Yuan has familiar face, he can disguise as different people. Even though we need to be wary of this, we cannot ignore other possibilities just because of our suspicions. Wu Shuai might be Fang Yuan's clone, Qi Sea Ancestor might be Fang Yuan's disguise, these are possible truths."
"But at the same time, there is also the possibility that they are not that closely related to Fang Yuan. We cannot create enemies everywhere just because of this, forget about Wu Shuai, but for Qi Sea Ancestor, we cannot give up on winning over Qi Sea Ancestor just because of this possibility, can't we try to make him an ally of Heavenly Court?"
Fang Zheng heard this as he hesitated and asked: "Senior Qin wants to recruit Qi Sea Ancestor?"
Qin Ding Ling nodded: "Lord Duke Long has passed away while Feng Jiu Ge betrayed us, our Heavenly Court desperately needs a pseudo venerable capable of holding the situation. In the past, Senior Duke Long used Primordial Origin's true inheritance to gain Qi Sea Ancestor's friendship. Even though he did not agree to join us, he had not shown up during the fate war either."
The immortals fell into silence.
Qin Ding Ling's current plan was Duke Long's former plan.
In the past, in order to repair fate Gu, Duke Long wanted Qi Sea Ancestor to stay out of the conflict. But now?
Heavenly Court needed someone with pseudo venerable battle strength to support them!
Currently, even though there was peace, the truth was that the rampaging qi tides and heaven path dao marks were forcing most Gu Immortals to stay inactive and recuperate from the damages caused, they could not take action.
But once the qi tides subside and Fang Yuan manages to refine the heaven path dao marks?
By then, the strongest person in Heavenly Court would be Qin Ding Ling, could she resist the Gu Immortals of the other four regions with ill intentions? Could she block Di Zang Sheng? Could she block Fang Yuan?
Heavenly Court knew about this threat, in history, they had also recruited Gu Immortals of the other four regions.
The obvious example was Wan Zi Hong, this female immortal was once a demoness of Western Desert, Heavenly Court had recruited her to join them. As long as one was a human, Heavenly Court could be magnanimous towards them.
"I am not against winning Qi Sea Ancestor over. But before that, we need to clarify his true relationship with Fang Yuan!"
"That's what you say, but right now, Qi Sea Ancestor might not even feel any threat from our Heavenly Court."
"Haha, I think that for him, the attraction of Primordial Origin's true inheritance surpasses everything."
Fang Zheng volunteered: "Currently, the conflict between Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai is our greatest opportunity. We can investigate and find out the truth from this. Of course, no matter the outcome, we cannot spare the Gu Immortals of the two heavens. Since we already have Night Heavenly Wolf Lord as our insider, I am willing to lead a group to Eastern Sea and exterminate these variant human Gu Immortals!"
Fang Zheng was the current owner of Demon Judgment Board, even though he had rank seven cultivation level, with this board, he could fight against most rank eight Gu Immortals.
Due to the influence of qi tides, the five regions' Gu Immortals could not move around. But Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were different.
Most of them had phantom apertures, they were not restricted by this.
Right as Fang Zheng spoke, another Gu Immortal volunteered to join the group and head to Eastern Sea, in order to kill these variant human Gu Immortals.
Even though Heavenly Court lost, their motives and actions still followed the basis of defending humanity.
Qin Ding Ling smiled: "I got it! Why must we go to Eastern Sea? Wu Shuai is there right now, we can use him to probe Qi Sea Ancestor's background. Let's go to the two heavens and exterminate those grotto-heaven forces, we will uproot the allied army of the two heavens from their bases!"
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Chapter 1987 Qi Harvest Frui
"Heavenly Court is Heavenly Court after all…" Night Heavenly Wolf Lord looked at the information path Gu worm in his hand as he sighed to himself.
As he had expected, Heavenly Court really went ahead to deal with the two heavens alliance.
Earlier, he had predicted that such a situation would occur.
Those who live in a society have to follow its rules, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord had to join the two heavens alliance. Otherwise, his grotto-heaven would be attacked until it was destroyed.
But joining this force only helped to delay their own destruction.
When the five regions counterattack, the two heavens alliance would break apart, there would be huge casualties. None of these allies would be spared, Night Wolf grotto-heaven would also face a calamity by then.
From the start, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord had made up his mind to defect to the five regions. This was for his own sake, and also the future of the entire Night Wolf grotto-heaven.
Thus, he took a risk and went to approach Heavenly Court.
As the situation progressed, Qi Sea Ancestor went against Wu Shuai and Heavenly Court sent a secret group to attack the headquarters of the two heavens' variant humans!
Since Night Heavenly Wolf Lord decided to defect, Heavenly Court's Qin Ding Ling sent him a secret letter, asking him to be their spy and cooperate with Heavenly Court in this battle.
"Heavenly Court did not disappoint me after all!"
"Even though they lost in the fate war, despite everything, they still uphold the righteousness of humanity. They think for the whole of the human race without caring about sacrifices or benefits."
Such grandness resonated with Night Heavenly Wolf Lord.
Because he was a human Gu Immortal!
Compared to Heavenly Court's magnanimity, be they Qi Sea Ancestor or Wu Yong, they were simply too petty. Even Northern Plains' Longevity Heaven was the same.
What was the mindset that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left behind?
Hereditary monarchy!
Even if Night Heavenly Wolf Lord and Longevity Heaven had no grudges, he would not go to and attempt to join them.
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord did not hesitate, he immediately replied that he was willing to cooperate with Heavenly Court.
According to their agreement, the moment Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor collide, Heavenly Court would use the chance to attack! If these two do not fight, then a month later, Heavenly Court would still take action.
"It will depend on Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor now." Night Heavenly Wolf Lord waited in anticipation.
Other than Night Heavenly Wolf Lord, countless forces and Gu Immortals were also paying attention to the situation in Eastern Sea.
Southern Border's Wu Yong was one of them.
"If Qi Sea Ancestor loses, the variant human forces will definitely expand their territory, they will develop rapidly like a growing snowball, they will become a huge threat to the five regions!"
"If Wu Shuai loses, the variant human forces will gather together in a defensive manner, this will be good news to the humans of the five regions. But that is not what I want to see."
Wu Yong was an ambitious person.
He wanted the world to be chaotic, the more conflicts there were, the more opportunities he had to try to reap benefits from the situation, to strengthen himself until he reached the top of the world!
Thus, he felt deep hatred towards the qi tides.
Because of the qi tides, the five regions' Gu Immortals had to forcefully recuperate, he lost the chance to completely take down Heavenly Court.
It was a real pity.
"Lord, Empress Wu Ji and the others have revived. What do we do now?" At this time, Wu Ba Chong came to report the news.
He was the second supreme elder of Wu clan, he was an old and experienced man.
After fate Gu was destroyed, the most evident change was that revival methods became very easy to use. Earlier, Gu Immortal seeds like Empress Wu Ji had died on Yi Tian Mountain. But now, Wu clan's Gu Immortals revived them all.
Wu Yong nodded: "These people are the hope of our future, they have experienced ample setbacks and training as Gu Masters. When they become Gu Immortals, they will definitely be elites among their peers. Impart them the method of immortal ascension and make ample preparations, ensure there are enough resources. I want Wu clan to gain more than ten Gu Immortals in the next few years!"
"Yes lord." Wu Ba Chong did not question this decision.
In the future, during the five regions chaotic war, there would be a long lasting struggle, it would not be settled quickly. By then, all of the different forces would need to compete using their foundation and long term planning.
"There is another matter regarding qi path." Wu Ba Chong said as he handed Wu Yong an information path mortal Gu.
Wu Yong looked into it and quickly browsed through the content.
This information path mortal Gu contained the information of all sorts of qi path immortal materials, they had all appeared as a result of the qi tides.
"It seems that qi path is about to flourish again. Does this qi harvest fruit really have such great effects?" Wu Yong sighed as he asked at the end.
Wu Ba Chong nodded: "Currently, many Gu Immortals have used it already, it is precisely so. This fruit is the essence of qi path and the fusion of the five regions' qi, it is not normal. By placing it into one's immortal aperture, it can turn into turbulent qi flows that can hasten the transformation of the heaven and earth qi. Whoever can get more qi harvest fruits will be able to get through this period of inactivity more quickly."
"Then collect more of this immortal material. Also, sort out and make a list of the clan's inventory, collate a qi path inheritance. We are going to use it and try to cultivate qi path Gu Immortals." Wu Yong instructed.
"Yes." Wu Ba Chong answered.
Wu clan was specialized in wind path, they did not have much foundation in qi path. But such a huge force would naturally have accumulation in qi path to some extent, if they could put together many incomplete inheritances into a proper inheritance, they might be able to nurture one or two qi path Gu Immortals.
Of course, even if these Gu Masters became qi path Gu Immortals, they would not be promising in terms of future achievements.
But since Wu clan had to make up for their deficiency in this aspect, these Gu Masters could only sacrifice their future potential and become qi path Gu Immortals.
Southern Border, Luo clan.
Three Gu Immortals went deeply into Qi Jue grotto heaven.
"I broke through!" Luo Ran was excited.
His skin tone was white and he had a cold expression, he was a Luo clan general famous in Southern Border, having peak rank seven battle strength.
When the entire world was resting and recuperating, Luo Ran secretly brought two Gu Immortals from Luo clan and explored Qi Jue grotto heaven, he did not care about the changes in his own immortal aperture.
His hard work and efforts were not in vain, they finally broke through the difficulties and had a smooth journey ahead.
As they explored deeper, they arrived at the center of Qi Jue grotto heaven.
"To think that the qi tides would cause a change in Qi Jue grotto heaven, allowing us to progress more smoothly in here." Luo Mu Zi felt deep emotions about this.
"Let's hurry up, the qi tides are rampaging in the world now, Qi Jue grotto heaven will only stay concealed for a short period of time. We need to find Qi Jue's true inheritance before anyone else finds us. With this true inheritance, our Luo clan will be able to adapt to this great era and obtain the initiative!" Luo Hao Ze's eyes shined with bright light.
Several days later.
Eastern Sea.
Qi Sea Ancestor suddenly appeared, creating countless qi waves that moved towards the headquarters of Eastern Sea's Xia clan openly.
"Come!" Wu Shuai sensed it from far away, he smiled as Dragon Palace moved, he controlled Di Zang Sheng and fought bravely against the enemy.
A huge battle that concerned the whole world erupted all of a sudden.
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Chapter 1988 Wu Shuai Fights Qi Sea Ancestor
Rumble!
With a thunderous sound, intense tremors filled heaven and earth. Endless qi waves surged out, Dragon Palace shined with radiant lights as it retreated continuously.
Qi Sea Ancestor did not pursue it, many layers of qi waves stacked around his body, like an impenetrable fortress.
Both sides fought for an entire day and night, they exchanged blows but neither party could do anything to the other.
All around the battlefield, countless eyes were watching. Eastern Sea's righteous path, demonic path, and even lone immortals came here to watch the fight, naturally, there were also Gu Immortals of the two heavens.
"Senior Qi Sea Ancestor is truly powerful, his methods are grand and imposing, Wu Shuai's attacks all ended up useless." Hua clan first supreme elder Hua Cai Yun sighed to herself.
Beside her, Qing Yue An said: "But Wu Shuai is not to be underestimated, he merely has rank seven cultivation level but is able to evenly match Qi Sea Ancestor."
Hua Cai Yun sighed: "Wu Shuai was reborn, he is also an old monster. The Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace that he controls is really powerful, if not for it, he would not be Qi Sea Ancestor's match."
While the two conversed, a loud dragon roar resounded.
A huge demonic dragon that seemed like a mountain range appeared on the battlefield, it could be seen from a gigantic distance away.
"Oh heavens, such a terrifying giant dragon, this must be the number one immemorial desolate beast in the world?"
"This is Di Zang Sheng! I am shocked just by simply watching it fight, I cannot muster any battle intent against it. I can't imagine how the Gu Immortals fighting against it felt."
"Wu Shuai finally let out the Evil Dragon, this proves that Qi Sea Ancestor has forced him to his limit. The following fight is the crucial part."
All of the Gu Immortals watching this fight were shocked. Many of them had not participated in the fate war, they only watched it through the killer move everybody's vision. They saw the battle but did not experience it personally.
Their personal experience now was naturally creating a different feeling.
The Evil Dragon roared as it charged towards Qi Sea Ancestor.
Qi Sea Ancestor snorted coldly, his voice reverberating over the surroundings. He clapped both hands as an immortal killer move was unleashed, qi currents surged like a tsunami.
Di Zang Sheng charged forward but as it crashed into the qi currents, its movement halted.
Di Zang Sheng twisted its body and wanted to progress but the qi currents were endless, the great power could not be defied, it was forcefully suppressed on the ground!
Seeing this, the observing Gu Immortals gasped.
Qing Yue An, Hua Cai Yun, and Shen Cong Sheng cheered as expressions of joy appeared on their faces.
As for Zhou Xiong Xin and Jun Shen Guang who were sent here by Heavenly Court, they became stunned, quickly looking at each other.
"Thinking about the fate war, the two transformation path great experts of our Heavenly Court could not stop the rampaging Evil Dragon, they were suppressed by it. To think that Qi Sea Ancestor is able to stop it!" Jun Shen Guang was stunned.
Zhou Xiong Xin squinted, he assessed Qi Sea Ancestor from afar. His information path methods had been used already, seeking to collect information from the entire battlefield as the fight progressed.
Zhou Xiong Xin analyzed: "Qi Sea Ancestor is an expert who fought evenly with Lord Duke Long, it is not strange that he can resist Evil Dragon Di Zang Sheng. But his new killer move seems to have some elements of the primordial qi wall in it."
"Lord Duke Long once gave half of Primordial Origin's true inheritance to Qi Sea Ancestor. To think that he has already innovated upon it after the fate war had just ended to create a brand new qi wall killer move."
Jun Shen Guang blinked: "Does this mean that during the fate war, Qi Sea Ancestor was in closed cultivation to comprehend this new killer move?"
Zhou Xiong Xin could not deny it: "We cannot be sure yet. But at least for now, Qi Sea Ancestor's methods are very different from the qi path methods that Fang Yuan possesses."
Saying this, Zhou Xiong Xin sighed: "Qi Sea Ancestor's origin is too mysterious, he is too deeply concealed. We have not even found any past details about him. Beforehand, we could use the River of Time to trace his origin and find out his past identity. But after fate Gu's destruction, the River of Time has become extremely dangerous, it is filled with vicious waves, even if a time path great expert enters, they will be in great danger, we cannot enter it anymore."
Other than time path, there was still wisdom path.
But regrettably, Fang Yuan destroyed the majority of the immortal graveyard while Fairy Zi Wei defected to Spectral Soul, Heavenly Court faced an unprecedented lack of wisdom path experts.
Boom—!
An overwhelming amount of qi waves crashed down with heaven shaking might.
The Evil Dragon roared, it tried to move its mountain-like body, but Qi Sea Ancestor continued to suppress it from above.
Qi Sea Ancestor's moves gave an unrivaled atmosphere, his every action contained the power to overturn mountains and seas, the great Evil Dragon was not his match.
The human Gu Immortals cheered to themselves.
At this moment, Qi Sea Ancestor's reputation rose greatly in the five regions.
When the five regions' Gu Immortals could not fight, when humanity was at its weakest, Qi Sea Ancestor had emerged to resist and defeat the variant humans, this was really satisfying to all the human Gu Immortals.
"This is the action of a true man!" Even though Xi clan's first supreme elder did not come personally, he had sent a Xi clan Gu Immortal to witness this battle themselves.
Wu Yong was in Southern Border, upon seeing this, his heart sank as he pondered: "When we attack Eastern Sea in the future, this Qi Sea Ancestor will be a huge obstacle."
Qin Ding Ling was guarding Heavenly Court with a complex emotion. In the past, Heavenly Court would be the one standing up during such situations, fighting on the front lines, but this time, Qi Sea Ancestor took Heavenly Court's place and shouldered the expectations of the human race.
Even though Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were still suspicious about Qi Sea Ancestor's identity and his connection to Fang Yuan, after this battle, their impression towards him had undoubtedly improved greatly.
While the human Gu Immortals were feeling happy, the two heavens alliance felt solemn, all the Gu Immortals were fearful.
"How can this be! Even after using Di Zang Sheng, we cannot turn the situation around?"
"The humans are really strong! This is the foundation of the five regions, we chose to invade them so abruptly, we were simply too hasty."
"Hmph, even if we do not take action, these humans will still go after us. For the last few million years, they have been treating us variant humans like so."
"Indeed, we can only have any hope of surviving by taking the initiative."
"We cannot interfere in a battle of such a level, sigh, we can only hope that Lord Wu Shuai can claim victory!"
The variant human Gu Immortals continued to converse, their expressions were grim as their gazes turned uncertain.
There were many rank eight Gu Immortals among them, they had high cultivation and generally were characters of ancestor level in their respective grotto-heavens. But after witnessing this terrifying battle, nobody dared to participate.
"Qi Sea Ancestor, you have been arrogant for too long!" Right at this moment, Dragon Palace rose up, Wu Shuai's voice came from within.
The immortals watched as Dragon Palace flew towards Qi Sea Ancestor like an orange-gold meteor.
Qi Sea Ancestor's qi currents surged and blocked it but the effect was mild.
Dragon Palace rode the waves and advanced further, charging with great momentum. A dream path killer move was used, a trace of smoke shot towards Qi Sea Ancestor.
"Be careful!" Seeing this, many human Gu Immortals shouted while feeling very anxious, despite knowing their voices could not reach the battlefield.
Right now, dream path was invincible in the world. Qi Sea Ancestor had to dodge the attack as he retreated.
This time, Wu Shuai gained the upper hand.
The variant humans quickly became overjoyed while the human Gu Immortals let out sighs of relief, Qi Sea Ancestor was not hit by the dream path killer move, that was an ideal outcome!
The battle between Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai concerned all of the Gu Immortals in the world. Each clash shook people's souls, it would directly affect the future of the five regions.
As the two sides continued to fight, the immortals heard loud noises from the west.
The loud sound came imposingly, with an unstoppable aura like a torrential flood.
The Gu Immortals heard this and quickly shifted their gazes, they saw that qi tides were approaching the battlefield from far in the horizons.
"During this crucial battle, the qi tides actually came to wreak havoc!"
"Quickly retreat, if we get hit by the qi tides, our immortal apertures will tremor and result in lots of losses."
"What about this battle?"
The Gu Immortals were stunned, this was an unexpected development.
Jun Shen Guang's expression sank: "Oh no! Qi Sea Ancestor is an Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, he is restricted by the qi tides, the situation will be severe. But Wu Shuai is a new dragonman Gu Immortal, after the refinement path modification, he is less affected."
This information came from Duke Long.
During the fate war, Duke Long secretly used dragonman extermination but could not end Wu Shuai's life. Back then, he specially told them about this.
Humans alike dragons was the Gu refinement method created by Duke Long, it could turn humans into dragonmen. The first generation dragonmen were created by this method.
Heavenly Court had Duke Long's information and also the method humans alike dragons, they could easily deduce a portion of Wu Shuai's foundation. Thus, when they learned that Wu Shuai was leading the two heavens alliance to invade Eastern Sea, they were not surprised that he could fight.
Zhou Xiong Xin gritted his teeth: "Qi tides are a qi tide catastrophe, Qi Sea Ancestor is a qi path great expert, he definitely has an advantage in dealing with it compared to us! Now, let's see how he deals with this change, it will be the turning point of this battle."
"Qi Sea Ancestor, even heaven is not helping you. Let's see how long you can last in the qi tide!" Wu Shuai shouted excitedly, he moved Dragon Palace to assist the Evil Dragon as they attacked ferociously.
This sight made the human Gu Immortals grit their teeth as they retreated, many prayed in their hearts: "Senior Qi Sea Ancestor, you must persevere."
At the next moment, Qi Sea Ancestor laughed loudly: "Wu Shuai, you fell for it, I was waiting for you to fall for the bait."
As he said that, the qi waves turned around, like a blossoming flower returning to a bud, they encased Qi Sea Ancestor and Dragon Palace before condensing into a dot, vanishing.
In the battlefield, only Evil Dragon Di Zang Sheng was left growling and roaring.
"What battlefield killer move is this?"
"At the crucial moment, Senior Qi Sea Ancestor actually trapped Wu Shuai in a battlefield killer move. This is too amazing!"
"So Qi Sea Ancestor had been plotting all along."
"Wu Shuai is trapped in a qi path battlefield, isolated from the Evil Dragon, he is at a disadvantage now."
"That might not be true, Qi Sea Ancestor's qi path battlefield is going to face the rushing qi tides, if the battlefield is destroyed, Qi Sea Ancestor will suffer backlash, he might end up in a disadvantage too."
"Now, it will depend on whether Qi Sea Ancestor is able to break into Dragon Palace first. If not, when his qi path battlefield is destroyed, Wu Shuai will gather with the Evil Dragon, Qi Sea Ancestor will be in huge danger."
The Gu Immortals on both sides were very worried.
They could not personally watch such a crucial battle. Not only that, they had to retreat away from the qi tides, otherwise, their losses in the immortal aperture would be huge.
Right as everyone was thinking about the qi path battlefield and how intense the battle would be, Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor were relaxing and drinking wine in Dragon Palace.
Other than wine, there was also food.
Fang Yuan's clone and his main body were in harmony, the atmosphere was relaxed.
Wu Shuai clone gave the incomplete Human Sea to Fang Yuan's main body.
After receiving it, Fang Yuan's main body and Wu Shuai clone started to discuss their plans for the future.
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Chapter 1989 Demon Judgment Board Lord
"To think that the qi tide would come at such a crucial moment." Prince Feng Xian wore a golden cape, he sighed in pity.
Beside him was a female immortal of Heavenly Court, she was Bai Cang Shui, she said with deep meaning: "Isn't that a good thing?"
Besides them, Gu Yue Fang Zheng was also here.
These three Gu Immortals were currently inside rank eight Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board, they were not in Central Continent, they had entered immemorial black heaven.
Gu Yue Fang Zheng's expression changed slightly, he knew the deeper meaning that Bai Cang Shui was pointing out.
He could not help but think back to the instructions and arrangements that Qin Ding Ling gave him before leaving Heavenly Court.
"You and Gu Yue Fang Yuan were born together and counter each other, you are the arrangement of the Heavenly Dao. Even if Fang Yuan changes his body, this relationship will not change. Precisely so, you will lead the expedition this time, bring Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui to launch a sneak attack on the headquarters of the variant human grotto-heavens in the two heavens!"
Qin Ding Ling cultivated luck path, she placed great importance on Gu Yue Fang Zheng, knowing that the lucks of Gu Yue Fang Zheng and Fang Yuan were tightly connected, she could sense that they countered each other.
And facts proved this.
Qin Ding Ling's awakening, the discovery of the dragonman blessed land, they were all variables that suppressed Fang Yuan.
Right now, Heavenly Court lost in the fate war, Duke Long died, Feng Jiu Ge betrayed them, the immortal graveyard was destroyed, while Star Constellation's will had no response. The great Heavenly Court was at its weakest moment for the last million years.
Qin Ding Ling temporarily led Heavenly Court, she naturally had to make use of all the available strength to defend themselves and resist enemies.
Thus, the stronger Fang Yuan was, the more focus Qin Ding Ling placed on Fang Zheng.
In order to nurture Fang Zheng, Qin Ding Ling spared no expense on immortal materials, she even let him lead this expedition to train his leadership skill.
Fang Zheng was not a youngster anymore, he knew that this was an unprecedented opportunity that was rarely seen in thousands of years. Even though Heavenly Court lost, their foundation was still unfathomable, with such a huge organization supporting him, he had to grasp it.
Fang Zheng still had rank seven cultivation level now, he had not reached the condition to join Heavenly Court, thus, his rank seven blessed land was not handed over to them. The truth was, Qin Ding Ling needed him to grow stronger, thus, even when he becomes a rank eight Gu Immortal in the future, as long as he still had room for improvement, Qin Ding Ling would not make him give up his immortal aperture. After all, the Gu Immortal's growth would almost completely halt after getting a phantom aperture.
"Senior Bai is right! Currently, with Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai stuck in battle, it is our best opportunity to launch an attack. Let's go now."
Gu Yue Fang Zheng spoke as he acted swiftly.
Rank eight Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board was immediately activated, it turned into a blood colored meteor that pierced through the grotto-heaven wall with a loud sound, entering Great Wisdom grotto-heaven directly!
The three immortals in Demon Judgment Board looked at Great Wisdom grotto-heaven, it had a beautiful scenery of lush mountains and flowing rivers. Inkmen lived here harmoniously, they had peaceful lives, there were many people here, it was a flourishing habitat.
A thick blood red light spread out rapidly from Demon Judgment Board, spreading throughout the world.
The essence of an Immortal Gu House was immortal killer moves, it was constructed using Immortal Gu and mortal Gu. According to the different Gu worms used, with different structures, Immortal Gu Houses had their own specialties.
Demon Judgment Board had great might, it showed a solid performance during the fate war. It was able to fight directly and managed to survive the war, this showed that Demon Judgment Board was one of the top rank eight Immortal Gu Houses in the world.
At this moment, Demon Judgment Board was unleashing an information path ability that had not been used in the fate war.
Wherever the blood red light went, all sorts of information gathered into Demon Judgment Board like a waterfall, before entering the minds of the three immortals.
Prince Feng Xian frowned, showing a look of hatred and disgust: "The inkmen here actually captured humans secretly and exploited them as slaves, they truly deserve death. These variant humans should all die! Let's kill these ones here and soul search them first."
But Bai Cang Shui shook her head: "These are just mortals, even if we soul search them, they would not know many secrets of the higher-ups. We should give them a taste of their own medicine, let's enslave them all and sell them as slaves in treasure yellow heaven, not only can we replenish Heavenly Court's reserves with this, it can also display the authority of our Heavenly Court."
Fang Zheng frowned on the inside.
He had once lived for many years in Lang Ya blessed land with the hairy men due to Fang Yuan, he experienced the culture of the variant humans.
Even though these inkmen treated humans as slaves, he was still unwilling to kill the innocent.
But Fang Zheng did not rebuke the two immortals, instead he said: "These mortal inkmen are not important, the key now is to rapidly kill the inkman Gu Immortals here. Let's take a look at this list of the Demon Judgment Board!"
A new list on the Demon Judgment Board appeared, the names of the inkman Gu Immortals inside Great Wisdom grotto-heaven were clearly written on it.
"Let's go!" Fang Zheng shouted resolutely, activating Demon Judgment Board, they followed the connection to rapidly find the closest inkman Gu Immortal.
This inkman Gu Immortal had already sensed something amiss, he secretly went to gather with the other inkman Gu Immortals.
Seeing the approaching Demon Judgment Board, he flew desperately, but how could his speed match a rank eight Immortal Gu House?
"Ahhh!"
With a pitiful cry, this inkman Gu Immortal was directly killed by the charging Immortal Gu House. Blood red light captured his soul, it was brought to the three immortals.
The three immortals quickled used soul search to gain lots of precious information.
Within this Great Wisdom grotto-heaven, there were many inkmen and cities. The biggest city was at the center of the grotto-heaven, it had the largest number of inkman Gu Immortals gathered there.
Of course, at this moment, there were still a few inkman Gu Immortals scattered outside.
"Demon Judgment Board Lord, what do we do now?" Bai Cang Shui asked Fang Zheng.
Fang Zheng did not hesitate: "We will immediately attack that immortal city!"
Demon Judgment Board tore through the sky with outstanding speed, reaching the immortal city in a moment's time.
During this period, the inkman Gu Immortals of the grotto-heaven had already gathered.
"Heavenly Court! We have no grudges with each other but you launched a sneak attack on us, can you still consider yourself righteous?" Within the immortal city, an inkman Gu Immortal shouted.
Prince Feng Xian laughed heartily: "Heavenly Court upholds the justice of humanity, your entire inkman group is full of evil demons, you deserve to be purged by everyone."
"What's the point of arguing with them?" Fang Zheng acted more directly than Prince Feng Xian, he sent Demon Judgment Board to crash down on them.
The inkman Gu Immortals gritted their teeth and shouted: "Then you will have a taste of our Great Wisdom grotto-heaven's main formation!"
At once, fog appeared and dyed the sky pitch-black.
Demon Judgment Board entered the fog and could not find its directions, it was completely trapped.
Not only that, the dense black fog was seeking to infiltrate the Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board.
Fang Zheng did not fluster, he first tried to use killer moves to probe it.
Lumps and lumps of blood flames spread out, wherever they went, black fog dispersed, but soon, the black fog seemed to have adapted, it devoured the blood flames aggressively.
Fang Zheng tried to attack several times but he failed each time.
Demon Judgment Board flew around the place but could not find any opening, it could not fly out of the black fog.
After thinking for a while, Fang Zheng used the strongest method in Demon Judgment Board, causing wanton destruction everywhere.
After a few minutes, a large amount of immortal essence was expended, Fang Zheng saw the black fog dispersing as they saw daylight again.
But the immortal city was already blown to bits, the surrounding thousand li were in ruins, countless lifeforms died from Demon Judgment Board's attacks.
The defending inkman Gu Immortals were mostly dead, only one was still alive, holding his final breath.
He looked at Demon Judgment Board with a gaze of deep hatred, he gritted his teeth: "How laughable, the great Heavenly Court is actually using blood path methods! You slaughtered these innocent people with no sense of guilt in your heart, you are truly the most vile demons of the demonic path!"
Prince Feng Xian snorted coldly, replying in disdain: "Blood path is only a method, when used on you, it shows humanity's righteousness."
"The owner of our Great Wisdom grotto-heaven will not let you off!" The inkman Gu Immortal said before dying.
"It's over?" The person who caused this situation and claimed victory, Fang Zheng, stared with wide eyes in disbelief.
Bai Cang Shui knew how he felt, she smiled: "Board Lord, you think this is the fate war, where intense fighting would happen that persists for months?"
Fang Zheng heard this and had a realization, he sighed: "So that's it."
The fate war was at the peak of the world in terms of battle strength. After Fang Zheng participated in it personally, his impression of fights between Gu Immortals was elevated to a great degree.
Right now, he was fighting against rank six and seven inkman Gu Immortals using the rank eight Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board, he realized it was so easy! It was too simple!
"Then, what do we do now, Board Lord?" Prince Feng Xian asked.
Fang Zheng pondered before answering: "Right now, the owners of these variant human grotto-heavens are with Wu Shuai in Eastern Sea. Since we already won this fight here, we still have time to attack the other grotto-heavens. This assault is a great chance, we need to make good use of it. Senior Bai Cang Shui, stay here, guard the place and collect our loot."
For the sake of the ordinary inkmen, Fang Zheng did not let the more racist and violent Prince Feng Xian stay here, he chose Bai Cang Shui.
Bai Cang Shui and Prince Feng Xian looked at each other, seeing satisfaction in each other's eyes.
Fang Zheng's performance as the leader of this trip was quite commendable. Be it his decisions or mindset, he was dependable and had the aura of a great general.
"Then I will stay here. Please be careful yourselves." Bai Cang Shui expressed.
Fang Zheng nodded with a solemn expression: "Senior, don't worry, I will not underestimate the enemies. I have not forgotten the most important point, that is the actions of Wu Shuai's force."
Bai Cang Shui felt relieved upon hearing these words, they took their leave.
Eastern Sea.
The qi tide had just subsided, the Dragon Palace with a damaged appearance crashed into Xia clan's headquarters.
"Oh, Lord Wu Shuai is back!"
"What was the result of the battle?"
"Lord Alliance Leader, you got injured?!"
The variant human Gu Immortals entered Dragon Palace, they saw Wu Shuai, who had a pale expression and was covered in bloodstains.
"Qi Sea Ancestor is formidable! I need to recuperate in closed cultivation." Wu Shuai coughed out mouthfuls of blood.
The variant human Gu Immortals were pale, overwhelmed by fear and panic.
Wu Shuai snorted coldly: "Don't worry, I used up a major portion of Human Sea and unleashed human path methods, that Qi Sea Ancestor is also severely injured."
The variant human Gu Immortals let out sighs of relief, it turned out the battle had ended in a draw.
Right at this time, Great Wisdom Immortal Mother's expression changed as she cried out in alarm: "Oh no! My Great Wisdom grotto-heaven was attacked, it is in imminent peril!"
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Chapter 1990 Wu Shuai“s Healing
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother's words shocked all of the present variant human Gu Immortals.
Soon, they reacted to the news.
"We need to save them, these are our headquarters."
"Great Wisdom, do you know who invaded your grotto-heaven?"
"Heavenly Court!" Great Wisdom Immortal Mother had a dark expression, gritting her teeth in hatred: "The invading Gu Immortals used Demon Judgment Board, it is a Heavenly Court rank eight Immortal Gu House, this cannot be faked."
"Hmph, so it is Heavenly Court!"
"Heavenly Court is simply too shameless, they actually attacked without a proper declaration of war."
"Heavenly Court is an organization made by demons to begin with. The past Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable was the biggest demon in the world, far beyond Fang Yuan in fact. These are the records that our races have clearly left behind."
While the immortals berated Heavenly Court, there was a sudden sound as Great Wisdom Immortal Mother directly knelt on the ground, kowtowing to Wu Shuai as she called: "Lord Alliance Leader, please help us uphold justice."
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother knew in her heart that she had no ability to save it. Just that rank eight Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board alone was an obstacle. That was not including the hidden Heavenly Court rank eight Gu Immortals in Demon Judgment Board.
Wu Shuai acknowledged her words: "Great Wisdom, no need to worry, stand up first!"
He seemed to have a livid expression but he did not find this strange at all. Heavenly Court's actions were within his expectations, during the five hundred years of his previous life, Heavenly Court had similarly done such an invasion.
Wu Shuai said resolutely and solemnly: "Great Wisdom is one of us, now that Great Wisdom grotto-heaven is attacked by Heavenly Court, we need to save it. Not only that, we need to take revenge for the damage that Heavenly Court has caused to Great Wisdom grotto-heaven, we will not let this go!"
"Thank you Lord Alliance Leader!" Great Wisdom Immortal Mother felt relieved, she stood up shakily, she already had the appearance of an old woman, at this moment, she looked even more pitiful as she asked: "When will we set off?"
Wu Shuai pondered: "This is a huge matter, we need to make plans first, we cannot panic and lose our rationality. We need to save Great Wisdom grotto-heaven, but we also need to defend our Eastern Sea Xia clan territory. Even though I fought evenly against Qi Sea Ancestor this time, Eastern Sea's righteous path will not let this go, they will retaliate. We worked hard to gain this territory, we must defend the fruits of our labor. Thankfully, we did not use any mermen earlier, in the following battle, the Merman Imperial Court can support us secretly as spies."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch stood up from the crowd at this moment: "Reporting to Lord Alliance Leader, I am willing to defend Xia clan's headquarters. If the Eastern Sea righteous path attacks, I will do my best to defend this place, they will not pass until I die!"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's words were very heroic and grand, but in his heart, he was trying to avoid conflicting with Heavenly Court. There were many variant human Gu Immortals with similar thoughts, they all sighed now, they had been too slow, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch made a move before them.
Among them, some of the variant human Gu Immortals who were close to Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch felt happy internally, if Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch defended the base, they would definitely be chosen to stay with him, after all, he could not defend the location alone.
"Very good." Wu Shuai nodded, he looked at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch with admiration: "Ice Crystal, you are very strong and have a vigilant nature, you are a powerful general in our alliance, I will be assured if you are defending it. After I recover from my injuries, you will defend Xia clan's territory for me."
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother heard this and became anxious, you all are talking so much but why is nobody talking about the departure timing?
She started to urge again: "Lord Alliance Leader, fellow allies, there is no time, Great Wisdom grotto-heaven's crisis is at hand, we need to save it immediately!"
Wu Shuai sighed: "After this battle against Qi Sea Ancestor, not only are my injuries severe, the healing is very troublesome. I need a lot of immortal materials to heal my physical body. The reason is because my dragonman body is different from Duke Long, I modified it and innovated upon the original version. When refining this body, I used a lot of rare immortal materials and paid a huge price. My healing will also require the same cost, regrettably, I lack a lot of immortal materials now, I need to make purchases in treasure yellow heaven."
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother had also heard rumors regarding the humans alike dragons method, she did not suspect his words as she asked: "May I ask Lord Alliance Leader how many immortal materials you require to heal your injuries? We can provide it."
Wu Shuai listed out the materials for her.
After hearing his words, all the variant human Gu Immortals took in sharp breaths.
The price was too huge!
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother was tongue tied as she gasped: "To think that Lord Alliance Leader's body is so valuable and expensive!"
Wu Shuai smiled but did not speak, he only glanced towards Gu tribe's leader.
Gu tribe's leader immediately said: "I can testify for this, many of my people have turned into dragonmen, we expended far more immortal materials than this!"
This was a lie, but Gu tribe's leader and Wu Shuai were very close, because he was an Eastern Sea rank eight, his words carried huge trustworthiness.
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother had naturally suspected that Wu Shuai was extorting them, but she did not dare to question him, the situation was not within her control.
After hesitating for a while, Great Wisdom Immortal Mother gritted her teeth as she said with difficulty: "Lord Alliance Leader, I am willing to fund and contribute the immortal materials to help you recover quickly."
The variant human Gu Immortals quickly took action, gathering the immortal materials.
Wu Shuai accepted the immortal materials but shook his head: "Even with all the immortal materials I need at least three days and two nights to heal."
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother heard his words and almost fainted on the spot.
She was extremely anxious, she was about to speak but Wu Shuai waved his hand, she could not say anything.
Because at the next moment, Wu Shuai added: "As the alliance leader, no matter which of your headquarters get attacked, I will definitely save them. Heavenly Court is our common enemy! But the situation is indeed tough now, how about this… Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, as the vice alliance leader, lead a group of people to save them in black heaven first. Try your best to preserve the foundation of Great Wisdom grotto-heaven."
"What?" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch stared with wide eyes, showing a difficult expression. to think that this matter still ended up being delegated to him, he quickly thought about it but found that he could not refuse, he gritted his teeth: "I… will go. But I am too weak and powerless, I do not want to ruin the expedition, I would like to borrow Lord Alliance Leader's Dragon Palace. With it, I can definitely complete my mission!"
But Wu Shuai shook his head: "I cannot lend Dragon Palace, I need it to heal my injuries."
"Is that so…" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch wanted to speak.
But Wu Shuai's expression changed as he said grimly: "Everyone, the situation is urgent now, we cannot talk about it further. Great Wisdom grotto-heaven is only the first target, will your grotto-heavens remain untouched? You need to save yourselves! Were I not the alliance leader, when faced with this situation, would you surrender to them? Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, I order you to go save them immediately, you can choose five people here to go with you."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch felt a strong pressure pressing down on him. He could only lower his head and accept the order.
He chose five Gu Immortals from among the people here, they were all rank eight Gu Immortals.
These were all leaders of forces close to him, there was no choice, resisting Heavenly Court to save Great Wisdom grotto-heaven was too dangerous, he did not want to get into trouble from internal strife.
However, right when they were about to move out, Great Wisdom Immortal Mother suddenly froze as she said dejectedly: "It's too late, my Great Wisdom grotto-heaven has been completely taken down by Heavenly Court!"
The Gu Immortals gasped in unison.
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother fell to the ground as she knelt before Wu Shuai, sobbing: "Please take revenge for me, Lord Alliance Leader. My tribe has been doing its best to collect the fragments of the Qian Kun Crystal Wall, we have more than fifty percent now! If we can find another ten percent, we will be able to excavate the racial inheritance of our inkman race!"
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother directly exposed the racial inheritance of her tribe, the intention was obvious, she was trying to use benefits to lure Wu Shuai!
After hearing about the racial inheritance, the other Gu Immortals' eyes started to shine.
At this moment, another Gu Immortal shouted in panic: "Oh no, my grotto-heaven is being attacked by Heavenly Court. Quick, quick! Go and save it!"
Wu Shuai looked at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch imposingly: "This is an urgent matter, aren't you setting off?"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch gritted his teeth, he brought a number of Gu Immortals to return to immemorial black heaven.
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother and another pitiful Gu Immortal went back to reinforce the invaded grotto-heaven, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and the rest also went there, within Dragon Palace, less than half the Gu Immortals were left.
The remaining Gu Immortals had ugly expressions, most of them were shell shocked, after all, they could be the next target at any time.
Wu Shuai ignored them, he ordered them to defend Xia clan's base as he shut the door of Dragon Palace, attending to his 'injuries'.
"These variant human Gu Immortals are truly not our match, hehe." Night Heavenly Wolf Lord was among the Gu Immortals, he was the only person here who had peace of mind.
"All these grotto-heaven Gu Immortals don't have any interaction during normal times, they even guard against each other and think that they should keep more secrets to themselves! With such precaution against each other, how can they make any change? Even if they work together, they are still a disunited bunch! My decision to join Heavenly Court was right after all."
After this matter, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord was even more sure of his intention to work for Heavenly Court.
After parting with the immortals, he secretly informed Heavenly Court of this expedition.
Wu Shuai had created the two heavens alliance agreement, there were restrictions upon it naturally. But the information path dao marks on Night Heavenly Wolf Lord had already been removed by Zhou Xiong Xin and the others, thus, even though he was a traitor, no backlash had occurred.
In Heavenly Court's Central Great Hall, Qin Ding Ling soon received news of this.
She thought about it but did not inform Eastern Sea's righteous path, instead she told Fang Zheng.
Fang Zheng was already about to take down the second grotto-heaven, the remaining Gu Immortals in the grotto-heaven were still well hidden, Fang Zheng was anxious to find them.
After thinking about it, he decided to ask Prince Feng Xian to stay here and clean up the situation. He would bring Demon Judgment Board to the third grotto-heaven and assault it!
At the same time.
Eastern Sea, qi sea.
Qi Sea Ancestor had a pale expression, he sat at the main seat as he looked at Xia Rui Zhi and the rest.
The representatives of Eastern Sea's righteous path forces were all here.
Qi Sea Ancestor looked at Xia Rui Zhi as he asked: "In this battle, I had the upper hand at first, but that Wu Shuai actually managed to use a human path method. This method was very powerful, it could create countless flying human figures. According to Wu Shuai, this is the foundation of your Xia clan, is it an artificial secluded domain of heaven and earth?"
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Chapter 1991 Ancestor is Righteous and Mighty
After Xia clan first supreme elder Xia Rui Zhi heard Qi Sea Ancestor's question, he became shocked.
After a while, he answered vigilantly: "Reporting to ancestor, my Xia clan was indeed creating an artificial human path secluded domain, it is called Human Sea. But this secluded domain does not have any offensive power. The reason why we created it was to deal with the future chaos and have a method to revive our Xia clan Gu Immortals."
Xia Rui Zhi spoke vaguely but he did not lie. The reason why Xia clan was creating Human Sea was to revive their Gu Immortals.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, Fang Yuan remembered that when Xia clan's Gu Immortals died outside, they were not truly dead, they could revive from Human Sea. Although their Immortal Gu and immortal aperture's accumulations would be lost, they would still retain their cultivation level and immortal aperture itself.
Eastern Sea's Xia clan gained a huge reputation because of this, for the following period of time, they invaded Southern Border. Southern Border's Gu Immortals fought against Xia clan, over time, they learned about Xia clan's background and foundation, eventually, Chai clan mimicked Human Sea and created their own Human Mountain secluded domain.
Qi Sea Ancestor stroked his beard: "It seems that the reason why Wu Shuai led the two heavens' Gu Immortals to invade your Xia clan was because of this Human Sea secluded domain."
All of the present Xia clan Gu Immortals looked at each other.
Xia Rui Zhi frowned as he muttered: "Was my Xia clan invaded because information got leaked and the allure of the Human Sea secluded domain caused enemies to attack? But this Human Sea secluded domain has not been completed yet."
Qi Sea Ancestor had a grim expression: "If Wu Shuai did not have a complete Human Sea secluded domain, does that mean that after he completes it, he will have an actual Human Sea and his human path killer move will be even stronger?"
Xia Rui Zhi smiled: "Ancestor, don't worry, the creation of Human Sea originated from an ancestor of my clan, it was refined by generations of descendants. Wu Shuai does not know of its profundity, if he tries to complete it, Human Sea will only dwindle and shrink."
Qi Sea Ancestor shook his head: "Wu Shuai is an old monster of the past, he made use of Fang Yuan's power to revive successfully, this person is too scheming and crafty, he takes action with certainty. Each time he strikes, he is resolute and will always make great gains. Since he knew about your Xia clan's Human Sea secluded domain, he might also know a way to complete it."
Xia Rui Zhi's smile became more forced: "This possibility… is not likely. Only the top three supreme elders of my clan know about the creation method of Human Sea. Right now, they are all here, don't tell me we have a traitor among us?"
Qi Sea Ancestor sighed: "It might not be a traitor. Don't forget that Wu Shuai controls Dragon Palace which has dream path killer moves, he might have targeted you in your dreams."
"This…" Xia Rui Zhi's smiling expression froze entirely.
If it were any other path, Xia Rui Zhi would still feel some confidence. But against dream path methods, he could not be certain.
"Lord Xia Rui Zhi, friends from Xia clan." At this time, a Tang clan Gu Immortal spoke: "Should you still be hiding it? You should tell us the creation method of Human Sea, let us refer to it and find out a weakness of Wu Shuai's human path method."
Xia clan's Gu Immortals were stunned.
The creation method of Human Sea was the deepest foundation of Eastern Sea's Xia clan, how could they expose it like this?
Tang clan's Gu Immortal was merely after Human Sea himself.
Tang clan's member chuckled: "Pardon my words, but friends from Xia clan, what are you still waiting for? Your territory has been lost, you want to create a brand new Human Sea secluded domain from scratch? Do you know what the most important thing is now? When ancestor and Wu Shuai fought, it ended in a draw because of that human path killer move. As long as we can deduce this human path killer move, would we have to fear Wu Shuai and his army? By then, wouldn't you get back your homeland?"
Xia clan's Gu Immortals gritted their teeth in anger.
Tang clan was an Eastern Sea super force, they bordered Xia clan and had much conflict in usual times. Thus, they decided to make things difficult for Xia clan at this moment.
However, even though they were causing problems intentionally, their words made sense.
This was something even Xia clan's Gu Immortals had to admit.
Xia Rui Zhi thought about it before making up his mind: "The method to create Human Sea is our Xia clan's secret, we will not announce it publicly. I am only willing to contribute this human path essence to ancestor alone!"
Qi Sea Ancestor got injured from fighting Wu Shuai, Xia clan's hopes were all on Qi Sea Ancestor now. Because the two heavens were led by Wu Shuai, Eastern Sea only had Qi Sea Ancestor able to resist the Evil Dragon and Dragon Palace collectively.
Xia Rui Zhi was trying to gain Qi Sea Ancestor's favor now, he was making plans for his own clan.
But Qi Sea Ancestor shook his head: "I am only asking this to confirm the situation. Your Xia clan can keep this Human Sea creation method. I have no foundation in human path, even if I get it, I cannot deduce Wu Shuai's methods."
Xia Rui Zhi became anxious and wanted to speak but Qi Sea Ancestor waved his hand to interrupt: "Xia clan does not have to worry. Wu Shuai is a dragonman, the two heavens alliance is also made up of mostly variant humans, they are public enemies of the five regions! If they invaded the other four regions, so be it, but they chose Eastern Sea after all, so as a human, I will resist these variant humans with all my effort."
"Ancestor is righteous and mighty!" The Gu Immortals present called out in unison.
Qi Sea Ancestor added: "But now, I have injuries from the battle, I need to recuperate in closed cultivation. As for Wu Shuai, his injuries are more severe, he will not take action during this period of time, there is no need to worry."
Qi Sea Ancestor paused before continuing: "When I recover, I will need you all to cooperate and gather an army to fight against the two heavens alliance."
"We will listen to ancestor."
"With ancestor leading us, Eastern Sea has nothing to worry!"
"Without ancestor, Eastern Sea would have suffered great losses already. It is truly Eastern Sea's blessing to have ancestor defending it, this is the blessing of the people."
The Eastern Sea Gu Immortals continued to flatter him without stopping.
But Xia Rui Zhi had a worried expression, he and Xia clan's members were currently homeless. During this period, they could not reclaim Xia clan's territory, where were they going to go now?
Qi Sea Ancestor smiled lightly: "Before we attack, friends from Xia clan, you may stay in qi sea as guests."
Xia clan's Gu Immortals instantly became overjoyed.
Xia Rui Zhi cupped his fists and thanked: "Xia clan will remember ancestor's warm hospitality, we will definitely repay you in the future."
The other clans' Gu Immortals looked at Xia clan's Gu Immortals with different expressions now. Other than disdain and sympathy, they also felt envious and jealous.
Was this Xia clan's fortune after a disaster? They were able to stay closely with Qi Sea Ancestor, as time passes, their relationship would deepen, they would be able to gain the backing of a great expert!
If they knew the truth, who knew what expression they would show.
After finishing their discussion, Qi Sea Ancestor went to recuperate in closed cultivation, the other Eastern Sea Gu Immortals also went back to their bases to make preparations for the upcoming battle.
Mermaid Lian Ke Xin was feeling nervous at the moment. The Merman Imperial Court had already joined the two heavens alliance, but Wu Shuai did not expose their identity, they were currently spies sent to gather information.
Feeling the cold breeze in the sky, Lian Ke Xin calmed down slowly as sorrow emerged in her heart: "Now it seems that Eastern Sea will be peaceful for this period of time without any fighting. But this is the calm before the storm, sigh, during the battle in the future, I wonder what action my Merman Imperial Court should take?"
Lian Ke Xin was one of the three immortals in charge of the Merman Imperial Court, she had high status and authority, but now she felt helpless and fearful.
The five regional walls vanished, everyone knew that the five regions were going to become chaotic and turbulent.
But the chaos had just started, Lian Ke Xin already felt like she was in treacherous waters, her future was bleak and dark, she could not see the light or hope of survival. If she was careless, then the entire Merman Imperial Court would even get completely devoured!
After hearing the report, Shen Cong Sheng learned of Qi Sea Ancestor's decision.
"It seems that Eastern Sea is currently led by Qi Sea Ancestor after all." Shen Cong Sheng sighed: "If Ancestor Shen Shang returned, it would be different. Letting a secluded cultivator lead the entire righteous path…"
Shen Cong Sheng shook his head.
He had ambition, he wanted Shen clan to be the overlord of Eastern Sea, as the number one force.
Different from the other righteous path clans, Shen clan had Shen Shang, he was someone who could compete with Qi Sea Ancestor.
But Shen Shang's whereabouts were unknown.
Shen clan had searched for him with full effort but they made no discoveries.
Shen Cong Sheng felt a huge headache regarding this: "Oh ancestor, where in the world are you?"
At the same time.
Divine Emperor City, painting path world.
Hong Yi and Ye Fan walked side by side on the bustling street.
At the corner of an alley, a group of muscular men surrounded a person as they kicked and punched.
"Stop!" Hong Yi could not watch anymore, he quickly stopped them.
After seeing the situation, Ye Fan was also furious: "Are you guys really hitting him? So many of you are bullying one beggar?"
The group of muscular men turned around: "Stupid kids, don't meddle in others' affairs! This lunatic is courting death, he scared my young master's precious horse to death, my clan's young master also fell to the ground. We will not rest until we beat him to death."
Hong Yi sighed: "You went overboard."
Boom boom boom.
Hong Yi and Ye Fan made their move, the group of muscular men were sent scrambling and escaping.
The beggar was curled up on the ground, he was covered in bruises, his body shivered as he muttered nonsensical phrases.
"He really is insane." Hong Yi sighed.
"Sigh, even if he is crazy, he is still human. He did not mean to scare the horse, right?" Ye Fan also felt some pity: "Come, let's help him, we can't leave him here like this."
The two brought the beggar into a secluded alley as they got him a few buns, placing it beside him.
After that, they left.
What they did not know was, after they left, the beggar regained his sanity.
"Where am I?"
"Damn it, the black fire wreaked havoc, I went mad again!"
This beggar was the person that Shen clan had been desperately trying to find, Shen Shang.
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Chapter 1992 Foundational Pillar of Human Path
People on the streets moved continuously, shops on both sides had bright signs and attractive banners.
"Wow! This is the world inside the painting. It is incredible! Everything seems so real!" Sun Yao's body shook as her vision widened, after entering the painting, she could not help but shout in amazement.
The surrounding people looked towards this young lady with perplexed gazes.
But Sun Yao did not notice it, her eyes were wide open and shining as she looked around, filled with curiosity and excitement.
Sun Yao was a Spirit Affinity House Gu Master, she was chosen as a Gu Immortal seed by the sect and was given much assistance.
Spirit Affinity House's original nominee was Feng Jin Huang, but because of Feng Jiu Ge's betrayal, Qin Ding Ling hesitated.
Spirit Affinity House thus changed their nominee, Sun Yao took over Feng Jin Huang's position.
However, the sect's nurturing was different from what she expected. Spirit Affinity House only told Sun Yao about the background of this painting before sending her in.
Sun Yao moved around the different shops on the streets, having a lot of fun.
She had grown up in Spirit Affinity House, she only had senior brothers or sisters around her, they were all cultivators and according to the rules of the sect, they did not interact with the outside world very much.
Everything that happened here was very exciting and interesting to her.
She spent primeval stones to buy many sticks of candy, she ate them as she looked around.
She saw paper-cutting artists in the alleys, where pieces of red paper were quickly transformed with scissors into life-like butterflies and flowers.
She went into the theater to enjoy the opera, she saw the people with their painted faces, their exaggerated dresses, and their long, high-pitched singing.
She stopped at a corner of the street and saw two strong men putting up a performance of smashing rocks on their chest.
Suddenly, she was tapped on the shoulder.
Sun Yao turned around and saw a young man, with a squarish face and an honest appearance.
Before Sun Yao could open her mouth, this young man with an honest and righteous air smiled sheepishly and said: "Are you from the ten great ancient sects?"
Sun Yao suddenly stared with wide eyes and exclaimed in surprise: "Senior brother, you too?"
The young man then nodded his head and introduced himself with cupped fists: "I am Chen Da Jiang of Wind Cloud Manor."
"So it's Senior Brother Chen!" Sun Yao was shocked, she returned the greeting in succession. Chen Da Jiang was the current generation number one disciple of Wind Cloud Manor, Sun Yao had already learned of his name before this.
Sun Yao had the feeling of seeing a celebrity. When Chen Da Jiang had first gained fame, she was nothing more than a follower of Feng Jin Huang.
Like Sun Yao, Chen Da Jiang was a recommended candidate from Wind Cloud Manor and was sent to the world of the painting.
The two of them met in a strange place, and even though it was only the first time they met, there was a natural closeness between them.
"Senior Brother Chen, I wonder what other arrangements the sect has made by sending us here for training." Sun Yao inquired.
Chen Da Jiang shook his head: "I don't know anything about that either. I originally thought that by entering here, I would be able to get guidance on the next step of my cultivation. I didn't expect that the sect would not have any arrangements."
The two of them had a fruitless conversation and decided to travel in companionship.
"Give me some food, please, our mother hasn't eaten for three days."
"Please give some money, please help us."
"My father is gone, I am selling myself to raise money for his funeral, I beg for your help!"
The two wandered aimlessly into a street, but all they saw were starving people, there were many yellow-skinned people leaning on the corner wall. Many people were begging, cupping their hands or holding up broken bowls.
Pedestrians on the street, on the other hand, were in a hurry and avoided them, rarely stopping to give alms to anyone.
"How is this happening? They are just two streets apart." Sun Yao was greatly surprised when she saw this scene.
Chen Da Jiang analyzed: "This is the painting world of Divine Emperor City. Every major scene that happened in the history of Emperor City is merged into one painting. It looks like this is what happened in Emperor City during one of the famine disasters of history."
Sun Yao couldn't help but overflow with sympathy: "Senior Brother Chen, even though they are only people in the painting and not real existences, they are so pitiful, I still want to help them."
Chen Da Jiang was impressed by Sun Yao's words, he smiled readily: "This might sound funny, but I also have the same idea. Why don't the two of us act together?"
"Awesome!" Sun Yao jumped at the chance and agreed to do so.
The two of them contributed money and effort, not only giving out primeval stones, but also purchasing porridge, buns, and other food to deliver to these beggars.
"Kind people!"
"Thank you, benefactors, we will never forget your act of kindness."
"Benefactors, please allow me to follow you two in return for your kindness!"
The people in distress were grateful and appreciative.
Just then, a shrill voice cut in: "What are you guys doing?"
When Sun Yao and Chen Da Jiang turned their heads, they saw a Gu Master wearing a white robe with a jade belt at his waist, his posture was as straight as a sword, an air of arrogance could be felt between his brows as he walked towards them.
"So it's Brother Xiao Qi Xing of Spirit Butterfly Valley!" Chen Da Jiang greeted with cupped fists.
Sun Yao gasped, Xiao Qi Xing was also a well-known figure, she said in a panic: "Spirit Affinity House's Sun Yao greets Brother Xiao."
Xiao Qi Xing sized up Sun Yao: "Are you the candidate of Spirit Affinity House this time? It seems that Feng Jin Huang has indeed been suppressed, this is not surprising at all, her father has openly betrayed Heavenly Court, this outcome is only natural."
As soon as this was said, Sun Yao frowned: "Senior Sister Feng wouldn't care about these things."
"Hehe, she is indeed arrogant. Pity, what a pity, a fallen phoenix is worse than a chicken." Xiao Qi Xing revealed a mocking smile: "You guys are actually helping these beggars again? They're not real people, why are you doing this for?"
"No reason, we just feel like helping them." Chen Da Jiang smiled.
"Hehe, sympathy…" Xiao Qi Xing shook his head in disdain: "That means you don't know the importance of this journey, you're wasting your time here!"
"Oh?" Chen Da Jiang's eyes lit up: "What does Brother Xiao know?"
Xiao Qi Xing looked at Chen Da Jiang: "There is no harm in telling you, this painting world is so vivid because it is the effect of Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's contented lifestyle killer move. We were all nominated by our sects to be trained by Heavenly Court and sent here for further nurturing. As I'm sure you've noticed, there are also Gu Masters cultivating here, but they cultivate mainly human path."
"What the sect wants is for us to cultivate human path. We will strive to ascend to become immortal using human path as our main path. Although this world is not real, the cultivation of human path is not fake. All the human path Gu worms we get from here can also be taken outside and used."
"So that's how it is!" Sun Yao's eyes widened but soon she expressed some doubt: "But why didn't the sect tell me?"
Chen Da Jiang, on the other hand, simply asked: "Where did Brother Xiao learn about this inside information?"
Xiao Qi Xing smiled slightly, he puffed out his chest and said proudly: "Even Spirit Butterfly Valley has not informed me of this inside information, I had gone to ask my great grandfather to find out."
Chen Da Jiang nodded understandingly, seeing that Sun Yao was still puzzled, he explained: "Brother Xiao has a noble status and a wealth of knowledge, his great grandfather is Lord Gu Immortal Xiao Bai Hong."
"Oh, so that's how it is." Sun Yao's gaze towards Xiao Qi Xing changed again.
"Alright, I have to head to the military base now and join the city guards. I've already investigated it, only city guards can get soldier Gu, sergeant Gu, lieutenant Gu, captain Gu, and others. These human path Gu worms are very useful, they can build a strong foundation in our human path cultivation. We should go together, we can take care of each other." Xiao Qi Xing suggested again.
But Chen Da Jiang shook his head, "Brother Xiao, go first, I'm not done helping the beggars here."
Xiao Qi Xing looked at Chen Da Jiang and nodded: "You're still the same as before, so what about you?"
He looked at Sun Yao.
Sun Yao hesitated and shook her head as well: "No, Senior Brother Xiao, I… I plan to help Senior Brother Chen."
"Haha." Xiao Qi Xing laughed as he showed a smile with deep meaning: "Then I will not disturb the two of you in your good work."
He left straight away, laughing coldly in his heart: "These two idiots have no idea what kind of opportunities they are missing out on!"
Xiao Qi Xing could not help but recall the words that his great grandfather had instructed him: "Oh Qi Xing, this trip into the painting world is an unimaginably great opportunity. If possible, you can even inherit Genesis Lotus' true inheritance and become the Lord of Divine Emperor City. You must do your best to grasp this opportunity! Remember, you must hurry up. You are only the first batch of candidates, Heavenly Court will also arrange for some rank six Gu Immortals to enter next. These people are also elites that Heavenly Court is focusing on nurturing, but the qi tides have not settled yet and they are all still resting and recuperating."
"After you enter the painting world, you will have to race against time and try to establish an early advantage so that you can deal with those Gu Immortal opponents in the future. Don't be afraid, these Gu Immortals can only follow the rules in the painting world. Inside it, immortals and mortals are basically equals."
Xiao Qi Xing's heart beat rapidly every time he recalled these words.
This was an unparalleled opportunity, of course he wanted to grasp it!
Sun Yao and Chen Da Jiang did not know the inside story, so Xiao Qi Xing wanted to coax them to help himself out. It was a pity that these two actually wanted to do good deeds, they were really not qualified to work with him. Xiao Qi Xing saw through this and was unwilling to waste precious time and energy on them.
"We brought steamed buns and porridge, eat slowly and don't choke." Sun Yao placed a bowl of porridge and steamed buns in front of Shen Shang.
Shen Shang was still covered in injuries and resembled a beggar, sitting in the shade at the corner like a stone statue.
Sun Yao also did not pay attention to it, after all, there were many such silent beggars. She did this to help others, not for the sake of listening to some words of gratitude and praise.
Shen Shang's eyes contained bright light as he looked at Sun Yao who was close to him, and also at the back of Xiao Qi Xing, who was about to disappear in the distance of the street.
"These people are all Heavenly Court's Gu Immortal seeds. In order to face the tides of the great era, Heavenly Court has made long-term plans."
"Xiao Bai Hong is too shortsighted and doesn't even know that he has harmed his own great-grandson. Sun Yao and Chen Da Jiang were previously kept in the dark, but now, although they learned some of the inside story, they still upheld their nature and acted according to their desires. These two will definitely benefit greatly if they continue."
Shen Shang thought to himself. Although these three people were transmitting their conversations, they could not hide it from a character like Shen Shang.
Shen Shang sighed in his heart.
"Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's arrangement is truly vast and grand, I really admire him."
"In history, the greatest human path true inheritance is [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]. Even though this book seems shallow, it is profound to the limit, only a small group of people can actually comprehend its true essence and create human path killer moves."
"However, to establish a path, these killer moves are too few and rare, they are like the moon beyond the clouds, normal people cannot reach them. Even though human path has such great potential, it has no foundations set upon it, it is unable to develop until now."
"But Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable created this painting world, he used the scenes of the mortal world for the past million years to derive the foundations of human path. He is making an immense contribution towards the development of human path! He is truly the foundational pillar of human path."
"The human path developments here are also very helpful to me. I wonder what happened when I was in a state of madness, how did I end up in here?"
"It is a pity I cannot contact Fang Yuan's Fang Di Chang clone. What is happening over on his end?"
Shen Shang was the one who had previously collaborated with Fang Di Chang and successfully unraveled the venerables' human path methods, adding a significant weight to tilt the balance of the battle in the fate war.
Shen Shang knew that Fang Di Chang had refined Divine Bean Palace before, he had a large level of authority over it. If they could collaborate once again, it would benefit both of them!
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Chapter 1993 Fang Yuan Within The Mis
Sovereign immortal aperture, Mini Southern Border.
In a valley, Shi Shi Cheng leaned over to check out the stone mushrooms within the valley.
If these stone mushrooms were in good condition, they would be five feet tall, shaped like a small tree with a cover like an umbrella. However, these stone mushrooms were short, just like stumps left behind after a tree was cut down. And instead of a healthy gray stone color, their bodies were covered in a distorted multicolored color, and one could tell at a glance that they were not normal.
"These stone mushrooms are ruined!" After Shi Shi Cheng finished his inspection and confirmed this, his expression was quite ugly.
Although his cultivation was only rank six, he was valued by Fang Yuan and arranged to lead the rockman tribe in Mini Southern Border. Shi Shi Cheng held Fang Yuan in high esteem and was dedicated to developing the rockman tribe, in order to live up to Fang Yuan's expectations.
This stone mushroom field was a medium-sized resource point that he had personally constructed for the sake of the rockman tribe. In order to build this resource point, Shi Shi Cheng had specifically requested many immortal materials from Fang Yuan's time path clone as the initial investment. At that time, he even vowed and guaranteed that there would be desirable returns!
As a result, reality was like a slap in the face of Shi Shi Cheng.
"What is happening?"
"I clearly followed the records of the tribe to carefully cultivate the stone mushrooms without any mistakes."
Shi Shi Cheng was very confused. A few days ago, these stone mushrooms were all growing normally and everything was fine. But after a few days had passed, these stone mushrooms had become like this.
"How can I explain this to Lord Fang Yuan?!" Shi Shi Cheng furrowed his brows and sighed.
At this moment, light flashed and Fang Yuan's will was transmitted over in mid-air.
The will was solid and lifelike.
Shi Shi Cheng gasped and immediately bowed: "Subordinate pays respect to lord."
"Mm." Fang Yuan's will waved his hand: "I already know about your situation here, the stone mushroom field was destroyed, no one can blame you, it was a natural disaster. You should go back for now, another batch of immortal materials will arrive in a while, and you can just build a second stone mushroom valley."
Shi Shi Cheng was overjoyed and thanked him, but also wanted to say something.
Fang Yuan's will revealed an understanding smile: "Are you thinking of asking what caused these stone mushrooms to be destroyed?"
Shi Shi Cheng nodded: "Lord is perceptive, I would like to ask if these stone mushrooms can still be recycled in some way? It would be a pity to just throw them away."
The initial investment in building the stone mushroom valley was huge, it was certainly nothing in Fang Yuan's eyes, but in Shi Shi Cheng's opinion, it was an astronomical investment. Together with the effort and time he had invested in this place, he did not want to see all his efforts go up in smoke.
But Fang Yuan shook his head: "You don't need to think about the details, if I can solve it, you will have no worries. If I can't solve it, it's useless for you to know. As for these stone mushrooms, none of them can be used, even if they are used as materials to refine Gu, they will only cause more harm instead. You can leave now."
"Yes, my lord!" Shi Shi Cheng took his leave respectfully, he was worried in his heart: "Why do we have such a big problem? According to his tone, it may not be possible to resolve the matter?"
Shi Shi Cheng left, only Fang Yuan's will remained in this valley.
Fang Yuan's expression was grim.
He scanned the entire valley first, the countless stone mushrooms in the valley had become twisted objects, the originally smooth surface forming countless creases. The colors were bright, like a gathering of poisonous creatures, giving people a sense of terror.
This was of course just the appearance.
In Fang Yuan's eyes, he could see that the original earth path dao marks in these stone mushrooms had been disrupted and washed away, many different dao marks from other paths, including wind path, lightning path, poison path, dark path, fire path, and so on, were added instead.
Because of this, these stone mushrooms could only be discarded as waste material. At least currently, Fang Yuan had no means to utilize them.
"Heaven's will!" Fang Yuan's will suddenly sneered and discovered heaven's will lurking in the valley.
With a loud sound, he transformed into a field of clouds and mist that covered the entire valley, pursuing and intercepting heaven's will.
A confrontation between wills soon came to an end. Fang Yuan was victorious, he had managed to completely clear the heaven's will lurking in this place, but of course, the price paid was not small.
After his will had gathered again, it was no longer as lifelike as before, but illusory as a shadow, giving the impression like it was going to fade away at any moment.
Fang Yuan sighed.
This victory only resolved the problem but not its fundamental cause, a new problem would occur again!
The stone mushroom valley was not just an isolated case, recently, there had been heaven's will lurking all over the sovereign immortal aperture, many resource points had been destroyed.
Fang Yuan's main body had obtained more than three thousand heaven path dao marks as he was the person refining Gu, managing to destroy fate Gu for good.
These dao marks did not belong to him and were imposed on him. The heaven path dao marks transformed on their own, causing the various environments of the sovereign immortal aperture to change, becoming more and more balanced and stable.
In the long run, this change would naturally do more good than harm, greatly increasing the development potential of the sovereign immortal aperture. However, if one looked at the immediate future, it would cause Fang Yuan to suffer heavy losses.
Fang Yuan was not a super force, all his possessions were in the sovereign immortal aperture. A great loss in this foundation of his would definitely affect his battle performance. Fang Yuan did not want to fall into the trap of Red Lotus Demon Venerable, he had been working hard to command the humans and variant humans in the grotto-heaven, constantly fighting against natural disasters. At the same time, he had successively retrieved the thousand wish tree and the incomplete Human Sea, using human path to restrict the heaven path effects.
With such a two-pronged approach, the situation of sovereign immortal aperture was greatly improved. However, Fang Yuan did not expect that the natural development of the heaven path dao marks would produce heaven's will after some point.
The Heavenly Dao was impartial, it had no malicious intent against Fang Yuan, changing the environment was just a natural step of development. But this was not the case for heaven's will.
Heaven's will was produced from the Heavenly Dao, it was more flexible and resourceful. The Heavenly Dao was unable to eliminate Fang Yuan, the otherworldly demon that affected the balance of the world, so heaven's will went one step further and began deliberately destroying the various resource points in the sovereign immortal aperture.
Heaven path dao marks could transform into other paths, so heaven's will used this ability to completely disrupt the dao marks of the various resource points, turning them from orderly to a complete mess.
Stone mushroom valley was just one of them.
"I have the killer move heaven's will dissipation, but the sovereign immortal aperture is too huge, the Heavenly Dao is constantly deriving new changes, it can produce heaven's will anywhere in the entire grotto-heaven. It is too difficult for me to clear out all this heaven's will! Even if I do my best, the efficiency is low."
Fang Yuan was clear that the way to settle the fundamental cause was to directly refine these heaven path dao marks, so that they truly belonged to the sovereign immortal aperture and himself.
But what the method to go about it was, he had no idea.
He had never heard of anyone cultivating heaven path before! The only known way was to use human path methods to suppress heaven path.
Fang Yuan thought for a long time and found two possible ways out.
The first one was Emperor City.
"Emperor City was carefully arranged by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, it has now become the sacred land of human path. If I can obtain it, I will definitely be able to greatly restrain the Heavenly Dao."
The second way was in Crazed Demon Cave.
"Crazed Demon Cave was set up by Limitless Demon Venerable in his later years, the eighth layer contains the derivations of the Heavenly Dao. In Crazed Demon Cave, the demonic sounds are rampant, driving lifeforms mad, all kinds of immortal materials turn into trash as dao marks are messed up. The situation is exactly the same as the stone mushrooms and other resources. If I can grasp all the secrets of Crazed Demon Cave, I should be able to improve my situation."
But these were two dangerous options.
Emperor City was located in the center of Central Continent, if Fang Yuan were to go there, he would definitely have to fight Heavenly Court. With his current strength, he would be able to defeat Heavenly Court. However! Fang Yuan's fear was Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable and Red Lotus Demon Venerable.
Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable had schemed against him, causing him to lose his clone Fang Di Chang. When using luck inspection earlier, he did not find Fang Di Chang's luck, it was likely that he had perished, the likelihood of his death was great.
Red Lotus Demon Venerable also schemed against him, if not for the heaven path dao marks, how could heaven's will be produced in Fang Yuan's immortal aperture? Of course, Red Lotus was also plotting against Spectral Soul. The heaven path dao marks were both dangerous and also a fortuitous encounter for Fang Yuan, it was also his protection. At the least, Spectral Soul could not use his hidden methods because of these dao marks.
If Fang Yuan wanted to take Emperor City, he would have to face the methods of Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable and Red Lotus Demon Venerable.
As for Crazed Demon Cave?
It was also filled with danger.
The Three Crazed Demon Eccentrics had promised to join the fate war to Fang Yuan, but during the battle, none of them had shown up. Fang Yuan had tried to contact them, but they had completely vanished.
What happened in Crazed Demon Cave that caused the Three Crazed Demon Eccentrics to mysteriously disappear?
Fang Yuan guessed that Longevity Heaven might have taken action. Fang Yuan realized that the consumption of wisdom Gu was part of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's scheme. Giant Sun's single attack also made Fang Yuan realize that he was keeping some trump cards after all.
Now that fate Gu was destroyed, it was possible for venerables to revive. If Fang Yuan went to Crazed Demon Cave, it was likely that he would need to face the methods of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Limitless Demon Venerable.
There was one more thing that worried Fang Yuan, there were changes happening in the River of Time.
Ever since the destruction of fate Gu, the water of the River of Time had become extremely violent, vicious and dangerous. Even if Fang Yuan used Myriad Year Flying Warship, he could only barely enter the river and last for a moment before having to return to the five regions, he was unable to explore it for long.
Fang Yuan understood the reason.
In the past, the River of Time could move forward smoothly because everything was fixed, everything moved according to the path set by fate, no matter what existed, they had a specific trajectory of life experiences. This was why time path Gu Immortals could often "predict" things by watching the downstream segments. Red Lotus Demon Venerable was able to plot the destruction of fate Gu by observing the downstream events and learning many secrets of the future.
But now, once fate Gu was destroyed, everything no longer had a fixed path and could change at will. As a result, the River of Time has become extremely violent, everything has become turbid and chaotic.
With such a change in the River of Time, Spring Autumn Cicada could no longer be used for the time being.
Before, Spring Autumn Cicada could move through the river because the water was gentle. Now that the river had become violent and chaotic, once Spring Autumn Cicada was activated and entered the river, it would definitely be smashed to pieces by the river water. Unless Fang Yuan developed some other killer move that could use Spring Autumn Cicada.
"Although the river water is troublesome, it's actually not a big problem. What I'm really worried about is still Red Lotus Demon Venerable. He's the one who had built the stone lotus islands in the River of Time. I don't know what other arrangements he has in the River of Time."
Fate Gu was destroyed at long last, Fang Yuan had finally gotten free of the Sword of Damocles hanging above his head.
However, the journey ahead of him was filled with mist, he was walking in a dangerous valley. Within the mist, which area could be explored, which area would lead to a cliff?
Would his path to eternal life, his lifelong ambition, be hidden within the mist?
If it existed, where would it be?
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Chapter 1994 Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch Fights Fang Zheng
In immemorial black heaven, a group of Gu Immortals were traveling stealthily as they flew continuously.
These Gu Immortals had outstanding cultivation level, they were all rank eight variant human Gu Immortals. The leader was a Gu Immortal with pale skin and blue hair, he had a grim expression, it was Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had received orders from Wu Shuai to reinforce the headquarters of the grotto-heavens, to resist the invasion of Heavenly Court.
Along the way, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's heart was filled with worry: "This is not the same as my expectations… I made Wu Shuai the alliance leader so that he would be the vanguard. But in the end, to deal with Heavenly Court, I was the one sent out instead."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had the intention to reject this order, but the situation back then did not allow him to use any excuses.
"Wu Shuai suffered injuries against Qi Sea Ancestor, in a way, he was indeed used by us to resist Qi Sea Ancestor."
"As the vice alliance leader, I need to put in some effort too. It makes logical sense for me to reinforce them in black heaven."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch did not want to face Heavenly Court directly.
Regardless of win or loss, he would become an eyesore from Heavenly Court's perspective.
Currently, he wanted Wu Shuai to attract the attention of the enemies. But the world was not as simple as he thought, society was vicious to everyone, right now, he was pushed forward as the vanguard.
"I am truly unable to go against the tides!" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch sighed deeply to himself.
He definitely had to go save them, but the way to go about it was something that he could determine himself.
"Vice alliance leader, we found a large number of Gu Immortals ahead." The investigative Gu Immortal suddenly spoke: "They are our allies."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch nodded in response, unsurprised: "Go meet with them."
Even though Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch regretted his vice alliance leader position, it was already too late now, he could only take full advantage of the authority he had.
Before setting off, he had already used his status as vice alliance leader to order the remaining grotto-heaven forces to help each other out, in order to chase away Heavenly Court, they had to contribute their strength.
The two groups of Gu Immortals gathered, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch looked at the reinforcements, he felt rage building internally.
Chaotic Rock grotto-heaven sent an immemorial rock monster, Rotten Egg grotto-heaven sent six eggman Gu Immortals, they could form the ancient battle formation, Rotting Smell Vicious Cloud formation, while Strange Hair grotto-heaven brought an incomplete Immortal Gu House, Black Emperor Building. These three grotto-heaven forces that were close to Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch brought their trump cards along with them, but other than them, the other forces were simply not putting in effort. Especially those human forces, they only dispatched several rank seven Gu Immortals without much sincerity.
"The enemy is right ahead but these grotto-heaven forces are still trying to preserve their strength! Sigh, grotto-heavens are too far apart, we do not have much interaction normally, even if we cooperate, it is only due to external pressure."
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's anger soon turned into helplessness and dejectedness.
"In that case, I should conceal my own strength too, let's just put up a superficial show. After all, the people I brought amount to quite a force already."
Heavenly Court was powerful, if possible, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch did not want to face them head-on. He knew his own limits, if he really charged forward fearlessly, he might not return alive.
While Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was thinking about this, his expression changed as his eyes widened, almost spewing fires of rage!
The other Gu Immortals saw Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's expression and turned around.
Someone asked: "Vice alliance leader, what happened? Have Xia clan's headquarters fallen?"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch gritted his teeth: "Xia clan's headquarters have Lord Alliance Leader, how can they fall! My grotto-heaven has been invaded by Demon Judgment Board, my tribe's Gu Immortals are currently fighting them to the death, we need to reinforce them now!"
"This…" Great Wisdom Immortal Mother was still thinking of saving her grotto-heaven, she was hesitant.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch stared at her: "Your grotto-heavens have already fallen into the enemy's hands, the outcome has been decided. But my Ice Crystal grotto-heaven is still resisting them, there is hope. We need to return to reinforce them immediately, if anyone does not help, I will report it to Lord Alliance Leader Wu Shuai!"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch made use of Wu Shuai's name, and because the variant human Gu Immortals close to Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch expressed their support, Great Wisdom Immortal Mother and the rest had to follow this order.
The immortals did not conceal their traces anymore, they flew towards Ice Crystal grotto-heaven with their fastest speed.
The grotto-heaven entrance opened as Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch flew in anxiously, while the rest followed.
Ice Crystal grotto-heaven was already in chaotic battle, Demon Judgment Board flew around like a meteor, slaughtering everything in its path, totally unstoppable.
The rank six and seven snowman Gu Immortals in Ice Crystal grotto-heaven were nowhere to be seen, they were controlling the formation to unleash a blizzard on Demon Judgment Board, but the effect was very minimal.
Suddenly, Demon Judgment Board shot out a sharp blood red light that landed on the control area of the formation.
The snowman Gu Immortals quickly put up their defenses, the blood red light seemed to be reflected by a mirror as it changed directions and shot elsewhere.
Boom!
There was a loud sound as heaven and earth shook, the blood red light exploded as the sky turned red. For the radius of several thousand li, the snowy and icy plain got completely obliterated.
"Ah, my blizzard icy plain!" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch saw this and became overwhelmed with anger.
This icy plain was the largest gathering spot of the snowman race in Ice Crystal grotto-heaven, now that it was destroyed, nearly ten million ordinary snowmen died a terrible death.
The blizzard icy plain carried special significance to Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch personally.
His coming-of-age ceremony was held in this blizzard icy plain.
Back then, his father had brought the young Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch to the periphery of the icy plain.
"You are an adult now, my son. The icy plain you see here is the location of your trial. You need to survive seven days here to pass the trial, you will be qualified to become a Gu Master and awaken your aperture."
The young Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch looked at this vast plain and felt lost, fear appeared in his eyes.
His father observed his expression and said: "Fear is normal because you might likely die here. The trial is fair, you need to experience the danger of death in order to be qualified to become a Gu Master. Even as a Gu Immortal, I cannot protect you from this, I can only give you a suggestion."
"What is that?" The young Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch asked.
"It is too difficult to live alone in the icy plain for seven days, there is barely any hope." His father shook his head: "But there are many snowman tribes in this icy plain, if you can follow the traces to find them, they will protect you."
"But I don't know these people." The young Ice Crystal was worried.
His father explained meticulously: "Don't worry, the snowman tribes will protect every person who is stranded, because these people will end up protecting the entire race in the end. They will definitely help you, my son, if you succeed the trial, regardless of your achievements, you will need to protect our entire race. This is how a snowman lives!"
As expected, the young Ice Crystal survived for three days and nights in the icy plain, chasing after the traces of snowmen tribes.
At the moment of life and death, he crawled his way to a hunter's tribe near the periphery and was discovered, managing to survive.
The tribe took him in and healed him for free, welcoming him to become a member of their tribe.
Even though the young Ice Crystal left in the end, his experiences in that tribe were deeply etched into his heart, it affected him for the rest of his life until now.
After he became rank eight and inherited the title of Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, becoming the owner of the grotto-heaven, he developed the blizzard icy plain and made the sparse icy plain grow abundant with resources, the lives of the snowmen living in it improved greatly, their numbers increased gradually.
But now, it was all ruined!
All ruined.
By a killer move of a strong foe that affected the entire blizzard icy plain.
Not only were Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's efforts ruined entirely, his memories also became just memories now, he could no longer find them in real life.
Anger and hatred rose in his heart, burning intensely.
For a moment, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch became silent, he took in a deep breath.
The air in Ice Crystal grotto-heaven was always so cold, it was still extremely cold now.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch suddenly remembered his father's teachings: "The tribe will definitely help you, my son, if you succeed in the trial, regardless of your achievements, you will need to protect our entire race. This is how a snowman lives!" "
Indeed.
It is time for me to protect my race.
Rumble!
At the next moment, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's aura erupted, creating an intense blizzard as he charged towards Demon Judgment Board.
All of the Gu Immortals behind him were shocked.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was actually so courageous!
"Reinforcements from the two heavens are here." Inside Demon Judgment Board, Gu Yue Fang Zheng took in a deep breath as his expression turned grim.
Many people had arrived, among which were various rank eight Gu Immortals.
Gu Yue Fang Zheng was only rank seven but he was not flustered, all of his battles before this had tempered his own confidence and determination.
But the bigger reason was also the fact that he had absolute confidence in the rank eight Immortal Gu House, Demon Judgment Board!
"You created a grand commotion, but can you fight Demon Judgment Board?" Gu Yue Fang Zheng smiled coldly, instead of using any killer move, he directly used Demon Judgment Board to charge ahead.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch gritted his teeth, he was forced to retreat.
He was an ice and snow path Gu Immortal, he did not cultivate transformation path or strength path, how could he resist an Immortal Gu House with his body?
"Let's join the battle too!"
"Quick, work together and help vice alliance leader."
The two heavens alliance shouted and attacked at once.
Seeing this, Gu Yue Fang Zheng moved Demon Judgment Board away to retreat from them, pulling some distance agilely.
Blood red light flickered in Demon Judgment Board, killer moves were unleashed. The immemorial rock monster became slower, the eggman Gu Immortals were covered in blood, they had to save themselves instead of assembling the ancient battle formation. The incomplete Black Emperor Building from Strange Hair grotto-heaven was also waiting at the back, not daring to contest Demon Judgment Board directly.
The other Gu Immortals were even less useful, even though there were many rank eight Gu Immortals, they were all scared about losing their lives, only using long ranged killer moves instead. Once the enemy got close, they would prioritize escaping first.
It was a disunited bunch!
This phrase appeared in Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's mind, he felt angry and anxious.
Ice Crystal grotto-heaven had nothing to do with them, they would not risk their lives for it. The only person that Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch could rely on now was himself.
"I can only use that move now!" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch made up his mind.
"Master, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's group is about to lose, should we help them?" Soul path Gu Immortal An Xun asked Spectral Soul secretly.
On this occasion, Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven sent him here, Spectral Soul came along and lurked in secret.
"Hehehe, they fought like this despite having so many rank eight Gu Immortals. The two heavens alliance is a joke." Spectral Soul laughed: "No need to be anxious, that Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch has other tricks up his sleeve, let's wait for now."
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Chapter 1995 Extreme Ice Crystal Light Immortal Suppression Coffin
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch floated in the sky, his aura surged continuously as his clothes fluttered with the wind.
Around him, countless traces of frost energy gathered, whipping up a storm.
Such power surpassed ordinary rank eight killer moves, once Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch succeeded in activating it, the power would definitely shake heaven and earth. Fang Zheng sensed this, he wanted to use Demon Judgment Board to obstruct it.
"Let's lend Ice Crystal a hand!"
"Stop Demon Judgment Board!"
The Gu Immortals of the two heavens were not that useless after all, they quickly went ahead to block Demon Judgment Board.
At once, all sorts of killer moves were unleashed, it was like a display of fireworks.
Demon Judgment Board was obstructed by the bombarding killer moves, but at the crucial moment, a flash of blood red light shot out, about to land on Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was still activating his killer move, he did not move.
At the crucial moment, An Xun opened his immortal aperture's entrance and let out an immemorial soul beast.
The immemorial soul beast moved quickly, standing in front of Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and blocking the blood red light entirely.
With a loud sound, an explosion occurred.
The immemorial soul beast growled in pain, half of its body was destroyed, it fell towards the ground.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch immediately looked towards An Xun with gratitude. The aura on his body was calming down, he had evidently passed the most dangerous moment, his killer move preparation was already done.
"Immemorial soul beasts have no blood, Demon Judgment Board's blood path killer move had little effect." An Xun was very excited as he said: "Master, if not for your reminder, I would not have been able to block this blood red light, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch would have been in trouble."
"No." Spectral Soul analyzed: "The killer move that Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch is using contains deep profundity, during the activation process, he gains an increased level of defense, even if he was hit, he would only be injured, the killer move activation would not fail."
"Heavenly Court! I'll let you have a taste of my race's unique killer move — Extreme Ice Crystal Light Immortal Suppression Coffin!" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch shouted as all of the aura surging around him became completely concealed.
At the next moment, his entire body exploded and spread out into countless frost lights.
The frost lights shot out with extreme coldness! Everywhere they went, air would freeze into ice crystals before falling to the ground.
Fang Zheng felt something amiss, he wanted to activate Demon Judgment Board but how could his speed match the frost lights?
Almost at the same moment, Demon Judgment Board got hit by countless extreme ice crystal lights.
Crack crack.
Every crystal light that hit Demon Judgment Board turned into a small piece of ice attached to Demon Judgment Board.
Countless crystal lights shot towards it from all directions, Demon Judgment Board had nowhere to dodge, instantly, layers of ice started to form all over it.
Fang Zheng's heart sank, he activated Demon Judgment Board and used a killer move to melt the ice layers.
But his speed could not match the rate at which the freezing was occurring, very soon, ice that was five feet thick formed all over Demon Judgment Board.
"Oh no, the thicker this ice layer is, the greater the effect of the frost lights that land!" Discovering this, Fang Zheng turned pale with shock.
This move was unavoidable from the start, it was quite powerful, but its true strength came much later. The longer it dragged on, the stronger this move would be!
Fang Zheng quickly tried to move Demon Judgment Board, expending the remaining rank eight immortal essence to activate Demon Judgment Board's strongest killer move.
Blood red light spread out, a layer of ice quickly melted.
Next, the frost lights seemed to react, they quickly went towards the area that Fang Zheng was trying to break out from and made Demon Judgment Board's ability much weaker.
The Gu Immortals were all stunned.
"Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch is actually so powerful!"
"He actually sealed Heavenly Court's rank eight Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board with his own strength!"
"This is incredible, what is the name of the move?"
"Extreme ice crystal light immortal suppression coffin!"
At once, all of the immortals muttered the name of this killer move, engraving it to their heart.
"This is the unique killer move of the snowmen from ancient times, hehe, to think that they have actually obtained a racial inheritance already." Spectral Soul who was inside An Xun laughed lightly.
An Xun understood after hearing this: "So this is a move from the snowman racial inheritance, no wonder it is so strong! Wait, no, can ancient killer moves still be used in the current era? The world now is very different from the past, wouldn't such antique moves be outdated already?"
"Hehehe." Spectral Soul chuckled: "Back then when variant humans ruled the world, they had countless killer moves, those moves that were specially chosen to be kept in their racial inheritances are naturally more outstanding in many ways. Taking this extreme ice crystal light immortal suppression coffin for example, its core is not an Immortal Gu but the variant human using it."
Spectral Soul's depth of knowledge was not ordinary, he had once searched countless souls in the Door of Life and Death. Many of these souls came from the Olden Antiquity or Remote Antiquity Era, some were even from the Immemorial Antiquity Era.
Thus, Spectral Soul had a lot of information about these eras.
Even though his attainment levels had all fallen to rock bottom, his memories were still intact.
Like what Spectral Soul said, extreme ice crystal light immortal suppression coffin was somewhat similar to Wu Yong's unlimited wind killer move. When using unlimited wind, Wu Yong would expend his own wind path dao marks. As for extreme ice crystal light immortal suppression coffin, not only would it consume Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's ice and snow path dao marks, it would also cost him his lifespan.
As the core killer move of the snowman Gu Immortals, extreme ice crystal light immortal suppression coffin was not very affected by the progression of eras. At the same time, any other races' Gu Immortals could not use this move even if they had it.
Fang Zheng's forehead was already covered in sweat.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch displayed battle strength that far surpassed Fang Zheng's expectations. The great Demon Judgment Board was actually sealed in ice, there was little hope of escaping.
Even if Fang Zheng wanted to fight Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, he had no way to do so.
Because Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had already turned into countless frost lights, this was the superiority of extreme ice crystal light immortal suppression coffin killer move.
Seeing as Demon Judgment Board was about to be completely sealed in ice, at this time, a phoenix cry could be heard.
Following a loud sound of crashing waves, Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui arrived.
It turned out that while fighting Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, Fang Zheng had already informed Heavenly Court's Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui.
Bai Cang Shui was originally cleaning up the battlefield, she could leave immediately. As for Prince Feng Xian, he gave up some gains there and rapidly came to reinforce Fang Zheng.
The two rank eight Gu Immortals saw Demon Judgment Board which was trapped, they shouted as one unleashed torrents of golden flames, while the other sent out huge waves.
The ice was attacked from the inside and outside, it could not last any longer as the external layer of ice quickly cracked, Demon Judgment Board which was inside got ready to retaliate.
The two heavens' Gu Immortals saw this and wanted to attack but Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui suppressed them instead.
Even though they had many more rank eights than Heavenly Court, it did not matter.
In Gu Immortal battles, numbers were not the most crucial. Even though the two heavens had many people, they could not cooperate, their killer moves often interfered with each other. About half of their strength was limited because of this, even before they hit any enemies.
But if they were to fight alone, they would be fearful and cowardly, they would focus on preserving their own lives, unwilling to take any risk or get into danger.
Of course, the other reason was that Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui were elite rank eights with excellent battle strength. They were able to become Heavenly Court members, they naturally surpassed other rank eights.
The situation was in a deadlock, Spectral Soul acutely sensed that the ice layer was weakening, he instructed An Xun: "Quickly let out the soul beast army, lend your Immortal Gu to me now."
"Yes master!" An Xun did not hesitate, he quickly followed the instructions.
The soul beast army came out and attacked.
Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui did not care about them at first, they used two killer moves in succession, but the soul beast army split up and moved fluidly like water, dodging most of the killer moves' effects.
Next, from the soul beast army, three immemorial soul beasts flew out to attack Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui.
As the two sides fought, the immemorial soul beasts were naturally unable to resist the two Heavenly Court immortals, but the immemorial soul beasts had the army to support them, at crucial moments, killer moves would help them out as well.
Even though Bai Cang Shui and Prince Feng Xian had the upper hand, the soul beast army successfully restrained them. They could not help Demon Judgment Board like before, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's frost lights began to regain their footing.
"This soul path rank seven immortal is quite talented!"
"I will go kill him!"
Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui communicated, the former moved as he spit fire, creating a path within the soul beast army as he charged towards An Xun.
An Xun 'turned pale with fright', shouting: "He is coming, protect me!"
The two heavens' Gu Immortals knew that enslavement Gu Immortals were most vulnerable to direct attack, they quickly responded.
Prince Feng Xian charged without stopping, he broke through all of the obstacles, but because of these obstruction, An Xun managed to pull some distance between them.
"You cannot escape." Prince Feng Xian smiled coldly as he charged again.
Spectral Soul would not personally take action in this public environment, he controlled An Xun's body to retreat while using the other Gu Immortals to obstruct Prince Feng Xian.
Prince Feng Xian's advancement was ferocious, the two heavens' immortals were all shocked by his aggressiveness.
But Bai Cang Shui shouted: "Feng Xian, quickly kill him."
Prince Feng Xian gritted his teeth, he did not expect An Xun to be so hard to catch.
At this time, the frost light successfully trapped Demon Judgment Board again, the thick ice coffin sealed the rank eight Immortal Gu House at its center.
"Oh no!" Seeing this, Bai Cang Shui and Prince Feng Xian's hearts sank.
Seeing that Heavenly Court's side was in danger, at this time, heaven and earth shook, qi currents surged as the world roared.
"Qi tide again!" Spectral Soul snorted coldly.
Ice Crystal grotto-heaven had already been broken through when Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui attacked, it was connected to the outside world.
At this moment, qi tides surged in the outside world, instilling into the grotto-heaven harshly.
The qi tides implicated the battlefield, wherever it reached, people fell to the ground.
Ice Crystal grotto-heaven's defensive immortal formation could not last any longer, it shattered, many snowman Gu Immortals fell into mortal danger.
The frost light around Demon Judgment Board flickered as it hesitated for a moment. But immediately, the ice crystal lights shot towards the snowman Gu Immortals as they turned into countless ice tubes that protected them.
But this way, Demon Judgment Board's pressure lifted greatly. Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui saw this and quickly made their move, breaking the remaining ice layers and saving Demon Judgment Board.
The two immortals went into the Immortal Gu House, Demon Judgment Board left the battlefield rapidly while resisting the turbulent qi tides.
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Chapter 1996 Big or Small, Qi Harvest Frui
The grand qi tide soon filled up the whole of Ice Crystal grotto-heaven.
Spectral Soul sighed deeply, this was really a pity. he wanted the two sides to fight to their deaths before he reaped the rewards, devouring Gu Immortal souls was much more helpful than absorbing soul cores after all.
But his scheme was ruined by this qi tide.
"I do not have Dang Hun Mountain, I lack guts Gu, I can only devour soul beasts and soul cores. But this takes time to digest, it is not like guts Gu which can directly raise my soul foundation."
"Why the coincidence? Not long ago, when Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai fought, a qi tide appeared. This time, another qi tide showed up."
Thinking about this, Spectral Soul had a realization: "Don't tell me that fighting between Gu Immortals will attract qi tides?"
Spectral Soul was only making a guess, he was not certain.
"It is a pity that my qi path attainment level is just ordinary. Otherwise, I will be able to come to a conclusion."
He had soul search and soul devouring methods, but these methods could not directly raise attainment levels. The only way to instantly raise one's attainment level was through absorbing true meaning. The attainment levels that Spectral Soul had at his peak were all gained through actual cultivation from the memories he had soul searched, it was not easy to reach that level.
"Forget it."
"An Xun performed well this time, with such achievements, he might likely receive Wu Shuai's audience."
"By staying in his body, I can get closer to Wu Shuai. There might even be a chance to enslave Wu Shuai and take Dragon Palace!"
Spectral Soul's current plan failed, he quickly came up with a new plan.
He had a deep desire towards Dragon Palace which contained dream path Immortal Gu!
Amidst the surging qi tides, frost lights gathered into Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's aura was weak, his face was pale, the price to activate extreme ice crystal light immortal suppression coffin was very high.
But he had almost singlehandedly sealed Demon Judgment Board, he was the biggest contributor to this victory.
The two heavens' Gu Immortals came to visit him, their gaze was different from before.
Strength was the determining factor towards one's status. Undeniably, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch who had extreme ice crystal light immortal suppression coffin killer move far surpassed the other rank eight Gu Immortals of the two heavens in battle strength.
"Even though I saved Ice Crystal grotto-heaven, our race's unique killer move was exposed." Even though he forced Heavenly Court to retreat, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was not happy.
Right now, he could only console himself that this move was very hard to counter, it could still be his trump card for the time being.
"Friends, I am not injured, I only need to rest. I hope everyone can help to protect my grotto-heaven." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch said.
"Sure, sure."
"We are all part of the two heavens alliance, this is not a problem."
"Everyone, we will do our best to defend Ice Crystal grotto-heaven!"
The Gu Immortals of the two heavens resisted the surging qi tides in the grotto-heaven while Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch focused on repairing the hole created in the grotto-heaven's aperture wall.
Even though the qi tides were powerful, with the cooperation of all the Gu Immortals, they soon settled down.
Because they had taken action swiftly, the qi tides did not cause much losses to Ice Crystal grotto-heaven.
"Vice alliance leader, take a look, we found something!" Great Wisdom Immortal Mother flew over to Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch with some unexpected news.
A moment later, the immortals of the two heavens also arrived at the area.
They saw a fruit that was the size of a hill floating in the air. This fruit was translucent, it was completely formed from heaven and earth qi, it was shaped like a gourd, or a peanut.
"This is a qi harvest fruit?"
"After the qi tides appeared, people often found these qi harvest fruits produced. If Gu Immortals get them and use them in the immortal aperture, they can rapidly soothe the heaven and earth qi and hasten the progress of the heaven and earth qi fusion."
"But ordinary qi harvest fruits are just as large as a horse carriage. Why is this qi harvesting fruit so huge?"
The two heavens' immortals discussed but could not come up with an answer.
"Master, is this really a qi harvest fruit?" An Xun asked Spectral Soul: "If it is, isn't this Ice Crystal grotto-heaven benefiting from a disaster? As long as it absorbs this huge qi harvest fruit, will Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's immortal aperture be modified completely, he will no longer be affected by the qi tides?"
"This is a qi harvest fruit indeed, but whether it is a blessing or a disaster is unknown for now." Spectral Soul chuckled to himself.
As expected, when Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch tried to take this qi harvest fruit, he was shocked to find a deeper secret.
"Oh no!" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's expression turned even more pale: "This qi harvest fruit is still growing, it is absorbing my grotto-heaven's heaven and earth qi to grow further. If I take it away now, it will cause a huge commotion in the grotto-heaven, living beings will die, and an even more turbulent qi tide will appear."
The immortals gasped, after getting Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's permission, they quickly used investigative methods.
"We cannot let this qi harvest fruit continue to grow, who can help me get rid of this hidden threat? I will not be stingy on rewards." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had a solemn expression.
But the Gu Immortals looked at each other, they were all helpless.
Almost everyone could pull out the qi harvest fruit by force, but that was harmful to Ice Crystal grotto-heaven, its foundation would be affected.
And according to their deductions, directly destroying the qi harvest fruit would create a new qi tide that would create a second qi harvest fruit later.
This way, to get rid of this threat permanently without harming Ice Crystal grotto-heaven, the difficulty was very high.
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother suggested: "We can't do it because we do not cultivate qi path, but what about Lord Alliance Leader?"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had a look of worry, he sighed deeply: "Right now, we can only ask Lord Alliance Leader for help."
Wu Shuai soon received Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's request for help.
"My memories are limited, I did not know that the qi harvest fruit would become like this. Maybe the main body knows more things."
Wu Shuai quickly reported the information that Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch gave him to Fang Yuan's main body.
"Oh? The hidden threat of the two heavens' grotto-heavens have been found, this is much earlier than in my previous life." Fang Yuan's main body naturally knew about this.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, the two heavens' Gu Immortals had also worked together, they attacked many places and caused a lot of trouble for the five regions.
Due to the qi tides, the five regions' Gu Immortals were greatly restricted. But the two heavens' Gu Immortals were able to move around, they were less affected by the qi tides.
Furthermore, when Gu Immortal battles reach a certain level, qi tides would occur.
Even though the two heavens' Gu Immortals had low battle strength, with the help of the qi tides, they could defeat the five regions' Gu Immortals.
But good times did not last long, soon, the two heaven's Gu Immortals found that qi harvest fruits started to appear in their own grotto-heaven headquarters.
These qi harvest fruits used the grotto-heaven's heaven and earth qi to grow, they were like stubborn pests, if left unattended, they would grow endlessly and eventually destroy the entire grotto-heaven world.
"Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch fought against Heavenly Court and caused the qi tides to appear in his grotto-heaven, that is the reason why qi harvest fruits appeared earlier than the previous life."
Fang Yuan sent the information to Wu Shuai, suddenly, he had a thought as he gained a burst of inspiration.
"Wait!"
"Maybe I can use these qi tides to deal with heaven's will."
His situation was really bad now.
The main problem was the heaven path dao marks, he could not refine them in the short time, while these dao marks generated heaven's will.
The heaven path dao marks had no ill intentions towards Fang Yuan but heaven's will wanted to kill him, it tried all sorts of ways to destroy his sovereign immortal aperture.
And worse was that if Fang Yuan did not get rid of the heaven's will, after accumulating to a certain level, even if the sovereign immortal aperture remained shut, the grotto-heaven's heaven's will could resonate with the five regions' heaven's will and expose his identity.
Once Fang Yuan's location was exposed, if he stayed in qi sea, his cover as Qi Sea Ancestor would be blown.
However, it was difficult for Fang Yuan to get rid of heaven's will.
The sovereign immortal aperture was too huge, Fang Yuan did not know where to start. He could not predict the natural developments of the Heavenly Dao, he could not know where heaven's will would be created.
"I should try to let the qi tides rampage in my sovereign immortal aperture. Like a washing machine, they might be able to cleanse all of the heaven's will away."
As Fang Yuan thought about it, he found that this was a very possible idea to execute.
It seemed dangerous but it was possible to use the two threats against each other, with his qi path and wisdom path foundation, it was a realistic solution.
Of course, whether this method could succeed or not, until it was used, Fang Yuan could not know for sure.
"If only I still had wisdom Gu, that would be great."
Wisdom Gu provided unlimited inspiration, with the light of wisdom, Fang Yuan could quickly and efficiently develop a killer move that could make use of the qi tides.
At the same time, in Qi Jue grotto-heaven.
"This is the center of the grotto-heaven!" Luo clan's three Gu Immortals were all injured, they reached this place after much difficulty.
"What… what an incredible qi harvest fruit…" Luo Mu Zi was lost for words, the other two immortals were filled with shock.
According to the three immortals' deductions, the center of Qi Jue grotto-heaven should contain the most valuable thing in the entire grotto-heaven.
At this moment, the three immortals saw that there was a tiny and exquisite qi harvest fruit here, it was extremely vivid, the surface had flowing lights that flickered dazzlingly.
It was the size of a gourd but it contained genuine rank nine immortal material aura. It had surging waves of vitality resembling the ocean, it pressed down on the hearts of the Luo clan Gu Immortals.
"This qi harvest fruit is not ordinary at all, it contains deep secrets, we need to research upon it."
"Strange, qi harvest fruits are produced by the qi tides, why is it hidden by Demon Immortal Qi Jue and kept here?"
"Unless he predicted that in the future, there would be disasters like the qi tides?"
"Take action!" Luo clan's three immortals were talking when suddenly, they heard a shout, several variant human Gu Immortals showed up and attacked.
Luo clan's three immortals were caught off guard, they were swept into a battlefield killer move instantly.
"Oh no, an ambush!"
"Someone else found Qi Jue grotto-heaven?"
"Who are you?"
Luo clan's three immortals shouted.
The leader of the variant human Gu Immortals was about the size of a thumb, there were translucent wings behind him, this was a miniman Gu Immortal.
"Hmph, Luo clan immortals, I, Xiao He Jian, found this place twenty years before any of you." The miniman Gu Immortal smiled coldly as he said: "Attack, kill them all!"
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Chapter 1997 Both Sides Seek Reinforcements
Days later, in the headquarters of Southern Border's Wu clan.
Wu Yong stood at the peak of a mountain, he slowly opened his eyes.
In front of him were three mortals. They were all tied on a wooden pole, they were all unconscious.
Immortal killer move — Farewell Friend Wind!
Wu Yong breathed in deeply, his preparations were completed, he unleashed this peculiar killer move.
Without the emergence of any unique wind, the three mortals in front of him started to disintegrate, their skin, flesh, and bones scattered with the natural breeze. In an instant, even the clothes of these mortals vanished, nothing was left.
Wu Yong showed a satisfied smile at last.
During this period, he had modified farewell friend wind, the results were quite good.
Farewell friend wind was a wind path killer move with human path effect, it originally needed the user to touch the target's body and say some parting words.
But now, these limitations were all modified by Wu Yong and removed successfully.
Even though the current farewell friend wind still needed the user to become friends with the target before usage, the range had greatly increased, it was much more usable now.
Wu Yong had lost a lot of his wind path dao marks during the fate war from using the killer move unlimited wind and his foundation fell.
But during this period of recuperation, he made some gains instead in terms of comprehension, his wind path attainment level rose to a new level. Because of that, he could modify farewell friend wind.
Wu Yong was not just satisfied with modifying farewell friend wind, the rise in his attainment level also meant a comprehensive rise in power.
Farewell friend wind was just one of the aspects.
"Next, I will modify the other killer moves, and even Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building! After modification, my battle strength will rise back to normal, it can even surpass my former level."
Right when Wu Yong thought about his future, an information path Gu worm flew towards him.
Wu Yong took it and read the information, his brows rose as he showed a surprised expression.
He was originally going to stay in closed cultivation for some time, but after receiving this information, he halted his plan.
Returning to his guest hall, he met with the two Gu Immortals that were looking for him.
These two Gu Immortals had the same clothing, they wore deep green short sleeve shirts and long black pants, they also had jade colored leg bindings.
Any Gu Immortal familiar with Southern Border's Gu Immortal world would know that this was Luo clan's signature attire.
Of the two Luo clan Gu Immortals who came, one was an old man with a bitter expression, another was a middle aged Gu Immortal with a pale face, he was evidently injured.
"Luo Zu (Luo Ran) pays respects to Lord Alliance Leader." Luo clan's two Gu Immortals saw Wu Yong and immediately paid respects.
The Southern Alliance was created long ago, Wu Yong was the leader of this alliance.
Of the two Luo clan immortals, Luo Ran was a general of Luo clan, he was a space path expert with peak rank seven battle strength, he was an arrogant person. As for Luo Zu, he was a person of authority, he was the current first supreme elder of Luo clan. These two were so respectful to Wu Yong now, it was clear that they needed his help.
Wu Yong nodded: "We can sit and talk."
After the two Luo clan Gu Immortals sat down, Wu Yong asked directly: "What is the matter with Qi Jue grotto-heaven?"
Luo Zu breathed in deeply before explaining the entire situation. In summary, when a Gu Immortal of Luo clan explored white heaven using an Immortal Gu House, he discovered Qi Jue grotto-heaven by chance. Luo clan had been exploring it for many years, finally, with the help of the qi tides, they made a breakthrough and entered the central area of Qi Jue grotto-heaven.
But when they were about to obtain Qi Jue's true inheritance, they were ambushed by variant human Gu Immortals. The three Luo clan Gu Immortals exploring it were caught off guard, the situation did not look good.
Thankfully, their leader was the space path expert Luo Ran, he used his trump card and escaped with the other two immortals.
The variant human Gu Immortals did not let them go, they pursued these three Luo clan immortals.
After Luo clan was informed, they immediately sent their Immortal Gu House to reinforce them, the two sides fought intensely at the heavenly wind qi wall. Even though those variant human Gu Immortals did not have high battle strength, their leader, the miniman Gu Immortal Xiao He Jian, was very outstanding. At the same time, the variant human Gu Immortals had an Immortal Gu House too, Luo clan was forced to escape back to Southern Border pitifully.
After passing the heavenly wind qi wall, the variant human Gu Immortals were afraid that Southern Border's Gu Immortal world would gang up on them, they gave up on the pursuit.
Luo clan's immortals were defeated, they returned to recuperate in their headquarters, feeling angry and helpless. After discussing for some time, they felt that they could not obtain Qi Jue grotto-heaven themselves, they should get the help of other forces.
After hearing their explanation, Wu Yong understood the situation.
"Due to the rampant qi tides, the grotto-heavens in the two heavens are exposed, this created the two heavens alliance. The alliance mainly comprises variant humans, they have Wu Shuai as their leader."
"This group of variant human Gu Immortals that defeated Luo clan must have a close relationship with the two heavens alliance."
"The two heavens alliance first occupied an area in Eastern Sea, Wu Shuai fought with Qi Sea Ancestor. After that, Heavenly Court attacked them, their vice alliance leader Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch forced Demon Judgment Board to retreat, creating a huge commotion."
"If Luo clan looks for Hou clan or Yao clan, even though they are super forces, they cannot deal with the colossal two heavens alliance. When the situation aggravates, they will still have to look for me in the end. Thus, they came to me from the start."
Thinking so, Wu Yong smiled, promising them: "Our Southern Border's righteous path is united, now that Luo clan has faced a setback, as long as you are part of the Southern Alliance, we will help you out. As the leader of the Southern Alliance, I, Wu Yong, will lend my strength as well!"
Luo clan's immortals quickly responded: "Alliance Leader is righteous and mighty."
But there was no joy on their faces.
This concerned a huge treasure like Qi Jue's true inheritance, Wu Yong was sure to agree to help without doubt.
The important things were how to get true inheritance of Qi Jue, how would Luo clan and Wu clan cooperate, if they obtained the true inheritance, how would they split it?
Those were the true details to discuss.
While Luo clan's immortals and Wu Yong were negotiating, Wu Shuai also received the audience of a Gu Immortal.
"The one asking to see me is a miniman Gu Immortal named Xiao He Jian?" Wu Shuai squinted.
"Yes." The reporting Gu Immortal explained: "This immortal has extraordinary strength, his reputation is long established, even though the Gu Immortals of the two heavens do not interact much with each other, we have all heard of this Xiao He Jian. His strength is likely on par with vice alliance leader."
The vice alliance leader was naturally Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
This time, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch used his immortal sealing coffin killer move to defeat Heavenly Court, his reputation surged, everyone in the two heavens alliance knew about it.
"What is the reason for his request to meet me?" Wu Shuai asked purposely.
"This subordinate… does not know." The reporting Gu Immortal lowered his head: "He says that he has a huge fortune to give to Lord Alliance Leader, he wants to join our two heavens alliance."
Wu Shuai smiled.
In the past, he did not know, but after the main body sent him some information of the previous life, he learned about this person.
This Xiao He Jian was quite a formidable figure in the five hundred years of his previous life, he was indeed an expert among the variant human rank eight Gu Immortals, he was able to contest Heavenly Court's members evenly.
Speaking of which, in the five hundred years of his previous life, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch did not have much reputation.
In terms of battle strength, Xiao He Jian and Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch were on the same level. Even though the two heaven's Gu Immortals were not very outstanding, they still had several incredible experts. If not for this, they would not have caused problems to the five regions in the previous life.
"Xiao He Jian explored Qi Jue grotto-heaven, he probably got into a conflict with Luo clan. Now that the Southern Alliance was created in advance and Luo clan suffered a loss, they would definitely find their allies, they might approach Wu Yong."
"Xiao He Jian has several grotto-heaven forces allied with him, but how can he resist the great Southern Alliance? Thus, he came to me, by joining my two heavens alliance, not only can he protect himself, he can also use my strength to resist the Southern Alliance and obtain Qi Jue's true inheritance."
"But this Qi Jue grotto-heaven is a dangerous area, in my previous life, Qi Jue grotto-heaven self-detonated, killing countless Gu Immortals in the process. The two heavens alliance also suffered a huge setback from this, the losses were so severe they never recovered."
Wu Shuai guessed that Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch died during this Qi Jue grotto-heaven explosion, otherwise, with his strength, he would not have stayed so low profile the entire time.
Considering this, Wu Shuai smiled coldly, thinking: "This Xiao He Jian is crafty, he wants to borrow our strength and use us to kill his enemies, since he wants my help, let's have a good negotiation with him."
"Go." Wu Shuai stopped thinking about it as he sat on his main seat, telling the Gu Immortal: "Tell Xiao He Jian to come in."
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Chapter 1998 Exploring Qi Jue Grotto-Heaven
The sky had a unified color, it was a sight of bluish jade.
Great winds howled, killing intent gathered.
Two Immortal Gu Houses faced each other.
One was a majestic palace shining in golden light, it was elegant and grand, this was Dragon Palace. The other was a two storey bamboo building, it was filled with vitality and looked delicate but exquisite, this was Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building.
The two rank eight Immortal Gu Houses contained many Gu Immortals inside them.
Wu Shuai sat at the main seat with two rows of Gu Immortals from the two heavens below him. On his left was Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and others, while on his right was the recently joined wood path great expert, miniman Gu Immortal Xiao He Jian. As for Lady Cold Ash, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord, and others, they were mixed among these two groups.
Not long ago, Wu Shuai met with Xiao He Jian, after some negotiation, they set off for Qi Jue grotto-heaven.
On the other side, Southern Alliance's Wu Yong also knew the importance of speed, he quickly mobilized Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building, bringing Wu clan's and Luo clan's immortals to immemorial white heaven.
Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building was much faster than Dragon Palace, Wu Yong left later but arrived earlier, yet Qi Jue grotto-heaven could not be easily entered. While Wu Yong and the rest waited, Wu Shuai arrived with Dragon Palace.
The two sides met in white heaven, they immediately got into a deadlock.
"Wu Yong." Wu Shuai spoke within Dragon Palace, his voice resounding in the battlefield: "Qi Jue's true inheritance is in front of us, why don't we each send three people out to fight, the winner will be the side which has two victories, they will get the true inheritance, while the loser gets the grotto-heaven, how is that?"
"Wu Shuai, why are you being so cowardly now?" Wu Yong snickered from within Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building: "Let the person fortunate enough under the circumstances get Qi Jue's true inheritance, let's fight for it using our respective abilities!"
As he said this, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building shot out like a rainbow, piercing into a certain opening within Qi Jue grotto-heaven.
Wu Yong had waited for a long time, he finally found an opportunity to get inside.
Even though Wu Yong brought Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building with him, and had Wu clan's and Luo clan's elites around him, in terms of scale, he could not match Wu Shuai. Not just in quantity, but the quality of their high end battle strength also differed greatly.
If they really used the rules Wu Shuai set to determine a victor, in one-on-one combat, Wu Yong's side would be disadvantaged.
Furthermore, when Gu Immortals fight, heaven and earth qi would be disrupted, qi tides would appear. By then, the two heaven's Gu Immortals would be less affected, their advantage would rise again.
Wu Yong was a formidable leader, how could he let his side fall into a disadvantage from the start?
"Lord Alliance Leader, there is no time to waste, let's set out!" Xiao He Jian urged anxiously.
Wu Shuai looked at the openings in Qi Jue grotto-heaven, even though these openings varied in size, they were all milky white in color, formed from moving qi currents.
Earlier, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building had gone through the largest opening to get inside Qi Jue grotto-heaven.
After looking at it for a while, Wu Shuai understood some of its profundity.
"These openings vary in size, they are increasing in numbers, I'm afraid this is the immortal aperture entrance of Qi Jue grotto-heaven."
Fang Yuan's main body and clones had varying amounts of memories but they shared the same attainment levels. Wu Shuai also had the main body's qi path attainment level, he could see it more clearly than others.
Just these holes alone made Wu Shuai's eyes brighten as he felt some comprehension.
"Normally, immortal aperture entrances are closed, only used to connect the inside world and the outside. Qi Jue grotto-heaven's entrance is unique, it is the most efficient way of maximizing the effect of that connection between worlds using the immortal aperture's entrance. I wonder what gains I can make inside?"
Thinking so, Wu Shuai's curiosity rose as he moved Dragon Palace towards the openings.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, this Qi Jue grotto-heaven was destroyed by self-detonation, it greatly affected the two heavens alliance and caused it to falter in the future. Many rank eight Gu Immortals died during this event.
Qi Jue grotto-heaven was dangerous, this was also why Fang Yuan did not take the initiative to explore it before the fate war.
But now that Qi Jue grotto-heaven was exposed, with an alluring true inheritance of Qi Jue inside and Dragon Palace's protection, Wu Shuai also had nothing urgent to attend to, he could put effort into this now.
Dragon Palace got past the narrow opening, rapidly arriving inside Qi Jue grotto-heaven.
The immortals saw that all around them, there were white colored qi currents that surged and moved.
"Qi Jue grotto-heaven's structure is quite special, it is not like ordinary grotto-heavens, there are white qi currents everywhere. These qi currents form into tunnels and countless tunnels turn this grotto-heaven into a maze, it is like the intestines of a giant. We need to get through these tunnels quickly and find the correct path to the central area. Qi Jue's true inheritance is hidden there!" Xiao He Jian explained when they got in.
All the immortals inside the palace listened attentively.
Xiao He Jian did not say everything he knew earlier, to prevent Wu Shuai from leaving to snatch the true inheritance alone after getting the information, he had kept many secrets, he promised Wu Shuai that he would explain the situation after they arrived.
Dragon Palace moved around in the white qi current tunnels, quickly reaching a crossroad. On the left and right were two paths, they were identical in size and shape.
"How do we determine the correct route?" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch asked.
Xiao He Jian replied: "I cannot be sure about it either, we need to test the paths. The only rule here is that the closer we get to the center, the more valuable the monsters and resources within the qi current tunnels. At the most central area, the qi harvest fruit has reached rank nine level!"
"What about Luo clan?" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch asked another crucial question.
"Luo clan does not have a more accurate method either. In fact, their exploration speed was far slower than us. It was because of the qi tides that they gained an opportunity to get past many difficulties and reach the central area rapidly. Looking at our previous progress, my tribe was extremely close to Qi Jue's true inheritance, we were just two obstacles away." Xiao He Jian sighed, he felt somewhat of a pity regarding it.
The immortals heard this and relaxed slightly.
"In that case, even though they came inside first, in terms of advantage, we have the upper hand." Great Wisdom Immortal Mother analyzed.
"Don't be careless, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building is much faster than us." Wu Shuai said plainly.
He chose a random path and moved Dragon Palace along it.
Along the way, the qi current tunnels became wider and taller, many qi path living beings were in them, creating special living environments that were isolated from each other.
Roar!
Suddenly, a group of qi monsters emerged from the thick tunnel walls, surrounding Dragon Palace.
These qi monsters had all sorts of strange forms, resembling bulls, goats, fish, or birds. However, their colors were similar, being close to orange-yellow.
"These are qi monsters created from luck qi." Xiao He Jian said: "Even though there are no immemorial qi monsters, they are quite troublesome to deal with. Without luck path methods to protect us, if we kill them, our luck will fall."
Immortal killer move — Dreamy Light Smoke!
At the next moment, a gush of smoke flew out from Dragon Palace, wherever it went, all of the luck qi monsters were swept away, suppressed within Dragon Palace.
"Uh." Xiao He Jian was stunned but he soon reacted as he said respectfully: "A dream path killer move, truly worthy of Dragon Palace!"
As they continued, they saw an immemorial qi monster, it was pitch-black like a whale, its body was colossal.
Xiao He Jian had a grim expression: "Be careful, this is an immemorial qi monster created from hard qi, thankfully it is sleeping now. I'd suggest that we detour around it, let's not…"
Boom!
At the next moment, Dragon Palace accelerated and crashed into the immemorial qi monster.
Dragon Palace shook intensely but the immemorial qi monster was pierced through, it retaliated in anger.
Dragon Palace charged and crashed into it again, and again!
The immemorial qi monster broke apart, turning into lumps of black hard qi. Next, Wu Shuai stored the hard qi in his palace.
"You can all split the spoils." Wu Shuai kept most of the gains and passed the rest to the Gu Immortals.
"Alliance Leader is mighty!"
"All hail Dragon Palace!"
"Subordinate thanks Lord Alliance Leader."
"With Lord Alliance Leader here, so what if they have Wu Yong?"
At once, the immortals expressed their gratitude as all sorts of praises erupted.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch smiled as he looked at Xiao He Jian, saying with deep meaning: "Try not to be shocked at these minor situations, it will cause us to lose face."
Xiao He Jian had to nod in acknowledgment but he still felt deep shock internally: "Even though I saw the fate war, I can only see how powerful Dragon Palace is after witnessing it in action personally. If Dragon Palace is so strong, what about Duke Long, Fang Yuan, and Feng Jiu Ge?"
At once, Xiao He Jian's emotions became rather complex.
On one hand, the stronger Dragon Palace was, the more hopeful he was. But on the other hand, as a great expert, seeing such a difference between them and seeing such a powerful existence made him feel some dejectedness.
Along the way, wherever they went, Wu Shuai took all of the loot that they could gather.
Qi Jue grotto-heaven was really the land of treasures for qi path, it was like the qi sea of ancient times. Not only were the qi path resources here in huge quantities, they also varied greatly in variety, there was basically anything one needed here.
Wu Shuai purposely displayed his might to intimidate Xiao He Jian. As a result, he exposed more secrets, according to him, when exploring this place, he found a Qi Breath Peak! Qi Jue grotto-heaven actually had such an extinct qi path resource, but regrettably, Xiao He Jian only took a glance at it, he did not have the ability to take it.
"This is the center of Qi Jue grotto-heaven?" Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building had just arrived at the destination, before Wu Yong could rejoice, his pupils shrunk: "Hmph, they weren't slow at all."
Behind Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building, Dragon Palace arrived.
At the center of Qi Jue grotto-heaven was a huge hollow sphere. The sphere had many qi pillars that interweaved with each other, creating countless tunnels.
Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building and Dragon Palace entered this area, it was like two flies had entered a beehive.
The qi pillars continued to move around, some were fast while others were slow, they even affected each other. Under Wu Yong's control, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building moved carefully and avoided the qi pillars, taking sharp turns along the way.
"These qi pillars are special, they are at least rank eight immortal materials. We cannot touch them easily or unnecessary problems will occur." Xiao He Jian quickly said.
This place was not suited for fighting, thus, in order to kill the three Luo clan immortals, Xiao He Jian had arranged a battlefield killer move.
But in the end, Luo clan's Luo Ran was a space path Gu Immortal, he brought the other two immortals away by piercing through the battlefield, using this special terrain to get free from Xiao He Jian and the rest, escaping.
"No need for such trouble." Wu Shuai waved his hand.
At the next moment, a dragon roar was heard, the Evil Dragon descended.
Boom boom boom!
The Evil Dragon charged ferociously, wherever it went, qi pillars broke and shattered, it created a path for Dragon Palace to move along from behind it.
"Hmm?" Wu Yong frowned.
Xiao He Jian's mouth was open, he became dumbstruck.
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Chapter 1999 Qi Jue, Xi
"Great!"
"Lord Alliance Leader is so powerful!"
"This is the power of our two heavens alliance!"
The morale of the immortals within Dragon Palace surged, they quickly cheered.
Evil Dragon charged ahead with an unstoppable might, Dragon Palace followed behind it casually.
"This dragonman brute!" The eyelids of Luo clan's first supreme elder Luo Zu were twitching as he gritted his teeth.
The two clans' Gu Immortals within Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building felt immense pressure. Evil Dragon was charging relentlessly like a mobile mountain range, in comparison, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building was very delicate and small.
And most importantly, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building had to dodge the qi pillars, its advancement route was long and winding. But Evil Dragon moved forward in a straight line without obstruction, the distance between them was shortening.
"What do we do now?" The Southern Alliance's Gu Immortals turned pale.
Wu Yong smiled lightly: "Wu Shuai uses strength to suppress others, he is making full use of his advantage. If I were him, I would do the same. Everyone, after the fate war, not only was Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building fully repaired, I even strengthened it further, we can block Di Zang Sheng for a period of time. Even though they are strong, we do not need to bother with them, we just need to get Qi Jue's true inheritance before them."
"Lord Alliance Leader is right!" The immortals nodded in agreement.
Any sort of conflict had its goal, Wu Yong could clearly see that their objective was Qi Jue's true inheritance. Whoever gets it would be the winner, even if they suffer some losses while competing, so what?
But the Evil Dragon was really too strong.
It was the immemorial desolate beast with the strongest battle strength!
In the five regions and two heavens, there were less than five people who could fight this Evil Dragon head-on!
While Wu Shuai and Wu Yong were chasing after their goals, a third rank eight Immortal Gu House stealthily arrived outside Qi Jue grotto-heaven.
It was Demon Judgment Board!
Demon Judgment Board was controlled by Fang Zheng, not only did Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui come along, even Che Wei, who had recovered from his injuries, and information path great expert Zhou Xiong Xin were here.
Fang Zheng took the initiative to attack the two heavens previously, even though Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch forced them away, their gains were still huge. Prince Feng Xian and Bai Cang Shui obtained abundant loot from plundering the two grotto-heavens.
Even though Fang Zheng lost in battle, he had only lost some reputation of Heavenly Court, they did not lose benefits.
Heavenly Court was originally not sure of Qi Jue grotto-heaven's event, after all, immemorial white heaven was huge, even during the qi tides when Qi Jue grotto-heaven exposed itself, Heavenly Court could not find it immediately.
But don't forget that Night Heavenly Wolf Lord under Wu Shuai had submitted to Heavenly Court. The fact that Xiao He Jian joined the two heavens alliance was not concealable, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord learned of Qi Jue grotto-heaven's secret and informed Heavenly Court as a result.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was very famous in history, he was a terrifying great expert who opposed Limitless Demon Venerable!
Especially when he cultivated qi path, in the current environment where qi tide surged, all new qi path resources were emerging in huge quantities continuously. The five regions' forces wanted to research more into qi path.
Heavenly Court was no exception!
Even though they had Primordial Origin's true inheritance, if Heavenly Court could gain Qi Jue's true inheritance, it would mean that other forces could not get it. With this difference, Heavenly Court would have a great advantage against others.
Thus, Fang Zheng did not rest for long, he received Qin Ding Ling's orders and brought four rank eight Gu Immortals to move to white heaven using Demon Judgment Board, arriving at this place.
"This should be Qi Jue grotto-heaven, but what is going on?" Fang Zheng had just arrived but he saw a shocking change.
He saw countless holes appearing, milky white qi currents surged endlessly as they moved around, the many new openings started to connect the grotto-heaven to the outside world.
These openings increased in numbers and continued to surface, there were too many of them, this would be a fearsome sight to others.
After more than ten breaths, a huge silhouette of Qi Jue grotto-heaven appeared. On the surface, there were countless white qi currents surrounding it, within the qi currents, there were countless holes breathing in and out.
The surrounding air was sucked into the grotto-heaven by a terrifying formless force. As for the loud noise that it created, the Heavenly Court immortals felt deafened all of a sudden.
"A huge change is occurring in Qi Jue grotto-heaven!"
"Wu Shuai and Wu Yong might have fought in the grotto-heaven."
"What to do?"
Prince Feng Xian and the rest looked towards Fang Zheng, he was still their leader in this expedition.
Fang Zheng felt pressured, the choice in front of him was a difficult one. At this moment, he fell into hesitation, what should he choose?
At the center of Qi Jue grotto-heaven.
Boom boom boom!
Qi pillars continued to break and shatter as noise erupted endlessly.
The Evil Dragon destroyed everything in its path, but such a sight did not last long, after the qi pillars were destroyed, they turned into strong qi currents that intertwined together, surrounding the body of the Evil Dragon as they pressured it, trying to attack and kill it from all directions.
The Evil Dragon roared but its speed continued to fall, it was facing an unprecedented pressure from ahead.
Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building and Dragon Palace were not having an easy time either.
These qi currents were like tsunami waves that constantly attacked, these two rank eight Immortal Gu Houses were like small rafts trying to float in this treacherous storm.
Huge qi currents collided and caused the two Immortal Gu Houses to shake, sometimes, the Immortal Gu Houses even spun around on the spot.
There was a shot of deep blue qi current, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building quickly tried to dodge it. But the deep blue qi current was too large and fast, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building exerted all of its strength before leaving and escaping after three breaths of time.
"Lightning qi!" Southern Border's Gu Immortal gasped: "I've never seen such colossal lightning qi, this quality is on par with rank eight immortal materials."
Lightning qi could only be collected during stormy weather.
It was not hard to collect lightning qi, but high ranked lightning qi immortal materials were very rare.
Rank eight lightning qi was even rarer.
If the situation were not so urgent, Southern Border's Gu Immortals would want to collect the lightning qi.
"This is all Wu Shuai's fault! By causing rampant destruction, Qi Jue grotto-heaven has gone into a berserk state." Luo Zu gritted his teeth.
Wu Yong's expression turned dark: "Qi Jue's true inheritance is our primary goal!"
The lightning qi from earlier caused Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building to lose some Gu worms, Wu Yong quickly replenished them.
These immortal materials had incredible dense dao marks, this environment was very dangerous. If there were wind path qi current immortal materials, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building would have an incredibly good time here.
The change in Qi Jue grotto-heaven's situation made the environment much more dangerous, but on the whole, Wu Yong's situation had actually improved.
Because Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building suffered much less obstruction compared to Wu Shuai's side.
Dragon Palace was much slower than Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building.
There were sharp blade qi, black hard qi, dark death qi… all sorts of qi currents were all at rank eight level. Wu Shuai gritted his teeth as he drove Dragon Palace forward, resisting them by force.
The Evil Dragon was left in the dust already.
Its body was too big, it was resisted by at least ten air currents or more, it could no longer be of use here.
"This is the foundation of Qi Jue grotto-heaven…" Wu Shuai had a solemn expression, his gaze flickered with uncertainty.
He had the disadvantage now but the situation had not been decided.
The two heaven's Gu Immortals were also speechless at the moment. If not for Dragon Palace's protection, who would dare to travel in this dangerous place? Many rank eight Gu Immortals felt their own weakness and insignificance at this moment.
"Demon Immortal Qi Jue is truly worthy of being the person who rivaled Limitless Demon Venerable in the past!"
The two rank eight Immortal Gu Houses did not give up, they moved towards the center with much difficulty, trying to obtain Qi Jue's true inheritance.
But outside the grotto-heaven, Fang Zheng no longer had to hesitate.
"Let's retreat first and observe the situation." Fang Zheng ordered, Demon Judgment Board quickly retreated.
Prince Feng Xian and the rest were silent, they agreed with this decision.
Because right now, a change occurred again, raging qi currents appeared all over the place, a new qi tide had begun!
Fighting during a qi tide would cause the Gu Immortals to suffer backlash, even Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were no exception.
"It seems our earlier deduction was right."
"The heaven and earth qi in our immortal apertures differ from the outside world, thus be it opening the immortal aperture entrance or fighting intensely, when it hits a certain level, a new qi tide will occur."
"Demon Immortal Qi Jue is a five regions Gu Immortal, because of his foundation, now that his immortal aperture's entrance is basically wide open, along with the fight between Wu Shuai and the Southern Alliance inside, they created a gigantic qi tide."
"Let's watch by the side and try to reap some benefits from the outcome."
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals conversed as they kept a close eye on Qi Jue grotto-heaven.
The powerful qi tide went through the openings and rapidly entered Qi Jue grotto-heaven.
Wu Shuai and Wu Yong instantly felt huge pressure as the wild qi currents became even stronger. Even though the rank eight Immortal Gu Houses were powerful, these qi currents made them helpless, they were often blown away to random places.
Bang… bang… bang!
As the two Immortal Gu Houses approached the center, they started to hear loud thumping sounds.
"What is going on?"
"What qi currents are causing these sounds?"
"No, this is someone's heartbeat! Quickly look!"
The two Immortal Gu Houses arrived at the center of Qi Jue grotto-heaven, all of the Gu Immortals saw this sight —
At the point where all the countless qi currents merged was the eye of the storm, this place was completely tranquil and safe.
In this tranquil environment, there was a tiny and delicate qi harvest fruit, it continued to absorb the surrounding qi currents.
Countless qi currents of all types got absorbed into the qi harvest fruit and their traits were assimilated, becoming a part of the fruit.
Different from the previous situation, there was the form of a baby inside the qi harvest fruit!
The qi harvest fruit was like a woman's womb, a human baby was curled up inside, growing and getting larger by the second.
"What is happening?"
"What in the world is going on?"
"This is a monster! It is actually absorbing rank eight immortal materials endlessly to strengthen itself!"
"It is about to be born, quickly stop it!"
The immortals' expressions changed, Wu Shuai wanted to unleash the killer move dreamy light smoke, but the qi harvest fruit seemed to have sensed it, it shook and self-detonated.
The baby was successfully born, he had tiny arms and legs like he was malnourished.
At this time, the silhouette of a concave land appeared above his head. This concave land contained deep profundities, it gave off a rank nine aura. But this aura was far more perfect and refined than the incomplete Human Sea that Wu Shuai had previously.
This was a secluded domain of heaven and earth!
The baby raised his arms, he seemed to be using both arms to carry the silhouette of this secluded domain of heaven and earth.
"Xi—" He shouted out in a long tone.
At the next moment, all of the surrounding qi currents moved into the silhouette of the secluded domain of heaven and earth like river tributaries returning to the ocean.
The qi currents moved with incredibly shocking speed, within a few breaths of time, all of them went into the mysterious secluded domain of heaven and earth. Wu Shuai and Wu Yong could not even sense a single qi current around them anymore.
In the sky, only the baby and the two rank eight Immortal Gu Houses were left.
"We're outside again." Luo Zu found himself in the outside world.
"No, the whole of Qi Jue grotto-heaven turned into qi currents and got absorbed by him." Wu Yong was unable to conceal his shock, everything was unexpected in this situation, he felt like he was used.
This was someone's scheme!
"Who are you?" Wu Shuai shouted from within Dragon Palace.
The baby had grown into a boy, he breathed in deeply, the silhouette of the secluded domain of heaven and earth above his head went into his nose.
Next, he looked around and saw Dragon Palace and Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building, he also found the hidden Demon Judgment Board.
The boy smiled as he started to recite: (Chapter 1319)
"Climbed mountains to seek immortality, danger present in every step.
Dust specks float like light, dark Gu lurk in heart.
A dream like golden jade, thousands of years of loneliness.
Five regions and nine heavens, everything is in one breath[1]."
As he recited, his voice was young but his tone was aged: "Who else can I be? Yours truly, Demon Immortal Qi Jue."
"Demon Immortal Qi Jue?!" The immortals were all shaken.
"Wait, if he is Demon Immortal Qi Jue, then the secluded domain of heaven and earth from earlier, it is 'Xi' from [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]?" Within Demon Judgment Board, Zhou Xiong Xin suddenly had a thought.
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]] had two very mysterious secluded domains of heaven and earth, there was little description regarding them.
One was 'Hu', the other was 'Xi'.
[1] Breath written as qi in Chinese.
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Chapter 2000 Might of the Demon Immortal
Demon Immortal Qi Jue!
The mysterious Gu Immortal stated his own identity, the entire place went silent.
The three sides' Gu Immortals were shaken. According to history, Demon Immortal Qi Jue was someone who had been evenly matched with Limitless Demon Venerable in battle at some point!
Wu Shuai, who was inside Dragon Palace, frowned, he realized many things: "It seems that in my previous life, Demon Immortal Qi Jue failed to revive. Otherwise, there would not have been zero information about Demon Immortal Qi Jue's revival. There are two possible reasons, one is that fate Gu was not destroyed then, the second is that Spectral Soul succeeded in refining sovereign immortal fetus Gu, from all the signs known, he had already infiltrated Heavenly Court and gained complete control of the situation. He would not allow someone like Demon Immortal Qi Jue to revive."
Thinking of this, Wu Shuai snorted coldly as he willed.
Roar—!
At the next moment, the Evil Dragon moved.
Earlier, because of the countless qi currents obstructing it, the Evil Dragon was covered in injuries. But now that the whole of Qi Jue grotto-heaven was absorbed by Demon Immortal Qi Jue using an unthinkable method, the Evil Dragon regained freedom, it charged towards Demon Immortal Qi Jue with imposing aura again.
Once it moved, wild winds started blowing.
The Evil Dragon's colossal body was like a moving mountain range, engulfing heaven and earth.
Forget about Demon Immortal Qi Jue's tiny child body, even the great Dragon Palace could not match the Evil Dragon's body.
"Hehehe, come." Demon Immortal Qi Jue's vision was filled by Di Zang Sheng.
He was not flustered, instead he smiled calmly.
He did not dodge, he directly extended his small hand towards Di Zang Sheng.
Immortal killer move — Great Qi Grasp!
With a loud sound, endless white qi currents shot out of Demon Immortal Qi Jue's body, forming a giant hand with five fingers.
The hand was only the size of an Immortal Gu House at first, but it slowly inflated to the size of a hill. Three breaths of time later, the entire qi current hand had expanded to the size of the Evil Dragon's head.
But the milky white qi current hand continued to grow!
Di Zang Sheng had already reached it.
Bam.
The two sides collided, but out of everyone's expectations, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's qi current hand was easily destroyed in one move.
Di Zang Sheng did not slow down, continuing to pursue Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not dodge, he continued to face Di Zang Sheng casually.
Di Zang Sheng only charged for a few seconds before slowing down, it growled loudly like it was in great pain.
"My great qi grasp can form and scatter at will. It can grab mountains and seas if it takes form, but it can also invade organs when it scatters. How will you deal with it?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue stood arrogantly and said.
The immortals were shocked.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue used one move to subdue Di Zang Sheng, he had true pseudo venerable battle strength!
"Another demonic path expert!"
"Sigh, with the destruction of fate Gu, the world will go into chaos."
"Demon Immortal Qi Jue had died more than a million years ago, that source of chaos Fang Yuan gave him the chance to revive!"
Inside Demon Judgment Board, Heavenly Court's immortals gritted their teeth, they had ugly expressions.
After the fate war, the righteous path fell while the demonic path surged!
Duke Long, who was the pillar that held up Heavenly Court, died, Feng Jiu Ge, whom they entrusted their hopes to, betrayed them, while Fang Yuan, who was the culprit behind the destruction of Fate, still remained scot-free!
And now, there was this Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
There were sad cries as Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals realized that the future of the five regions and two heavens became much bleaker now.
They did not even think of recruiting Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Although in history, he had opposed Limitless Demon Venerable, there was also no possibility that he would ever join the righteous path.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue, just the demon in his name stated the obvious. After all, the saying goes: There are only wrong names, not wrong titles.
"Xiao He Jian, what are you really up to? You created such a huge enemy for our two heavens alliance!" Within Dragon Palace, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch suddenly shouted.
Xiao He Jian could not rebuke him, his face turned pale.
He felt a lot of lingering fear but also relief. He was relieved that he joined the two heavens alliance, otherwise, with just himself, he would have become the sacrificial lamb of Demon Immortal Qi Jue's revival already.
"This is a scheme, I am a victim too." Xiao He Jian voiced his innocence.
"This is a scheme, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's scheme." At the same time, Wu Yong sighed within Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building.
Luo Zu sighed deeply: "Demon Immortal Qi Jue is a qi path cultivator, but he actually predicted the events a million years into the future? What sort of level did he reach?!"
Wu Yong frowned slightly, he looked through Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building towards Dragon Palace.
He could understand Demon Immortal Qi Jue's arrangements, but he had some doubt in his mind, did Wu Shuai know about this secret?
Now that Wu Yong recalled it, Wu Shuai had been controlling the Evil Dragon to create destruction all over the place, was it because he was straightforward and wanted to use brute force, or was he purposely trying to destroy Demon Immortal Qi Jue's arrangements?
Evidently, it was because of the Evil Dragon's rampant destruction that Demon Immortal Qi Jue was revived ahead of time.
Wu Yong was a formidable person with a sharp mind, the more he thought about it, the more he suspected Wu Shuai's actions.
"It is possible that Wu Shuai knows about Demon Immortal Qi Jue's existence. After all, he has some sort of relationship with Fang Yuan, and Fang Yuan possesses Spring Autumn Cicada, it is not strange that he knows some secrets." Wu Yong thought of Fang Yuan.
"Did Fang Yuan come here?" Inside Demon Judgment Board, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were guessing.
Fang Yuan was a person who had been reborn, if he knew about the secret of Demon Immortal Qi Jue's revival, he might likely hide somewhere to make his move!
Precisely because of this concern, Demon Judgment Board did not take action. Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building was also waiting for something to happen.
But Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not want to let them off.
"Today is the wonderful day I revived, come, come, let me see what methods the Gu Immortals of this current era have!"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue had the appearance of a boy but his tone was that of a man proud of his experience, he actually attacked again.
At once, milky white qi currents gushed out, filling the world with a tsunami, Heavenly Court, the Southern Alliance, and Wu Shuai's side were all enveloped.
"Hmph! Old scoundrel Qi Jue, don't be too arrogant, we are not afraid of you, we are just wary that Fang Yuan might be hiding somewhere." Wu Yong spoke, using Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building to retreat immediately.
Fang Zheng's voice resounded from Demon Judgment Board: "Precisely! Demonic path senior, even though you are famous in history, you cannot compare to the number one demon in the current world, Gu Yue Fang Yuan! This person destroyed my Heavenly Court's fate Gu, without him, you would not have revived."
"Fang Yuan? I will remember this name." Demon Immortal Qi Jue stretched his arms, qi currents shooting out rapidly: "But none of you will escape!"
He was like a bottomless hole, constantly shooting out milky white qi currents.
These qi currents were unique, ordinary immortal killer moves could not destroy them. At once, three rank eight Immortal Gu Houses fell into a predicament, their speeds fell drastically.
Wu Shuai snorted, he controlled Dragon Palace to advance instead of retreating, attacking Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue laughed loudly: "Good, someone with actual guts."
A trace of smoke flew out of Dragon Palace.
Immortal killer move — Dreamy Light Smoke!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not dodge it, he was hit by the smoke, instantly disappearing.
Wu Shuai had a perplexed expression, he was like a fisherman spreading his web, he used all his strength to cast the web but in the end, he only caught some bubbles without any fish.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's body appeared again, this time, he was far away.
He looked at Dragon Palace deeply with an expression of wariness: "Good, I'll remember this."
He gave up on Dragon Palace, he went to attack Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building and Demon Judgment Board instead.
Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building emitted wild winds while Demon Judgment Board shot out powerful blood red lights, they both displayed their might.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's moves were mostly grand and wide ranged, he managed to suppress the two Immortal Gu Houses.
After more than ten rounds, bright light shined in his eyes as he shouted: "Good, good, good, to think that people have already created wind path and blood path, this is truly exciting. I did not waste my effort in arranging for my revival in this great era!"
"Other than you people, who else is there in this world?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue asked.
Wu Yong smiled coldly: "Ignoring anyone else, Eastern Sea has quite the formidable person. He also cultivates qi path, his battle strength is definitely higher than yours. He stays in qi sea, he calls himself Qi Sea Ancestor, he is the undisputed leader of the current Eastern Sea righteous path!"
"Oh? There is a qi path cultivator? Back in my day, qi path was already declining, to think that it would still linger until today! Very good, it seems I will need to meet him." Demon Immortal Qi Jue laughed loudly in joy.
Wu Yong continued: "Other than Qi Sea Ancestor, there is also a sound path demonic immortal named Feng Jiu Ge. He has also defeated the Evil Dragon in one move with much greater ease than you. In the battle earlier, he betrayed Heavenly Court openly and now his whereabouts are unknown, but Heavenly Court does not dare to release an arrest warrant for him."
"Feng Jiu Ge? Good, I'll remember him. Anyone else?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue's eyes shined.
Wu Shuai interrupted at this moment: "Get past us first, old man."
As he said that, Dragon Palace flew over again.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue smiled lightly as he pointed: "Lower qi."
Milky white qi currents gushed out and caused Dragon Palace to fall in altitude.
At this time, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building carried a storm with it as it charged towards Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue pointed another finger: "Upper qi."
Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building was swept away by the qi currents, flying upwards uncontrollably.
Demon Judgment Board arrived in front of him.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue stretched out two fingers as he pointed at this house: "Upper-lower breathless qi."
Demon Judgment Board erupted with a loud sound as it stayed stationary in midair. The Gu Immortals inside had changes of expressions, the immortal essence that they tried to instill became choppy, this rank eight Immortal Gu House was like a dying old man who could not take proper breaths at this moment.
"Juniors, I'm not going to play with you anymore. Go and spread the word, tell Fang Yuan, Qi Sea Ancestor, and Feng Jiu Ge that I will visit them soon. They can't hide from me."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue had just said this when his figure vanished, he did not appear anymore.
All of the immortals were wary now, after getting rid of the remaining milky white qi currents, they confirmed that Demon Immortal Qi Jue had truly left the scene.
"Do we pursue him?" Someone within Dragon Palace asked.
Wu Shuai snorted coldly: "Where did he go? Why don't you tell me?"
The Gu Immortal who asked turned pale, he lowered his head, not daring to say another word.
"Let's retreat." Wu Yong smiled, not forgetting to salvage the morale: "Even though we did not have much gains this time, fighting against someone like Demon Immortal Qi Jue is worth the trip after all."
"Sigh! After Fang Yuan comes Demon Immortal Qi Jue, I really do not know which great expert will revive next!" Fang Zheng was filled with worries, he mobilized Demon Judgment Board to quickly leave the battlefield.
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Chapter 2001 Recruiting Qi Sea Ancestor
Demon Immortal Qi Jue revived, he suppressed Heavenly Court, Southern Border, and the two heavens. News of this battle soon spread in the entire Gu Immortal world, everyone in the world was shocked.
"To think that Demon Immortal Qi Jue revived!"
"The world is really going into chaos, I wonder how many great experts will revive next?"
"Demon Immortal Qi Jue was able to revive, there's no reason the venerables cannot, right? Oh heavens!"
"No wonder they said Great Dream Immortal Venerable would be the strongest venerable in history. Being able to emerge as a venerable in this terrifying era means they have to be incredibly strong."
While countless Gu Immortals made their guesses, the three parties involved were actively recuperating.
Dragon Palace.
"Sigh, I thought that I would be able to obtain Qi Jue's true inheritance, to think that it was a trap!"
"Now that Demon Immortal Qi Jue has revived and we actually offended him, what do we do now?"
"It is all Xiao He Jian's fault, he caused our two heavens alliance to fall into this awkward position."
Most of the variant human Gu Immortals looked towards Xiao He Jian with animosity.
Xiao He Jian smiled coldly, he knew that this was the act of Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, attempting to suppress him.
He had just joined the two heavens alliance but because of his great strength and reputation, he was already threatening Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's status, this was the cause of the animosity from the opposing faction.
"Have you all said enough?" At the main seat, Wu Shuai snorted coldly in displeasure.
Instantly, Dragon Palace became silent, all the immortals shut up.
At this point, Xiao He Jian showed a shameful expression, he bowed to Wu Shuai, saying in a tone of sincerity: "Lord Alliance Leader, I am at fault…"
But before he continued, Wu Shuai interrupted: "Enough, keep quiet. Even if Demon Immortal Qi Jue comes, we have the Evil Dragon and Dragon Palace, what is there to fear? The most urgent matter now is the qi harvest fruits in your grotto-heavens."
"Demon Immortal Qi Jue revived using a qi harvest fruit, this thing clearly contains secrets and profundities, we have not explored it sufficiently. How are we going to get rid of the qi harvest fruits in your grotto-heavens? If we do not act quickly, your grotto-heavens will be in danger."
"Indeed, indeed."
"Lord Alliance Leader is right!"
"My grotto-heaven has already started producing a qi harvest fruit, this fruit is absorbing the heaven and earth qi of my grotto-heaven, it cannot be removed by force."
"The same situation is happening in my grotto-heaven."
"Right now is not the time to take revenge on Heavenly Court or defend against Demon Immortal Qi Jue, the most important thing is to get rid of the qi harvest fruits in our grotto-heavens."
At once, all the immortals in the palace changed expressions as the topic was shifted to the qi harvest fruit.
However, this talk bore no fruit, the palace soon became shrouded in an atmosphere of panic and fear.
Even Xiao He Jian was the same.
Even though his grotto-heaven had not produced any qi harvest fruits yet, at this rate of development, it was only a matter of time.
Even Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch did not have the mood to compete with Xiao He Jian.
His Ice Crystal grotto-heaven's qi harvest fruit was the largest, he was in the greatest danger.
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord also showed a bitter expression.
His grotto-heaven was not spared either, a qi harvest fruit was growing in it. Even though it was still small now, it was growing at a terrifying speed.
But Night Heavenly Wolf Lord was much less anxious than the rest.
"If the two heavens alliance cannot resolve it, I can get help from Heavenly Court."
At this crucial juncture, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord felt that his decision to join Heavenly Court was extremely wise!
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord had a lot of expectations towards Heavenly Court.
After all, the first generation Heavenly Court Immortal King was Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, he was a qi path cultivator.
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord secretly informed Heavenly Court about this as he sought help from them.
Heavenly Court had sent Fang Zheng and the rest to Qi Jue grotto-heaven but Demon Judgment Board did not enter it at all, he did not know what happened inside.
After getting Night Heavenly Wolf Lord's information, Heavenly Court learned the truth.
Qin Ding Ling placed huge emphasis on Demon Immortal Qi Jue's revival using the qi harvest fruit, as well as the disaster occurring in the two heavens' grotto-heavens! This was because Heavenly Court was not exempted, a qi harvest fruit was also growing in it.
She immediately summoned the immortals to research and think of countermeasures.
Heavenly Court had deep foundations, even after the fate war, it was still the number one super force in the world.
Especially when they had Primordial Origin's qi path true inheritance, they had a huge advantage in qi path, they were at the peak compared to all others.
And most importantly, Heavenly Court's research into heaven path was quite extensive, they had great results. Back then, even Limitless Demon Venerable was after their heaven path findings, he made the bet with Star Constellation.
"Heaven, earth, and humans all have veins, humans have human veins, the earth has earth veins, and heaven has heaven veins."
"The two heavens' grotto-heavens are all situated on the heaven veins, thus they benefit greatly and the grotto-heavens are nourished by the heaven veins, producing even more resources."
"However, the world is changing now as qi tides are produced. Qi tides appeared because of the unification of the five regions, the earth veins are becoming one. But the truth is, heaven veins are also merging into one, although the change is not very apparent now."
Heavenly Court's immortals found that the whole of heaven and earth was fusing into one. The five regions were just the start, the two immemorial heavens would start fusing together later as well. The five regions and two heavens were all separated originally, their heaven and earth qi were not the same. But with the fusing of the heaven and earth qi across all regions, qi tides would emerge as the places where they merge.
Wherever the qi tides go, abundant qi path immortal materials would be produced, qi harvest fruits were the quintessence of them.
The reason why the two heavens' grotto-heavens produced qi harvest fruits was because they were situated on the heaven veins, they were facing the brunt of the initial impact.
"That is to say, as long as these grotto-heavens relocate away from the heaven veins, they will resolve the problem of the qi harvest fruit?" Qin Ding Ling asked.
"Theoretically yes, or at least, once they move away from the heaven veins, the growth of the qi harvest fruits in the grotto-heavens will stop." Heavenly Court's immortals answered.
Qin Ding Ling frowned: "Once grotto-heavens are placed, they are hard to relocate, unless one has some special method to move them around. Our Heavenly Court is too big, it has the foundation of Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's immortal aperture along with the future generations of venerables, and countless immortal apertures of Heavenly Court members, how can we relocate Heavenly Court?"
Heavenly Court became silent, they fell into deathly silence.
"Maybe… Demon Immortal Qi Jue has a method?" Breaking the silence, Fang Zheng spoke.
Qin Ding Ling's eyes shined with bright light.
That was true, the possibility of this was high!
Since Demon Immortal Qi Jue was able to revive using a qi harvest fruit, his understanding regarding qi harvest fruits should surpass everyone else. But to get him to cooperate with Heavenly Court, how hard would it be?!
"According to historical records, Demon Immortal Qi Jue will definitely not cooperate with Heavenly Court. Rather than him, we have a higher chance of getting Qi Sea Ancestor's cooperation."
"Indeed, we cannot resolve Heavenly Court's crisis alone. To get rid of this qi harvest fruit calamity, we need a qi path great expert."
"Duke Long had once given Qi Sea Ancestor half a portion of Primordial Origin's true inheritance. During the fate war, Qi Sea Ancestor did not show up, he kept his promise. There is still hope of our cooperation now."
"But Qi Sea Ancestor has some relationship with Fang Yuan…"
"In my opinion, this is a small matter. Ever since Qi Sea Ancestor appeared, all his actions state one motive. He wants to be the leader of Eastern Sea's righteous path, be it the qi sea banquet or the resistance of the two heavens alliance, they show it clearly. His actions do not align with Fang Yuan's interests, even if they cooperated before, it is not our problem."
"Can't our Heavenly Court settle this ourselves?"
"It will be too difficult, ever since the immortal graveyard was destroyed, Star Constellation's will has not shown up once…"
"If we can cooperate with Qi Sea Ancestor, we might even be able to get him to join Heavenly Court. We really lack someone with pseudo venerable battle strength now."
Qin Ding Ling sighed as she made her decision: "Let's try it then."
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Chapter 2002 Fragment of Xi
Immemorial white heaven.
Aurora lights moved in the air dazzlingly.
Eastern Sea rank seven Gu Immortal Qing Hui Zi flew around in the sky of aurora lights, unleashing immortal killer moves to continuously retrieve these aurora lights.
After gathering the rainbow lights in his hands, he turned them into balls.
The balls were then sent into his immortal aperture and buried in cloud soil. After some time, these aurora light balls would grow and sprout, becoming seedlings. By using lightning water and magnetic sound to water them, flowing light fruits would grow on them.
Flowing light fruits were a rank six immortal material, formed from extremely dense lights, having all kinds of color like red, brown, yellow, green, black, blue, purple.
Qing Hui Zi did not only pluck the flowing light fruits, he had his unique plantation methods. Precisely so, he was one of the three main sellers of flowing light fruits in treasure yellow heaven.
"With the qi tides weakening the heavenly wind qi wall, I can also get past them and explore immemorial white heaven for immortal materials. This is my fortuitous encounter."
Qing Hui Zi sighed to himself.
Aurora lights were very common in the two heavens, they were produced abundantly.
Qing Hui Zi collected these aurora lights personally, it caused the cost of producing flowing light fruits to fall greatly, he could earn a huge profit.
As Qing Hui Zi collected the aurora lights, he paid attention to the heavenly wind qi wall below him.
He did not have the strength to survive long in immemorial white heaven, he could not even break the heavenly wind qi wall. Thus, he needed to pay attention to it constantly, once the hole created by the qi tides start to close up, he would need to return to Eastern Sea.
It was no joke.
If Qing Hui Zi got distracted and got trapped in immemorial white heaven, with his strength, he would not last until the next qi tide, he would die in this dangerous immemorial white heaven.
One could say that Qing Hui Zi was risking his life to get these aurora lights.
But Gu Immortal cultivation was not easy, even as a rank seven Gu Immortal, Qing Hui Zi needed to take risks to support his livelihood.
"Xi—!"
Right at this time, Qing Hui Zi heard a voice.
Next, winds blew and clouds shook, Qing Hui Zi was shocked to find out that the heavenly wind qi wall below him was being pulled away by a terrifying formless force.
In a few breaths of time, the surrounding tens of li of heavenly wind qi wall got sucked into the whirlpool at the center.
"What is going on?!" Qing Hui Zi was overwhelmed by fear and shock: "Is that an immemorial desolate beast? But I've never heard of any immemorial desolate beast with such strength!"
The heavenly wind qi wall vanished entirely, a secluded domain of heaven and earth that had a concave appearance could be seen.
Next, this silhouette of the secluded domain of heaven and earth went into the nose of a Gu Immortal who resembled a boy.
Qing Hui Zi saw this boyish Gu Immortal, his entire body and mind shook, he felt like cold water was poured on him, into the depths of his despairing heart.
"Ah, Demon Immortal Qi Jue!" Qing Hui Zi fell into deep despair: "Why am I so unlucky? I only wanted to collect aurora lights but I ended up encountering Demon Immortal Qi Jue!!"
The battle of Qi Jue grotto-heaven had happened recently but it could not be hidden, the world knew about it already.
Even though the killer move everybody's vision wasn't around for all the Gu Immortals to witness the battle themselves, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's appearance and methods were widely spread already.
In the Gu Immortal world, there were a few people publicly recognized as terrifying beings that had to be avoided at all costs.
The number one person was Fang Yuan.
This demon had countless methods and outstanding strength, he did things without any regard or concern, he was ruthless and cruel, even Heavenly Court had no choice against him.
Wu Shuai was also on the list, he was the leader of the dragonmen, owner of Dragon Palace which enslaved Di Zang Sheng, he bore deep grudges towards humanity.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was a newly added person.
As for Heavenly Court and Qi Sea Ancestor, because of their factions, they would not bully the weak, thus they were not on this list.
After Qing Hui Zi saw Demon Immortal Qi Jue, he recognized the demon, he stared in shock, frozen on the spot like a statue.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue frowned as he looked at his palm.
His palm was tiny and smooth, his body was still small like a boy.
Thinking about his revival, Demon Immortal Qi Jue felt angry and annoyed.
If he had some more time, he would revive perfectly and have the body of an adult. But the Evil Dragon caused great destruction in its movement, he had to revive in advance, it caused his body's growth to be halted, his potential was limited.
After absorbing this heavenly wind qi wall, he finally recovered some losses from the intense battle earlier.
After resting, he was going to set off again.
"Junior, come here." Demon Immortal Qi Jue looked towards Qing Hui Zi and called out.
Qing Hui Zi shivered, he went towards Demon Immortal Qi Jue with a bitter expression, fearing for his life.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue smiled lightly, he stretched out his finger as an eerie qi current flew out.
The qi current quickly surrounded Qing Hui Zi's body, he wanted to resist subconsciously but Demon Immortal Qi Jue shouted: "Don't move!"
Qing Hui Zi gritted his teeth, not daring to move at all.
He gave up on struggling, he let the qi currents enter his body and move around his soul.
After some time, Demon Immortal Qi Jue absorbed all of the qi currents that entered Qing Hui Zi back into his own body.
Instantly, he received a vast amount of information, he gained a much deeper understanding of the current era.
"This is truly a wonderful era filled with great excitement, interesting!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue's eyes shined as he spoke in amazement.
Next, he instructed Qing Hui Zi: "Hand over your Gu worms."
Qing Hui Zi's lips twitched, for an instance, he wanted to resist but soon, logic took over his mind, he obediently handed over all of his Gu worms to Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
This action made Demon Immortal Qi Jue reassess him.
After taking away these Gu worms, Demon Immortal Qi Jue inspected all of them, he only took a few glances at Qing Hui Zi's light path Immortal Gu before he placed his focus on those exceptional mortal Gu.
Especially Gu worms like soul search Gu, Demon Immortal Qi Jue was very interested in them.
At the end, he even returned the light path Immortal Gu to Qing Hui Zi.
Qing Hui Zi was very surprised.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue smiled: "Junior, you are not stupid enough to resist me. Who do you think I am? Why would I be greedy and take your trifling Immortal Gu? Scram now."
Qing Hui Zi was in disbelief before it turned into deep joy: "Junior will never forget Senior Qi Jue's magnanimity."
"Hahaha, I searched your soul, why is there a need to thank me?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue laughed: "Go ahead and hate me, I don't care. Even though this era is great, in the entire world, in the absence of the venerables, there are few people who I can take interest in. Even though I lack Immortal Gu, I have not sunk down to the level of snatching light path Immortal Gu. I want to take some qi path Immortal Gu!"
Qing Hui Zi instantly had a thought: "Senior, you want to go to qi sea?"
But at the next moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue waved his sleeves impatiently.
Qing Hui Zi was surrounded by qi currents and could not move, he was sent flying by the movement of the qi currents.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue snorted, he did not look at Qing Hui Zi, he flew towards the direction of qi sea instead.
"I wonder how powerful this Qi Sea Ancestor is, hehe, I hope his qi path Immortal Gu will not disappoint me." Demon Immortal Qi Jue carried great confidence as he went towards qi sea.
He flew in the sky of Eastern Sea, he was surrounded by qi currents as he moved rapidly across various sea areas.
He did not conceal his traces, causing huge waves along the way, the commotion shook the surroundings, his demonic might was exposed in full view. Along the way, he met several Eastern Sea Gu Immortals, these people scrambled in panic as they escaped.
"Oh?" Halfway through his journey, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's expression turned to shock as he stopped his movement.
He felt a movement in his secluded domain of heaven and earth.
"Don't tell me?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue was slightly stunned, he thought of something as joy appeared on his face.
He temporarily put aside the plan to head to qi sea, he changed directions and went southwest instead.
After some time, he arrived at a sea area.
The sky here had many white clouds, shrouding his vision, he could not see any starlight. Even when the sun was blazing, the sunlight could not penetrate the cloud layers, it only made the place brighter.
The surface of the sea was calm but inside it were countless currents. These currents were of all types and forms. They interlinked with one another, they moved in this sea area with absolutely no rhythm or pattern. Without the defensive methods of a Gu Immortal, mortal corpses would be torn to shreds in the currents instantly.
It was the turbulent flow sea area.
After inspecting it closely, Demon Immortal Qi Jue became quite happy: "Wonderful, wonderful. This sea area must have a fragment of Xi, that is the reason why it can create such turbulent currents."
"To think that my luck would be strong after reviving."
"I'll retrieve this fragment first and absorb it before going to find that Qi Sea Ancestor."
Thinking of this, Demon Immortal Qi Jue plunged into the sea, vanishing from plain sight.
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Chapter 2003 Qi Jue Suppresses Qi Sea
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
The disasters were still ongoing, the situation was slowly moving towards the abyss of doom.
Fang Yuan's losses were severe. In order to save his resource points, he had already deployed the variant human and human Gu Immortals in his immortal aperture to different areas, they were tasked to take care of the resources and they were even given mortal Gu that could be used to detect heaven's will.
Along with Fang Yuan's time path clone and main body working together to get rid of the newly created heaven's will, he managed to save all the large resource points in the sovereign immortal aperture.
However, as long as the heaven path dao marks were not refined by Fang Yuan, they would continue to produce endless heaven's will in increasing quantity.
Even though Fang Yuan was using his full strength, he could not stop the situation from aggravating further.
He could only barely protect his resource points now, but the sovereign immortal aperture was too huge, resource points were only a small part of it. In most areas, heaven's will was produced, moving towards the respective resource points like a huge army.
Fang Yuan knew that this situation was at its most crucial point now!
He could no longer cleanse all the heaven's will, in order to prevent the grotto-heaven's heaven's will from linking with the five regions, he had to create an isolated secret space in qi sea, to prevent heaven's will from detecting him.
As for the external situation, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's revival was out of Fang Yuan's expectations, Demon Immortal Qi Jue said that he would go and meet Qi Sea Ancestor, he was not joking.
There were both internal and external problems!
"Now, it will depend on the effectiveness of this immortal formation." Fang Yuan's concentration was invested into this rule path formation.
This formation was situated in Mini Blue Heaven, it floated on its own, it was a modified version of the five regional limit formation.
Fang Yuan had wisdom path attainment, he knew long ago that the situation would progress like this, he made preparations in advance and tried to come up with countermeasures early.
Not long ago, he gained some inspiration and decided to mimic the qi tides to deal with the heaven's will in his immortal aperture.
And this rule path formation was the fruit of his research.
Rank eight immortal essence was already piled up at the side, stored into the immortal formation. With Fang Yuan's thought, this huge formation that covered the range of more than ten li started to activate.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh…
The formation created huge winds, as the sounds of the wind resounded in heaven and earth, countless qi currents appeared from the formation, as if the entire sky was covered in steam, it was completely white, one could not see anything.
The formation suddenly emitted profound light. The profound light landed on the white qi and pushed it like a giant hand.
At the next moment, thirty percent of the white steam qi moved forward like a gushing fountain.
The profound light entered the white qi and modified it, causing the scattered white qi to become more concentrated.
Finally, the white qi that was pushed out turned into a qi tide as it swept towards the southeast direction firmly. Along the way, the qi tide was like a brush that cleaned up the surrounding heaven and earth qi in its path.
In terms of strength, the qi tide that Fang Yuan created could not compare to a true one. But its strength was quite amazing already, it could easily take the lives of mortal Gu Masters.
This was also why Fang Yuan set up the formation in Mini Blue Heaven, it was to prevent an accident from slaughtering countless lifeforms, it would cause him a huge loss.
After moving for an hour, this qi tide almost reached the aperture wall boundary of Mini Blue Heaven.
Fang Yuan inspected the results, he found that the heaven's will that he had specially arranged here was all cleanly removed, not a trace was left. Furthermore, along the path that the qi tide moved, heaven and earth qi were well blended, it was peaceful and calm.
Fang Yuan let out a breath of air, this was good news.
With this formation, he could finally get rid of the huge problem of heaven's will.
This carried huge significance to him!
If he could not get rid of heaven's will, he would be trapped inside qi sea's formation to prevent his location and identity from being exposed to heaven's will.
The pressure that was weighing down on Fang Yuan dissipated to some extent.
Now that he looked at the qi tide again, he felt that he had a deeper understanding of it.
"Qi tides are created because of the differences in heaven and earth qi. It is like how water flows down a cliff to create a waterfall. The qi tides are similar, because of the disappearance of the regional walls, with the unification of earth veins, the different heaven and earth qi of the five regions merge and cause qi tides to appear."
"In the future, when heaven and earth qi becomes the same in all five regions, there will no longer be any qi tides."
"As for the five regional walls? The truth is, they are all qi tides in essence."
The heaven and earth qi of the five regions were different, thus at the intersection points of these regions, there would be disparity in the heaven and earth qi. But because the earth veins were different back then, the heaven and earth qi could not fuse together like now, they eventually gathered and formed into dense regional walls.
Gu Immortals suffer backlash when using killer moves in the five regional walls, it was similar to being in the qi tides. The reason was that their own heaven and earth qi differed from those in the regional walls.
As for the five regional walls that Tao Zhu researched on for his entire life, they were simply just qi tides!
However, his research was focused on the aspect of rule path. His main result was five restriction profound light qi, from this name alone, it showed a connection to qi path.
Fang Yuan had Tao Zhu's true inheritance, he had half a portion of Primordial Origin's true inheritance, along with Qi Xiang's foundation and his own qi path attainment level, he had immense foundation, Fang Yuan quickly made some progress and obtained gains.
"Next, I will need to modify this formation slightly and scatter the sub-formations all over the aperture, I will send out qi tides to eliminate heaven's will."
"The problem of heaven's will has been settled, but the refinement of heaven path dao marks is still a huge problem."
But Fang Yuan had to put this problem aside for now, because he had to guard against Demon Immortal Qi Jue, who was coming for him.
The identity of Qi Sea Ancestor was very valuable. During the fate war, Fang Yuan tried his best to conceal it, he did not expose any clues that they were the same person.
In order to preserve his Qi Sea Ancestor identity, Fang Yuan's main obstacle now was Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
On one hand, Fang Yuan used the formation to settle his internal threat, on the other hand, he waited patiently for Demon Immortal Qi Jue to arrive.
According to Fang Yuan's deductions, Demon Immortal Qi Jue was going to come here for a fight during this period of time.
After waiting for some time, one day, a change occurred above qi sea.
White qi waves surged in the sky, they were grand and unceasing, pressing down on qi sea with immense force.
Within the qi waves, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's boyish figure could be vaguely seen, filled with demonic aura.
Soon, his young but confident voice resounded: "Junior Qi Sea, I, Demon Immortal Qi Jue, have come here for you."
"Qi Jue, what is the matter?" Fang Yuan appeared, activating qi sea's formation as he stood on the surface of the sea, looking up and speaking.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue chuckled: "I have just revived, I do not have my Immortal Gu now. I heard that you are the sole qi path great expert at the peak of rank eight, I have come here to borrow some Gu."
"Hahaha, borrow Gu indeed." Fang Yuan laughed loudly, he could feel the arrogance in Demon Immortal Qi Jue's words: "The Immortal Gu are with me, whether you can get them will depend on your abilities."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue laughed as his young face showed deep battle intent: "Good! Junior, I like your personality, face this move of mine."
Immortal killer move — Great Qi Grasp!
Instantly, a milky white qi current hand flew out like a small mountain, pressing down on Fang Yuan.
This was the move that made Di Zang Sheng cry out in pain, it was incredibly profound, able to scatter or take form, Gu Immortals could not deal with it easily.
Fang Yuan breathed in deeply, he had a calm expression that showed no anxiety. He extended his hand and he pushed forward.
Rumble!
A qi wall that was a hundred li long soared up into the sky, it was grand and magnificent.
The qi wall collided into the hand, the hand was forced to retreat, it could not stop the qi wall from flying up.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue smiled lightly, he pointed his finger as the qi current hand scattered, attempting to infiltrate the qi wall in the form of countless currents.
But the attempt failed to do anything.
Fang Yuan's qi wall was not only huge, it was densely packed, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had no way to penetrate it.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's expression changed at this moment: "This is a powerful qi wall, what is the name of your move?"
Fang Yuan said frankly: "I created this move specially for you, Qi Jue, I have not named it yet. Do you have any good suggestions?"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue squinted uncontrollably as bright light shined in his eyes.
The fact that Qi Sea Ancestor had just created this move was scarier than him having this move for a long time. This meant that Qi Sea Ancestor had very high qi path attainment level, he could observe the battle situation and modify his own qi path killer move successfully to deal with his enemies!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not know that Fang Yuan was focused on modifying the five regional limit formation, this qi wall killer move was merely a small part of his effort.
Even though Fang Yuan lost wisdom Gu, he still had abundant wisdom path methods.
As the qi wall continued to rise into the sky, the milky white qi currents that filled the sky had to retreat further upwards.
By the time it reached Demon Immortal Qi Jue, the qi wall suddenly transformed, it turned into two hands, one black and one white, clapping together from the right and left directions.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not dodge, he allowed the black and white hands to grab him.
As the hands started to exert pressure, at the next moment, there was a loud voice coming from within the hands: "Xi—!"
Both hands were instantly absorbed into the silhouette of a concave secluded domain.
This time, it was Fang Yuan's turn to be shocked, he keenly sensed that the secluded domain of heaven and earth above Demon Immortal Qi Jue's head was more complete than the last time he saw it.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue knew that ordinary methods could not work against Qi Sea Ancestor, he directly used his trump card.
Secluded domain of heaven and earth — Xi.
Fang Yuan tried to use his methods, all sorts of qi path killer moves attacked Demon Immortal Qi Jue, but Xi Land would absorb them all. It was like a bottomless hole, Fang Yuan could not fill it up no matter what.
With Xi Land above his head, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had the advantage, he could not lose.
He even started to critique Fang Yuan's qi path killer moves casually.
"This pair of black and white hands is a nice concept, by including yin and yang qi, you can use the attraction force of the two to amplify the power of this move."
"Your qi path defenses are also quite impressive. Every single thread of your clothes is made of wind qi, are you trying to mimic the heavenly wind qi wall?"
"It is a true pity. If it were before, you would still be a threat to me. But regrettably, I have recently dismantled the turbulent flow sea area and also completely fixed Xi Land. With this, I can counter all qi path methods in the world, Junior Qi Sea, you are no exception!"
"How is it? May I borrow your Immortal Gu now?"
The reason why Demon Immortal Qi Jue gained his reputation was because of this, it countered all qi path methods in the world.
All qi path killer moves would be absorbed by Xi Land, unless the killer move could surpass the limits of Xi Land. But the problem was that Demon Immortal Qi Jue had already fully repaired Xi Land, it experienced a qualitative change in battle strength.
In a way, it was easier for him to deal with Qi Sea Ancestor than Wu Shuai, who controlled Dragon Palace.
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Chapter 2004 Heavenly Court“s Reinforcements
Turbulent white qi covered the sky above qi sea in a chaotic fashion.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue stared down at Qi Sea Ancestor while emitting a grand demonic aura. The phantom image of Xi Land appeared in its full glory above his head, placing him in a highly advantageous position.
"Junior Qi Sea, is my cultivation enough to borrow Gu from you?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue said again.
Fang Yuan felt heaviness.
The previous exchange of moves had already allowed him to understand many details about Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
There was no need to mention the various killer moves possessed by Demon Immortal Qi Jue, his trump card was clearly the secluded domain of heaven and earth, Xi Land. With this secluded domain of heaven and earth, he could counter all qi path Gu Immortals in the world.
If it were other paths, Demon Immortal Qi Jue would not have such huge dominance. But Qi Sea Ancestor's main cultivation happened to be qi path and was thus suppressed heavily.
This showed Demon Immortal Qi Jue's nature.
He might be domineering in his actions, but he was not stupid, he knew how to play to his advantage. Thus, after he revived, he did not continue fighting with the three sides and chose to retreat wisely. He then completed his Xi Land along the way and increased his battle strength. Now, he appeared in front of Qi Sea Ancestor and demanded to borrow Immortal Gu.
The moment he gains rank eight qi path Immortal Gu, his strength would definitely soar and firmly hold its position at the peak of the present age.
With just Qi Sea Ancestor's methods, Fang Yuan was indeed not Demon Immortal Qi Jue's match, but he was not panicked.
Fang Yuan always took action after planning first.
He had already known of Demon Immortal Qi Jue's threat and modified qi sea's formation. As long as he retreated into the formation, he would be able to resist for some time.
If Demon Immortal Qi Jue charged into the formation, Fang Yuan could detonate this large formation and create an opportunity to retreat.
Speaking of it, Fang Yuan had obtained this detonation method from Fang Di Chang. Back then, Fang Di Chang set a trap for Fang Yuan in Divine Bean Palace, he wanted to sacrifice wisdom path Gu Immortal Suan Bu Jin by detonating the Immortal Gu House inside Divine Bean Palace and thus break through the impasse and refine Divine Bean Palace in one move.
Fang Yuan saw through the scheme and captured Fang Di Chang. After soul searching, he obtained the method of Immortal Gu House self-detonation. He then modified the method and arranged it in qi sea's formation.
The self-detonation would be extremely powerful, even if it did not threaten Demon Immortal Qi Jue's life, it could obstruct him for a period of time.
Fang Yuan was very confident about this.
But…
If Fang Yuan used the formation's self-detonation to retreat, the value of this Qi Sea Ancestor identity would fall sharply.
To preserve this identity, Fang Yuan intentionally restrained himself from using many qi path methods during the fate war. Even unlimited qi sea was used just once.
Were Fang Yuan to retreat, it would mean Qi Sea Ancestor was defeated by Demon Immortal Qi Jue. From then on, Qi Sea Ancestor's reputation would fall greatly and his appeal to Eastern Sea would lower sharply.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue frowned slightly, he had spoken twice but Qi Sea Ancestor did not respond. His patience reached the limits.
He snorted and was about to continue attacking when a blood red ray of light suddenly pierced through the skies and shot right towards his face.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue dodged quickly and turned around to see Demon Judgment Board appear in the horizon.
"Heavenly Court, you again!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue sneered: "I am not looking for trouble with you but you are instead trying to provoke me. After such a heavy defeat in the fate war, what confidence do you have to act like this?"
"Heavenly Court defends humanity's righteous path, our actions are not because of confidence but because of our beliefs!" A reply came from inside Demon Judgment Board.
This was not Gu Yue Fang Zheng's voice, it was a female voice.
Fang Yuan's heart shook slightly when he heard the voice: "Qin Ding Ling came personally? So the reinforcement shown by my luck actually refers to her!"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue pointed his finger towards Demon Judgment Board.
Qi currents surged and transformed, rapidly gathering into a lump. In an instant, hundreds of milky white qi spheres shot towards Demon Judgment Board like meteors, creating a series of explosions.
Demon Judgment Board's momentum stopped and shook violently from the explosions.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was about to say something when his expression changed suddenly. He quickly withdrew and moved away from his spot like lightning.
The previous blood red ray of light shot by Demon Judgment Board actually turned around to attack him.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue evaded the blood red light but he did not expect golden light to shoot out from this blood red light.
The golden light condensed rapidly into a huge golden scissors above Demon Immortal Qi Jue's head.
Crack, crack.
The golden scissors cut Demon Immortal Qi Jue's head repeatedly, but the attacks seemed to be in vain.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue, however, paled suddenly.
"This is a luck path method!"
He quickly activated investigative killer moves and immediately felt a loss: "Damn it, these golden scissors are cutting my luck!"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue put great emphasis on maintaining his luck, after his revival and later dismantling turbulent flow sea area to replenish Xi Land, he had already consumed a lot of his luck. The attacks of the giant scissors were making things worse.
"Qi Sea, Heavenly Court, I will remember this. If there is a chance in the future, I will settle it with both of you properly." Demon Immortal Qi Jue's voice resonated throughout the area.
After this sentence, he immediately entered milky white qi currents that filled the sky and left the battlefield rapidly.
"Retreating again?" Gu Yue Fang Zheng, who was inside Demon Judgment Board, was somewhat stunned.
On the contrary, other Heavenly Court members looked solemn.
Qin Ding Ling sighed and explained to Fang Zheng: "This is the terrifying thing about Demon Immortal Qi Jue. He always maintains his calm and has a clear judgment of the situation. We can only give him some trouble, but in the current situation, Qi Sea Ancestor would not just stay on the sidelines. With Demon Immortal Qi Jue's battle strength, it won't be difficult for him to oppose our joint attacks. But the battle will be intense and his plan to borrow qi path Immortal Gu has no chance to succeed. So he directly chose to retreat to preserve his strength."
Fang Zheng immediately realized: "I understand. Demon Immortal Qi Jue is a person from a million years ago after all, he has just revived and doesn't have much contact with new paths. Against Demon Judgment Board's blood path attack and your luck path golden scissors, he prioritized on dodging them. When he gets familiar with these paths and modifies his killer moves, it will be much more difficult for us to confront him."
"That is correct." Qin Ding Ling nodded: "Let's get out and have a talk with Qi Sea Ancestor."
Heavenly Court Gu Immortals filed out with Qin Ding Ling taking the lead and Gu Yue Fang Zheng following closely behind.
They put away Demon Judgment Board of their own initiative, demonstrating Heavenly Court's sincerity.
"Thank you for helping this old man get through this danger." Fang Yuan heaved a long sigh.
Qin Ding Ling was wearing a golden armor and a cape, and in combination with her tall body, wide shoulders and long legs, she emitted heroic aura. But this heroic aura was different from Feng Jin Huang's, it had a natural nobleness to it that felt like it was innately above others.
But right now, Qin Ding Ling had a smile on her face as she showed the initiative to get close to Fang Yuan.
She spoke: "Ancestor, if not for your injuries, how could Demon Immortal Qi Jue be so rampant? Moreover, I saw that you were calm throughout the battle, you definitely have some trump cards up your sleeves. We might even have to ask for your understanding and to not blame us for interfering."
These words were so polite that Fang Yuan felt like it was similar to a warm spring breeze.
Heavenly Court's attitude was different compared to his previous life. At that time, Heavenly Court was oppressive and gave no way out for others. But in this life, Heavenly Court's leader took the initiative to treat others warmly.
After the fate war, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals' attitude was completely different from before the war. Before the fate war, Heavenly Court had fate Gu and possessed huge advantages. But now that fate Gu was destroyed, Heavenly Court's strength had diminished sharply, on one hand, they were actively recuperating, while on the other hand, they took the initiative to make alliances.
Qi Sea Ancestor became a goal in Heavenly Court's eyes and was the best ally for them.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue wanted to find an expert to spar with, naturally, he would first look for Qi Sea Ancestor. After all, be they Fang Yuan or Feng Jiu Ge, their traces were vague and hard to find. However, Qi Sea Ancestor stayed in qi sea and could be found easily.
Since Heavenly Court wanted to ally with Qi Sea Ancestor, they naturally wanted to use Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
After all, adding icing on the cake cannot compare to offering help in times of need.
Heavenly Court helped Qi Sea Ancestor ward off Demon Immortal Qi Jue, it was not a casual action but was planned for a long time.
It was not only Fang Yuan who had been waiting patiently for Demon Immortal Qi Jue, Heavenly Court was also the same.
"Friends, please come in. Let this old man prepare a simple feast to express some gratitude." Fang Yuan led the Heavenly Court immortals into qi sea's formation.
He prepared a feast and hosted the Heavenly Court immortals.
During the banquet, the Xia clan immortals who were staying as guests were also invited to join.
The Xia clan immortals were grateful towards the Heavenly Court immortals, they had a very enthusiastic attitude.
They had seen Demon Immortal Qi Jue's fight with Qi Sea Ancestor, they felt very worried.
Their territory was already seized by Wu Shuai, so they could only put the hope of regaining their territory in Qi Sea Ancestor. If Qi Sea Ancestor was defeated or died, it would be a cruel blow to all the Xia clan members.
Thus, Heavenly Court helping Qi Sea Ancestor was like helping them.
When Qin Ding Ling saw the Xia clan immortals, she immediately expressed her sympathy and condemned the two heavens alliance. She even promised she would certainly fight against this large variant human alliance.
This attitude made Xia clan have an even better impression of them.
The face of Xia clan's first supreme elder even reddened with joy.
This was different from the empty words of the other Eastern Sea super forces, Heavenly Court had truly taken actions. Previously, Demon Judgment Board carried three immortals and attacked the two heavens' grotto-heavens, every Gu Immortal in the world knew of this.
Qin Ding Ling inquired about Xia clan's recent situation.
All the Xia clan Gu Immortals replied: They were hosted well by Qi Sea Ancestor and would always be grateful, it was just that they had a worry about when they could return to their home.
Qin Ding Ling realized Qi Sea Ancestor's intention.
"He is raising his reputation! His ambition is truly big."
Qin Ding Ling was happy to see this. As long as Qi Sea Ancestor had greed and ambition, they would have the foundation to cooperate.
Fang Yuan naturally did not invite the Xia clan Gu Immortals to join the banquet for no reason.
Through Qin Ding Ling's attitude towards the Xia clan Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan was even more certain of Heavenly Court's purpose in coming here. At the same time, he was also making this native force, Xia clan, serve as a witness. After all, as an Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, having close ties with Heavenly Court would lower Qi Sea Ancestor's authority in Eastern Sea.
After a few rounds of wine, Fang Yuan took the initiative to speak: "Friends from Heavenly Court, you helped me today, this old man shall remember this favor. If Heavenly Court has any trouble in the future, I am willing to contribute my strength to Heavenly Court."
This was a clear gesture.
Heavenly Court's immortals were spirited when they heard it.
Qin Ding Ling put down her cup slowly and looked at Qi Sea Ancestor with a smile as she finally got to the main topic: "To tell the truth, Heavenly Court is indeed facing some issues currently. We came to ask for Ancestor's help."
"Oh? Please explain." Fang Yuan asked straightforwardly.
Qin Ding Ling did not mention the matter of the qi harvest fruit emerging in Heavenly Court, instead she handed over an information path mortal Gu to Qi Sea Ancestor.
Fang Yuan probed with his consciousness and was immediately moved.
The content of this information path mortal Gu was the remaining half of Primordial Origin's true inheritance!
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Chapter 2005 Cooperating with Heavenly Cour
The moment Fang Yuan saw this remaining half of Primordial Origin's true inheritance, he had a thought, it was not related to the true inheritance.
"Should I use this chance to capture these Heavenly Court Gu Immortals in one fell swoop?"
This thought was very attractive.
Qin Ding Ling was currently the temporary leader of Heavenly Court, Heavenly Court would definitely receive a huge blow if they lost her. Gu Yue Fang Zheng was arranged by heaven's will and was a crucial character to restrain the otherworldly demon Fang Yuan. If Fang Yuan killed him, he would be free from this shackle. The accompanying Prince Feng Xian, Bai Cang Shui, and the rest were also pillars of Heavenly Court currently. If they were gone, it would be a great disaster to Heavenly Court and the whole of Central Continent's righteous path.
But thinking about it, Fang Yuan gave up on this idea.
His current strength was not complete and he could not maintain his battle strength because of the heaven path dao marks.
On the surface, the Heavenly Court immortals were conversing happily and looked relaxed, but how could they not be on guard in Qi Sea Ancestor's domain?
It was just that they pretended to be relaxed to show their sincerity and friendliness.
Even if Fang Yuan activated qi sea's formation, the Heavenly Court immortals would definitely take out Immortal Gu Houses immediately and defend.
Were he to attack the Heavenly Court immortals right now, whether it resulted in victory or defeat, Fang Yuan's Qi Sea Ancestor identity would be met with heavy scrutiny.
In truth, Fang Yuan was willing to cooperate with Heavenly Court.
Even though Heavenly Court tried all methods to create difficulties for Fang Yuan and attempted to kill him, even forcing him into near death situations, as long as there were enough benefits that were useful for him in pursuing eternal life, Fang Yuan was not conflicted over cooperating with Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court wanted to cooperate with Qi Sea Ancestor for their own benefits.
Fang Yuan would also similarly receive huge gains from cooperating with Heavenly Court.
There was no need to mention the long term benefits, merely Fang Yuan forcing back Demon Immortal Qi Jue with the help of Heavenly Court was enough to guarantee the value of this Qi Sea Ancestor identity. At the same time, Heavenly Court also took the initiative to give the remaining half of Primordial Origin's true inheritance to him!
Fang Yuan was rather moved as he held the information path mortal Gu.
Back then, he had spent much thought and effort to scheme for this qi path true inheritance. Duke Long was shrewd, Thieving Heaven's method could reduce his lifespan but he pretended it did not work and used half of Primordial Origin's true inheritance to successfully stabilize Qi Sea Ancestor.
The remaining half was held firmly by Duke Long and Fang Yuan was unable to get it.
Fang Yuan did not hold any hope but who could have thought that after the fate war, he would actually obtain the remaining half of Primordial Origin's true inheritance through Qin Ding Ling.
In the remaining half of Primordial Origin's true inheritance, the triple qi retraction Fang Yuan coveted was recorded.
"Qin Ding Ling cannot be underestimated." Fang Yuan sighed in his head.
Without even mentioning any requests, Qin Ding Ling directly handed the remaining half of Primordial Origin's true inheritance to Qi Sea Ancestor, the courage needed for this move was truly immense. Qin Ding Ling's and Heavenly Court's sincerity was shown fully.
"If Qin Ding Ling knew I was Fang Yuan, I wonder what expression she would show?"
Duke Long helped the enemy previously and now Qin Ding Ling continued this trend. Were Qin Ding Ling to know the person in front of her was the greatest culprit of the fate war and she had personally handed the true inheritance to him, she might cough blood from anger.
"I genuinely feel your sincerity. What troubles do you have, I will use all my strength to help Heavenly Court!" Fang Yuan stored the information path mortal Gu in his aperture, he already guessed Heavenly Court's troubles.
Qin Ding Ling let out a sigh of relief as she saw Qi Sea Ancestor putting away the information path mortal Gu.
What she had been worried about was that possibility of Qi Sea Ancestor not agreeing to help. After all, Qi Sea Ancestor had been a secluded cultivator who did not care about things that did not concern him. Maybe the information given by the reborn Fang Yuan made Qi Sea Ancestor realize that if he were to continue his secluded cultivation, Heavenly Court would look for trouble with him, so he changed his way of doing things.
Qin Ding Ling did not know how Heavenly Court became enemies with Qi Sea Ancestor. But since Qi Sea Ancestor believed Fang Yuan's words, it was clear Fang Yuan had provided enough evidence.
This was a mess that they were not responsible for, with the destruction of fate Gu, the future had changed, Heavenly Court was unable to find out anything about it. Qin Ding Ling could only rely on the current situation to infer and deduce.
It was normal for Qin Ding Ling to have some worries.
After all, Qi Sea Ancestor had a hostile relationship with Heavenly Court before and had only turned neutral because of Duke Long's mediation. Right now, to recruit Qi Sea Ancestor, Qin Ding Ling had to take out something that Qi Sea Ancestor would not be able to refuse.
Qi Sea Ancestor accepted Primordial Origin's true inheritance and immediately showed a firm attitude of helping Heavenly Court.
Qin Ding Ling was very relieved. Her scheme did not end here. Primordial Origin's true inheritance was only bait, Qi Sea Ancestor would require suitable qi path Immortal Gu to activate the killer moves recorded in it.
And these qi path Immortal Gu were all in Heavenly Court's treasuries.
These were the chips to tempt Qi Sea Ancestor later on.
"Perhaps we can still use Demon Immortal Qi Jue's pressure to push Qi Sea Ancestor to join Heavenly Court." This inspiration emerged in Qin Ding Ling's mind but was temporarily suppressed.
She began to explain the issues Heavenly Court was facing.
Fang Yuan stroked his beard as he ascertained his guesses. Just like he predicted, the qi harvest fruit appeared in Heavenly Court as well.
With Duke Long's sacrifice and the immortal graveyard's destruction, Heavenly Court no longer had a qi path expert to stabilize the situation, thus it was very difficult for them to resolve the issue of the qi harvest fruit.
Qin Ding Ling handed Primordial Origin's true inheritance straightforwardly and also hoped this true inheritance could help Qi Sea Ancestor in dealing with the issue of the qi harvest fruit much more quickly.
Fang Yuan thought for a bit and nodded: "I will handle this matter of the qi harvest fruit. But I have no methods to deal with it now and need to be in closed cultivation for some time to research Primordial Origin's true inheritance."
At this moment, Xia clan's first supreme elder suddenly said: "Lord Ancestor, you are injured and have to recuperate first. Your safety not only concerns Eastern Sea but is also related to maintaining the overall situation of humanity and the variant humans."
He was worried and afraid that if Qi Sea Ancestor were to collaborate with Heavenly Court, Xia clan's matters would be pushed aside.
Qin Ding Ling smiled: "You don't have to worry, I am going to talk about the two heavens alliance now. Wu Shuai is currently a huge demon and also a sinner who invaded Heavenly Court, we absolutely won't let him develop. We came here to ask for Ancestor's help as well as to deal with this variant human force."
After a slight pause, she continued: "Heavenly Court is willing to take out immortal materials to finance Ancestor and Xia clan, to help you reclaim your lost land. In the future battles, if necessary, Heavenly Court will send reinforcements to lend a hand in fighting against the variant human races."
"Ah!" Xia clan's first supreme elder exclaimed in shock and bowed: "Heavenly Court is righteous and worthy of being the number one force of humanity. I am extremely grateful, the whole of Xia clan is immeasurably grateful!"
Qin Ding Ling chatted with Xia clan's first supreme elder for a while, deepening their relationship quickly.
Heavenly Court lost the fate war but it did not lack resources, it only lacked manpower.
In this trip to Eastern Sea, Heavenly Court wanted to entice Qi Sea Ancestor while also targeting Xia clan's Gu Immortals. Roping in a native force of Eastern Sea would establish their foundation in the future five regions chaotic war.
This was a long-term plan.
The unfortunate thing was that Heavenly Court and Xia clan's immortals did not know Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor were the same person in essence. This was truly a huge secret that would shock the world.
Fang Yuan nodded without hesitating: "I will never let the two heavens alliance exist in Eastern Sea, I will certainly drive them out and exterminate them thoroughly!"
Qin Ding Ling raised her hand: "In my view, the two heavens alliance has human forces as well, it is just that the two heavens alliance is being firmly controlled by variant humans currently. These human forces are not different from us, we are all humans. We should stick together and unite. So, there is no harm in splitting them first before we take action."
Fang Yuan immediately understood the meaning: "Could it be that some human forces in the two heavens alliance have already surrendered to you?"
Qin Ding Ling shook her head: "It is not like that. We were able to capture a rank eight Gu Immortal. She is called Granny Skeleton, the current owner of Shattered Bone grotto-heaven in the two heavens."
Granny Skeleton was persuaded by An Chong's words and wanted to join the two heavens alliance. But halfway in her journey, she was ambushed and captured by Heavenly Court.
Naturally, it was Night Heavenly Wolf Lord who provided this information.
Lady Cold Ash wanted to unite the human forces in the two heavens and fight for authority in the two heavens alliance. She had already made Night Heavenly Wolf Lord one of her helpers, but she could have never expected Night Heavenly Wolf Lord to have already sided with Heavenly Court.
"Granny Skeleton?" Fang Yuan paused a bit before asking: "Is this person here right now?"
Qin Ding Ling shook her head: "My Heavenly Court uses virtuous means, we let her go after persuading her for some time."
The eyes of Xia clan's first supreme elder opened wide at these words, he felt some worries regarding Heavenly Court's 'naivety' but did not speak up.
Fang Yuan, however, looked at Qin Ding Ling with deep meaning and smiled: "Looks like Granny Skeleton is a crucial character and the key to tempt her to join us should lie on the qi harvest fruit's matter."
Qin Ding Ling laughed and raised her cup in praise: "Ancestor, you have discerning vision. The issue of the qi harvest fruit appeared in Shattered Bone grotto-heaven as well, if we can solve this issue, we can rope in Granny Skeleton and other human forces."
"Good plan!"
"If we can rope in these human forces, it would be their loss and our gain, this will be a great blow to the two heavens alliance, and there is even a chance they will disintegrate."
"Those of other races have different motives, the human Gu Immortals in the two heavens are of the same race as us. As long as we show enthusiasm and sincerity, it should not be difficult to recruit them."
Xia clan's immortals smiled and conversed, some clapped and laughed, the atmosphere of the banquet became increasingly lively.
Fang Yuan had a smile as he observed the Gu Immortals' expressions from his seat.
If they knew their enemy had already known of their plan before they even implemented it, how would they feel?
Fang Yuan's gaze moved around before finally stopping on Qin Ding Ling's face.
"Although she only cultivates luck path, her leadership is up to standard."
"At her level, she should have reached the level of being proficient in mimicking other paths too. Ordinary wisdom path rank eights are also not superior to this."
'Of course, there is still a large gap between her and Fairy Zi Wei.'
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Chapter 2006 Shadow Sect“s True Members
Central Continent.
"This qi harvest fruit is mine!"
"Get lost."
"You wish."
The qi tide had just passed, a group of Central Continent lone immortals was fighting fiercely for around ten qi harvest fruits.
To grotto-heavens, the qi harvest fruits that emerged inside them were a huge calamity. But the qi harvest fruits that were left behind after the qi tides were precious treasures coveted by every Gu Immortal.
It had already been a while since qi tides appeared, the five regions' Gu Immortals were fully aware of the excellent effect of the qi harvest fruit.
Gu Immortals did not need any qi path attainment, as long as they obtained qi harvest fruits and crushed them in their aperture, they could greatly improve the harmonization of heaven and earth qi. Thereby, gaining freedom of action earlier than other Gu Immortals.
Just as the immortals were fighting, a snowy ray of light pierced through the skies, shooting towards them.
The ray of light was sharp and fierce, shooting right towards a Gu Immortal.
This Central Continent Gu Immortal was only rank six, he sneered when he saw that the ray of light looked fierce but only had rank six aura, he activated his defensive killer moves.
Bam.
The ray of light struck the Gu Immortal and pierced through him.
"How?!" The struck Gu Immortal's eyes were wide open, his expression filled with disbelief.
Both sides were rank six, so why was there such a huge gap!
"Who is it?"
"Ah, could it be Snow Demon!"
The remaining two Central Continent Gu Immortals were also rank six. They were pale with fright when they saw the Gu Immortal whom they had been fighting at a deadlock with die immediately.
The two immediately thought of a mysterious demonic immortal who had emerged recently, this person appeared often to fight for qi harvest fruits and was very vicious.
The two retreated quickly, not daring to fight.
That snow ray of light ignored them and moved straight towards its goal, looting the qi harvest fruits.
After the snow ray obtained them, it left immediately with extreme vigilance.
After moving for a few minutes and using various concealment methods, this snow ray of light stopped in a nameless valley.
The snow dissipated and the Gu Immortal's appearance was revealed, who else could it be but Bai Ning Bing?
After the fate war, Bai Ning Bing was left outside and was not recalled by Fang Yuan.
Bai Ning Bing temporarily obtained freedom and did not want to return to Fang Yuan's side, choosing to cultivate alone. Over this period of time, she was extremely active and had seized many qi harvest fruits, using them in her immortal aperture.
These qi harvest fruits she obtained would have negligible effects on Fang Yuan's rank eight grotto-heaven. But to Bai Ning Bing's rank six blessed land, the effects were conspicuous.
Bai Ning Bing originally possessed future self and could achieve peak rank seven battle strength. But after the fate war, the lower streams of the River of Time became violent, future self thus lost its effect, Bai Ning Bing's battle strength returned to its original rank six level.
"After I get a few hundred more qi harvest fruits, I can battle with all my strength for two hours." Bai Ning Bing used the seized qi harvest fruits while estimating inwardly.
Suddenly, her heart jolted as she sensed something wrong, she immediately shot out of the valley.
But it was already late.
A purple light barrier trapped her rapidly, directly creating an independent space that was isolated from the outside world.
"This is an immortal battlefield killer move!" Bai Ning Bing frowned: "Who is it, come out!"
Clap clap clap.
Following resounding claps, Fairy Zi Wei revealed herself.
She looked at Bai Ning Bing with a smile: "You actually sensed me activating this battlefield killer move. Worthy of a genius chosen by Fang Yuan."
"It's you!" Bai Ning Bing immediately recognized Fairy Zi Wei and her heart sank.
The enemy was a rank eight Gu Immortal, while her strength was only at rank six. She might still have some hope to resist if she had future self, but the current difference in strength was too big, it made her helpless.
Fairy Zi Wei fixed her eyes on Bai Ning Bing, asking with interest: "How did you sense it? I did not see you using any special investigative methods."
Bai Ning Bing's expression was cold as ice as she replied: "It was only an instinct. You already put an ambush beforehand and waited for me to take the bait?"
Fairy Zi Wei chuckled: "You took action too many times recently, the clues are all with me, so it is not a difficult thing to deduce when you will make a move and where you will retreat to. Did you actually discover the danger with only your intuition? My immortal battlefield killer move did not leak any aura when it was activated."
At this time, another figure appeared not far behind Bai Ning Bing, it was Old Man Zheng Yuan.
Old Man Zheng Yuan coughed: "Lady Zi Wei, this is caused by human qi. Although Bai Ning Bing did not use any special investigative method, she has robust human qi. We must have agitated her human qi when we tried to trap her, which made her sense it intuitively."
Bai Ning Bing snorted and took on a combat stance: "You talk too much, let's fight, Heavenly Court!"
Fairy Zi Wei's smile became even brighter: "You are wrong, Bai Ning Bing, we are not representing Heavenly Court, but Shadow Sect. We did not come to kill you."
"What?" Bai Ning Bing was astonished: "You sided with Fang Yuan?!"
Old Man Zheng Yuan chuckled: "This junior Fang Yuan stole the position of Shadow Sect's leader. We are representing the true Shadow Sect!"
Bai Ning Bing's mind shook as she guessed the truth: "Spectral Soul has revived? You want to find trouble with Fang Yuan through me!"
"What do you think? Join us, don't you want to get rid of Fang Yuan and free yourself from all the shackles?" Fairy Zi Wei enticed.
Bai Ning Bing sneered and stared deeply at Fairy Zi Wei: "Of course I want freedom. But what is the difference between joining you and siding with Fang Yuan? I will be even more restricted with you people than with Fang Yuan!"
She noticed what was wrong with Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan, they were clearly enslaved by Spectral Soul.
Standing with Fang Yuan, Bai Ning Bing had the feeling of being an ally at least. But if she joined the Shadow Sect in front of her, then she would only be Spectral Soul's slave.
Fairy Zi Wei nodded: "But you don't have a choice, do you?"
Old Man Zheng Yuan added: "Surrender or die, choose."
Bai Ning Bing's silence did not last long, after a few breaths of time, she nodded: "I will join you."
Old Man Zheng Yuan approached and patted Bai Ning Bing's shoulder: "This is a wise choice. Relax, we will deal with your information path alliance agreements. But your dragonman status is somewhat troublesome, it was Fang Yuan who helped you change that. The dragonman method he used probably went through many changes, it will be very difficult to get rid of this within a short period of time."
"No worries, I am already used to it." Bai Ning Bing said indifferently.
She was restricted by Fang Yuan first, then she entered Shadow Sect and was controlled by Old Man Yan Shi; later, she returned to Fang Yuan's side again, transforming into the new dragonman. Now, she was clamped down by Fairy Zi Wei.
Bai Ning Bing was right, she was already used to it.
Almost at the same time, Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven.
"Aunt, this is the soul core I obtained recently, it is extremely strange, please appraise it." An Xun respectfully bowed and handed over a soul core.
Lady Cold Ash took this soul core and observed it carefully, her expression becoming increasingly strange.
She had seen countless soul cores, but this soul core gave her a feeling which she had never felt before. Just the dark light circulating on the soul core's surface was beyond ordinary.
Suddenly!
The soul core transformed into dark lightning that struck Lady Cold Ash's face, it quickly infiltrated her body and imprisoned her soul.
Lady Cold Ash's body was tense, and when she reacted, she had already fallen to her own relative's trap.
"An Xun, you!" Lady Cold Ash had been concerned with her nephew An Xun and nurtured him wholeheartedly, she had never expected to be betrayed.
Lady Cold Ash struggled before she stood up abruptly.
An Xun was given a great fright as he stepped back quickly.
But at the next moment, Lady Cold Ash's energy dissipated and sat down again.
She groaned as dark light filled her eyes.
Soon, she could not struggle anymore and stood up silently.
An Xun prostrated on the ground: "Subordinate pays respect to master."
Spectral Soul's voice came out from Lady Cold Ash's mouth: "This body is quite good, I shall use this for now to get close to Wu Shuai."
Spectral Soul did not have guts Gu, so he could only devour soul cores and digest them slowly.
Over this period of time, he had already recovered some strength and immediately made a move on Lady Cold Ash.
After he had succeeded, it meant the whole of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven had fallen into his hands!
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Chapter 2007 Target — Profound Literature Grotto-heaven
Roar—!
A huge, mountain-like immemorial soul beast with two horns on its head was howling.
But it was not showing its might and dominance, but madly struggling to flee.
Its tail was grabbed by an ordinary hand.
Then, an extremely terrifying absorption force spread out from the palm. There was a whirring sound resembling a wild hurricane as the immemorial soul beast was absorbed completely by the hand within a few breaths of time.
The owner of that hand let out a burp.
It was the rank eight soul path expert, owner of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven — Lady Cold Ash.
Her eyes were pitch-black and threads of black smoke coiled around her body. After a while, she stopped the killer move, the black smoke around her whole body were restrained, and nothing looked out of place from the outside.
But in fact, her body was already possessed by Spectral Soul and her soul had been devoured.
Spectral Soul sighed: "I am full again."
He got much more freedom with Lady Cold Ash's identity. Over these days, he was actively devouring immemorial soul beasts, increasing and recovering his strength rapidly.
But Spectral Soul was not satisfied.
Devouring immemorial soul beasts was not like consuming guts Gu after all, Spectral Soul needed to digest them. Otherwise, the immemorial soul beasts would corrode his soul, make him lose his rationality and finally turn into a deformed soul monster.
The first choice in strengthening the soul was of course the guts Gu from Dang Hun Mountain, there was no need to digest them and they could be absorbed almost instantly.
The more Spectral Soul yearned for Dang Hun Mountain, the more he wanted to find Fang Yuan and kill him!
"Where exactly did this rascal Fang Yuan go to?" Spectral Soul thought of Fang Yuan and could not help but narrow his eyes.
Fairy Zi Wei had already informed Spectral Soul of the information she had gained from Bai Ning Bing.
This was great news to Spectral Soul.
Fairy Zi Wei had found clues of Ying Wu Xie, as long as they got hold of Fang Yuan's subordinates, they would have enough clues to deduce Fang Yuan's location.
"Fang Yuan obtained so many heaven path dao marks and has been missing since the fate war, his situation must be dismal. This is the best chance to capture him."
Spectral Soul had been a venerable, he queried himself and got the conclusion that even when he was at his peak, it would have been a difficult task to refine so many heaven path dao marks. Let alone the current Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was strong, but he was not a venerable after all and had a limited understanding of the heaven path dao marks.
"But I can no longer count on the arrangements I left in the sovereign immortal aperture."
Spectral Soul understood that heaven path dao marks developed naturally, the hidden arrangements he left behind were essentially dao marks and were certain to be transformed by the heaven path dao marks.
His methods would not be effective after they were transformed.
If they were effective, why would Spectral Soul have to go through such trouble to search and capture Fang Yuan's subordinates, he would have already gone to kill Fang Yuan.
"After half a month, I can devour an immemorial soul beast again to recover my strength… hmm?" Just as Spectral Soul was planning, he suddenly received a message.
Spectral Soul immediately revealed joy: "Wu Shuai is convening rank eight Gu Immortals of the two heavens alliance to discuss an important event, Lady Cold Ash is also summoned. Great, Wu Shuai is acquainted with Fang Yuan, he might even be Fang Yuan's clone. I might be able to lure out Fang Yuan's main body if I enslave him."
Spectral Soul immediately moved out of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven under Lady Cold Ash's identity and rushed towards the headquarters of Eastern Sea's Xia clan.
In the public blessed land, he smoothly entered Dragon Palace and saw Wu Shuai.
Wu Shuai was sitting on the main seat while the other people were divided into two rows. On his immediate left was vice alliance leader Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch; on his right was the recent addition, rank eight expert Xiao He Jian.
Below them were leaders of various variant human forces.
The human grotto-heaven owners were arranged further back. For instance, Lady Cold Ash's position was almost close to Dragon Palace's door.
The political state of the two heavens alliance was clear from these seating arrangements. Variant humans were dominant and had most of the authority, while human Gu Immortals were firmly at a disadvantage. It was not that they did not resist, but they were helpless. After all, Wu Shuai had a dragonman identity and it was natural for him to be closer to other variant humans.
'If I kill all of them, how much of my strength can I recover?' Spectral Soul looked around with killing intent surging in his heart.
Sensing her gaze, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord who was standing opposite her nodded slightly, showing goodwill.
Spectral Soul had already obtained all of Lady Cold Ash's memories: "This Night Heavenly Wolf Lord, maybe I can make a move against him first. This human rank eight Gu Immortal's soul is much more suitable for my recovery."
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord thought: "This Lady Cold Ash can be used. My contribution regarding Granny Skeleton came from her. After this discussion, I should find her to drink tea and probe her intention. If I can rope her into Heavenly Court's side, my contribution will be even bigger."
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord's thoughts were normal.
In his opinion, the previous Lady Cold Ash did not lose hope and wanted to unite other human forces to counter the current alliance situation, raising the human forces' position in the alliance. But right now, her plan was already useless, Granny Skeleton did not come at all. And with Heavenly Court already proceeding to the next plan, that was, to split up the whole two heavens alliance, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord saw his chance to make much more contributions!
Just as Night Heavenly Wolf Lord and Lady Cold Ash were scheming, Wu Shuai spoke: "I think you should all know why I convened everyone this time. That's right, it is about the qi harvest fruit disaster."
"Qi harvest fruits have appeared in most of your grotto-heavens. These qi harvest fruits absorb the heaven and earth qi in the grotto-heaven to strengthen themselves, directly harming the grotto-heaven's foundation. But ordinary methods cannot get rid of these qi harvest fruits, a rash move will only harm the grotto-heaven's foundation."
"Today, I gathered everyone to try to collectively think of a good solution."
After Wu Shuai spoke, the immortals began to offer their suggestions.
Over this period of time, most of them had racked their minds and were completely focused on this problem.
These immortals might lack combat proficiency, but their foundations were instead stable and solid. Thus, they suggested many methods.
However, although there were many methods suggested, which were truly effective?
No one could guarantee or be certain!
None of them cultivated qi path as their main path, there were a few who cultivated qi path on the side but their attainment was low and could not be counted upon.
"There are many methods, let's try them one by one, there should be a way to resolve this issue. So, what we need to do is to try these methods continuously. Who is willing to try it first?" Wu Shuai summarized and asked.
Dragon Palace immediately fell into silence.
No one wanted to be the guinea pig!
It was extremely crucial to clear up the qi harvest fruits. It was like a heart surgery, a slight mistake and it would be the end of the grotto-heaven. Even if they were fortunate and the grotto-heaven survived, its foundation would be heavily damaged and there would be massive losses.
"These Gu Immortals are really pitiful, fortunately I have already sided with Heavenly Court." Although Night Heavenly Wolf Lord showed a worried expression, he was calm.
He had been informed by Heavenly Court that they had already found the solution to the qi harvest fruit issue. So he was not the least bit worried.
But in fact, Qin Ding Ling only said that to stabilize Night Heavenly Wolf Lord and make him more loyal.
"It is both hard and easy to resolve the qi harvest fruit." Spectral Soul naturally knew some methods but he did not mention them.
His current thoughts were filled with how to attack Wu Shuai.
He could not make a move now with so many people present.
But how could he find a chance to be alone with Wu Shuai?
"The biggest obstacle is still this Dragon Palace." Spectral Soul was somewhat wary. Dragon Palace, in essence, was an enslavement path Immortal Gu House, Spectral Soul was not afraid about this. What he was worried about were the dream path methods of Dragon Palace.
Even Spectral Soul had to be vigilant regarding this, once he was captured by dreamy light smoke, he would immediately be defeated.
Wu Shuai saw the immortals becoming silent for a long while, he already knew their thoughts.
He smiled: "Since no one is willing to give it a try, we should find other people to try. There are many grotto-heavens in the two heavens, there are still people who have not joined us and are harboring unfathomable thoughts."
The Gu Immortals' eyes brightened, they felt the alliance leader's idea was simply too great!
Thereupon, the immortals resounded in agreement, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and others even boot-licked Wu Shuai.
"Which grotto-heaven do you think is suitable?" Wu Shuai asked.
At the next moment, various opinions emerged and a large number of targets were mentioned.
The one which was mentioned the most was Profound Literature grotto-heaven!
Old Immortal Hua Yu was a human with powerful strength as well as high prestige that allowed him to influence many of the surrounding grotto-heaven forces. If Wu Shuai could get rid of him and incorporate Profound Literature grotto-heaven into the two heavens alliance, there would be countless benefits.
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Chapter 2008 All Destroyed!
Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
"Xiao Bai, here will do." In the small path between mountains, Teacher Jiang stopped and spoke to Li Xiao Bai.
Li Xiao Bai showed sadness and reluctance: "I was able to survive in the capital city all thanks to teacher's guidance and help. I will engrave this kindness in my heart and never forget it. But after this separation, I wonder when I can see teacher again!"
"You." Teacher Jiang sighed and patted Li Xiao Bai's shoulder, encouraging him: "Although you lost in this world poetry competition, your poems have already spread far and wide. Everyone knows your talent is worthy of the title of a great scholar. Moreover, Su Qi Han has already returned, the capital city is the arena for you to display your talents. Go back, teacher will look forward to your performance."
Li Xiao Bai bid farewell to Teacher Jiang with eyes full of tears.
Li Xiao Bai rode a horse through the mountain path that was covered with trees while pondering about his future.
He lost in the world poetry competition, although his earlier performances were exceptional.
Like he had expected, he ran into Teacher Jiang in the later stage. This made Li Xiao Bai fall into an awkward situation — if he won against his teacher, his morals and character would be criticized and there would definitely be a tide of hateful remarks.
Li Xiao Bai had wanted to use his next chance to continue passing through the stages. But he kept on running into his teacher again and again.
Teacher Jiang was also helpless, in fact, he also did not want to succeed by stepping on his own student. But he had to grab onto every chance because he had also probed the biggest meaning behind the world poetry competition.
Li Xiao Bai ran into Teacher Jiang time and again, his hands were tied and he eventually lost the competition.
Although he felt pity about this, Li Xiao Bai felt thankful as well: "My previous performances were too exceptional and even excessive. If I were to succeed like this, there would definitely be a detailed investigation done on me. Even if I passed the investigation, because I don't have a good background and am not a renowned person, I am very likely to be schemed against. Many people are coveting this opportunity to become an immortal, how could they let it fall into a minor character's hand?"
The world poetry competition's selections looked extremely fair, but in fact, where there were people, there would be conflicts of interests and many deals going on behind the scenes.
Just look at the list of candidates that passed the world poetry competition's selection, they were either influential officials or renowned people, even the so-called dark horses have extraordinary roots and background.
"It doesn't matter that I am not selected in this world poetry competition, there will be a second selection in the future."
"Even if there is no second world poetry competition, don't tell me I cannot become an immortal by relying on myself?"
"Hmm, what smell is this, it is so fragrant!"
Just as Li Xiao Bai was thinking, a delicate fragrance broke his train of thoughts.
This fragrance was really pleasing and smelled like the inky fragrance of a book.
Li Xiao Bai was immediately curious, how could there be such a fragrance in this mountain's forest?
He rode the horse and followed the fragrance to its source.
After riding for a while, dense bush blocked the path ahead, Li Xiao Bai had no choice but to get off the horse and continue on his feet.
The fragrance became increasingly strong as Li Xiao Bai moved deep into the forest, he knew he was going in the right direction and was getting closer to the source of the fragrance.
Finally, he brushed aside some leaves and found a pine tree.
This pine tree was covered with pine cones and these pine cones were releasing the dense book fragrance. And on the branch of the tree, there was an exquisite and unique brown tree-house.
"Is someone living here? A mountain hermit?" Li Xiao Bai carefully approached and called out: "I am Student Li Xiao Bai, I accidentally passed through here and took the liberty to pay a visit. Please don't blame me, sage in the mountain."
But there was no sound from the treehouse.
Li Xiao Bai called out several times but there was still no reply. Seeing that there seemed to be no one in the treehouse, he walked towards the pine tree.
When he reached the pine tree, Li Xiao Bai made another discovery. The treehouse was not constructed on the tree, but was integrated into the tree, like it had directly grown from the tree.
Li Xiao Bai wanted to enter the treehouse to probe, but after circling around the tree, he found that the treehouse was completely integrated, with only windows but no doors.
"What do I do?" Li Xiao Bai thought and subconsciously placed his hand on the tree trunk.
Suddenly, the bark let out crisp sounds as it transformed. In an instant, a spiral staircase appeared around the tree trunk that moved towards the treehouse.
And a door appeared on the treehouse as well.
Li Xiao Bai only hesitated for a bit before stepping on the stairs and walking to the treehouse.
There were three rows of bookcases in the treehouse that were standing against the three walls. In the compartments of the bookcases were many Gu worms.
"Book fragrance spreads, talented scholars smell. Book house inheritance shall be left to the fated." At this time, information was transmitted to Li Xiao Bai's mind.
Li Xiao Bai inspected it and felt joyous.
"So this is an information path inheritance."
"Although it is only a Gu Master inheritance with no Immortal Gu, there are various rank four and many rank five Gu worms. There is also detailed cultivation instruction, forming a complete system which suits me."
"Speaking of which, my luck has been improving recently. Looks like my main body has already stabilized the situation."
This inheritance was a peak level Gu Master inheritance, not only did it have many Gu worms, the pine tree itself was an exceptional mortal Gu House — Book House.
Li Xiao Bai stored Book House and returned back the way he came. He smoothly found his horse and hurried back to the capital city.
At the peak of the mountain, two figures were standing.
One immortal and one mortal.
The immortal was Hua Song, the mortal was rank five Gu Master Teacher Jiang.
Teacher Jiang had witnessed the whole process of Li Xiao Bai obtaining the inheritance and was extremely grateful: "Teacher, many thanks for helping my student."
It turned out that Teacher Jiang's teacher was Hua Song.
Hua Song smiled: "He is your student, according to the relationship, he is my grand-disciple. He belongs to our faction, how can I ignore him? When the world poetry competition started, I already noticed him. He clearly had the strength to pass the stages, but because he ran into you, he chose to limit himself. I had been hoping for you two, teacher and disciple, to succeed in passing the competition, but his luck seems to be quite bad, he ran into you again and again during the crucial rounds and was finally eliminated."
"I am at fault." Teacher Jiang lowered his head.
"Hahaha." Hua Song patted Teacher Jiang's shoulder: "You are really outstanding for being able to teach such a superb student. If this Li Xiao Bai had disregarded his teacher for fame and defeated you in front of everyone, I would have punished this kid severely. But he prioritizes this teacher and student relationship, his character is excellent. Although he failed this time, there is no harm in it."
"It is this child's fortune to be noticed by teacher. Just that, teacher, why didn't you…." Teacher Jiang hesitated.
Hua Song sighed: "Although I am the host of the world poetry competition, if I were to act in favor of my personal gain, I would be criticized by other Gu Immortals and lose my reputation in front of Old Lord Hua Yu."
"Moreover, Li Xiao Bai is still too young, he lacks tempering. If he suddenly became an immortal, it might lead to misfortune because of this good fortune. He should still continue to accumulate experience in the mortal world, a jade stone is useless if it is not polished."
"Teacher is right, I was thinking too simplistically." Teacher Jiang wholeheartedly admired his teacher and said excitedly: "I understand teacher's effort. Teacher, you don't want me to bear the feeling of guilt, so you gave Li Xiao Bai such a great inheritance, right?"
"It is good that you know that." Hua Song smiled: "You are my student, you were selected this time and will be nurtured to become an immortal. You must concentrate wholeheartedly and not split your attention because of other matters. Concentrate on cultivation, don't ruin my reputation."
"Yes, teacher, I will definitely use all my strength!" Teacher Jiang cupped his hands and bowed solemnly.
Although Profound Literature grotto-heaven maintained neutrality and was not willing to participate in any fights, they understood chaotic times were coming so they did not hold back in cultivating Gu Immortals.
Teacher Jiang and others were handled and given plenty of resources with many Gu Immortals guiding them personally.
Teacher Jiang studied and practised hard everyday, using his time to the fullest.
Despite him using all his strength to study, his performance was still at low to mid level. This showed the talents of this batch's Gu Masters.
Even the teaching Gu Immortals were secretly pleased. This batch was indeed full of the elites of Profound Literature grotto-heaven and everyone was an excellent Gu Immortal seed.
Over half a month passed, Teacher Jiang and the rest welcomed the most crucial moment of their lives — immortal ascension.
"With several teachers protecting us, the success rate of immortal ascension is high. Once I become an immortal, my future will undergo a complete transformation and elevation!"
Teacher Jiang was looking forward to it and studied with even more effort.
However, just as the first among them was about to undergo tribulation, there was an explosion and the whole of Profound Literature grotto-heaven shook fiercely.
Following the explosion, an Evil Dragon with the length of mountain ranges descended, filling the sky of Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
Large numbers of enemy Gu Immortals appeared in all areas of Profound Literature grotto-heaven and attacked at the same time. The flames of war burned everywhere.
The place where Teacher Jiang's group was in was given considerable attention.
"Die!" Wu Shuai controlled Dragon Palace and slammed down.
"It is Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace, we can't block it! Retreat!" The Gu Immortals who were guarding this place were pale with fright as they retreated.
Rumble!
Earth quaked and mountains shook, dust and stones flew everywhere.
This learning palace that was arranged meticulously was completely destroyed. Teacher Jiang and the rest could not even dodge and were squashed into pulp, dying miserably.
The Gu Immortals who taught them felt their hearts bleeding at this scene. Their weeks of guidance were just about to show results, the greatest future potential of Profound Literature grotto-heaven was destroyed all at once by this attack.
Completely destroyed!
"Wu Shuai, my Profound Literature grotto-heaven has remained neutral and never created any difficulties for you. But you actually attacked my land and slaughtered innocents, you are too overbearing and sinful!" Old Immortal Hua Yu was alarmed and shouted in fury.
Wu Shuai laughed heartily inside Dragon Palace, suddenly, his laughter stopped: "Old Immortal Hua Yu, you don't know when to advance or retreat, you don't know what's good for you! I sent messages for you to join time and time again, but you actually made excuses to ignore them, you simply show no regard for me. Today, I will make you and the entire world realize what the outcome of defying my will is! Attack!"
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Chapter 2009 Following Willingly
Attack—!
Wu Shuai's shout triggered boundless wind and clouds, resounding throughout the grotto-heaven.
Many Gu Immortals in Profound Literature grotto-heaven had a change in their expressions, feeling panicked and worried when they sensed Wu Shuai's ferocious might.
Profound Literature grotto-heaven had lived in peace for too long and had never experienced such an ordeal. Even the current grotto-heaven owner, Old Immortal Hua Yu, was extremely surprised.
Because Profound Literature grotto-heaven was an information path grotto-heaven and was most specialized in gathering all kinds of information and clues. They would definitely detect any invasion in advance.
However, Old Immortal Hua Yu and the rest were completely unaware of this invasion, and Wu Shuai's surprise invasion could even be considered a masterpiece, he was able to teleport his Gu Immortals to various areas of the grotto-heaven, launching violent attacks at the various important areas and Profound Literature grotto-heaven's Gu Immortals.
This ambush could be said to be extremely successful.
Profound Literature grotto-heaven suffered disastrous losses, not only did the meticulously selected future potentials like Teacher Jiang perish, even most of the Gu Immortals of Profound Literature grotto-heaven were killed.
"Persevere, this is our home, we cannot lose it. I have already requested for reinforcements, we cannot let these despicable thugs succeed!" Old Immortal Hua Yu shouted, slightly stabilizing the morale of the soldiers.
He then opened his mouth and moved his tongue, spitting out text characters.
These characters were like a storm as they shrouded Dragon Palace with dense frost energy.
Immortal killer move — Cold Words!
The moment Dragon Palace was struck by this move, layers of frost solidified on its surface which greatly slowed its speed. The frost continued to condense and spread, and in a blink of an eye, was already as tall as an adult's calf. If this went on, the whole of Dragon Palace would be sealed in ice.
Wu Shuai snorted as he activated his defensive killer move.
The frost on Dragon Palace's surface began to melt gradually, and Dragon Palace's power continued to rise, letting out rays of orange light.
The orange light shot towards Old Immortal Hua Yu, who immediately changed the words he recited and used a movement method.
Immortal killer move — Quick Words!
At the next moment, his speed surged and he perfectly dodged the orange light.
Immortal killer move — Vicious Words!
Old Immortal Hua Yu spat out tides of characters from his mouth, these purplish black words were like poison arrows that shot and detonated on Dragon Palace.
Rumble…
The series of explosions forced Dragon Palace to retreat constantly, at the same time, large amounts of toxic smoke infiltrated Dragon Palace.
Wu Shuai was seated on the main seat, he did not panic upon seeing this and immediately activated defensive methods to resolve this danger.
Old Immortal Hua Yu's reputation was not undeserving, he truly had some skills, to be able to confront Dragon Palace without losing his ground.
Naturally, this was because Dragon Palace was an enslavement path Immortal Gu House and was most proficient in the enslavement aspect. Moreover, Wu Shuai did not reveal the Four Dragon Generals although he had already gathered them. What he used normally was the Evil Dragon, which had already become a trump card of Dragon Palace.
The Evil Dragon was rampaging!
The two heavens alliance's Gu Immortals were killing and looting!
Wu Shuai was not in a hurry at all, because the situation was extremely favorable to him.
Old Immortal Hua Yu became increasingly anxious as the battle continued, he knew he was already tangled up with Dragon Palace and would have to rely on external force to save Profound Literature grotto-heaven from the danger.
But could the reinforcements arrive in time?
Old Immortal Hua Yu was awaiting the reinforcements, but he knew there was not much hope. Although he had a high reputation, and Profound Literature grotto-heaven's relationship with the surrounding grotto-heaven forces was also quite close, but asking these people to reinforce him in fighting against such strong enemies?
Old Immortal Hua Yu placed himself in their position and thought: if a surrounding grotto-heaven was attacked and asked him for reinforcements, and the enemy was the two heavens alliance, he would also hesitate.
The two heavens alliance's Gu Immortals continued to wreak havoc.
Flames of battle rose everywhere as living beings were exterminated.
"Old Immortal Hua Yu, use your trump cards if you have any left, if you don't use them now, you won't be able to save your grotto-heaven. Hahaha." Wu Shuai laughed wildly.
Old Immortal Hua Yu was silent, his expression grim.
The aftereffects of their fight harmed everything around them, causing holes to appear in the grotto-heaven aperture walls, linking the inside to the outside world.
Suddenly, Wu Shuai's laughter stopped as he shouted in fury: "Old geezer Qi Sea!"
The moment he finished speaking, boundless qi currents surged in from outside and gathered into a giant hand.
The hand was as large as a mountain as it slammed into Dragon Palace and sent it flying far away.
Following which, a tall and sturdy figure appeared in the grotto-heaven's sky, looking down at Dragon Palace.
"Qi Sea Ancestor!" Old Immortal Hua Yu looked up and said with surprise and joy.
Qi Sea Ancestor's appearance surprised him, but thinking about it carefully, he felt it was natural. Qi Sea Ancestor was the biggest enemy of Wu Shuai, he would not sit by and watch Wu Shuai leading the two heavens' forces to do whatever he pleased.
Roar—!
Dragon Palace moved back while the Evil Dragon took its place.
Qi Sea Ancestor, however, held his hands behind his back with no intention to attack: "Wu Shuai, stop now, I can let all of you retreat. If we truly fight, your two heavens alliance will cease to exist."
"You…." Wu Shuai's furious voice came from Dragon Palace: "Qi Sea Ancestor!"
The Evil Dragon stopped, Wu Shuai seemed to be thinking.
Old Immortal Hua Yu let out a sigh of relief, looking towards Qi Sea Ancestor with an extremely grateful look.
Qi Sea Ancestor did this to preserve Profound Literature grotto-heaven and not let it turn into ruins. This was not easy! The two heavens alliance's Gu Immortals were scattered everywhere, Qi Sea Ancestor could take the chance to attack them and deal heavy damage to the two heavens alliance.
But Qi Sea Ancestor did not do this, instead, he considered Profound Literature grotto-heaven. Moreover, prior to this, Old Immortal Hua Yu had never come into contact with Qi Sea Ancestor.
"Qi Sea Ancestor took such protective action for an outsider like me. He is truly worthy of being a famed expert and the leader of Eastern Sea's righteous path!" Old Immortal Hua Yu was extremely moved.
However, at the next moment, the Evil Dragon attacked and Dragon Palace followed closely behind.
"Qi Sea Ancestor, it has been too long since the battle that day. Face my move again!" Wu Shuai shouted.
"Despicable!" Old Immortal Hua Yu cursed when he saw Wu Shuai sneak attacking.
But Qi Sea Ancestor was smiling as if he was already prepared: "Come."
Boom!
At the next moment, the Evil Dragon and Dragon Palace crashed into a firm and solid qi wall.
The qi wall broke down but the Evil Dragon and Dragon Palace's momentum was also completely exhausted.
"Old geezer Qi Sea, I am relieved that you are so energetic. We shall battle later!" Wu Shuai saw he was unable to gain any progress and started to retreat slowly.
Dragon Palace and Evil Dragon left the battlefield and moved out of the grotto-heaven.
The two heavens alliance's Gu Immortals did not dare to stay any longer and started retreating, they were afraid of Dragon Palace leaving them behind in this dangerous place.
Wu Shuai's group arrived fast and left just as quickly, leaving behind flames of war and ruin.
Old Immortal Hua Yu did not rush to provide disaster relief and stabilize the situation, instead, he flew towards Qi Sea Ancestor and bowed deeply: "Ancestor, you helped us in repelling the enemies. Everyone in Profound Literature grotto-heaven is grateful for your kindness."
Qi Sea Ancestor smiled brightly as he held Old Immortal Hua Yu's hands and pulled him up: "We are both humans, it is natural for us to band together and help each other against the variant humans."
Old Immortal Hua Yu said with hatred: "Wu Shuai is trying to overturn humanity's rule, he is a lunatic and a despicable fellow. He is an enemy of everyone in Profound Literature grotto-heaven, we won't rest until he dies!"
Qi Sea Ancestor nodded: "In the current era, chaotic times are coming, who can stay out of it? It is good that you realize this!"
Old Immortal Hua Yu cupped his fists and bowed again: "Looking at the immortals in this world, only Ancestor's might and prestige has spread everywhere, your moral conduct is worthy of being respected. From today onwards, Profound Literature grotto-heaven will be at your command, we will listen to your arrangements."
Qi Sea Ancestor smiled: "Brother Hua Yu, let's join hands in fighting the variant humans, we will protect our homelands and fight for a beautiful future."
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Chapter 2010 Influencing The Five Regions
Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
A tea ceremony was in session.
Old Immortal Hua Yu sat on the lower seat while he let Fang Yuan have the main seat.
Fang Yuan used Qi Sea Ancestor's identity to talk with the Gu Immortals, obtaining first hand information regarding the part of white heaven above Eastern Sea.
There were not just Profound Literature grotto-heaven's Gu Immortals who participated in the tea ceremony. After Qi Sea Ancestor repelled the enemies, Gu Immortals continued to arrive to reinforce them.
These Gu Immortals were from the surrounding forces and were late in reinforcing Profound Literature grotto-heaven, but Old Immortal Hua Yu asked them to stay and join this tea ceremony regardless.
Qi Sea Ancestor said frankly: He had already allied with Heavenly Court and wanted to recruit the human forces in the two heavens, to fight against Wu Shuai's variant human alliance and defend the righteous path of humanity.
Old Immortal Hua Yu was naturally the first to support it, the other forces also responded quite passionately. Many of the Gu Immortals even express their willingness to join Qi Sea Ancestor's faction to fight Wu Shuai's violent and lawless alliance.
Some Gu Immortals hesitated while many others had to report to their superiors to come to a decision.
The tea ceremony ended. Fang Yuan was quite satisfied with the result.
The first step was important if he wanted to interfere in the two heavens' grotto-heavens. With Wu Shuai's active cooperation, almost all the two heaven's Gu Immortals recognized Wu Shuai's might and felt insecure. Everyone realized they could not evade this calamity because even a powerful force like Profound Literature grotto-heaven was almost exterminated. If not for Qi Sea Ancestor lending a hand, Profound Literature grotto-heaven would have ceased to exist.
Chaotic times were coming and no one could stay out of it. Only by stepping on the waves of chaos could they survive and grow stronger.
Qi Sea Ancestor needed only slight effort to persuade five grotto-heaven forces. Of course, it would take some more effort to integrate them. And important details like profit distribution and other rules had yet to be finalized.
Even so, Qi Sea Ancestor's action had already caused a huge change in the two heavens' forces, even affecting the overall situation of the conflict between humanity and the variant human races.
Fang Yuan naturally would not conceal this news, the moment the tea ceremony ended, he spread this news in treasure yellow heaven.
In an instant, the Gu Immortal world of the five regions was shaken.
Some sighed at the changing state of the world and the impending chaos, some praised Qi Sea Ancestor's righteous move and felt he could shoulder the responsibility to lead humanity, some were guessing Wu Shuai's next move, and some were thinking of Eastern Sea's political situation. Qi Sea Ancestor was publicly recognized as the most powerful expert in Eastern Sea, now that he was so close with Heavenly Court, how would Eastern Sea's righteous path forces face this relationship?
The five regional walls were gone, the independent five regions merged into one, changes in any one side could change the whole situation of the five regions. Every move of an expert with an identity and status like Qi Sea Ancestor could deeply influence the whole world.
Eastern Sea, Shen clan.
"Are there still no clues on Ancestor Shen Shang's whereabouts?" Shen Cong Sheng sighed: "I don't blame you, qi tides are appearing everywhere, Divine Emperor City is a very tightly protected area."
A Shen clan Gu Immortal asked: "First supreme elder, Qi Sea Ancestor has already allied with Heavenly Court now, they even handed over the latter half of Primordial Origin's true inheritance. What should we do?"
Shen Cong Sheng replied: "I have already discussed this with Song Qi Yuan, Hua Cai Yun, and other first supreme elders. Qi Sea Ancestor is our Eastern Sea's expert, he cannot be recruited by Heavenly Court. Every clan will take out a portion of cultivation resources from their treasuries and gather them into a big gift to build a good relationship with Ancestor."
Shen clan's Gu Immortal nodded, not objecting to it.
Qi Sea Ancestor was the most valuable existence to rope in, besides his battle strength, it was also because he cultivated qi path.
Currently, Eastern Sea's super forces were thinking of developing qi path and they would have double the results if they could get Qi Sea Ancestor's help in this aspect.
Fang Yuan put on a great show before, everyone in Gu Immortal world thought Qi Sea Ancestor liked to give guidance and support the younger generation. This made Eastern Sea's super forces feel there was a high possibility in this matter.
Western Desert, Fang clan's headquarters.
Fang Gong's expression was dark: "We are willing to pay such a huge price but Heavenly Court still doesn't want to release Fang Di Chang?"
One of the gathered Fang clan Gu Immortals said: "First supreme elder, in my opinion, Heavenly Court is not sincere at all, they are just stalling for time and fooling us."
"Hmph!" Fang Gong slammed his right fist on the table.
He was furious but helpless.
In the fate war, Fang clan's losses were the largest. Not only did they lose Divine Bean Palace, even their strategist Fang Di Chang was captured by the enemy and there was no news of him until now.
Fang clan naturally thought Fang Di Chang was captured by Heavenly Court. Thereupon, they secretly contacted Heavenly Court and wanted to pay a huge price to redeem Fang Di Chang.
But Heavenly Court had all along been stalling their request.
Fang Di Chang was extremely important to Fang clan, without him, Fang clan would be without a strategist.
After Fang clan refined Divine Bean Palace, they had the possibility of raising their status and becoming the leader of Western Desert's righteous path. But Divine Bean Palace and Fang Di Chang were gone, destroying Fang clan's dream of becoming the leader.
Fang Gong was in a very bad mood, especially after hearing of Qi Sea Ancestor's actions.
"Qi Sea Ancestor has already begun to lead Eastern Sea, but me? Fang clan? We are just stagnating at the same spot! Sigh…" Fang Gong felt helpless.
The only thing that gave him some joy was that Fang Di Chang had already prepared for the future and had passed on Fang clan's wisdom path inheritance to Fang Yun.
"Since Heavenly Court is not willing to release Fang Di Chang, we can only prioritize on cultivating Fang Yun." Fang Gong made the decision.
They could not wait any longer.
Time waits for no one!
Cultivating a Gu Immortal, especially a competent wisdom path Gu Immortal, required a long time.
Central Continent, Heavenly Court.
Qin Ding Ling looked at the intel and smiled, muttering to herself: "Fang clan is actually willing to pay such a huge price to buy back Fang Di Chang. If they knew Fang Di Chang was already replaced and is now Fang Yuan's clone, what would they feel?"
Heavenly Court already knew of Fang Di Chang's identity.
The current Divine Emperor City was guarded by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's will. He had already informed Qin Ding Ling of this.
Although Fang Di Chang was sealed in Divine Bean Palace's painting, he had a portion of the authority and was resisting stubbornly, even Genesis Lotus' will could do nothing about it.
"But it will be over soon." Qin Ding Ling smiled: "That earlier batch of Gu Immortal seeds we sent in are developing extremely well, they already possess strength to defeat Fang Di Chang. As long as we capture him, we can use the close connection between him and Fang Yuan to search for the location of Fang Yuan's main body."
Spectral Soul was secretly searching for Fang Yuan's main body, Heavenly Court was doing the same as well.
Qin Ding Ling knew Fang Yuan was in a poor state currently and it was the best time to kill Fang Yuan. If they could kill Fang Yuan, not only would it restore Heavenly Court's reputation, there would even be enormous spoils of war. Be it the various inheritances on Fang Yuan, his Gu worms, his sovereign immortal aperture, secluded domains of heaven and earth, and so on, they were all things Heavenly Court wanted.
Qin Ding Ling was taking control of Heavenly Court in place of Fairy Zi Wei, although she was only a luck path Gu Immortal, she tried her best and was busy everyday, her hard work was showing results.
Internally, Heavenly Court was leading the ten great ancient sects, actively cultivating talents and recovering their strength.
Externally, Heavenly Court was allying with Eastern Sea, they roped in Qi Sea Ancestor first but the price was half of Primordial Origin's true inheritance. They would soon capture Fang Di Chang, and their hopes of capturing Fang Yuan's main body were even higher than Spectral Soul!
"Everything will get better."
"My Heavenly Court is and will continue to be the supreme leader of humanity!"
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Chapter 2011 Divine Bean Soldier Calamity
Divine Emperor City.
Inside the painting, Fang Di Chang waved his hand, immediately, a large amount of white sand flew out and scattered around.
The white sand fell on the ground and immediately melted into puddles of milk that seeped into the ground.
Blop blop….
Air bubbles rose from the ground, the beans buried under the ground devoured the milk and grew rapidly.
In three minutes, Fang Di Chang expended the small amount of rank eight immortal material milk sand he had. The barren land became extremely fertile and green bean sprouts broke out of the ground surface.
"Again." Fang Di Chang took out a snow path immortal material.
The immortal material was thrown to the air and was digested by Divine Emperor City, turning into broken lightning rays that covered the whole bean field.
The broken lightning slightly touched the tender bean sprouts and agitated their growth potential, the bean sprouts began growing with a visible speed.
"Continue." After the lightning rays dissipated, Fang Di Chang took out the third immortal material.
Time continued to pass, about three days and three nights later, Fang Di Chang slowly stopped his actions.
He looked at the field, the beans had already grown into divine bean soldiers. They were standing in rows, silent and still like statues as they waited for Fang Di Chang's orders.
Fang Di Chang sighed, thinking: "This is the last batch of divine bean soldiers. My immortal materials are basically all spent."
As a clone of Fang Yuan, after Fang Di Chang was schemed by Genesis Lotus' will, he had been trapped in the painting.
Over this period of time after the fate war, he had been waiting for his main body to rescue him while using all his strength to accumulate troops.
But even by now, the main body had not come to save him, Fang Di Chang could only prepare to save himself.
He was now trapped in the painting, unable to contact the main body and even unable to access treasure yellow heaven. But he had refined Divine Bean Palace, so he still held a portion of the authority. This was the reason Genesis Lotus' will was unable to do anything to him in a short period of time.
Fang Di Chang used this authority to borrow Divine Bean Palace's strength in cultivating divine bean soldiers.
He was constantly accumulating divine bean soldiers, and now, their size had already reached an enormous scale.
"It is time, move out, invade and seize control of all the paintings!" Fang Di Chang gave a command without any hesitation. The divine bean soldier army began to set out.
They split into countless divisions as they moved towards the edge of the painting and invaded other painting worlds.
Outside Emperor City was a large farmland, wheat billowed in the autumn wind and many farmers were harvesting them.
"This year is an abundant year!"
"Yes, every family has made good harvests."
"What is this noise?"
The farmers were talking happily when they suddenly heard strange sounds and were bewildered.
A group of over three hundred divine bean soldiers charged into this painting world.
They discovered these farmers and behaved like sharks that smelled blood, they moved extremely quickly and killed anyone they saw.
"Run!"
"There are monsters, run!"
"Spare me. Spare…."
Guh.
Blood splattered everywhere, the last farmer's head and body were separated, falling into a pool of blood.
Divine bean soldiers killed all the humans and occupied this painting world.
At another painting outside of Emperor City.
It was spring and the scenery was beautiful.
A large group of scholars, students and young ladies went for an outing.
In the midst of their joyful talks, several divine bean soldiers appeared suddenly, causing the girls to scream.
"They dare to offend our young ladies!"
"What are these things?"
The scholars and students looked curiously as the guards surrounded the divine bean soldiers.
The divine bean soldiers began to attack, the guards were already on guard so the battle went to a standstill.
"These strange things have bad intentions!"
"Where did these things come out from?"
"Forget that, let's talk after killing them first."
The scholars and the students cooperated with the Gu Master guards and attacked, killing these divine bean soldiers without wasting much energy.
But soon, an army of a thousand divine bean soldiers arrived in this painting world.
This time, the guards, scholars and students were unable to resist, after a bitter struggle, most of them were killed and stepped on mercilessly by the divine bean soldiers, while a small portion retreated from this painting world and managed to survive.
Each divine bean soldier had extraordinary strength and was at least of desolate beast level, but in the painting world, they had to follow its rules, where the gap between immortal and mortal was minuscule.
Moreover, divine bean soldiers were transported to other painting worlds randomly, so their scales were not equal.
Fang Di Chang made a heavy attack but the divine bean soldier army was scattered everywhere and engaged in their respective invasions. Thus, some divine bean soldiers made good progress, some met strong resistance, while some were directly annihilated by the Gu Masters in the painting world.
Even so, Fang Di Chang soon revealed a satisfied smile.
"My guess was right."
"Divine Bean Palace's paintings are connected with Emperor City's paintings. Although I am sealed here, my divine bean soldiers originated from Divine Bean Palace and are of the same origin as the whole of Divine Emperor City, so they can move out."
"The more painting worlds these divine bean soldiers occupy, the more control I will have over Divine Emperor City. After gaining a certain amount of control, I can even go a step further and suppress Genesis Lotus' will, becoming the owner of Divine Emperor City!"
Fang Di Chang's huge move this time made the Gu Immortal seeds, sent by Heavenly Court into Divine Emperor City's painting world, gather and discuss a plan.
"What is going on with these divine bean soldiers?" Chen Da Jiang frowned.
Sun Yao's eyes were red: "I also don't know, these monsters appeared and began killing wantonly, they are extremely vicious. Those pitiful beggars and homeless people were all killed by these monsters."
"Maybe this is our fortuitous encounter or maybe it is a test?" Tang Ru Qi guessed.
Ying Sheng Ji frowned: "I killed many divine bean soldiers, but I have not made any gains until now."
Wei Wu Shang analyzed calmly: "Divine bean soldiers are a product of Divine Bean Palace, according to rumors, Gu Immortals can raise these wood path soldiers in a large scale in Divine Bean Palace. When it is time to battle, the Gu Immortal can release them to fight the enemies. Previously, when Divine Bean Palace was with Western Desert, they scattered a large number of divine bean soldiers to fight our Central Continent's ten great ancient sects."
"So what is the reason behind these divine bean soldiers' sudden appearance?" Zhao Shu Ye asked.
Wei Wu Shang shook his head: "I don't know, it has been some time since we arrived here but the painting world here is too vast and profound, we don't know a lot of its secrets."
"What is the point of trying to figure out the reason?" Right at this time, Xiao Qi Xing walked over.
"Ah, it is Brother Xiao."
"What information do you have? Or do you know the truth of the matter?"
These Gu Immortal seeds asked one after the other, they thought highly of Xiao Qi Xing because he had the best progress among them.
He mixed into the military faction and continued to advance in ranks and was already a junior officer now.
Xiao Qi Xing said: "I don't care about the reason behind these divine bean soldiers' appearance, I only know the higher-ups have sent the order to mobilize the army to exterminate these divine bean soldiers. This time, I am leading my troops alone and need assistance. We will cooperate and kill these divine bean soldiers. There will definitely be rewards after the battle."
"It is fine with me. These monsters should be killed!" Chen Da Jiang said.
Sun Yao nodded: "These divine bean soldiers are too vicious, they are simply disregarding human lives. I will take revenge for those pitiful beggars and homeless people."
"Count me in too." Zhao Shu Ye also expressed her stance.
Soon, all of these Gu Immortals agreed and temporarily joined Xiao Qi Xing as his subordinates.
Xiao Qi Xing laughed heartily, he was pleased and proud with this huge increase in strength and manpower: "Move out! Let us kill these divine bean soldiers."
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Chapter 2012 Fang Di Chang“s Death
Divine Emperor City, painting world.
In the vast plaza, Xiao Qi Xing led a large group of troops and was facing a group of divine bean soldiers.
The scale of this group of divine bean soldiers was bigger than Xiao Qi Xing's side.
"How do we fight them?" Sun Yuan Hua had just asked when the divine bean soldiers charged.
Xiao Qi Xing stopped his side from attacking and smiled: "Everyone, please stay put for now and look at how I fight them."
Saying this, Xiao Qi Xing flicked his fingers repeatedly, a large amount of Gu worms flew out of his aperture.
These Gu worms fell to the ground and turned into human shapes. Most of them were ordinary soldiers, a few clearly looked like elites, and an extremely small number of them looked much more brave and valiant.
"These are soldier Gu, sergeant Gu, lieutenant Gu?" Gu Ting narrowed his eyes.
"They should be." Wei Wu Shang counted roughly: "There are over five hundred of them, looks like Xiao Qi Xing progressed really well in the military camp to be able to accumulate so many human path Gu worms."
"Formation!" Xiao Qi Xing shouted while activating arrow formation Gu.
These soldiers immediately gathered, captains led lieutenants, lieutenants led sergeants, and sergeants led soldiers.
And the entire army formed a giant arrow that rushed head on towards the incoming divine bean soldiers.
"Charge—!"
Xiao Qi Xing's army roared loudly, on the contrary, the divine bean soldiers were silent like there was no life.
The two sides were like colliding waves which began to mix into each other.
Xiao Qi Xing's gaze was like lightning as he put all his attention on controlling his troops.
In the chaotic battle, his troops were further divided but they always maintained the most basic military formation.
On the contrary, the divine bean soldiers were a messy and disordered group.
After the initial stalemate, the situation began to slowly fall into Xiao Qi Xing's grasp. Once he occupied the upper hand, this advantage snowballed and soon, it turned into absolute dominance.
Finally, Xiao Qi Xing's side won a complete victory with all divine bean soldiers killed off.
"How is it?" Xiao Qi Xing returned with victory and showed off to the other Gu Immortal seeds.
Zhao Shu Ye rolled his eyes, not bothering to reply.
"Brother Xiao is truly amazing!" Chen Da Jiang raised his thumb.
"Hahaha." Xiao Qi Xing laughed heartily and said to Chen Da Jiang: "If you had walked the same path as me back then, you would also have such accomplishments today."
"We should continue. We have only cleared up one painting." Wei Wu Shang said.
"Don't be careless. These soldiers are only yellow bean divine soldiers, they are the most basic type of divine bean soldier." Gu Ting said.
They continued to march forward and fight divine bean soldiers.
After a while, they arrived at the most flourishing street of Divine Emperor City.
Divine bean soldiers were wantonly killing the people in the city and it was a scene of chaos.
Sun Yao's eyes turned red with fury. The first time she entered here, she had arrived at this street and enjoyed its flourishing scenes. She had never expected such a beautiful scene to be completely destroyed by the divine bean soldiers, everywhere was littered with corpses and blood flowed into a river.
"This will need everyone's assistance." Xiao Qi Xing was modest for once: "The paths are narrow and vision is not clear, my troops won't be able to move properly."
The other Gu Immortal seeds had no objections as they charged to the front lines and attacked.
Xiao Qi Xing stayed at the rear, observing the situation while controlling the soldiers to move forward.
He was deeply aware that he came to compete for Genesis Lotus' true inheritance, these Gu Masters beside him were his greatest competitors. Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated, this was the best opportunity to gain information about these people.
These Gu Master elites of Central Continent's ten great ancient sects were indeed extraordinary.
Xiao Qi Xing had made a lot of progress, these Gu Masters were also not any inferior.
Ying Sheng Ji continuously took out doctor Gu, which took human forms and saved people everywhere.
Chen Da Jiang went through the outer gate, a group of officers moved around him as he joined the front lines with a long sword and a steel chain.
Sun Yao gave a bigger surprise to Xiao Qi Xing, three female dancers moved around her, their long sleeves fluttered in the wind and weakened the divine bean soldiers. Moreover, Sun Yao also held a human path killer move — Joy in Helping People; this move strengthened her allies.
As for Wei Wu Shang, he appeared and disappeared as he moved in the chaotic battle like a fish in water.
"This guy has already mastered thief Gu." Xiao Qi Xing realized.
These elites immediately shone brightly the moment they made their moves. Xiao Qi Xing also felt heavy pressure as he warned himself: "I really cannot underestimate these people!"
This chaotic battle lasted for five minutes before the whole street was cleared.
Without staying any longer, Xiao Qi Xing's group marched towards other paintings once again.
The divine bean soldiers in their path were all annihilated.
Naturally, they were not the only group who were counterattacking. The warriors in the painting worlds also organized many groups and participated in the battle, killing the divine bean soldiers.
Ye Fan and Hong Yi were also mixed among other groups, they were secretly conversing.
"These divine bean soldiers are really odd, there are so many types of them."
"The ten great ancient sects' members have also grown, we need to conceal ourselves and not be discovered by them."
They were the earliest people to enter the painting world.
At this moment, their accumulation far surpassed the Central Continent elites, but Ye Fan and Hong Yi could only move secretly. After all, the five regions world was the main world, once they were discovered by Heavenly Court, the situation would become a mess.
The counterattacking groups became faster the more they killed, their efficiency was increasing continuously and casualties were reducing.
After they had sufficient experience, they completely saw through the types of divine bean soldiers. Yellow bean divine soldiers were only cannon fodder, green bean soldiers could shoot flying arrows, red bean soldiers could self-detonate, black bean soldiers had the greatest defense.
After understanding the characteristics of the different divine bean soldiers, they began to launch targeted attacks. These divine bean soldiers were far weaker than their external appearance.
The counterattacking groups continued to gain victories and seized back more territories.
Finally, they gathered on the city walls of Divine Emperor City.
There was an ocean of divine bean soldiers outside the city walls, Xiao Qi Xing could not help taking in a sharp breath when he saw this.
The enemy force was overwhelming, it was not something their group could handle. They could only have a chance of defending the city by allying with other groups.
Divine bean soldiers rushed forward without any formation.
Xiao Qi Xing's group attacked with long range skills from top of the city walls.
Divine bean soldiers were like ants as they began climbing the city walls.
The ones guarding the city staked their lives to counterattack, not retreating a step.
The whole battlefield was like a huge meat grinder, large amounts of lives were lost every second.
This battle lasted three days and three nights.
Xiao Qi Xing collapsed and sat weakly on the ground. His snowy-white military robe was already dyed red with blood.
Cheers spread continuously in the surroundings, they had won. This largest group of divine bean soldiers was completely exterminated by them.
Victory was assured!
Next would be to clear up the remaining small groups of divine bean soldiers in every painting.
"Wait a second, we seem to be able to walk out of Divine Emperor City."
"We can follow the path the divine bean soldiers took and attack their base!"
When they were clearing up the battlefield, many made a big discovery.
The troops began to gather once again and battled their way to Fang Di Chang.
In this painting world, Fang Di Chang's strength was greatly reduced but he still had a group of divine bean soldiers around him.
"So you are the main culprit behind all these!"
"You are going to pay for your sins!"
"Why, why do you need to kill these innocent people, what grudge do you have against them?"
Emotions surged, but Xiao Qi Xing's group glanced at each other and moved towards the rear silently.
"So the cause of the divine bean soldier calamity was him."
"He is a Gu Immortal of Fang clan, Fang Di Chang, who had once refined Divine Bean Palace."
"I did not expect him to still be alive, and he is creating chaos in the painting world!"
"Don't tell me, did our sects send us here to get rid of him?"
"Strange, why didn't Heavenly Court attack and kill Fang Di Chang directly? Maybe this is a test for us, or maybe we can only deal with him while following the rules of the painting world?"
Xiao Qi Xing's group conversed quickly, their expressions were extremely serious. They were the ones chosen and nurtured by their respective sects, thus they had a lot of information about the Gu Immortal world, they had detailed information about the participants of the fate war.
"Kill!"
"Take revenge for our friends and family!"
"I will cut him into a thousand pieces!!"
The Gu Masters of the painting world attacked Fang Di Chang.
"A bunch of trash." Fang Di Chang stood at the center and commanded his troops calmly. The divine bean soldiers beside him changed their formation and moved smoothly like water. The cooperation between the various types of soldiers was extremely smooth and fluid.
Instantly, the warriors of the painting world suffered heavy casualties.
Xiao Qi Xing's group was also shocked.
"The scale of these divine bean soldiers is quite small, how could they have such results?"
"With a Gu Immortal commanding them, they are completely different from before."
"What should we do? Battle or retreat?"
"Fight! We have numbers on our side, Fang Di Chang might be strong, but the gap between us is not the gap between immortal and mortal. We have a high chance of success!"
"Slaughter the immortal!!"
Someone shouted the slogan which made Xiao Qi Xing's group extremely excited.
The moment they joined in the battle, the Gu Masters in the front lines felt like they had received strong reinforcements.
In fact, not only them, even Ye Fan and Hong Yi were also mixed in the battle, helping out secretly.
Fang Di Chang snorted coldly. Under his command, the divine bean soldiers' formation kept on changing while being extremely stable.
Xiao Qi Xing's group battled hard for a long time, but to their horror, they discovered that the casualty difference between the enemy and their side had reached a terrifying level. There were only negligible losses to the divine bean soldiers.
"What should we do?"
"An immortal is still an immortal in the end!"
"Let alone when Fang Di Chang is a wisdom path Gu Immortal."
Xiao Qi Xing's group's morale fell sharply and they had the thought of retreating, not daring to fight with Fang Di Chang.
But at this time, Fang Di Chang's body shook suddenly as he coughed a mouthful of blood. He snorted coldly and looked up at the sky, laughing coldly: "Genesis Lotus' will, you couldn't endure it and took action after all."
Fang Di Chang was suppressed by Genesis Lotus' will, his control over the divine bean soldiers was no longer as smooth as before.
Xiao Qi Xing's group immediately felt the pressure on them reducing sharply, they were surprised and happy as they attacked once again.
Fang Di Chang's divine bean soldiers continued to fall till they were all annihilated.
Fang Di Chang had no choice but to attack personally, he rampaged through the army, killing everyone in his path with no one being able to rival him.
This did not last long, his condition continued to deteriorate as he began to receive injuries.
After some more time, Fang Di Chang was soaked in blood and started to stagger.
"To think that I, Fang Di Chang, would actually die in such a place!" Fang Di Chang shouted in sadness as he self-detonated resolutely.
Boom!
The Gu Masters surrounding him were wiped out with no intact corpses.
After a short period of shock, the surviving Gu Masters shouted in joy.
"We won!"
"We finally killed the demon."
"Sob… father, mother, I have avenged you."
Xiao Qi Xing's group was also excited and their faces were flushed red: "We killed an immortal! We succeeded in slaughtering the immortal!"
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Chapter 2013 Survival Through Death
Xiao Qi Xing's group strolled along the streets.
The huge battle had just ended, the flourishing and bustling street had turned into a scene of desolation, with no pedestrians moving around. Even if there were, they were mostly injured ones.
"Fang Di Chang is not worthy of being in Western Desert's righteous path! He slaughtered innocents and caused many deaths. Letting him die like this is really letting him go easy." Chen Da Jiang said hatefully.
Ying Sheng Ji sighed as he added: "Yes, this was once a place filled with rich vitality."
"Hehehe. You guys are truly funny." Wei Wu Shang laughed: "This is only a painting world, it is Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's killer move. The people here are not real existences. No matter how many are dead or injured, after a few years, it will be restored back to normal."
"Yes. Compared to these things, I am more curious about the rewards the sects will give us!" Gu Ting said.
Xiao Qi Xing's eyes brightened: "We killed an immortal as mortals, and even got rid of the hidden disaster in Divine Emperor City. With such a huge contribution, not only our sects, even Heavenly Court should personally reward us, right? Hahaha!"
Xiao Qi Xing laughed heartily and was inwardly pleased.
He had the best performance and had contributed the most in putting down the divine bean soldiers and eliminating Fang Di Chang.
In terms of rewards based on contribution, he would be at the top!
In an alley which the group passed by, two beggars were sitting at a corner, looking at everything with indifference.
The behaviors of these ten great ancient sects' Gu Immortal seeds naturally fell into these two beggars' view.
"I owe my thanks to you, Brother Shen." One beggar transmitted his voice.
The other beggar laughed: "Should I address you as Fang Yuan, or Fang Di Chang?"
The other beggar replied: "I am only a clone, and strictly speaking, I can't even be considered a clone now, I am only a remnant will. So, you don't need to address me as Fang Yuan. As for Fang Di Chang, he is already dead, having died by self-detonation. I am a nameless person now, just a lowly beggar remains."
Shen Shang's eyes shone: "You are too modest. Even without me, you were already prepared to use death to escape."
The other beggar nodded, not denying it: "In my previous plan, if I could occupy and seize the painting worlds with the divine bean soldiers, it would have been the best result. But the chance for this was not high. By preempting the actions to take after defeat, I was naturally prepared for everything. Self-detonation destroyed my body and soul, but this will was secretly left behind."
Pausing for a moment, Fang Yuan's will continued: "I have to thank you for your help regardless. If I relied on just my methods, there is a high probability of Genesis Lotus' will discovering me. But with you shielding me, it is a completely different case. Shen Shang, your human path attainment continues to grow by the day."
Shen Shang chuckled: "That is true. Since the fate war, after I deciphered the venerable human path killer moves, my human path attainment rose quite a bit. And after I arrived in this painting world, I acted as a beggar, observing and experiencing life which gave me a lot of insight. A beggar has a beggar's advantage; beggars stand at the lowest level of society, they can observe the attitudes of people, experience kindness and harshness, feel hunger and fullness, warmth and cold."
Shen Shang then changed the topic, asking: "What do you plan to do now? Leave here or continue to stay?"
Fang Yuan's will did not hesitate: "I am unable to leave here. Even if only a will remains of me now, it has only temporarily escaped the observation of Genesis Lotus' will and has not grasped a way to leave. What about you?"
Shen Shang also shook his head: "I also haven't found the method to leave. I have already secretly checked those Gu Immortal seeds of the ten great ancient sects. They are able to enter and exit here because they have obtained the approval of Genesis Lotus' will. But I believe that as long as I continue to stay in hiding and research, my human path attainment will continue to accumulate and attain a qualitative change. By that time, I can find a method to leave this place."
Fang Yuan's will looked deeply at Shen Shang, he could see Shen Shang was happy to stay in here.
However, when Fang Yuan thought of it, it was also not strange.
Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable had made this huge move, he created a special small world to develop human path.
Over here, human path was supreme and other paths were secondary. Human path had the greatest development while other paths had little progress.
At the same time, this world followed the rules of the mortal world, there was an insignificant gap between immortals and mortals, which was more beneficial for the development of human path.
Moreover, the inside and outside were separated, when outsiders came here, they would be isolated from the five regions and could not even connect to treasure yellow heaven. This stopped information from spreading outside or entering and corrupting the people here. Thus, it created an isolated sacred land of human path.
Shen Shang primarily cultivated human path. In here, he was like a gluttonous monster that saw absolutely rare delicacies, he was like a fish in water and even felt deeply attached to this place.
Fang Yuan's will was currently possessing a body, it was created from Shen Shang's beggar Gu.
He had two choices in front of him now. One was to wait for the main body to rescue him, the other was to cultivate alongside Shen Shang and use Shen Shang's strength to get free.
All the information concerning the divine bean soldier calamity was gathered in Qin Ding Ling's hands.
"Fang Di Chang died by self-detonation?" Qin Ding Ling frowned.
This result somewhat disappointed Qin Ding Ling, she had been hoping to capture this clone of Fang Yuan alive. And through him, deduce the location of Fang Yuan's main body.
"I did not expect Fang Yuan's clone to resolutely kill himself, but this also conforms to Fang Yuan's vicious personality." Qin Ding Ling did not hold much doubts.
"If we could capture him alive, that would have been better. In the painting world, the gap between immortals and mortals is not big. Unfortunately, these Gu Immortal seeds have not grown enough and were unable to grasp the opportunity." Qin Ding Ling sighed inwardly.
Xiao Qi Xing's group thought they made important contributions by slaughtering an immortal, but in her mind, Qin Ding Ling reviewed it poorly.
However, even so, Qin Ding Ling decided to reward these Gu Immortal seeds heavily. They were important cultivation targets after all.
After dealing with the matter of rewards, Qin Ding Ling put her attention on Eastern Sea's conflict once again.
Eastern Sea's conflict was the clash between humans and variant humans.
One side was led by Qi Sea Ancestor while the other was led by Wu Shuai. They had fought several times in the immemorial two heavens as well as sea areas of Eastern Sea, and the battles were becoming increasingly fierce.
After Qi Sea Ancestor saved Profound Literature grotto-heaven, he united several grotto-heaven forces in the two heavens.
Although Wu Shuai was defeated, he was not willing to show any weakness. On one hand, he gathered the forces of the two heavens that joined him, on the other hand, he ambushed and invaded those grotto-heaven forces that wanted to wait and see.
Wu Shuai's direction was extremely clear and blunt.
Before attacking the five regions, he must clean up the two heavens to stabilize their base.
On one hand, this was because the distance between the two heavens' grotto-heavens was short and they could dispatch troops easily. If Wu Shuai ignored this, when the main army was outside in the future, the grotto-heavens only needed to pose an attack and it could cause Wu Shuai's army to end up losing their home ground.
On the other hand, qi harvest fruits of various sizes had appeared in grotto-heavens of Wu Shuai's subordinates. Every time Wu Shuai attacked another grotto-heaven, he would test the variant human Gu Immortals' suggestions to get rid of the qi harvest fruits. Wu Shuai's side was in dire need of such trial and error.
Because of Wu Shuai's violent strategy, more and more human forces in the two heavens sought Qi Sea Ancestor's protection.
Qi Sea Ancestor defended the grotto-heavens while integrating various forces. But on the whole, they were still at a disadvantage.
Wu Shuai's two heavens alliance was strengthening at a much faster speed than Qi Sea Ancestor's.
He was actively protecting the variant humans' benefits, which caused increasingly more variant human grotto-heavens to join him. In the two heavens, variant human grotto-heavens were much larger in numbers than human grotto-heavens.
The final batch of variant human forces who adopted the thought of waiting and seeing took the initiative to side with Wu Shuai. On one hand, they were forced to because of the situation, on the other hand, if they did not surrender, there was no hope in resolving the hidden danger of the qi harvest fruits in their grotto-heavens.
Wu Shuai's prestige soared but the qi harvest fruit's issue was still troubling him. The two heavens alliance tested many methods but they had all failed in eliminating qi harvest fruits.
Over at Qi Sea Ancestor's side, the progress in researching the mysteries of qi harvest fruit was also quite slow.
Wu Shuai's and Qi Sea Ancestor's sides fought frequently, but there were not many casualties. It was because both sides were not focused on eliminating the other side, but on clearing up the danger of the qi harvest fruits.
"The one who knows the most about the mysteries of the qi harvest fruit is probably Demon Immortal Qi Jue. Unfortunately my strength is restrained at present and unable to deal with him." Fang Yuan sighed in pity.
He had already resolved the huge problem of heaven's will, but he still had no clue as to how to refine heaven path dao marks.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue, who Fang Yuan was thinking about, had currently arrived at Western Desert.
"It should be nearby." Demon Immortal Qi Jue flew low and searched everywhere.
He did not succeed in borrowing Gu from Qi Sea Ancestor, so he used qi path investigative methods to search for other qi path Immortal Gu.
And on this search, he found several qi path Immortal Gu.
These qi path Immortal Gu were mostly wild Immortal Gu, they were naturally born after enormous qi tides, as for the rest, they were looted from other Gu Immortals.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not go overboard, he only looted qi path Immortal Gu and spared the Gu Immortals.
Moving and stopping along the way, Demon Immortal Qi Jue gradually left Eastern Sea and arrived at Western Desert.
"I deduced that a qi path Immortal Gu is near here." Just as Demon Immortal Qi Jue was mumbling, a Gu Immortal suddenly appeared within his investigative range.
Rank eight Gu Immortal, Red Heart Traveler!
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Chapter 2014 Qi Jue Takes Blood Qi
Seeing this Gu Immortal, who was wearing a headband and a green robe, having a tall and powerful stance and handsome appearance, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's mind shook: "That qi path Immortal Gu I deduced, could it be on this person?"
The moment this thought emerged, Demon Immortal Qi Jue attacked!
With a loud sound, a giant white qi hand moved to catch Red Heart Traveler.
Almost at the same time that Demon Immortal Qi Jue discovered Red Heart Traveler, Red Heart Traveler also discovered Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not recognize Red Heart Traveler, but Red Heart Traveler already had Heavenly Court's first hand information on Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Seeing the white qi hand fly towards him, Red Heart Traveler's heart jumped and he quickly evaded.
Red Heart Traveler was a Heavenly Court Gu Immortal and the previous Demon Judgment Board leader, he was very strong. During the fate war, he came to Western Desert and disguised as a blood path demonic immortal, attracting the attention of many super forces of Western Desert's righteous path, thus restraining a large number of hostile forces for Central Continent.
Looking at the whole of Western Desert's Gu Immortal world, Red Heart Traveler had the confidence to fight against almost any Western Desert Gu Immortal. But right now, his opponent was Demon Immortal Qi Jue, one of the strongest Gu Immortals in the present age.
Red Heart Traveler was well aware that he was not Demon Immortal Qi Jue's match. The gap was too large, and the loser of this battle was certain to be him.
So Red Heart Traveler retreated without any hesitation.
At the next moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue saw a lump of blood red light emerge behind Red Heart Traveler's head, after which the latter's speed increased sharply and was able to dodge his qi hand.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue exclaimed slightly, mumbling inwardly: "Blood path again? It seems like blood path is very prolific in this age."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was naturally not willing to let go of Red Heart Traveler so easily, so he gave chase.
One chased and one fled, they had soon traveled over ten thousand li.
To his surprise, Demon Immortal Qi Jue discovered his main movement method was actually unable to catch up to Red Heart Traveler. Naturally, he was not left behind in the dust either.
"I have already modified my movement method but I am still unable to catch up to this person. Who is this person? A rank eight blood path Gu Immortal…."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue searched his memories and gradually found some clues.
He had previously soul searched Qing Hui Zi and obtained a lot of information. Red Heart Traveler's true identity was not exposed but he created havoc in Western Desert, and with the sensitive identity of a rank eight blood path expert, information regarding him was already spread in treasure yellow heaven and every Gu Immortal in the world had learned of it.
After chasing for some more time, Demon Immortal Qi Jue suddenly shouted: "Where exactly are you running to?"
His preparation was finished, he activated a killer move.
Red Heart Traveler immediately felt the surrounding qi currents engulf him, severely affecting his speed.
He sighed inwardly, he could only turn around and fight Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's moves were majestic and powerful, milky white qi currents surged like a tsunami with unstoppable might.
When they truly fought, there was no surprise, Red Heart Traveler fell into a disadvantage. But his methods also were not weak, blood red light spread and blood red flowers bloomed, there was no evil feeling, on the contrary, they were warm and righteous as they defended him.
Red Heart Traveler struggled with all his might, but in just several rounds, his whole body was soaked with sweat. He sighed internally: "As expected of a monster that was recorded in history, he is too strong!"
Red Heart Traveler felt he was like a small boat that was using all its strength to dodge and delay for time under the tidal wave-like attacks of Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
After several more rounds, Red Heart Traveler was already in a perilous situation.
At this time, there was suddenly a beast roar. An immemorial desolate beast drilled out from the desert and went for a surprise attack on Demon Immortal Qi Jue from behind.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was caught off-guard but he did not panic, he waved his hand and a mountain-like giant qi hand slammed into the immemorial desolate beast.
But just as this immemorial desolate beast was about to be struck by the giant hand, it suddenly let out bright light and transformed into an immemorial swallow that shot towards Demon Immortal Qi Jue like a black arrow.
"So it is a transformation path Gu Immortal! Haha, interesting." Demon Immortal Qi Jue was slightly surprised, he praised while he fought against this immortal.
The aid was from Nine Spiritual Fairy.
She and Red Heart Traveler had come to Western Desert together to help each other out.
With her reinforcement, Red Heart Traveler's situation immediately turned better, he managed to escape from the horrible outcome of death.
"We can't fight for long! This old demon is truly terrifying, we are not his match. We are only able to resist him now because he is not familiar with our methods yet." Red Heart Traveler hurriedly transmitted his voice.
He had fought Demon Immortal Qi Jue and felt the terror of an expert at the peak of the present age. Demon Immortal Qi Jue was unable to get rid of him because he had resurrected not long ago and had yet to completely adapt to the changes. If they truly fought, it was only a matter of time before Heavenly Court's two immortals were killed by Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
"I have an idea, follow me!" Nine Spiritual Fairy transmitted her voice, retreating while fighting.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue chased after the two immortals all the way to a desert.
Nine Spiritual Fairy suddenly transformed into an immemorial desolate beast and held Red Heart Traveler in her mouth before plunging into the desert.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue snorted coldly: "Foolish action!"
With a clap of his hands, heaven and earth shook. Milky white qi current slammed the desert surface like a tsunami, the surrounding hundred li of desert was forcibly pressed down to over ten feet deep!
Nine Spiritual Fairy let out a muffled groan as she suffered heavy injuries.
Red Heart Traveler quickly used healing methods on her.
Nine Spiritual Fairy did not dare to return to fighting and concentrated only on moving deeper into the ground.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was just about to plunge into the desert and continue chasing when he suddenly heard a beast roar. At the next moment, a huge immemorial soul beast flew out of the nearby desert ground.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's pupils shrunk slightly when he saw this immemorial soul beast.
This immemorial soul beast had a strange shape and looked quite furious. It had a tortoise shell, four tiger paws, dragon tail, snake neck, and a human head. Its head was full of disheveled hair and its eyes were letting out ominous light and fury.
This was a legendary immemorial desolate beast with many Immortal Gu!
"Oh, you found Qing Chou." Seeing Demon Immortal Qi Jue tangled with the immemorial soul beast, Red Heart Traveler exclaimed in shock.
This immemorial soul beast was Qing Chou.
After Divine Bean Palace was seized by Fang clan, Qing Chou left Divine Bean Palace and hid itself in some areas.
But in the fate war, Divine Bean Palace and Emperor City had merged into one and Genesis Lotus' was in control of it. After the fate war, Genesis Lotus' will naturally handed all kinds of information to Heavenly Court.
Not only did Qin Ding Ling know of Fang Di Chang's true identity, she also obtained information on Qing Chou. Divine Bean Palace had imprisoned Qing Chou for so many years, Genesis Lotus' will had an extremely high understanding of it and knew of a secret method to find it.
Qin Ding Ling obtained this secret method and secretly commanded Nine Spiritual Fairy to search for Qing Chou and subdue it.
Qing Chou was a legendary immemorial beast, not only did it have outstanding battle strength, it also had a natural ability to recognize everything related to Spectral Soul. If Heavenly Court obtained it, not only could they deal with Fang Yuan, they could even deal with Spectral Soul, it could be considered as killing two birds with one stone.
Nine Spiritual Fairy had found Qing Chou's location not long ago, but her strength was insufficient and she had no confidence in succeeding. When Red Heart Traveler ran into Demon Immortal Qi Jue, she thought of a plan to lure Demon Immortal Qi Jue into fighting with Qing Chou.
"Amazing, like this, we can watch from the sidelines and even possibly benefit from their conflict." Red Heart Traveler smiled.
"Qing Chou is not Demon Immortal Qi Jue's match, we need to observe the situation before making a decision." Nine Spiritual Fairy talked while moving deeper into the ground, the further away they were from the battlefield, the better.
However, beyond the expectations of Heavenly Court's two immortals, Demon Immortal Qi Jue felt something amiss and breathed out boundless qi currents that filled the sky.
He entered them and quickly disappeared.
Without an opponent, Qing Chou also chose to leave the battlefield, escaping to the horizons.
Deep underground, Heavenly Court's two immortals looked at each other. Red Heart Traveler suddenly said: "Damn it! That Blood Sea true inheritance is going to be taken!"
Nine Spiritual Fairy was stunned for a moment before reacting: "You really found that blood path true inheritance?"
Red Heart Traveler nodded, sighing: "Heavenly Court's clues were not wrong, the crucial key was the qi tide that exposed the Blood Sea true inheritance. I searched for over half a month before finally arriving at the location. But I ran into Demon Immortal Qi Jue over there."
Nine Spiritual Fairy was silent.
Meanwhile, Demon Immortal Qi Jue returned back to the original spot.
"It is really here!" He inspected for a while, discovering the target was still here and had not moved.
After trying for a while more, he successfully obtained this Blood Sea true inheritance.
Back then, Blood Sea Ancestor had set up hundreds of thousands of inheritance sites that spread over Central Continent, Southern Border, Northern Plains, Western Desert and Eastern Sea. Among them, there were nine true inheritances.
One of the true inheritances had now fallen into Demon Immortal Qi Jue's hands.
"Blood path true inheritance… amazing, with this true inheritance, it will be several times easier for me to deal with blood path Gu Immortals."
"And this blood qi Immortal Gu is really suitable for me. Hahaha."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue laughed heartily.
Almost all the killer moves he activated before consumed qi path immortal materials. Now that he obtained a qi path Immortal Gu, his strength was raised further.
Although there was still some difference from his peak condition in history, he was already much stronger than when he fought Fang Yuan.
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Chapter 2015 Sand Wolf City“s Huge Change
Western Desert.
Wind blew hard and sand flew everywhere. A merchant caravan pulled by camels was moving with difficulty through the barren desert.
"Oh heavens, we finally returned to Sand Wolf City." Inside the caravan, Peng Da spoke with deep emotions as he showed an exhausted expression.
Gu Master Mo Li was sitting on a camel to the side, he looked at Peng Da and laughed: "Kid, your words are quite different from when we moved out the first time."
Peng Da's face flushed a little. When Mo Li had just organized the merchant caravan, Peng Da had been extremely excited and thought the adventure would be amazing and fun.
But after a few caravan trips, Peng Da had already fully realized his former naivety. In this world, peddling was not only difficult and extremely dangerous, it was also extremely tiring. With even some slight carelessness, his fragile life would be lost in the vast and merciless desert.
However, Peng Da's emotions resonated with other Gu Masters in the merchant caravan.
"Yes, we are back home again."
"We did not encounter any danger in this journey, but it was truly exhausting. I am going to take a good bath after returning."
"I am already unable to control myself, I'll go drink my fill at the tavern, hahaha."
Mo Li smiled, he thought of his wife as well as his son, who had changed a lot recently. His son was selected and was heavily cultivated, his prodigal son had truly turned over a new leaf.
These beautiful wonders of life gave Mo Li brand new hope and motivation. Being a caravan merchant was difficult, but he found joy in his own way.
"Wait, something is going on!" The investigative Gu Master who was at the forefront of the caravan suddenly shouted.
Peng Da immediately tensed up while also feeling somewhat strange. According to common sense, this was near Sand Wolf City and there should be no danger here. So why was there the sudden warning?
Mo Li immediately activated his investigative Gu worm, his body slightly stiffened as he shouted: "The situation is strange, rush forward with full speed!"
Peng Da and the rest did not know the reason but seeing Mo Li take the lead, they naturally believed in the merchant caravan leader and followed quickly.
When they got close to Sand Wolf City, they did not even need to use Gu worms to discover the abnormalities.
Puffs of gray smoke curled upwards, there was also fire and a burnt smell in the air that all came from Sand Wolf City.
Everyone in the merchant caravan had a bad feeling as they moved even faster.
Finally, they arrived in front of Sand Wolf City's gate.
"Impossible!"
"What exactly is going on?!"
"Oh heavens, this is a dream, right? It must be a dream."
Some of the merchant caravan members simply knelt on the ground, some broke down and started crying, even the most stable, leader Mo Li, was standing in a daze.
Peng Da's eyes were wide open as he looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.
The flouring Sand Wolf City had now become ruins. There were corpses everywhere, rubble and wreckage littered the roads, fire burned and smoke was everywhere, the scene was too horrible to look at.
Mo Li mumbled when he suddenly jolted, running towards the inner city.
His movement jolted many people, Gu Masters began rushing to their homes.
Peng Da did not have a home so he rode a camel and followed Mo Li.
Mo Li was fast, and with anxiety burning his heart, he directly left Peng Da far behind. Fortunately, Peng Da had returned to Sand Wolf City several times and knew the path to Mo Li's home.
When Peng Da reached Mo Li's home, he saw ruins. Mo Li was kneeling on the ground, silently looking at his wife's corpse that he had dug out.
Peng Da, however, sensed deep sadness from Mo Li's silence.
"How could this be? What exactly happened here?" While Peng Da was sad, even more so, he was bewildered.
As far as he was concerned, Sand Wolf City was a large city with many Gu Masters stationed here, but it was actually destroyed and turned into a city devoid of life!
What kind of strength could have the power to destroy the whole of Sand Wolf City?
Was it a qi tide disaster?
But it did not look like that at all from the traces.
"This world is truly too dangerous. People are living in danger, even Gu Masters are the same. There is simply no safe place." Peng Da felt his insignificance growing increasingly.
He looked at Mo Li who was kneeling like a statue and opened his mouth several times before finally saying: "Uncle, we need to pull ourselves together. Don't forget you still have a son."
These words shook Mo Li, his eyes lit up with some hope once again.
"Peng Da, thank you for your reminder! My son is still in the inner city area, he is a Gu Immortal seed and is heavily nurtured. He must be okay, he has to be guarded properly! Let's go find him!"
Mo Li carried his wife's corpse and rushed towards the inner city area with Peng Da.
The whole inner city area had turned into a huge crater.
The inner city area — was gone!
Several caravan members were standing at the edge of the crater, watching it blankly.
Mo Li walked towards them and looked at the huge crater in front of him, his face turned extremely pale and his lips trembled, unable to say anything.
Peng Da took in a sharp breath of air, he could see this huge crater was a beast's footprint. Such a large footprint meant this beast was unimaginably huge!
"This is not man-made."
"A beast calamity!"
"A mountain sized beast attacked Sand Wolf City and killed everyone!"
The caravan members analyzed and started weeping again.
Mo Li fell into deathly silence and Peng Da did not know how to console him. Mo Li once had a beautiful home and now it was all gone, only he himself was remaining.
As far as Mo Li was concerned, as far as the surviving caravan members were concerned, fate was simply too cruel!
Boom—!
Just at this time, there was a sonic boom in the sky above everyone.
This sound immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"Could it be that the giant beast did not leave?" Peng Da quickly raised his head and saw two figures floating in the sky.
"Gu Immortals!" The other Gu Masters shouted.
"Disaster befell this place as well." The Gu Immortals in the sky talked, their voices echoing and spreading below, they did not conceal it.
"This damned beast, it has caused my Mo clan to suffer such disastrous losses. Wait until I capture it, I will pull out its tendons and flay its skin to ease my anger." Another Gu Immortal said in fury.
"Let's go, we will catch up to it soon." The two Gu Immortals quickly flew away.
The Gu Masters on the ground were silent for a while when someone suddenly started to cry out loud.
"Father, mother, you died so miserably. I, your son, cannot avenge you, but the immortals will uphold justice for you!"
Peng Da was silent, his mood was extremely heavy. At this moment, he suddenly had a realization: Even if one becomes a Gu Master, even if they are a rank five Gu Master, what use is it? Only by becoming a Gu Immortal could they have some sort of control over their own fate in this world.
"I want to follow them to take a look." Mo Li suddenly said with a resolute expression.
"Leader, are you crazy?" The surrounding Gu Masters quickly persuaded.
Mo Li's attitude was firm: "I am incompetent! I cannot avenge my wife and child, but I will stake all my strength to see the death of the culprit with my own two eyes! If I can't even grasp this chance, even if I live on, I will feel regret for the rest of my life!"
These words resonated with the remaining Gu Masters, they agreed and expressed that they wanted to move alongside Mo Li to see justice being upheld.
"Uncle, I also want to follow you." Peng Da said.
"You should stay behind, kid." Mo Li's expression softened somewhat as he looked at Peng Da.
Peng Da smiled bitterly: "Uncle, you have saved me time and time again, you are my closest person in this world. Since I followed you, I will definitely not separate with you at this crucial moment. Let me continue to follow you, uncle!"
Mo Li looked deeply at Peng Da for a good while before nodding and saying with a hoarse voice: "Then follow me, rascal."
The group of Gu Masters followed the direction the Gu Immortals flew towards and left the ruins of Sand Wolf City.
On the way, the footprints of the giant beast was exceptionally obvious, which kept them on the correct path.
They rushed like this for a day and a night when they suddenly heard thunder in the horizon.
"This is not thunder, it is the fight between the Gu Immortals and the giant beast!"
"Listen closely, you can vaguely hear a beast's howl."
The Gu Masters were excited as they sped up, wanting to get closer.
But at this time, a dark qi current sprayed out like a rainbow crossing the sky.
A thread of the qi current fell near the Gu Masters. A trace of the dark qi brushed past a Gu Master's shoulder.
That Gu Master suddenly cried out in terror, his skin and muscles started rotting and he soon melted into a white skeleton!
Everyone was horrified at this shocking change and quickly escaped in all directions.
Fortunately, the dark qi dispersed with the wind and did not linger.
"It is too dangerous to go closer!"
"This is only the aftereffect of the fight between the Gu Immortals and the giant beast, we have no strength to resist it."
"If we move in any closer, we will lose our lives."
Most of the Gu Masters stopped and turned back.
"I still want to try it. You can leave." Mo Li was the only remaining Gu Master.
Peng Da still wanted to follow him, but this time, Mo Li's attitude was firm, he drove him away.
Alone, Mo Li moved some distance with difficulty, when he climbed up a sand dune and looked, he could not help taking in a sharp breath at what he saw.
Far away in the horizon, dark fog covered everywhere.
The fog was clearly the dark qi current from earlier. In the dark fog, Mo Li could vaguely see a figure of a mountain-sized beast as well as the occasional lightning flashes.
Mo Li breathed in deeply and was about to continue moving forward when he was suddenly hugged from behind.
"Uncle, do you want to die? Don't go any forward, you will lose your life!" Peng Da shouted.
"Brat, why haven't you left yet?" Mo Li was furious.
Peng Da said with sincerity: "Uncle, you are my benefactor, how can I forget your kindness and watch you send yourself to death's door? I know you want to die, your condition is not right, I have been following you all the way but you were unable to discover me! Uncle, live on, don't kill yourself!"
But Mo Li was not persuaded: "Brat, get lost!"
"I won't!"
"Screw off——! This has nothing to do with you. You are still young and have a long life ahead of you, don't come here to die."
"Uncle, I will save you!"
"I don't need you to save me, even if I die, I will stake my life to take revenge. Even if it is an insignificant attack, as long as it lands on that damned beast, I will be satisfied!!"
Boom——!
Just as the two were bickering, a hurricane flew over from the battle on the horizon.
The hurricane was like a pillar that connected heaven and earth, it moved quickly towards the two.
"Damn it!" Peng Da and Mo Li simply did not have the time to dodge and were swept away by the hurricane.
The two insignificant figures disappeared into the violent hurricane in an instant.
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Chapter 2016 Dazzling Smile
Western Desert.
Dark clouds covered the sky and thunder rumbled as the fierce fight of the Mo clan Gu Immortals with the mysterious giant beast continued.
"Die, beast!"
"I will tear out your bones and tendons as resources to compensate for the losses my Mo clan suffered."
The two Mo clan Gu Immortals were furious, the giant beast brought disaster to Mo clan, causing heavy losses. The areas these two were responsible for suffered even more severe damage.
"You want to kill me?" During the battle, the mysterious giant beast suddenly spoke human words.
Mo clan's two immortals were shocked and their hearts jumped wildly.
At the same moment, the giant beast opened its mouth and shot out its long purple-red tongue.
The long tongue moved with astonishing speed and pierced through a Mo clan Gu Immortal's body. Almost instantaneously, this Mo clan Gu Immortal was corroded by the strong poison and turned into nothingness.
Only the immortal aperture turned into an indistinct light speck and fell to the ground.
"You are a legendary immemorial beast!?" The remaining Mo clan Gu Immortal was horrified and retreated in panic.
But it was already late.
The mysterious giant beast was Qing Chou. It laughed coldly as ghost qi started surging around it. The dense layers of ghost qi turned into ghostly figures which blocked the Mo clan Gu Immortal.
Qing Chou closed in slowly: "Didn't you want to kill me and pull out my bones and tendons?"
Mo clan's Gu Immortal shouted in fear: "Spare me, I belong to Mo clan. Spare me and Mo clan won't pursue you any further."
"Pursue me?" Hearing this, a trace of anger flashed past Qing Chou's face: "You two idiots do not even know you are being used by others. Go and die!"
"Ahhh—!" The Mo clan Gu Immortal let out a painful shriek as ghostly figures pounced on and killed them.
After killing these two Gu Immortals, Qing Chou looked towards the desert.
Sand flew wildly on the ground, turning into a giant monster, it was an immemorial sand monster. This was the assistance brought by the Mo clan Gu Immortals, they were able to restrain Qing Chou by using it.
But the Mo clan Gu Immortals had not expected Qing Chou to be a legendary immemorial desolate beast with wisdom that surpassed ordinary humans. Qing Chou took advantage of this point, pretending to be an ordinary immemorial desolate beast, which made the Mo clan immortals complacent and relax their guard. Then with Qing Chou's fierce counterattack, the immortals died.
With the death of the Mo clan immortals, this immemorial sand monster was no longer controlled; its movement began to slow down and it stood on the ground while looking at Qing Chou.
Qing Chou stared at the immemorial sand monster: "Get lost!"
The immemorial sand monster shook with fear and immediately turned around, plunging into the desert and escaping.
Qing Chou scared away the monster but the surrounding ghost qi intensified further, it looked at a certain area in the sky and sneered: "Two despicable worms, are you still not coming out?"
The moment its words came out, Heavenly Court's two immortals, Nine Spiritual Fairy and Red Heart Traveler, slowly showed themselves. They were floating in the sky side by side and were looking down at Qing Chou.
Previously, when Red Heart Traveler was searching for the Blood Sea true inheritance, he was obstructed by Demon Immortal Qi Jue. After realizing Demon Immortal Qi Jue's goal, Red Heart Traveler resolutely gave up on the Blood Sea true inheritance and continued to chase Qing Chou with Nine Spiritual Fairy.
After all, Qing Chou's matter concerned Heavenly Court's plan. And, even if he got the Blood Sea true inheritance, it would only raise Red Heart Traveler's strength. The more important thing was clear with one glance.
Nine Spiritual Fairy and Red Heart Traveler possessed Heavenly Court's secret method, so they continued to trace and soon discovered Qing Chou.
But the two did not dare to make a move rashly.
This was Western Desert, enemies were all around them, and it was not the territory of these two immortals. If they rashly started a fight, with the other being a legendary immemorial desolate beast, once the fight entered a stalemate, Western Desert's native Gu Immortals would interfere and the situation would become too unstable.
After some discussion, Nine Spiritual Fairy transformed into an immemorial desolate beast and destroyed the surrounding resource points, attracting some Mo clan Gu Immortals.
The two Mo clan immortals brought an immemorial sand monster but they were not even able to make Qing Chou expend its energy, instead, Qing Chou discovered traces of the two Heavenly Court immortals.
With their plan failing and Qing Chou exposing their position, the two Heavenly Court immortals showed themselves and attacked.
Boom boom boom!
The two immortals were both rank eight and were extraordinary indeed. Their moves were violent and their attacks were like unceasing waves.
Qing Chou immediately fell into a disadvantage.
But Qing Chou was an immemorial desolate beast, its body was extremely tough and thick, there was no injury even after getting hit by several rank eight killer moves.
After dozens of exchanges, it became familiar with the techniques of the Heavenly Court immortals and began to slowly turn around the situation.
However, this did not last long, a qi tide began to appear.
It was because the immortal apertures of the dead Mo clan immortals had opened the entrance and started to absorb heaven and earth qi to stabilize themselves.
There was a difference in the heaven and earth qi in these two immortal apertures and the outside world, and along with the accumulated impact from the fights between the Gu Immortals and Qing Chou, a giant qi tide was formed.
Qing Chou suffered heavy restriction in the qi tide, its strength fell sharply. On the contrary, the two Heavenly Court immortals had offered their immortal apertures and only had phantom apertures, thus they were not affected too much in the qi tide.
Qing Chou roared and struggled but it was all in vain.
It then realized that the two Heavenly Court immortals still had another layer of planning. They did not just use the two Western Desert immortals, they even calculated their immortal apertures in their plan!
Just as Qing Chou was fighting bitterly, Peng Da shook his head and opened his eyes.
"Where am I?" After a moment of daze, he discovered he was being carried by Mo Li and they were moving on a huge sand dune.
"Uncle, you saved me again." Peng Da sighed.
"You are awake." Mo Li smiled.
"Uncle, you can put me down."
But Mo Li shook his head: "Your injuries are severe, although I healed you, you should not move within a short period of time."
Peng Da smiled bitterly: "I have troubled uncle again. Where is this?"
Mo Li replied: "Sigh, we were swept away for over ten thousand li by the hurricane, we are now going back."
Mo Li had lived many years in the desert, he naturally had a method to distinguish the directions.
Peng Da was immediately worried after hearing Mo Li's words: "Uncle, you still want to return? You want to go back and die?!"
Mo Li was silent for a while, his voice was low and deep, containing resolution: "I also know returning is risky, but if I don't even see the appearance of the killer of my wife and son, I will never be able to rest easy!"
"Uncle…" Peng Da did not know what to say. He understood the sadness and hatred Mo Li was feeling right now, and it was because of this, he was unable to persuade him further.
Mo Li continued: "Brat, I am thankful for your concern. After we travel a bit further, I will drop you off with enough water and food. It won't be an issue for you to cross the desert and get to the nearest city."
"Uncle, I won't leave, I can't leave you alone."
"Don't make a scene!"
"I am not making a scene, you are the one who is irrational!"
Just as the two were quarreling, the sand below Mo Li began to move and formed a huge whirlpool that sucked both of them inside.
Mo Li quickly used his Gu worms but it was of no use.
He was pale with shock: "What is going on? My Gu worms actually have no effect!"
Peng Da also tried with no result, his face was extremely pale: "Is this quicksand? We are going to be sucked in!"
This quicksand was too strange, their methods were useless on it.
The two were getting closer and closer to the center of the quicksand, their bodies were slowly buried under the sand and their faces were ashen.
"Am I going to die?" Peng Da mumbled.
Mo Li heaved a deep sigh: "I implicated you, Peng Da."
"I, I don't blame you uncle. It was all my choice." Peng Da felt his heart beating wildly and his throat parched, he did not know what to express.
The feeling before impending death was really the worst!
But soon, Peng Da's attention was caught by another thing.
He found that uncle Mo Li who usually had great mental fortitude was actually crying.
Mo Li sobbed: "I am going to die but my revenge has yet to be done! I did not even see the killer's true appearance. I am too weak, too weak! I don't even have the qualifications to approach the enemy. The gap between immortals and mortals is too big, I am only a mortal, I am like an ant!"
Peng Da opened his mouth to console Mo Li, but he did not know what to say.
At the next moment, the hot sand poured into his mouth as Peng Da quickly closed it. His whole body was buried and his sight was filled with darkness.
"Am I going to die?"
"I am dying like this?!"
"Hehehehe, I am truly pitiful, to think that my journey in this new world is going to end like this."
"I really don't want to die, I really don't want to die!"
Suddenly, in his dark vision, there were specks of starlight.
"Huh? I didn't die?" Peng Da sat up and looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.
He was now at the bottom of a dry well, the quicksand whirlpool continued to rotate in the entrance of the well, but the strange thing was that the sand did not fall down.
There was a mysterious force here that stopped the quicksand whirlpool and only allowed Peng Da and Mo Li to enter it.
"Uncle, uncle?" Peng Da immediately saw Mo Li and shouted twice before he got a reaction.
"Kid, you are awake? This is an immortal opportunity, we have struck gold!" Mo Li turned around, saying with excitement and shock: "This is very likely an inheritance left by a Gu Immortal."
"Uncle, you are certain?" Peng Da's eyes opened in incredulity, this was too dreamlike, the ups and downs of life came too suddenly.
He was not a greenhorn who had just transmigrated, the current Peng Da had traveled with Mo Li's caravan many times and knew about the Gu world. Gu Immortals and Gu Immortal inheritances were always a topic of discussion among Gu Masters in their idle time, he did not expect the unreachable thing to appear in front of him now.
"Damn it, damn it!"
"Why is there no reaction?"
Mo Li attempted many things and was getting restless but the starlight showed no reaction.
"Uncle, this might not be a Gu Immortal inheritance, right? I feel like you are thinking too much." At this time, Peng Da finally stood up and walked towards Mo Li.
Mo Li did not retort, he also began to doubt his previous judgment.
But right at this time, the starlight suddenly made a movement. Like tidal waves, they passed by Mo Li and entered Peng Da's body.
The two were shocked.
This happened so fast that when they reacted the starlight had already entered Peng Da's body.
Without the starlight, the well fell into darkness.
Mo Li activated his Gu worm, creating a lump of fire in his hand that brightened the well once again.
Peng Da was standing on the spot in daze like a statue with his eye eyes wide open.
Mo Li quickly neared him: "Peng Da, Peng Da! Are you alright?"
Only then did Peng Da react: "Un… uncle, you were correct, this is truly a Gu Immortal inheritance and it is Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's inheritance!"
"What, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable?!" Mo Li was shaken, they had a lot of understanding regarding venerable existences as well. Due to the current time and situation, the Gu Immortal world's knowledge was no longer secret among mortals.
Mo Li's gaze turned slightly complicated: "This means to say, Peng Da, you are an otherworldly demon? No wonder the inheritance did not respond to me."
Peng Da felt ashamed: "Uncle, I didn't intentionally conceal it from you. It was just that…"
"Alright." Mo Li waved his hand: "So what if you are an otherworldly demon? You are still Peng Da, the person I know, isn't that so?"
Peng Da was extremely moved and nodded his head quickly: "Yes! Thank you for understanding, uncle."
Mo Li shook his hand: "Alright, alright, you really struck it big this time. Since you inherited the Demon Venerable's inheritance, then use the method to leave here quickly. Ordinary methods are useless here."
Peng Da felt ashamed: "The situation is like this, uncle, although I have many Gu worms, I cannot use them. This is the first time I am seeing these Gu worms and need a lot of practice. Moreover, according to the inheritance, I must use one of the killer moves to leave here."
"Then practise it quickly, ask anything you don't understand, uncle will guide you!"
"Yes, thank you uncle."
"Is there still a need for thanks between us?" Mo Li smiled: "Practise quickly, we don't have much water and food."
As the inheritor, it did not matter if Peng Da ate or drank in the well, but Mo Li could not share the same benefit.
Over the next few days, Peng Da practised without resting. He was only a mortal so the Gu worms he practised with were all mortal Gu.
This was the first time he was coming in contact with these Gu worms, although there were detailed explanations in the inheritance, he still needed to practise and master these Gu worms.
Mo Li helped Peng Da to study and learn, once they had some progress, Peng Da would hand the Gu worms to Mo Li for demonstration and guidance.
Mo Li was an experienced Gu Master, although he did not have the qualifications to inherit the Thieving Heaven true inheritance, he had much more efficient ways to probe these Gu worms.
Finally, Peng Da was barely able to master the usage of several Gu worms and found a way to use a killer move.
"Go on Peng Da, try to succeed in one attempt!" Mo Li encouraged Peng Da.
"Watch this, uncle." Peng Da used the killer move for the first time but it did not succeed.
The killer move activation failed and he suffered backlash, he coughed blood and fell on the ground.
"Peng Da, are you okay?" Mo Li quickly inspected Peng Da's body.
Peng Da squeezed words out through his mouth: "I have disappointed you, uncle. But rest assured, I will definitely… ah!"
Suddenly, his eyes opened wide.
He then looked at his chest with an incredulous expression.
His chest was pierced through by Mo Li's hand, his heart was destroyed because of this sneak attack!
"Un… uncle…" Even more blood started flowing out of Peng Da's mouth.
Mo Li raised his head slowly, his eyes were filled with tears and his expression was extremely twisted, unfamiliarity and fear filled Peng Da's mind.
Mo Li's voice was extremely hoarse: "I want revenge, I want revenge! But the true inheritance chose you, uncle had no other options, Peng Da! You are too young, you practised for so long but you could not even master a killer move. Uncle cannot wait any longer, uncle cannot depend on you."
Mo Li then took out his hand.
Peng Da powerlessly fell onto the ground, his eyes helplessly looking at the entrance of the well.
He was dead.
But Mo Li did not stop, he activated his Gu worms and captured Peng Da's soul.
"Alright, the Thieving Heaven true inheritance is mine now." Mo Li laughed. Peng Da's blood was splattered on his face, his bloodstained face had a dazzling smile.
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Chapter 2017 Bai Ning Bing Versus Hei Lou Lan
Central Continent, on a certain nameless and ordinary peak.
Four Gu Immortals arrived at the base of the mountain while concealing themselves.
"Hei Lou Lan is on this mountain." Ying Wu Xie looked at the peak and spoke.
At his sides were Fairy Zi Wei, Old Man Zheng Yuan, and Bai Ning Bing.
After Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan forced Bai Ning Bing to surrender, they obtained Ying Wu Xie's whereabouts. Ying Wu Xie was a split soul of Spectral Soul and his mission had always been to rescue his main body.
But due to his strength and Fang Yuan's arrangements, Ying Wu Xie could not enter Heavenly Court. After the fate war, fate Gu was destroyed and Fang Yuan escaped, while Ying Wu Xie wandered around Central Continent, resenting Fang Yuan for not saving Spectral Soul's main body.
After Fairy Zi Wei provided enough evidence, Ying Wu Xie learned his main body was no longer in Heavenly Court and had gotten free by himself.
Ying Wu Xie was exulted, he directly abandoned Fang Yuan and joined Fairy Zi Wei's group.
Through Ying Wu Xie, Fairy Zi Wei's group learned that he had just recently separated from Hei Lou Lan. Thus, the four immortals quietly arrived at this place.
Ying Wu Xie said softly: "Hei Lou Lan is a formidable person, although her cultivation is low and her battle strength is not high because future self has lost its effect, she has great endurance and knows how to wait patiently, she is ambitious and cannot be looked down upon."
Ying Wu Xie did not doubt his side's strength, but what he was most worried was if Hei Lou Lan would side with them and betray Fang Yuan or not.
In this aspect, Fairy Zi Wei was confident, she said with a smile: "I have full confidence in making Hei Lou Lan surrender. She has a complex relationship with Fang Yuan, but it is not firm. Hei Lou Lan wants to kill her own father for revenge, this is her greatest wish. Fang Yuan has captured Hei Cheng and because his strength is higher than Hei Lou Lan's, she has always been controlled by him. We can use this to make her surrender."
Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated.
Back then, Fairy Zi Wei tried all sorts of methods to deduce Fang Yuan's position, but could not do anything because Fang Yuan was slippery like an eel and his most skilled wisdom path aspect was in blocking deductions.
Fairy Zi Wei could not do anything against Fang Yuan, but she investigated everything about Fang Yuan's subordinates. But at that time, even if she wanted to use these indirect ways to find Fang Yuan's location, they all ended up in failure.
But now, Fairy Zi Wei was going against Hei Lou Lan. Those past failures had now become her source of confidence.
Immediately, Fairy Zi Wei made arrangements: "This time, Ying Wu Xie, you stay behind. Bai Ning Bing, you will approach Hei Lou Lan. You can say you obtained news from Ying Wu Xie and came to visit. When you near her, sneak attack and seal her in ice. After you get her under control, I will persuade her."
"How about I go with her?" Ying Wu Xie did not feel assured.
Bai Ning Bing glanced at him and flew away.
Ying Wu Xie quickly looked at Fairy Zi Wei, Fairy Zi Wei, however, shook her head: "We will watch it from here."
Bai Ning Bing flew across the sky like a flash of white light, she looked down at the peak and shouted: "Hei Lou Lan, are you here?"
After a while, Hei Lou Lan came out from a mountain cave and frowned slightly as she looked towards Bai Ning Bing: "Why are you here?"
Bai Ning Bing laughed and pointed at Hei Lou Lan: "I have joined Spectral Soul now and have come to capture you. Hei Lou Lan, if you are smart, then just let yourself be captured."
Hei Lou Lan's eyes opened wide: "Are you for real?"
At the base of the mountain, Ying Wu Xie almost stomped his foot in anger: "I knew that Bai Ning Bing would spoil the matter. Her nature is eccentric and she prioritizes fun. She did this on purpose, she definitely felt this way would be more interesting!"
Sure enough, Bai Ning Bing's laughter was heard: "Of course I am for real!"
Saying so, she turned into white light and charged at Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan had already been preparing and with a shout, she raised her hands and sent out a large amount of flames to counter the white light.
Bai Ning Bing was caught off-guard and was forced back to the sky.
But she looked even more excited: "Fire path method? You actually changed to this path? Haha, interesting, I already wanted to fight you! But how long can you block me for?"
Immortal killer move — Bai Xiang!
Bai Ning Bing directly activated her trump card method, her body was no longer a flesh and blood body, and was covered in overflowing frost qi that even shrouded the mountain peak.
Hei Lou Lan entered the mountain cave and Bai Ning Bing gave chase without being afraid of any traps.
The two fought inside the cave, causing explosions that cracked and shattered the mountain rocks.
After several exchanges, Hei Lou Lan fell into a disadvantage and her situation did not look good.
Hei Lou Lan's aptitude, temperament, and natural talents were at top level, but her fortune was not good and she ran into Fang Yuan too early. Fang Yuan dominated her and used Hei Cheng to control her, which greatly influenced her cultivation.
Hei Lou Lan's strength qi Immortal Gu, flying bear strength Immortal Gu, and self strength Immortal Gu became Fang Yuan's possessions. Slavery Immortal Gu was also borrowed by Fang Yuan and consumed. Divert disaster Immortal Gu was destroyed when she underwent tribulation.
During the period of the fate war, Hei Lou Lan almost always relied on the killer move future self. Once the future self was broken, Hei Lou Lan returned to her previous self.
Fang Yuan did not summon her back, Hei Lou Lan also held ambitions and did not want to be controlled by Fang Yuan, so she actively searched for a way to be free.
She possessed her aunts' true inheritances, and after enough pondering, she resolutely changed to cultivating Blazing Heaven Demoness' fire path.
But unfortunately, before she had good progress, she was discovered by Fairy Zi Wei and was now chased by Bai Ning Bing.
Hei Lou Lan felt bitter inside, she wanted to retreat but was chased closely by Bai Ning Bing.
When she slowly lost the strength to attack and was about to be captured by Bai Ning Bing, a white light flew over from the horizon.
This white light appeared slow but was extremely fast, Bai Ning Bing's Bai Xiang form actually could not dodge it and was struck.
In an instant, Bai Xiang froze in the air, no longer moving.
"Hei Lou Lan has reinforcements?!" Ying Wu Xie was shocked.
"Not reinforcements, this should be Longevity Heaven's members." Fairy Zi Wei said with a smile.
Ying Wu Xie realized, Fairy Zi Wei had already taken Bai Ning Bing's nature into her calculations, her main goal had been to use Bai Ning Bing to trigger Longevity Heaven's ambush. The reason she did not send Ying Wu Xie was in fact because she wanted to protect him, Ying Wu Xie was Spectral Soul's clone after all, he was truly one of them. And Bai Ning Bing, who possessed Bai Xiang, was the perfect candidate to probe the ambush!
"This is a time path killer move, is it Fang Yuan?" Hei Lou Lan had a complex expression as she looked towards the horizon through the gaps in the cave.
Rank eight Immortal Gu House Calamity Luck Altar appeared in the horizons, and in almost an instant, arrived at the center of the battlefield.
Calamity Luck Altar sent out a strong light that shone on the unmoving Bai Ning Bing.
Although the killer move Bai Xiang was amazing, Calamity Luck Altar was a rank eight Immortal Gu House that was personally created by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. If Bai Ning Bing was struck head-on, her death was certain.
Fairy Zi Wei quickly made a move, sending out a purple aurora to cover Bai Ning Bing while blocking Calamity Luck Altar's powerful light.
"I was wondering who it was, so it turns out to be the leader of the defeated Heavenly Court!" Bing Sai Chuan's voice came from Calamity Luck Altar.
Fairy Zi Wei shook her head slightly and flew to the sky with Old Man Zheng Yuan: "We have already joined Lord Spectral Soul, we are no longer in Heavenly Court's faction."
Bing Sai Chuan sneered: "Like I care about which side you are on! Hei Lou Lan is my Longevity Heaven's descendant, she is a member of Northern Plains. Don't even dream of harming her!"
Fairy Zi Wei retorted: "The five regions have merged, all the regional walls have disappeared, what do you mean by Northern Plains? We will need to fight to decide where Hei Lou Lan goes."
Bing Sai Chuan did not speak any nonsense, he directly controlled Calamity Luck Altar to collide into Fairy Zi Wei.
A huge battle erupted!
Hei Lou Lan and Bai Ning Bing were put under control, unable to budge.
Hei Lou Lan's face was ashen, she was fully aware that be it Heavenly Court or Longevity Heaven, they were trying to use her to search for clues about Fang Yuan!
This was the result of having low cultivation level, she had become an object for the two sides to fight over. No one asked her if she was willing or not.
This battle did not last long, both sides were holding back.
It was Fairy Zi Wei who took the initiative to stop: "No need to fight anymore, there is no harm in giving Hei Lou Lan to you."
Bing Sai Chuan had Immortal Gu House Calamity Luck Altar while Fairy Zi Wei was without Star Constellation Chessboard and was in a weakened state. The reason she attacked was because she wanted to trigger a qi tide and use it to claim victory.
But Bing Sai Chuan clearly knew of Fairy Zi Wei's plan and made Calamity Luck Altar use all its might. Fairy Zi Wei saw the battle turning increasingly fierce and knew her side would have to use their full strength if they wanted to hold on until the qi tide arrived, so she directly chose to stop.
"We have a common objective, it doesn't matter where Hei Lou Lan ends up in. Fang Yuan is at his weakest state currently, if we miss this rare chance and let him recover, it will be too late. We can even work together, what do you think, Bing Sai Chuan?" Fairy Zi Wei made a proposal.
Then, she showed evidence to prove her current faction.
"Who could have thought that there would be a day when we cooperate!" Bing Sai Chuan was silent for a while before sighing.
Both sides had their own venerable as their backer and they both wanted to kill Fang Yuan, they had the qualifications to cooperate as well as a common goal, so working together was indeed a wise choice.
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Chapter 2018 Impending Fatal Calamity
Central Continent, deep beneath a certain Earth Trench.
Calamity Luck Altar was floating in the air, there were tall cliffs on both sides, while below it was unfathomable darkness.
It was emitting soft light and did not conceal its aura, scaring away any beast that tried to approach it.
At the middle of the cliff was a giant cave that was dug by Fairy Zi Wei and the rest.
Purple light flickered in the cave and a wisdom path formation was already set up, Fairy Zi Wei sat at the center and Old Man Zheng Yuan sat at the assistant's position, on one hand, he was using human path methods to cooperate with Fairy Zi Wei, on the other hand, he was using a portion of the immortal formation to guard against Bing Sai Chuan.
After all, it was the first time these two sides were collaborating, they had to err on the side of caution.
There were several formation cores at the edges of the formation as well. Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan, and Ying Wu Xie were sitting in these formation cores as the crucial clues.
Purple light swayed, rising and falling at times like tides.
After a long while, Fairy Zi Wei opened her eyes slowly and stopped this wisdom path immortal formation, the overflowing purple light dissipated slowly.
"How is it?" Bing Sai Chuan's question came from Calamity Luck Altar.
Fairy Zi Wei sighed and shook her head: "It is still not enough. But this method is absolutely effective. These three have set alliance agreements with Fang Yuan, their connections are extremely tight. As long as we capture even more Gu Immortals, we can deduce Fang Yuan's exact location."
The large formation was dismantled and the Gu worms flew back to Fairy Zi Wei's immortal aperture.
Ying Wu Xie and the others stood up.
Bai Ning Bing smiled: "This is not difficult. During the fate war, Fang Yuan had dispatched not only us but also a large number of transformation path Gu Immortals."
Hei Lou Lan added: "From what I know, these transformation path Gu Immortals were incorporated after Fang Yuan annexed an immemorial grotto-heaven. After the fate war, Fang Yuan disappeared without leaving behind any traces, these people should still be scattered around Central Continent."
Ying Wu Xie shook his head: "But these transformation path Gu Immortals don't have a close connection with Fang Yuan, it is better if we look for Lady White Rabbit and Fairy Miao Yin, these two are crucial characters that are only second to us."
Fairy Zi Wei had stored all the Gu worms by now, she did not have formation flag Gu or similar methods, it was rather time-consuming every time she dismantled the formation.
She looked towards Calamity Luck Altar which had been guarding from the side: "It is better if we split our forces to search for White Rabbit and Miao Yin. If we encounter Fang Yuan's transformation path Gu Immortal subordinates along the way, we can make the decision to make a move at our own discretion."
Shortly after, Bing Sai Chuan's response came from Calamity Luck Altar: "Of course. For our following plans, we will need more communication between us."
Fairy Zi Wei nodded: "Indeed."
Although the scale of this cooperation was small and duration was short, it had huge significance and both sides had begun to trust each other.
Calamity Luck Altar picked up Hei Lou Lan while Bai Ning Bing and Ying Wu Xie stayed with Fairy Zi Wei, both sides separated and departed on their own.
Immemorial two heavens.
Crescent Moon grotto-heaven.
"Fairy Crescent Moon, you won't surrender even if the alternative is death?" Xiao He Jian, Lady Cold Ash and the rest were looking down from high above, looking at the dying Gu Immortal in the ruins.
Fairy Crescent Moon had rank eight cultivation and was the owner of Crescent Moon grotto-heaven. She had the terrain advantage but she was completely outnumbered, she was only hanging on her last breath now.
She spat and said with hatred: "You bandits, my Crescent Moon grotto-heaven has no conflicts with the outside world and has never provoked you nor had any ambitious plans. I will never surrender to you!"
"Then die!" Lady Cold Ash was already impatient, she pointed her finger, a grey light shot out and struck Fairy Crescent Moon.
Lady Cold Ash put her hand inside her sleeve, Fairy Crescent Moon's soul was carried by the grey light and brought to her.
"This is a rank eight Gu Immortal's soul, devouring her soul will be much more effective and also much easier to absorb." Lady Cold Ash was Spectral Soul, but he was able to conceal it from the whole of Wu Shuai's alliance.
Xiao He Jian looked at her: "Lady Cold Ash, you battled in the front lines and slaughtered countless enemies, collecting a vast number of mortal souls and many Gu Immortal souls. Those are your battle spoils, but Lord Alliance Leader specially asked for this rank eight soul. You cannot take it."
Spectral Soul was slightly stunned before smiling and handing this rank eight soul to Xiao He Jian: "Since our alliance leader wants it, why would I dare to take it."
Inside her heart, however, she was snorting coldly: "I shall hand this to you for the time being, in the future, I will settle both our old and new grudges together!"
Xiao He Jian nodded with approval and took Fairy Crescent Moon's soul while consoling Lady Cold Ash: "Let's go, let the others clean up here. Follow me to see the alliance leader and report the battle."
"I can finally get close to Wu Shuai. This is a good chance!" Spectral Soul's mood lifted upon hearing that.
However, when the two arrived in Dragon Palace's hall, they only saw Wu Shuai's will sitting on the main seat.
Wu Shuai's will heard the report and praised: "Lady Cold Ash, you made the most contributions in this invasion of Crescent Moon grotto-heaven, well done."
"It is our duty to work for alliance leader." Lady Cold Ash was extremely disappointed but showed a smile on her face.
"Alright, you can leave. When we hand out the rewards based on contribution later, you will not be disappointed." Wu Shuai's will waved his hand.
The two left Dragon Palace, Spectral Soul, however, felt discontent inwardly: "It is really a pity that we were not able to see alliance leader."
Xiao He Jian glanced at her, feeling some disdain towards Lady Cold Ash's conduct in trying to flatter the alliance leader when they were not even in front of him: "How can Lord Alliance Leader be available whenever you want? He has been in closed cultivation to resolve the danger of the qi harvest fruits. We only need to follow his orders."
"Yes."
Xiao He Jian's expression softened as he patted Lady Cold Ash's shoulder: "Work well and follow me, you will be able to play a key role in the alliance one day!"
"Then I will depend on lord's guidance." Spectral Soul put up a performance while internally scheming on when to capture Xiao He Jian!
"It is good that you understand." Xiao He Jian smiled and walked forward.
He had joined the alliance because of Qi Jue's true inheritance, as a lone force, he was suppressed by Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and others. But Xiao He Jian's strength surpassed ordinary rank eights, he was slowly stabilizing his footing in the alliance and had won over some Gu Immortals under him.
Lady Cold Ash's performance had been extremely outstanding in the latest battle and she had displayed extraordinary battle strength, so despite her being a pure human, Xiao He Jian wanted to rope her in to his side.
On the other side.
"Granny Skeleton has arrived—!" The doorman shouted.
Granny Skeleton entered the hall and saw Qi Sea Ancestor on the main seat, she quickly cupped her hands and bowed, getting straight to the point: "Skeleton grotto-heaven is willing to come under Qi Sea Ancestor."
Qi Sea Ancestor nodded: "Hahaha, Granny Skeleton, you are wise. You will not regret joining my side."
Granny Skeleton sighed and asked: "I wonder when Lord Ancestor can get rid of the qi harvest fruit's problem?"
"I have already made good progress in this, you can rest assured." Fang Yuan changed the topic, "Skeleton grotto-heaven is the nearest to Crescent Moon grotto-heaven. Crescent Moon grotto-heaven has now already fallen to Wu Shuai's side, I am willing to send troops and station some Gu Immortals in Skeleton grotto-heaven, I hope you can cooperate."
Granny Skeleton sighed, although Fang Yuan did not show the ability to resolve the danger of qi harvest fruits, due to the outside world's condition, Granny Skeleton could only lower her head and join him.
"With the current situation, there is really nothing else I can do. Currently, there are almost no unaffiliated grotto-heavens left in the immemorial two heavens. They have either joined Wu Shuai or have been recruited by Qi Sea Ancestor. Sigh, I wonder what the future will be like." Granny Skeleton did not obtain the answer she wanted and left worriedly.
The pressure on Fang Yuan was also increasing.
"A wisdom path great expert was deducing about me just now, the strength is also quite high! It seems like Fairy Zi Wei."
Fairy Zi Wei was deducing the whereabouts of Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan naturally sensed it. This was the same as a contest of the two's wisdom path methods across space.
"According to my luck, this situation is not looking good. The fatal calamity is impending, danger is lurking everywhere, and there is only a trace of hope."
Fang Yuan's Cooking Luck Pot might only be at rank seven, but he could glance at a portion of his luck and deduce the entirety from it.
Fang Yuan had already made positive progress regarding the qi harvest fruits. But he was still at his wits' end on how to refine heaven path dao marks.
He was aware that this trace of hope fell on the heaven path dao marks. Only be refining the heaven path dao marks and recovering his strength could he get free from the incoming calamity. If he could not refine them or did not refine them in time, it would be dangerous.
"But where is this breakthrough point that I seek?"
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Chapter 2019 Rank Eight Hatred Gu
Western Desert.
The intense rank eight level battle was still continuing.
Qing Chou roared, its tongue shot out with lightning speed.
Bam bam bam…
The blood red figures that surrounded Qing Chou were easily pierced and destroyed by its tongue.
Every time the blood red figures exploded, Red Heart Traveler's face would turn a shade paler. His brows were furrowed and his teeth were clenched shut, but his fighting spirit did not diminish as he used all his strength to maintain the battlefield killer move.
"Red Heart Traveler won't be able to hold on for long like this." Nine Spiritual Fairy, who was fighting Qing Chou, had been paying attention to Red Heart Traveler's condition.
They had tied down Qing Chou with a lot of difficulty, Red Heart Traveler had used a battlefield killer move and was able to temporarily entrap this legendary immemorial desolate beast.
However, Qing Chou had intelligence comparable to a human's, after it discovered it was unable to break free from this battlefield killer move, it concentrated its attacks on Red Heart Traveler in order to break through.
Once Red Heart Traveler was unable to hold on, the battlefield would dissipate and Qing Chou could walk out free. With this experience, it would definitely be extremely vigilant and it would be almost impossible to capture it again in a short period of time.
"Fine! I can only use that move." Nine Spiritual Fairy gritted her teeth and made a huge decision.
Immortal killer move — Nine Spiritual Transformations!
Her body suddenly shook as she transformed back to her human form. She was a transformation path great expert and should be much stronger after transformation to another form. But right now, even though she returned to her human form, her aura was surging and she was even stronger than her previous self. Nine spiritual lights shot out one after another from her immortal aperture and formed an enormous nine-colored barrier of light, the barrier had nine layers with distinct colors.
Qing Chou had been concentrating on Red Heart Traveler, so it felt a great shock from Nine Spiritual Fairy's sudden outburst and quickly split some of its attacks towards her.
But at this stage, the killer move nine spiritual transformations was already completed and had no flaws.
Nine Spiritual Fairy gave a clear roar, the nine-colored barrier shook and the nine layers of light mixed together, becoming extremely dazzling.
The mixed light sphere then transformed into a rhinoceros with a large head and small body, and was shining with various colors. It charged towards Qing Chou.
Qing Chou roared and gave up on Red Heart Traveler for the moment, and without dodging, it charged towards this rhinoceros.
With a loud explosion, the surroundings shook intensely.
After the two enormous monsters collided, it was actually Qing Chou who had to take a small step back while the huge rhino only stopped in its spot.
Qing Chou was shocked and furious, it had not expected this rhino to be so strong. As far as it was concerned, this multi-colored rhino was translucent and it could even see Nine Spiritual Fairy who was in the center, there was no feeling of it being a solid transformation. But the collision made Qing Chou realize: this multi-colored rhino was stronger than the previous solid transformations!
"Qing Chou fell into a disadvantage in the collision, this is the first time since the battle started! Nine spiritual transformations is indeed worthy of being a legendary transformation path killer move." Red Heart Traveler was happy and worried at this sight. The price of using nine spiritual transformations was very high, after a Gu Immortal cultivates the killer move nine spiritual transformations, they can only use it nine times in their life.
Nine Spiritual Fairy had chosen to expend one usage of such a valuable killer move on Qing Chou, it showed her determined will!
Qing Chou roared, its bestial nature was agitated, it charged at Nine Spiritual Fairy again.
But the multi-colored light sphere that Nine Spiritual Fairy was in changed suddenly, from a large rhino to a southern fire sparrow.
The fire sparrow spread its wings and flew to the sky.
Qing Chou charged at empty space, without even looking up, it activated its defensive methods.
Sure enough, at the next moment, Qing Chou heard the sharp cry of the fire sparrow, then the sparrow collided onto its back. Whoosh, blazing flames engulfed it.
Qing Chou's hurriedly activated defensive methods only lasted for a few breaths of time before they broke.
Qing Chou counterattacked fiercely, beast roars and bird cries mixed together, the two sides were at a deadlock.
Red Heart Traveler finally had a brief respite and quickly used the time to adjust his condition. While regulating his breath and observing the battle, he started to feel worried.
"Qing Chou is too sturdy, although it is being suppressed and the battle tempo is firmly held by Nine Spiritual Fairy, it has sufficient stamina."
"On the contrary, Nine Spiritual Fairy might hold the upper hand and have control over the battle, but she cannot last for long. If there is no external help and this goes on, she will definitely run out of stamina and die."
Red Heart Traveler decided to take a risk.
He accumulated his strength while waiting patiently. After waiting for two hours, he finally saw a chance.
The chance was momentary, Red Heart Traveler immediately made his move!
He spat out a mouthful of blood. The fragrant blood flew to the air and started rotating. Like a miniature blood sun, it emitted endless blood red light, rushing to Qing Chou.
Although Qing Chou was in a fierce battle with Nine Spiritual Fairy, it had never let go of its vigilance against Red Heart Traveler.
However, when it used its killer move to block this tiny blood sphere, it was of no use. The blood sphere seemed to be illusory, it passed through the obstruction and struck Qing Chou's chest, turning into a red sun insignia.
Qing Chou's expression changed immediately, it could feel that its every movement was being tied down by the red sun insignia.
This was an extremely powerful seal, it quickly showed its might, it slowed down movement, interfered with killer moves, and lowered fighting spirit.
"Damn it, damn it!!!" Qing Chou roared and started attacking wildly.
Nine Spiritual Fairy used all her strength to hold Qing Chou back, but was being beaten back little by little.
With a loud explosion, Qing Chou finally broke through Red Heart Traveler's battlefield killer move.
However, Red Heart Traveler had a smile of victory on his face.
Qing Chou's whole body was bound by blood threads, the source of the countless blood threads was the blood sun insignia at the center of its chest.
"Success. Cough cough cough!" Red Heart Traveler coughed out large mouthfuls of blood, his face pale like paper.
Nine Spiritual Fairy quickly suppressed the increasingly slower Qing Chou while transmitting her voice: "Red Heart, do you need my help?"
Red Heart Traveler shook his head slowly and used a killer move with difficulty, healing his wounds while enduring the intense pain.
Nine Spiritual Fairy spent much effort before finally suppressing Qing Chou.
Looking at Qing Chou, who was bound by the blood threads like a mummy, Nine Spiritual Fairy praised: "What method is this, it could actually capture Qing Chou!"
Red Heart Traveler was barely able to reply: "This is a temporary move I created, I have not named it yet."
Nine Spiritual Fairy looked towards Red Heart, slightly widening her eyes: "I am truly amazed!"
Red Heart Traveler shook his head, smiling bitterly: "Don't overestimate me. I detected that Qing Chou's vital Gu was rank eight hatred Gu, so I made this move. If it were other legendary immemorial beasts, this move would be a joke. I could have the chance to use this move because you did not hesitate to activate nine spiritual transformations."
Nine Spiritual Fairy also shook her head: "Capturing Qing Chou concerns the plan of capturing Fang Yuan, this is an important matter for Heavenly Court and for the people of the world, how could I refuse to pay such a small price. But is this hatred Gu the one recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]?"
"Yes." Red Heart Traveler nodded.
Nine Spiritual Fairy sighed: "This explains why Qing Chou can distinguish its enemies. Unfortunately, it did not have a killer move to make full use of it. Now that we have captured it, we can take out the hatred Gu and use Heavenly Court's killer move to find the location of Fang Yuan, Spectral Soul, and other demons!"
Red Heart Traveler restrained his aura: "Let's go, we cannot stay here for long."
They had engaged in a fierce battle for a long while, although the battlefield killer move saved a lot of time and also concealed most of the traces of battle, there were bound to be Gu Immortals who would come to check this place.
Not to mention other forces, Mo clan's assembled troops might already be rushing on their way.
Nine Spiritual Fairy and Red Heart Traveler had battled for a long while, their conditions were not perfect. They detained Qing Chou and moved towards Central Continent.
Sure enough, just a short while after they left, several Gu Immortals of Mo clan arrived with surging momentum in an Immortal Gu House.
"There was a fierce battle here!"
"Although there are few traces, it can be seen that it was a rank eight level fight."
"No wonder my clan's Gu Immortals perished so quickly."
"Give chase, we have an Immortal Gu House with us, they won't be able to run far!"
Mo clan's group followed the traces and chased the two Heavenly Court immortals.
Several days went by again.
A sandstorm blew and a Gu Master was struggling to move in the desert.
He reached the center of the battlefield and saw the deep craters that were mostly buried by the sandstorm. He raised his head and roared.
This person was Mo Li, who killed Peng Da and seized Thieving Heaven's true inheritance!
He went through all kinds of troubles to get here as soon as possible, thinking of seeing the true appearance of the culprit that killed his wife and son, but he was too late.
"I am going to find you and cut you to pieces!"
"No matter who you are or what monster you are, I will kill you!!"
Mo Li knelt on the desert and roared towards the sky.
Peng Da's soul was floating beside him. Peng Da gave a cold laugh: "Hehehe, you, a mere mortal, wants to take revenge against an immortal beast?"
"So what if it is an immortal beast?" Mo Li's eyes were red as he stared at Peng Da's soul, his expression was malevolent: "I have Thieving Heaven's true inheritance, I have Thieving Heaven's true inheritance! I can definitely become a Gu Immortal and succeed in taking revenge!"
Peng Da laughed again: "There is another possibility as well, this immortal beast was already killed by the Gu Immortals. You have no target to take revenge against already."
Mo Li was stunned and was silent like a statue.
After a long while, he suddenly moved his hand and grabbed the throat of Peng Da's soul, he seemed to be in a state of insanity: "No! It won't die, I won't allow it to die! It must die by my hands!!"
Mo Li continued to shout: "I will become a Gu Immortal, I have Thieving Heaven's true inheritance, I can definitely take revenge! I can definitely take revenge! Tell me, tell me how to use the next Gu worm!"
While grabbing Peng Da's soul, Mo Li activated his Gu worms, wisps of white smoke and sizzling sounds came from the area where Mo Li's hand touched Peng Da.
Peng Da's soul immediately let out a sharp screech from the unbearable pain: "I will speak, I will speak, this is called electric circuit Gu."
"Electric circuit Gu? What is this thing?"
Peng Da's soul hesitated for a bit: "How can I explain this? You are not an otherworldly demon, you won't be able to understand what an electric circuit is. Simply speaking, it is the path that electric currents move along."
Mo Li sneered: "What is so hard to understand about it? It is not like I have not read [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]! [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] has recorded that lightning Gu chose to cooperate with Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance to find a way out, they eventually managed to leave immemorial blue heaven. This should be the true meaning behind electric circuit[1]!"
Peng Da's soul was stunned.
Mo Li kept on praising: "Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable is truly worthy of being a venerable. He actually has such creative thoughts, he must have obtained the inspiration from [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], thus creating electric circuit Gu!"
Peng Da's soul: "…"
[1] It can be read as 'Lightning Path/Road' which is how these Gu world people interpret the Gu.
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Chapter 2020 Rank Nine Lightning Gu
Forest Lightning grotto-heaven.
"Forest Lightning Grotto Lord, you betrayed the two heavens alliance and actually colluded with Qi Sea Ancestor, this is an unforgivable sin and you will be executed for it." Xiao He Jian looked down from above.
Behind him were a large number of Gu Immortals from the two heavens alliance. They were all standing silently and expressionlessly, showing the numerical superiority.
On the contrary, Forest Lightning Grotto Lord was facing the enemies alone, his strength paled in comparison.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord gave a bitter smile: "Since you found out, I don't have anything to say. But do you think I am willing to collude with the enemy? The alliance wants to experiment on the qi harvest fruit in my Forest Lightning grotto-heaven. None of the alliance's previous attempts have succeeded and all the grotto-heavens they have tested on have detonated. I sided with the two heavens alliance for self-protection. But now, you want to sacrifice my home? Since that is the case, it is better to surrender to the enemy, I might even have some new hope."
Xiao He Jian frowned, snorting coldly: "You have no confidence in our two heavens alliance and Lord Alliance Leader Wu Shuai. Perhaps this time will succeed."
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord chuckled: "If alliance leader Wu Shuai had a fair disposition, I would have nothing to say. But he is clearly protecting variant humans while sacrificing humans. The grotto-heavens the alliance has experimented on are all human grotto-heavens. Wu Shuai is a dragonman after all, I have seen through this alliance's farce! Human Gu Immortals present here, watch carefully, this will be your outcome in the future. After me, it will be your turn."
Hearing this, the human Gu Immortals clearly had a slight change in expressions. Forest Lightning Grotto Lord had no doubt spoken of what they were worried about.
Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor were the same person, they naturally had a tacit agreement. They looked to be confronting each other on the surface, but were secretly dividing the two heavens' forces. By now, there were no neutral grotto-heavens in the two heavens. The grotto-heavens in the two heavens were either destroyed or had joined Wu Shuai or Qi Sea Ancestor.
After the two sides divided the two heavens, they ceased fighting and began to find a way to solve the qi harvest fruit problem.
Compared to Qi Sea Ancestor who was researching in closed cultivation, Wu Shuai's qi path attainment was clearly much weaker. So, Wu Shuai's two heavens alliance had no choice but to experiment and be very rough with their actions to pursue efficiency. The experiments to eliminate the qi harvest fruits had failed many times and destroyed many grotto-heavens as a result.
When it was Forest Lightning grotto-heaven's turn, Forest Lightning Grotto Lord was not willing to bet his home, so for self-protection and survival, he secretly contacted Qi Sea Ancestor.
He was truly an unfortunate guy, Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai were in essence the same person.
Qi Sea Ancestor was Fang Yuan's main body and he informed Wu Shuai directly.
Wu Shuai thus sent the command to Xiao He Jian to gather some Gu Immortals to punish the traitor.
Looking at Forest Lightning Grotto Lord, Xiao He Jian sneered silently and said with impatience: "Who is going to get this criminal?"
Lady Cold Ash stepped forward like she wanted to be the vanguard: "Let me."
Xiao He Jian nodded: "Good."
Lady Cold Ash directly charged towards Forest Lightning Grotto Lord, Xiao He Jian was inwardly happy and thought: "Cold Ash is perceptive and has a lot of capability. My efforts to win her over were not a waste."
Lady Cold Ash fought with Forest Lightning Grotto Lord, both were at rank eight and went at each other, neither yielding a step.
The other Gu Immortals of the two heavens alliance were watching the battle from atop the clouds. In a fight between Gu Immortals, for a group attack to work, they would have paid attention to cooperation. Different paths would cause conflicts between dao marks, if there was no skillful cooperation, it might instead waste their efforts.
Naturally, this did not hinder the observing Gu Immortals from accumulating their energy and attacking when there was a chance.
But the two heavens alliance's Gu Immortals did not find any opportunity to sneak attack.
Lady Cold Ash gradually gained the upper hand and control of the battle. Forest Lightning Grotto Lord saw the situation was bad and immediately escaped below ground.
Lady Cold Ash was Spectral Soul's disguise after all, how could Forest Lightning Grotto Lord be her match? The deadlock earlier was only a deception, it was nothing more than Spectral Soul's act.
Xiao He Jian saw Forest Lightning Grotto Lord fleeing and laughed heartily: "Chase!"
The immortals gave chase.
They did not care about the large Forest Lightning grotto-heaven and only targeted Forest Lightning Grotto Lord. As long as they got rid of this sole rank eight, other resistances would not be an issue.
They even took the initiative to maintain the safety of Forest Lightning grotto-heaven, after all, this grotto-heaven needed to be tested on and they would have a share in the distribution of the resources inside it.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord kept on moving deep underground.
Lady Cold Ash did not give chase and stayed beside Xiao He Jian.
Soon, the first group of Gu Immortals who had entered deep underground returned with soot covering them.
When he obtained their report, Xiao He Jian was slightly stunned: "There is such a thing? There is a lightning forest deep underground?"
The returning Gu Immortals naturally brought evidence.
Through methods similar to shadow image Gu, the two heavens alliance's immortals saw a vast lightning forest.
In the pitch-black underground, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled every moment.
The flashes of lightning formed a tall silver tree. The tall tree only lasted for a moment, but it had large thunder leaves, many silver lightning branches and so on, they were materialized and tempted all the immortals.
"Heaven, these are all priceless lightning path rank eight immortal materials!"
"This is only the superficial wealth of the lightning forest. According to the records in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], the source of lightning forest is lightning Gu. The size of this lightning forest is enough to prove there is a rank eight lightning Gu here!"
"Forest Lightning Grotto Lord wants to resist by relying on lightning Gu?"
"Hmph, wishful thinking. How could a mere rank eight Immortal Gu oppose our two heavens alliance?"
The immortals discussed but no one was willing to enter the forest.
After all, the lightning forest was a dangerous area and Forest Lightning Grotto Lord possessed an enormous terrain advantage here. If they rashly invaded, it was very likely to be an unrewarding venture.
Xiao He Jian frowned: "Who will go capture Forest Lightning Grotto Lord?"
Lady Cold Ash stood up once again without hesitation.
Xiao He Jian showed a pleased smile: "Cold Ash, if you win, your contribution will be at the top for this battle."
"Thank you." Lady Cold Ash was about to move.
"Wait." Night Heavenly Wolf Lord also walked out: "The Lightning forest is a dangerous region, let me accompany Cold Ash. If there is any unexpected mishap, I can be of some assistance."
"Let's do it that way then." Xiao He Jian agreed to Night Heavenly Wolf Lord's request.
Thereupon, the two immortals charged towards the depths of the underground. Other Gu Immortals along with Xiao He Jian were floating in the air, watching the battle as well as waiting patiently.
Lady Cold Ash charged to the bottom and arrived in front of the lightning forest. She directly opened her immortal aperture and let out countless soul beasts.
The soul beasts charged towards the lightning forest like a violent tide.
Rumble…
Lightning struck continuously and explosions resounded unendingly. There were severe losses to the soul beasts, they used their lives to forcibly pave open a path.
Lady Cold Ash and Night Heavenly Wolf Lord smoothly entered the depths of the lightning forest.
"I didn't think Lady Cold Ash would actually deal with the lightning forest like this."
"She is really resolved to suck up to Xiao He Jian regardless of the cost."
"There have been many rumors recently about the alliance leader wanting to make Xiao He Jian a vice alliance leader?"
"The alliance only has one vice alliance leader, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, currently. It is not strange for Lord Wu Shuai to make this arrangement to keep the balance between his subordinates."
"Lady Cold Ash might be a human Gu Immortal but she doesn't want to have the same outcome as Forest Lightning Grotto Lord's. So she wholeheartedly wants to climb ranks in the alliance, she is doing her best to protect her grotto-heaven."
Gu Immortals observed the battle while conversing secretly.
After a while of effort, Lady Cold Ash and Night Heavenly Wolf Lord fought their way to the center of the lightning forest and saw Forest Lightning Grotto Lord once again.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord was refining rank eight lightning Gu and quickly stopped the refinement when he saw the two immortals. He shouted in anger: "Stop! If you take one more stop, I will destroy this lightning Gu!"
The immortals were surprised.
"So this lightning Gu is still a wild Immortal Gu and Forest Lightning Grotto Lord has not actually refined it?"
"What is going on?"
"Haha, I understand! Forest Lightning Grotto Lord's ambition is not small."
"Oh, please explain."
"If I am not wrong, this lightning forest should have been just an ordinary lightning path resource point at the start. But at a certain point, it gave birth to a wild lightning Gu. Because of this lightning Gu, the lightning path resource point gradually transformed into a small lightning forest. Forest Lightning Grotto Lord did not refine this wild lightning Gu, instead he added resources to grow this lightning forest. The larger the scale of the lightning forest, the lightning Gu, which is the source, will also keep on advancing further. Forest Lightning Grotto Lord kept on investing resources and finally advanced this wild lightning Gu to rank eight!"
The two heavens alliance's Gu Immortals saw through the ambitions of Forest Lightning Grotto Lord.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord was a lightning path Gu Immortal and was not proficient in refinement path. But this lightning forest was created naturally, it was simply nature refining Gu itself!
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord cleverly borrowed the power of nature and added momentum to the original foundation, his goal was to advance lightning Gu to rank nine level!
And during this process, if he refined this wild Immortal Gu, the process of nature refining Gu would be interrupted and could not be recovered.
Thus, Forest Lightning Grotto Lord had left this wild lightning Gu in its state and did not refine it.
It was extremely difficult to seize other's Gu worms. But wild Immortal Gu were different.
A rank eight wild Immortal Gu, the crucial thing was that it even had the possibility of advancing to rank nine! This discovery was extremely huge, Xiao He Jian and the rest opened their eyes wide, revealing greed and wariness.
"This is of vital importance, we cannot be rash." Xiao He Jian quickly transmitted his voice to Lady Cold Ash and Night Heavenly Wolf Lord.
Lady Cold Ash and Night Heavenly Wolf Lord paused their attacks.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord spoke conditions: "As long as you spare me and my Forest Lightning grotto-heaven, I will offer this lightning Gu to you."
Xiao He Jian quickly contacted Wu Shuai and reported this matter.
The matter concerned a future rank nine lightning Gu, Xiao He Jian did not dare to decide by himself.
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Chapter 2021 Blue Heaven Shatters
Soon, Xiao He Jian received the reply. He personally flew underground and faced Forest Lightning Grotto Lord: "Alliance Leader has said that he can let you go, but Forest Lightning grotto-heaven must belong to the alliance. Of course, the alliance will not carry out any risky attempts on the qi harvest fruit in the grotto-heaven."
"No!" Forest Lightning Grotto Lord's attitude was extremely firm: "This grotto-heaven is my home, I will not give it up! It won't change owners, this is my territory, what qualifications does the alliance have to seize it? I will look after the lightning Gu for the moment, retreat and don't try to invade again from now on. I can set an agreement with the alliance to never seek lightning Gu. If the alliance wants rank nine lightning Gu, you can provide the resources to raise it in the lightning forest here."
Xiao He Jian did not respond and only reported Forest Lightning Grotto Lord's request to Wu Shuai.
Wu Shuai mumbled for a while, unable to come to a decision.
He then sent this information to the main body through secret methods and let the main body decide.
Fang Yuan fell into deep thought.
"Rank nine Immortal Gu have supreme might, it is indeed worth yielding a step. But this lightning Gu is only rank eight currently. To raise it to rank nine, who knows how many resources and how big of a price we have to pay. And there could be many unexpected mishaps during this process!"
"Another crucial point is that lightning Gu's information cannot be concealed, this news will definitely lead to chaos. Be they Heavenly Court, Longevity Heaven, or other forces, they will all interfere. Wu Shuai's and Qi Sea Ancestor's forces must have an all-out battle in the end."
Fang Yuan's wisdom path attainment was deep and immediately deduced the future changes.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord concealed the secret of lightning Gu because he wanted to keep it for himself. But now that he could not keep it, he could only use this chip to negotiate.
Since he could secretly contact the enemy, he would not just negotiate with Wu Shuai's alliance, he was sure to contact Qi Sea Ancestor.
Fang Yuan's Qi Sea Ancestor disguise protected humanity and had allied with Heavenly Court, he could never let a variant human force like Wu Shuai's alliance obtain rank nine lightning Gu!
Thus, Qi Sea Ancestor would have to send troops.
At that time, Forest Lightning Grotto Lord would surely curry favor with both sides and strive to win some respite. This Forest Lightning Grotto Lord truly had high astuteness and was deeply aware of the way of survival of the weak.
But like this, it was bound to increase the friction between Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai. This was exactly what Fang Yuan had been trying to avoid.
And at that time, Heavenly Court would definitely add fuel to the fire, even Longevity Heaven, Demon Immortal Qi Jue, and the five regions' forces would stir up the situation from the dark.
Although Fang Yuan was the leader of both sides, he was unable to restrict every subordinate. In the fight between these subordinates, if anyone died, Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor would need to take some action to preserve their side's benefit and prestige. The situation would escalate and continue being irremediable until it finally leads to an all-out battle.
But if Fang Yuan suppressed the situation, this would not fit the attitudes of Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor. It would definitely be filled with giant loopholes in the eyes of wisdom path Gu Immortals. Heavenly Court would start to have doubts and the whole situation would turn even more dangerous.
Thus, this situation was not as simple as just a lightning Gu.
This would implicate many things, it would involve variant humans, humans, and even the overall situation of the two heavens and five regions!
Fang Yuan was unable to come to a decision immediately for such a huge matter.
After all, he had to think of many factors, the important thing was that his current strength had fallen. He was at his weakest state and now was the time when he needed to rest and recuperate.
"I remember lightning Gu is recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], the power it showed was quite strong…"
Fang Yuan browsed through [[The Legends of Ren Zu]].
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]], chapter four, section thirty —
Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance and Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence were sent flying away by fate Gu and were forced to leave Ren Zu, arriving at immemorial blue heaven.
Rumble!
Thunder rumbled unceasingly here. Lightning flashed, imprinting the sky and forming a forest of lightning.
"I am angry! I am angry!" The source of this lightning forest was a lightning Gu, it was roaring continuously.
Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance and Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence were extremely afraid. The lightning was too strong, so long as a lightning bolt struck them, they would be heavily injured or even die.
They did not move at all, afraid of lightning Gu discovering them and bombarding them to death.
They waited patiently for lightning Gu's anger to dissipate. They would move once it calmed down.
But lightning Gu was extremely angry and its anger did not show any signs of decreasing. The lightning forest kept on growing in size.
"What should we do?" Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence was worried: "How can we return to father? Brother, do you have any good suggestions?"
Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance shook his head, his brows furrowed: "It is all fate Gu's fault! It forcefully separated us from father, I am definitely going to take revenge in the future. Argh, my heart hurts every time I think of fate Gu."
Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance held his chest, he found his heart aching more and more.
How could this be?
He quickly opened up his chest and looked at the depths of his heart.
"Oh, why is there a Gu in my heart?" Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance was astonished: "It is no wonder my heart is in constant pain, this Gu was biting on my heart."
Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence also saw this Gu worm: "Isn't this love Gu? I heard father mentioning it before."
"No, I am hatred Gu." The Gu worm spoke: "Although I look similar to love Gu on the surface."
Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence urged: "Hatred Gu, why are you gnawing on my brother's heart, please stop quickly."
But hatred Gu said: "I won't! I am building my home here, I am changing your brother's heart into a heart of hatred."
Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance was furious: "Who allowed you to build your home in my heart? Get out quickly, I don't welcome you. If you don't get out, I will crush you to death!"
Hatred Gu laughed loudly: "I was attracted by lightning Gu's anger, but unexpectedly discovered that your heart is more suitable for my home. I won't leave."
Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance was furious, he actually put his hand inside his heart and grabbed hatred Gu.
Hatred Gu was like a curved blade without a handle, Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance's hand was pierced and bled as he grabbed it.
He clenched his teeth and exerted strength, crushing hatred Gu to death.
But at the next moment, hatred Gu resurrected from the blood and became even bigger.
Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance crushed it to death again, hatred Gu revived once again, its size becoming slightly bigger again.
"It is useless." Hatred Gu said: "Hatred cannot be killed, vengeance only breeds more hatred and grudges, the more you treat me like this, the more your hatred will increase."
Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence was somewhat stunned and helpless against hatred Gu.
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!" Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance covered his chest, his face pale from the pain.
Hatred Gu was drilling in and out of his heart, creating holes after holes, transforming his heart into a heart of hatred.
The current Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance hated fate Gu even more.
"If I was not sent flying here by fate Gu, how could I have encountered hatred Gu? How could my heart be pierced by hatred Gu?"
"I will definitely destroy fate Gu, I will definitely take revenge."
The more Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance thought, the more he hated. He was no longer afraid of angering lightning Gu, he stood up suddenly.
"Sister, let's go, I don't want to stay here." Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance held Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence's hand.
But Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence hesitated: "Brother, there is lightning all around us, we don't know when it will strike, it is too dangerous."
Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance said: "Sister, don't be afraid. The hatred in my heart has shown me a path, that is the path of revenge. There is no lightning on this path, as long as I follow it, I can find fate Gu and take revenge against it. Quick, follow me!"
Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance dragged Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence.
The strange thing was that despite lightning bolts crackling around them, not a single one struck Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance and Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence.
The two ran and ran when they suddenly collided into something.
"What is ahead?" Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence touched the air in front of her and found it was like a transparent wall.
"This is the heavenly wind qi wall, the border of the immemorial nine heavens." Hatred Gu explained.
"Brother, there is a wall ahead, we cannot leave." Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence said helplessly.
But Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance had a different perspective: "Where is the wall? I only see the path ahead, as long as we follow along this trail, we can definitely leave and find fate Gu!"
Time and again, Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance got up and rushed forward before colliding into the heavenly wind qi wall, his head bled as he fell to the ground. Then, he climbed up and charged forward again.
Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence wanted to stop him, but Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance did not listen.
Hatred Gu laughed: "It is useless. I have already built my home in his heart, although his eyes are open, he can only see the path that I point towards, he cannot see any other thing. Hahaha."
Right at this time, lightning Gu sensed Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance and Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence, the terrifying lightning forest began to quickly spread towards them.
There was no road to advance or retreat, Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence was extremely anxious but did not have any ideas: "It would have been great if we still had wealth Gu!"
Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance did not listen to her, he continued to collide into the heavenly wind qi wall. Blood filled the ground.
Lightning Gu finally reached closer, Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence cried: "Am I going to die here?"
But Lightning Gu restrained its power and approached slowly, it let out a rumbling sound: "Don't worry, oh humans, I won't harm you or injure you. On the contrary, I want your help."
Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence stopped crying and asked curiously: "Lightning Gu, you are so strong, how can we possibly help you?"
Lightning Gu: "I have been trapped here all along, immemorial blue heaven is large but I am already sick of it. I want to go out but I am unable to find a path that leads to the outside, thus I am angry. Anger often leads to hatred, so hatred Gu was attracted here."
"But from your brother, I can see the path to exit. Therefore, humans, let us cooperate. I will help you break the heavenly wind qi wall and you will bring me out of here, alright?" Lightning Gu proposed.
Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence and Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance were very happy at this suggestion.
"I agree to it. Your help will be great." Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance replied.
Thereupon, lightning Gu landed on Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance's hand and started to emit a terrifying radiance.
Hatred Gu laughed loudly: "Let me lend you a hand."
Lightning Gu obtained hatred Gu's strength and became extremely powerful.
Rumble rumble…
Lightning Gu erupted with fierce strength, not only destroying the heavenly wind qi wall but even shattering the whole of immemorial blue heaven!
"Quickly leave!" Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance was greatly shocked and knew that they had created a huge disaster, he quickly grabbed his sister and left with lightning Gu and hatred Gu.
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Chapter 2022 Heavenly Court Seeks To Figh
"According to [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], hatred Gu and lightning Gu can cooperate and amplify each other's power to form a terrifying killer move that directly destroyed immemorial blue heaven?"
Fang Yuan read it carefully again as he wondered, did this mean that these two Gu worms could counter heaven path?
Where were heaven path dao marks most gathered in?
Undoubtedly, the immemorial nine heavens.
Besides them, there was Fang Yuan's body.
"This seems to be an avenue to resolve my current predicament." Fang Yuan pondered: "But only lightning Gu is here, it won't work without hatred Gu. Where is this Gu worm? Is there currently such an Immortal Gu in existence? If not, how do I refine it? If it exists, the situation is even more troublesome as I will need to scheme and plan to seize it."
"In fact, even if I have these two core Immortal Gu, it is still a mystery on how to form them into that killer move. [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] is too vague about it."
Just at this time, Qin Ding Ling personally sent a letter through treasure yellow heaven.
Fang Yuan opened and read it, the letter Gu directly talked about Forest Lightning grotto-heaven's matter. Qin Ding Ling was very eager about lightning Gu, and even wanted Qi Sea Ancestor to stop researching the qi harvest fruits for the time being and lead his subordinates to cooperate with Heavenly Court in fighting for lightning Gu.
"Why is Heavenly Court so anxious?" Fang Yuan's eyes shined with bright light: "Also, they obtained the information too quickly. Looks like they have arranged some spies on Wu Shuai's side."
Qin Ding Ling was not Fairy Zi Wei after all, she was slightly hurried in doing things, which allowed Fang Yuan, who had deep wisdom path attainment to deduce some possibilities.
"Since that is the case…" Fang Yuan smiled bitterly, Heavenly Court's urgent letter made him come to a decision.
Forest Lightning grotto-heaven.
Xiao He Jian's expression changed slightly, he had received Wu Shuai's command.
His gaze turned cold as he shouted: "Alliance Leader sent the command to kill Forest Lightning Grotto Lord without worrying about lightning Gu. It is nothing to lose a mere rank eight Immortal Gu. We must execute all the Gu Immortals of Forest Lightning grotto-heaven and then attempt to get rid of the qi harvest fruit. Don't worry about the grotto-heaven's resources, use all your strength to complete the task in the shortest time possible!"
"What?!" Hearing these words, not only Forest Lightning Grotto Lord, even Lady Cold Ash and Night Heavenly Wolf Lord were astonished.
This was a future rank nine Immortal Gu, Wu Shuai gave up on it so resolutely?
For an instant, none of the three immortals made a move due to the shock.
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord was Heavenly Court's mole, he naturally thought of helping to preserve Forest Lightning Grotto Lord to harm Wu Shuai's alliance.
And Lady Cold Ash was basically Spectral Soul, he also thought of preserving this point of conflict that would incite a fierce battle between Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor. As long as there was chaos, he could gain many chances to act.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord suddenly shouted: "Xiao He Jian, such audacity, you actually gave a false command. Wu Shuai is expanding his strength, how can he give up on the future rank nine Immortal Gu? As someone who joined recently, you truly have ill intentions!"
Xiao He Jian's expression turned cold from Forest Lightning Grotto Lord's incrimination.
He did not retort, instead glaring at Lady Cold Ash and Night Heavenly Wolf Lord: "This is our alliance leader's command! Are you going to believe a traitor or me? Attack!"
Saying so, Xiao He Jian did not wait for the two and charged in by himself.
Bam bam bam…
Killer moves were let out, destroying a large portion of the lightning forest.
"Charge!" The alliance immortals who were above ground also received Xiao He Jian's order and came over, besieging this lightning forest.
Since the situation became like this, Lady Cold Ash and Night Heavenly Wolf Lord could not care about their own schemes, they sighed and joined the group in attacking.
"Wu Shuai, you are really cruel! You are so narrow-minded, you will definitely die miserably!" Forest Lightning Grotto Lord knew he was going to die and let out a vicious curse while exerting strength to destroy lightning Gu.
"In your dreams." At the next moment, Lady Cold Ash suddenly appeared behind him.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord stiffened, Lady Cold Ash took the chance and actually seized lightning Gu from his hands!
"What method is this?" The immortals were astonished.
Although Spectral Soul's attainment levels had fallen to a miserable level, he still had plenty of methods. The accumulation of a venerable could not be estimated by ordinary rank eight Gu Immortals.
"Great job!" Xiao He Jian was exulted. He had held no hope in taking lightning Gu, but who could have thought it would truly be seized. This was Lady Cold Ash's merit and his as well. By now, his vice alliance leader position was already half confirmed. The remaining half would be by completing the task given by Wu Shuai!
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord counterattacked madly.
To preserve lightning Gu, Lady Cold Ash had forcibly endured his attacks and got injured.
"Retreat and guard lightning Gu!" Xiao He Jian quickly came to help, he blocked Forest Lightning Grotto Lord for Lady Cold Ash.
To prevent interference, other immortals began to plunder resources while watching Xiao He Jian fight Forest Lightning Grotto Lord alone.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord had already fought with Lady Cold Ash before, his condition was not optimal and almost all of his methods were exposed.
Based on the superficial strength shown, Xiao He Jian was stronger than Lady Cold Ash as well.
This battle held no suspense, and soon, Xiao He Jian defeated Forest Lightning Grotto Lord.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord was not resigned to being defeated and was still thinking of escaping.
But the surrounding Gu Immortals had been observing the battle and encircled Forest Lightning Grotto Lord with no way for him to flee.
Forest Lightning Grotto Lord was beheaded and Forest Lightning grotto-heaven was destroyed. The alliance's experiment on the qi harvest fruit failed this time as well.
Moreover, because Wu Shuai asked for the battle to be finished as quickly as possible, most of the resources in Forest Lightning grotto-heaven were destroyed. The participating Gu Immortals could only collect very few resources.
The greatest gain was that wild rank eight lightning Gu. But it was clear this was going to be handed to Alliance Leader Wu Shuai.
Fang Yuan thought for a good while before finally deciding to deal with the problem directly, getting rid of Forest Lightning grotto-heaven so that the conflict could not grow.
Wu Shuai's fast decision not only astonished the alliance members, it even destroyed Heavenly Court's plan.
Qin Ding Ling had obtained first hand information from Night Heavenly Wolf Lord and immediately contacted Qi Sea Ancestor.
Fang Yuan received the letter; in the letter, Qin Ding Ling was still insisting on seizing lightning Gu even though it had already fallen into Wu Shuai's hands. Even if they could not seize lightning Gu, they had to destroy it!
"Looks like Heavenly Court is determined to get lightning Gu. Heavenly Court should have lightning Gu's Immortal Gu recipe, they can refine it themselves if this Gu is destroyed."
Fang Yuan was even more curious, why was Heavenly Court so anxious to get lightning Gu? Why did such the powerful Heavenly Court have such pressing needs for this Immortal Gu? Lightning Gu was not fate Gu after all!
Fang Yuan did not understand Heavenly Court's scheme, but Qin Ding Ling's attitude made Fang Yuan's previous plan fall through.
Fang Yuan made Wu Shuai destroy Forest Lightning grotto-heaven without any regards for the safety of lightning Gu to strangle the possible conflict to death and prevent a war between the two sides.
But Heavenly Court held an attitude akin to asking for battle, Fang Yuan also could not refuse it easily.
After all, Qi Sea Ancestor was allied with Heavenly Court.
How should he deal with this?
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Chapter 2023 Inviting Qi Sea
Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
Capital city, Su clan.
There was a book house erected inside a certain guest room's courtyard.
This book house was a mortal Gu House, it had the form of a tree house, covered with green leaves and branches.
Right now, Li Xiao Bai was sitting cross-legged inside the book house.
A beautiful girl was standing in front of him, she was Su Qi Han. Su Qi Han's expression was somewhat serious: "Xiao Bai, have you really thought it through? A vital Gu cannot be changed easily."
Li Xiao Bai nodded with a smile: "Qi Han, don't be too worried. I have thought it through properly, I am most interested in composing poems. So to me, poetry Gu is the most suitable vital Gu. It was just that I was not qualified to change my vital Gu before. But since this book house has extraordinary might and has the function of assisting me in changing vital Gu, how can I let go of such a chance?"
Su Qi Han sighed: "Since you have decided, I won't urge you anymore. I will guard you from outside."
"Mm." Li Xiao Bai did not stand on ceremony, directly closing his eyes.
After he obtained this Book House inheritance, he returned to the capital city and reunited with Su Qi Han. Although he lost in the poetry competition, he had already proven himself. Su Qi Han invited him to stay temporarily in Su clan, no one opposed to it, instead, this became a beautiful story.
Li Xiao Bai was not stingy, after staying in Su clan, he shared this Book House inheritance with Su Qi Han. The two spent almost every day in the book house, continuously cultivating, researching, and communicating intimately with each other.
Although the two had undergone intimate activities because of a coincidence, they did not have close feelings for each other. Su Qi Han's previous actions came from her own high moral character.
But over these days of contact, Su Qi Han increasingly appreciated Li Xiao Bai's talents and started to feel an attraction to him.
Li Xiao Bai obtained this fortuitous encounter but did not conceal it from Su Qi Han and shared it with her. From this, Su Qi Han saw that Li Xiao Bai's character was pure and kind, willing to give her anything, he was definitely not a heartless scholar.
Although the two had not been officially engaged, Su Qi Han had already treated Li Xiao Bai as her sole lifelong partner.
Su Qi Han walked out of the book house with worry: "This book house has high value and contains many branches of information path like verses, ditties, odes and songs. However, these branches are limited to Gu Master cultivation and there are no ways to advance to Gu Immortal. I have already hinted Xiao Bai many times that as long as he marries into and lives in my Su clan, he can obtain Su clan's Calligraphy Immortal cultivation technique. Unfortunately, he has no interest in calligraphy and is wholeheartedly focused on poems. Oh, since he likes it, I have no way to persuade him otherwise. If he accomplishes nothing in the future and stays as a Gu Master, I will work hard to become a Gu Immortal and an official of the Imperial Court. I will protect and take care of him for the rest of my life. I will watch him compose and recite poems, as long as he is happy, I am also happy."
Profound Literature grotto-heaven had an Imperial Court.
The high ranking officials of the Imperial Court were all Gu Immortals. Su Qi Han was Su clan's most beloved daughter and the apple of their eye, her aptitude and talents were astonishing as well, so it was natural for her to come in contact with Su clan's immortal cultivation technique.
"Young miss, you should take a rest, you will be tired if you keep on standing. With us here, Great Scholar Li's safety is guaranteed." The guards and the maids urged Su Qi Han.
Su Qi Han shook her head: "Stand guard outside the courtyard. I will personally guard him here."
The book house started shaking, gentle light spread from the inside to the outside through the windows.
A few minutes later, the book house turned silent, the leaves and the branches were no longer shaking.
Inside the book house, Li Xiao Bai opened his eyes slowly.
The process of changing vital Gu went smoothly, Li Xiao Bai looked inside his aperture and saw a Gu worm that looked like a heart; it had a red jade-like texture and was covered by a layer of light gold radiance.
It was his new vital Gu, rank five Gu worm — Poetry.
Poetry Gu was classified in information path and belonged to a side-branch of information path cultivation. The most common form of information path cultivation were oaths and vows, like sea oath Gu, mountain pledge Gu, promise Gu, black and white paper Gu. Second was transmitting information like goose Gu, paper crane Gu, butterfly letter Gu, flying sword letter Gu, messenger dove Gu, and so on. Thirdly was watching, listening, reading, and writing, for example, water text Gu belonged to the writing category. Beast language Gu was related to reading and speaking.
Verses, ditties, odes, songs, and so on were simply not mainstream.
Li Xiao Bai had made such a decision, it was no wonder Su Qi Han was worried about his future prospects.
But she did not know Li Xiao Bai's true intention.
"This grotto-heaven's environment is special as it is under the effect of the killer move, assisting literary talents. As long as I create great poems, I can obtain rewards and advance quickly. The five regions chaotic war is drawing close, such a way that can quickly increase one's strength with no side-effect is priceless. Although Su Qi Han can get in contact with Gu Immortal cultivation methods, she does not know the outside world's situation."
"I have changed my vital gu to poetry Gu, next, I will practice poetic Gu and emotion poetry Gu, use gather poem Gu to gather poems externally and advance poem wall Gu. Additionally, I should also practice poem boundary Gu, this is an extremely outstanding Gu worm which effect is similar to a battlefield killer move."
Just as Li Xiao Bai was thinking, the door was opened slowly and Su Qi Han entered with a concerned look.
"Xiao Bai." Su Qi Han spoke softly.
Li Xiao Bai gave a light smile and nodded towards her: "Everything went smoothly."
Su Qi Han smiled, her beautiful watery eyes revealed delicate concern: "That's good."
Boom—!
Suddenly, the sky shook and an explosion resounded throughout the grotto heaven.
"What's going on?" Li Xiao Bai and Su Qi Han were alarmed and rushed out of the room, they looked at the sky but it was clear and blue. A gust of wind blew past them.
The wind only lasted for a very short period of time, and after it passed by, there was no other abnormality.
The mortals, Gu Masters, and even Gu Immortals living in the capital city sensed this suddenly appearing and disappearing abnormality. Most of the people were baffled, but a few Gu Immortal officials who knew the inside details were joyous.
"Success!" In a certain area of Profound Literature grotto-heaven, Old Immortal Hua Yu bowed deeply towards Qi Sea Ancestor in excitement: "Congratulations to Ancestor for successfully handling the qi harvest fruit calamity. Ancestor has saved the whole of Profound Literature grotto-heaven, this favor is the same as giving us new life! From now on, if you have any orders for me, I will undoubtedly use all my strength without question!"
Qi Sea Ancestor laughed heartily, lifting Old Immortal Hua Yu up: "No need to be so courteous."
The immortals standing at the side were extremely happy.
"Ancestor has divine might!"
"Wu Shuai's side tested repeatedly and destroyed so many grotto-heavens. Ancestor tried for the first time and succeeded, Wu Shuai can never match you."
"I wonder when Ancestor can resolve our qi harvest fruit problem?"
"Yes, our grotto-heavens' qi harvest fruits have already become extremely large and are getting closer to self-detonation."
Gu Immortals praised loudly while also urging Fang Yuan to continue his work.
Fang Yuan waved his hand: "This test was a success but I sensed some flaws in it. I need to be in closed cultivation for three days to solve this issue. At that time, I will clear up the danger for everyone, wouldn't that be even better?"
The immortals were exulted: "We shall listen to Ancestor's arrangements!"
Fang Yuan smiled, a sharp light flashing across his eyes.
Heavenly Court.
Soon, Qin Ding Ling received this news and immediately showed joy: "Good, good! My choice to cooperate with Qi Sea Ancestor was indeed correct."
Qi Sea Ancestor did not let down their expectations, not only creating a method to resolve the qi harvest fruit problem, but even succeeding after using it once. According to the information, Profound Literature grotto-heaven's qi harvest fruit was not only safely removed, the fruit also burst and formed a harmless qi tide that swept past the whole grotto-heaven and raised the grotto-heaven's foundation by a good amount.
Qin Ding Ling was in a great mood.
Over this period of time, Heavenly Court had already walked out of the shadow of defeat in the fate war. With Qin Ding Ling and the other Heavenly Court immortals' schemes and efforts, good news came one after another.
Firstly, the variant human forces were restrained, secondly, Qing Chou was captured, and now, the qi harvest fruit's danger was eliminated.
"But now, should we get rid of the qi harvest fruit in Heavenly Court first or try to fight for lightning Gu?"
Qin Ding Ling could not come to a decision by herself and gathered the Heavenly Court immortals for a meeting.
"Qi Sea Ancestor is worthy of being a qi path great expert, with this method, his force will be stable and in an impregnable position."
"Wu Shuai's alliance is still experimenting with various methods, their qi path attainment is too shallow."
"As long as Qi Sea Ancestor defers for some time, there might not even be a need to start a fight and Wu Shuai's alliance will break apart by itself."
Qin Ding Ling shook her head at this optimistic plan: "Wu Shuai is a formidable person. Even a rabbit will bite if it is forced to a corner, let alone this dragonman. Once he obtains this news, he might immediately lead his troops to fight Qi Sea Ancestor."
"That's right. Qi Sea Ancestor can safely remove the qi harvest fruits, but Wu Shuai cannot. The longer their fight is delayed, the more unfavorable it is to Wu Shuai. It is very likely for Wu Shuai to send his troops."
"In that case, we have to move ahead of time and ask Qi Sea Ancestor to resolve the qi harvest fruit in Heavenly Court."
"You are right. Once the battle starts, Qi Sea Ancestor will not be able to deal with too many matters, he will definitely have to bear the full force attack from Wu Shuai. The situation is already like a conflict between fire and water, the fight won't be stopped easily once it starts, and it might really be a life and death battle."
Qin Ding Ling looked at Nine Spiritual Fairy: "How is the refinement of hatred Gu going?"
Nine Spiritual Fairy shook her head: "There has been a breakthrough just recently. Hatred Gu's condition is extremely strange, it has already merged into Qing Chou. We found a method to refine hatred Gu just recently. It will take quite long to refine hatred Gu. But the good news is that if we succeed, we can manipulate Qing Chou as well."
Qin Ding Ling nodded: "Since hatred Gu has yet to be obtained completely, there is no need to hurry in seizing lightning Gu. We will conceal this news as much as possible and invite Qi Sea Ancestor to come to Heavenly Court secretly and deal with the qi harvest fruit. After finishing this matter, we will then fight with Wu Shuai."
The immortals did not have any objections.
"But how should we reward Qi Sea Ancestor?" A Gu Immortal asked.
"This is not difficult. Qi Sea Ancestor is very interested in the qi path Immortal Gu in my Heavenly Court's treasury. In the previous letters, he had repeatedly asked to borrow these qi path Immortal Gu, but I did not agree and kept on making excuses." Qin Ding Ling smiled.
Another Gu Immortal added: "We also need to be on guard against another person, Demon Immortal Qi Jue!"
Qin Ding Ling nodded: "I have also considered it. This demon is also a qi path great expert, if he collaborates with Wu Shuai, it will balance the situation of both sides again, he is a huge threat."
"It is difficult to track Demon Immortal Qi Jue, who knows where he has gone now. He has just revived and is not familiar with the various paths of the present age. He is currently purchasing qi path immortal materials in treasure yellow heaven and exchanging for inheritances of every path, he is taking even Gu Master inheritances. Wu Shuai has chips to transact with him!"
Qin Ding Ling stressed once again: "So the current plan is to immediately invite Qi Sea Ancestor to Heavenly Court while hiding the information and striving for every second we can get!"
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Chapter 2024 Strategies of the Three Parties
Within Dragon Palace, the atmosphere was heavy.
"The situation has become like this, what do you all think about it?" Wu Shuai was the only person seated, he had already gathered the alliance's immortals and explained to them the actions that Qi Sea Ancestor took inside Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
Heavenly Court tried all ways to conceal the information but at the same time, Wu Shuai informed all of the Gu Immortals within the two heavens alliance.
After hearing this nightmarish news, the response was huge as all of the immortals' expressions changed.
"Is this for real?" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch asked immediately before reacting to what he had said, his face turned pale: "I am not questioning Lord Alliance Leader, but this is truly too sudden and surprising."
Wu Shuai snorted coldly: "Do I need to lie to you?"
"This is not good!" Xiao He Jian's expression was solemn: "Qi Sea Ancestor is a qi path great expert, since Demon Immortal Qi Jue was able to use a qi harvest fruit to revive, then there is also a high chance that Qi Sea Ancestor can get rid of the threatening qi harvest fruits. If the enemy has a method to get rid of the qi harvest fruits, they will have a complete upper hand in this situation."
"Indeed, indeed."
"What do we do now?"
"My tribe's grotto-heaven's qi harvest fruit has already grown to a huge size, if we do not get rid of it, it will explode soon."
"But our experiments have not succeeded once, we already ruined many grotto-heavens."
"It is impossible for us to come to a peaceful truce with Qi Sea Ancestor, we should be wary of them using this chance to attack us!"
The immortals discussed as their tone contained fear and panic.
Spectral Soul who was acting as Lady Cold Ash stood among them, cheering secretly. He wanted the war to start as soon as possible, if there was chaos, he would gain a great opportunity to take action.
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord showed the same attitude as the rest but he was happy on the inside. He had already joined Heavenly Court, this situation was very advantageous to him.
"Panicking to this degree, what a disgrace!" Gu tribe's leader suddenly shouted.
Everyone looked towards him.
Even though Gu tribe's leader joined the two heavens alliance, he had always been silent. But everyone knew that he was the closest person to Wu Shuai. In terms of Wu Shuai's trust, he surpassed Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian, who were both vice alliance leaders!
Gu tribe's leader suddenly spoke, Xiao He Jian shook internally as he realized something. Before he spoke, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had already taken the initiative: "With Lord Alliance Leader here, we have nothing to fear. At this crucial juncture of life and death, I am willing to follow Lord Alliance Leader and listen to your commands."
Xiao He Jian cursed internally but he quickly followed: "I will listen to Lord Alliance Leader's decision!"
Wu Shuai nodded slightly, snorting: "The current situation is critical, if we sit and wait here, we will definitely perish, there is no exception. We have to fight with all our strength now for a hope of survival. They are able to eliminate the qi harvest fruit because of Qi Sea Ancestor's method. As long as we do our best and kill Qi Sea Ancestor, we will gain complete victory. Even if we cannot kill him, as long as we gravely injure him, the situation will also be alleviated."
After Wu Shuai said that, Gu tribe's leader immediately shouted: "Alliance Leader is wise!"
Wu Shuai looked at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian, these two vice alliance leaders immediately shouted: "Alliance Leader is wise, this plan is superb!"
"What ideas do you all have? If anyone has a better suggestion, you can tell us now." Wu Shuai purposely asked the other Gu Immortals.
But what ideas could these people have?
In fact, Wu Shuai said he was going to attack the enemies because he had no other choice now, this was their only hope. Other than this, could they surrender to Qi Sea Ancestor?
It was not that they did not know this, but nobody had the guts to say it. Forest Lightning grotto-heaven was the best example, everyone saw that pitiful end, who would still dare to follow in its footsteps?
"Since everyone agrees, we will discuss about the way we will send our troops, we will use our time efficiently and catch the enemy off guard." Wu Shuai said as he decided with lightning speed.
Gu tribe's leader added: "Lord Alliance Leader is right, every second we waste now will mean the enemy gets an additional second of advantage."
Immediately, the immortals started to discuss their offensive strategy.
This discussion lasted nearly an hour before they came up with a refined plan.
Wu Shuai opened the door of Dragon Palace, ordering the immortals to make preparations, they would move out in seven days.
Night Heavenly Wolf Lord returned to Night Wolf grotto-heaven, he mobilized his forces and gathered more troops while quickly informing Heavenly Court of this new development.
After Qin Ding Ling received the information, she summoned the Heavenly Court immortals for a meeting.
"The situation has changed, it seems that Wu Shuai has some spies around Qi Sea Ancestor."
"Like I said before, we cannot underestimate Wu Shuai."
"Since Wu Shuai is going to take the initiative to attack, let's use this chance to take him down!"
"That will be hard, they have Dragon Palace and Di Zang Sheng to defend them. Unless we can awaken some immortals from the graveyard, we will not have sufficient strength to deal with the enemies."
"Time is too pressing, we have seven days and the situation will occur far away in Eastern Sea."
"We can only inform Qi Sea Ancestor now and ask him to make preparations while pretending to be ignorant. When Wu Shuai attacks, he will definitely suffer a setback."
"Did you forget that Wu Shuai has spies around Qi Sea Ancestor? If Qi Sea Ancestor learns this information from us, it will also likely alert Wu Shuai."
Prince Feng Xian suddenly spoke at this time: "Why must we inform Qi Sea Ancestor?"
The discussions suddenly stopped.
"Qi Sea Ancestor is our ally, if we do not tell him about this, it will not benefit our alliance."
Prince Feng Xian shook his head slowly as he smiled: "As long as we keep quiet, why would Qi Sea Ancestor find out that we know this? Our spy in the two heavens alliance has always been kept as a secret, if we tell him now, the spy might get exposed."
"We ally with Qi Sea Ancestor because we need his strength to resolve Heavenly Court's problem of the qi harvest fruit, we also want to use him as our pawn to gather an external force that can resist the variant human forces from getting stronger."
Prince Feng Xian continued to speak: "And thirdly, if possible, we want to recruit Qi Sea Ancestor into becoming a Heavenly Court member."
Qin Ding Ling looked at Prince Feng Xian: "Then in your opinion, what should we do?"
Prince Feng Xian breathed in deeply: "In my humble opinion, we should pretend that we do not know this and act according to our original plan. Now that Qi Sea Ancestor has already secretly moved out, he will arrive in Heavenly Court in three days. By then, we can get him to solve our problem of the qi harvest fruit."
"Heavenly Court is huge and has immense foundation, the qi harvest fruit here is the largest in the world. Qi Sea Ancestor suggested us to create a qi path immortal formation, it will take at least six days to get rid of the qi harvest fruit. We can purposely delay the formation creation time, if Wu Shuai's invasion succeeds, Qi Sea Ancestor's force will suffer a huge loss."
"Qi Sea Ancestor will become anxious and want to return to help them but as the person controlling the formation, how can he leave? Qi Sea Ancestor's force will be without a leader, they will not be able to defeat Wu Shuai. In fact, even if they get wiped out, so what?"
"Our strength will not fall while Qi Sea Ancestor will become a loner. By coming to Heavenly Court secretly and failing to protect his force, causing its destruction, his reputation will fall to rock bottom. Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world will also look down on him. Who would respect someone who goes missing in battle while helping forces of other regions?"
"At that point, Qi Sea Ancestor will understand that his status in Eastern Sea will never recover. By then, we will have no worries anymore, we can send people to take revenge for him. During the process, we can move him with logic and emotion, by tempting him with future gains, I am sure there is a high chance we can get him to join Heavenly Court."
The immortals were silent, they looked at each other before looking towards Prince Feng Xian.
At this moment, all of the immortals' gazes became different from before.
After hearing Prince Feng Xian's strategy, their impression towards him changed completely!
Prince Feng Xian's arms were behind his back, he stopped speaking as he smiled.
This scheme was vicious, none of the Gu Immortals here thought of it except him, the reason was because of his own life experiences.
Prince Feng Xian came from Spirit Affinity House, he was used as a spy initially to develop in Northern Plains. After many years, he became rank eight and also married into Gong tribe, he was the strongest spy in Northern Plains that came from Central Continent.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals have been too used to being overlords, their mindsets were also too fixed in place. But all of the immortals here were rank eight elites, they soon understood that Prince Feng Xian's plan was the most advantageous to Heavenly Court.
Even if Wu Shuai claims victory, so what?
Only the grotto-heavens in the two heavens would suffer. Even if Eastern Sea gets involved in the fight, its foundation would not be affected.
Even if Eastern Sea's righteous path was toppled, that would only be one region. Humanity would still be the ruler of the world!
"Alright." Qin Ding Ling looked at everyone's expressions as she said, making a decision: "We will act according to Prince Feng Xian's proposal."
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Chapter 2025 Three Qi Immortal Gu
Heavenly Court was constantly filled with bright light.
Fang Yuan, who was disguised as Qi Sea Ancestor, had already arrived in Heavenly Court.
He floated in the air as he observed the qi harvest fruit in front of him.
The qi harvest fruit in Heavenly Court was large beyond common sense, it was like a towering mountain range, vast and colossal.
"Such a huge qi harvest fruit cannot even fit in an ordinary rank eight grotto-heaven, it will destroy the aperture walls from its sheer size. Only Heavenly Court has such a deep foundation and because of the use of Cang Xuan Zi's space path fruits, the space inside is large enough to accommodate this qi harvest fruit."
Fang Yuan sighed internally.
The last time he came to Heavenly Court, he had participated in the fate war with his original appearance and caused Heavenly Court to lose badly. This time, he was acting as Heavenly Court's friend, he was here to resolve their problem of the qi harvest fruit.
Changes in situations and circumstances were often hard to predict.
"How is it?" Qin Ding Ling stood beside Fang Yuan, asking.
Fang Yuan nodded: "This is the first time I've seen such a huge qi harvest fruit, it shows that your foundation is truly unfathomable, this is truly the number one force in the world."
After pausing for a while, Fang Yuan continued: "After my inspection earlier, even though my method is effective, this qi harvest fruit is too big. We need to set up the immortal formation first, the larger the qi path immortal formation, the more time we can save."
Qin Ding Ling was slightly surprised: "Ancestor, to think that you have already come up with the immortal formation's design."
Fang Yuan shook his head: "No, the qi path immortal formation that we will set up is only going to amplify my qi path killer moves. The actual way to get rid of the qi harvest fruit is still through the qi path killer moves that I will use."
Qin Ding Ling nodded upon hearing this, the explanation was logical.
She smiled as she took out a qi path rank eight Immortal Gu: "Heavenly Court does not lack qi path Immortal Gu, to resolve the problem of the qi harvest fruit, Heavenly Court is willing to use up our qi path resources. Ancestor, look at this Immortal Gu."
Fang Yuan's attention was drawn to this Immortal Gu.
"Don't tell me this is… human qi Immortal Gu?" Fang Yuan's pupils expanded as his expression changed.
Human qi Immortal Gu resembled a bee, it was thumb-sized and constantly moved its wings, floating above Qin Ding Ling's palm, it emitted a cloud-like qi.
Qin Ding Ling handed human qi Immortal Gu to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan extended his hand and held the Gu, he looked at it fixedly and praised: "Good Gu, good Gu. This Gu is related to human path, it has immense potential for development!"
Qin Ding Ling smiled as she took out a second Immortal Gu, handing it to Fang Yuan.
This was earth qi Immortal Gu, it resembled a butterfly, brown in color, it also gave off a cloud-like qi.
Fang Yuan's left hand held human qi Immortal Gu while his right hand held earth qi Immortal Gu, he looked at them with great interest: "Wonderful, wonderful."
"And this is heaven qi Immortal Gu." Qin Ding Ling said as she passed Fang Yuan a third rank eight Immortal Gu.
Heaven qi Immortal Gu resembled a dragonfly, it was green in color and had eight pairs of thin bluish wings, when it moved its wings, its entire body would emit a translucent qi current.
Fang Yuan had a solemn expression: "This heaven qi Immortal Gu is tightly connected with heaven path. Truthfully speaking, the method that I created to get rid of the qi harvest fruit only succeeded after I comprehended a trace of heaven path's profundity. If I had this Gu, I would have succeeded much earlier."
"Gu Immortals cultivate all sorts of paths, human path and heaven path are the most unique. Ancestor, you have already reached the peak of qi path, thus you are able to mimic other paths easily and comprehend the true meaning of various paths." Qin Ding Ling praised before changing her words: "These three qi Immortal Gu are the core of triple qi retraction killer move, they are priceless treasures of Heavenly Court. Only Heavenly Court members can have them."
Qin Ding Ling saw Fang Yuan's expression and felt internally happy, she hinted to him that these Gu worms would be available if he joined Heavenly Court.
After hearing this, Fang Yuan showed a hesitant expression, but he was smiling to himself internally.
All of the expressions he showed were just an act.
If he really cultivated qi path solely, these three qi Immortal Gu would be incredibly alluring. Fang Yuan had tried many times already, these three qi path Immortal Gu were the cores of triple qi retraction, they could not be replaced. If he used other qi path Immortal Gu in place of them, even if he manages to create a triple qi retraction killer move, its value in battle would fall drastically.
Thus, even though Fang Yuan had the complete Primordial Origin qi path true inheritance now, he did not benefit much from it.
Furthermore, Qi Sea Ancestor was just one of Fang Yuan's identities. He also had no lack of rank eight Immortal Gu. Attitude, Mutation, Wisdom Sword, Years Flow Like Water, Soul Beast Token, Regret, Spring, Summer, Big Qi, Region, Addition, Steal Life, Water Refinement, Advance Refinement, Dream Token, he simply had too many of them.
In Fang Yuan's eyes, only rank nine Immortal Gu could truly excite him.
But rank nine Immortal Gu were too rare.
He originally had one, which was wisdom Gu. But this Immortal Gu was tampered by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable long ago, he had no choice but to sacrifice it in the fate war.
Qin Ding Ling lent all three qi Immortal Gu and let Qi Sea Ancestor familiarize himself with them, she also arranged several Gu Immortals to modify the qi path immortal Gu formation with Qi Sea Ancestor.
Having everyone's help, the qi path immortal formation was finalized in a few days.
Fang Yuan and the Heavenly Court immortals started to set up the formation.
This qi path formation's main owner was naturally Fang Yuan.
But in the other formation cores, there would be Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals stationed, they could help him out while also supervising his actions.
Qi Sea Ancestor was an outsider after all, even though he underwent an alliance agreement, he was still not a Heavenly Court member. How could Heavenly Court not guard against him?
The truth was, the assisting Gu Immortals were not the only ones guarding against him.
The core Immortal Gu of this qi path formation, Heaven Qi, Earth Qi, and Human Qi, were temporarily lent to Fang Yuan by Qin Ding Ling. If any situation occurs, Heavenly Court could immediately take them back and make Fang Yuan lose control of the entire qi path formation.
This qi path formation was modified along with several Heavenly Court Gu Immortals. Even if they had low qi path attainment, they still had general knowledge, it was hard to deceive them. Also, Fang Yuan did not conceal anything inside this qi path formation.
The formation was definitely not an issue.
"Earth qi Gu, go!" Fang Yuan first tossed earth qi Immortal Gu as he instilled immortal essence.
Earth qi Immortal Gu quickly flew out, it went into the ground below the qi harvest fruit.
Boom!
Suddenly, with a loud explosion, the ground below the qi harvest fruit started to shake, earth qi started to rise up continuously.
Fang Yuan started to collect the earth qi, the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals around him also took action, some helped with the gathering while others set up small formations around the small holes that the earth qi emerged from.
While Fang Yuan was setting up his formation, deep underground at another area of Heavenly Court, there was a huge underground square.
Qing Chou's mountain-like body was deep within this underground square, unmoving like a statue.
Bam…
Suddenly, a loud sound could be heard from afar.
The underground square shook slightly, several cracks appeared on the ground.
But Red Heart Traveler, who was defending this place, was not flustered, he immediately acted to stabilize the situation. The cracks on the ground could be seen disappearing at an observable rate.
"What's the commotion?" Qing Chou suddenly spoke, but strangely, its voice was actually Nine Spiritual Fairy's.
Nine Spiritual Fairy was actually inside Qing Chou's body, trying to forcefully refine hatred Gu.
"From this commotion, Qi Sea Ancestor must have started to create his formation. He used earth qi Immortal Gu as the first foundation of the formation, it involved the earth vein. Meanwhile, we are at one of the main earth veins, thus we could feel the influence." Red Heart Traveler spoke: "Earlier, you were at a crucial moment, so I did not inform you of this. But don't worry, this cannot interrupt our plan."
"Mm." Nine Spiritual Fairy stopped worrying as she said: "Then let's hurry up, if we can refine hatred Gu at the same time as the elimination of the qi harvest fruit, Heavenly Court will have a double celebration."
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals had already recovered from the trauma of the fate war, they became braver after the humiliation, they worked harder and had greater morale now.
Days later, the qi path formation was created, Fang Yuan was the main user and activated his method to eliminate the qi harvest fruit.
The qi harvest fruit was continuously shaved off from Fang Yuan's killer move, but this qi harvest fruit in Heavenly Court was just too big, some time was needed to completely destroy it.
Days passed, the qi harvest fruit was removed by over ten percent.
Qin Ding Ling hurried to Fang Yuan as she showed a solemn expression: "Ancestor, the situation in Eastern Sea has changed, this is not good."
Fang Yuan looked shocked: "What happened?"
"Wu Shuai suddenly led his alliance to launch an invasion, they have split into three groups, they are attacking the grotto-heaven forces that have submitted to our side. Because we were caught off guard, our losses are quite severe." Qin Ding Ling said.
"News that I came here should have been kept a secret. How did this happen? How did Wu Shuai find out so quickly?" Fang Yuan's expression changed, there was anxiety in his tone.
"Ancestor, you want to return to help Eastern Sea?" Qin Ding Ling purposely asked.
"That is so." Fang Yuan frowned: "But this method needs my full attention, if I stop halfway, there might be problematic consequences."
Qin Ding Ling cupped her fists at Fang Yuan: "Ancestor, please consider the big picture! It is unexpected that Wu Shuai attacked so soon, but if you return now, that will be what Wu Shuai wants to see. Only after eliminating the qi harvest fruit can we have a safe territory to count on. By then, you can lead our Heavenly Court's immortals to return to Eastern Sea and retaliate, you can say that you went to seek reinforcement from Heavenly Court, but Wu Shuai attacked and trapped you temporarily. By gathering our strength, we will kill Wu Shuai and get rid of the two heavens alliance. That is the true way to seek victory."
Fang Yuan did not speak, he only looked at Qin Ding Ling deeply.
Long after, he spoke in a grim tone: "Wu Shuai attacked with his full force, he must have been prepared for this. Does Heavenly Court know of their plans in advance?"
"Definitely not." Qin Ding Ling shook her head, showing a firm expression.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, he showed a struggling expression as he sighed helplessly: "Forget it, I will stay here and control the formation until we get rid of the qi harvest fruit. But during this time, I need Heavenly Court to send people to assist Eastern Sea!"
Qin Ding Ling sighed as well: "We will do our best."
Fang Yuan gritted his teeth as he said: "Once I get rid of the qi harvest fruit, I will need to return and help them. But these days of unceasingly controlling the formation will cause my battle strength to fall. I need Heavenly Court to give me the three qi Immortal Gu to kill the enemies and claim victory."
Qin Ding Ling's expression changed, even though Fang Yuan spoke politely, his request for reward was really absurd, it far exceeded Qin Ding Ling's bottom line.
She rejected as she shook her head: "The three qi Immortal Gu are the treasures of Heavenly Court, only our members can…"
Before she finished, Fang Yuan interrupted: "Eastern Sea's immortals are all my subordinates."
Qin Ding Ling still shook her head: "We will remember ancestor's sacrifice, but even as Heavenly Court's leader, I cannot give you three rank eight Immortal Gu. At most, we can give you one as compensation."
"How can one Gu compensate for the people in the grotto-heavens?" Fang Yuan showed slight anger.
Boom!
While the two were negotiating, a loud sound could be heard in the sky.
A rank eight Immortal Gu House directly charged in with a fierce aura!
Heavenly Court's immortals were all shocked.
The Immortal Gu House that invaded Heavenly Court was Dragon Palace!
"How can this be?!" Qin Ding Ling could not waste time with Fang Yuan anymore, she immediately flew out of the formation to face the enemies.
Dragon Palace's door opened as Wu Shuai sat on his throne, speaking from deep within Dragon Palace: "Qin Ding Ling, we meet again."
"Wu Shuai, why are you here?" Qin Ding Ling shouted as several Gu Immortals gathered behind her.
Wu Shuai smiled coldly as he kicked a head that was near his feet.
This head fell from the stairs of the dragon throne, rolling into Central Great Hall. The person had died with his eyes wide open, it was Night Heavenly Wolf Lord.
"Old scoundrel Qi Sea can get rid of qi harvest fruits, your Heavenly Court wants to conceal this information and secretly eliminate your internal threat? Hehe, wishful thinking! I am here to destroy your Heavenly Court and also kill that old scoundrel Qi Sea, let's see who in this world can stop my rise to supremacy!"
Wu Shuai said that as he stood upright, he waved his hand and shouted: "Kill!"
At the next moment, immortals rushed out of Dragon Palace, attacking with ferocious expressions.
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Chapter 2026 Fang Yuan Appears
Central Continent, deep beneath a certain Earth Trench.
Fairy Zi Wei controlled the wisdom path formation, purple light flickered within it without spreading out.
Within the formation, other than Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan, and Ying Wu Xie, there was Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit, as well as several other Gu Immortals.
After the fate war, these Gu Immortals were all left outside by Fang Yuan.
Fairy Zi Wei and the rest worked together with Bing Sai Chuan's group, capturing all of these people.
As the purple light faded, the formation stopped working, Fairy Miao Yin's expression was uncertain while Lady White Rabbit had anger in her eyes, they were both unable to move.
"Aren't you surrendering?" Ying Wu Xie laughed coldly.
"Hmph, you traitor!" Lady White Rabbit shouted angrily.
Bai Ning Bing also came over with a cold and indifferent expression: "I would advise you to reconsider, after all, you have just lost your greatest value."
Fairy Miao Yin heard this, she became more uncertain.
At this moment, Fairy Zi Wei stored away the formation as she stood up. She was very weak now after using her full strength to make the deduction, the cost was high. But joy was apparent on her face.
"It looks like she succeeded." Bing Sai Chuan was waiting outside the formation, he smiled upon seeing this.
Hei Lou Lan walked towards Bing Sai Chuan from Fairy Zi Wei's position, stopping behind him.
Fairy Zi Wei smiled lightly: "We have enough clues, we achieved success! I have already deduced Fang Yuan's location, guess where this crafty demon is hiding?"
Bing Sai Chuan frowned: "Your question is an obvious hint in itself. Don't tell me that this scoundrel Fang Yuan has been hiding in Heavenly Court?"
Fairy Zi Wei nodded: "According to my deductions, he is indeed in Heavenly Court now!"
The immortals heard this and showed varying expressions.
Ying Wu Xie gritted his teeth: "He is crafty indeed, his departure from Heavenly Court earlier was just a smokescreen, he must have been hiding in Heavenly Court all along."
Old Man Zheng Yuan sighed: "No wonder we could not find his main body!"
Bai Ning Bing laughed loudly, praising: "Exciting! This is truly Fang Yuan's attitude."
Bing Sai Chuan frowned: "But how could he possibly hide until now without getting detected by Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals?"
Fairy Zi Wei's eyes flickered with bright light: "I can only deduce that he is in Heavenly Court now, he might not have been there the entire time. But in terms of ability, this demon is unfathomable. His growth is too fast, every time he fights, his enemies will see an explosive growth in his strength."
Bing Sai Chuan sighed: "Now that Fang Yuan is hiding in Heavenly Court, what can we do? Do we go and attack Heavenly Court? Should we inform Heavenly Court about this and let them kill him, but wouldn't that allow them to get all of his inheritances?"
Bing Sai Chuan represented Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, they cared about the benefits of Northern Plains' Longevity Heaven. Furthermore, they had spent a lot of effort to deduce Fang Yuan's location, telling Heavenly Court about it was quite a loss for them.
Old Man Zheng Yuan reminded: "No matter what, we need to tell our master about this important information!"
Fairy Zi Wei replied: "I have already reported it to master when I stored the formation away."
Heavenly Court.
Intense battle erupted.
Boom!
Lady Cold Ash dodged with rapid speed, avoiding the explosion of a killer move.
She was the disguise of Spectral Soul, he had just received Fairy Zi Wei's information, he was not in a good mood.
"Fang Yuan is in Heavenly Court now? Of course he is, I knew about that long ago!"
Memories surfaced in Spectral Soul's mind regarding the event that happened days ago.
The Gu Immortals were called to assemble in Dragon Palace, Wu Shuai used the excuse that they were going to discuss the matter about attacking Qi Sea Ancestor.
But halfway through the meeting, Wu Shuai suddenly took action.
Dragon Palace roared, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord was caught off guard, he was hit by the killer move dreamy light smoke and was taken down without putting up a fight.
"Everyone, don't panic, this person is a spy in our alliance, he is the informant of Heavenly Court." Wu Shuai pacified the immortals while taking out evidence.
Looking at the concrete evidence, the immortals were shocked and furious, they wanted Night Wolf grotto-heaven to pay the price for this betrayal.
Wu Shuai shook his head: "We definitely need to punish Night Heavenly Wolf Lord, but the urgent matter is not this. We need to look at the big picture!"
Gu tribe's leader frowned: "Lord Alliance Leader, because of this traitor Night Heavenly Wolf Lord, our plan to attack has been exposed. If we go ahead with it, we will no longer hit our enemies by surprise."
Wu Shuai smiled grimly: "There is important information I have yet to tell you. Qi Sea Ancestor is not in Eastern Sea now, he has already gone to Central Continent's Heavenly Court many days ago."
"This is good news!" Many Gu Immortals heard this and rejoiced.
But Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's expression was grim: "What's good about this? The reason why we are attacking Qi Sea Ancestor is because of his ability to get rid of the qi harvest fruits for others. Now that he is not around, what is the point of our assault?"
The Gu Immortals who cheered became stunned, after realizing the situation, the atmosphere in Dragon Palace became much grimmer.
"Don't worry, everyone." Wu Shuai spoke as everyone's gazes landed on him.
He continued: "It is quite simple to resolve this problem. Since Qi Sea Ancestor has gone to Central Continent's Heavenly Court, we will also head to Heavenly Court and kill Qi Sea Ancestor who is over there!"
"…What?"
"This…"
The Gu Immortals in the palace hesitated.
"It is not easy to attack Heavenly Court."
"Heavenly Court is the number one human force in the world, even though it lost in the fate war, we cannot possibly defeat it."
Many Gu Immortals wanted to give up.
But Wu Shuai snorted coldly: "You fools."
He scolded them in public, the loud noises in the palace became silent, all of the Gu Immortals did not dare to speak anymore.
"Why aren't you thinking about the reason why Heavenly Court invited Qi Sea Ancestor to visit them in secret?" Wu Shuai purposely asked with a stiff expression.
Xiao He Jian, who reacted quickly, said instantly: "Does this mean that Heavenly Court also has the problem of the qi harvest fruit?"
Wu Shuai chuckled: "Your grotto-heavens have the problem of the qi harvest fruit, Heavenly Court is also a grotto-heaven situated in white heaven, why wouldn't they have the same problem?"
After hearing this, the immortals realized at once.
This was actually just their own mentality. In their mind, Heavenly Court was the supreme organization, even though it lost the fate war, they still displayed terrifying might and foundation. They had only lost because of enemies like Fang Yuan and Red Lotus Demon Venerable. From the variant human Gu Immortals' perspective, this was not an illogical loss, it did not undermine Heavenly Court's terrifying strength.
And because of this, the variant human Gu Immortals subconsciously thought that even if Heavenly Court had the problem of the qi harvest fruit, they could resolve it themselves, after all, Heavenly Court was created by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, who became venerable through qi path.
"Lord Alliance Leader is wise!" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch patted his forehead: "Heavenly Court invited Qi Sea Ancestor to resolve their threat of the qi harvest fruit, because even though they have their qi path inheritance, they lack a qi path Gu Immortal."
"Also, why did Heavenly Court choose to ally with Qi Sea Ancestor? Other than wanting to resist us, they also want to alleviate their own problems."
"Precisely." Wu Shuai looked at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch with an expression of praise: "You guys are not too stupid after all. Heavenly Court is at its weakest state now, while Qi Sea Ancestor has gone to resolve the qi harvest fruit problem. As long as we attack them during this period, the result will be shocking when we catch them unguarded!"
"If we attack Heavenly Court before Qi Sea Ancestor starts working on the qi harvest fruit, we will attack the qi harvest fruit and force them to go on the defensive. This way, we will hold the initiative and be able to retreat or advance at will."
"If Qi Sea Ancestor is using his killer move to eliminate the qi harvest fruit while we attack Heavenly Court, that will be even better! We can disrupt him with our full strength and cause Qi Sea Ancestor's killer move to fail and suffer a backlash. If we work harder, we might be able to kill him on the spot."
Wu Shuai said calmly.
"But what if Qi Sea Ancestor has already gotten rid of the qi harvest fruit by the time we attack Heavenly Court?" A Gu Immortal asked with caution.
Wu Shuai snorted coldly: "Heavenly Court's foundation is too deep, their qi harvest fruit is also very extraordinary, if Qi Sea Ancestor spends effort to get rid of it, his own condition will definitely slip. Of course, this is just the worst case scenario, but we are in an urgent situation in the first place, we will need to take risks for any hope. Other than this, do you have other ideas?"
Facing Wu Shuai's question, everyone was silent.
In this situation, they had no choice but to follow Wu Shuai and attack Heavenly Court.
But…
Many of the Gu Immortals were still hesitant, including their vice alliance leaders, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian.
"Or perhaps, we can try to experiment and find a way to get rid of the qi harvest fruit?" A Gu Immortal asked softly.
Wu Shuai's expression sank a little, he scolded in his head: "These variant human Gu Immortals have been cowards for too long, they have absolutely no courage to take risks."
But Wu Shuai predicted this earlier, he started to laugh.
"Why is Lord Alliance Leader laughing?" Gu tribe's leader asked.
Wu Shuai stopped his laughter as he said: "The truth is, I am also worried about bringing you fools to attack Heavenly Court. But I have invited a strong reinforcement to help us, because of him, I learned about Night Heavenly Wolf Lord's betrayal."
"Oh? Who?" The immortals were curious.
Lady Cold Ash's gaze flickered, having a guess.
At this moment, from behind Wu Shuai, a Gu Immortal walked out. He wore a white robe, his black hair extended to his waist, he had a peerless face with divine brilliance, cold light oozed out of his abyss-like eyes.
"Ahhh!"
"Fang Yuan…"
"It's him, it really is him."
The immortals' pupils shrunk as their expressions changed, all of them were shocked.
Under everyone's gaze, Fang Yuan spoke slowly in a cold tone: "Heavenly Court has gone too far, now that I have regained my strength, I am about to attack them. Without Duke Long, who can stop me?"
His voice resounded in the palace, nobody dared to retort to him. Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and the rest had palpitating hearts, with a monster like Fang Yuan leading them, they gained a huge boost in morale and confidence!
Fang Yuan was someone who had defeated Heavenly Court, his battle strength was apparent to the whole world!
Undeniably, he was the number one demon in the current world.
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Chapter 2027 Heavenly Court“s Crisis
Roar—!
The Evil Dragon's roar shook heaven and earth, whipping up storms and clouds. Its mountain range-like body moved at the front, followed by the immortals of the two heavens alliance, and finally, Dragon Palace at the end.
Primordial qi wall!
This was the method left by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, it appeared once again when Heavenly Court was attacked, but it could not stop Di Zang Sheng's advancement!
"The five regions became one, this Evil Dragon has gotten much stronger! Furthermore… ever since the fate war, after Fang Yuan broke the primordial qi wall, even though it recovered a little, it is much weaker than before." Qin Ding Ling frowned, she quickly analyzed the situation, with just the primordial qi wall, they could stall for some time but they could not stop this Evil Dragon!
"Lady Qin, do you need me to battle?" At this moment, Nine Spiritual Fairy transmitted and asked.
Heavenly Court once had transformation path great experts, Zhang Fei Xiong and Flesh Whip Immortal, but now they were dead, Nine Spiritual Fairy was the only transformation path great expert left.
"No, we are only one step away from subduing Qing Chou, continue to refine hatred Gu." Qin Ding Ling transmitted before shouting: "Shabi Ninety-five, Ruan Dan, aren't you going to fight yet?!"
Hearing a tiger roar and crane cry at once, two legendary immemorial desolate beasts appeared in front of Di Zang Sheng.
The three legendary immemorial desolate beasts fought intensely, causing the entire place to rumble.
After just a few rounds, Ruan Dan and Shabi Ninety-five started to retreat. They were in pitiful states, with just physical brawling, they were not Di Zang Sheng's match.
Thus, they started to use killer moves, instantly, grey light shot out like blades, pill light exploded.
Di Zang Sheng roared, purple-gold light appeared on its body, blocking all of the offensive killer moves.
Next, the golden light faded away. Di Zang Sheng's whiskers grew out rapidly, each of them shot out like countless snakes, the commotion was huge.
Facing this attack, Shabi Ninety-five and Ruan Dan had to retreat.
"This Evil Dragon actually has Immortal Gu now, it can use killer moves!" Qin Ding Ling's heart sank, she took a look at Dragon Palace.
Di Zang Sheng was a legendary immemorial beast to begin with, it had superior intelligence and could use Gu worms to activate killer moves. But before the fate war, it was enslaved by Dragon Palace and had no time to obtain Gu worms. Thus, during the fate war, it could only fight using its physical body. That was why it could not resist Feng Jiu Ge's destiny song, it was handled very quickly, even against other killer moves, it could only resist using its body.
But after the fate war, Wu Shuai made considerations to prepare Gu worms for Di Zang Sheng.
At that time, Wu Shuai was quite poor, he did not have excessive Immortal Gu.
Even though the main body had many Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan was moving around in Western Desert, he did not meet with Wu Shuai initially, also, even though he had Immortal Gu, they were not suitable for Di Zang Sheng.
But Wu Shuai had great luck, he grasped onto his opportunity and became the leader of the two heavens alliance.
With sufficient resources, Wu Shuai started to equip Di Zang Sheng. By now, Wu Shuai and his main body had taken over the two heavens alliance, by using the excuse of eliminating the qi harvest fruit, he destroyed several grotto-heavens and made forceful transactions with the Gu Immortals of the two heavens alliance, Di Zang Sheng finally gathered enough Gu worms to form some basic killer moves.
Di Zang Sheng suppressed Ruan Dan and Shabi Ninety-five, forcing them to retreat as it charged forward ferociously.
Qin Ding Ling yelled as she flew up into an Immortal Gu House. Several Immortal Gu Houses flew towards Di Zang Sheng, they formed a defensive line.
Di Zang Sheng's advancement was halted, Shabi Ninety-five and Ruan Dan also joined the encirclement.
"We finally stopped it!" Qin Ding Ling calmed down slightly, but at this moment, she saw Dragon Palace flying around, towards the qi harvest fruit.
Heavenly Court's qi harvest fruit was too huge and too eye-catching!
Wu Shuai was too vicious, he attacked the enemy's weakness, Qin Ding Ling's expression changed as she quickly moved a portion of the Immortal Gu Houses to block Dragon Palace.
"The situation is critical, if the qi harvest fruit is destroyed, the whole of Heavenly Court will face destruction! Quickly awaken the people sleeping in the immortal graveyard!" Zhou Xiong Xin urged.
"Or we can let Nine Spiritual Fairy and Red Heart Traveler join the fight!" Bai Cang Shui suggested.
Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth, deciding: "Awaken those in our immortal graveyard!"
More than half of Heavenly Court's immortal graveyard was destroyed, there were only a small number of Gu Immortals left sleeping in it. But with the awakening of these people, they formed sufficient force to handle the pressure, their defensive line that was precarious became stable now.
"Go and attack the qi harvest fruit!" Wu Shuai gave an order to the alliance army.
These Gu Immortals had dispersed earlier, they were like scattered sand, trying to make their way through the qi wall and towards the qi harvest fruit.
Seeing this, Qin Ding Ling felt enraged, she gritted her teeth, she was furious: "I will grind the bones of these variant humans into ash, I will kill them all!"
The two heavens alliance's Gu Immortals were not very strong but they had the numbers, and right now, Heavenly Court's weakness was their lack of manpower.
"Don't worry, there are many variant human Gu Immortals but they are all cowards. As long as we send one person to kill several of these invaders, they will lose their morale and not dare to progress further!" Prince Feng Xian suggested.
"Who can take on the task?" Qin Ding Ling quickly asked.
Che Wei replied with his actions, he turned into a flash of light and flew out of the Immortal Gu House, towards the qi harvest fruit.
"Die!" He flew like a great eagle, unleashing killer moves that were extremely powerful, his might could not be resisted.
"Ahh—!"
"What killer move is this?"
Out of two variant human Gu Immortals, one was heavily injured, the other was killed on the spot.
At the crucial moment, Che Wei displayed outstanding battle strength, both sides were similarly shocked.
After all, he had just defeated two variant human Gu Immortals with rank eight cultivation level.
"That killer move seems to be from a whole new path?"
"Too terrifying. Before we can understand its background, if I charge towards him, I will definitely be split into two by his blade."
"Let's wait for Fang Yuan to attack instead!"
The Gu Immortals of the two heavens alliance were hesitant, they stopped moving forward.
"These useless trash!" In the depth of Dragon Palace, Wu Shuai frowned with anger showing on his face.
At the crucial moment, these variant human Gu Immortals were completely useless, they were not even qualified to be cannon fodder.
But Wu Shuai was prepared for this, he waved his hand: "Your turn to fight!"
Four figures flew out of Dragon Palace, they were the Four Dragon Generals, Zhang Yin, Granny Rong, Yang Zi He, and Old Man Bei Feng, who took the place of Shi Miao.
These four rank eight Gu Immortals were enslaved by Dragon Palace, they had absolute loyalty and did not fear death, they split up into four different directions and advanced.
Even though Che Wei was strong, he could only block one person.
"Protect me!" Qi Sea Ancestor transmitted to Qin Ding Ling: "Now is a crucial moment, if we stop here, the consequences will be unthinkable."
Qin Ding Ling almost wanted to grit her teeth till they shattered, the three dragon generals were very close to the qi harvest fruit, she had to take a risk and mobilize Immortal Gu Houses to block them.
At the same time, two Gu Immortals flew out of the Immortal Gu Houses to resist the dragon generals.
Roar—!
Right when Heavenly Court managed to block the Four Dragon Generals, over on Dragon Palace's end, it exerted force to stop Ruan Dan. Using this chance, Di Zang Sheng rammed Shabi Ninety-five away as it charged forward, managing to reach the qi harvest fruit.
Di Zang Sheng opened its mouth and spat out a torrent of green qi.
The green qi shattered the immortal formation and hit the qi harvest fruit.
The qi harvest fruit shook intensely, Qi Sea Ancestor's expression changed, he spat out a mouthful of blood, the killer move was halted, he seemed to have suffered great backlash.
"Oh no!" The expressions of Heavenly Court's immortals changed.
"We succeeded!" The subordinates of Wu Shuai started to cheer, their morale rose.
The qi harvest fruit was damaged, it implicated Heavenly Court. The land of Heavenly Court cracked, Earth Trenches appeared, earth qi rumbled, heaven qi shook, the sky became chaotic as countless clouds and gusts of wind stirred.
Crack, crack.
The aperture wall of Heavenly Court started to crack, large pieces of the wall fragments fell off and created huge holes that connected to the outside world.
Even the fate war did not deal such great damage to Heavenly Court!
The appearance of the qi harvest fruit created a fatal weakness in Heavenly Court.
"Die!" Che Wei was enraged, his left hand was like a blade, his right hand was like a spear, both hands pushed forward as two golden-silver lights pierced Yang Zi He.
Yang Zi He died!
Wu Shuai laughed loudly, shouting: "Today is the day Heavenly Court faces destruction."
Qin Ding Ling's eyelids twitched, even though Wu Shuai's side suffered more losses, he was not wrong about it. With their greatest weakness, the qi harvest fruit, Wu Shuai had the initiative in this battle!
"Heavenly Court is facing a crisis, what should we do?" Even someone like Qin Ding Ling felt lost at this moment.
Amidst her feeling of loss, she also felt fear: "Don't tell me Heavenly Court is going to be destroyed in my hands?"
Right at this moment, Qi Sea Ancestor transmitted to her: "The situation is quite critical, we need to take a risk."
Qin Ding Ling responded subconsciously: "What risk?"
"Earlier, my qi path Immortal Gu were destroyed, I can no longer use the previous method to eliminate the qi harvest fruit. But I had created a killer move that is incomplete, it can cause the qi harvest fruit to shrink temporarily." Qi Sea Ancestor said.
Qin Ding Ling's eyes shined, she saw hope in this desperate situation, she quickly said: "Ancestor, please use it! As long as we get through this crisis, Heavenly Court will not disappoint you."
Heavenly Court's greatest problem was the qi harvest fruit now. It was too big, like a mountain range, it was the biggest target for killer moves. But if it shrunk, it would be much easier to protect.
"We need to be fast, this killer move is not complete, I can only hold on for some time." Qi Sea Ancestor said as he flew towards the qi harvest fruit.
When he was about to crash into it, he turned into a human-shaped qi current that fused into the qi harvest fruit.
The qi harvest fruit shook, as expected, it started to shrink.
After a few breaths of time, it went from a mountain range-like size into the size of a horse carriage.
This change made the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals surprised but also happy.
An Immortal Gu House flew down and floated above the qi harvest fruit, it shot out a grand pillar of light that enveloped the entire qi harvest fruit.
Wu Shuai's side rained down a torrent of killer moves but they could not affect the pillar of light at all.
Di Zang Sheng and Dragon Palace arrived again.
"Stop them!" Qin Ding Ling shouted, but their situation was too passive, they had no choice but to retreat.
The qi harvest fruit shrank again, it went from a horse carriage to the size of a normal gourd.
Seeing that they were about to lose again, Qin Ding Ling quickly asked: "Ancestor, can you move the qi harvest fruit away?"
Qi Sea Ancestor replied weakly: "This is already my limit! I researched on Demon Immortal Qi Jue's revival method, I can only shrink the fruit but I cannot move it. This method has only been created haphazardly, it is not complete, you need to quickly think of a solution!"
Qin Ding Ling was out of ideas already, she originally wanted to send the members of the ten great ancient sects here to fight. But Central Heaven Gate of Heavenly Court, which could deploy members, was destroyed by Fairy Zi Wei during the fate war.
But at the next moment, the primordial qi wall shattered, countless qi currents landed on Di Zang Sheng's body.
Di Zang Sheng's battle strength fell rapidly, its threat level was lowered.
This was the backup method of Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, it was used on Fang Yuan during the fate war. At that time, Fang Yuan could not break away from it, Limitless Demon Venerable had to take action to help him block these qi currents.
But now, the chess game had ended, the two venerables' silhouettes were gone, there was nothing that could help Di Zang Sheng.
In an instant, Di Zang Sheng was suppressed by Shabi Ninety-five.
Heavenly Court's crisis was temporarily alleviated.
On Wu Shuai's side, they lost their most important battle strength, Dragon Palace had to step up and use the killer move dreamy light smoke, as Heavenly Court had no way of countering it, Dragon Palace's demonic might surged.
"This cannot go on, our Heavenly Court lacks people with peak battle strength after all!" Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth.
If Duke Long was here, how could these enemies act so ferociously?
"Qi Sea Ancestor has peak battle strength too but he faced backlash from the failure of the killer move. He is also not a member of Heavenly Court, why would he fight to the death for us?"
While Qin Ding Ling was thinking of this, Qi Sea Ancestor transmitted again.
"The biggest key now is to get rid of the qi harvest fruit. As long as it is removed, we can go on the offensive without worries. There is still hope now, my killer move only lacks the final part for completion! There is a high chance of success."
Qin Ding Ling's heart shook: "What do you need?"
Qi Sea Ancestor replied: "I need Heavenly Court's heaven path true meaning, I need to raise my heaven path attainment level and conceptualize the complete killer move rapidly to get rid of the qi harvest fruit!"
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Chapter 2028 Heaven Path Research Results
After hearing that Qi Sea Ancestor wanted heaven path true meaning, Qin Ding Ling smiled bitterly: "Even though Heavenly Court has deep foundations, we have never seen nor heard of heaven path true meaning."
"Oh? Why is that so?" Qi Sea Ancestor asked.
"Because nobody can cultivate heaven path. If it can be cultivated, why would our Heavenly Court create Heaven Overseeing Tower to make use of fate Gu?" Qin Ding Ling's words were filled with deep emotions.
No Gu Immortal could cultivate heaven path, therefore, heaven path true meaning had never existed!
It was not easy for a Gu Immortal to leave behind true meaning.
To leave behind true meaning, wisdom path and rule path had the greatest ease. As for other paths, they had to reach a certain level of mimicking these paths to leave their true meaning behind. For example, Long Hair Ancestor's refinement path true meaning or Reckless Savage's transformation path true meaning.
After hearing Qin Ding Ling's reply, Fang Yuan did not feel dejected.
He came prepared, his request was actually his probing towards Heavenly Court's foundation, what if they had it after all?
Heavenly Court not having heaven path true meaning was not unexpected.
Qi Sea Ancestor (Fang Yuan) sighed deeply as he transmitted to Qin Ding Ling: "Then there is no hope. I can only come out and fight alongside Heavenly Court to kill these variant humans."
Qin Ding Ling instantly became anxious.
The qi harvest fruit was Heavenly Court's fatal weakness, the reason why they could still maintain a deadlock was because Qi Sea Ancestor made the fruit smaller. Once he lets go and it returns to being mountain size, Heavenly Court would be in a difficult spot, the situation would be hard to turn around.
Qin Ding Ling was facing immense pressure now.
Some of her pressure came from the enemies, but a portion came from within her.
After the fate war, the immortal graveyard was heavily damaged, Heavenly Court's foundation was reduced, Qin Ding Ling had to take on this responsibility and manage all the affairs of Heavenly Court, which was on the brink of destruction.
She worked hard over these days, she had given it her all, she exerted her body and mind for Heavenly Court, trying to restore its former glory.
Similar to the other Heavenly Court members, Qin Ding Ling had an intense feeling of belonging to Heavenly Court.
But now, the enemies were attacking suddenly, they even had the fatal weakness of the qi harvest fruit, Qin Ding Ling sensed a huge danger: "Was Heavenly Court going to be destroyed in this fight? Was it because of her failure to defend it, would she be the biggest sinner of Heavenly Court's history?"
Rumble!
The intense battle continued, Dragon Palace rampaged unhindered.
Qin Ding Ling took charge of the situation, observing the battlefield, while mobilizing the people and communicating with Qi Sea Ancestor.
With both internal and external threats, the pressure was pushing her to make a gamble.
"Qi Sea, do not give up. Even though Heavenly Court does not have heaven path true meaning, we have abundant heaven path research results. I will hand them to you!"
Qin Ding Ling passed an information path Immortal Gu to Qi Sea Ancestor without hesitation.
"My plan succeeded!" Fang Yuan received this information path Immortal Gu, he sighed deeply in his heart as he looked into it immediately.
"Brilliant! Wonderful! Astounding!" Fang Yuan only saw a small portion but his eyes shined with bright light, he praised it continuously in his heart.
For the last three million years, Heavenly Court rose to become the number one human force in the world. These years, they initially followed the will of heaven, before trying to resist it later, followed by altering heaven's will and interfering with the Heavenly Dao.
Their heaven path research results were abundant, they undeniably had the most progress in the world!
Fate Gu was a heaven path Immortal Gu, it could not be used by anyone. But Heavenly Court forcibly created Heaven Overseeing Tower and unleashed a portion of fate Gu's might.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, why did Spectral Soul infiltrate Heavenly Court? A large portion of the reasons were to try obtaining the heaven path research results!
As for why Limitless Demon Venerable decided to make a bet with Star Constellation's will and set up a game of chess, wasn't it because he wanted to use Heavenly Court's heaven path research results to help in his plan within Crazed Demon Cave?
And now, they ended up in Fang Yuan's hands.
Fang Yuan looked into them, his heart shook.
He saw two killer moves.
One was named heaven-human sensation, the other was called human executing heaven's work, they were both created by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Heaven-human sensation allowed a Gu Immortal's will to interact and fuse with heaven's will. Human executing heaven's work was built on the foundation of heaven-human sensation, it allowed a Gu Immortal to replace heaven's will to a certain degree.
Precisely because of these two killer moves, Star Constellation's will could interfere and affect heaven's will, she could even replace heaven's will to control fate Gu and allow Heavenly Court to have a decisive rule for three million years!
"The solution lies in this!" Fang Yuan acutely sensed that these two killer moves were the key to breaking out of his current predicament.
He took a risk to come to Heavenly Court now and deceive Qin Ding Ling, it was to achieve his goals, which were finally reached.
"Qi Sea, I wonder if these research results can help you complete the killer move?" Qin Ding Ling asked while in intense battle.
Fang Yuan coughed: "Your heaven path research results are quite helpful to me. But modifying a killer move right now carries risk, I need you to fight and stall for time, get me as much time as possible."
Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth: "Ancestor, you need to be fast, we can only do our best. In the worst case, we have to give up Heavenly Court and save the Gu Immortals instead."
She had already made plans for the worst case scenario.
Fang Yuan continued to read.
Following the two killer moves were the concepts that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable came up with, Fang Yuan looked at them and gained deep enlightenment.
"My will represents heaven's will, heaven's will represents my will… so that's it, so that's it."
Fang Yuan remained stationary as he focused on comprehending this information, he allowed his clone, Wu Shuai, to continue leading the two heavens alliance to fight against Heavenly Court.
Because of Primordial Origin's method, Di Zang Sheng was no longer as strong, Ruan Dan suppressed it. As for Shabi Ninety-five, it had already rejoined the defensive line, to become part of the force that resisted Dragon Palace.
Under Wu Shuai's control, Dragon Palace charged around the battlefield unhindered, Heavenly Court was greatly troubled by its power.
But on the other hand, the Gu Immortals of the two heavens alliance were suppressed, they were not as powerful as each Heavenly Court Gu Immortal.
Compared to the Heavenly Court members, they were lacking in strength. Only two people had equivalent battle strength, they were the two vice alliance leaders, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian.
As for Spectral Soul, who was pretending to be Lady Cold Ash, he continued to conceal himself, on the surface, he was desperately fighting and unable to put up strong resistance.
"This is a prime opportunity! Fairy Zi Wei, bring everyone and participate in the battle in Heavenly Court!" Spectral Soul gave instructions: "Fang Yuan is in Heavenly Court, I will kill him, the members of Heavenly Court, and Qi Sea Ancestor."
Fairy Zi Wei received the instructions and asked: "Do we include Longevity Heaven's group? Do we tell them about the situation in Heavenly Court?"
Fairy Zi Wei had only deduced Fang Yuan's location, Bing Sai Chuan knew about it too. But he did not know about Heavenly Court's current situation, he just thought that they were being cautious.
In that case, Bing Sai Chuan would need to conceal the information of Fang Yuan's location. Even though he wanted to let them fight each other as well, if Heavenly Court captures or kills Fang Yuan, they would gain all of his inheritances and Immortal Gu, wouldn't that be benefiting them?
Thus, Bing Sai Chuan's plan was to continue working with Spectral Soul's side and try to attack Heavenly Court together next time.
Spectral Soul recalled the attack from Giant Sun during the fate war and snorted coldly, he did not hesitate: "No need to tell them, hide this from them, your group will come alone!"
Thus, Fairy Zi Wei did not say anything, after leaving Bing Sai Chuan's group, her group headed towards Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court was damaged and the aperture wall was cracked, it became connected to the outside world. Fairy Zi Wei and the rest could get in very quickly.
"Fairy Zi Wei's group cannot turn the situation around, we need to wait until both sides suffer mutual loss before we can exert the maximum impact." Spectral Soul considered.
For him, the best case was for Wu Shuai and Heavenly Court to cripple each other's battle strength. By then, if he took action, he would reap huge gains.
"But why hasn't that scoundrel Fang Yuan done anything?" Spectral Soul observed Dragon Palace while at the same time, an Immortal Gu House from Heavenly Court attacked him.
Spectral Soul withheld his killing intent, he abandoned a group of soul beasts, retreating continuously.
In order to lay low, he decided to wait and endure.
But this Immortal Gu House came for him and used a killer move, a ray of profound light shot out towards Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul's heart shook as he hesitated. He had the ability to dodge this but Lady Cold Ash did not. There was no choice, he abandoned another group of soul beasts to block the Immortal Gu House and stall for time.
"Die!" Che Wei suddenly appeared behind Lady Cold Ash, his body shined in golden light, his aura was sharp as a blade.
"Do you really think I'm easy to bully?" Spectral Soul was deeply enraged but he decided to keep up the act.
Boom!
Che Wei's attack landed on Lady Cold Ash, she fell towards the ground as she coughed out mouthfuls of blood.
Lady Cold Ash's aura weakened continuously until it was completely still.
"Dead!"
"I killed another one."
Che Wei did not sense Spectral Soul, he flew away in the Immortal Gu House, towards the other areas of the battlefield.
Spectral Soul remained on the ground like a corpse, not moving and pretending to be dead.
Boom boom boom!
A while after he landed on the ground, a series of immortal killer moves turned into lightning as they shot down, erupting around Spectral Soul's body.
Lady Cold Ash was turned into char, half of her flesh was cooked and emitted the fragrance of meat.
"I'll endure!" Spectral Soul gritted his teeth.
Bam.
With a loud sound, Di Zang Sheng also fell, it landed on top of Spectral Soul.
Next, Ruan Dan flew towards Di Zang Sheng and shouted excitedly: "Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack!"
Bam bam bam…
The ground shook intensely, Spectral Soul's bones were almost all crushed: "I'll endure!"
Di Zang Sheng and Ruan Dan flew away, soon, an Immortal Gu House came.
It was Dragon Palace.
Immortal killer move — Dreamy Light Smoke!
Wu Shuai used a dream path killer move and chased after Qin Ding Ling relentlessly.
Qin Ding Ling dodged the attack rapidly, the dreamy smoke killer move could not turn around in time, it was about to land on Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul: "…"
"Enough is enough!" At the next moment, he rose up abruptly, waving his hand, black qi permeated throughout the entire battlefield.
Whoosh, the ground shook, mountains rumbled, all of the Gu Immortals present were blown away by the impact.
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Chapter 2029 What“s The Situation?
"What… what's the situation?" As black qi surged, Xiao He Jian was forced to retreat with shock on his face.
He saw the moment when Lady Cold Ash was killed by Che Wei, he felt a little pity for her. To think that soon after, she would actually revive!
"Was she pretending to be dead earlier, but because of bad luck, the dream path killer move almost hit her, so she had to retaliate? But… why does Lady Cold Ash have such battle strength?"
Not only was Xiao He Jian shocked, the other Gu Immortals had the same doubts.
But compared to Heavenly Court, the two heavens alliance was also filled with joy. After all, even though Lady Cold Ash was deeply concealing her strength, she was still one of them.
"That hit earlier has power similar to Duke Long. Is Lady Cold Ash someone on Duke Long's level? Hmph, I refuse to believe it!" A Gu Immortal on Heavenly Court's side flew out again, it was none other than Che Wei, who was displaying great might in this battle.
Che Wei flew towards Lady Cold Ash, all sorts of signs showed that the move earlier was Lady Cold Ash's trump card, it could not be used often.
"Die!" Che Wei's body radiated with golden light as he flew towards Lady Cold Ash like a crashing meteor.
At the same time, somewhere underground far from the battlefield.
Two Heavenly Court members were still trying to forcefully refine hatred Gu.
Red Heart Traveler controlled the formation while Qing Chou remained unmoving like a statue.
Nine Spiritual Fairy's voice came from within the statue: "We are almost done, in just a few more minutes, we will thoroughly refine hatred Gu!"
Once she said that, Qing Chou's dim eyes burst open, endless blood red light shot out of its eyes!
"What is going on?" Nine Spiritual Fairy shouted in shock.
"What happened?" Red Heart Traveler asked while instilling immortal essence, raising the power of the immortal formation.
But Qing Chou's body started to shake with greater intensity.
"It's hatred Gu… oh no!" Nine Spiritual Fairy suddenly shouted, she flew out of Qing Chou's body like a flash of light.
Roar—!
Qing Chou regained freedom, it roared towards the sky, its voice resounded throughout the area, exploding with thunderous impact.
Boom!
At the next moment, Qing Chou charged out of the formation, flying towards the surface, leaving behind a damaged formation and two immensely shocked Heavenly Court rank eight Gu Immortals.
Red Heart Traveler, who was controlling the formation, suffered a considerable backlash, he quickly assisted the falling Nine Spiritual Fairy as he asked: "Qing Chou has flown to the battlefield, what in the world happened?"
Nine Spiritual Fairy was still in a daze, she said in uncertainty: "Maybe I saw wrongly, but at that moment, rank eight hatred Immortal Gu burst out with terrifying power, it… it had a trace of a rank nine Immortal Gu's aura!"
At this time, the battlefield had already shifted its attention from Dragon Palace and the qi harvest fruit to Lady Cold Ash.
Lady Cold Ash's attack was too powerful, it shocked all of the Gu Immortals.
Che Wei arrived before her, Lady Cold Ash only snorted coldly as her body flew up, turning into black light as she charged towards Dragon Palace!
At the same time, Lady Cold Ash shouted in a loud voice: "Fang Yuan, it is time for us to settle the score!"
Spectral Soul had a straightforward idea, since Fang Yuan was not showing up, he would force him out.
Times were different now.
During the fate war, Spectral Soul was very weak, he could only escape and recuperate using Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan's strength. But now, he had already gained much of his strength, he was no longer weak.
"What is going on?" The immortals were truly stunned.
Lady Cold Ash actually ignored Che Wei, she went straight for Dragon Palace!
"Internal strife?" Che Wei's movement halted for a moment.
"Wait and see first, this might be their scheme!" Qin Ding Ling wanted to play safe, she got the immortals to gather.
Wu Shuai frowned, he moved Dragon Palace to retreat.
But Lady Cold Ash was faster!
She placed her palm at the top of Dragon Palace.
It seemed like a weak action but it made the entire Dragon Palace fly out like a cannonball.
At the same time, the silhouettes of immemorial soul beasts appeared on the surface of Dragon Palace.
Roar roar roar…
Each immemorial soul beast silhouette that flickered would deal a huge attack to Dragon Palace. After more than ten immemorial soul beasts appeared, there was already a huge hole at the top of Dragon Palace, the pillars broke and tiles cracked, it was a terrifying sight.
Che Wei watched with sweat on his forehead, he knew the power of Dragon Palace, but Lady Cold Ash had dealt such damage to it with just one palm strike.
"So Lady Cold Ash is actually so strong! I was simply courting death earlier by attacking her." Che Wei immediately changed directions as he retreated.
"Lady Cold Ash, what are you doing?!" Xiao He Jian shouted.
"What soul path killer move is this, it has such power…" Even though Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch showed an angry expression, he was enveloped in cold sweat.
Dragon Palace was still retreating.
"Can you escape?" Lady Cold Ash smiled coldly, she was about to attack again when a huge shadow enshrouded her body.
Lady Cold Ash turned back to take a look, she saw Qing Chou, having the size of a mountain, it had gotten close to her at some point, opening its bloodthirsty mouth as it tried to devour her.
"Hmm?" Seeing this, even Lady Cold Ash's gaze froze for a second.
Spectral Soul was aware of Qing Chou's existence. But he did not expect to meet Qing Chou at this place and time.
Seeing that Lady Cold Ash was about to die, suddenly, her body turned into black smoke as she drifted away, dodging Qing Chou's attack.
"Beast, scram!" Lady Cold Ash shouted, she stretched out her hand and placed it on Qing Chou's head.
The scene from earlier was seen again, immemorial soul beast silhouettes appeared around Qing Chou as they flickered.
Bam bam bam…
Each time a silhouette appeared, an explosive sound would follow.
Qing Chou was soon covered in injuries but it did not retreat even in the danger of death!
Spectral Soul was just about to chase after Dragon Palace when Qing Chou blocked his path again.
"Spectral Soul, I will kill you, I will kill you!" Qing Chou shouted as it pounced at Lady Cold Ash.
Spectral Soul was enraged: "I have no time to waste with you."
He controlled Lady Cold Ash's body as he prepared a terrifying killer move. Black smoke started to come out of Lady Cold Ash's seven orifices, her aura was growing at a terrifying manner.
Black smoke gathered and moved towards Qing Chou.
Qing Chou's offensive killer move went into the black smoke.
After a breath's time, the black smoke scattered, Qing Chou's killer move landed on Lady Cold Ash without becoming weaker at all.
Lady Cold Ash's expression turned to shock, she was sent flying after being caught off guard.
"Rank nine Immortal Gu? No, just an incomplete product." Lady Cold Ash swallowed a mouthful of blood, she squinted her eyes and looked at Qing Chou, her expression was stern.
Nine Spiritual Fairy had just arrived in the battlefield, her pupils shrunk: "I did not sense wrongly, rank eight hatred Gu is going to become rank nine!"
"Qing Chou originated from the souls that Spectral Soul slaughtered. The core Immortal Gu that created Qing Chou was hatred Gu, but hatred Gu and Qing Chou had an extraordinary connection. Not only did hatred Gu create Qing Chou, Qing Chou is also nourishing and nurturing hatred Gu."
"Maybe hatred Gu was just rank six, or even four or five at the start. But as Qing Chou grew, its endless hatred allowed hatred Gu to continuously grow until now. It is already moving from rank eight to rank nine!"
Rank nine hatred Gu!
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Chapter 2030 Spectral Soul“s Demonic Migh
What was this situation?
Seeing that Lady Cold Ash got sent flying by Qing Chou, the immortals present were stunned.
The rank nine Immortal Gu aura was not fake, but it was too weak, the main part of the aura was still at the level of rank eight Immortal Gu. This was something that was unheard of.
An incomplete rank nine Immortal Gu?
All the immortals were bewildered.
Gu refinement had always been a strict process, be they human or hairy man refinement methods, they had their specifications.
This was true for both Fang Yuan and Long Hair Ancestor. There had never been a case where a Gu worm could still be used in battle during refinement.
But the truth was in front of them, the immortals had to admit the fact.
"What refinement method is this?" Many Gu Immortals became quite excited: "This will start a new trend of refinement path!"
"Spectral Soul? Qing Chou possesses hatred Gu, it should not be wrong. To think that Lady Cold Ash's body was actually taken over by Spectral Soul."
"Seeing what Spectral Soul said, it seems that Fang Yuan is here too, hiding in Dragon Palace?"
The Gu Immortals were startled and puzzled.
Too many unexpected incidents had happened in this battle. Heavenly Court, the two heavens, Spectral Soul, and Fang Yuan all had their own plans, nobody knew the entire situation clearly. Even though Fang Yuan was reborn, he was the same.
Spectral Soul's identity was exposed, Fang Yuan felt quite relieved about it.
Dragon Palace retreated even more quickly. Wu Shuai recalled the three dragon generals, at the same time, the Gu Immortals of the two heavens alliance guarded Dragon Palace against Spectral Soul.
Wu Shuai did not dare to risk letting the immortals of the two heavens alliance into his Dragon Palace, the appearance of Spectral Soul made everyone else suspicious as well.
"I can't wait anymore…" Qi Sea Ancestor (Fang Yuan) gritted his teeth before activating his hidden method. He was originally intending to wait some more, but with Spectral Soul's appearance and Qing Chou's assault, he understood that the situation was out of his control, he needed to act quickly!
Fang Yuan immediately contacted Qin Ding Ling: "The modification has some results, protect me well, we will go into the critical period now!"
"Understood!" Joy flashed on Qin Ding Ling's face, this was the best news she had heard since the battle started.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals shrunk back to form a tight defensive circle, they defended against Spectral Soul and Wu Shuai's Dragon Palace.
Roar—!
Qing Chou charged towards Lady Cold Ash.
Hatred Gu's rank nine aura was getting stronger, it seemed like Spectral Soul's appearance had summoned the deepest hatred in Qing Chou's heart, this intense feeling of hatred was rapidly helping to refine hatred Gu.
Hatred Gu activated, amplifying Qing Chou's strength comprehensively. Especially offensive killer moves, their might was increased to a terrifying level.
Spectral Soul and Qing Chou fought, he actually got suppressed for some time.
The killing intent on his face became denser, after a few rounds, he spat out a mouthful of black qi.
The black qi was small and insignificant, but once it flew towards Qing Chou, it made Qing Chou's movements slow, its attacks were no longer rapid.
Spectral Soul's body shook, turning into countless phantoms and surrounded Qing Chou tightly.
Qing Chou possessed hatred Gu, it should be able to find out the real Spectral Soul. But against the countless Spectral Souls, it showed a confused expression, having lost its target.
Spectral Soul's main body suddenly appeared on the back of Qing Chou, he stretched out his palm and his entire forearm was stabbed into Qing Chou's body.
Qing Chou's body started to shiver, it felt extreme pain as it raised its head and roared!
Qing Chou unleashed immortal killer moves consecutively, ignoring its own state as it assaulted Spectral Soul who was on its back.
Spectral Soul endured the endless assault but continued to sustain his current method.
Qing Chou fell on the ground, with a loud sound, the earth rumbled, a huge pit was created.
Qing Chou rolled on the ground, it was unable to shrug off Spectral Soul.
"Oh no, he is trying to refine Qing Chou!" Qin Ding Ling saw what was happening, her heart jumped, she wanted to order the Gu Immortals to disrupt Spectral Soul.
But Wu Shuai moved one step earlier.
Dragon Palace unleashed dreamy light smoke as a cloud of pink smoke flew towards Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul was not afraid of other methods but dream path methods were still threatening.
He had no choice but to stop and retreat for now.
Qing Chou regained freedom as a result but it was very weak, it almost fell to the ground.
In contrast, Spectral Soul flew to the sky with an increased aura. Evidently, the method used against Qing Chou earlier was not just enslavement, it also had a special ability to extract its strength.
Seeing this, almost all the Gu Immortals' hearts sank.
Qing Chou has a quasi-rank nine hatred Gu, its battle strength rose drastically, reaching the levels of Fang Yuan, Duke Long, and Feng Jiu Ge during the fate war, but it was ineffective against Spectral Soul.
Other than catching Spectral Soul off guard initially, once he was prepared, Qing Chou got easily countered afterwards.
In the end, Qing Chou was still an immemorial soul beast, it was against Spectral Soul, who was primarily a soul path cultivator and had the deepest knowledge of this. Spectral Soul had a bunch of methods to counter immemorial soul beasts, in fact, the reason for the creation of soul beasts was Spectral Soul himself.
"What a pity, I was so close to enslaving this legendary desolate beast. Hmph! Fang Yuan, you are courting death." Spectral Soul's plan was foiled, he emanated killing intent with a cold expression, attacking Dragon Palace again.
The two sides fought again, Wu Shuai put in all his effort but he could not resist Spectral Soul's methods, he was forced to retreat.
Spectral Soul's demonic might was overwhelming, he dominated the entire battlefield without difficulty. Dragon Palace, which was showing great performance earlier, could not defend against his unparalleled power.
His killer moves were endless, they either had great strength or peculiar effects, they were all hard to defend against.
Spectral Soul had already recovered, even though he was not at the level when he refined sovereign immortal fetus Gu on Yi Tian Mountain, he had mostly regained his strength.
Wu Shuai controlled Dragon Palace to fight against Spectral Soul, during this time, Qing Chou and the rest also interfered, but they were all suppressed, the situation was getting increasingly dangerous.
After more than ten rounds of fighting, Dragon Palace was heavily damaged, the three dragon generals all died at Spectral Soul's hands. Thankfully, there was the killer move dreamy light smoke that Spectral Soul was worried about.
The Gu Immortals of the two heavens alliance could not be depended on, they all hid at one side. Spectral Soul's might was too terrifying, whoever got close would die.
"The time is about ripe." Wu Shuai finally received the instructions from his main body.
He let out a breath of air, driving Dragon Palace towards the qi harvest fruit.
Qin Ding Ling and the rest had formed into a defensive line, they became alarmed, they shot out endless profound lights.
Wu Shuai shouted: "Heavenly Court, if you still refuse to take action, after Spectral Soul kills me, you will all die as well."
Qin Ding Ling retorted: "Stop right now, whoever comes here will face our full-on assault!"
During the fight between Spectral Soul and Dragon Palace, Heavenly Court had been watching at the side, not doing anything. Qin Ding Ling and the rest were waiting for Fang Yuan, as long as he stayed motionless, they would not attack. Nobody knew what vile schemes this demon Fang Yuan was preparing after all!
Wu Shuai did not care, he steered Dragon Palace to get close to Heavenly Court's defensive line.
Behind him, Spectral Soul chased relentlessly.
Qin Ding Ling's expression was grim, she ordered: "Attack Dragon Palace, force it back!"
Rumble…
All sorts of killer moves landed on Dragon Palace, creating beautiful ripples of various colors in the sky. Dragon Palace was like a crumbling boat, riding against the dangerous waves.
Large numbers of Gu worms died, including Immortal Gu.
This battle caused severe losses to Dragon Palace, the price to repair it would be extremely high.
"Oh no, it is getting close!"
They watched as Dragon Palace almost went past Heavenly Court's defensive line, at the crucial moment, Shabi Ninety-five and Ruan Dan came out to block Dragon Palace despite the danger.
But soon, Spectral Soul also arrived, chaos ensued.
"Die!" Spectral Soul's killing intent surged, he soon gained the upper hand.
Heavenly Court's defensive line was collapsing.
Right at this moment, Qi Sea Ancestor's laughter could be heard.
Swish swish swish!
The originally condensed qi harvest fruit exploded into a tsunami, engulfing heaven and earth, clouds and winds raged, at once, the entire battlefield was filled with qi currents over a massive range.
At once, all the Gu Immortals lost their sense of direction, they could only see white qi in front of them, they could not even see their own fingers.
At the center of the qi currents, there was a baby shape gathering, it devoured the white qi.
In a few breaths of time, the baby grew rapidly, turning old as it became Qi Sea Ancestor's appearance, having rank eight cultivation level!
Fang Yuan's main body flickered, he waved his sleeves, a split soul that was prepared in advance flew out, carrying Gu worms and immortal essence into Qi Sea Ancestor's body.
After the split soul arrived, the Qi Sea clone opened his eyes.
While Fang Yuan's main body used the opportunity to enter Dragon Palace.
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Chapter 2031 Chasing, Escaping
Fang Yuan had always taken action after planning, even though this venture to Heavenly Court was dangerous, he had made ample preparations.
He refined Heavenly Court's qi harvest fruit into his qi path clone, while the main body went into Dragon Palace at this very moment. Even though there were many Gu Immortals in the battlefield, nobody found out the truth.
Fang Yuan's qi path clone breathed in deeply, all of the white qi got absorbed into his body.
Next, he pushed with both arms as a thunderous sound occurred, a dense qi wall formed and pushed towards Dragon Palace and Spectral Soul with overwhelming might.
Spectral Soul's eyes shined with bright light, black qi burst out of his body and crashed into the qi wall, emitting a loud sound.
The qi wall was corroded but the surrounding qi wall came to fill it up again. Spectral Soul made use of this timing to turn into black light and penetrate through it like a flash of lightning.
A portion of Spectral Soul's focus was kept on Qi Sea Ancestor, while most of his attention remained on Dragon Palace.
Dragon Palace was huge, it would not be easy to pass the qi wall. Once Dragon Palace exposed a weakness while resisting the qi wall, Spectral Soul would take action and make use of Qi Sea Ancestor's killer move to deal a huge blow to Dragon Palace.
Right when the qi wall was about to crash into Dragon Palace, its door opened, Fang Yuan stood upright, appearing in front of everyone.
Immortal killer move — Unlimited Qi Sea!
Fang Yuan was already well prepared, he raised his right arm now as he grabbed towards the qi wall with his five fingers.
The colossal qi wall shook as it collapsed, countless qi currents were drawn by a formless force, going into Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.
"Fang Yuan!"
"He was here after all."
"This move again! During the fate war, he used this move to unravel primordial qi wall!"
The immortals saw Fang Yuan's appearance as all of them shook.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were all ashen, after they lost the fate war, Fang Yuan had turned into a nightmare that shrouded over their minds.
The two heavens alliance's Gu Immortals were joyful instead. Seeing Fang Yuan's action, it was clear that he was on their side.
Spectral Soul's pupils shrunk, Fang Yuan's performance was quite shocking. He was troubled by the heaven path dao marks after all, how could he still display such immense battle strength?
The entire battlefield fell into peculiar silence.
Fang Yuan and Qi Sea Ancestor appeared at the same time, the entire battlefield's situation was turned around in an instant.
Heavenly Court protected Qi Sea Ancestor, Spectral Soul was alone, while Fang Yuan was standing in front of Dragon Palace, the three strongest Gu Immortals prepared to face off against each other.
In the Gu world, strength reigned supreme, the following battle would depend on these three people.
"To think that this day would come when Heavenly Court fails to be the leader of this confrontation." Qin Ding Ling sighed in her heart as she transmitted to Qi Sea Ancestor, asking about his condition.
Qi Sea Ancestor immediately replied: "Even though I got rid of the qi harvest fruit, I suffered considerable injuries. I will need everyone from Heavenly Court to work together to survive this crisis."
Qin Ding Ling said again: "Heavenly Court's greatest threat was resolved thanks to you, ancestor. After we survive this, Heavenly Court will definitely reward you satisfactorily!"
Qin Ding Ling was trying very hard to gain Qi Sea Ancestor's help, at this moment, Dragon Palace flew out like an orange meteor towards the sky!
After this catastrophic battle, Heavenly Court was completely covered in holes. Dragon Palace escaped along one of these loopholes, easily leaving Heavenly Court and entering immemorial white heaven.
The remaining immortals looked at Dragon Palace's figure with stunned expressions.
Even though Fang Yuan appeared and cooperated with Wu Shuai, the two of them had actually escaped.
Was this the showing of the number one demon?
"It seems that Fang Yuan has not recovered."
"Even though that move was ferocious and broke Qi Sea Ancestor's qi wall killer move earlier, he was likely at his limit!"
"Do we chase them? This demon Fang Yuan is too crafty, I am afraid that this is just his plan to lure us out. He might have an immortal formation outside lying in ambush, waiting for us to head into his trap."
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals hesitated while the two heavens alliance Gu Immortals cursed in their hearts.
The expert and leader that they placed their hopes and morale on had actually escaped, they fled so quickly!
All of these two heavens alliance Gu Immortals were left in Heavenly Court, they were abandoned.
"Fang Yuan, where are you running to? Die here and now." Spectral Soul snickered as he used Lady Cold Ash's body to rush out of Heavenly Court, chasing after Dragon Palace.
Roar—!
Qing Chou roared, it was gradually recovering the strength that it lost, even though the rank nine aura of its hatred Gu was not complete, it was already much denser than before.
"Spectral Soul, I want you to die!" Qing Chou, who had unresolvable hatred, did not hesitate, it chased after Spectral Soul.
Thus, in the battlefield, only Heavenly Court's immortals, Qi Sea Ancestor, and the two heavens alliance's Gu Immortals were left.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian looked at each other.
They were in an awkward situation now!
"We will chase them!"
"Protect Dragon Palace!!"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian worked together for the first time, they shouted something that they did not believe in as they charged out of Heavenly Court.
The remaining two heavens alliance Gu Immortals followed after them, shouting and jeering as they also went out of Heavenly Court along with the two vice alliance leaders.
"Are we going to kill these variant human Gu Immortals?" Prince Feng Xian asked Qin Ding Ling.
Qin Ding Ling looked towards Qi Sea Ancestor, she thought about it before saying resolutely: "No! These variant human Gu Immortals are just minor problems, the most important thing is Fang Yuan. Two people will stay behind to take care of the place, the rest will follow me to pursue and kill Fang Yuan!!"
Fang Yuan was not in good condition now, it was the best time to kill him.
If they manage to kill Fang Yuan, the loot they could gain would be extremely favorable to Heavenly Court. Fang Yuan had too many good things, he had countless Immortal Gu and exceptional inheritances. Even without them, as long as they could capture his soul and extract the memories of his previous life, it would be incredibly precious to Heavenly Court!
In fact, even if Heavenly Court gets nothing from killing Fang Yuan, just the fact that he died at their hands would allow Heavenly Court to regain their morale, they would break free of the trauma of the fate war, they would be at the top of the world again.
"Even if we cannot kill Fang Yuan, we cannot let Spectral Soul kill Fang Yuan!" Furthermore, Qin Ding Ling was also wary of that old monster Spectral Soul.
"Ancestor…" Qin Ding Ling was about to speak when Qi Sea Ancestor interrupted her.
"No need to say anything, be it Spectral Soul or Fang Yuan, they are both demons, us righteous path members should execute them all. Time is pressing, our opportunity is slipping, we need to chase them now!" At the crucial moment, Qi Sea Ancestor displayed the demeanor of a heroic leader of the righteous path!
The Heavenly Court immortals felt much closer to him after hearing that.
Qin Ding Ling nodded gravely, without Qi Sea Ancestor's help, they would not be able to chase Fang Yuan safely.
"The main body's situation is strange, I need to look after him. These Heavenly Court Gu Immortals are much better cannon fodder than those two heavens alliance immortals!" Qi Sea Ancestor made his plan internally, leading the Heavenly Court immortals as they chased.
This way, Dragon Palace was at the front, followed by Spectral Soul, who was getting closer.
Followed by Qing Chou.
Followed by Qi Sea Ancestor and the Heavenly Court immortals.
As for the two vice alliance leaders of the two heavens alliance, they had already escaped from Heavenly Court with the other immortals, they scattered all over the place thinking only of escaping, nobody dared to join this battle anymore.
At this moment, Dragon Palace was still tightly shut.
Fang Yuan sat on the ground, modifying the two killer moves, heaven-human sensation and human executing heaven's work.
Fang Yuan lacked more than half of the Gu worms needed for these killer moves. He had to modify the moves and swap out the Gu worms so that he could use these moves.
Immortal Gu were unique, these two killer moves were newly obtained, Fang Yuan had quite a bit of difficulty in the modification.
After attempting it for some time, Fang Yuan changed his tactic, he gave up on the Immortal Gu level and targeted the aspect of a mortal killer move.
Fang Yuan connected to treasure yellow heaven and soon gathered the relevant mortal Gu worms. With the necessary Gu worms and after modifying the move from an immortal killer move to a mortal killer move, the difficult became nearly nonexistent.
With these two mortal killer moves, Fang Yuan stopped the formation in the sovereign immortal aperture, no longer using qi tides to cleanse the immortal aperture's nine heavens and five regions.
Soon, heaven's will was produced.
Fang Yuan sent a portion of his will towards the heaven's will.
Next, he activated the killer move heaven-human sensation, Fang Yuan fused into the heaven's will.
After that, he activated human executing heaven's work.
After a while.
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with bright light: "I sensed… a certain group of heaven path dao marks!"
If he had to replace the word 'sensed', Fang Yuan would choose another word, caught.
Originally, Fang Yuan knew about the heaven path dao marks in his body, but he could only let them be. But now, when he could sense them, it meant that these heaven path dao marks were under his control temporarily.
With this crucial breakthrough and Fang Yuan's expertise in Gu refinement, it was only a matter of time until he refined all of these heaven path dao marks into his own.
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Chapter 2032 Target, Crazed Demon Cave
Rumble!
With a loud sound, Dragon Palace shook intensely from the impact, a large portion of its roof cracked and fell. While falling, these fragments turned into Gu worm corpses, scattered by the intense winds in the sky.
Spectral Soul had caught up!
He was extremely fast, even though Wu Shuai was moving Dragon Palace at top speed, he could not reach Spectral Soul's speed.
Spectral Soul's body was covered in pitch black smoke, each time he attacked, Dragon Palace suffered great damage.
Wu Shuai had to put in his effort to repair it, thankfully, he had many Gu worms in his storage, he was amply prepared.
Fang Yuan frowned tightly, his expression was slightly grim.
He came to Heavenly Court using Qi Sea Ancestor's identity to find a way to resolve his heaven path dao mark problem. Once his goal was achieved, he chose to retreat, Fang Yuan had never cared about the title of the number one demon.
However, even though Fang Yuan got what he wanted, he needed time now, what he lacked was sufficient time to execute his plan.
"Now, Spectral Soul is chasing after me, Heavenly Court will do the same, these people will not let me retreat easily. It is very difficult to escape from this situation!"
Fang Yuan's movement ability had always been improving. Long ago, his strongest movement method was the killer move sword escape after transforming into an ancient sword dragon. After that was Omni-directional Travel, followed by Fixed Immortal Travel and the killer move comprising Fixed Immortal Travel as the core.
But among these methods, even Omni-directional Travel could not match Spectral Soul's speed. Fixed Immortal Travel's killer move might be usable but Fang Yuan was very weak now from the disturbance of the heaven path dao marks.
There was still some time until Fang Yuan could resolve this disturbance and fully refine the heaven path dao marks.
Fang Yuan tried to think about it from another perspective, be they Spectral Soul or Heavenly Court, they wanted him dead. The former used all of his accumulations to refine sovereign immortal fetus Gu but Fang Yuan snatched it away. The latter's headquarters were ravaged by Fang Yuan, their biggest pillar of support, fate Gu, was also destroyed by him. Heavenly Court was the leader of the righteous path, they cared about reputation, but in the fate war, Fang Yuan destroyed their reputation.
Before now, Heavenly Court could not find Fang Yuan so they did not do anything to him. In the future, when he recovered his strength, they would also be unable to deal with him.
Now that Heavenly Court found Fang Yuan, they would definitely try their best to kill him!
Such opportunities seldom knock twice, they could not let this chance slip by.
Fang Yuan knew about his circumstances clearly, thoughts collided in his mind continuously as he tried to find a solution for this problem.
But soon, his expression changed.
The heaven path dao marks on his body started to transform again, causing problems, their disturbance became stronger by several times.
When dealing with the qi wall earlier, even though Fang Yuan caused a huge scene, he was actually cooperating with Qi Sea Ancestor secretly, his true battle strength was not as it appeared.
But just this much, with Fang Yuan secretly using human path methods to counter the interruption of the heaven path dao marks, was already the greatest limit.
Externally, Spectral Soul was attacking Dragon Palace furiously, the walls were cracking, tiles were sent flying all over the place. Internally, the heaven path dao marks were wreaking havoc in his body, preventing Fang Yuan from doing anything.
The situation was dangerous, even surpassing the fate war. After all, Fang Yuan could still use Spring Autumn Cicada then, but now, this greatest trump card was unusable.
Fang Yuan could not rebirth, if he made a mistake now, he would die a pitiful death.
Spectral Soul emanated deep killing intent, it pierced through Dragon Palace, Fang Yuan's hair stood on ends.
Fang Yuan's lips curled up, he had already made a decision —
Head to Crazed Demon Cave!
The heaven path dao marks were interfering with Fang Yuan, preventing him from using many killer moves. Even if he could use them, the effect would be very low.
Fang Yuan had to borrow external help to alleviate this crisis.
Any other location would not be very helpful to Fang Yuan. After all, Dragon Palace was the one escaping and moving at the front, if he entered a dangerous place, Dragon Palace would face the brunt of the danger. The pursuer would benefit instead, Spectral Soul would have an easier time.
But Crazed Demon Cave was different. At the lower levels of Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan could use the sovereign immortal body to travel to the next layer quickly, the rest would all be stopped in their tracks.
As for whether Spectral Soul could pass through, Fang Yuan did not know, but it was worth a gamble. Spectral Soul was not in perfect condition after all, he also did not have the sovereign immortal body!
"Even if Spectral Soul can forcefully make his way through, his battle strength would suffer. The lower layers are also extremely huge and mysterious, I can definitely stall for time against Spectral Soul in there."
Fang Yuan made up his mind, he immediately moved Dragon Palace in another direction, towards the north.
As for Wu Shuai, he focused on repairing Dragon Palace.
Spectral Soul saw that Dragon Palace was escaping, he breathed in deeply before rapidly approaching it.
He extended his hand and landed on Dragon Palace. Next, countless immemorial soul beast silhouettes flickered, each time they attacked, a piece of Dragon Palace's walls shattered.
After an entire round of attacks, several pillars holding up Dragon Palace had cracks emerging.
Wu Shuai had a solemn expression: "Oh no, this killer move is extremely powerful, it can attack the Immortal Gu House both internally and externally. The core Immortal Gu of Dragon Palace are quite damaged!"
Fang Yuan's main body squinted his eyes, Dragon Palace's door was shut but his vision was unobstructed, he could see the situation outside.
Fang Yuan said calmly: "Spectral Soul used this soul path killer move earlier, but it is much stronger now. Evidently, he has modified it during this bit of time!"
This was truly terrifying.
Spectral Soul had great strength, even though he was no longer rank nine, he was definitely at Duke Long's level of battle strength.
Even though he lost most of his attainment levels, it seemed that soul path did not fall by too much.
Even though Spectral Soul had only fought Dragon Palace for a short while, he had already comprehended the weaknesses of Dragon Palace, he could modify his killer moves to show much greater effect.
Furthermore, Spectral Soul had abundant battle experience, far deeper than Fang Yuan, during his era, he was renowned for killing everything in his way in the entire world!
After several more rounds, Dragon Palace could not resist Spectral Soul anymore, Fang Yuan sighed as he sent out another Immortal Gu House.
It was a silver-white ship with a long and thin body, it flew like a flying sword with silver light shining around it, stabbing towards Spectral Soul.
It was Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Spectral Soul moved in a flicker and dodged it easily.
Myriad Year Flying Warship turned around and used a killer move, targeting Spectral Soul.
At once, Dragon Palace tried to escape while Myriad Year Flying Warship helped to defend it. Spectral Soul chased after them with immense demonic might, the winds and clouds were raging around him.
Fang Yuan's main body was disrupted by the heaven path dao marks, but because Immortal Gu Houses were individual structures, they were not restricted by this problem.
As long as the Immortal Gu House had Fang Yuan's will and immortal essence, Myriad Year Flying Warship could still continue to fight.
However, Spectral Soul had formidable strength and all sorts of killer moves, not only were they strong and hard to defend against, they mostly had peculiar effects and easily overwhelmed Fang Yuan's efforts, allowing Spectral Soul to firmly control this situation.
Even with the power of two rank eight Immortal Gu Houses, he was not Spectral Soul's match.
"Most importantly, the Twelve Zodiac battle formation was completely destroyed during the fate war. Otherwise, with the combination of Twelve Zodiac battle formation and Myriad Year Flying Warship, even Spectral Soul would have some problems against them."
Fang Yuan considered the situation and did not change his plan, he still focused on escaping.
After getting the heaven path research results, Fang Yuan just needed time to gather his advantage. As long as he survives this problem, after he resolved the problem of the heaven path dao marks, it would be Fang Yuan's turn to shine.
Spectral Soul was going all-out on offense. In his opinion, this was the best opportunity to kill Fang Yuan and reclaim the sovereign immortal body. Not just the sovereign immortal body, he could also get the dream realms that Fang Yuan obtained. Spectral Soul would be able to regain all of his attainment levels as a result.
In this world, what could allow Spectral Soul to rapidly regain his strength? Undoubtedly, it was Fang Yuan! Fang Yuan was simply a moving treasure chest in Spectral Soul's eyes.
"Spectral Soul, die! I want you to die!!" Qing Chou approached him with wind and lightning surrounding it.
Myriad Year Flying Warship and Dragon Palace fought against Spectral Soul while moving, they could not travel quickly. Thus, Qing Chou caught up to them.
Qing Chou's eyes were blood red, its face was distorted in a terrifying manner, it only cared about Spectral Soul!
In just this period of time, the rank nine aura of the hatred Gu within it got denser again, it was quite shocking to see.
Qing Chou got stronger again!
It growled, a human-faced lightning ball flew out of its throat.
The lightning ball was extremely fast, green-black in color, it was eerie and icy, moving without a sound.
Spectral Soul waved his hand, a giant whip made of black fog appeared, seeking to send the lightning ball flying.
But the face on the lightning ball snickered as it raised its speed, avoiding the whip as it approached Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul was about to use another killer move when the lightning ball self-detonated.
Rumble!
The might of the explosion was terrifying, Spectral Soul was sent flying far away.
The range of the explosion was wide, even Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship were not spared, they both suffered some damage.
Qing Chou endured the aftermath of the explosion as it approached Spectral Soul relentlessly.
"This senseless beast!" After being disrupted for multiple times, Spectral Soul felt deeply enraged.
Fang Yuan used the chance to flee.
Spectral Soul saw Dragon Palace's movement and became even more angry: "Little scoundrel, don't think of escaping!"
Dragon Palace's speed fell instantly.
At the areas where Dragon Palace was damaged, black smoke appeared and lowered its speed severely.
"What killer move is this? When did Spectral Soul use it?" Fang Yuan was shocked, at once, he had an idea of moving into Myriad Year Flying Warship instead.
But regrettably, black smoke also appeared on Myriad Year Flying Warship, it moved slowly too.
The black smoke faded away very quickly but Spectral Soul also regained his momentum, after forcing Qing Chou away, he approached Dragon Palace again.
At once, the three parties engaged in a chaotic battle.
Fang Yuan wanted to shrug off Spectral Soul but Qing Chou was overwhelmed with rage, it did not have any intention to cooperate with him.
Qing Chou only wanted to take revenge on Spectral Soul, it did not care about Fang Yuan, almost all of its moves also implicated Dragon Palace. At times, to protect himself, Fang Yuan had to fight Qing Chou as well.
After some time, Spectral Soul regained the upper hand again.
Even though he was just the soul of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, his battle strength was extremely high, he also fought differently from Duke Long's dominance, he was more skilled at using ruthless attacks with piercing killing intent, he was vicious and maniacal.
But he had a terrifyingly clear understanding of the situation, he often made use of his opponent's methods to make them cancel out each other's moves.
Spectral Soul slowly attacked less and less, but in this chaotic fight, his advantage was rising bit by bit.
After noticing this, even Fang Yuan's heart was turning cold.
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Chapter 2033 Chaotic Battle
"In terms of battle experience, I cannot compare to Spectral Soul!" During the three way chaotic battle, Fang Yuan sensed the difference between him and his enemy. Even though he had been reborn many times, in terms of total battle experience, Fang Yuan could not compare to a venerable.
"The main problem is that Qing Chou is not being logical, even though it attacks ferociously, it ignores its own condition, Spectral Soul made use of it many times. If this were a conscious Qing Chou, the battle would not be like this."
Fang Yuan felt the situation was unfortunate in his heart. Even though hatred Gu was progressing towards rank nine and Qing Chou was getting stronger, without any wisdom, no matter how strong it was, it was still toyed around by Spectral Soul.
Even after using Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship, Fang Yuan still felt helpless. This was something that had never happened before.
Fang Yuan was still focusing on retreating, he fought while escaping.
Even though he was the weaker side now, as long as Spectral Soul could not activate a battlefield killer move to trap him, Fang Yuan was still free to escape.
Dragon Palace was the first to break through the heavenly wind qi wall, heading towards Central Continent. Myriad Year Flying Warship did its best to protect it.
Spectral Soul moved behind like a trail of black smoke, following after them closely.
Behind them were Qing Chou's colossal body, crashing through the qi wall and leaving immemorial white heaven, reaching Central Continent.
Qi Sea Ancestor, Qin Ding Ling, and the rest had all left Heavenly Court, they were chasing behind.
When they found that Fang Yuan and the rest had entered Central Continent, Heavenly Court's immortals became anxious.
"This scoundrel Fang Yuan could've traveled through the vast immemorial white heaven but he chose to go to Central Continent. Since he is in trouble, he wants to implicate the innocent people as well, he truly deserves a pitiful death!"
Qi Sea Ancestor snorted coldly: "Fang Yuan has been a problem for too long, if we can kill him this time, it would be the fortune of the people in the world."
As he said that, he used a secret method to tell the main body about their movement.
Fang Yuan immediately understood that Heavenly Court's pursuers were arriving soon. But he had no solution, his speed was greatly dragged down by Spectral Soul.
When Heavenly Court's group arrived, they found that Spectral Soul was suppressing Fang Yuan and Qing Chou.
Qin Ding Ling frowned as she hesitated, telling Qi Sea Ancestor: "Ancestor, please deal with Fang Yuan, kill him with your full strength."
But how could Qi Sea Ancestor attack the main body, he pondered and said: "In this situation, Fang Yuan is weak while Spectral Soul is strong. They are both demonic path overlords, if we deal with Fang Yuan and get hit by his final trump cards, Spectral Soul will be the eventual winner."
Qin Ding Ling shook her head: "Ancestor, you are not familiar with Fang Yuan, he is too crafty, he definitely has methods left unused. Maybe this situation is only a layer of his concealment, we need to kill him now, we cannot give him any opportunities."
Qi Sea Ancestor: "…"
Heavenly Court had suffered too much at Fang Yuan's hands, Qin Ding Ling's wariness and fear towards Fang Yuan surpassed even Spectral Soul!
But thinking about it, when Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was invincible in the world, he did not deal so much damage to Heavenly Court compared to the current Fang Yuan. It was quite easy to understand how Qin Ding Ling and the others felt like this.
Qi Sea Ancestor could only ask the main body secretly, what were they going to do?
If there was no choice, Qi Sea Ancestor would have to expose himself and fight Spectral Soul so that the main body could escape.
Fang Yuan replied: "Don't worry, let me try something first."
Dragon Palace's door opened, a Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body flew out.
Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique flew towards Spectral Soul, the latter's pupils shrank as he retreated immediately.
Bam.
The Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body self-detonated, turning into a large lump of dream realm that floated in the sky, turning into a barrier.
Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship used this chance to pull some distance away from them.
Spectral Soul got around the dream realm as he chased again.
But Qing Chou could not think properly, it got trapped in the dream realm.
Roar—!
The aura of hatred Gu burst out of Qing Chou's body as it broke free from the dream realm, it chased after them again.
"This is?!"
"Qing Chou actually broke away from the dream realm, it was not trapped?"
"It's hatred Gu! [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] has a vague description about it — hatred has no dreams!"
Fang Yuan was also quite shocked about this.
Qing Chou did not have any dream path methods but it used hatred Gu to break free. Dream path was ahead of the current era, it was unstoppable, but it could not stop Qing Chou's hatred Gu?
"Hatred has no dreams… or rather, against rank nine hatred Gu, the dream realm was not big enough?" Fang Yuan had a thought.
It was like the killer move dreamy light smoke, if it landed on Spectral Soul, it would only trap him for some time before he got free, Dragon Palace would shatter from the internal impact.
Dreamy light smoke was too weak against Spectral Soul, but if it rose to rank nine level, the situation would be different.
Even so, when Spectral Soul was attacked with dreamy light smoke, he would still dodge it without hesitation.
He was very fast, moving like a specter, in close distance, it was almost the same as teleportation, it was too hard for dreamy light smoke to hit him.
However, the good thing for Fang Yuan was that Spectral Soul could not deal with dream realms currently.
"I obtained the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique method from Shadow Sect, Spectral Soul definitely knows about it. However, he lacks the crucial Immortal Gu, he cannot use relevant killer moves."
After sensing this, Fang Yuan immediately created many Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies and self-detonated them.
Bang bang bang bang.
In the blink of an eye, Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship were surrounded by dream realms, there was no gap between them.
Spectral Soul snorted coldly, stopping his attacks.
"This Fang Yuan…" Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth, Fang Yuan's method was too shameless, Heavenly Court had no way to deal with it.
"Be careful of Spectral Soul!" Qi Sea Ancestor reminded them.
Fang Yuan suddenly enclosed himself, Heavenly Court's members were in an awkward spot.
Spectral Soul looked at them coldly, Qi Sea Ancestor stood in front of them steadfastly.
Qing Chou growled angrily, it attacked Spectral Soul again without fear.
Spectral Soul said in displeasure: "Lowly beast! Since you want to die, I will grant you your wish."
His body vanished on the spot, at the next moment, he appeared on Qing Chou's back. But right when Spectral Soul was about to attack Qing Chou, a qi path killer move shot towards him.
Spectral Soul had no choice but to resist it, Qing Chou used the chance to move away, it spat out a human-faced lightning ball again, escaping danger.
Spectral Soul looked at Qi Sea Ancestor with a cold gaze. Earlier, Qi Sea Ancestor was the one who attacked him.
Qi Sea Ancestor looked at Spectral Soul warily, at the same time, he explained to Qin Ding Ling: "We cannot let Spectral Soul succeed. He seems to be able to absorb the power of the immemorial soul beast, is it possible for Heavenly Court to capture Qing Chou again?"
Qin Ding Ling sighed: "We have already lost the best opportunity. Qing Chou's strength rose greatly, we need to find another opportunity in order to forcefully refine hatred Gu."
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals did not blame Qi Sea Ancestor for making a move on his own, after all, what he did was very logical. From the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals' perspective, Fang Yuan was trapped in the dream realm now, Qi Sea Ancestor was helping Qing Chou to attack Spectral Soul for the sake of Heavenly Court.
At the next moment, Spectral Soul attacked the Heavenly Court immortals.
Qing Chou followed closely behind him.
The three sided chaotic battle started again, but this time, Heavenly Court took the role of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was temporarily safe, he only had to take note of the moving dream realms. To form a tight defense, he needed to self-detonate Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies to fix any gaps in his defensive line.
Immortal killer move — Yin-yang Great Killer Hands!
Rumble!
With a loud explosion, two huge hands, one black and one white, appeared out of nowhere.
The two hands were so large they could loom over heaven and earth, they had an intrinsic pattern, at this moment, they grabbed at Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul suddenly shouted shrilly, when he appeared again, he was already right in front of Qi Sea Ancestor. At the center of the yin-yang hands where Spectral Soul was originally at, there was an immemorial soul beast.
Spectral Soul shot out a wave of black smoke that landed on Qi Sea Ancestor.
Immortal killer move — Heavenly Combat Cloak!
Qi Sea Ancestor retreated, heavenly combat cloak melted from the effect of the black smoke, but this strange move was blocked after all.
Even though Qi Sea Ancestor was a newly created clone of Fang Yuan's, he had incredible strength from originally being Heavenly Court's qi harvest fruit. With sufficient qi path Immortal Gu, his battle strength was not any lower than before.
Even so, Qi Sea Ancestor was suppressed by Spectral Soul, the situation was getting increasingly passive.
Qin Ding Ling led the Heavenly Court immortals to help Qi Sea Ancestor, she also ordered Spirit Affinity House to send Feng Jin Huang over to the fight.
Feng Jin Huang had dream path Immortal Gu, she could use pure dream reality seeker transformation to break Fang Yuan's defensive line.
Qin Ding Ling's target had always been Fang Yuan!
Fang Yuan's main body hid inside Dragon Palace as he watched the battle, using all of his time to refine as many heaven path dao marks as possible.
"Master, we have arrived!" During the chaotic battle, Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan led their group as they entered the battlefield.
Before Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals could react to it, far away, someone flew over as well.
"Let this old man join in the fun as well."
It was Demon Immortal Qi Jue!
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Chapter 2034 Everyone Wants to Kill Fang Yuan
In this three sided chaotic battle, the appearance of Fairy Zi Wei's group and Demon Immortal Qi Jue made the situation increasingly complex.
"Go and block Heavenly Court." Spectral Soul ordered.
Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan quickly attacked with killer moves, the shining wave of attacks assaulted Qin Ding Ling and the rest with ferocity.
Other than Qi Sea Ancestor, Qin Ding Ling and the rest were all inside their Immortal Gu Houses, they were not afraid of Spectral Soul's reinforcements.
Heavenly Court's immortals were only furious, they were not angry about Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan's betrayal but the fact that he used a vicious method to enslave them.
Heavenly Court believed in Fairy Zi Wei's and Old Man Zheng Yuan's loyalty. They knew that it was because of Spectral Soul that they betrayed Heavenly Court.
Spectral Soul snickered: "How does it feel to fight against your former allies? It will be up to you to save them, if you miss this opportunity, you will likely never have another chance in the future."
Heavenly Court's immortals heard this, their attacks halted for a moment.
Qin Ding Ling had sharp brows, she frowned as she ordered: "Spectral Soul wants to make us unwilling to attack, he is stalling for time. Forget about Zi Wei's and Zheng Yuan's lives, killing them is the same as releasing them from this predicament!"
At the crucial moment, Qin Ding Ling displayed the foresight of a leader, she showed her resolute nature.
Spectral Soul heard this, he frowned lightly.
He started to act more quickly, attacking Qing Chou again.
Fighting against him, Qing Chou soon got suppressed.
"Stop him!" Seeing that Spectral Soul was trying the same thing again to extract Qing Chou's strength, Qin Ding Ling shouted: "Ancestor, please stop him!"
Even without her reminder, Qi Sea Ancestor had already flown towards Spectral Soul.
But at the next moment, a gush of qi currents flew out like a heavenly river, obstructing Qi Sea Ancestor.
Qi Sea Ancestor stopped his movement, he looked at the attacker: "Qi Jue!"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue smiled lightly, blocking his path: "Qi Sea, our previous battle was interrupted by Heavenly Court, that was not satisfying. Let us fight fairly this time."
The hearts of Heavenly Court's immortals sank.
At the crucial moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue actually came to help Spectral Soul!
What sort of agreement did they make?
Fairy Zi Wei was surprised too, Demon Immortal Qi Jue was definitely an unexpectedly strong reinforcement!
Purple light flickered in her eyes as she realized: "Long ago, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had already started buying all sorts of inheritances in treasure yellow heaven of various paths. He is from the Olden Antiquity Era, he revived after the destruction of fate Gu. Using these inheritances, he can catch up to the current great era!"
"The reason why Qi Jue is helping us is likely because master made a deal with him, he sold a large number of inheritances."
Fairy Zi Wei made an accurate guess.
Even though Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not expose his identity in treasure yellow heaven, he did not conceal himself either, his intentions were clearly known to everyone.
Since Heavenly Court could notice Demon Immortal Qi Jue's actions, why wouldn't Spectral Soul?
Because of historical reasons, Demon Immortal Qi Jue would not cooperate with Heavenly Court. But Spectral Soul was also in the demonic path, he had a vast number of inheritances, he was the most ideal person to transact with Qi Jue.
"Fang Yuan, you cannot escape today." Spectral Soul smiled coldly, he arrived at Qing Chou's back again.
At the next moment, he attacked!
Qing Chou growled angrily but its strength was being absorbed by Spectral Soul. As an immemorial soul beast, even with the quasi-rank nine hatred Gu, Qing Chou was completely countered by Spectral Soul.
Qing Chou's aura fell greatly while Spectral Soul became more energized and lively.
After he finished his absorption, he kicked, Qing Chou fell towards the ground.
Next, he charged towards Fang Yuan at lightning speed.
Immortal killer move — Pure Dream Reality Seeker Transformation!
The dream realms surrounding Dragon Palace had a huge chunk missing, they turned into Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies as they flew into Spectral Soul's immortal aperture.
Spectral Soul actually had enough Immortal Gu to unleash the killer move, pure dream reality seeker transformation!
He had purposely let Fang Yuan go earlier without using this move, now that he got rid of Qing Chou, he let his reinforcements block Heavenly Court and Qi Sea Ancestor while he finally went after Fang Yuan!
All the immortals were shaken.
The battle had been in Spectral Soul's grasp since the start.
In history, Spectral Soul was renowned for his killing intent, but that did not mean that he could only kill to solve his problems. He was aloof, crafty, and vicious, but when he was alive, he had no need to use any of these methods, his own strength was sufficient to kill all problems.
But now that Spectral Soul's strength was not much higher than his enemies, he started to use various methods to complement his battle strength.
At once, a large number of dream realms were reclaimed by Spectral Soul.
Fairy Zi Wei and the rest fought against Heavenly Court while Qi Sea Ancestor battled Demon Immortal Qi Jue, facing a disadvantage.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue had the secluded domain of heaven and earth, 'Xi', he resisted Qi Sea Ancestor, who cultivated qi path.
The situation was critical, Fang Yuan could not use the dream realms to stop his enemies anymore.
The door of Dragon Palace suddenly opened, several Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies flew out of his dream realm defensive line, directly heading for Spectral Soul.
Boom boom boom.
The Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies self-detonated, creating dream realms in the air.
Spectral Soul quickly dodged them, he managed to avoid being trapped by the dream realms.
But using this chance, Wu Shuai moved Dragon Palace out of the dream realm circle through one of the gaps, with Myriad Year Flying Warship following behind closely.
The intent of the two Immortal Gu Houses was obvious.
"Where are you trying to go?!" Spectral Soul shouted as he got past the dream realms, approaching them again.
Fang Yuan was his main target, he needed to be killed.
This was a prime opportunity, Spectral Soul was going to follow Fang Yuan no matter where he went.
Spectral Soul stared at Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship, his eyes flickering with killing intent and determination!
At the next moment, Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship split up, they escaped in two directions.
Spectral Soul was dazed.
What should he do?
When Myriad Year Flying Warship and Dragon Palace were inside the ring of dream realms, they were isolated from the outside, Spectral Soul had no idea which one Fang Yuan was hiding in.
There was only one Spectral Soul, he could not chase after both Immortal Gu Houses.
But Spectral Soul made his decision almost instantly, he shouted: "Demon Immortal Qi Jue, chase after Myriad Year Flying Warship! After we succeed, I will not stint on your reward."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue chuckled as he used Xi Land to absorb one of Qi Sea Ancestor's killer moves, he easily moved away and chased after Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Spectral Soul went after Dragon Palace instead.
After receiving his orders, Fairy Zi Wei started to retreat.
"What do we do?" Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals asked Qin Ding Ling.
Qin Ding Ling looked at Fairy Zi Wei and the rest, saying without hesitation: "Kill Fang Yuan first!"
But the problem that Spectral Soul faced earlier was also happening to Heavenly Court, which Immortal Gu House was Fang Yuan in?
"Do we just pick one and gamble on our luck?" Qin Ding Ling frowned, even though she was not willing to do that, Heavenly Court lacked wisdom path Gu Immortals, they could only do this.
"I can help you people." Fairy Zi Wei suddenly stopped her movement as she said: "I have a way to deduce Fang Yuan's location."
Heavenly Court's immortals were dazed.
"What method? How long will it take?" Qi Sea Ancestor asked.
"With our help, it will only take a moment." Bing Sai Chuan's voice resounded, everyone turned around, seeing that Calamity Luck Altar had arrived.
"They finally arrived." Fairy Zi Wei let out a breath of air.
She was obviously the one who asked the Longevity Heaven members to come. Earlier, Fairy Zi Wei and the rest received orders from Spectral Soul to deceive Longevity Heaven and assault Heavenly Court on their own. But the situation changed too quickly, on the way here, Fairy Zi Wei analyzed the situation and made the plan to use Longevity Heaven's strength.
After getting Spectral Soul's permission, Fairy Zi Wei contacted Longevity Heaven immediately.
As Calamity Luck Altar approached, Bing Sai Chuan said: "Our lord said that this world does not need too many chess players."
The immortals' hearts shook.
Bing Sai Chuan's lord was obviously Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
All the signs showed that this venerable had deep aspirations, he still had abundant will and strength left in the world.
In the current situation, Fang Yuan was the most likely person to become venerable. Immortal zombie Giant Sun did not want this to happen, thus, he changed his plan and decided to kill Fang Yuan before he could grow fully!
Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth, she was stuck at a difficult contemplation.
Cooperate with Spectral Soul and Longevity Heaven?
The former was a demonic path venerable, the latter was a strong foe during the fate war, they were all responsible for the destruction of fate!
Ally with them?
Qin Ding Ling only thought about it for a few breaths of time before she squeezed out a word: "Alright."
Like what Bing Sai Chuan said earlier, there was no need for too many chess players in the world. Fang Yuan was destined to be their enemy, he was a walking treasure chest, everyone wanted to kill him first, after that, Heavenly Court would deal with Spectral Soul and Giant Sun!
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Chapter 2035 Qing Clan“s Revenge
Rough winds howled in the desert, while the oasis carried a warm breeze.
Sandstones piled into a mountain as hot steam rose. There was a calm lake beneath the sandstones, green trees were growing as their leaves rustled under the evening wind, creating the scene of a paradise in Western Desert.
Western Desert's Qing clan's base was situated at this oasis that was called the 'Qing oasis'.
Qing clan's Gu Immortals were all gathered in a hall. On the icy cold floor of the hall, there were several fragments of Gu worms, all of the Qing clan Gu Immortals were fixing their gazes on these fragments.
"Qing Heng's life tablet Gu shattered?!"
"What is happening?"
"Qing Heng died, he had left to hunt the Southern Border Gu Immortal Ming You. Did he really die at Ming You's hands?"
Qing Heng was a rank seven expert of Qing clan, even though he was sent by the clan to kill Ming You, the clan was very confident in him. Recently for some reason, news that Qing clan obtained Divine Bean Palace had spread, all the other super forces were probing them. With Qing Heng's death, Qing clan became suspicious about the truth, was this a test by the Western Desert forces?
"Report—! We have accurate information, Ming You was the one who killed Qing Heng, he has great strength and acts ruthlessly."
Qing clan flew into a rage.
"This Gu Immortal from another region has gone too far!"
"We need to kill this Ming You, we will grind his bones to dust, we will show the other Western Desert super forces the consequences of offending our Qing clan!"
"Before killing him, we should capture this Ming You and invite the other Western Desert Gu Immortals to watch. Only by pulling out his tendons and ripping his skin in public, to humiliate and torture him to death, can I feel satisfied from this revenge."
"Kill!"
"Kill him!"
"He is merely a Gu Immortal from another region, he came to Western Desert alone, he actually dared to kill our Gu Immortal, he truly has no fear of heaven and earth."
"Even though Ming You was able to kill Qing Heng, he only has rank seven cultivation level, if first supreme elder takes action, it would be too excessive, rumors would also spread that our Qing clan is bullying the weak. In my opinion, we should send out Qing Jing and Qing Hua Lan."
"No, to play safe, we should send Qing Chen as well. With three immortals, they will definitely be able to capture that Ming You alive!"
"Let him experience regret and pain."
"Hurry! Don't let that scoundrel escape."
"Kill Ming You, display the might of Qing clan!"
"Ming You must die, when our clan refines Divine Bean Palace in the future, our Qing clan will stand at the top of Western Desert's Gu Immortal world!!"
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These sentences echoed in Qing Chou's ears, the scenes of the past flashed in Qing Chou's mind.
Different from its usual fragmented memories, this time, its memory was very clear and complete. At the same time, the hatred in its heart surged in a tsunami, rampaging in Qing Chou's entire body and mind.
Hatred!
Deep hatred!
Feeling increasingly intense hatred, Qing Chou opened its eyes.
Time flew by quickly, countless years had passed since then.
Qing Chou's eyes were bloodshot.
It found that it was still lying on the ground, recalling that when fighting Spectral Soul earlier, it was sent flying to the ground, crashing and falling unconscious.
"Roar!"
Qing Chou roared as it stood up within the deep pit.
The rank nine aura of hatred Gu became even denser, the power of hatred surged throughout Qing Chou's body.
"Ming You, Ming You!"
"Spectral Soul, Spectral Soul!"
Qing Chou roared towards the sky, its eyes were covered in rage, its hair was disheveled, even though Spectral Soul had already gone after Dragon Palace, the power of hatred Gu allowed Qing Chou to locate Spectral Soul easily without a problem.
Rumble!
Qing Chou had a mountain-like tortoise shell, tiger claws and dragon tail, as well as a snake neck and human head, it flew up rapidly as winds surrounded it, charging towards the direction of Spectral Soul. As for Fairy Zi Wei and the rest who were creating a formation in the sky, it ignored them.
Among these Gu Immortals in the sky, there was one elderly Gu Immortal, he had wide sleeves and fluttering white hair, he was Fang Yuan's clone, Qi Sea Ancestor.
Seeing that Qing Chou was flying away, Qi Sea Ancestor let out a breath of air, no longer worried.
Earlier in Western Desert, even though Fang Yuan used familiar face to transform, he was still chased by Qing Chou.
Qing Chou possessed hatred Gu, because of the influence of karma divine tree, it had an intense connection to Spectral Soul and everyone related to him.
Fang Yuan's main body could not deceive Qing Chou while Qi Sea Ancestor was Fang Yuan's clone, he would definitely be sensed by Qing Chou as well.
But now, Spectral Soul and Fang Yuan were enemies, they wanted each other to die, thus, because of their changed relationship, Qing Chou no longer went after him.
"Even though Qing Chou's threat is gone, Fairy Zi Wei is still a big problem." Qi Sea Ancestor cast his gaze at Fairy Zi Wei.
Fairy Zi Wei wore a purple-gold dress, she had a graceful figure with hair that extended to her waist. She moved mysteriously as she flew in the sky, her fingers fluttering like butterflies in the sky, countless Gu worms were sent out and used together, in the sky, an amazing wisdom path immortal formation was already taking shape, one could see its form already.
Old Man Zheng Yuan assisted at the side.
Qin Ding Ling, Che Wei, and the other Heavenly Court Gu Immortals looked at Fairy Zi Wei, they had complex emotions, there was hatred, anger, pity, and sadness.
There was a round altar that was almost in contact with the wisdom path formation, floating in the sky. It had white jade railings and shining aurora, this was rank eight Immortal Gu House Calamity Luck Altar.
Calamity Luck Altar was controlled by Bing Sai Chuan, he had a sharp gaze as he looked at Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals and Qi Sea Ancestor, not daring to relax his mind.
Calamity Luck Altar protected Fairy Zi Wei and the rest, as well as the wisdom path formation.
Longevity Heaven, who represented Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, had already cooperated with Spectral Soul's Shadow Sect long ago.
"Fang Yuan has the potential to become a venerable, we cannot let him do as he pleases. If such a person becomes a venerable, it will not benefit any of us." Bing Sai Chuan transmitted, he tried to convince Qi Sea Ancestor, Qin Ding Ling, and the rest, not knowing that Fang Yuan's clone was right here.
Qin Ding Ling only listened to him, she did not reply.
The winds howled around her, causing her cape to flutter, she wore a tight golden armor and was tall and grand, she had a valiant demeanor.
She stared at the wisdom path formation at times, looking at the dream realms occasionally.
This dream realm was left behind by Fang Yuan. He had originally tried to use the dream realms to stop his enemies, but Spectral Soul plotted against him instead. Fang Yuan had to escape from this battlefield, this dream realm was left behind, shining and moving on its own continuously.
"Where is Fang Yuan now? I only saw that Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship flew out of the dream realm and escaped the battlefield. There is a third possibility, he is still hiding in this dream realm!" Qin Ding Ling thought to herself.
Precisely because of this reason, she stayed behind to guard this dream realm.
Fang Yuan was too crafty, even though staying in the dream realm seemed stupid, there was a chance that Fang Yuan might do this purposely.
Seeing that the wisdom path formation was completing, Qi Sea Ancestor felt increasing pressure.
"I can't wait anymore!" Thoughts collided in Qi Sea Ancestor's mind, he thought: "Looking at Fairy Zi Wei's attitude, with Bai Ning Bing and Ying Wu Xie at the lead, this formation might likely deduce the main body's location. The main body does not have much foundation in information path, otherwise, if we could break our connection with Bai Ning Bing and Hei Lou Lan, even three of Fairy Zi Wei combined would not be able to do anything."
"Fairy Zi Wei and the rest have great strength, with Calamity Luck Altar's defense and Bing Sai Chuan's wariness towards Heavenly Court, if I attack now, I will not be able to destroy the formation, Heavenly Court would instead get suspicious of me."
The Qi Sea clone was powerful, but he could not turn this situation around alone and suppress everyone, the key person now was still Qin Ding Ling!
Qi Sea Ancestor listened to Bing Sai Chuan's words while asking Qin Ding Ling in secret: "Looking at this situation, Shadow Sect and Longevity Heaven think highly of this formation. But can we trust them? Regardless of whether Fairy Zi Wei can deduce a result successfully, the formation is still under her control. If she tells us a location, how do we ensure that it is right? Will Fairy Zi Wei hide anything from us?"
The Qi Sea clone started to sow discord, he could not let Bing Sai Chuan ally with the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals too. Otherwise, the main body would face the pressure of Shadow Sect, Longevity Heaven, and Heavenly Court, it would be too much!
If this was the Heavenly Court from Fang Yuan's previous life, they would definitely have no inclination to work with other forces.
But fate Gu was destroyed by Fang Yuan, Heavenly Court lost their greatest spiritual banner, they also suffered many setbacks and lost a lot of reputation. One could say that their title of the number one human force was already undeserved, they faced a lot of criticism.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were all elites, they learned from this lesson and started to change. Qin Ding Ling was the leader of Heavenly Court, she started to gather help and put down her pride, earlier, when Qin Ding Ling took the initiative to help Qi Sea Ancestor chase away Demon Immortal Qi Jue, it was the best proof of this.
Thus, the probability that Heavenly Court, Shadow Sect, and Longevity Heaven would work together was not low.
The Qi Sea clone's words were very effective, Heavenly Court and Fairy Zi Wei could not trust each other. This way, even if Fairy Zi Wei's deduction succeeded, it would not have any meaning.
Qin Ding Ling was silent for a while before transmitting to Qi Sea Ancestor: "I would like ancestor to go and chase after Dragon Palace and Spectral Soul."
Qi Sea Ancestor was slightly dazed: "Do you know the location of Fang Yuan already?"
"I don't." Qin Ding Ling smiled at Qi Sea Ancestor.
The Qi Sea clone looked at Qin Ding Ling deeply in the eye, he realized that Qin Ding Ling knew what she was doing, she had never trusted Shadow Sect's Fairy Zi Wei or Longevity Heaven, trusting them was stupid. The reason she stayed behind was to guard the dream realm and also rest and recover.
Heavenly Court lacked a peak rank eight battle strength, after leaving Heavenly Court, they also lost their territorial advantage. They seemed powerful and had great morale but if they were careless, they would suffer huge losses.
Heavenly Court could not afford to lose anymore!
Qin Ding Ling had to be vigilant and careful.
Right now, Spectral Soul was chasing Dragon Palace, Qing Chou was chasing Spectral Soul, while Demon Immortal Qi Jue was chasing Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Qin Ding Ling knew that Demon Immortal Qi Jue, who had Xi Land, was Qi Sea Ancestor's greatest counter, even if Fang Yuan was inside Myriad Year Flying Warship, Qi Sea Ancestor would not be able to do anything to Demon Immortal Qi Jue even if he went there.
Instead, if Qi Sea Ancestor chased after Spectral Soul, he would be able to influence the situation.
From Heavenly Court's perspective, Fang Yuan was someone who needed to die, Shadow Sect or Longevity Heaven were enemies as well. But Heavenly Court's strength was not like before, they were very weak, even though Qi Sea Ancestor was on their side, he was still not their member after all.
Qin Ding Ling sighed deeply: "Fang Yuan is too crafty, even though him splitting up seemed simple, it allowed the pressure on him to decrease greatly, we have no choice but to stay behind and temporarily stop chasing him."
"Spectral Soul is stronger than Demon Immortal Qi Jue, if he kills Fang Yuan and gets everything, this former Demon Venerable will rise up again!"
"Qi Sea Ancestor, we hope you can think for the sake of everyone in the world, let these two demons fight it out while our righteous path remains victorious in the end."
Qin Ding Ling was a talented leader after all! Even though she was leading a weaker Heavenly Court, she had never given up, she made plans to try and raise their chances of victory as much as possible.
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Chapter 2036 Strong, Weak
"Go." Fairy Zi Wei called out as her fingers moved rapidly, producing countless shadows. The killer move activated, a thousand Gu worms flew out and turned into a vague purple shadow that filled up the final blank area of the wisdom path formation.
The Gu Immortals watched were all first rate Gu Immortals in the entire five regions, seeing this, they could not help but admit that Fairy Zi Wei was very skilled at setting up formations.
Fairy Zi Wei let out a breath of air, perspiration gathering on her forehead.
Her eyes stared at the formation before her, at this point, it was time to add in the core Immortal Gu.
This situation was quite peculiar, Fairy Zi Wei was setting up the formation in front of many strong foes. There was a chance that these Gu Immortals might attack her during the process, thus, Fairy Zi Wei used a rare method for this arrangement, she first placed the mortal Gu and set up a bare framework first, before filling it up with Immortal Gu at the end.
Fairy Zi Wei temporarily stopped her actions to catch a breather, she looked at Qin Ding Ling and Calamity Luck Altar.
Calamity Luck Altar was shining in brilliant light, the Gu Immortal controlling the Immortal Gu House, Bing Sai Chuan, knew about her worries, he transmitted: "With my protection, you can rest assured, quickly set up the formation."
Fairy Zi Wei did not have Fang Yuan's formation flag Gu, otherwise, she would not need to set up this formation each time.
She knew that time was running out, after hearing Bing Sai Chuan's words, she started to put Immortal Gu into the formation.
Each time an Immortal Gu was placed, the formation would shake once and shine in a beautiful purple light, the scene was incredibly beautiful, it was a pity that none of the Gu Immortals had the mood to appreciate it.
Inside Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan stared at the formation, guarding against any potential threats that would attack, he broke the silence as he said: "Hei Lou Lan, you have been with Fang Yuan for a long time, what do you think he would do in this situation?"
Hei Lou Lan was standing right beside Bing Sai Chuan, even though she was a woman, her face had strong contours, she possessed sharp and long brows, bright eyes and a heroic aura.
Hei Lou Lan heard the question, she thought about it and said: "Fang Yuan only has three options, Dragon Palace, Myriad Year Flying Warship, or to stay in the dream realm.
"Hiding in the dream realm is too risky for Fang Yuan. Not only can Spectral Soul take the dream realm away, Heavenly Court also has ways to deal with the dream realm. If I were Fang Yuan, I would not stay here and wait for death."
"Of course…" Hei Lou Lan smiled helplessly: "This is not guaranteed to be the case, thus, Heavenly Court chose to stay by the dream realm. Fairy Zi Wei has also stayed behind to make deductions using the formation, she is also observing the dream realm. She is a wisdom path great expert, she knows that she cannot interfere with the two Immortal Gu Houses, she is most needed here."
"Myriad Year Flying Warship is faster than Dragon Palace, this can deceive the enemy, but I do not think that Fang Yuan would hide inside it. This is because Myriad Year Flying Warship is still slower than Spectral Soul, but its defense is lower than Dragon Palace. If Spectral Soul chooses to chase Myriad Year Flying Warship and attack it, Myriad Year Flying Warship would not last as long as Dragon Palace."
Hei Lou Lan smiled coldly: "During the fate war, Fang Yuan lost his Twelve Zodiac battle formation, if it were still around, he would likely escape in Myriad Year Flying Warship. Thus, I think that Fang Yuan is most likely hiding inside Dragon Palace!"
Hei Lou Lan had an eerie gaze: "Spectral Soul likely thinks the same too, that is why he chased Dragon Palace while asking Demon Immortal Qi Jue to go after Myriad Year Flying Warship, he made precautions for both situations. Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal body originated from Spectral Soul, he also has all of Spectral Soul's dream realms. If Spectral Soul can kill him and reclaim the sovereign immortal body and the dream realms, he will rise up once again!"
"Even though we want to kill Fang Yuan, we cannot let Spectral Soul succeed. Even though Shadow Sect is working with us now, they have ill intentions. After all, Fairy Zi Wei managed to deduce the fact Fang Yuan was in Heavenly Court but they kept it from us, allowing Spectral Soul to attack Heavenly Court alone. Only when they needed our reinforcement did they call for us."
"Thus, in my opinion, we should just watch from the side and exert influence on the situation. If possible, it will be best if we can take down Spectral Soul, Fang Yuan, and Heavenly Court in one move!"
"Hahaha." Bing Sai Chuan laughed loudly, praising: "Good analysis! Quite impressive. Northern Plains' Hei tribe was too disappointing, but you live up to Giant Sun's bloodline. I'll tell you the truth, after I woke up, I received information about you. After observing you for some time, I can say that you are a genius! It was just that your life was quite tough, you were schemed against by your father and suppressed by Fang Yuan, you merely lacked an opportunity to develop, otherwise, you would not be in this state."
Hei Lou Lan heard the praise, her gaze focused on Bing Sai Chuan's face.
Bing Sai Chuan had a tall body, his face was gentle but there was an ugly scar extending from his right ear to his left cheek. He originally had a cold expression but now, he looked at Hei Lou Lan with admiration and satisfaction.
Hei Lou Lan's heart jumped, an intense feeling appeared in her heart. Bing Sai Chuan's appreciation towards her ability was probably the most valuable fortuitous encounter in her life!
After realizing that, Hei Lou Lan did not hesitate anymore, she stood straight and cupped her fists: "I will listen to lord's orders!"
Bing Sai Chuan laughed loudly, before stopping as he looked at Hei Lou Lan with a solemn and serious gaze: "Good, Hei Lou Lan, are you willing to rebuild Northern Plains' Hei tribe?"
Northern Plains' Hei tribe had been taken down long ago, it was now occupied by Heavenly Lord Bai Zu to develop his tribe. Hei tribe's Gu Immortals even became members of Bai Zu tribe, they were simply the disgrace of the Huang Jin bloodline.
Hei Lou Lan expressed her willingness to do so no matter what.
"But I am currently too weak…" Hei Lou Lan purposely showed a hesitant expression filled with difficulty.
Bing Sai Chuan waved his hand as he tossed her a Gu worm.
Hei Lou Lan quickly received it, she saw that this rank seven Immortal Gu looked like a black and gold beetle, it was very heavy, Hei Lou Lan did not recognize it at once.
Bing Sai Chuan explained: "Hei Lou Lan, you have the Great Strength True Martial Physique, you should cultivate solely strength path, your future will be very bright. You have our Huang Jin bloodline, you are a Northern Plainsman from birth, I am sure you will not disappoint me, we will not stint on your strength path resources from now on. Take this strong Gu first, even though it is rule path, it suits you very well."
"Strong Gu?!" Hei Lou Lan's body shook.
"Alright, Fairy Zi Wei's formation is ready, go inside first." Bing Sai Chuan instructed.
Hei Lou Lan left Calamity Luck Altar and went into the formation.
She had a plain expression but her heart was filled with deep emotions and turbulence. Strong Gu was recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], it had a close connection to the Great Strength True Martial Physique. Bing Sai Chuan gave this legendary Immortal Gu to Hei Lou Lan, it showed how much he wanted to nurture her.
Hei Lou Lan realized in her heart: "It seems that my life is going to undergo a huge change now!"
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]], chapter five, section thirty-one states —
Ren Zu lost freedom Gu, he was anguished and only recovered after a long time.
Ren Zu was troubled, he asked cognition Gu: "Oh cognition Gu, how can I obtain freedom Gu again? After what happened last time, freedom Gu will not approach me anymore."
Cognition Gu answered: "Oh human, why do you desire freedom Gu so much?"
Ren Zu replied irritably: "Don't you know the reason already? I am searching for freedom in order to break free of the restraints of fate."
Cognition Gu answered once again: "Then I have nothing much to tell you. Haven't you told fate Gu the answer to this question already?"
Ren Zu was dazed before he recalled.
Before he went insane, he met fate Gu. When he was harmed by fate Gu, he shouted at it that he would use his own strength and wisdom to obtain freedom, he would eventually break free from fate's control!
Ren Zu's eyes brightened: "Oh Gu, I remember now, thank you for the reminder. I need to rely on myself to break free of fate. I already have my own strength, what I lack is my own wisdom. I need to let self Gu eat a mouthful of wisdom Gu, just like how it ate a part of strength Gu in the past."
"But where is wisdom Gu?" Ren Zu asked cognition Gu.
Cognition Gu: "I do not know. Wisdom Gu has been to many places, its location is not fixed. You can find wisdom in countless places, so human, you need to find it yourself."
Ren Zu nodded as he set off on his journey again.
He walked and walked and walked, one day, he saw two Gu worms chasing each other along the road.
One Gu worm was white and tiny, it escaped ahead as it begged for mercy: "Stop chasing me, stop chasing me, I do not want to be eaten by you."
The other Gu was clearly larger in size, it had thick armor and said in a deep tone: "I want to eat you, I want to eat you! No matter where you escape to, I will eat you!"
The tiny white Gu was about to be caught by the larger Gu behind, it suddenly saw Ren Zu and hid behind him: "Oh human, I beg of you, quickly save me."
Ren Zu saw that this Gu worm was so pitiful, it was chased by another Gu worm, unable to fend for itself, he felt like he was seeing himself.
At this instance, a new heart grew in his chest — the heart of sympathy.
Ren Zu stretched out both arms as he stopped the larger Gu: "Stop, stop chasing it."
The armored Gu shouted: "Hey human, are you obstructing me? No, you cannot stop me, you are unable to stop me."
"Why is that so?" Ren Zu was curious.
The armored Gu explained: "I am strong Gu, that is weak Gu. Since time immemorial, the rule of nature is that the strong prey on the weak. Thus, strong must eat weak, weaklings are the food of the strong."
Ren Zu sighed as he tried to convince the Gu: "Then why don't you let it off just this once, look at how pitiful it is."
Strong Gu sneered: "Not even once! In the eyes of the strong, weaklings have no stature, there is no sympathy for the weak. This is because heaven and earth will never pity the weak, it will only marvel at the incredible feats of the strong. Weaklings are born to be subdued, controlled, and devoured by the strong."
Ren Zu saw that his words fell on deaf ears, he could only deny strong Gu forcefully: "I have already saved this Gu, go and eat others."
Strong Gu knew that it could not beat Ren Zu alone, it could only fly away in dissatisfaction: "I will be back."
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Chapter 2037 Myriad Destruction Lightning Fores
Bai Ning Bing, Ying Wu Xie, and the rest went into the formation one by one, finally, Fairy Zi Wei also went to the center of the formation, activating it.
The deduction was beginning.
Qi Sea Ancestor did not move, he stayed at the original spot.
"If I take action now to destroy the formation, will it help my main body?" Qi Sea Ancestor analyzed, he estimated his chances.
Once the formation was damaged or even destroyed, the Gu Immortals inside would suffer backlash, but Qi Sea Ancestor could not be certain of the exact effect.
Furthermore, if Qi Sea Ancestor struck now, the secret that he was Fang Yuan's clone would be exposed for sure.
"If only I could convince Qin Ding Ling and the rest to strike together." Qi Sea Ancestor sighed internally.
Even though Qin Ding Ling was not a wisdom path great expert, she was not so easy to deceive. Qi Sea Ancestor did not even dare to say anything odd now, otherwise, Heavenly Court might find out the truth instead.
"Ancestor, time is pressing, you need to consider the big picture!" Qin Ding Ling was secretly sending transmissions to him, trying to convince Qi Sea Ancestor. She wanted him to chase after Dragon Palace and Spectral Soul, but Qi Sea Ancestor started to talk about payment instead.
Qi Sea Ancestor sighed: "Fairy Qin, precisely because of the big picture, I am being shameless in asking you for the three qi Immortal Gu. My methods are all known by the enemies, only with these Immortal Gu can I gain a boost in strength and catch the enemies by surprise. For the sake of the people, for the righteousness of humanity, I hope you will consider the big picture and give those three Immortal Gu to me."
Qin Ding Ling mentally rolled her eyes, this Qi Sea Ancestor was not just shameless, he was incomparably so, using this opportunity to ask for huge compensation. He wanted three rank eight Immortal Gu at once, the cores of Primordial Origin's true inheritance! He was simply too greedy.
But Qin Ding Ling had many worries now, if she fell out with Qi Sea Ancestor, Heavenly Court would not have any peak rank eight battle strength, they would likely be targeted by Shadow Sect and Longevity Heaven.
Qi Sea clone purposely chose this current situation to exert pressure on Qin Ding Ling.
Qin Ding Ling sighed: "Qi Sea Ancestor, why must you force us now? Back then, in Eastern Sea, who helped you to resist Demon Immortal Qi Jue?"
Qi Sea Ancestor replied: "If we want to talk about favors, I am sure you all owe me more. I have already gotten rid of Heavenly Court's biggest threat, the qi harvest fruit is gone now. Also, in this battle, I have never slacked off, I took risks alongside all of you."
Qin Ding Ling was silent for a while before she replied solemnly: "I can give heaven qi and earth qi Immortal Gu to you, but human qi Immortal Gu is out of the question. This is the bottom line of Heavenly Court, please understand our circumstances, ancestor."
Qi Sea Ancestor accepted the result.
The truth was, the Qi Sea clone did not think he would get all three qi Immortal Gu to begin with. They were all rank eight Immortal Gu connected to Primordial Origin true inheritance, they were too valuable, far beyond the value of the supposed payment. Heavenly Court could have used other resources to pay him, but because the situation was really urgent now, the Qi Sea clone fought for the greatest benefit.
Of course, the fact that Qin Ding Ling gave the two qi path rank eight Immortal Gu to Qi Sea Ancestor on the spot caused all of the Gu Immortals to gasp in amazement.
Qi Sea Ancestor obtained two Immortal Gu, he said his goodbyes to the Heavenly Court immortals as he chased after Dragon Palace immediately.
"I finally got him to work." Qin Ding Ling felt very tired, but this outcome was not too bad. She would not give all three qi Immortal Gu to Qi Sea Ancestor, she had to keep at least one to use as bait against him.
Furthermore, Qi Sea Ancestor obtained two qi Immortal Gu, he only needed human qi Immortal Gu to be able to use the killer move triple qi retraction, this temptation was probably even greater now that he had two of them.
Dragon Palace flew rapidly in the wild winds.
In the dream realm earlier, Wu Shuai got sufficient time to put all his effort into repairing Dragon Palace, at least from the outside, it looked restored.
"The damage to the core Immortal Gu cannot be resolved quickly, this is already my limit!" Wu Shuai was very worried.
Behind Dragon Palace, a female rank eight soul path immortal was chasing it relentlessly.
It was Spectral Soul who was inside Lady Cold Ash's body. He emanated black qi as he surged with killing intent, he locked onto Dragon Palace without any signs of hesitation or giving up.
"You cannot escape, Fang Yuan! Even if you escape to the ends of the world, I will definitely kill you." Spectral Soul had just said that when his pupils expanded.
Wherever Spectral Soul's gaze landed, smoke that was pitch black appeared, quickly reaching Dragon Palace.
The smoke expanded rapidly, with a soft sound, it turned into a round spiral that had an immense suction force.
Wu Shuai was controlling Dragon Palace, he was caught by surprise as Dragon Palace's speed fell, it fell towards the black smoke spiral.
"What move is this?!" Wu Shuai gritted his teeth, veins bulged on his forehead as he tried to move Dragon Palace to the sky.
Ever since they fought, Spectral Soul's soul path methods had been endless, it was hard to guard against them. Especially when Spectral Soul was such an expert with abundant experiences, he could use these soul path killer moves beyond their usual limits.
Dragon Palace turned around with difficulty, attempting to fly away from the black smoke spiral from above.
Spectral Soul sneered, he pointed his finger. Black light quickly gathered on his finger, it shot out, instantly hitting the area around Dragon Palace.
The tiny black light expanded rapidly, turning into an immemorial soul beast.
Seeing that the immemorial soul beast was about to pounce on Dragon Palace, Wu Shuai was shocked, his pupils expanded rapidly.
If Dragon Palace got hit, its movement would be obstructed, it would fall into the black spiral along with the immemorial soul beast. In that case, the precious time that Fang Yuan obtained through this tactic would be completely wasted.
At the crucial moment, Wu Shuai shouted, his eyes shined with mysterious dazzling light.
Dragon Palace reacted to it, golden light erupted, a wave of pink smoke rapidly gathered, easily dragging the immemorial soul beast away, into the depths of Dragon Palace. The powerful immemorial soul beast could not resist it at all!
Spectral Soul was not surprised.
This was the dream path killer move — Dreamy Light Smoke.
Wu Shuai got rid of the immemorial soul beast, Dragon Palace managed to fly far above the spiral.
At this time, Spectral Soul's body suddenly appeared near Dragon Palace, his eyes shined with cold light: "I have been waiting for this!"
At the same time, 'Spectral Soul', who was far away, faded into nothingness.
Spectral Soul slammed with his palm, the silhouette of a soul mountain appeared and pressed down on Dragon Palace.
This soul mountain was huge, the top was beyond the clouds, looking from below, Wu Shuai's entire vision was obstructed.
It covered the entire sky!
But the soul mountain's appearance was very familiar to Wu Shuai.
"Isn't this Dang Hun Mountain?" Wu Shuai was shocked and uncertain.
Bam!
With a loud sound, Dang Hun Mountain crashed down on Dragon Palace.
Dragon Palace's beautiful roof met with a devastating blow. Countless tiles shattered, many Gu worms died at once.
And even worse was that due to the impact, even though Dragon Palace struggled, it was slammed into the black smoke spiral by the giant soul mountain.
The spiral surrounded the entirety of Dragon Palace, an immeasurable suction force started acting on it.
Dragon Palace spun around along with the spiral, losing its sense of direction. Wu Shuai had to leave his throne as he tried to think of a way to break out of this situation, but it was hopeless in the short term.
"Don't tell me this is Spectral Soul's truth strength?" Wu Shuai gritted his teeth.
Spectral Soul unleashed several killer moves in succession, Wu Shuai was very tired in trying to deal with them. The great rank eight Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace could not put up a resistance, with Spectral Soul's array of killer moves, he managed to suppress Dragon Palace forcefully.
Wu Shuai stared with furious eyes, he had to try and delay for time, he instilled immortal essence to try and fix the Immortal Gu House, wanting to maintain his defensive position.
"In this situation, the main body's safety is in my hands! But how long can I last?" Wu Shuai was completely unsure at this point.
Fang Yuan's main body was deep inside Dragon Palace.
The heaven path dao marks prevented him from doing anything now. The unlimited qi sea killer move he used earlier against the primordial qi wall was also prepared for a long time, he used human path methods to find a gap in the restriction of the heaven path dao marks, allowing him to make one move.
But with just that action, after breaking the qi wall, the heaven path dao marks reacted and started to obstruct Fang Yuan in another way.
Thankfully, Fang Yuan did not get greedy and quickly stopped using his killer move. Otherwise, the strong interference would cause his killer move to fail, he would suffer intense backlash.
Fang Yuan only found that human path could resist heaven path. Dream path might be effective but his attainment in dream path was not high enough.
Ever since he obtained Heavenly Court's heaven path research results, Fang Yuan had been researching on them.
He was fighting against time!
It was possible that a minute's or even a second's difference would lead to either surviving or dying.
Immortal killer move — Heaven-human Sensation!
Immortal killer move — Human Executing Heaven's Work!
Within the sovereign immortal aperture, Fang Yuan's will mixed with heaven's will, he sensed various heaven path dao marks.
Refine them!
Immortal killer move — Unrestrained Heavenly Mark!
This killer move was meant to deal with heaven path dao marks, Fang Yuan did not care about the cost, he expended rank eight immortal essence rapidly, he quickly refined three heaven path dao marks successfully.
"Wu Shuai, persevere, I have already made a huge breakthrough!" The moment Fang Yuan transmitted to Wu Shuai, a change occurred in the immortal aperture.
Fang Yuan's success infuriated heaven's will.
The heaven path dao marks were like angry beasts, they were originally scattered all over the place, but now they gathered together.
Rumble!
Thunder rumbled as lightning roared, dark clouds formed as wild winds blew.
The heaven path dao marks triggered a huge change, in just a few breaths of time, a tribulation was formed!
At that instant, earth shook as mountains rumbled, lightning flashed and shattered rocks, the earth was crying out in sorrow.
Fang Yuan's heart jumped: "Don't tell me that forcefully refining heaven path dao marks will anger the Heavenly Dao and cause a tribulation to occur? Or maybe the killer move I used has a problem?"
Lightning clouds continued to form and spread out. Soon, they spread over a hundred li, several thousand li, tens of thousands of li, and over a hundred thousand li!
Millions of lightning bolts flickered continuously, this was like a huge forest made of lightning bolts!
Myriad tribulation — Myriad Destruction Lightning Forest!
It was not an earthly calamity, a heavenly tribulation, or a grand tribulation, it was actually a myriad tribulation.
Only a rank eight Gu Immortal could face such a tribulation.
It was a myriad tribulation, they put fear into most rank eight Gu Immortals!
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Chapter 2038 Internal and External Problems
Fang Yuan immediately frowned, as if a huge rock was weighing on his mind, his expression turned grim.
He did not think that a myriad tribulation would occur.
Rank eight Gu Immortals stood at the peak of the Gu Immortal world, but for each one of them, every myriad tribulation was a troublesome hurdle.
In the current Gu Immortal world, most rank eight Gu Immortals have not gone through one myriad tribulation. For example, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu and Yao Huang were like this, even Prince Feng Xian was the same.
Back then, why did Old Ancestor Xue Hu try all means possible to refine fortune rivalling heaven Gu? It was to deal with his first ever myriad tribulation in this life! It was a pity that he created a huge commotion and ended up with a huge loss, not only did Old Ancestor Xue Hu fail to refine fortune rivalling heaven Gu, he even lost the whole of Snowy Mountain blessed land.
Western Desert's Thousand Transformations Ancestor had gone through one myriad tribulation. He survived it by a hairsbreadth, he was forced to recuperate for a long time. During the period, his beloved Fairy Cui Bo was killed by Fang Yuan, yet he could only send Dancer Hong Yun to investigate it.
Beast Calamity Immortal died after suffering heavy injuries from his first myriad tribulation, leaving behind Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
Bo Qing was a rank eight Gu Immortal who had passed two myriad tribulations, Duke Long was too. Throughout history, both of them were top tier experts merely below venerable level.
Even though Fang Yuan possessed over a million dao marks after becoming a rank eight Gu Immortal, the truth was that he used the sovereign immortal aperture's specialty to annex grotto-heavens, he skipped all his myriad tribulations.
Thus, Fang Yuan had not gone through a single myriad tribulation.
In his case, myriad tribulations were still huge problems. And the biggest issue now was that this current situation was really inappropriate to undergo tribulation. Fang Yuan could not estimate how long Wu Shuai could last, after all, Spectral Soul was a terrifying foe that they could not assess!
"I need to refine these heaven path dao marks as soon as possible, only after that can I face Spectral Soul!"
"But to refine heaven path dao marks, I need to undergo myriad tribulation?"
Fang Yuan felt like there was a tsunami now, he went up the mountain to avoid the flood but found out that this was actually a volcano! And now, this volcano was about to erupt.
Externally was Spectral Soul, internally was the myriad tribulation, at this moment, Fang Yuan fell into the greatest predicament of his life so far.
"No, I still have a chance!" Even in this situation, Fang Yuan remained calm, he was not flustered.
At the same time, at another area.
Myriad Year Flying Warship and Demon Immortal Qi Jue were escaping and chasing respectively.
Suddenly, 'Fang Yuan' flew out of Myriad Year Flying Warship, using his killer move with ferocity as he forced back Demon Immortal Qi Jue temporarily.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue immediately used his investigative method, after confirming this, he transmitted to Spectral Soul: "Fang Yuan is here with me, I can't deal with him alone. Come quickly! Otherwise, he might escape."
Spectral Soul heard the news and got stunned for a moment.
"Is Fang Yuan really not in Dragon Palace?" Spectral Soul thought rapidly, his attacks also slowed down as a result.
Right now, even though Dragon Palace was trapped, it was still a rank eight Immortal Gu House, it could last for a while.
Fang Yuan was rushing against time, Spectral Soul was the same. If he wasted time with Dragon Palace, even if he destroyed it, Fang Yuan would escape, then this entire pursuit would fail because he could not meet his goal.
Victory in battle was never important, only the benefits behind it mattered. Combat was just one of the ways to gain benefits, the glory of victory was completely irrelevant to Spectral Soul.
"Fang Yuan has familiar face, he can create a will and give it immortal essence and Immortal Gu to create a false impression of being the main body." Spectral Soul knew about this information, thus he was quite troubled now.
Even though he was strong, far beyond other Gu Immortals, he could be called the number one in the world, but Fang Yuan was crafty and hard to catch, this situation was quite vexing.
Spectral Soul knew he had to be vigilant, otherwise, he would follow in Heavenly Court's footsteps. This Fang Yuan was just too good at escaping!
The sovereign immortal aperture was facing countless lightning bolts, ever since the myriad tribulation formed, it had been attacking non-stop.
Mini Southern Border suffered severe damage!
The Heavenly Dao sought to balance deficit and surplus, which area in the sovereign immortal aperture was the most developed? It was undoubtedly Mini Southern Border. Thus, the Heavenly Dao created this myriad tribulation that targeted Mini Southern Border.
"Myriad tribulation — Myriad Destruction Lightning Forest!" Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, doing his best to make arrangements. He ignored Spectral Soul who was outside now, he let Wu Shuai try to stall for time.
Rumble…
Cloud Bamboo Mountain was completely broken apart into countless pieces by the lightning bolts.
There were eight desolate beast cloud foxes living on the mountain, and eleven desolate plant spear tip bamboos, they were completely wiped from existence by the lightning bolts. Cloud qi roots, white hair ginseng and a vast number of ordinary spear tip bamboos were all destroyed too.
The seven colored cloud soil inside the mountain were also affected, they were scattered all over the place, after the damage from the lightning, their value fell drastically.
Cloud Bamboo Mountain was originally taken from Southern Border's Chi clan by Fang Yuan, it had the weakest defensive formation, thus at this moment, it was completely decimated beyond recognition.
Soon, the other resource points started to face problems too.
"I need to solve this internal threat as soon as possible!" Fang Yuan thought to himself, but the power of the myriad destruction lightning forest was terrifying, he could not do anything about it, each of his actions were still restricted by the heaven path dao marks.
Thankfully, there was a bunch of Gu Immortals in the sovereign immortal aperture.
Among them, Xue Er, Shi Shi Cheng, and Mo Tan Sang were nurtured by Fang Yuan to become the new leaders of their variant human tribes. Their cultivation level was too weak, asking them to help out was simply sending them to death's doors.
"I will help!" At the moment of crisis, an elderly Gu Immortal stepped up, emanating rank eight aura.
Since when did Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture gain such a powerful expert?
This elderly man was none other than the sole rank eight in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, the current generation Combat Beast King.
Ever since Fang Yuan's plan succeeded and he annexed Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, all of the Gu Immortals inside were turned into his subordinates. After that, Fang Yuan gave them the true method of Gu cultivation.
During the fate war, most of the rank seven Gu Immortals were sent out to fight, until now, Fang Yuan did not have any time to recall them, they were still wandering around in the five regions.
Combat Beast King was a different case, because he had been cultivating inside Star Collection City, his strength rose greatly.
This was Fang Yuan's backup plan during the fate war to guard against people trying to invade his immortal aperture.
During the fate war, this situation did not occur, and now that the sovereign immortal aperture had a myriad tribulation, with Fang Yuan unable to make a move, he could only send out the Combat Beast King.
Winds blew, starlight shot out.
The rank eight star sea snail corpse was taken out by Fang Yuan, handed to Combat Beast King. The Combat Beast King did not hesitate, he immediately used his killer move and turned into a giant covered in starlight armor.
The giant roared as his body flew up towards the sky of lightning clouds.
Crack!
When the giant reached half the distance, several lightning bolts combined into one, the pillar-like bolt shot down on the star armored giant.
If this were in the past, Combat Beast King would definitely die from getting hit by this. But after this period of cultivation, he had already learned how to use immortal killer moves.
Thus, the defensive killer move was used by Combat Beast King before he moved, it managed to resist the lightning bolts.
But the giant's advancement was also halted at this moment.
The giant landed back on the ground, its majestic body shivering as sparks remained on its body, Combat Beast King's limbs were going numb, his movements were greatly affected.
"Myriad tribulations are truly terrifying!" Combat Beast King was tongue-tied, he spoke with deep shock.
Fang Yuan frowned tightly.
Earlier, the lightning bolts combined to target Combat Beast King, that was the work of heaven's will. The heaven path dao marks were too densely gathered now, heaven's will was naturally being produced.
With the manipulation of heaven's will, the terrifying myriad tribulation became even more adaptive, it led to despair.
"I have the killer move heaven's will dissipation, I can even get rid of heaven's will in dream realms. Unfortunately, I cannot use it now!" Fang Yuan sighed to himself, he needed to refine the heaven path dao marks, he had to mingle with heaven's will and use both heaven-human sensation and human executing heaven's work to capture the location of the heaven path dao marks. After that, he would use unrestrained heavenly mark to refine the relevant heaven path dao marks.
Thus, heaven's will was necessary.
Once Fang Yuan gets rid of the heaven's will, he would also not be able to refine these heaven path dao marks.
"But the heaven path dao marks gathered and created a myriad tribulation, this greatly affected my refinement of the heaven path dao marks, my efficiency is less than one percent of before!"
Originally, the heaven path dao marks were scattered all over the sovereign immortal aperture, they were like divided troops, Fang Yuan could refine them group by group, the refinement was very effective. But now that the heaven path dao marks gathered into one tight group, Fang Yuan would have huge problems in trying to target them, his refinement also started to have no progress.
With this speed of refining the heaven path dao marks, how long would it take?
Fang Yuan's circumstances were really precarious!
"Oh no, I can't hold on anymore!" When it rains, it pours, at this moment, Wu Shuai shouted loudly as he requested for Fang Yuan's help.
This dragonman clone was also in a bind now.
Veins were bulging on his forehead, he was sweating profusely, Dragon Palace was trapped in the black smoke spiral, it was taking huge damage at all times. With cracking tiles and pillars, the whole of Dragon Palace was visibly shrinking.
Wu Shuai could only do his best to repair it, but his speed could not match Spectral Soul's destruction.
Seeing that a crucial area was about to be destroyed, Wu Shuai had no choice but to ask for help.
Fang Yuan knew that his clone would not ask unless he was desperate. He sighed to himself as he switched his attention to the outside world.
After inspecting the situation, Fang Yuan immediately took action to help Wu Shuai with the repair of the Gu House.
They managed to alleviate the situation, but it was not enough!
Suddenly, Wu Shuai gasped: "Why are Spectral Soul's attacks getting slower?"
Fang Yuan realized at once, he said: "I created a fake main body over in Myriad Year Flying Warship, it seems to have worked. Spectral Soul is hesitating now, he has always been worried that I would escape. He has no idea that Dragon Palace is about to collapse, he thinks the rank eight Immortal Gu House can still last for some time. If my 'main body' in Myriad Year Flying Warship escapes during this period, even if he manages to take down Dragon Palace and kill you, his plan will fail regardless."
Wu Shuai's eyes shined: "It will be great if we can deceive him now!"
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Chapter 2039 Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, Wang Xiao Er
"It'll be difficult." Fang Yuan sighed deeply.
Almost the same time as he said that, Spectral Soul, who was outside, attacked even quicker than before!
Spectral Soul shouted coldly: "Fang Yuan, you are truly a disappointment. How long are you going to hide? I'll tell you the truth, Fairy Zi Wei has already deduced your location earlier."
"Entrusting your hope to deceit, this is the way of the weak. I gave you sovereign immortal fetus Gu, it was truly a waste!"
"Come out and fight me, in this case, even if you die, people of the world will not say that you were cowardly, being afraid of the strong while bullying the weak."
"Damn it!" Wu Shuai's hope was dashed, he could not help but grit his teeth.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, frowning and not answering. From his perspective, what was the point of reputation? What he cared about was whether Fairy Zi Wei really succeeded in her deduction, was Spectral Soul trying to deceive him now, was it all an act just to bait out Fang Yuan?
The Qi Sea clone had already left, so Fang Yuan did not know about the situation over there.
"Even now, the wisdom path formation is still working, we cannot forget another possibility, that is Fairy Zi Wei trying to delay Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven's action by telling Spectral Soul about the result secretly in advance. Sigh, I can't care about it now." Fang Yuan sighed as he quickly tossed away this question.
It was not that he found out the truth, but Dragon Palace's current condition was too dangerous, he had no choice but to take action.
Fang Yuan opened the door of his immortal aperture slightly, letting out the immemorial year beasts that he had prepared!
Several immemorial year beasts roared as they charged out of Dragon Palace, attempting to destroy the black smoke spiral, while a few of them charged towards Spectral Soul.
"Your efforts are futile." Spectral Soul made his move, black smoke spread out from his body and whipped up a dark storm, shrouding the surrounding over an immense range.
He pointed repeatedly with his finger, each attack only carried a trace of smoke but it was incredibly fast, the power was overwhelming. When the black smoke hit the immemorial year beasts, it immediately expanded into countless dense smoke chains that binded the immemorial year beasts.
The immemorial year beasts struggled but the black smoke chains were boosted by the black smoke spiral, they became thicker and tighter. The immemorial year beasts could struggle at first but soon they became unable to move, they were swept away by the spiral without resistance.
"These are just petty tricks, you are truly a disappointment, Fang Yuan." Spectral Soul flew up into the sky as he looked down at the black smoke spiral.
The great rank eight Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace was like a toy, once its details were exposed, it was completely toyed around with like a harmless object.
Wu Shuai gritted his teeth, activating the killer move dreamy light smoke.
Spectral Soul chuckled, spitting out several soul balls. The tadpole-like soul balls had tails, they moved rapidly in the air, quickly entering the immemorial year beasts.
Thin black qi appeared around the immemorial year beasts' bodies, the black smoke chains fused into the black qi and caused it to become much thicker.
The three immemorial year beasts regained freedom, they growled angrily as they attacked Dragon Palace!
One of the immemorial year beasts directly jumped into the range of dreamy light smoke.
Their control was actually taken over by Spectral Soul.
Dreamy light smoke swept away one immemorial year beast, Wu Shuai felt powerless. With Spectral Soul controlling the situation now, he had ample time and initiative, dreamy light smoke could no longer pose a threat, it was just a small problem.
The soul path killer moves that Spectral Soul was using now were all unheard of by Fang Yuan and Wu Shuai, they had never seen any moves like these.
The foundation of a rank nine venerable was truly unfathomable!
High in the sky, the wisdom path formation continued to operate.
Fairy Zi Wei stayed at the central control area, she showed an appearance of working her hardest to make deductions.
Longevity Heaven's and Heavenly Court's immortals surrounded the wisdom path formation.
Qin Ding Ling silently looked at the wisdom path formation, just earlier, Heavenly Court transmitted news that the few Gu Immortals staying back successfully suppressed Di Zang Sheng.
Di Zang Sheng was hit by Primordial Origin's qi path killer move, its condition was slipping rapidly. When Fang Yuan escaped, he abandoned it to its own demise. Now, it was not strange that Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals suppressed it.
This point alone showed how anxious Fang Yuan was, he even gave up something like Di Zang Sheng, it showed that he was at his weakest point.
And this fact amplified Qin Ding Ling's killing intent towards Fang Yuan.
This was a rare opportunity that could not be lost!
After suppressing the Evil Dragon, the remaining Gu Immortals started to repair Heavenly Court grotto-heaven. They quickly fixed the holes, Heavenly Court's crisis was finally alleviated.
This also allowed Qin Ding Ling to let out a sigh of relief, but she still had other worries.
"Qi Sea Ancestor has just left recently, with Dragon Palace's speed and direction, it should have already reached Intestinal Gorge, right?" Qin Ding Ling thought to herself.
Fang Yuan escaped in Dragon Palace, moving out of immemorial white heaven and into Central Continent. This enraged Heavenly Court and also caused them to be worried that the aftermath of the battle might cause severe losses.
Intestinal Gorge was the northern entrance of Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, it was created during the Olden Antiquity Era when a beastman expert died and fused with the surrounding mountains. It was under the control of one of Central Continent's ten great ancient sects, Black Heaven Temple.
Qin Ding Ling had already transmitted the details to Black Heaven Temple, asking them to send out their Immortal Gu House and move along Intestinal Gorge. If there was a chance they would strike, if the enemies were too strong, they would abandon Intestinal Gorge and preserve their strength as the main goal.
After receiving Heavenly Court's orders, Black Heaven Temple went into an alert state, they mobilized all of their strength and started to move out.
But after waiting for a long time, they did not see Dragon Palace nor Spectral Soul.
Qin Ding Ling did not know that Spectral Soul had already intercepted Dragon Palace along the way, they were still above the sky of Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range.
Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range was huge, extending over hundreds of thousands of li, compared to other mountain ranges, it was relatively gentle, the resources here were not abundant, most of the mountains were barren. Thus, even though it was in Black Heaven Temple's territory, they did not care much about it.
This place mostly produced wind path resources, in the past, a rank seven Gu Immortal of Wind Cloud Manor came here to cultivate in seclusion, he managed to breakthrough to rank eight, it was Old Man Bei Feng. It was a pity that his life was filled with hardship, he first got captured by Fang Yuan during the fate war and became enslaved by Dragon Palace. In the intense battle earlier, Old Man Bei Feng died already.
He was not the only one, all of the Four Dragon Generals died in this battle. Even the strongest of the enslaved, Di Zang Sheng, was now suppressed by Heavenly Court.
On a certain mountain of Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range.
Several youngsters were herding sheep, they got into an argument.
A youngster was being bullied, he was the weakest and thinnest person here, he took several steps back amidst the argument.
"Wang Xiao Er, this mountain is occupied by us, there is no place for you here."
"Scram now, get lost from our sight."
Several youngsters wore thick leather jackets, they had muscular bodies and vicious expressions.
Wang Xiao Er's clothes were patched up with many tattered areas, he looked like a beggar.
He resisted weakly: "But my sheep need to eat, if I do not feed them sufficiently, uncle and aunt will beat me up when I return."
The youngsters laughed loudly, the strongest one struck and pushed Wang Xiao Er to the ground.
"Go to the other mountain to herd your sheep, there is still some grass there. Scram now! Otherwise, I will break your leg!" The muscular young man threatened viciously.
Wang Xiao Er struggled to get up, he did not resist, he only moved his small group of sheep and left the mountain.
He walked with his thin legs, crossing rivers and steep paths. There was no road on the mountain, Wang Xiao Er often fell down and suffered bruises from the hard rocks on the ground, only the sheep behind him were traveling without any problems.
Wang Xiao Er finally found a small patch of grass, the sheep got tired and thirsty after running around, even without his command, they went forward and competed to eat the food.
Wang Xiao Er was so tired he laid down on the rock and watched the sheep fighting to eat, he sighed to himself: "Recently, the sorrowful winds in the mountains are getting more violent, there is less and less grass available. That is why they chased my sheep away from that grassland."
The patch of grass was tiny, it was completely gobbled up by the sheep after some time. The stronger sheep ate the most food while the remaining sheep growled in hunger.
Wang Xiao Er shook his head, this mountain had little grass, it was scattered all over the place. If he wanted to feed all the sheep, he would need to head to another mountain. It would not only waste time but energy as well.
"Oh sheep, oh sheep, at least you guys have food. In order to feed you all, I will definitely have to return late. I will definitely be beaten up by uncle and aunt, I will have to eat leftover rotten food."
Even though Central Continent was the most developed among the five regions, most of the mortals still lived difficult lives, it was common to starve.
Right at this time, there were suddenly rumbling noises heard.
Wang Xiao Er raised his head, this was a strange situation, why was there thunder rumbling in this bright sky?
After that, he slowly opened his mouth and saw a shooting star falling from the sky.
The shooting star became larger and larger in his vision, winds became stronger, the rumbling sounds were deafening, even the temperature of the air rose.
Wang Xiao Er was completely stunned, he froze on the spot, the surrounding sheep sensed the danger, they started crying out and running around.
Not just the sheep, the wild beasts on the mountains were also scrambling, the originally quiet mountain suddenly became very lively.
As the shooting star got closer, Wang Xiao Er finally got a good glimpse of it.
This shooting star was actually a mountain-sized beast!
The wild beast crashed down with a loud sound, coincidentally, it was the mountain that Wang Xiao Er lived on!
The mountains collapsed as rocks flew, earth shook as the mountain trembled, dust clouds rose up rapidly.
The village on the mountain was instantly destroyed, there were anguished cries of people mixed with the growls of beasts, Wang Xiao Er could hear these sounds spreading through the air currents produced.
Rumble rumble rumble…
As Wang Xiao Er stared with a frightened gaze, terrifying cracks were spreading on the ground, soon, the surroundings of the mountain peak also cracked, they fell apart piece by piece.
The youngsters who chased Wang Xiao Er away earlier all met with a disaster!
"Am I going to die?" Wang Xiao Er sat on the ground helplessly.
He seemed to have lost all of his strength, he could only watch as the dust clouds devoured him like a hungry beast that ate everything in its path.
Inside the dust clouds were countless rock shards carried by the wind.
One of them hit Wang Xiao Er's forehead.
Before he fainted, his final thought was that of confusion, why did a giant beast fall from the sky?
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Chapter 2040 Qing Mouth
Above the clouds, in the sky.
Dragon Palace barely managed to create a golden light to shield itself, but it was trapped inside the black smoke spiral, resisting against the ferocious attacks from the outside.
Only three immemorial year beasts that Spectral Soul took control of were left.
The rest were all defeated by Wu Shuai using Dragon Palace. As for their falling corpses and what mountains they destroyed, how many people they killed, nobody in this battle cared, they could not afford to bother with the devastating disaster that a mortal boy like Wang Xiao Er experienced.
The remaining three immemorial year beasts regained their senses after the black smoke dissipated, they fought against Spectral Soul once again.
But Wu Shuai had a heavy mood.
These immemorial year beasts were collected by Fang Yuan in an attempt to restore his Twelve Zodiac battle formation, at this crucial moment, he had to use them for battle.
The result was that due to Spectral Soul's methods, they became used by him instead.
After the fight earlier, the remaining three immemorial year beasts were all injured, they could not be used to break out of this situation. Spectral Soul easily managed to resolve Fang Yuan's method, he dealt with the situation without breaking a sweat.
Not only could Spectral Soul control soul beasts, ordinary enslavement path methods were also useless against him, he could use it against the enemy instead!
Wu Shuai was deeply worried: "At this rate, how long can we last?"
Fang Yuan frowned tightly, his opponent was Spectral Soul now, he was trying hard to maintain his defense, but inside sovereign immortal aperture, the myriad tribulation was rampaging and causing destruction. After this short while, Mini Southern Border lost many resource points, his losses were rapidly increasing.
The bigger problem was that even if Fang Yuan gave up a portion of his immortal aperture, he could not break free from the myriad tribulation. This was because the heaven path dao marks that created the tribulation were very special, they could move around. He had to endure the myriad tribulation forcefully to get past this biggest hurdle.
Spectral Soul's eyes shined with cold light, he did not chase after his enemies and attack Dragon Palace again, instead, he looked away.
In his vision, a black dot appeared.
Soon, this dot expanded as a legendary immemorial beast showed its appearance, it had a tortoise shell, four tiger paws, dragon tail, snake neck, and a human head. Its hair was disheveled and it had a twisted expression filled with insanity.
It was Qing Chou who had caught up!
Spectral Soul did not avoid Qing Chou's pursuit, instead, he started to smile coldly: "Since you are here to court death, that will be the best outcome."
However, when Qing Chou reached Spectral Soul, the corner of its tortoise shell split open as a pair of bat wings formed instantly! This was very similar to the wings of the green claw ghost winged lion.
Immortal killer move — Qing Mouth!
Qing Chou opened its mouth, as it had a human face, its mouth was not big, but right now, its mouth opened to form a huge green-black hole.
The hole expanded rapidly, it shot out and devoured Spectral Soul in one mouthful.
The hole rapidly shrunk as it entered Qing Chou's mouth. Qing Chou swallowed as it gulped, a ball could be seen flowing down its snake neck, into its stomach.
"Good chance!" At this moment, brilliance flashed in Wu Shuai's eyes.
"This move was left behind to deal with you, scumbag!" Qing Chou roared loudly in joy after devouring Spectral Soul, memories surfaced in its mind again…
"What, all three Gu Immortals we sent were killed by Ming You?"
"Impossible!"
"But that is the truth. Ming You first pretended to be weak and got injured on purpose, causing our three immortals to split up to look for him. He ambushed them at a corner and found the opportunity to launch a shameless sneak attack on them. Out of carelessness, all three immortals met with their demise."
Qing clan's hall turned silent.
They wanted to restore their reputation but they ended up suffering even greater losses. A rank seven Gu Immortal was not easy to nurture, especially when they were elite rank seven Gu Immortals of Qing clan.
The losses were really huge for Qing clan, their foundation was definitely shook.
"Ming You deserves death! We were too careless… this lesson is very important, we need to remember it and pass it down to the future generations. I am going to deal with him personally." Qing clan first supreme elder said.
The immortals were silent, nobody expressed their objection.
Sending a rank eight Gu Immortal against the rank seven Ming You was really not something to be proud of. But Qing clan could not afford to lose anymore, all of the super forces in Western Desert were watching them like a joke!
However, when Qing clan's first supreme elder was about to set off, he received a challenge letter.
This letter came from another Western Desert super force which had deep enmity with Qing clan, they requested a battle with Qing clan first supreme elder, wanting to use the result of this battle to decide their territorial boundary.
"Damn it, at this juncture!" Qing clan's Gu Immortals shouted immediately.
"They are doing this on purpose. But the territorial boundary determines the ownership of a resource point, the benefits involved are too much. What do you think?" Qing clan first supreme elder hesitated at this moment.
"I will go and end Ming You's life." Qing clan's second supreme elder stood up.
"You?" The first supreme elder hesitated.
Second supreme elder smiled: "I only have rank seven cultivation level but Ming You is heavily injured, he needs to recuperate. We have already learned of his details, even though his methods are innovative and peculiar, they are mostly soul related. My immemorial desolate beast green claw ghost winged lion is his nemesis. Not just that, I created an immortal move called Qing mouth, I gained inspiration from the green claw ghost winged lion and created it. Once used, it can devour souls. Don't worry everyone, I can definitely take this Southern Border Gu Immortal's life."
"Alright, go ahead. Be careful on this trip." Eventually, first supreme elder nodded and agreed.
"With second supreme elder taking action, we will definitely succeed!"
"Ming You is as good as dead, he is not a threat, our problem now is still this challenge letter."
"Second supreme elder, you must avenge Qing Hua Lan and the rest!"
…
"I finally took revenge for all of you!" As his memories faded away, Qing Chou could not help become choked with tears, hot tears started to flow out of its red eyes.
Revenge was finally taken, it felt relieved and free.
"Such a familiar sight…" Spectral Soul spoke in a casual tone from within Qing Chou's stomach.
Qing Chou's body instantly froze.
Next, it felt bitterness.
Deep bitterness.
Intense bitterness!
An indescribable and unendurable bitterness!
Bitter, it was too bitter.
"Ugh…" Qing Chou's expression turned pale, it gagged as it almost wanted to vomit.
It quickly gritted its teeth, enduring desperately.
The taste of bitterness surged like a huge tsunami, it crashed towards the limits of its endurance.
Qing Chou growled in pain, its entire body was shivering from the bitterness, it could no longer fly as it fell towards the ground.
While descending, it started to feel hungry!
It was as if there was an empty space in its stomach.
No, it was not just hunger, it was a sort of loss. It was as if its entire body was experiencing a loss.
"Now, you should know how Qing clan's second supreme elder died in my hands? Indeed, I purposely got hit by Qing mouth killer move. Do you know why I am so confident? Hehe." Spectral Soul chuckled from inside Qing Chou's stomach.
Long ago, when Spectral Soul was still young, before he went up against Western Desert's Qing clan…
Ming You who was extremely successful in life met with a wild green claw ghost winged lion and suffered a terrible defeat.
"Impossible! The soul path I created actually failed to beat a beast. Even though it is an immemorial desolate beast, my soul path… how can my soul path be so pathetic and weak?!"
Ming You who was tired after a long fight fell to the ground, he stared at the green claw ghost winged lion with a crazed expression of disbelief and indignance.
The green claw ghost winged lion stood on four legs, it looked at Ming You who was on the sandy ground, its entire body was casting the shadow of death down on him.
Next, the green claw ghost winged lion lowered its head as it opened its bloodthirsty mouth.
Plop.
With a soft sound, the green claw ghost winged lion bit off Ming You's leg.
Ah——!
Ming You cried out in pain, after losing his entire right leg, blood poured out of the wound.
The intense pain caused him to curl his body, twisting around on the ground. Soon, the surroundings were dyed red from blood.
After biting off his right leg, the green claw ghost winged lion swallowed it and felt annoyed by the moving Ming You, it stretched out its right claw and pressed him firmly on the ground.
No matter how Ming You struggled, he could not resist the strength of this beast.
The green claw ghost winged lion lowered its head and bit off Ming You's left arm this time, swallowing it.
Ming You cried out in pain again, his eyes turned white as he almost fainted from pain.
The pain was even more severe this time, earlier when his right leg was bitten off by the green claw ghost winged lion, it was a quick action, but this time, his left arm was torn off forcefully. There was still a small chunk of flesh left on his shoulder, the white arm bone could be seen with the naked eye.
Ming You resisted, he used a soul path killer move with his full strength, but all his attack only impacted the green claw ghost winged lion slightly, it did not move back at all.
Because of the attack, the green claw ghost winged lion lost its patience, it opened its mouth for the third time and ate Ming You entirely.
It started to move its teeth and chew.
Ming You's body was pierced and minced, his bones were all shattered. His brain was not spared either, blood matter and brain matter mixed together, along with his minced flesh, they were all swallowed by the green claw ghost winged lion.
Only Ming You's soul was left.
However, the green claw ghost winged lion could not digest human bodies, it only ate souls as food.
Ming You's soul could not escape from the green claw ghost winged lion's stomach, he was rapidly broken down by the gastric acid.
The shadow of death loomed over him.
Ming You's soul shook intensely, he realized that death was approaching him.
"Am I going to die…"
"Dying in the mouth of a mere beast?"
Damn it!
Indignance!
"I am still too weak. I can do much more!"
"I can definitely do more things, I have just created soul path…"
But his soul path methods were countered by the green claw ghost winged lion. This immemorial desolate beast was simply the natural nemesis of Ming You!
"I cannot die here. I will not accept this outcome."
"There must be a way, there has to be a way!"
"My immortal aperture is still inside my flesh body, it is still with me. My Gu worms are around too… but soul path is useless here. I, I still have food path!"
But the food path killer moves he had could not resist the green claw ghost winged lion, otherwise, he would have used them already, he would not end up like this.
"If existing food path killer moves are useless, I will create new food path killer moves!"
This was wishful thinking, but for Ming You, it was his only hope, even though the hope was extremely slim.
Ming You did not think about the unlikeliness of this action, he only focused on thinking, doing his best to create his concept.
Never before was he so concentrated on something!
His soul was still eroding, it became smaller and smaller.
His thoughts were producing at an increasing slower speed.
Soon, even his thoughts could not move anymore.
"I… cannot… give up…"
"I have to think… I got it… [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]…"
"That's right, didn't Ren Zu get eaten as well?"
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Chapter 2041 Bitter Taste, Swallow Loss
Ren Zu continued on his journey, after a while, a huge Predicament entered Ren Zu's vision.
Strong Gu was inside this Predicament's body, it laughed: "Oh human, I am back again. This time, I have help, let's see what you can do!"
Ren Zu had to stop walking, even though the Predicament before him was huge, he did not fluster.
Long long ago, Ren Zu had been chased by a group of Predicaments as he escaped, but after he gave his heart to hope Gu, those Predicaments which feared hope escaped in panic.
"Oh hope Gu, I need your help."
Ren Zu summoned hope Gu but the light of hope did not scare away this Predicament.
What was going on?
"Haha!" Strong Gu laughed: "Oh human, this Predicament has gained my help, it will definitely be the greatest Predicament you have ever met in your life. With just hope, how can you possibly defeat it?"
Ren Zu could not think of a way.
At this moment, weak Gu that was shielded by Ren Zu spoke in a soft voice: "Oh human, thank you for protecting me. Don't worry, I have an idea, let's scare this Predicament away!"
"You can scare it away?"
Weak Gu shook its head: "Oh human, even something as weak as me has a method to survive in life. Against those that want to eat or bully me, I will often put up a deceiving disguise, to make others think that I am very strong."
"This world favors the strong. Even if we are weak, we need to disguise ourselves as strong beings or we will be bullied everywhere."
"Oh human, you can do it. Don't you have fear Gu? Isn't attitude Gu on your face?"
Ren Zu heard weak Gu's suggestion and decided to try it.
He first twisted his appearance using attitude Gu, revealing his teeth and showing a fierce expression. Next, he used fear Gu to scare the Predicament as it bore its teeth, sprawling on the ground and staring at Ren Zu vigilantly.
Ren Zu was dazed: "Why didn't we scare it away?"
Weak Gu urged: "Didn't it jump earlier? This means that my method works, but we need to put in more effort. Oh human, why don't you put attitude Gu on top of self Gu? What is the best form of deceit or disguise? It is to deceive even yourself. By doing that, we should be able to deceive the Predicament."
Weak Gu continued: "As long as the Predicament thinks that you are strong, it will definitely let you pass. That is because Predicaments often take the initiative to give way to the strong."
Ren Zu took off the mask on his face as he placed attitude Gu on self Gu.
However, it was pointless.
The Predicament did not run off in fear.
Ren Zu realized at once: "I understand now, when a person faces a huge predicament, putting up a facade will never solve the real problem."
Strong Gu laughed: "Oh human, stop wasting your effort. With me here to remind the Predicament, how can you guys possibly deceive it? You should not have saved weak Gu, weak people often like to jeer and taunt others, showing a ruthless demeanor to conceal their own weakness inside."
Ren Zu was helpless, he could only stall for time temporarily.
Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration as he said to strong Gu: "You said that the law of survival is for the strong to eat the weak, I agree with that. But how do you prove that you are strong while we are weak? If you cannot prove this, on what basis are you allowed to eat us?"
Strong Gu was dazed: "It is because I am strong Gu and that is weak Gu."
Ren Zu shook his head: "Just your names alone cannot prove anything. Moreover, other than both of you Gu worms, myself and this Predicament are also here."
Strong Gu smiled coldly: "Then I have a good method to prove it! We will eat a portion of each other, whoever fails to persevere to the end will lose, whoever is weak deserves to be eaten."
Ren Zu saw that he could not stall for any more time, he had to take a risk: "Then we will do that. Don't regret it! However, which of us will eat first?"
Strong Gu was confident in its strength, it chuckled: "So what if I let you go first?"
Ren Zu assessed the Predicament with his gaze, the truth was he had never eaten any Predicaments before.
Ren Zu thought about it before he had an idea: "Then I will eat the head of the Predicament first."
Thus, Predicament took off its head and gave it to Ren Zu.
Ren Zu only took a bite when his face became distorted, he almost vomited on the spot: "So bitter!"
It turned out that this was a huge bitter head[1].
Not just that, even though the Predicament lost its head, it was still standing, the neck that was missing a head did not bleed at all, there were no issues at all.
"Haha!" Strong Gu laughed: "Oh human, you chose wrongly, by just eating bitter heads, you cannot resolve any predicaments. Moreover, whether you are capable of eating this huge bitter head is another question altogether! If you cannot eat it, it means that you are a weakling, you deserve to be eaten by us."
Compared to the Predicament's head, Ren Zu's body was very small.
Ren Zu knew that strong Gu was right, he could not afford to lose. If he lost, not only would he fail to protect weak Gu, he would even lose his life and become the food of the Predicament.
Ren Zu could only frown as he opened his mouth, continuing to eat the bitter head.
After taking dozens of mouthfuls, Ren Zu suddenly stopped, he opened his mouth and almost vomited.
Hope Gu encouraged him: "Oh human, don't vomit. If you grit your teeth, you can devour any hardship that comes your way. Humans do not just need to eat food, they also need to taste bitterness."
Ren Zu nodded as he continued to eat.
Halfway through, the fear Gu on his body started to shout: "Oh heaven, when will we ever finish eating it?"
Ren Zu also felt a trace of despair.
Courage Gu quickly said: "Oh human, you cannot be afraid of tasting bitterness. Don't fear bitterness, suffering is only temporary, if you start to fear suffering, you will suffer for life."
With the help of courage Gu, Ren Zu finally managed to eat all of the bitter heads after great hardship.
Ren Zu wiped his mouth as he looked at strong Gu with difficulty: "You can choose now."
Strong Gu smiled: "Then we will eat your skin first."
Ren Zu had to pull off the skin on his body as he threw it to the Predicament.
The Predicament had no head, it stuffed Ren Zu's skin down its neck. Ren Zu's skin was completely eaten but its huge belly did not expand at all.
Strong Gu asked again: "Oh human, what are you going to eat next?"
Ren Zu was troubled now, he had just eaten the Predicament's head, it was too bitter, even though he endured the process, his stomach was almost full now.
As for the Predicament, even though it had no head, it was still alive and standing.
"What should I eat now? I ate too much earlier, my stomach is reaching its limit, if I have to eat a lot, my stomach might burst and I'll die." Ren Zu thought to himself, he had to eat the most important and fatal part of the Predicament's body!
But which part of the Predicament's body was the most important?
After thinking for a long time, Ren Zu finally had an idea, he said to strong Gu: "Then I will eat the part that you absolutely do not want me to eat."
Strong Gu snorted coldly: "Then you can eat some losses[2]."
It took out all of the losses from the Predicament's body and gave it to Ren Zu for consumption.
These losses were not big, the quantity was not large either.
Ren Zu was quite surprised, because after these losses were taken out, the originally huge Predicament shrunk by a lot.
Rules and regulation Gu started to explain for Ren Zu: "Oh human, this is not strange. Predicaments vary according to people, since you ate such a huge bitter head earlier, you will have less losses to eat, thus, it became smaller."
Ren Zu became happy: "This is great. Even if I eat all of these losses, I will not reach my limit, it will not fill my stomach completely."
Ren Zu opened his mouth and ate a small loss.
It was so spicy!
Ren Zu could not even speak at this moment.
Continuing to eat.
Ren Zu opened his mouth as he breathed heavily, his empty eye sockets also started to tear up uncontrollably.
Eating again.
Ren Zu's entire body was covered in sweat that merged with the tears flowing out of his eye sockets.
The most uncomfortable thing for Ren Zu was that budding flames started to appear in his heart. These yellowish flames resembled chicks, they gathered together in groups.
The more losses one ate, the more flames of resentment they would feel in their heart.
The more flames of resentment they had, the more uncomfortable it felt, even Ren Zu's several hearts could not take it, they were going to be incinerated soon!
Right at this moment, the heart of nobleness grew in Ren Zu's chest.
Compared to the other hearts, the heart of nobleness was able to endure the most flames of resentment. With this heart to bear the burden, Ren Zu finally managed to endure it.
Ren Zu ate all of the losses.
Strong Gu looked at Ren Zu's bulging belly as he smiled coldly: "Oh human, you are almost at your limit, it is time for us to eat."
Ren Zu breathed roughly as he asked: "What do you want to eat?"
Strong Gu said: "I want to eat your flesh."
Ren Zu was helpless about it, he could only let it eat his flesh.
Ren Zu's skin and flesh were inside Predicament's stomach, he only had his bones, organs, and hair left.
…
In this deep and eerie darkness, only Ming You's thoughts were flickering with much difficulty, radiating the light of hope near the end of his life.
"I… can do it…"
"Come on… come on…"
Food path killer move — Bitter Taste!
Food path killer move — Swallow Loss!
The green claw ghost winged lion was flying in the air, suddenly, its body shook as it fell towards the ground with a pitiful cry.
With a loud sound, it crashed into the desert, creating a deep pit.
The green claw ghost winged lion struggled intensely, causing the sand on the ground to turn into a huge sand wave.
It could not endure the immense feelings of bitterness, the flames of resentment burned intensely in its heart.
It knew that Ming You was the one causing problems in its stomach, it stabbed its claw into its stomach without hesitation!
After spending a long time struggling, it slowly came to a halt as its life force dissipated.
Using the hole that its claw created, Ming You's soul flew out like a trace of smoke, bringing along his immortal essence and Gu worms, escaping from the stomach of the beast.
"I actually survived." Even he did not think that this would be the outcome!
His soul was dim, after floating and moving for some time, he collapsed onto the ground.
Only after resting for a long time did he recover slightly.
Looking at the dark sky, Spectral Soul who was still a young adult snorted coldly before laughing to himself: "Pathetic, truly pathetic. However, in this world, in this world… who does not struggle at death's doors?"
"I swear!" Spectral Soul's figure was blur and vague, he seemed to be pointing at heaven.
He used an extremely firm and determined, yet incomparably weak voice to shout with all his strength: "This is the last time I will struggle before death in my life! From today onwards, only I can cause others to struggle in the face of death, the five regions and two heavens can bear testament to my words!"
Heaven and earth was silent.
Going back to the present, his memories faded away as the battlefield reappeared.
Qing Chou was rolling around in the air, finally, it could not take it anymore as it vomited out Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul's body was like a phantom, moving rapidly and reaching Qing Chou's back.
He raised his right arm as his five fingers turned black like ink, it was quite peculiar. His five fingernails were longer than his fingers, they were white and sharp, emitting an icy and terrifying aura.
"Go ahead and struggle to death. Don't worry, I will not let any of you feel even the slightest hope of survival!"
Spectral Soul's eyes shined with a dark light, his five fingers stabbed at lightning speed.
Roar—!
Qing Chou's body shook, all of its strength surged again as Spectral Soul quickly absorbed everything.
[1] The Chinese phrase for suffering/hardship is written as bitter head literally.
[2] Eat loss is the literal meaning of the phrase that means suffering a loss, being disadvantaged, or ending up in an unfavorable situation.
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Chapter 2042 Venerable Spectral Soul
Lightning flashed and thunder roared, causing destruction to sovereign immortal aperture.
Mini Southern Border was ravaged by the myriad destruction lightning forest to a pitiful level, countless mountains collapsed, the earth cracked as deep crevices formed. Combat Beast King was bathed in blood as he fought, his injuries were getting more severe, the situation was getting tougher now.
He was using his life to forcefully hold on and maintain the situation.
"Compared to the might of heaven and earth, even if I am a rank eight Gu Immortal, so what?" Combat Beast King had been cultivating in sovereign immortal aperture, he gained a lot of knowledge and his strength rose greatly, giving him a boost of confidence. But now, facing the myriad tribulation, he could feel how tiny and insignificant he was.
The range of the myriad destruction lightning forest expanded again, because Fang Yuan's main body had to deal with the fight outside, he was at a disadvantage. Against this myriad tribulation, even if Fang Yuan put in all his effort, it would still be a dangerous process, and yet half of his attention was drawn away to deal with Spectral Soul.
This was a myriad tribulation, countless rank eights had faltered at this hurdle!
Fang Yuan's situation was quite unique, this was not his first myriad tribulation. He had not just skipped two myriad tribulations, this current one was created by the three thousand heaven path dao marks in his body.
A myriad tribulation created this way was extremely rare even in the long history of humanity.
Forced by the situation, Fang Yuan had to multitask, he dealt with the situation outside while simultaneously observing sovereign immortal aperture.
He looked at the heaven path dao marks that transformed into lightning path and cloud path to create this myriad tribulation, he suddenly comprehended something.
"I think I understand something now." At that instance, he realized the origin of the calamities and tribulations!
In the past, he knew that calamities and tribulations were controlled by the Heavenly Dao, it cared about balance, to take away surpluses while replenishing deficits. Every Gu Immortal and immortal aperture was a mass congregation of dao marks, thus, the Heavenly Dao had to take measures to maintain the balance.
Every once in a while, the Heavenly Dao would unleash its might, creating calamities and tribulations for Gu Immortals. But how could it create these calamities and tribulations? Fang Yuan did not know.
Right now, this question in Fang Yuan's heart got answered by the scene before him.
It turned out that matter what kind of tribulation, it was actually created using heaven path dao marks. The heaven path dao marks could transform into any path, thus, there were the flying frost jumping lightning tribulation, four inferno cloud tribulation, dragon roar tribulation, heavenly drum thunder tribulation, wind flower calamity, snow moon calamity, profound white flying salt calamity…
These tribulations were of the various paths, there were many types of them, Gu Immortals could not guess what would come, thus they faced huge difficulties. The Heavenly Dao would even mimic venerable methods, for example, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's formless hand.
All these different tribulations were merely the manifestation, in essence, they were all heaven path dao marks!
The higher the Gu Immortal's cultivation level, the more dao marks they would have, and the bigger the difference between them and the natural environment. The more imbalanced it was, the more heaven path dao marks would be drawn to them, and the stronger the tribulations they would face.
Nobody in the world could cultivate heaven path, even if a Gu Immortal passed a tribulation successfully, they would not gain heaven path dao marks. These heaven path dao marks would transform into the dao marks of other paths and fuse with the Gu Immortal's immortal aperture.
Thinking about it, back in Crazed Demon Cave, the heaven path dao marks derived many strange and peculiar small worlds, after these worlds were destroyed, they transformed back into heaven path dao marks.
As for the immortal tribulation tempering aperture killer move that Fang Yuan obtained from Lang Ya Sect, it used the same logic.
Immortal tribulation tempering aperture killer move used the blessed land and grotto-heaven as the refinement target, using the killer move to connect the immortal aperture with the five regions world outside, influencing the calamities and tribulations and using it to temper the immortal aperture itself.
Lang Ya blessed land was once located at Northern Plains' crescent lake. Around the vicinity of crescent lake were water path and refinement path dao marks, immortal tribulation tempering aperture killer move was often used to deal with the calamities and tribulations. Most often, water path and refinement path calamities would occur. After passing it, the immortal aperture would gain water path and refinement path dao marks.
The true effect of this move was to affect the transformation of the heaven path dao marks.
In Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's true inheritance, there were also luck path methods to weaken tribulations. For example, Dog Shit Luck and Fortune Rivalling Heaven. He was using luck path dao marks to interfere with the creation of tribulations by the heaven path dao marks, causing a favorable change to occur and weakening the might of the tribulations.
In Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, there was myriad beings assimilation transformation killer move, it limited the transformation of the heaven path dao marks, thus each tribulation turned into a transformation path beast calamity instead.
The exposing heavenly secret killer move that Fang Yuan obtained from Shadow Sect could precisely deduce the content of the following tribulation. Exposing heavenly secret killer move used heavenly secret Immortal Gu as the core, very evidently, it also targeted the root source, the heaven path dao marks, to make its deductions. Thus, each deduction was extremely precise about the content.
Immortal tribulation tempering aperture, luck path methods, myriad beings assimilation transformation, exposing heavenly secret… Fang Yuan had all of these methods, it was a pity that he could not use them now.
The heaven path dao marks restricted his actions, he could not activate any of these moves.
Only by using human path methods to resist heaven path could Fang Yuan gain some time and opportunity to activate other killer moves. Like earlier in Heavenly Court when he used unlimited qi sea killer move to deal with primordial qi wall.
Fang Yuan had a human path formation in sovereign immortal aperture that used the thousand wish tree as the core. But heaven's will was not stupid, it knew about Fang Yuan's information. Myriad destruction lightning forest also appeared in Mini Central Continent, it was attacking the human path formation, making Fang Yuan trapped in a tighter spot.
Roar—!
Beast growls resounded, a large group of soul beasts moved out towards the lightning clouds in the sky.
They charged relentlessly without any concern about their own lives.
These were all soul beasts, most were desolate beasts, there were some ancient soul beasts and four immemorial soul beasts.
These soul beasts were all captured by Fang Yuan in green ghost desert. Among them, the immemorial soul beasts were enslaved when Fang Yuan helped Fang clan to obtain Divine Bean Palace.
These soul beasts were usually kept in Mini Black Heaven.
Right now, Fang Yuan was facing a crisis, he had to make use of them.
The soul beasts were extremely fragile under the myriad tribulation, they were completely defenseless. In just a while, a hundred desolate level soul beasts perished from the lightning bolts, more than ten ancient soul beasts died as well.
Fang Yuan's heart was cold as ice, he did not waver.
The soul beast group had already served its purpose, it drew the firepower away and took away the pressure, allowing Fang Yuan to gain some time.
This included the immemorial soul beasts, without Immortal Gu, they were just high tier cannon fodder against the myriad tribulation, but they were still useful as meat shields after all.
Fang Yuan did not dare to use the soul beasts against Spectral Soul.
The truth was, after Spectral Soul took control of the year beasts, Fang Yuan gave up on this aspect.
A huge amount of strength flowed like a tidal wave into Spectral Soul's body.
Qing Chou struggled intensely, using killer moves to attack itself manically. However, Spectral Soul endured Qing Chou's attacks forcefully as he continued to drain its strength.
Soul beasts existed in this world because Spectral Soul created soul path.
Spectral Soul understood soul beasts too well, not only could he make them loyal to him, he also has methods to extract strength from them to replenish himself.
Qing Chou's struggles became weaker and weaker.
Spectral Soul looked at Qing Chou with great satisfaction, the hatred Gu within its body was already reaching completion, this fool was simply sending itself to death while contributing treasures as well.
Spectral Soul suppressed Qing Chou while keeping his attention on Dragon Palace, all along, he did not relax, he stared at Fang Yuan's main body without looking away.
The entire situation was still under his control!
Whoosh!
Suddenly, winds blew as the air rumbled, two giant hands slammed towards Spectral Soul from the left and right.
One hand was black while the other was white, they were grand and majestic, containing deep profundities, it was the qi path killer move — Yin-yang Great Killer Hands!
At the crucial moment, Fang Yuan's qi path clone arrived.
Spectral Soul smiled coldly, black smoke spewing out of his body, from the smoke, two immemorial soul beasts flew out and slammed into the two qi path giant hands.
The qi path hands grabbed as the two immemorial soul beasts growled in pain, but they did not die just yet.
Qi Sea Ancestor could neither let go of them nor continue grabbing them at this moment.
If he grabbed onto them, his offensive momentum would be halted. If he let go, these two immemorial soul beasts would still attack him later.
Qi Sea Ancestor shouted as he waved both hands, letting them fly far away, bringing the immemorial soul beasts away from the battlefield.
Spectral Soul's goal was achieved, he used two immemorial soul beasts to restrain Qi Sea Ancestor while also wasting his energy. After all, Qi Sea Ancestor had to sustain the two qi path hands to trap the immemorial soul beasts.
Qi Sea and Spectral Soul's first round of fighting ended up as a simple exchange.
Spectral Soul used two immemorial soul beasts while Qi Sea Ancestor wasted some mental energy, immortal essence, timing. Both sides were evenly matched, in fact Spectral Soul lost a bit more, after all, the immemorial soul beasts had rank eight battle strength!
But looking at the big picture, Spectral Soul's gains were slightly higher, he still continued to control the situation.
Because he controlled Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven secretly, it had many immemorial soul beasts, losing two was no issue. In contrast, Qi Sea failed to use this opportunity well, he originally wanted to disrupt Spectral Soul but was interrupted, this chance was wasted.
Spectral Soul made use of his advantage well, he continued to absorb Qing Chou's strength to strengthen himself while weakening Qing Chou. On the whole, he had gained a lot from this first round of combat.
This round was just a tiny projection of their fight, yet it showed Spectral Soul's abundant and rich battle experience, his vision loomed over the entire battlefield. His control of combat was so precise and flawless, even someone like Fang Yuan felt stifled.
Fang Yuan was not giving up obviously, he focused on repairing Dragon Palace while asking Qi Sea Ancestor to attack again.
Spectral Soul focused on three things at once, he suppressed Dragon Palace and used the black smoke spiral to damage it, he absorbed Qing Chou's soul beast strength, he also used killer moves to resist Qi Sea Ancestor's attacks.
Dragon Palace, Qing Chou, and Qi Sea Ancestor, these were three entities with top tier battle strength in the world, yet they could not turn the situation around even by being on the same side!
To speak the truth, Spectral Soul's current strength was not too impressive, but he had the complete dominance over Dragon Palace, he countered Qing Chou's abilities, and he even knew about Qi Sea Ancestor's information.
"His soul path methods are used in succession, the moves complement each other and are tightly connected, this is an exceptional combat system. In contrast, my Qi Sea clone has only existed for a short period of time, he has too few methods that are all easily countered." Fang Yuan's main body understood the reason.
Qi Sea clone's most common offensive method was yin-yang great killer hands and his main defensive method was heavenly astral cloth robe. His foundation was too low, when observed by Spectral Soul, after just a few exchanges of moves, he would be able to create a countermeasure easily.
Be it battle strength, knowledge, or experience, Spectral Soul stood at the peak of the world. After all, he was once the invincible Demon Venerable that dominated the world!
Among the generations of venerables, Spectral Soul was publicly recognized as the one with the deepest killing intent.
He had gone through intense battles, he fought his way to the top, he was an expert that carved out his own bloody path through countless hurdles!
Under his venerable throne, there was a mountain of skeletons and sea of corpses.
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Chapter 2043 Dragon Palace Escapes
"Qi Sea Ancestor, how is the situation over there?" Amidst intense battle, Fang Yuan's clone Qi Sea received Qin Ding Ling's transmission.
Qi Sea Ancestor did not speak, he recorded the scene of the battle using an information path Gu worm and sold it to Qin Ding Ling in treasure yellow heaven.
Heavenly Court soon gained an understanding of the battle situation.
Qin Ding Ling was slightly shocked internally, Spectral Soul's strength far surpassed her initial estimations, it seemed like Qi Sea Ancestor could not restrain Spectral Soul, at this rate, Spectral Soul might likely kill Fang Yuan and defeat Qi Sea, he would also absorb Qing Chou, he would be the greatest winner in this clash!
This was something Qin Ding Ling did not want to see.
Fang Yuan and Spectral Soul were supreme demons, it would be great if they both perished, the best scenario would be Longevity Heaven going down with them! That was the result Qin Ding Ling most wanted to see.
"We have our Immortal Gu House, if we join the fight, we can cause some changes to it. Even though Qing Chou is strong, it is a mistake to use it against Spectral Soul. Looking at Spectral Soul's actions, it seems that he is sure that Fang Yuan is inside Dragon Palace. Then has Fairy Zi Wei already succeeded in her deductions and informed Spectral Soul?"
Qin Ding Ling guessed the truth but she was not certain.
She looked at the operating wisdom path formation and Calamity Luck Altar beside it.
If Heavenly Court could exterminate Fairy Zi Wei and the rest, that would be the best. Clipping Spectral Soul's wings prematurely would result in fewer variables in this battle. It was a pity that Calamity Luck Altar was here, most of Longevity Heaven's experts came along with it, Qin Ding Ling was not confident of taking down Fairy Zi Wei at this moment.
"Longevity Heaven…" Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth.
Among the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals present, she hated Longevity Heaven most deeply. Back then, she was forced to become Giant Sun's immortal concubine. She endured this humiliation and successfully switched to cultivating luck path, she eventually participated in the fate war. But at the crucial moment, Giant Sun immortal zombie's attack tilted the balance of the final battle in his favor.
"Longevity Heaven, I will settle the scores with you one day!" Qin Ding Ling swore in her heart.
Right when Qin Ding Ling was thinking, a rank seven Immortal Gu House flew over.
This Immortal Gu House was owned by Spirit Affinity House, the first supreme elder and second supreme elder were inside it as they brought along an important person, Feng Jin Huang.
"Feng Jin Huang, quickly retrieve the dream realms before us." Qin Ding Ling ordered.
"Yes." The door of the Immortal Gu House opened as Feng Jin Huang stood on the steps, quickly using her method with a solemn expression.
She had dream wings Immortal Gu and the modified pure dream reality seeker transformation. In fact, this killer move was created by Fairy Zi Wei's deductions.
As dream realms turned into human form, they flew into Spirit Affinity House's Immortal Gu House.
Shadow Sect and Longevity Heaven were stirred.
Fairy Zi Wei's eyes shined with brilliance.
Old Man Zheng Yuan quickly asked: "Fairy, do we take action?"
After all, these dream realms belonged by Spectral Soul, his attainment levels were inside them.
Fairy Zi Wei shook her head: "We will wait for now, these dream realms are just a small portion, they are not important. Fang Yuan is our main priority!"
At the moment, Spectral Soul's side had a clear advantage. At this rate of development, Shadow Sect was greatly favored. Fairy Zi Wei did not want to upset the balance now and disrupt the overall situation.
Feng Jin Huang was just a rank five Gu Master, she was not even a rank six Gu Immortal. But her status was quite unique, she was Feng Jiu Ge's daughter!
If anyone attacked her, it might cause Feng Jiu Ge to come.
Feng Jiu Ge's future self had likely disappeared, similar to Hei Lou Lan and Bai Ning Bing. But even so, with Feng Jiu Ge's own strength, he could participate in this fight, he was an uncertain variable.
Especially when this variable was not favorable for Shadow Sect, Fairy Zi Wei wanted to have less problems if possible.
Calamity Luck Altar's Bing Sai Chuan had the same thought, he did not make a move in the end.
Feng Jin Huang was heavily protected by Heavenly Court's immortals as she gradually collected the dream realms.
Qin Ding Ling had a complex emotion.
She eventually made this move, using Feng Jin Huang and thus, Feng Jiu Ge indirectly to intimidate their opponents. Since when did the great Heavenly Court fall to such a level?
The pride in Qin Ding Ling's heart pressured her, but the logic in her mind told her to use all of the resources and influences they could gather!
Qi Sea Ancestor transmitted information again, requesting for Heavenly Court's reinforcement.
Qin Ding Ling rejected his request politely, asking him to persevere some more time.
Thus, Qi Sea Ancestor changed his request: "Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range is closest to Black Heaven Temple, why don't you ask them to send an Immortal Gu House to patrol the periphery of the battlefield. If I am unable to stop Spectral Soul from killing Fang Yuan, we can still rely on Black Heaven Temple."
Qin Ding Ling thought about it but did not tell Qi Sea Ancestor about her orders to Black Heaven Temple, she rejected: "Black Heaven Temple is not strong enough to participate in this battle."
Qi Sea Ancestor replied angrily: "This is a prime opportunity! If Heavenly Court hesitates and loses the chance, either one of these two demons getting stronger will be a problem for the righteous path."
Qin Ding Ling sighed: "Why wouldn't I know that? But Heavenly Court is not as before, we need to act cautiously. If we send Black Heaven Temple's Gu Immortals there, they would only die in vain. Please understand our plight!"
Qi Sea Ancestor felt a little dejected. Since Heavenly Court's leader openly spoke of their weakness, they were really not the Heavenly Court of before, their style of action changed, Fang Yuan could not make use of them easily anymore.
While Qin Ding Ling and Qi Sea Ancestor spoke secretly, Demon Immortal Qi Jue was also asking Spectral Soul: "Fang Yuan's main body is here, why aren't you coming here?"
Fang Yuan placed his will in Myriad Year Flying Warship, he also left behind Immortal Gu and immortal essence, under the effect of familiar face killer move, he could disguise his will very well.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue told Spectral Soul about this but the latter continued to fight Dragon Palace, not showing signs of leaving. This made Demon Immortal Qi Jue quite suspicious.
Spectral Soul directly replied: "Don't forget about Fang Yuan's familiar face. We cannot be sure of his location."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue became increasingly suspicious: "Spectral Soul, are you hiding something from me?"
Spectral Soul replied: "Don't worry, just continue restraining Myriad Year Flying Warship, you will get your due remuneration."
But Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not fall for it, he smiled coldly: "Don't worry indeed, I have a brilliant plan to find out which is Fang Yuan's main body."
Saying so, he suddenly stopped dealing with Myriad Year Flying Warship as he flew towards Spectral Soul's direction.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was stunned for a moment before quickly pulling away from Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Spectral Soul sensed something amiss, he quickly transmitted: "Qi Jue, don't do anything foolish."
But Demon Immortal Qi Jue was firm: "Sometimes, we need to take a chance right? Or maybe, you can tell me the information that you just obtained?"
Spectral Soul snorted but did not reply.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue turned silent as he flew into the sky with an increased speed.
In a few breaths of time, Myriad Year Flying Warship appeared behind him again.
Seeing this, Demon Immortal Qi Jue laughed loudly: "Oh Spectral Soul, look, I found out the truth already. I can be certain that Fang Yuan's main body is inside Dragon Palace now!"
If Fang Yuan's main body was inside Myriad Year Flying Warship, he would have flown away already. But now, Myriad Year Flying Warship returned to stall Demon Immortal Qi Jue, it showed that Fang Yuan's main body was unwilling to see Spectral Soul gain reinforcements, he had to stop Demon Immortal Qi Jue from leaving.
At this moment, Fang Yuan's plan to deceive his enemies by splitting up has failed completely.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was a famous demon in history, his seniority was higher than everyone here, including Spectral Soul.
After sensing something wrong, he quickly tested his method to find out the truth.
Spectral Soul snorted coldly, showing displeasure. With Demon Immortal Qi Jue's move, the situation got out of Spectral Soul's control.
Spectral Soul was just using Qi Jue by promising benefits, they were wary of each other in essence, their relationship was merely because of mutual gains. The reason why Spectral Soul did not want Demon Immortal Qi Jue to come over was because this uncertain variable could possibly get greedy and fight with him over the immense benefits of killing Fang Yuan!
Right now, from Demon Immortal Qi Jue's actions, it showed that Spectral Soul's worries were well justified. Demon Immortal Qi Jue definitely had his own ideas.
But Spectral Soul did not fluster.
Back when he lured Demon Immortal Qi Jue to join the battle, he had already thought of this. But there was no helping it, Spectral Soul had just regained his strength, Shadow Sect was still very weak. Because of the many variables in this battle, Spectral Soul had to increase the strength of his side, it was thanks to Fairy Zi Wei communicating with Longevity Heaven earlier, to rope them in with Shadow Sect temporarily, otherwise the situation would have been even more chaotic.
Did Bing Sai Chuan had no such intentions either? Was he really going to watch Spectral Soul kill Fang Yuan like that?
Of course not.
Fairy Zi Wei was a wisdom path great expert, she had deep considerations. She created the formation in front of Heavenly Court, it was to restrain them as well as Longevity Heaven.
This battle to kill Fang Yuan was not as grand as the fate war but it involved four parties, tens of Gu Immortals, and almost all of the peak experts in the current world.
These people plotted against each other and schemed deeply, Spectral Soul could sense acutely that his control over the situation was slipping.
Immortal killer move — Qi Wall!
During the intense battle, Qi Sea Ancestor pushed with both hands as a colossal qi wall formed instantly.
The qi wall was like a mountain as it pressed towards Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul pointed with his fingers as several immemorial soul beasts appeared, growling as they blocked the qi wall.
But Qi Sea Ancestor shouted suddenly as he raised his right fist, he spread out his fingers as his palm targeted Spectral Soul from afar.
Spectral Soul seemed to have sensed something as black smoke appeared around him in a ball shape, shielding him.
The moment Qi Sea Ancestor's killer move was ready, he moved his palm away and targeted the black smoke spiral instead.
Immortal killer move — Great Qi Hand Explosion!
Bam.
Following an intense explosion, the black smoke spiral was completely torn apart as black qi flew all over the place. Dragon Palace which was greatly damaged moved quickly as it drew a golden trail of light in the sky, rapidly escaping!
At this point in the battle, Dragon Palace finally broke free.
Spectral Soul's attention was drawn by Demon Immortal Qi Jue, Qi Sea Ancestor found this small loophole and quickly made use of his opportunity with some luck.
Spectral Soul looked at Qi Sea Ancestor deeply, other than intense anger and killing intent, there was also praise and admiration in his gaze.
Qi Sea Ancestor had made a brilliant move!
Now that Dragon Palace had escaped, Spectral Soul had to keep up with it, he had to abandon the heavy Qing Chou.
It was such a pity! Spectral Soul was only a bit of time away from completely subduing Qing Chou.
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Chapter 2044 Leaving Stealthily
"Fang Yuan, where are you trying to escape to?" Spectral Soul smiled coldly, black smoke oozing out of his body.
An immemorial soul beast as large as a giant python flew out of the black smoke, it pounced at Dragon Palace with strong winds around it.
The orange-golden light flickered on Dragon Palace as a trace of pink smoke flew out.
With the movement of the smoke, the immemorial soul beast easily got suppressed inside Dragon Palace without putting up a resistance.
It was immortal killer move — Dreamy Light Smoke!
Spectral Soul was only afraid of this method from Dragon Palace, but now that it was used, he immediately used the opportunity to move with increased speed, approaching Dragon Palace like a specter.
Immortal killer move — Qi Wall!
Qi Sea Ancestor pushed with both hands as winds blew wildly, a giant qi wall appeared out of nowhere and blocked Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul snorted coldly, breaking the qi wall but losing his battle opportunity.
Dragon Palace changed directions, the aura of dreamy light smoke became denser again.
Behind it, Qing Chou roared and wanted to chase them but it was powerless, in a few breaths of time, it was left in the dust.
Dragon Palace, Spectral Soul, and Qi Sea Ancestor fought while they traveled rapidly in the sky.
Qi Sea Ancestor played the role of a nuisance perfectly, he prevented Spectral Soul from succeeding multiple times.
Spectral Soul became annoyed, he started to attack Qi Sea Ancestor aggressively.
But at this time, Dragon Palace suddenly retaliated as it shielded Qi Sea Ancestor. Especially with the killer move dreamy light smoke ready to strike at any moment, Spectral Soul could not act too aggressively.
Thus, the situation went into a deadlock!
Spectral Soul had not returned to his peak condition, thus, when fighting against Dragon Palace and Qi Sea Ancestor, his battle strength was not much higher. Once they cooperated and assisted each other, even Spectral Soul felt a sense of helplessness, he could not fight against both enemies, targeting one of them would allow the other to act, it was hard to take action now.
At this time, Spectral Soul could not help but think of Qing Chou.
"I should not have weakened Qing Chou to this extent. If it still had some battle strength left, it would disrupt their cooperation!" Spectral Soul felt a little regret.
He was all alone and did not need cooperation, but Fang Yuan and Qi Sea Ancestor were different, they had to work together intrinsically to resist Spectral Soul.
Qing Chou was overwhelmed by rage, once it joined the battle, it would ruin Fang Yuan and Qi Sea Ancestor's cooperation, Spectral Soul would have a lot of opportunities to strike.
But what Spectral Soul did earlier was not wrong either. If he could subdue Qing Chou completely, Spectral Soul's advantage would rise, he would almost certainly claim victory.
It was a pity Qi Sea Ancestor ruined it!
He was merely a step away from completely subduing Qing Chou, but just that bit of time would allow Fang Yuan to escape from them, Spectral Soul could not take the risk.
This time, Spectral Soul had the advantage of being undercover, but what about next time?
Once Fang Yuan becomes cautious against him, would he have another chance?
Even Spectral Soul could not be sure.
Despite Fairy Zi Wei's deduction method, would Fang Yuan be unable to counter it?
Heavenly Court was the best example, they could not capture Fang Yuan despite countless efforts.
What was the outcome?
Fang Yuan got stronger and stronger, he fought his way to Heavenly Court and destroyed fate Gu!
Even though Fang Yuan was backed by many individuals who paved the way for him, what made all of these people invest in him?
Were there no better candidates?
Even for otherworldly demons, there were many of them in the world.
Fang Yuan was used by heaven's will and all these people, he was obviously someone who was unique and had great value.
Forget about the rest, just his ability to escape was something even Spectral Soul felt admiration towards.
Fang Yuan's attainment in escaping was very deep, he had a scheming and crafty mind! He was most skilled by borrowing others' strength, he could escape under the thumbs of many powerful forces, quickly raising his strength over time.
Spectral Soul had such rich battle experience, he knew deeply that someone like Fang Yuan had to be dealt with seriously. Once he struck, it had to be a fatal blow, he could not give Fang Yuan any time to rest or recuperate. This enemy was too good at making use of opportunity, he could easily gain a new lease on life and turn the situation around.
Fang Yuan was the type of person who could shine with a bit of sunlight, sprout with a bit of water, or create great problems with just a bit of time.
Indeed, Spectral Soul was wary against Fang Yuan.
Even he had to admit this truth.
Because he saw a trace of himself in Fang Yuan!
"Fang Yuan, defending will lead to your eventual loss, how long can you last? I will definitely kill you!" Spectral Soul said coldly, not forgetting to exert mental pressure on Fang Yuan.
"Qi Sea, after this battle, even if you hide, I will find you in Eastern Sea. I will destroy your qi sea and kill all of your subordinates!" Spectral Soul turned around and threatened Qi Sea Ancestor.
Qi Sea clone replied calmly: "The so-called Demon Venerable is actually resorting to trash talking."
Spectral Soul smiled coldly.
Qi Sea Ancestor's expression quickly changed, black smoke appeared around him as it started to invade his body.
Spectral Soul used words to distract Qi Sea Ancestor, even though this was not a weakness, in Spectral Soul's eyes, it was enough to create an opportunity for himself!
Qi Sea Ancestor quickly evaded it as Spectral Soul wanted to pursue him, Dragon Palace flew over and blocked Spectral Soul, bearing some of Qi Sea Ancestor's burden.
Qi Sea Ancestor exerted all his strength to alleviate the problem on him, after regaining his footing, he went back into the battle.
It was a deadlock once again.
But this time, no matter how Spectral Soul provoked him, Qi Sea Ancestor showed no carelessness.
Like this, the three sides fought and whipped up countless storms, the impact of their clash spreading towards the northern direction.
They flew past Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, entering Intestinal Gorge.
Black Heaven Temple's immortals were hiding in Intestinal Gorge.
Several Immortal Gu Houses were concealed around Intestinal Gorge, leaking no aura at all.
Seeing that the battle far away was approaching them, Black Heaven Temple's immortals immediately turned excited.
"Coming, they're coming!"
"They're finally here."
"The battle is so intense, is that female immortal Spectral Soul who is using the body temporarily?"
"Dragon Palace has been heavily damaged, Fang Yuan has no battle strength left, I've never seen him in a more pathetic state."
"He deserves it! If not for him, fate Gu would not have been destroyed. Be it Spectral Soul or Fang Yuan, they deserve to die!"
Black Heaven Temple's immortals gritted their teeth, they had a different tone when speaking of Qi Sea Ancestor.
"When we take action later, we should avoid Qi Sea Ancestor."
"It was all thanks to him that Heavenly Court's qi harvest fruit was completely removed."
"He is our alliance mate, he does not know that we are here in ambush, we cannot harm him."
Even though Qi Sea Ancestor and Dragon Palace were working together, Black Heaven Temple's Gu Immortals did not feel surprised. Spectral Soul was too strong, they had to work together to resist him. Precisely because of Qi Sea Ancestor's hard work, Fang Yuan and Spectral Soul were still opposing each other, expending their energy.
"Close, they are close."
"Let's do it!"
Black Heaven Temple's Gu Immortals were ready to strike.
Pew!
Right at this moment, Spectral Soul unleashed an aggressive killer move, black smoke rumbled as dark winds howled, several mountains were affected by the winds and instantly got disintegrated into dust.
Bam.
Qi Sea Ancestor had to unleash qi wall killer move to resist the dark winds.
Dragon Palace released intense golden light, shooting out a grand light pillar to fight offense with offense, attacking Spectral Soul.
Right when the pillar was about to hit, Spectral Soul's body flickered as he vanished on the spot, evading the light pillar easily.
The light pillar tore through the sky, it was over a thousand feet long, creating a huge trench on the ground. At that instance, smoke rose as countless mountains collapsed.
A brand new artificially created Earth Trench appeared before the eyes of the Black Heaven Temple immortals!
After this eruption of attacks, Spectral Soul no longer had a chance to attack, he quickly stopped and continued to fight against Qi Sea and Dragon Palace as they flew away.
The Black Heaven Temple immortals hiding in the Immortal Gu Houses were silent.
The battle they saw earlier shook their minds and bodies!
"So this is their real battle strength!" Many people understood this and broke out in cold sweat.
Nobody spoke about attacking anymore.
The atmosphere was quite awkward.
Eventually, Black Heaven Temple's first supreme elder coughed and broke the silence.
He purposely mumbled to himself: "No wonder Heavenly Court's Lady Qin asked us to wait here and observe the situation."
"Indeed, indeed, Lady Qin is very wise."
"What do we do now?"
"Let's continue waiting in ambush, they did not discover us. Maybe we will get a chance again?"
"That is right, even if we do not gain any opportunities, we can't come here and do nothing right? We must collect information about this battle and inform Lady Qin at least."
Rumble!
Right when the Black Heaven Temple immortals were discussing, the intense battle in the sky erupted again.
At once, the sky turned dark, earth shook as mountains rumbled.
The aftermath of their collision created huge air currents that surged out. Trees were uprooted as mountain rocks flew, wild beasts cried out in pain, it was the sight of an apocalypse.
Black Heaven Temple's immortals watched with wide eyes as Spectral Soul unleashed a black soul ball but Dragon Palace evaded it.
The soul ball fell into a nearby valley.
There was no sound, at the instance, with the valley as the core, the surrounding thousand li of mountains and valleys turned into black dust that flew away with the wind. The originally lively mountains vanished soundlessly, only a huge crater was left.
Gulp.
Someone swallowed their saliva, it was clearly heard by the Gu Immortals.
"What was that killer move earlier? It is so strange!"
"There are no records of it in history."
"It is not strange that Spectral Soul is able to use such powerful methods, but if it landed on us…"
"Not just us, even our sect's Immortal Gu Houses might not be able to survive such an attack."
"Let's… leave? Lady Qin asked us to act according to the situation, we are allowed to retreat if needed."
Black Heaven Temple's immortals looked at each other before turning to the first supreme elder.
First supreme elder's expression was extremely dark, he said with a solemn tone: "We need to preserve our strength, we cannot waste it here. If we die now, who will look after Black Heaven Temple? Lady Qin will not blame us, we are planning for the future."
The result was, Black Heaven Temple's immortals came stealthily and watched as the battle in the sky flew away, after that, they stealthily retreated without a sound.
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Chapter 2045 Myriad Tribulation“s Transformation
"Fang Yuan, this is as far as you go!" Spectral Soul chased for some time before attacking again, he was very confident this time.
At once, dark winds howled, black clouds filled the sky, it was like an immensely thick wall appeared before Dragon Palace.
"This is… quickly retreat!" At this moment, Wu Shuai's expression turned nervous, he noticed that this was a soul path battlefield killer move!
Black clouds spread out as Dragon Palace and Qi Sea Ancestor quickly retreated.
Immortal killer move — Soul Taker Battlefield!
This was Spectral Soul's famous battlefield killer move.
Spectral Soul had used this move to kill countless enemies. Once the battlefield was activated, dark blue soul beasts would be formed within the dense fog, there would be countless soul beasts that appeared unceasingly. Living beings who died in this battlefield would have their souls taken and transformed into soul beasts, under the control of the killer move's user.
When Dragon Palace was trapped by the black smoke spiral, there was still hope of escaping. But if it got trapped by soul taker battlefield, the chances of escaping would be close to zero.
Fang Yuan had Shadow Sect's true inheritance, soul taker battlefield was included in this inheritance, he knew a lot about the move.
But now, Spectral Soul used this move openly, it was likely that he had already modified and improved upon it. In fact, Fang Yuan's knowledge might be a trap from Spectral Soul.
At this moment, Fang Yuan and Qi Sea Ancestor did not dare to continue fighting, they quickly focused on escaping.
Spectral Soul rode on the endless black smoke as he chased after them.
When ordinary Gu Immortals used battlefield killer moves, they would need to cancel it if it could not trap the enemy.
But was Spectral Soul ordinary?
He used the split move technique to split soul taker battlefield into many parts. The first part was the black smoke, Spectral Soul could sustain it and move it around without any problem or weakness.
"Soul taker battlefield was created by Spectral Soul in his early days, he used it until the later part of his life. By then, he created an even stronger battlefield killer move — Hundred Million Slaughterfield. Why isn't he using the stronger killer move? Unless, he does not have the necessary Gu worms?" Fang Yuan guessed.
Spectral Soul was also guessing: "After escaping from Heavenly Court, Fang Yuan has been going north. Where is he trying to go? Northern Plains? If it is Northern Plains, which location is he going to? Crazed Demon Cave?"
Now that the five regions were united and the regional walls vanished, Spectral Soul had a huge advantage. Without the regional walls, Fang Yuan only has several ways to shrug off these pursuers.
Spectral Soul was very familiar with the five regions, he guessed Crazed Demon Cave at the first try.
Even if Spectral Soul could not be certain, he knew that stopping Fang Yuan from going to the north was a wise decision. Thus, Spectral Soul moved his black smoke to spread out across the surroundings, forcing Fang Yuan to change directions as he flew back to Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range.
At the same time, in another battlefield.
"I'm done." Feng Jin Huang panted heavily as she stopped her killer move. Her forehead was covered in sweat. Using pure dream reality seeker transformation killer move like this placed a huge pressure on her.
But it was done now.
Under the supervision of Heavenly Court, Shadow Sect, and Longevity Heaven, more than ten rank eight Gu Immortals watched as Feng Jin Huang kept all of the dream realms away.
Fang Yuan was nowhere in sight!
"Fang Yuan was not hiding here after all." The Gu Immortals were disappointed but also sighed in relief secretly.
Qin Ding Ling immediately asked as she moved her Immortal Gu House closer to the wisdom path formation: "Fairy Zi Wei, I've given you so much time. Right now, tell me, where is Fang Yuan's main body?"
Calamity Luck Altar quickly moved ahead as it blocked Qin Ding Ling, Bing Sai Chuan's voice resounded from within: "Slow down, immortal concubine from Heavenly Court!"
He called Qin Ding Ling an immortal concubine, he was referring to her past as Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's woman.
But soon, Bing Sai Chuan changed the subject to Fairy Zi Wei: "But I hold the same suspicions as Immortal Concubine Qin. Fairy Zi Wei, I hope you can give us a satisfactory answer."
Bing Sai Chuan could not wait either.
Because after such a long time, Fairy Zi Wei still had not given them an answer, it was not like what she said to them earlier.
Fairy Zi Wei stopped using the wisdom path formation as she collected the Gu worms.
She made up an excuse on the spot: "The situation is different from last time, Fang Yuan is prepared against us. However, I found his location after all."
"Where?" Qin Ding Ling asked immediately.
Fairy Zi Wei had already kept away her core Immortal Gu, she answered: "Fang Yuan is in Dragon Palace."
She spoke the truth.
Trying to keep Fang Yuan's location a secret now was pointless.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue had his own plan, he was already heading towards Spectral Soul's location, Myriad Year Flying Warship followed closely behind it.
From one glance, it was obvious where Fang Yuan's main body was.
"We will pursue them!" Qin Ding Ling ordered.
Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses started to fly together as they guarded each other.
Shadow Sect and Longevity Heaven also followed suit.
But the three parties were quite spaced apart, the atmosphere was a little tense.
Fairy Zi Wei's side was quite helpless here, she wanted to stop Heavenly Court here but the alliance with Longevity Heaven was not reliable, they were only allied in name.
As for Heavenly Court?
Qin Ding Ling could not confirm the truth behind Fairy Zi Wei's words, but since Fang Yuan was not inside the dream realms, he had to be in Dragon Palace or Myriad Year Flying Warship. Looking at Spectral Soul's actions, it was more likely that Fang Yuan was inside Dragon Palace.
Before they found Fang Yuan's main body, Qin Ding Ling did not want to target Fairy Zi Wei. It was too much of a waste of time now, and in this period, if either Spectral Soul or Fang Yuan claims victory while Heavenly Court was not around, it would be a huge loss.
For Longevity Heaven, Bing Sai Chuan also wanted to see how things progressed. He did not want to act rashly, because their strength was not enough to suppress everyone, he needed to use his timing well and target Fang Yuan. If he managed to kill Fang Yuan, the gains would be immense.
All three groups targeted Fang Yuan.
It was really a rare chance to kill Fang Yuan, the opportunity would not present itself twice.
Boom!
With a loud sound, Dragon Palace crashed into a mountain like a shooting star.
But Dragon Palace did not stop there, it went deep into the mountain's interior as a result of the huge force that sent it flying.
Qi Sea Ancestor quickly used qi wall to obstruct Spectral Soul from chasing after it.
But Spectral Soul smiled coldly, he moved around Qing Chou.
Instantly, Qing Chou's eyes turned red as it attacked furiously.
Qi Sea Ancestor's attacks were stopped by Qing Chou, using this chance, Spectral Soul flew downwards.
At the moment of crisis, a heavily damaged Dragon Palace flew out of the smoke, dodging Spectral Soul's assault.
Not long ago, Qing Chou joined in the battle against Spectral Soul, but it was made use of instead.
Fang Yuan fell into danger again, Dragon Palace suffered a heavy blow, it was about to break, it could only escape and stall for some time.
The outside battle was tense, but inside Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture, a change had occurred even though the myriad tribulation was still rampaging.
Fang Yuan sacrificed his soul beast group resolutely, not only did they bear the brunt of the tribulation, heaven's will's attention was also drawn away.
The pressure on Fang Yuan lifted by a bit, there was finally a chance for him to activate the human path formation again.
The human path formation erupted with great might as a grand white light pillar shot into the sky, into the depths of the lightning clouds.
At once, the myriad tribulation's lightning clouds froze.
Using this chance, Combat Beast King attacked, scattering countless Gu worms in the sky.
Fang Yuan's divine sense enveloped them as he set up a formation rapidly.
In order to make this counterattack, he had made ample preparations. With his deep formation path attainment, he quickly created a formation in the sky.
Heaven's will reacted after that, sending lightning bolts to attack together.
Combat Beast King roared as he intercepted the lightning bolts without dodging.
After over ten breaths of time, his star armor shattered, he fell to the ground while bathed in blood.
With a loud sound, he created a pit on the ground as he fell unconscious, either dead or alive.
Lightning bolts shot towards the formation again.
At the critical moment, the formation's set up finally succeeded as it turned into a huge basin.
The basin shot out profound light that had a mysterious attractive force, it absorbed all of the lightning bolts that shot out.
The myriad tribulation was very fierce but the basin successfully absorbed and turned it into a pool of lightning plasma.
The lightning bolts continued to attack while the lightning pool grew in volume.
The lightning pool was not special, it was a common resource point for lightning path cultivators, almost all lightning path Gu Immortals would create one in their immortal aperture. It was like how light path Gu Immortals would create a Five Light Mountain.
But this lightning pool's appearance was a huge help to Fang Yuan, it bore the brunt of this myriad destruction lightning forest tribulation. It was even more effective than the old Combat Beast King.
This was because this lightning pool's core was not ordinary, it was a rank eight Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan had — Lightning Gu!
But good times did not last, heaven's will controlled the myriad tribulation to target the newly formed lightning pool. As the water level of this pool rose gradually, it was about to overflow.
Immortal killer move — Unrestrained Heavenly Mark!
Fang Yuan directly used this killer move on the deep blue plasma in the lightning pool.
The plasma seemed to be made of lightning path dao marks, but it was actually formed from a small portion of those three thousand heaven path dao marks.
These dao marks were restrained by the lightning pool, they were sitting ducks. Due to Fang Yuan's killer move, they were quickly refined, the efficiency was much higher than before!
One, two, five… ten dao marks!
The water level of the lightning pool stabilized before falling rapidly.
The lightning in the sky suddenly ceased.
Heaven's will was not stupid, it knew that continuing with this would lead to failure, Fang Yuan would gain much more instead.
It started to transform the myriad tribulation.
Heaven path was inclusive of everything, it contained lightning path, it could turn into countless lighting bolts. It also contained other paths, it naturally had all sorts of forms to take.
Since Fang Yuan made a countermeasure, heaven's will immediately stopped and changed its method to cause destruction to sovereign immortal aperture.
For ordinary myriad tribulations, the content would be fixed once it appeared.
But Fang Yuan's myriad tribulation was special, it was made of over three thousand heaven path dao marks, heaven's will controlled it personally, it could change forms at will.
This undoubtedly raised the difficulty of Fang Yuan's tribulation by many times!
"This is too much…" As the old Combat Beast King woke up gradually, he had already separated from the star sea snail. Deep within the pit, his old body was buried in the fragments of the star sea snail, he looked at the changing myriad tribulation as this old rank eight Gu Immortal showed a deep expression of despair.
At the same time, in the external battlefield.
"Spectral Soul, I will lend you a hand!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue had finally arrived.
Spectral Soul gained reinforcements but he had an unhappy expression, he only snorted in reply.
He knew about Demon Immortal Qi Jue's true intentions, but now was not the time for internal conflict.
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Chapter 2046 Falling for a Trap
Demon Immortal Qi Jue arrived and immediately attacked Qi Sea Ancestor. The secluded domain of heaven and earth above his head, Xi Land, was too powerful against qi path.
Qi Sea Ancestor was Dragon Palace's greatest help, now that he was restrained, Dragon Palace's situation became more dangerous.
But soon, Myriad Year Flying Warship arrived too and started to join the fight. Even though Fang Yuan faced much difficulty, he managed to drag this fight on.
Spectral Soul yelled, his body moved like a specter, his palm landed on Dragon Palace again.
Countless soul beast silhouettes appeared on the surface of Dragon Palace like a series of still images, a portion of Dragon Palace shattered, it was damaged both internally and externally.
Dragon Palace unleashed dreamy light smoke, Spectral Soul quickly retreated.
At the next moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue pointed at Dragon Palace suddenly.
Qi currents gathered, they exploded instantly.
The exterior of Dragon Palace had already been blown to bits, only the main hall was left. Now that it suffered this powerful attack from Demon Immortal Qi Jue, a huge hole appeared on the roof of this main hall, it could be seen from the outside.
Spectral Soul saw this and smiled coldly, not holding back his praise: "Qi Jue, well done!"
At this stage, everyone knew that Dragon Palace was in grave danger, if they worked harder, they would be able to shatter it entirely.
Fang Yuan and Qi Sea Ancestor could cooperate, Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Spectral Soul could do the same as well!
After Demon Immortal Qi Jue joined the fight, he suppressed Qi Sea Ancestor and cooperated with Spectral Soul. Even though they did not have close coordination, these two had abundant battle experience, they could find ways to work together.
And this cooperation pushed Dragon Palace beyond the brink of destruction.
When Fairy Zi Wei, Qin Ding Ling, and Bing Sai Chuan arrived, they saw that Dragon Palace shattered into countless fragments as they scattered everywhere.
Fang Yuan and Wu Shuai, who were inside Dragon Palace were exposed, but they quickly went inside Myriad Year Flying Warship, which came to pick them up.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was significantly faster than Dragon Palace, it immediately moved away and escaped.
The three groups of immortals were stunned before feeling great joy.
"Quick, Fang Yuan is done for!"
"Dragon Palace was actually destroyed!!"
"Even though Myriad Year Flying Warship is fast, in terms of defense, it is inferior to Dragon Palace."
"We must kill Fang Yuan, we must restore Heavenly Court's reputation."
"Fang Yuan destroyed our Imperial Court blessed land, there is deep hatred between him and Longevity Heaven. We will kill him and take all of his true inheritances and Gu worms. We will pull out his soul and torture him for all eternity!"
"Fang Yuan, it is finally time for Shadow Sect to take care of you."
"We will kill Fang Yuan first before we compete among ourselves. We must not let him have any chance of getting away during our conflict!"
The immortals rushed up, they pursued Fang Yuan with great enthusiasm.
This was the greatest predicament that Fang Yuan had ever been in since his rebirth. He was currently chased by the top three super forces in the world, most of the world's strongest experts had gathered behind him. Qin Ding Ling, Fairy Zi Wei, and Bing Sai Chuan were Gu Immortals that left a name for themselves in history, there was even a fearsome being like Spectral Soul.
"Fang Yuan, you cannot escape." Spectral Soul smiled coldly to himself, when he saw that everyone's target was Fang Yuan, he did not chase them away, he allowed everyone to pursue him.
"Stay attentive, defend against Spectral Soul and Longevity Heaven." Qin Ding Ling instructed.
This was truly an amazing sight.
Heavenly Court, Longevity Heaven, and Shadow Sect joined forces to pursue Fang Yuan, but because of their mutual wariness, they did not go all out.
Fang Yuan did not create a situation where the three sides clashed because they all were not simple characters. At the same time, Fang Yuan's grudges with them were too deep, the wealth that he held was also too alluring.
Even if they held back, they were still sufficiently strong, their killer moves were all strange and unpredictable.
Not long afterwards, Myriad Year Flying Warship became covered in damages, many Gu worm corpses fell off it while it flew and escaped.
"At this rate, there is no way out!" Wu Shuai shouted: "Main body, our road to the north has been blocked, we can only go southwest now, this is hopeless. We cannot last much longer, Myriad Year Flying Warship is much frailer than Dragon Palace."
Fang Yuan's main body was sitting down and dealing with the myriad tribulation, he instructed: "Go underground, see if there's any hope underground."
Myriad Year Flying Warship was maneuvering in the sky, dodging Spectral Soul's black soul ball, but a large number of killer moves still landed on it.
The white ship defended against the barrage of killer moves, soon, a portion of the ship turned dim as the white color turned to grey, it floated in the sky. Next, it vanished into thin air after intense winds swept it away.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was like an injured flying fish, it dived downwards, almost crashing to the ground.
"Follow it!"
"This ship will break with three more rounds of attacks."
"Fang Yuan must die!"
"If we cannot obtain it, we will destroy the sovereign immortal aperture along with him, we cannot let others benefit from this."
The three forces made similar decisions as they ordered.
Boom!
Myriad Year Flying Warship dived down underground like a white meteor.
As dust clouds rumbled, earth shook but it could not scare off the pursuers, they followed the hole that Myriad Year Flying Warship created as they dived in.
Bam bam bam…
Many killer moves continued to land on Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was starting to break apart, it was in a critical state.
"Hahaha, Fang Yuan made a foolish move, this is the underground, Myriad Year Flying Warship can't move easily while we can hit it with great precision."
"He can neither go up or down now! Fang Yuan, you demon, you slaughtered innocents and harmed the world, today you will face retribution, this is all just desserts!"
"Offending us will lead to your pitiful end!"
The immortals roared in anger.
Seeing that Fang Yuan was escaping in distress, all of the immortals' morale surged to a peak level.
They just needed to put in a bit more effort to see Fang Yuan die right in front of them.
Within Myriad Year Flying Warship, Wu Shuai was covered in blood. With such intense attacks, Myriad Year Flying Warship could not be repaired in time.
Rumble…
After the immortals made their preparation, they started to attack again with a new wave of moves.
Countless killer moves were unleashed with some distance between them, trying to avoid nullifying each other, the terrifying wave of attacks swept towards Myriad Year Flying Warship layer by layer.
"Die!"
Bam.
At the moment of life and death, Myriad Year Flying Warship crashed into the rock in front and barged into a huge underground space.
Myriad Year Flying Warship had room to maneuver, it dodged most of the killer moves and escaped destruction. It was like a drowning person suddenly breathing in some air.
"What happened?"
"We entered Earth Abyss!"
"Is this Fang Yuan's intention?"
"Chase him, we cannot let him escape."
The immortals were stunned before charging through the rocks, arriving in the underground space.
It turned out that while Spectral Soul chased Fang Yuan, they went towards the southeast from Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range. Demon Immortal Qi Jue came from the east, he cooperated with Spectral Soul to force Fang Yuan to go southwest. Finally, because Fairy Zi Wei and the rest came from the south, Fang Yuan had to go west in the end.
After traveling west for some time, they arrived in Ancient Soul Sect's territory.
Ancient Soul Sect was one of the ten great ancient sects, it had a long history, one of Ancient Soul Sect's territories was a huge underground abyss.
The underground abyss was at least hundreds of thousands of square kilometers in size. The space was extremely large and the underground world was deep and secluded. There were all sorts of caves and tunnels, some were like labyrinths, some had giant underground lakes while some had flat ground.
Countless lifeforms lived here, in Fang Yuan's previous life, endless beast tides emerged from Earth Abyss, attacking the surface and bringing disaster to Central Continent.
Central Continent's ten great ancient sects spent several years before they were finally able to eradicate the beast tide from the surface. Afterwards, both righteous and demonic path Gu Masters and Gu Immortals moved together to explore Earth Abyss.
In the end, they found that this Earth Abyss was unfathomably deep, it had layers after layers, by the time Fang Yuan used Spring Autumn Cicada, they had already discovered a hundred and seven underground layers. It was impossible to estimate how many layers were still left.
"The environment here is complex, there are many lifeforms, the lower we go, the more immemorial desolate beasts there are, this is the best place to escape to." Wu Shuai who was within Myriad Year Flying Warship realized at once.
Using Earth Abyss, Myriad Year Flying Warship's situation started to improve.
But Spectral Soul and the rest also understood Fang Yuan's scheme.
Many Gu Immortals stopped attacking with their full strength, they were wary against each other, but after getting so far, nobody wanted to give up.
Fang Yuan's circumstances were dangerous, even though Myriad Year Flying Warship was not taking as much damage as before, it was still slipping towards the abyss of destruction.
Fang Yuan and Wu Shuai cooperated, they planned to the best of their ability, using the terrain, but still could not shrug off these pursuers.
The only difference was that these pursuers were now grouped into different categories.
The first and closest person to Myriad Year Flying Warship was Spectral Soul.
Followed by Qi Sea Ancestor, Demon Immortal Qi Jue, and Qing Chou.
The final group was Heavenly Court, Longevity Heaven, Shadow Sect's Fairy Zi Wei, and the rest.
Boom!
Myriad Year Flying Warship, which was about to be destroyed, charged through the rocks again as it went to a lower layer.
Countless bats flew and escaped in panic.
In this layer, there were countless bats living around, it was like a huge black tide that had no end in sight.
Ordinary bats were turned into pulp by Myriad Year Flying Warship, while alerted immemorial black bats attacked while moving against the tide.
In this layer, black bats were the absolute rulers, because Myriad Year Flying Warship disturbed them, they were going to punish this daring invader.
"Oh?" Spectral Soul followed closely behind.
He saw the endless black bats, he became joyful and surprised.
"Fang Yuan, even heaven is not helping you, it seems that this layer will be the place you die." Spectral Soul suddenly howled.
As the howling sound spread out, innumerable black bats died, even ancient black bats were not spared. Only immemorial black bats survived, they tried to move with difficulty in the air.
Once Spectral Soul's howling ended, countless bat souls appeared from these bat corpses.
These souls quickly fused with his voice as black smoke enveloped Myriad Year Flying Warship from all directions.
Myriad Year Flying Warship quickly disintegrated from the invasion of the black smoke, it could not hold on anymore.
"Retrieve the core Immortal Gu, we will abandon ship!" Fang Yuan's main body ordered.
Like how they sacrificed Dragon Palace earlier, they took back the core Immortal Gu with all their effort at the end. Dragon Palace's core Immortal Gu Dream Token was already successfully retrieved.
But this was a dangerous move, when Immortal Gu Houses face destruction, the Gu Immortal retrieving the core Immortal Gu could only do their best and leave the rest to chance. There could even be times when they were too hasty to take out the core Immortal Gu, causing it to be severely damaged instead, eventually resulting in the Immortal Gu's destruction.
At the next moment, Myriad Year Flying Warship broke apart entirely, Fang Yuan and Wu Shuai got exposed to the black smoke.
"He's here! I will block him." Wu Shuai stood before Fang Yuan.
"I said this before, your struggles are futile." Spectral Soul approached as he spoke in an icy tone.
Qi Sea Ancestor and the rest had just arrived with the rest, he saw the overwhelming black smoke that shattered the silver-white light, Spectral Soul was attacking Fang Yuan's main body.
"No!" Qi Sea Ancestor could not help them from this distance, he could only shout out in his mind.
At the moment before death, Fang Yuan suddenly smiled: "You fell for my trap, Spectral Soul."
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Chapter 2047 Carelessness
When Fairy Zi Wei and the rest arrived, they could only see an endless stream of black bats.
In this layer of the underground abyss, black bats were the sole rulers of all the living beings, right now, they felt provoked, they went into madness and rage.
Immemorial black bats commanded ancient black bats while ancient black bats commanded desolate beast black bats, these desolate beast black bats controlled the countless ordinary bats. When Shadow Sect, Longevity Heaven, and Heavenly Court arrived, the furious black bats poured their anger that had nowhere to be vented at these three parties.
Even though the three parties contained the strongest Gu Immortals in the current world, they could not help but freeze in their steps.
"Why are there so many black bats!"
"We need to kill the immemorial black bats to get rid of these beasts."
"There are too many of them, these black bats are simply endless, we cannot waste time here, our primary goal is still Fang Yuan!"
The three groups charged into the black bat groups, they tried to move in this dangerous environment.
All of the Gu Immortals were top tier rank eight Gu Immortals in the current world, even though there were countless bats, they were still unable to match the immortals in actual combat.
But by the time the immortals got out of the bat groups, they could not see Myriad Year Flying Warship, Spectral Soul, Qing Chou, or others.
"What happened?"
"Where are they? There are no clues left behind at all!"
"This is impossible, we chased them according to the traces left behind from their fight."
The immortals were shocked and uncertain.
Calamity Luck Altar burst out with golden radiance, melting the surrounding bats, a huge space was created immediately.
From within Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan's impatient voice resounded: "Fairy Zi Wei, tell me, where is Fang Yuan?"
Old Man Zheng Yuan snorted coldly: "Why would we know?"
Qin Ding Ling sneered: "Shadow Sect, do you really think we are ignorant of your tricks? You waited and did not chase them, wasn't it because you were trying to disrupt us?"
Qin Ding Ling spoke in a sharp tone, it seemed like she was sowing discord but it sounded like the truth, Shadow Sect got into a predicament immediately.
Fang Yuan, Spectral Soul, Qing Chou, Qi Sea, and Qi Jue all vanished, it was just too strange. The three forces chasing them became extremely anxious.
Fairy Zi Wei was also frowning deeply as she said: "We have lost contact with our master. I believe that other forces have interfered, the important thing is to find them now, if we fight among ourselves, this external force will succeed in their goal."
Bing Sai Chuan spoke in an icy tone, not concealing his killing intent: "Then show me the capabilities of a wisdom path great expert."
"Hmph, just you watch." Fairy Zi Wei said as she started to activate her killer move, making deductions rapidly.
Qin Ding Ling did not speak but her killing intent was not concealed either. If she found any tricks from Shadow Sect, Heavenly Court would definitely attack them immediately.
Creak creak…
The surrounding black bats approached again, the Gu Immortals hesitated for a moment before quickly attacking and resisting the black bats for Fairy Zi Wei.
Fairy Zi Wei's body was shining in a purple-gold light, aurora spread out constantly.
Fairy Zi Wei's expression turned increasingly pale, immortal essence was expended rapidly until her body started shivering. Afterwards, she opened her eyes, purple light filling her pupils.
As the purple-gold light faded away, Fairy Zi Wei's pupils returned to normal.
Her aura was significantly weaker now, it was clear that she had done her best in the deduction.
Under everyone's supervision, she let out a breath of air: "I deduced it, a battlefield killer move enveloped all of them, causing us to not sense them anywhere."
"Battlefield killer move?"
"Who is ambushing them here?"
"Hmph, do you have evidence?"
Fairy Zi Wei sneered, as a wisdom path great expert, she would naturally not end up empty-handed, she immediately split the bat groups apart as she directed the immortals to a trace of earth path aura that was about to dissipate.
After sensing the aura, the immortals started to analyze it.
"It is an earth path killer move indeed!"
"It really seems like a battlefield killer move."
"Watch me, I will find it!"
A certain Gu Immortal of Heavenly Court made his move, he was very confident at the start but soon, he returned without any progress.
Soon, this trace of earth path aura dissipated, only the bat groups remained to fight against the three groups of immortals.
The immortals' expressions were very ugly.
Some were still suspicious about Shadow Sect, some were thinking about ways to find the enclosed immortal battlefield, some were forced to fight against the black bats.
Longevity Heaven's Bing Sai Chuan still held some suspicions.
Fairy Zi Wei had the heaviest mood, she dealt with the black bats as she asked Heavenly Court: "You should be most familiar with this earth path aura! Heavenly Court, what do you think?"
Qin Ding Ling was silent for a moment before she said: "Indeed, this resembles Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's method. We have the same idea now, to find this immortal battlefield and destroy it!"
"So it is Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's force, no wonder…" Bing Sai Chuan realized at once.
In history, among the ten venerables, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was the most skilled at using immortal battlefield killer moves. His capability in this aspect was publicly known as the number one among venerables! Right now, the Reincarnation Battlefield that he created was still existing in Central Continent, owned by the ten great ancient sects.
Why did Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's force take action?
None of the immortals here were surprised.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable and Spectral Soul Demon Venerable were on opposite sides, everyone knew that. Back then, Spectral Soul slaughtered everyone in his way, causing great terror and chaos, all of the people in the five regions lived in fear, the righteous path was weak while the demonic path surged. Ever since Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable started cultivation, he worked hard to turn this trend around, he restored peace to the world and suppressed the demonic path, he brought fortune to the world.
Because of the ideologies of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable and Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, they had always conflicted.
"To find Paradise Earth's battlefield and destroy it, the difficulty is just…" Bing Sai Chuan shook his head, even an expert like him hesitated and felt troubled.
"Why would Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's force take action? And why would they wait here in ambush?" A Gu Immortal asked.
This question made Fairy Zi Wei's mood even heavier, a dark cloud loomed over her, shrouding her face.
"It must be Fang Yuan!" Even though there was no evidence, Fairy Zi Wei still said that with great confidence.
She had fought against Fang Yuan too many times, she was basically the loser each time. This feeling of defeat was too common to Fairy Zi Wei, she had experienced it countless times.
Each time she thought that victory was close, Fang Yuan would turn the situation around.
This current situation was also the same, Fairy Zi Wei felt very familiar with it.
Qin Ding Ling agreed with Fairy Zi Wei's deduction: "We chased after Fang Yuan, but from another perspective, he was leading us here. While chasing and escaping, this route was planned by Fang Yuan. If he cooperated with Paradise Earth's force and created this situation, it is indeed the easiest way. But why would Paradise Earth's force cooperate with a demon like Fang Yuan? We have not seen it ourselves, is this really Paradise Earth's force? Or rather, which force under Paradise Earth is it?"
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was the closest venerable to the current era, he naturally left behind the highest number of forces.
Different from other venerables, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had never intentionally focused on developing any single force.
Heavenly Court had Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, and Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, it was developed by the three of them through painstaking effort. Longevity Heaven was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's grotto-heaven, it was the foundation that he had left behind. Shadow Sect was operated by Spectral Soul's split souls for many years, it used Zombie Alliance as the front to slowly accumulate influence and strength.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was different, he helped and assisted many different forces. For example, the Merman Imperial Court in Eastern Sea, it was because he did not want to see the merfolk get bullied. There was also Southern Border's Mushroomman Paradise, it was made because he did not want to see the mushroommen get slaughtered mercilessly.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had the ability to turn an immortal aperture into a paradise, he helped many Gu Immortals in his life, he altered many grotto-heavens and blessed lands.
He even helped to enlighten many legendary immemorial beasts, for example, the blue dragon whale.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable did not just help humans, he also helped variant humans, or even other living beings that were in need.
Thus, he was the most loved venerable and also the most merciful. Even though Heavenly Court's Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable also helped out countless living beings, he was mostly focused on helping nature and repairing habitats.
The other venerables all had offensive methods but only Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable did not.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had also left behind his true inheritances in various places. Southern Border's Mushroomman Paradise was one of them, thus, their leader, Southern Border's Gu Immortal Lu Wei Yin, was also called Paradise Earth's inheritor, nobody could refute it. Before the fate war, Fairy Zi Wei even went to the Mushroomman Paradise and borrowed benevolence Gu.
All the immortals could not think of an answer now.
Because of Paradise Earth's actions, many forces and Gu Immortals were related to him in some way. There was no way of knowing which force it was exactly.
"Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable focused on removing Spectral Soul's influence his entire life, he was a merciful and benevolent person who brought peace. Would his force cooperate with a demon like Fang Yuan? It is not impossible. Didn't Heavenly Court cooperate with me temporarily as well?" Fairy Zi Wei's heart was filled with a solemn emotion.
The more she thought, the worse she found the situation.
The reason why Heavenly Court worked with Shadow Sect was so that Fang Yuan and Spectral Soul would fight each other, it would be great if these two demons were killed at the same time!
If Paradise Earth's force and Fang Yuan cooperated while having such thoughts, why would it be impossible?
With Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's status and nature, he would not do something like laying an ambush. But the Immortal Venerable had died already, nobody knew the temperament of the force that he left behind, or even his inheritor!
"This situation must have surpassed master's expectations."
"But there can be a worse situation, that is, Fang Yuan planned all of this. He gave up on Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship just so he could lure master into this battlefield."
"No matter what the truth is, I need to do my best to save master!!"
Fairy Zi Wei sensed something amiss, she was very anxious. As a wisdom path great expert, any changes in her emotions needed to be assigned great importance.
Spectral Soul had an advantage against Fang Yuan of course, but against another venerable's force, it would not be so certain. And most importantly, this was the venerable who purposely went against Spectral Soul in history, Paradise Earth!
At the same time, in the earth path battlefield.
Spectral Soul looked at the surrounding sand, his expression turned cold as ice: "Good, very good. So you are Lu Wei Yin, the current generation inheritor of Paradise Earth?"
A Gu Immortal stepped on a yellow cloud, he cupped his fists at Spectral Soul: "Lord Demon Venerable is very perceptive, I have been waiting here for a long time."
At the side, Fang Yuan urged: "Lu Wei Yin, I lured him here already. Don't expect me to take action now, show me your sincerity… urgh!"
Fang Yuan suddenly stopped speaking as he retreated rapidly.
It was too late!
In an instant, Spectral Soul suddenly arrived in front of him using an unknown method.
"Fang Yuan, you are too careless. It is a pity you got this far, but go and die now!" Spectral Soul stretched out his hand as he grabbed Fang Yuan's neck.
Fang Yuan stared with eyes wide open, he could not break free!
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Chapter 2048 Illusory Sand Shifting Shadow
Spectral Soul was indeed the Demon Venerable who killed his way to the top!
Any other person would be wary at the first moment and defend against an assault. But he had abundant battle experience, after falling into a trap, he made perfect use of an opportunity to attack instantly!
Undoubtedly, he chose a great timing.
Fang Yuan was pursued by three parties, the pressure was huge, after getting into this safe area, it was not strange that he would relax his mind.
Spectral Soul distracted him with words while preparing his killer move. This move had no aura or commotion, only Wu Yong in the current five regions could match him in this aspect. Once used, Spectral Soul turned the situation around, he grabbed Fang Yuan's neck tightly.
Spectral Soul's move was also extraordinary, it was called soul shattering hand. This move could only be used at an extremely close range, it was a close combat method.
In Gu Immortal battles, close combat was rare. Most engaged in long distance combat, only few paths like transformation path or strength path would focus on hand-to-hand combat. Soul shattering hand had an extremely close range, it was very limited in usage but Spectral Soul still held onto it without discarding it, the reason was because this move had incredible power, once it struck the enemy, it could easily decide the victor of the battle.
At the next moment, soul shattering hand activated!
A smile appeared on Fang Yuan's face again, while Spectral Soul's expression turned grim.
The 'Fang Yuan' in his hand quickly turned into sand and scattered with the wind, it was actually a puppet made of sand!
As yellow sand flew in the air, Fang Yuan's voice could be heard as he praised: "Spectacular indeed! Lu Wei Yin, your effort and time spent to specially create this illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield was not in vain."
Fang Yuan did not conceal his voice, Spectral Soul snorted coldly as he looked for traces, flying past the sand and arriving in front of Fang Yuan.
Spectral Soul attacked again while Fang Yuan did not dodge.
At the next moment, Fang Yuan scattered into countless sand specks again.
It was a rare sight as Spectral Soul finally frowned this time.
Lu Wei Yin's voice was transmitted: "Fang Yuan, you are too kind. The truth is, Friend Spectral Soul is too strong, I had to set up my strongest battlefield killer move. I won't hide it, even though this battlefield originated from Paradise Earth's true inheritance, it has been modified by many generations, it has many changes done to it. The sand puppet double earlier can deceive the enemy's senses and lure away firepower."
"Lu Wei Yin, do you want to lose your Southern Border Mushroomman Paradise? To think my Shadow Sect let you off purposely back then." Spectral Soul called out coldly, he stared at Lu Wei Yin's sand puppet fixedly. He knew that Lu Wei Yin purposely spoke to target his morale, to exert mental pressure on him.
In a battle between experts, every word was a contest. Especially against information path Gu Immortals, every word they said was sharp like a blade or spear, the enemies could not be lax against them.
Fang Yuan ignored Spectral Soul and continued to speak with Lu Wei Yin: "Even though I used up two Immortal Gu Houses to lower this old monster's wariness, this battlefield killer move has such power, it was not a waste. Now, it will depend on you."
Lu Wei Yin knew about Fang Yuan's tribulation, in fact, the heavenly mark killer move that Fang Yuan had was also given to him by Lu Wei Yin!
As a matter of fact, Fang Yuan did not trust Lu Wei Yin. His original destination was not Earth Abyss but Crazed Demon Cave instead. Fang Yuan did not know a lot about Lu Wei Yin's background, there was nothing much about him in the five hundred years of memories either.
Right now, not only was Spectral Soul stuck in the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield, Fang Yuan was the same.
Fang Yuan's two Immortal Gu Houses, Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship, were also destroyed, he lost many Gu worms, even the few core Immortal Gu that he retrieved were all injured.
Spectral Soul snickered: "Fang Yuan, hide well. Maybe Lu Wei Yin will let you out? Hehehe, but it is not a problem, Paradise Earth died long ago, his earth path battlefield cannot trap me for long. Once I decipher this place, it will be your time to die!"
Lu Wei Yin did not answer, he activated the battlefield.
From the yellow sand flying around Spectral Soul, a figure flew out, it was Fang Yuan's Qi Sea clone.
Qi Sea Ancestor saw Spectral Soul and got stunned, it was as if he had just charged through the sandstorm and did not expect to see Spectral Soul here.
But at the next moment, Qi Sea Ancestor made his move, unleashing qi path methods on Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul snorted coldly, he blocked the attacks and wanted to retaliate but saw that Qi Sea Ancestor got enveloped by the sandstorm, vanishing into thin air.
Spectral Soul immediately chased, he went into the yellow sand, but he could not see any sign of Qi Sea Ancestor.
Another figure approached, it was Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Spectral Soul was about to speak when he saw that Demon Immortal Qi Jue's expression was strange, he became wary.
As expected, Demon Immortal Qi Jue attacked him at the next moment.
Spectral Soul resisted as he called out: "Qi Jue, what are you doing?"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue snickered: "Qi Sea Ancestor, since you provoked me, I will show you the true power of qi path!"
After hearing this, Spectral Soul became stunned, he thought: "Don't tell me this earth path battlefield has another ability to confuse enemies?"
Since Spectral Soul could perceive the sand puppet as Fang Yuan without realizing so, it was not strange that Demon Immortal Qi Jue would get deceived and mistake him for Qi Sea Ancestor.
Spectral Soul and Demon Immortal Qi Jue fought for over ten rounds, Demon Immortal Qi Jue suffered injuries as he got devoured by the sandstorm again.
Next was Qing Chou.
"Spectral Soul, I want you dead! I want you dead!" Qing Chou was still insane, the rank nine aura on its body was extremely dense, Spectral Soul's heart jumped upon sensing it.
Like this, at times he fought Qi Sea Ancestor, at times he fought Demon Immortal Qi Jue, sometimes, he even faced the legendary immemorial desolate beast Qing Chou.
They started to appear and disappear in the sandstorm, engaging with Spectral Soul while taking turns!
Spectral Soul had outstanding battle strength, far beyond them individually, but whenever he gained some advantage, Lu Wei Yin, who controlled the battlefield, would swap opponents and leave Spectral Soul helpless.
Even after several rounds of attacks, Spectral Soul could not break free from the yellow sand, he could only fight them.
Faraway in the battlefield, Fang Yuan was focusing on his tribulation. Wu Shuai guarded him with a vigilant expression, all around him, countless army ants gathered into a hollow ball, shielding him and Fang Yuan from the outside.
Within the sovereign immortal aperture, the myriad tribulation had already turned into a torrential flood!
Water levels rose, engulfing ten thousand li of land.
Fang Yuan's five regions were all affected, a large number of small sized resource points were completely destroyed, Mini Central Continent's spirit spring forest, Mini Northern Plains' bone burial field, contact heart river bank, Mini Western Desert's eerie fire dragon python, sand gull soil beach, Mini Southern Border's become dragon mound, Heaven Sealing Mountain, and Mini Eastern Sea's jade root lake were all heavily damaged. As for the few resource points that Fang Yuan defended heavily, they also met with a huge impact.
Fang Yuan's losses were severe!
There was no helping it, he had done his best.
The good thing was that his hard work and sacrifices were not in vain, he had already refined more than twenty heaven path dao marks!
Against the initial myriad tribulation, myriad destruction lightning forest, Fang Yuan came up with a countermeasure after great effort. Due to heaven's will's manipulation, the heaven path dao marks immediately changed the tribulation, causing Fang Yuan's previous method to become ineffective.
If this happened to most Gu Immortals in the current world, it would lead to despair. But for Fang Yuan, each time the myriad tribulation transformed, it was a great opportunity for him!
Because he had the killer move exposing heavenly secret.
Exposing heavenly secret allowed Fang Yuan to accurately predict what the next tribulation was, even though he could not prepare for it amply, it was still an opportunity he could use.
After all, the greatest problem and danger of tribulations was that they could not be predicted. Once they were known beforehand, their threat level would fall by many times.
Of course, even if myriad tribulations could be predicted, they were still myriad tribulations. Thus, the sovereign immortal aperture flooded and countless resources were destroyed.
Fang Yuan's losses were huge, but it was not a bad thing entirely!
The myriad tribulation's power continued to fall, because the essence of the Heavenly Dao was to maintain balance, the more losses Fang Yuan suffered, the weaker the tribulation would be, even if heaven's will was here, it could not defy the natural operations of the Heavenly Dao.
More and more heaven path dao marks were refined by Fang Yuan, his speed of refinement was getting faster and faster!
The first step was the hardest, Fang Yuan sacrificed all of his soul beasts to create an opportunity in this biggest predicament of his life.
He succeeded!
Despite the myriad tribulation's rampage, Fang Yuan already managed to regain his footing, he was slowly turning the situation around.
Spectral Soul fell into a tough battle.
Lu Wei Yin controlled the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield, causing him to be in an extremely passive spot.
Qi Sea Ancestor, Demon Immortal Qi Jue, Qing Chou, and even Lu Wei Yin could attack Spectral Soul at the same time.
Qing Chou was overcome by rage, it was once used by Spectral Soul, but in here, Lu Wei Yin could relocate it easily, Spectral Soul had no opportunities to do so.
As intense winds blew, a sandstorm brewed, suddenly, all of the sand gathered into rocks, they flew around in their own vortexes.
Instantly, countless flying rocks enveloped Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul waved his hand as smoke flew out, some of the flying rocks melted in the black smoke but most of them pierced through it and shot towards Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul's figure suddenly vanished, when he reappeared, he was already at the other end of the battlefield.
He dodged almost all of the flying rocks, but after these flying rocks flew into the sandstorm, they turned back into sand.
After that, the sand turned back into yellowish flying rocks that shot towards Spectral Soul.
"This move is called flying sand turning rocks, please evaluate it, Lord Spectral Soul." Lu Wei Yin's voice resounded from within.
"Child's play." Spectral Soul howled as his body shook, black smoke rumbled with him as the center, spreading towards the surroundings with rapid speed.
"Spin." As Spectral Soul vanished within the black smoke, he shouted again.
At the next moment, the black smoke turned into a vortex that started to rotate. Spectral Soul was at the center, he released black smoke while simultaneously absorbing it.
As the flying rocks flew into the black smoke, they corroded into sand before the black smoke swept them into Spectral Soul's immortal aperture.
Seeing this countermeasure, Lu Wei Yin praised: "Brilliant, as expected of Lord Spectral Soul. However, I specially chose the location of my battlefield on this earth vein. No matter how many flying rocks you absorb, this battlefield can draw more earth qi from the earth vein as replenishment. Thus, unless you can deplete the entire earth vein, these flying rocks are endless."
These words did not affect Spectral Soul, the former Demon Venerable sneered with deep killing intent: "Lu Wei Yin, did you think this move only countered your flying sand turning rocks?"
"Oh no." Lu Wei Yin's expression changed, there was no time to react.
At the next moment, all of the flying sand in the sky fell to the ground, a portion of the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield was corroded by the black smoke, it returned to being a flat yellowish landscape.
"Shifting sand illusion was actually broken so quickly!" Lu Wei Yin's expression was ugly.
Spectral Soul hid his true move deeply, he seemed to be dealing with the killer move, flying sand turning rocks, but his real target was shifting sand illusion. Now that this move was broken, there were no longer any sand puppets left.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue broke out of the illusion, while Fang Yuan's real location was exposed.
"Fang Yuan, how long are you going to hide for?" Spectral Soul flew towards Fang Yuan without hesitation.
Wu Shuai fought to resist him, but the defense of the army ants became torn apart instantly by Spectral Soul.
A black soul ball shot out, after a few breaths of time, it reached Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan remained seated on the ground, he opened his eyes as he smiled lightly: "I don't need to dodge."
Rumble!
An Immortal Gu House suddenly appeared, shielding Wu Shuai and Fang Yuan.
The black soul ball landed on the Immortal Gu House, erupting with immense might. However, this Immortal Gu House remained still like a mountain, it did not move!
"You still have an Immortal Gu House?!" At this moment, Spectral Soul's pupils shrank, he frowned deeply.
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Chapter 2049 Spectral Soul“s Anxiety
An Immortal Gu House suddenly appeared in the battlefield.
It was like a mountain, but it was not tall. There were clear layers on this mountain from the bottom to the top, it was smooth on the surface, so it resembled a tower made of dozens of giant drums. This Immortal Gu House was yellowish brown, there was also a misty layer of sand covering its surface, giving it a strong feeling of sturdiness and peace.
Rank eight Immortal Gu House — Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress!
This earth path Immortal Gu House was obtained when Fang Yuan explored the dream realm. It was different from most Immortal Gu Houses in essence, because this Immortal Gu House did not have any core Immortal Gu, its core was made of immortal killer moves.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress had three core killer moves, the most important one was accumulated soil mountain.
This move was very special, it did not have offense, movement, healing or other aspects. Using this killer move, the Gu Immortal could stack earth path Gu worms to allow them to form an Immortal Gu House! This could be done even if the Gu Immortal using the killer move had zero attainment in formation path itself!
Gaining this killer move was also the same as gaining the foundation of the Immortal Gu House, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress!
Thus, every Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress had a different appearance. In fact, even for the same Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, because the earth path Gu worms used were different, they could gain various forms and abilities.
Fang Yuan had created this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress for some time already. He obtained the complete blueprint from the dream realm, he also gained a large number of earth path Immortal Gu from the blue dragon whale. The truth was, he had already obtained this rank eight Immortal Gu House before the fate war!
Right now, Fang Yuan took out this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress to change the situation.
Spectral Soul's assault did not work on Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin, Qing Chou, and the rest could force him to divert his target to them.
"I thought Fang Yuan was lying earlier to put up a front, I thought he was forced to abandon Myriad Year Flying Warship and Dragon Palace. Now it seems, he intentionally lured me into this trap!" Spectral Soul's heart sank a little.
The truth was, Fang Yuan's act of giving up the two Immortal Gu Houses did lower his wariness. After all, without Myriad Year Flying Warship or Dragon Palace, Fang Yuan really seemed like he was at his wits' end.
To think that he had such a trump card!
Lu Wei Yin also felt surprised, thinking to himself: Fang Yuan was willing to pay such a huge price to lure Spectral Soul here. Is this a form of trust? Or is he testing our first cooperation?
The truth was, Fang Yuan had no other choice.
Even though he had been keeping this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress a secret, it had one huge drawback. Its speed was too slow! If there was a list of fastest to slowest Immortal Gu Houses, this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress would definitely rank at the bottom without doubt.
Honestly speaking, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was the tortoise among Immortal Gu Houses, its speed was only superior to immortal formations, it was simply helpless. But such weaknesses came with great advantages, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress had an incredibly powerful defense instead!
If Spectral Soul or Lu Wei Yin knew about Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress' weakness, they would understand Fang Yuan's plight.
If he took out Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress earlier in the battle, he would not be able to get far, he would only be a target board, attacked by everyone. Even though Fang Yuan would have some temporary safety, the other forces could mobilize their people and gather to kill Fang Yuan together.
Thus, he could not stay at one spot, this was Central Continent, Heavenly Court's territory, even though Heavenly Court was weak now, it was still governing the ten great ancient sects!
But here, when Fang Yuan used Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, the effect was completely different.
Spectral Soul had to defend against the attacks of Lu Wei Yin, Qi Sea Ancestor, and the rest, he did not forget to attack Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress in the meantime.
But Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress remained unmovable, it was a true fortress!
Even someone like Spectral Soul started to be emotionally affected. His main target was Fang Yuan from the start, but to get to him, he would have to destroy this Immortal Gu House. This huge obstacle was causing Spectral Soul to feel anxious internally.
If Spectral Soul ignored Fang Yuan and dealt with the enemies in this battlefield, Fang Yuan would gain more time to recuperate. This was something Spectral Soul did not want to see.
During the intense battle, Spectral Soul looked towards Qing Chou, thinking of using it to create an opening.
But Lu Wei Yin sensed it quickly, once Spectral Soul showed signs of targeting Qing Chou, he would use the battlefield killer move to teleport Qing Chou away.
Qing Chou only targeted its greatest enemy, Spectral Soul, it knew that Lu Wei Yin was trying to help it instead of Spectral Soul, it would not attack him abruptly.
Spectral Soul's plans were thwarted in advance, he transmitted to Demon Immortal Qi Jue: "Qi Jue, focus on destroying this Immortal Gu House, I will definitely satisfy you with the reward!"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue hesitated: "Spectral Soul, you have higher battle strength than me, if you can't succeed, how can I?"
Spectral Soul snorted coldly: "Who says I can't do it? It will merely take some effort. We lack cooperation, the best move now is for me to deal with these enemies and the battlefield while you target Fang Yuan. You have the secluded domain of heaven and earth, Xi, as long as you pay some price, how hard can it be to destroy the Immortal Gu House?"
Spectral Soul's main target was Fang Yuan but now, he had to look away from his target. Firstly, this Immortal Gu House had high defense, destroying it was too troublesome. Secondly, Spectral Soul and Qi Jue were just working together, their relationship was quite shallow, Qi Jue was not reliable at all. Asking him to attack was guarding against him, if anything happened, Spectral Soul could still break out of the battlefield, it was a relatively safer option.
Spectral Soul had the strongest killing nature throughout history, but he was not a fool who lacked wisdom or logic, he was not overwhelmed by his desire to kill.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue also did not want to be trapped in this battlefield, he did not doubt Spectral Soul's decision to destroy the battlefield.
He thought about it for a while before laughing: "My Xi Land can break this earth path Immortal Gu House but the price is very steep, after all, I cultivate qi path and not earth path. After I succeed, it is likely that my Xi Land will be destroyed! But this deal is not impossible, it will depend on you, Spectral Soul, what price can you pay me to make such a huge sacrifice?"
"What, you think I can't afford it?" Spectral Soul asked.
"You are a venerable, you have immense foundation, I am quite looking forward to it. But until now, the true inheritances that you gave me are high in quantity but lack quality, I am quite disappointed."
"Hmph! You mean to say, only venerable inheritances are good enough for you."
"Of course." Demon Immortal Qi Jue spoke openly: "Only venerable true inheritances are of value to me. In fact, I am interested in your true inheritance too!"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was an old demon, in this situation, he actually wanted to extort Spectral Soul's soul path true inheritance. This was a really shameless thing to do.
Spectral Soul was not willing to take this loss, he replied firmly: "Qi Jue, don't forget about our goal! If you do not put in effort now, how can you kill Fang Yuan? We might both get trapped in this battlefield, ending up as their prey."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue became silent, the situation was quite tense now, this earth path battlefield had unfathomable depths, he had not understood it completely yet.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was merely testing him earlier, seeing that Spectral Soul was firm in his stance, he decided to work together and get over this hurdle first.
Even though Spectral Soul broke one layer of the earth path battlefield, the combination of Lu Wei Yin, Qing Chou, and Qi Sea Ancestor still placed a huge pressure on him.
Even though Demon Immortal Qi Jue countered Qi Sea Ancestor entirely, due to Lu Wei Yin's control, Qi Sea Ancestor did not fight against Demon Immortal Qi Jue. Qing Chou was actually quite useful here, this beast fought without regard for its life, it created huge problems for Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Battlefield killer moves were hard to set up, but usually, after they were activated, the Gu Immortal would gain a huge advantage in the domain.
Enslavement path and formation path could allow one to fight against many enemies, it was because these two paths could allow one to gain huge strength if used well.
As for this illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield, it was created by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, modified by generations of inheritors, it was very threatening. Furthermore, this battlefield was created in Earth Abyss, combined with the earth vein, it had an unceasing amount of earth qi, Spectral Soul and Qi Jue were troubled.
Within the sovereign immortal aperture, the myriad tribulation was still continuing.
The myriad tribulation changed again, it was a flood earlier, now it turned into a blazing flame, razing everything to the ground and creating huge heat waves.
"I have already refined more than fifty heaven path dao marks!" Fang Yuan made some new progress.
Each time the myriad tribulation changed, it created danger for him.
But danger was accompanied by opportunity!
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Chapter 2050 How Do We Fight This?
Along with his gains, Fang Yuan also paid a hefty price.
Mini Southern Border, which was the most prosperous of the five mini regions, was half devastated.
Immortal Succession Mountain was destroyed, washed away entirely by the flood. This mountain was a mid-sized resource point obtained from Hei Fan grotto-heaven, it once had the ability to help mortals ascend to immortal.
There was also Heaven Sealing Mountain. This mountain was created by Fang Yuan, it was small and unassuming, within the mountain itself, Fang Yuan had once set up a formation to seal his strength path immortal zombie body.
Other than them, there were also up to a hundred mountains and valleys. The greatest losses were Interior Rain Mountain, Copper Seal Mountain, and Bone Bird Peak.
Interior Rain Mountain's peak was always shrouded by a layer of dark clouds from where light rain continued to fall. The drizzling rain was not ordinary rainwater, but rank six immortal material interior rain! This was a resource point that produced water path immortal materials, now it was in ruins.
Copper Seal Mountain was no longer whole, it used to have a red and squarish shape, it was like a large seal was standing upright in Mini Southern Border. This mountain did not have even a trace of soil, it was completely formed from all kinds of copper.
There was mortal level copper like chaotic sky copper, pragna copper, snow flower copper, and so on, and immortal copper like profound grey copper and ascending dragon copper.
Copper Seal Mountain was so special, it was heavily targeted by the myriad tribulation myriad destruction lightning forest. Now, half of the mountain was destroyed and charred, giving out dense smoke and sparks. The entire mountain had turned into a molten state, it emitted a terrible smell.
This mountain once produced domination copper, that was a rank seven immortal material! It was a pity that the tribulation struck, it could no longer produce any.
As for Bone Bird Peak, it used to have a large number of flower wing white bone birds, filled with vitality. Now, the entire mountain had collapsed too, all of the flower wing white bone birds died from the lightning bolts.
Lightning bolts destroyed mountains, floods destroyed forests.
Fang Yuan had originally obtained a large amount of musical trees from Hei Fan grotto-heaven, he created Mini Southern Border's primitive forest using them. After this myriad tribulation, what forest could survive? Not to mention the beautiful qi death birds or the fragrant tea streams.
Mini Southern Border was almost completely devastated.
Only several areas were heavily protected by Fang Yuan.
Among them were the coiling thread caves, stalactite caves, and the dark inkstone mines. These resource points were all underground, it was easier to preserve them. Furthermore, the rockmen lived in these places.
Fire Bird Mountain was an exception, because it was quite isolated, it escaped this disaster.
This mid-sized resource point had fire path birds of all kinds growing in it. At the top of the volcano were fire phoenixes that were suppressed by the formation. The sunset parasol trees on the mountain absorbed lava as nutrients to grow, branches extended as leaves grew, they gave out the beautiful light of the setting sun, it was an amazing sight to behold.
Other than Mini Southern Border, the other four mini regions were also affected to some extent.
Mini Northern Plains' shallow rock beach was obtained from annexing Han Dong blessed land. It was completely washed away by the floods, all of the pinkish red spirit snakes living in it died.
Mini Western Desert's hound desert was obtained from Liu Yong blessed land. There were more than twenty desolate hounds there, they all died without a corpse remaining.
Mini Central Continent and Mini Eastern Sea, even the mini nine heavens were implicated by the myriad tribulation!
However, Fang Yuan could not care about it at this point.
Myriad tribulations had taken so many rank eight Gu Immortals' lives, in the long history of the world, countless geniuses died primarily from them. If he was careless, even Fang Yuan could lose his life!
Fang Yuan not only had to deal with the myriad tribulation, he also had to face the three forces chasing after him!!
If losing some resources meant that he could improve the situation, why wouldn't Fang Yuan do it?
What was more important, his life or these resources?
The answer was obvious.
Only by staying alive could he have any hope for the future.
In fact, even if all of Fang Yuan's resources were destroyed, even if he lost the sovereign immortal body and his clones, as long as he was alive and got through this predicament, as long as he had one breath remaining, he would accept the result.
The most important thing was an unyielding spirit, how could mere success and failure determine his life!
"The loss of these resource points is actually helpful to me. The Heavenly Dao seeks balance, with these resource points gone, the myriad tribulation has weakened proportionately. Thus, my efficiency in refining the heaven path dao marks will continue to become higher! Hmm?"
Fang Yuan's expression suddenly changed.
Rumble!
With an intense sound, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress shook harshly, hundreds and thousands of Gu worms shattered and died.
It was the move that Demon Immortal Qi Jue had been preparing for a long time!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue!
This old demon who had resisted Limitless Demon Venerable in history, he had vicious methods capable of weakening and damaging Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress. If he was allowed to continue attacking, he would eventually break through Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
It was not that Lu Wei Yin or the Qi Sea clone did not try to stop him, but Spectral Soul's continuous attacks hindered them.
Spectral Soul's body surged with black smoke, he attacked and defended at times, unleashing several immemorial soul beasts while using peculiar soul path killer moves. He not only protected Qi Jue, giving him ample time and opportunity to attack, he even probed illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield even further, he managed to break another layer of this battlefield!
"Lu Wei Yin, Qing Chou, and the Qi Sea clone are attacking Spectral Soul but he is still having an easy time. This current Spectral Soul is also just his remnant soul, he is still injured and has not reached the peak state he was in during the time he refined sovereign immortal fetus Gu."
Fang Yuan sighed internally.
He could genuinely feel the depth of Spectral Soul's strength!
"I cannot let this go on, Wu Shuai, go and join the battle, deal with Spectral Soul!" Fang Yuan instructed.
In this current situation, Spectral Soul and the other two forces wanted Fang Yuan dead. On the other hand, Lu Wei Yin carried on Paradise Earth's will, he wanted to exterminate Spectral Soul.
Fang Yuan was the focus, but Spectral Soul was also crucial.
Fang Yuan did not feel great external pressure now, his wariness stemmed from Spectral Soul, he did not hesitate to use all his strength against him.
Wu Shuai joined the fight!
At once, army ants gathered and formed a river of ants, they swept towards Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul split a portion of his concentration and used killer moves to resist them.
Wu Shuai was Fang Yuan's dragonman clone, he cultivated enslavement path, even though he had not cultivated for long, he inherited the inheritance of the dragonman race, as well as the actual Wu Shuai's true inheritance.
After several rounds of attacks, Lu Wei Yin became hopeful as he thought: "Even though Wu Shuai does not attack often, he has rank eight cultivation level, his battle strength is quite incredible. With him around, we can finally place pressure on Spectral Soul!"
With him controlling the battlefield, even Qing Chou could join the fight, not to mention Wu Shuai who cooperated with them.
Wu Shuai soon mixed in with this group, their tempo became faster as they emitted greater pressure on Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul was the strongest in the world, but he had not regained his peak strength. Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Qi Sea Ancestor could fight him for over ten rounds even if they could not defeat him.
With Wu Shuai's participation, a qualitative change appeared, it tilted the balance of both sides.
Lu Wei Yin and the rest attacked unceasingly, their attacks did not stop even once.
Spectral Soul started to get into a passive spot as he resisted their joint attacks.
Immortal killer move — Upper-Lower Breathless Qi!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue stretched out two fingers as he pointed at the top and bottom of Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
At once, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress became immobilized, Fang Yuan who was inside had a change of expression, he could not breath smoothly. Even worse was that his injection of immortal essence into Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress became choppy and inconsistent.
Immortal Gu Houses required a lot of immortal essence to work. The same applied to Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, after getting hit by this move, its defenses became much weaker.
A huge flaw in Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress became exposed.
It was just too slow, it had to resist most killer moves head on. Of course, it had immense defense, it could waste a lot of the enemies' immortal essence.
Thus, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was suited for a battle of attrition. Gu Immortals could heal up inside and analyze the enemy's killer moves while using the defense to waste the enemy's immortal essence.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress also lacked offensive methods. The truth was, Demon Immortal Qi Jue could ignore Fang Yuan and help Spectral Soul fight against Lu Wei Yin and the rest. Fang Yuan was currently troubled by the myriad tribulation, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was of little threat to them in terms of offense.
Immortal killer move — Soul Explosion!
Spectral Soul suddenly turned around, he endured the attacks of Lu Wei Yin and the rest as he pointed with his fingers, more than ten black dots flew out.
The black dots shot towards the top of Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress before turning into more than ten immemorial soul beasts.
These immemorial soul beasts crashed down onto Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, their mountain-like bodies completely burying the Immortal Gu House.
At the next moment, boom!
A terrifying explosion killed these immemorial soul beasts on the spot, their sacrifices resulted in this intense explosion resembling a giant black ball.
The black ball rapidly expanded, in a few breaths of time, it grew to over the size of a hundred li!
The earth and mountains shook, the entire battlefield started to shake intensely.
Lu Wei Yin's expression changed, he immediately went away to defend the battlefield. If this battlefield broke, even if one corner of it was destroyed, the entire situation would aggravate.
"Spectral Soul is so crafty, he actually had such a terrifying move!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue squinted, retreating to a safe distance: "Soul explosion is not uncommon, it is expected that he would detonate the immemorial soul beasts, but how could he perfectly fuse the detonation of more than ten immemorial soul beasts together like this?"
"Oh no, I wonder how our main body is doing?" Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor became worried.
"Roar!" Qing Chou was also implicated and got quite injured, the greater the pain, the more maniacal it became.
It did not care about anything, it attacked Spectral Soul again.
Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor had to follow suit, they could not allow Spectral Soul to absorb Qing Chou's strength.
After using this move, Spectral Soul also turned pale. Against Qing Chou's assault, he focused on defense while trying to recover. It was evident that the move earlier consumed a huge amount of his mental energy!
In truth, this soul explosion was very costly. Immemorial soul beasts had rank eight battle strength, Spectral Soul expended more than ten of them at once!
"I wonder how Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress is now?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue approached Fang Yuan.
As the dust clouds faded away, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress appeared in everyone's vision again.
They saw that this earth path Immortal Gu House was thirty percent shorter, the surface seemed damaged but no holes were created.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue squinted as he sighed internally: "This Immortal Gu House's defense is likely the highest of all Immortal Gu Houses that currently exist!"
Immortal killer move — Accumulated Soil Mountain!
Within the Immortal Gu House, Fang Yuan injected immortal essence as he activated the core killer move.
Countless earth path Gu worms flew up in sovereign immortal aperture, entering the Immortal Gu House. After three breaths of time, not only did Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress recover fully, its appearance also changed, instead of being round like before, it became more like a tower now, there were edges and sharp corners.
"This?!" Even someone like Demon Immortal Qi Jue stared at this with wide eyes, he felt a little empty internally.
This was too shameless.
Not only did Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress have high defense, its recovery speed was also this fast!
In the current world, most Immortal Gu Houses could not be easily repaired. When replenishing Gu worms, those positions were usually fixed. It was also not as easy as placing Gu worms into these specific positions, there was usually a need to use special Gu worms or killer moves to achieve this.
Immortal Gu Houses were a type of mobile immortal formation, to repair Immortal Gu Houses or immortal formations, one had to consider the influence that these actions would have on the main structure.
But Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was different.
Looking at one example.
Repairing other Immortal Gu Houses was like stacking a Jenga tower, the Gu Immortals had to put specific Gu worms into specific holes. During this process, the Gu Immortal had to use methods to stabilize the tower while placing the Gu worms to try to prevent it from toppling.
But Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was the opposite, because the core was made of immortal killer moves, no matter how many earth path Gu worms Fang Yuan put in, they could easily merge with the tower and have great stability. In fact, they could even alter the properties of the tower.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Spectral Soul spent so long dealing with Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, they had finally gotten some information about it, yet after Fang Yuan's modifications, the entire fortress was different than before. Spectral Soul and Qi Jue's probe had to start all over again!
"How do we fight this?" Similar thoughts emerged in the minds of Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Spectral Soul.
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Chapter 2051 Giant Spectral Soul
Other Gu Immortals would feel despair at this moment.
"This rascal Fang Yuan is too good at turtling up, how can we kill him?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue asked with a tone that contained anger and frustration.
Spectral Soul also turned silent for a moment before he smiled coldly.
Instantly, a terrifying killing intent seemed to condense and solidify, emanating from his body, everyone could feel their limbs turning cold as they shook in their hearts.
After suffering a setback, Spectral Soul's determination to kill Fang Yuan became even firmer!
"I will dismantle his tortoise shell! Go and deal with the rest, guard me." Spectral Soul said as his soul flew out and devoured Lady Cold Ash's body in one mouthful.
A soul giant that was as large as a mountain appeared before everyone!
The giant's body was black as ink, it had muscular limbs and bulging muscles. There were two heads, one was scary while the other was cold and aloof. The first pair of eyes had blood red light in them, shooting towards heaven, the other pair of eyes was cold as ice, emitting a deep chill.
It also had six hundred pairs of arms that were raised up or lowered, some were tucked in while others were straight, it showed the stance of grasping the sun and moon, it had the potential to catch stars and whip up storms.
"Amazing giant!" Lu Wei Yin's body shook as he praised, fighting spirit surged in him as he shouted: "Then take this move!"
He used all his strength to activate illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Intense winds blew as yellow sand flew, countless rocks moved along, they slammed towards the black soul giant's body like shooting stars.
The black soul giant only watched coldly as it raised its arms.
Two hundred pairs of arms stretched out and stabbed into the sandstorm. The ghost hands stretched out their fingers as they grabbed towards the sandstorm.
Unexpectedly, the formless sandstorm was grabbed onto like silk or threads in the sky!
The black soul giant pulled, snapping sounds could be heard continuously. The sandstorm was pulled apart, wind scattered as clear vision returned to the battlefield.
Lu Wei Yin's eyes were bulging, his expression turned pale, Spectral Soul dealt with the battlefield so easily, he was deeply shocked!
"Let me." Qi Sea Ancestor flew into the sky, staring at the black soul giant at equal heights.
Immortal killer move — Qi Breath Mountain.
Rumble!
A huge translucent mountain created from air currents descended and pressed down immediately.
This move was once used by Duke Long, it was part of Primordial Origin's true inheritance, it managed to send Purple Mountain True Monarch flying. Right now, with Qi Sea Ancestor using it, the power was not to be underestimated.
Giant Spectral Soul looked at the mountain but approached it instead, he raised more than a hundred pairs of arms, at once, the entire battlefield seemed to have hundreds of black trees, resembling a forest!
The hundred pairs of arms blocked the qi mountain, emitting a loud sound.
The five sharp fingers of each of the ghost hands grabbed, the qi current mountain lasted for a breath of time before breaking apart.
Qi Sea Ancestor grunted, he was forced to retreat.
But Spectral Soul did not let him off, the angry head roared loudly and spat out a grand soul river. The soul river was made of countless ghosts and vengeful spirits, they cried out in agony and despair, causing the entire battlefield to freeze up for a moment.
Seeing the power of this move, Qi Sea Ancestor understood that this move was extraordinary, its might was many times higher than the self-detonation of the immemorial soul beasts earlier!
At this moment, Spectral Soul had used his true strength. Not only did he turn into a black soul giant, he even changed his killer moves, each attack became much stronger, they were all vicious and terrifying.
Qi Sea Ancestor waved his hands, two hands flew out of his wide sleeves. His index and middle fingers stretched out and drew a circle in the air, causing wind and clouds to move along.
Immortal killer move — Qi Current Scissors!
A translucent qi current flew out of his sleeves, moving rapidly.
These qi currents seemed weak but they were extremely sharp, they drew an arc in the sky before gathering to form a translucent qi current river.
With a loud sound, the qi current scissors river crashed into the vengeful ghost river!
The qi current scissors was forced back but the soul river also suffered some damage, it still managed to move as it quickly approached Qi Sea Ancestor.
Lu Wei Yin shouted as he activated the battlefield, creating a rock shield that intercepted the soul river at its weak spot.
Qi Sea Ancestor's face was already flushing red, it was a tough contest of strength, he quickly used this chance to escape.
"Spectral Soul, why aren't you going to die!!" At the same time, Qing Chou shouted as it approached from the left.
At the right of Giant Spectral Soul, Wu Shuai wordlessly manipulated his army ants that pressed down like a black cloud, attacking Giant Spectral Soul's head.
Attacked from the left and right!
Spectral Soul did not move, three hundred pairs of arms resisted Qing Chou while a hundred pairs of arms attacked Wu Shuai.
Qing Chou was fighting without regard for its life, it advanced relentlessly.
Spectral Soul snickered as the fingers of his hands gathered into a sharp spear form, this move countered soul beasts!
At the next instant, a hundred pairs of arms stabbed into Qing Chou's body, green-black blood oozed out and dyed the battlefield.
Seeing this blood, a bright light shined on the face of Spectral Soul's angry head, he snickered coldly: "Soul beasts have no blood, but your body seems to have changed under the influence of hatred Gu's refinement. Interesting! After this battle, I will dissect your body before attempting good and thorough research."
In other words, Spectral Soul was completely confident in taking down Qing Chou.
Qing Chou growled in pain, its snake-like neck struggled intensely, its roars almost burst the immortals' eardrums.
Its entire body emitted black smoke, almost the same as Spectral Soul. Not just that, it opened its mouth and shot out more than ten human faced soul balls that were covered in lightning!
All sorts of attacks landed on Giant Spectral Soul, it was like wind blowing on a tree, even though the leaves were moving, the trunk remained still and motionless.
Spectral Soul's arms that were stabbed into Qing Chou pushed deeper, trying to destroy its body from the inside.
Qing Chou cried out continuously, it was heavily injured by Spectral Soul, unable to break free, its blood flowed like a river, this was a gruesome sight.
Seeing this, Wu Shuai who cultivated enslavement path and had a weak body did not dare to take a risk, he quickly retreated. He decided that unless there was no choice, he would only attack from afar.
The army ants were densely packed and moved like a cloud that could gather and split at will, they rushed towards the black soul giant's eyes, nose, and ears.
Spectral Soul's cold head snorted as he breathed out black smoke from his nose. The smoke spread out, wherever it went, army ants died without resistance, a large number of them fell at once.
"As expected of a former Demon Venerable!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue's eyes shined with bright light, he was full of praise.
Spectral Soul unleashed his true strength, it immediately changed the situation!
Even though Lu Wei Yin and the rest had the territorial advantage as well as more people, they still got suppressed by him.
Spectral Soul struck several times to completely block them, after that, he went back and stared at Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress. Four hundred arms stretched out and clenched into fists, they punched at the rank eight earth path Immortal Gu House with black qi covering the fists!
Bam bam bam…
Each punch caused Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress to shake intensely.
As countless fists rained down, black qi also invaded the Immortal Gu House. Soon, the fragments began to fall off Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress' surface, shattering into pieces.
Fang Yuan quickly used his killer move and added in earth path Gu worms to replenish it.
But other trouble came at the same time, inside his sovereign immortal aperture, the myriad tribulation transformed again!
Almost all of the heaven path dao marks gathered into a giant monstrous ball of flesh.
The flesh ball floated in the air, it was large as a mountain, more than ten times of Spectral Soul's size, casting a shadow down onto the ground.
Countless black colored holes appeared on the flesh ball's surface.
As the holes expanded, they emitted a huge suction force, soon, tornadoes began to form from these holes.
As the tornadoes moved, countless resources in the sovereign immortal aperture, even variant humans got swept away and sucked into the flesh ball.
At once, growling and crying could be heard as fatalities rose.
The flesh ball quickly digested them as it slowly expanded in size!
"Oh no, I have never seen this myriad tribulation before, it also seems to be able to grow, it can get stronger and stronger!" Fang Yuan's heart sank.
He needed to deal with Spectral Soul's attacks and the myriad tribulation in his immortal aperture.
Either one required his full attention and strength, nobody else could help him with this.
Fang Yuan could not attend to both ends, he had to choose what to give up.
"Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress can still last some time, but if I let the myriad tribulation grow further, it will exceed the limit of my capabilities!" Realizing the greater problem at hand, Fang Yuan chose to deal with the myriad tribulation.
Most of his attention was placed in the sovereign immortal aperture, his manipulation of Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress became slightly slower.
Combat Beast King had already awakened, he dragged his injured body and stood up while gritting his teeth, listening to Fang Yuan's orders.
Xue Er controlled the situation on the ground, using the ice crystal formation to resist the suction of the tornadoes.
The flesh ball monster floated towards her slowly while being firm as a mountain, there was a huge pressure placed on Xue Er.
Immortal killer move unrestrained heavenly mark was still active, Fang Yuan had not stopped using it even for one moment! But now, its effect had fallen to its lowest point.
Countless thoughts collided in Fang Yuan's mind, it was like a turbulent sea, the sight was spectacular.
Fang Yuan multitasked, he first activated a wisdom path killer move, the quantity of his thoughts expanded abruptly, even his mind seemed small in comparison!
A vast number of thoughts collided, allowing Fang Yuan to think acutely, he was able to use other killer moves now.
There was no choice, Fang Yuan activated the human path formation to interfere with the Heavenly Dao's interference.
As the formation activated, it created a buzzing noise as it shined with a brilliant light. At this step, over half of Fang Yuan's thoughts were already expended!
If this continued, the consumption of thoughts would exceed the production, he would soon run out of thoughts and Fang Yuan would turn into an idiot instantly.
Fang Yuan gritted his teeth but was not flustered, he was prepared for this, there were many of his wills in the human path formation.
Fang Yuan's wills took charge of the formation as it operated, allowing his thoughts to accumulate again. Fang Yuan only had to do the first step of activating the formation.
"Again!" Fang Yuan shouted internally as he activated the wisdom path killer move again.
The thoughts in his mind burst out again like a tsunami, the quantity rose continuously, almost filling up his entire mind!
For wisdom path Gu Immortals, having too many thoughts was a bad idea, they would take up all the space in the mind and prevent any collisions from happening, it was the worst case scenario.
Fang Yuan did not do something stupid, this was part of his expectations.
Seeing that these thoughts were about to fill up his mind, he placed his concentration on the sea of clouds in the sky.
It was a huge and wide sea of clouds!
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Chapter 2052 Eat Hear
Looming clouds spread out in the boundless sky, surging like tides as ripples splashed, it seemed like the sea but it also resembled countless cloud mountains, changing forms at will, having unlimited possibilities.
This was a killer move.
This killer move was Fang Yuan's trump card, it was in fact his strongest offensive method at this moment!
Immortal killer move — Unlimited Qi Sea!
This move was — mystical!
After Fang Yuan's modifications, it not only used rank eight Immortal Gu Big Qi as the core, it also had more than ten supplementary qi path Immortal Gu, as well as hundreds of thousands of foundational mortal Gu. There were even qi path immortal materials that could be expended to increase the power of this move.
This move was — incredible!
It could use all of the kinds of qi in this world, life qi, death qi, sword qi, blade qi, dusk qi, dawn qi… the more qi path immortal materials stored in it, the more powerful this move would be. When used offensively, it would expend immortal essence and immortal materials. When used defensively, it would absorb external qi currents.
This move was — powerful and unstoppable!
Qi Xiang left this move behind, resulting in Qi Xiang grotto-heaven surviving many myriad tribulations after his death. Myriad tribulations… most rank eight Gu Immortals in this world did not even dare to challenge their first myriad tribulation, they desperately delayed the time in their immortal aperture. But Qi Xiang grotto-heaven's heavenly spirit could use this move to get past myriad tribulations time and time again.
After annexing this grotto-heaven, Fang Yuan used the light of wisdom to modify unlimited qi sea before the fate war! After that, during this battle, he used this move to break the primordial qi wall and shocked everyone, including Gu Immortals, in the five regions.
The primordial qi wall was the creation of Primordial Origin, it not only had qi path Immortal Gu but also qi path immortal materials. Qi path had one trait, it was able to use qi path immortal materials in place of Gu worms to execute killer moves.
Fang Yuan used unlimited qi sea to break the primordial qi wall, he also absorbed the vast amount of qi path immortal materials inside the qi wall.
After the first time, Fang Yuan broke it again for a second time!
Not long ago in Heavenly Court, he used unlimited qi sea to absorb the immortal material qi currents in the primordial qi wall, breaking it apart.
After absorbing two qi walls and with Fang Yuan's exploration of Qi Sea grotto-heaven, he gained a huge amount of immortal material qi currents, it caused unlimited qi sea's storage to rise to an unprecedented amount. Thus, the power of this move reached a level that felt terrifying even for Fang Yuan!
As Fang Yuan willed, he unleashed the killer move unlimited qi sea!
The sea of qi rumbled, a huge white qi pillar gathered in the sky and shot down at the giant flesh ball monster.
The qi pillar was extremely thick, reaching a level that had never been seen before, even Qi Xiang would gasp at its majesty now.
Not only that, the qi pillar was covered in a layer of shining golden light, it gave off a tough feeling, it was extremely domineering!
Before the white qi pillar hit the flesh ball monster, a terrifying force acted on it from all directions, immobilizing the flesh ball monster in the air.
Boom—!
The white qi pillar crashed into the flesh ball monster like a falling monument, before rushing through it violently.
The huge sound created even deafened Xue Er, who was far away from the battlefield.
The qi pillar had an intense white light, Xue Er, who was hiding in the ice crystal formation had to shut her eyes to prevent them from being blinded.
The flesh ball monster could not resist the power of the qi pillar, it was suppressed on the grassland of Mini Northern Plains.
The grass and soil of the grassland had already been sent flying long ago by raging tornadoes before the qi pillar struck.
Thus, the flesh ball monster was pressed down on the barren grassland by the unstoppable qi pillar!
As the earth shook, hundreds of cracks formed below the flesh ball monster, resembling a spider web.
The white qi pillar was still continuing its assault, it had the power to destroy mountains and split seas! The great flesh ball monster made from the myriad tribulation got pressed on the ground like a defenseless chick, unable to struggle.
Ten feet, twenty feet, thirty feet…
As the flesh ball monster sank into the ground, its body became smaller and smaller. It continued to be disintegrated by the white qi pillar bit by bit!
The black holes all over the giant monster were shut, it tried to curl up, a pitiful cry could be heard from within its body.
This was the cry of heaven's will!
The white qi pillar lasted for twenty breaths of time before fading away.
Not only did the sea of clouds in the sky shrink by eighty percent, the remaining clouds were sparse and thin. Fang Yuan quickly moved them away.
But the flesh ball monster was in a worse condition, its mountain-like body had shrunk to the size of Dragon Palace.
The flesh ball monster did not move, it remained in the pit like a corpse. This pit was over a thousand feet deep!
Fang Yuan's main body breathed roughly, his brain was hurting along with each breath. In order to use this move, he exerted his mind to its limit, he used up too many thoughts, beyond the capabilities of his mind.
The myriad tribulation created from three thousand heaven path dao marks finally paused for the first time.
It was as if it got beaten into shock by Fang Yuan!
The opportunity was rare, Fang Yuan quickly hastened his action and used unrestrained heavenly mark to refine the heaven path dao marks.
In a short while, Fang Yuan refined more than a hundred heaven path dao marks. Together with his earlier gains, he had already refined over a hundred and sixty heaven path dao marks!
When Fang Yuan refined over two hundred heaven path dao marks, the Heavenly Dao finally reacted. The flesh ball in the hole vanished as it started to hail.
However, even though Fang Yuan could take advantage of this chance, he could only sustain this situation as he was forced to place his attention back to the outside world.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was heavily damaged beyond repair, Giant Spectral Soul's attacks were increasing in frequency, he had made huge advancements!
Spectral Soul swore to kill Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin and the rest tried to restrain him but Giant Spectral Soul ignored their attacks and endured them, while maintaining his firepower on Fang Yuan.
Even though Fang Yuan was doing his best to repair his Immortal Gu House, the situation was going downhill.
Bam.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress could not take it anymore, a hole was created, it connected to the outside!
Through this hole, Giant Spectral Soul's four eyes emitted cold killing intent as he looked at Fang Yuan who was sitting inside.
He saw that Fang Yuan's expression was pale after unleashing unlimited qi sea.
Fang Yuan was in bad shape now!
Spectral Soul had a realization, his incredibly deep battle experience made a decision for him, similar to Fang Yuan, he was going to use his trump card.
Immortal killer move — Eat Heart!
"I comprehended this move in my later years from [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]. Fang Yuan, it is over. The current Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress has no way of blocking this attack." Spectral Soul surged with killing intent.
And like what he said.
At the next moment, Fang Yuan grunted, his face became distorted, he grasped his chest in pain.
The intense pain in his heart felt like it was bitten by a fierce beast!
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]], chapter five, section thirty-three —
Ren Zu stared at the skeleton head: "Next, I will eat the most important part of the Predicament's body."
Strong Gu laughed: "This is a stupid move! Oh human, your choice is extremely foolish."
The Predicament shook its body as it shrank. At the same time, countless Tribulations flew out of its neck and attacked Ren Zu.
The Tribulations were like fire, burning Ren Zu's bones. The Tribulations were like hammers, charging at Ren Zu as his bones cracked. The Tribulations were like wind and rain, sweeping at Ren Zu's lone body. The Tribulations were like flashing lightning, striking on Ren Zu continuously.
Fear Gu shouted: "Oh heaven, this is too scary, that human will die for sure at this rate."
Courage Gu encouraged: "Oh human, don't be afraid."
Self Gu and attitude Gu shouted together: "I am very strong, I am very strong, all Tribulations are mere drizzles, they are insignificant breezes!"
Weak Gu, betrayal Gu, and fear Gu flew together, wanting to escape with Ren Zu: "Oh human, quickly run. Don't believe in self Gu's words, it has already been deceived."
Ren Zu was trapped in the Tribulations, he could not escape.
When Tribulations loom over you, it is not a simple matter of running away.
"This is too scary, let's go, forget about the human." Weak gu, betrayal Gu, and fear Gu flew away together.
"You traitors!" Self Gu was furious, it grabbed onto these three Gu and bit them all.
The three Gu were injured but they were not stopped by self Gu, they quickly escaped from Ren Zu.
Self Gu wanted to chase them but rules and regulation Gu urged: "Don't chase them. Escaping when Tribulations strike due to fear and weakness, betraying one's self and courage in the process, it will only lead to death. Isn't it good that they are gone? Weak Gu and betrayal Gu are unable to help us, as for fear Gu… if the Tribulations did not appear, fear would have been pointless. But since the Tribulations are here now, fear will only lead to greater pain in the human."
"You are absolutely right." Self Gu stopped.
Hope Gu flickered with light as it supported Ren Zu: "Oh human, as long as you still have hope in your heart during the Tribulations, there will still be hope in this situation."
Strong Gu could not stop laughing: "Oh human, you are truly pitiful, you easily believe in the words of hope. Don't you know? Having only hope during the Tribulations will only cause them to continue longer, hope is the thing that lengthens the person's pain. When you stop bearing any hope, you will feel relaxed in the Tribulations."
Ren Zu did not speak, he endured the attacks of the Tribulations with great difficulty.
No matter how bent his body became, he did not fall.
Strong Gu soon found the reason — on Ren Zu's feet, there was a pair of independent wings. Even though the wings were small, they flapped stubbornly, helping Ren Zu to stand up despite everything.
Strong Gu continued to demoralize Ren Zu: "Oh human, I am starting to admire you. It is a pity that you are going to fall soon, look at your bones, they are covered in cracks now due to the Tribulations."
Ren Zu was silent.
Originally, Ren Zu's bones were shiny and intact, there were no cracks at all. Now, his skeleton was covered in cracks, it seemed like it would shatter at any moment.
All the other Gu worms were silent, only hope Gu gave out light: "Oh human, don't give up! Tribulations are not scary, the scariest thing is a person who has lost hope."
The light of hope Gu penetrated the cracks of Ren Zu's bones, into his bone marrow.
In the life of everyone in this world, cracks would always form at some point, but those were the times where the light of hope would shine in!
Ren Zu's bones absorbed the light of hope, they started to engulf the surrounding Tribulations.
Each crack was like a huge mouth, the larger the crack, the larger the mouth, and the more Tribulations it could devour.
"How could this happen?" Strong Gu was extremely shocked.
The more Tribulations that Ren Zu's skeleton devoured, the stronger and firmer his bones became.
Tribulations could destroy people, but they could also toughen oneself!
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Chapter 2053 Finding a Way Out of a Desperate Situation
As the Tribulations continued, Ren Zu's bones started to shine in a golden light.
The Tribulations became wilder as Ren Zu's bones burned in flames, becoming dazzlingly golden.
Ren Zu started to straighten his back, he raised his head and puffed his chest, after enduring countless tortures, his skeleton shined like a golden pillar, he stood directly inside the Tribulations. This was the myriad tribulation golden skeleton.
And on Ren Zu's skeleton head, a crown grew out naturally, it was the heaven connecting bone crown.
All of the tribulations and disasters that people suffer would become their crowns of achievement in the future.
Even though the Tribulations had not ended, Ren Zu could already speak at this time: "I know, Fate has arrangements, Tribulations are the arrangements it makes for people. But I can persevere, any Tribulations that seem unendurable are all in fact endurable to me."
Strong Gu was shocked and bewildered.
Self Gu realized at this time: "I understand. Oh human, you are someone who walked out of Ordinary Abyss, that is why you can endure these Tribulations that are impossible to endure."
Strong Gu saw that the Tribulations could not take down Ren Zu, it forced itself to stay calm: "Oh human, don't forget, as long as you have hope Gu, these Tribulations will not stop. Are you going to delay our bet from earlier? I don't care! I will treat it as if you passed the Tribulations. Now, it is our turn to eat you."
"Which part of me do you want to eat?" Ren Zu sighed.
Strong Gu laughed loudly, pointing at Ren Zu's chest: "Next, I will eat your hearts!"
Ren Zu shook slightly, strong Gu's choice was too fatal, how could a human live without his heart?
"Quickly take out all of your hearts, let us eat them!" Strong Gu shouted in excitement.
Ren Zu sighed as he hesitated, before taking out the heart of sympathy.
Strong Gu directly placed the heart of sympathy into the Predicament's neck as the heart fell into its stomach. The Predicament's stomach expanded slightly.
When faced with predicaments, people often lose their hearts of sympathy first.
Ren Zu took out his heart of nobleness next, the Predicament ate it as its stomach expanded some more, it seemed to have problems digesting it.
Ren Zu took out his original heart next: "Oh hope Gu, leave now. I do not want to implicate you."
Hope Gu resided in Ren Zu's original heart, it did not fly out, instead it said: "I am not leaving, this is my home. Oh human, just toss me in along with it, I do not blame you."
Ren Zu had no choice, as strong Gu rushed him, he gave his original heart to the Predicament as food.
After the Predicament ate it, its belly expanded again.
Predicaments often caused people to lose hope as well.
Without hope Gu, all of the Tribulations around Ren Zu vanished. This caused the pressure on Ren Zu to fall, but he felt deep melancholy as well.
"Quick, oh human, take out your final heart and let us eat it!" Strong Gu pointed at the heart of loneliness in Ren Zu's chest.
Ren Zu hesitated as he felt troubled, the heart of loneliness did not only contain his self Gu, it was also his final heart. Without this heart, Ren Zu might die.
Strong Gu laughed and threatened: "Quick! If you do not take it out yourself, we will make our move and eat you entirely!"
Self Gu had already been deceived, it called out in nonchalance: "Oh human, just give it to them. I do not care, you will not die either! We are the strongest."
"Give it to me!" Strong Gu grabbed the heart of loneliness in Ren Zu's hand and stuffed it into the Predicament's stomach through its exposed neck.
At this point, Ren Zu lost all his hearts.
He fell onto the ground, losing all signs of life, he could not stand up anymore.
Ren Zu died.
"Oh human, you died, we have regained freedom." Rules and regulation Gu flew away.
"There is no helping it, the human met with the greatest predicament in his life." Courage Gu and edge Gu flew away as well.
On Ren Zu's corpse, only self Gu remained, it flew around him. Attitude Gu wanted to leave too, but self Gu grabbed onto it, forcing it to stay.
Strong Gu laughed happily: "Hahaha, oh human, you were nothing impressive after all. Hmm? Predicament, what's wrong?"
The Predicament that strong Gu was attached to grabbed onto its bulging stomach as it rolled on the ground in pain.
Loneliness was extremely hard to digest, the stronger the Predicament, the lonelier one would feel.
Boom!
Suddenly, the Predicament's belly burst open.
Ren Zu's heart of loneliness, his skin and flesh fused to create a boy.
Strong Gu was flabbergasted: "Who are you?"
The boy said: "I am Ren Zu's son — Great Strength True Martial!"
Before finishing his words, he jumped up and grabbed strong Gu.
Strong Gu tried to struggle while self Gu used the opportunity to approach and take a bite of it.
Strong Gu was injured, it got weakened.
"Where are you trying to go!" Great Strength True Martial shouted, he grabbed strong Gu and stuffed it into his chest.
Strong Gu went into his chest and got imprisoned in his heart, unable to escape.
"Don't waste your effort, this is my heart of ambition, you cannot escape." Great Strength True Martial laughed.
Next, he found Ren Zu's other hearts from the corpse of the Predicament and placed them back into his chest.
Ren Zu was revived once again!
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Undeniably, a person's heart was the source of their vitality, one of the most fatal weaknesses of a human's body.
The food path killer move eat heart that Spectral Soul created was a greater creation than bitter taste and swallow loss. Even if these two moves hit his enemies, they could only tilt the balance of victory and defeat. Meanwhile, eat heart was a fatal attack, once hit without ample preparation, it could decide the outcome almost instantly!
This was a method that could claim victory!!
Fang Yuan was hit.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress had outstanding defense without doubt. But among all the Gu Immortal paths, food path was extremely well hidden, there were few defensive measures against it. Thus, during the fate war, Western Desert's Gu Immortals were all without options against Heavenly Court's combination killer move, sitting and eating the mountain empty, they were all hit by it.
Fang Yuan also had a food path inheritance, he also knew that Spectral Soul had a deep attainment in food path.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was assembled by Fang Yuan, it could defend against food path originally.
But now, Spectral Soul broke a hole in this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress!
Even the complete Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress would have difficulties blocking the killer move eat heart entirely, Fang Yuan would still be affected regardless.
At this moment, the intense feeling of death assaulted Fang Yuan.
He could not struggle, he had no way to struggle!
The Heavenly Dao in the sovereign immortal aperture seemed to have noticed this, it stopped conjuring new myriad tribulations as the dao marks scattered all over the aperture, trying to restrain Fang Yuan's entire body.
Fang Yuan could not use any defensive methods, he could only wait for death.
Lu Wei Yin saw that the situation was bad, he quickly activated the earth path battlefield, yellow sand gathered into dragons that coiled around Giant Spectral Soul, squeezing and attempting to immobilize Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul smiled coldly, hundreds of arms blocked them as he defended easily. His four eyes were still staring at Fang Yuan, most of his attention was spent on sustaining eat heart.
"Oh no!" Lu Wei Yin's heart sank.
Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai also felt chills flowing down their spines, they tried to desperately attack, but Spectral Soul did not even turn around for a moment.
Spectral Soul would rather suffer heavy injuries to make use of this opportunity.
He wanted Fang Yuan dead no matter what!
"Is… is everything going to end like this?" Fang Yuan's mind was still quite empty, he did not have many thoughts left. This was the aftermath of using unlimited qi sea.
Spectral Soul was just too strong.
Worthy of the former Demon Venerable! The man who was invincible in this world during his era!
During that time, he killed until the world became shrouded in darkness, nobody dared to make a sound, all of the living beings in the world could only tremble under his shadow.
Only until the appearance of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, he spent his entire life to mend the wounds and scars of the hearts of the people.
Before Spectral Soul went all out, his battle strength was not much higher compared to the rest, yet he still had a firm control over the situation. After he used his full power, his battle strength rose greatly, he immediately surpassed everyone. The most despairing thing was that each of his decisions carried immediate effect, he did not give his enemy any opportunities to recover, there was no way for them to survive.
"No, even if there is only a trace of hope, I need to do my best!" Fang Yuan could not use any methods, even if he could use a killer move, he could not block the killer move eat heart.
Unless it was reverse flow protection seal!
The pain on Fang Yuan's face vanished, his lips curled up as he revealed a mysterious smile, it was extremely unusual.
At the next moment, he shouted loudly: "If you do not take action now, when will you ever get another chance? Qi Jue!"
A pair of Spectral Soul's pupils expanded, while another pair of eyes squinted: "Is… Fang Yuan trying to deceive me? No wait!"
One of his heads turned around, he saw Demon Immortal Qi Jue attacking!
Boom!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue activated his killer move, the Xi Land on top of his head flew down like a comet, crashing into Spectral Soul's back.
Spectral Soul was greatly impacted, he also fell to the ground.
Puff puff puff!
Countless holes appeared on his body, it was like a deflating balloon, dark soul qi spewed out of the holes towards the outside.
Not only that, a hundred arms of Spectral Soul immediately fell onto the ground like decaying tree branches.
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Chapter 2054 Spectral Soul, You Are Too Poor!
"Ahhhh—! Qi Jue!" Spectral Soul screamed, staring at Demon Immortal Qi Jue with deep anger.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue retrieved Xi Land as he retreated, guarding against Spectral Soul's retaliation.
"You idiot!" Spectral Soul stepped on the ground as a loud sound echoed, he finally stabilized his footing.
Even someone like him who had lived for so long became furious this instant, he was about to kill Fang Yuan but his ally actually attacked him.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue floated in the air, staring at Spectral Soul with deep vigilance.
He first frowned as he recalled Fang Yuan's expression, it was evident that Fang Yuan did that on purpose so Spectral Soul would expose a weakness.
"Was Fang Yuan really at his wits' end at that time? No, this is more likely Spectral Soul's deception to distract me. The truth is, even if I was deceived, at this point, I can only continue to attack Spectral Soul!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue made up his mind very soon.
With eat heart broken, Spectral Soul suffered a backlash. During this time, Fang Yuan quickly repaired Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, at the very least, he fixed that hole on it.
While recovering, Fang Yuan did not forget to attack using words: "Spectral Soul, don't be too angry now, the truth is, before you contacted Qi Jue, I had already reached an agreement with him."
"You made an agreement? Impossible, I checked secretly, you do not have any alliance agreements on you!" Spectral Soul retorted.
"I have just been revived, I will not trust any information path methods. Oh Spectral Soul, you tempted me with benefits, but Fang Yuan did that even earlier. And… he is much more generous than you!" Before Demon Immortal Qi Jue finished his words, he attacked again.
A qi path killer move erupted, the attack swept towards Giant Spectral Soul like a storm.
Lu Wei Yin and the rest saw this, they felt overjoyed.
Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor were unaware of this cooperation, seeing Demon Immortal Qi Jue's betrayal, they became very excited. The situation was tight earlier, but with Demon Immortal Qi Jue's action, the situation was immediately flipped around to their advantage!
Lu Wei Yin pondered and quickly realized: "After the fate war, I used Lord Paradise Earth's methods to confirm that Spectral Soul had not only regained freedom but was also getting stronger. Soon after, the secret of the sovereign immortal aperture got exposed in treasure yellow heaven. When I contacted Fang Yuan secretly to inform him, I wanted to cooperate with him to deal with Spectral Soul and Shadow Sect. But initially, Fang Yuan did not fully believe me."
"But soon after, Fang Yuan contacted me and agreed to this alliance. Now it seems that he had already contacted Demon Immortal Qi Jue and used him to confirm my information."
Lu Wei Yin was Paradise Earth's inheritor, the venerable had spent his entire life restoring peace to the world, he was at odds with Spectral Soul.
The reason why Lu Wei Yin participated in the fate war was to get rid of Spectral Soul's remnant soul for good.
But even after it ended, Lu Wei Yin did not find Spectral Soul's remnant soul.
Lu Wei Yin naturally did not give up, he paid a huge price and used Paradise Earth's method to deduce Spectral Soul's current condition, but he could not find his location.
Thus, Lu Wei Yin thought of Fang Yuan.
If Spectral Soul wanted to regain full strength, he would need to kill Fang Yuan. After killing Fang Yuan, Spectral Soul would regain sovereign immortal fetus Gu as well as his personal dream realms and attainment levels.
Lu Wei Yin used Paradise Earth's method and contacted Fang Yuan after great difficulty, but the latter was very wary in regards to him.
Fang Yuan had been reborn, he knew that Lu Wei Yin was not what he seemed like on the surface in supporting Heavenly Court, he had his own personal objectives.
Also, because Fang Yuan did not see Spectral Soul during the fate war when he invaded Heavenly Court, he trusted some parts of Lu Wei Yin's information.
Soon after, the secret of the sovereign immortal body was exposed in treasure yellow heaven, it made Fang Yuan believe his words even more.
After Demon Immortal Qi Jue revived, Fang Yuan tried to contact him in secret but did not succeed once.
But coincidentally, Demon Immortal Qi Jue went to approach Qi Sea Ancestor for trouble. Using Qin Ding Ling's reinforcement, Fang Yuan managed to force Demon Immortal Qi Jue to retreat, but the truth was, he secretly made a deal with Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
In order to gain Demon Immortal Qi Jue's trust, Fang Yuan told him that Qi Sea Ancestor was his disguise.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue gained this hold on Fang Yuan and immediately understood that Fang Yuan was sincere in this cooperation.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue lacked knowledge of the Gu Immortal world at that time, Fang Yuan attended to his needs, he used his various true inheritances as the transaction goods.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was greatly moved but he was still very wary, he did not want to set an alliance agreement with Fang Yuan, he was afraid that Fang Yuan would use unknown information path methods to harm him.
Fang Yuan did not force him, they eventually came to a relaxed agreement that could not have any restraining power to either of them.
Fang Yuan provided true inheritances of various paths to Demon Immortal Qi Jue, while the latter gave Fang Yuan the secret of his qi path resurrection. Furthermore, he even followed Fang Yuan's arrangement and sold a huge amount of qi path immortal materials in treasure yellow heaven to purchase inheritances of all paths.
Fang Yuan learned of the secret regarding Qi Jue's revival, he immediately gained a huge breakthrough in resolving the qi harvest fruit. Thus, Qi Sea Ancestor was able to get rid of it. After that, Fang Yuan's clone used Heavenly Court's qi harvest fruit to create the Qi Sea clone successfully!
The truth was, with just Fang Yuan's qi path attainment, he could not resolve the problem of the qi harvest fruit so quickly.
But Demon Immortal Qi Jue was contacted by Spectral Soul in treasure yellow heaven some time after that.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was greatly shocked, after hearing Spectral Soul's words, he understood Fang Yuan's intention.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Fang Yuan had a lax agreement, they could betray each other easily. Demon Immortal Qi Jue would not consider Fang Yuan's benefits, he immediately negotiated with Spectral Soul in secret.
But soon, he realized that Spectral Soul's offer was far inferior to Fang Yuan's.
"How can a great Demon Venerable be so stingy?!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue first held disdain before he pondered: "Oh, I get it! Spectral Soul is the pioneer of soul path, he also has a food path true inheritance, but he wants to keep them and refuses to transact these two. Even though Shadow Sect had existed for so long, they only found very few venerable true inheritances. But Fang Yuan is the crucial pawn of heaven's will and the ten venerables, many of these venerables invested in him, thus he possesses Red Lotus' true inheritance, Thieving Heaven's true inheritance, Giant Sun's true inheritance, Spectral Soul's true inheritance, Reckless Savage's true inheritance, Primordial Origin's true inheritance, Genesis Lotus' true inheritance, Paradise Earth's true inheritance, and Limitless' true inheritance. Other than these, he also has Lang Ya's true inheritance, the dragonman race's true inheritance, food path true inheritance, Bo Qing's sword path true inheritance, and many more. Damn… how can this one guy have so much wealth?"
After Demon Immortal Qi Jue understood the reason, a complex feeling emerged in his heart uncontrollably.
Fang Yuan could be said to be the wealthiest person in terms of true inheritances throughout history!
Even though Spectral Soul's Shadow Sect had searched for such a long period of time, obtaining venerable true inheritances took a lot of time and effort, and they were usually incomplete. Every venerable would make each inheritance with a specific purpose. Even if Spectral Soul destroyed them, he would not gain much. His greatest gain was still that Red Lotus true inheritance, and that was left to him intentionally by Red Lotus Demon Venerable to allow them to cooperate.
Regarding Fang Yuan's gains, Demon Immortal Qi Jue felt jealousy, envy, and hatred.
Fang Yuan was too rich, even though Spectral Soul was a Demon Venerable, compared to Fang Yuan in this regard, he was simply too poor!
After comprehending this, Demon Immortal Qi Jue gained a deeper understanding of Fang Yuan: "No wonder this guy was chosen to be the crucial person to destroy Fate! He is making use of me to defend against Spectral Soul while also harming him, he also knows my wants so even without an agreement, I would not betray him easily."
Fang Yuan had abundant wealth, he also knew that Qi Jue would go against Spectral Soul, he naturally acted very generously.
Spectral Soul was kept in the dark, he had to deal with the crafty Demon Immortal Qi Jue that showed signs of this betrayal, it was a stark contrast from Fang Yuan.
Of course, Demon Immortal Qi Jue would not side with Fang Yuan simply because of this.
He took advantage of both sides, on one hand, he told Fang Yuan about the price that Spectral Soul was paying, on the other hand, he requested for more things from Spectral Soul, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had been trying to gain the maximum benefits for himself all along. Up until he attacked Spectral Soul earlier, he had been interacting with both parties.
The sovereign immortal aperture's situation was not optimistic.
The myriad tribulation transformed again, it became a boundless grey wind. Wherever the wind blew, ash and sparks would appear, in the end, it would burn and destroy everything, the grey wind would sweep through, leaving a huge empty land behind.
It was the myriad tribulation — Spark Blowing Grey Wind!
The heaven path dao marks turned into wind path and fire path dao marks, creating this myriad tribulation that Fang Yuan had trouble dealing with immediately.
Not only did the grey wind appear in the mini five regions, it also affected the mini nine heavens.
A lot of resource points were destroyed, the sovereign immortal aperture had always been developed by Fang Yuan, it reached twenty percent development, but now, half of that was gone.
During this time, Fang Yuan could only try to save the people instead.
There were many humans and variant humans living in the sovereign immortal aperture, they were gathered in cities, mountains or valleys. This was huge wealth, Fang Yuan could give up the rest but he had to preserve the lives of these people.
"Cough cough."
Inside Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, Fang Yuan continued to cough out blood.
He was heavily injured.
This was the result of Spectral Soul's eat heart killer move.
The scene earlier was too dangerous, if it lasted for a few more breaths of time, Fang Yuan would have died. Even now, if Spectral Soul uses eat heart on Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress again, Fang Yuan would not escape death.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress could not fully resist the power of eat heart!
However, Spectral Soul no longer had a chance.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's betrayal changed the entire situation.
Earlier, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had Xi Land that countered Qi Sea Ancestor, he could shoulder some pressure for Spectral Soul. Now, Demon Immortal Qi Jue became the most troublesome person for Spectral Soul to deal with.
Immortal killer move — Great Qi Hand Explosion!
Qi Sea Ancestor activated his killer move, Spectral Soul sensed it, immediately moving a hundred arms as black smoke appeared around him.
Qi Sea Ancestor's face flushed red, he felt like he was squeezing an expanding piece of metal, his killer move was about to break!
Immortal killer move — Upper-Lower Breathless Qi!
At the crucial moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue attacked with his killer move, directly hitting Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul soon felt his breath going out of sync, his immortal essence flow became choppy, his defensive method that resisted great qi hand explosion became much weaker.
Using this chance, Qi Sea Ancestor exerted more strength into his move.
Boom!
Great qi hand explosion was successfully used, and at this moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue used a supplementary method to double the strength of this great qi hand explosion.
Giant Spectral Soul was sent flying from the impact as tens of black arms exploded, he was covered in dust and smoke.
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Chapter 2055 Countering Spectral Soul
Swoosh!
Some parts of Giant Spectral Soul's body broke out with countless holes of various sizes, from these holes, black soul qi spewed out rapidly.
As the soul qi leaked out, Giant Spectral Soul's huge body started to shrink at an observable speed.
Seeing this, Lu Wei Yin's eyes shined with bright light: "No wonder Spectral Soul used a physical body to fight earlier and did not turn into the giant immediately. This move gives him a temporary power boost but it cannot be sustained for long, it also has a severe problem in it!"
Giant Spectral Soul quickly healed his wounds and mended the holes, preventing soul qi from leaking further.
As he healed, he attacked in place of defense, hundreds of arms danced around and slammed at Lu Wei Yin and the rest, causing them to scatter and dodge.
Spectral Soul was actually even fiercer than before!
But Lu Wei Yin and the rest were calm, their morale rose as they saw the hope of victory!
"Create an opportunity for me." Demon Immortal Qi Jue suddenly transmitted to Lu Wei Yin and the rest.
Lu Wei Yin did not hesitate, he immediately activated the battlefield, a sandstorm concealed Demon Immortal Qi Jue's traces.
Within the sandstorm, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had a solemn expression, almost all of his concentration was placed in his immortal aperture. A brand new killer move was carefully prepared by him, it was taking shape.
Spectral Soul sensed something amiss, he immediately charged into the sandstorm, attempting to disrupt Demon Immortal Qi Jue's mysterious killer move.
Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai desperately tried to stop him but they could not stall Spectral Soul at all.
Qing Chou rammed towards Spectral Soul but was easily dodged.
Seeing that Spectral Soul was about to reach Demon Immortal Qi Jue, Lu Wei Yin stepped in.
He had outstanding defensive methods, even though he lacked offense, he was the one who could stall Spectral Soul for the longest time now!
Giant Spectral Soul fought with Lu Wei Yin, causing the latter to bleed from his nose and mouth, but he was unable to advance any further due to this obstruction.
Getting some crucial time, Demon Immortal Qi Jue took a risk and completed his killer move preparation.
Immortal killer move — Xi Xi!
The Xi Land above his head shined with profound light, directed at Spectral Soul. Seeing this, Spectral Soul roared with a trace of panic in his voice.
The profound light pillar emitted an intense suction force, forcefully draining the black soul qi from Giant Spectral Soul's body!
Giant Spectral Soul's body shrunk rapidly, all of his soul path methods fell drastically in strength.
Spectral Soul had a grim expression, he unleashed food path killer moves, bitter taste and swallow loss.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue got hit by them, his body shook, he almost failed to sustain the killer move, Spectral Soul nearly escaped.
But at the crucial moment, Lu Wei Yin strained his mind and pointed at Demon Immortal Qi Jue, shooting out two yellow lights.
One yellow light landed on Demon Immortal Qi Jue and spread around the battlefield.
Immortal killer move — All Life Is Bitter!
Instantly, all of the immortals here felt bitterness, even the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield was sharing the burden of experiencing the killer move bitter taste.
The second yellow light entered Demon Immortal Qi Jue's body.
Immortal killer move — Suffering Loss Is A Blessing!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue benefited from this, his body's injuries started to recover, he laughed loudly in satisfaction.
Spectral Soul's expression was dark.
After Lu Wei Yin used both killer moves, his aura diminished to an extreme low, he immediately escaped using the sandstorm.
From within the sandstorm, his voice was firm: "Spectral Soul, you committed too many sins and caused great harm to the world. Back then, countless Gu Immortals fell victim to your two food path killer moves! Thus, Lord Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created these two moves specially to deal with you!"
They were his direct counter!
Spectral Soul was stuck in a passive spot instantly, his two killer moves were broken.
Once a killer move was broken, the user would fall into a passive state, even Spectral Soul was no exception. Simply because he was dealing with another venerable, someone who had opposed him over his entire life!
Bitter taste and swallow loss were countered, Spectral Soul wanted to use eat heart now.
This move was created in his later years, it had almost never been used, there was almost no possibility that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had a counter to it.
But Spectral Soul could not use it.
When he used eat heart earlier, many soul path Immortal Gu were destroyed, he also expended a huge amount of food path mortal Gu, he had paid a huge price to forcefully activate it.
Simply put, he could not use eat heart for the following short period of time.
Precisely so, Spectral Soul had been holding back eat heart, not willing to use it without a good reason.
After Spectral Soul escaped, he first ransacked Heavenly Court's storage before devouring Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, taking its entire foundation. Spectral Soul recovered his strength, he rose up again with great efficiency! However, it was undeniably that his gains in food path Immortal Gu were minuscule, he could not truly exert the full strength of his food path.
Food path was very rarely passed down, this was both Spectral Soul's advantage and disadvantage. Because there were too few food path Gu Immortals, there were also very few food path Immortal Gu around.
All in all, Spectral Soul had too little time to recover!
Ever since this battle to chase Fang Yuan started, Spectral Soul had been using countless soul path killer moves that were tough to deal with.
But in terms of food path, Spectral Soul only had three killer moves. Among which, eat heart was only used with great difficulty, it was a one-time use trump card.
Spectral Soul had countless soul path killer moves with terrifying and peculiar effects, they were hard to counter. But in terms of food path, there was nothing special, he only had three moves, for Lu Wei Yin and the others who had fought him for so long, it was hard to not accustom themselves to these moves.
It was like Fang Yuan's Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, when he used it earlier, it was shocking. But after a while of fighting, with its foundation exposed, Spectral Soul and Qi Jue quickly familiarized themselves with its weaknesses.
Trump cards were things that were best left unused as much as possible.
Spectral Soul's two food path killer moves were countered by Lu Wei Yin, he immediately suffered a backlash, his injuries were severe!
Killer moves could not be used carelessly, once they were broken, the outcome would be terrible.
But this was not Spectral Soul's mistake, in the earlier situation, soul path killer moves could not turn the situation around, food path was the wisest choice!
But Lu Wei Yin was someone with deep schemes, he was just Paradise Earth's inheritor, he was not the Immortal Venerable after all. Thus he kept these two moves concealed as trump cards, even though Spectral Soul used the two food path killer moves earlier, he did not show any hints. At the most crucial moment, he unleashed his counter and achieved the best result!
"Ming You, I will kill you, I will kill you!" After Spectral Soul suffered heavy injuries, Qing Chou attacked while roaring loudly!
It was like a mad beast, its expression was distorted and its eyes were red, bursting open and bleeding with green-black blood. Its body was covered in hundreds of holes, blood spewed out continuously, its injuries were scary to look at.
"Truly an amazing creation." For a moment, Giant Spectral Soul squinted his eyes.
Spectral Soul's attainment in soul path was definitely unsurpassed in the world. He created soul path, causing soul beasts to exist in the world. Thus, his understanding of soul beasts was extremely thorough, nobody could know more than him! And yet, Qing Chou was different, a qualitative change had occurred within its body.
Facing Qing Chou's attack, Giant Spectral Soul became overjoyed instead!
Since the fight started, Spectral Soul had gained great benefits from Qing Chou. For others, Qing Chou would be a huge problem, it was quite fatal. But for Spectral Soul, it was like a gentle rain, it came at a good time to allow Spectral Soul to absorb its strength and recover rapidly!
Qing Chou charged with extreme speed, it did not care about its own life.
The sole enemy in its life was right before it!
But as memories surfaced, its vision blurred again.
"Escape, quickly escape!"
"Can anyone save me, oh, ancestors of Qing clan, why are you not taking action?"
"Father! Mother! Where are you?"
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Cries resounded, screaming filled the entire Qing oasis.
Rough winds howled in the desert, while the oasis carried a warm breeze.
This was Western Desert Qing clan's blessed land headquarters, it was situated in a beautiful oasis of Western Desert.
The sandstones were like mountains, the still lake were like the sea, and the trees were lush and vibrant. However, this utopia that was Qing clan's beautiful home turned into living hell.
A terrifying slaughter was ongoing, blood flowed into rivers, countless Gu Masters retaliated desperately but were unable to cause any problems for the perpetrator.
The young Spectral Soul, Ming You from Southern Border's Gu Immortal world, wore a black robe, he stood proudly in the sky, each time he attacked, he took away thousands of lives.
He looked down on the ground, countless people were running in the face of death, they were like pitiful ants.
"Qing clan, you are a great Western Desert super force, how long are you going to hide?" Ming You snickered and taunted: "It is too disappointing, are you going to watch your clan get slaughtered like this? Hehehe, the so-called Qing clan is nothing amazing after all!"
Qing clan did not have many Gu Immortals left.
Right now, they were in the deepest part of their blessed land headquarters, hearing Ming You's voice, they felt extremely furious.
"This demonic path scoundrel is too arrogant and hateful!"
"To think that our second supreme elder would die at his hands, this is truly too unbelievable."
"Our great Qing clan actually ended up in this situation, nobody dares to go out and fight just this mere Ming You alone!"
"No, this is not all Ming You's credit. Don't you all find it weird that news of Divine Bean Palace was leaked out?"
Qing clan's Gu Immortals discussed, some were sad and dejected, some felt they were helpless to do anything.
"Cough cough, you are right." Qing clan's first supreme elder woke up from his coma.
"First elder!" Qing clan's Gu Immortals were overjoyed, they cheered: "You are finally awake."
Qing clan's first supreme elder still had a purplish complexion, his aura was extremely weak. He barely sat up on his bed as he said: "Ming You has likely cooperated with the other forces to deal with us. He is an open blade while the other forces are restraining us secretly, they are too vicious. Not long ago, to settle some territorial dispute and get a giant resource point, I was sneak attacked and suffered heavy injuries, I have no battle strength now. Recently, our clan's giant resource points have all been attacked by demonic path Gu Immortals. After sending our Immortal Gu Houses to deal with them, our headquarters have fallen into a state of absolute weakness… cough, cough."
"First supreme elder, you need to rest, don't exert yourself!"
"Yes, we will handle this!"
"As long as Qing clan survives this crisis, we will definitely take revenge on those vicious scoundrels."
Qing clan's Gu Immortals quickly assured.
But Qing clan's first supreme elder shook his head: "Don't go and waste your lives, Ming You has incredible battle strength, he possesses an immense innate luck, he is not a simple character. We were too careless earlier, by the time we realized this and want to deal with him seriously, the other forces already started to restrain us. We need to be very vigilant in dealing with him now!"
Qing clan's Gu Immortals were discussing earlier, but hearing the first supreme elder's words, it seemed like he had other plans.
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Chapter 2056 Qing Chou!!
"First supreme elder, what idea do you have?"
Qing clan's first supreme elder forced a smile: "The cause of everything, the origin of Qing clan's predicament, is just one thing, Divine Bean Palace! Other than us, nobody wants to see Qing clan refine Divine Bean Palace successfully, even if we exert all our strength and give up our territories, even if we defeat Ming You, how can we deal with all the super forces?"
"Cough, cough." Qing clan's first supreme elder paused before continuing: "So our best counterattack is to refine Divine Bean Palace."
An anxious Gu Immortal immediately asked: "How can we refine Divine Bean Palace rapidly?"
Qing clan's first supreme elder sighed: "There is one method we can try!"
Qing clan's immortals were very excited, they looked at Qing clan's first supreme elder fixedly.
Qing clan's first supreme elder slowly explained: "Earlier, we used hatred Gu to get past Divine Bean Palace's defense, we made huge progress, we just need some time to refine it now. However, we lack the time we need, we can only take a risk and use that killer move now."
"What killer move?"
"Don't tell me…"
Some Qing clan Gu Immortals had perplexed expressions while some had changing expressions, they recalled some vague rumors they had heard.
Qing clan's first supreme elder nodded, excitement showed on his tired face: "This killer move was created by second supreme elder and I, he was the main user with my assistance. The killer move has extraordinary might, I will activate it while all of you participate and help. As long as we can unleash it, the current Divine Bean Palace cannot block it, any rank eight Gu Immortal will need to avoid it as well. No matter how strong Ming You is, he is still rank seven."
"We will do that!"
"First supreme elder, what do we name it?"
First supreme elder shook his head as he smiled bitterly: "Second supreme elder died before we could name it."
This old man was silent for a while before replying solemnly: "Let's call it, Qing Chou[1], this is the revenge of Qing clan! Divine Bean Palace was the cause of our predicament and suffering, Qing clan needs to take revenge. We will use Qing Chou to refine Divine Bean Palace completely! These super forces with ill intentions will also face the revenge of our Qing clan one by one! That arrogant and vicious Ming You who caused us great harm will also face our revenge! Using Qing Chou, we will…"
"We will take revenge! We will repay this debt a thousandfold to those who hurt us. In this aspect, we will not be stingy, we will repay them fully!"
These words raised the spirits of the immortals.
"Qing Chou… truly a good name."
"First supreme elder is right, we must take revenge!"
"Let Qing Chou be the sign of our Qing clan's rise to greatness."
Qing… Chou…
Qing Chou…
Qing Chou?
Qing Chou!
Qing Chou's vision cleared up at once, it recalled everything, its memories were fully restored.
Facing Ming You's assault, Qing clan first decided to use the killer move Qing Chou to refine Divine Bean Palace. Next, they would go and fight to claim victory.
However, the Qing Chou killer move that they entrusted their hopes to did not fully refine Divine Bean Palace. Instead, it triggered a mysterious resonance with Divine Bean Palace, the entire sky shined with jade green light.
The mysterious light devoured Qing clan's immortals, it digested the entire Qing clan headquarters, including Qing oasis, it covered the surrounding ten thousand li!
Ming You was forced to retreat, after the mysterious light faded, the super forces came to check what happened, they saw that the great Qing clan territory was reduced to a huge and vast ruin.
The indignant Western Desert Gu Immortals searched the entire place thoroughly but they could not find anything.
As time passed, people went from disappointment to despair, they left this lifeless dessert eventually.
Only in some corner, a rank eight wood path Immortal Gu House with a dim hall and hatred Gu as the core within the hall was activating a killer move.
This killer move was called Qing Chou.
The killer move Qing Chou did not fail, it was only influenced by something and mutated in essence.
It turned into… a life form!
Countless vengeful souls who died terrible deaths fused together, a soul beast with hatred Gu as the core was born.
Initially, it was very small like a baby.
It opened its eyes, its gaze was crystal clear.
Next, it grew up continuously, without any idea of what was happening.
Its body started to grow as its physique became clear. It had claws, a tortoise shell, and a head with long hair.
Its size was initially the same as a rabbit, next it grew to a wolf's size, before a bull and then an elephant, eventually, it became as large as a mountain.
Countless vengeful souls cried out, from the moment it was born, they had been screeching in its ears, reverberating in its heart.
Every time it grew, these resounding voices would become louder and more muffled.
They were screaming, they were howling.
Qing Chou could not hear them clearly, it felt greatly troubled.
These voices were too annoying and muffled, they went on without stopping, it became confused, it became frustrated, it became angry.
Its thoughts became more chaotic, it became more ruthless and aggressive.
It growled, it slashed the ground of the hall with its claws, it crashed into the pillars using its shell, it bled from injuries as its hair covered its face.
The hall rapidly repaired itself but the voices still continued, they were getting more muffled and loud.
Qing Chou could do nothing.
It became dejected eventually.
It wanted to give up, it wanted to die.
But it did not do so, those vengeful voices were trying to remind it of something.
What was it?
What were those damned voices trying to say?
Tell me, tell me, why are you torturing me like this, why don't you just let me die?!
Ever since the chaotic battle started, Qing Chou sensed Spectral Soul, its consciousness fell into chaos due to hatred Gu. Even though it was conscious, its mind was not clear.
It only knew how to kill, it knew how to charge and advance, it only knew how to fight! It wanted to exert itself, to use every drop of blood in its body to kill Spectral Soul, to exterminate Spectral Soul!
But now, Qing Chou's mind was no longer in chaos, it regained clarity.
It was as if the clouds parted in the sky, everything was clear now.
Its memories were complete, it understood the whole situation from start to finish.
It… could finally understand the words of those vengeful souls.
These vengeful souls were screaming and crying all the time, they had never stopped or weakened at all.
Qing Chou heard them clearly now.
These vengeful souls were not screaming in pain or bitterness.
They were not crying out in grievance, they were not screaming their innocence.
They only said one thing — Qing Chou.
Qing Chou!
Qing Chou!!
You must remember the purpose of your existence!
You must remember the burden that you bear!
You must remember all your enemies!
Don't forget it, don't forget it for even an instance, don't give up, don't give up even for an instance.
Revenge, revenge, revenge!
Those clansmen who died pitiful deaths, those Qing clan members who had yet to fulfill their aspirations, we need to take revenge for the pain and suffering that was inflicted on us!
"Spectral Soul—!" Qing Chou screamed: "Have a good taste of this!"
"This is the revenge of Qing clan, after a hundred thousand years, the killer move that has been nurturing for a hundred thousand years—"
"Qing Chou!!!"
"Oh no!" At this moment, Giant Spectral Soul's expression turned cold, his heart sank.
A qualitative change occurred in Qing Chou's body, rank eight Immortal Gu Hatred which had been growing the entire time finally broke through at this moment, it became a genuine rank nine Immortal Gu!
Qing Chou's mountain-like body shot out a jade green light that was familiar to Spectral Soul.
Within the green light, Qing Chou's body transformed like flowing water.
It stood straight up, its four limbs turned into human hands and legs.
The huge pair of wings that it had turned into a full body armor.
Its shell turned into a shield, held by its left arm.
Its snake neck contracted rapidly, allowing its neck and shoulder to have the perfect proportion.
Next, a huge lump of light flowed from its long tail and snake neck, transferring to its right palm as it extended into a terrifying spear.
Giant Qing Chou charged towards Spectral Soul, the vast green light condensed and went into the tip of its spear.
The long spear stabbed forward with great force!
Giant Spectral Soul changed moves!
He had to make a change, if he used his earlier method on Qing Chou again, he would be courting death.
Spectral Soul grunted as he retracted his move, causing him to suffer backlash.
But he achieved his goal, he successfully changed killer moves. At the crucial moment, rumbling black smoke gushed towards Qing Chou, stopping its attack.
Seeing this, Wu Shuai, Qi Sea Ancestor, and Demon Immortal Qi Jue stared with wide eyes.
This seemed like a long process but in fact, it occurred too quickly and suddenly.
Qing Chou suddenly became stronger, it turned into a giant with a huge rise in battle strength.
Before Wu Shuai, Qi Sea or Qi Jue had time to celebrate, Giant Spectral Soul withdrew his killer move and retaliated instantly.
Seeing that this fatal killer move was mostly blocked by Spectral Soul, Wu Shuai, Qi Sea, and Qi Jue felt greatly disappointed, they could not help but admire Spectral Soul's resolve and method.
He could actually swap killer moves within such a short time frame!
However, Lu Wei Yin smiled.
At the next moment, Giant Qing Chou's messy hair rose up and tangled together like vines, gathering into the appearance of a huge tree.
This tree had lush leaves, it was a massive cover over Qing Chou's head, it emitted a jade green light again.
Spectral Soul's rumbling smoke was all blocked by this powerful light!
"This is?!"
"A venerable method!"
"Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's karma divine tree killer move!!"
Qi Sea, Qi Jue, and Wu Shuai were shocked.
Swish!
Giant Qing Chou's attacks were no longer obstructed, the terrifying spear pierced through Giant Spectral Soul from the front to the back.
Following that, the green spear turned into jade green light and flowed into Giant Spectral Soul's body like a torrent of water.
Giant Spectral Soul took several steps back, his aura weakened to an extremely low level.
Spectral Soul was covered in holes as soul qi leaked out along with some jade green light. Hundreds of arms covered these holes but could not stop the overwhelming green light from shining.
These mysterious lights were like swords or spears, bursting out of Spectral Soul's body, radiating the entire battlefield.
Spectral Soul lost!
This was a truly fatal blow!!
Spectral Soul's expression was cold as he muttered: "Genesis Lotus, Paradise Earth… good, you guys are really impressive."
Next, he smiled coldly, his killing intent surged instead, reaching an unprecedented level!
"Long long ago, I swore that I would only make others struggle in the face of death. Are you all… prepared for that?"
Spectral Soul's words made everyone's expressions change.
"Oh no!"
"Get away from him, quickly!"
"He is going to self-detonate!!"
"All of you, die with me." Spectral Soul roared.
Boom—!!!
[1] Chou means revenge
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Chapter 2057 Spectral Soul“s Death
"Quickly, quickly, we need to be faster!" Fairy Zi Wei continued to urge herself internally.
She was the only wisdom path great expert here, the duty of unraveling this battlefield killer move ended up on her shoulders.
Fairy Zi Wei's soul was modified by Spectral Soul, she was loyal to him, she exerted herself in trying to unravel this battlefield killer move.
However, Lu Wei Yin's illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield was not a simple battlefield.
"This earth path battlefield is extremely sturdy, it also has a layer of vagueness. I'm afraid it uses Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's battlefield as the foundation and was modified from that!"
Fairy Zi Wei was frowning deeply, her mind was heating up, with her full effort, she managed to deduce some useful information.
But there was little progress overall.
Firstly, the battlefield killer move would shrink into a tiny spot once they were activated, isolating the inside and outside. Be it from within or externally, it was hard to unravel.
Initially, Fairy Zi Wei was able to break Fang Yuan's yama battlefield in Lang Ya blessed land because she had Feng Jiu Ge's fate armor Immortal Gu to locate yama battlefield.
By combining both internal and external influences, she had a breakthrough in unraveling that battlefield.
Secondly, illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield was not ordinary, it was the work of a venerable, improved upon by future generations.
It was already amazing that Fairy Zi Wei could find the exact location of the battlefield so quickly, it showed her incredible wisdom path attainment.
Fairy Zi Wei continued to use various methods, sometimes, she activated individual Immortal Gu, sometimes, she used wisdom path killer moves, sometimes, she even asked the Longevity Heaven or Heavenly Court Gu Immortals to probe the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield continuously.
This was truly an unthinkable sight.
Shadow Sect, Longevity Heaven, and Heavenly Court were actually working together closely!
At the outer periphery, the black bat group was like a raging black tide that attacked constantly. Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses were guarding against them, forming a tight defense that killed all the black bats that were daring enough to approach them.
In the inner area, Fairy Zi Wei was high in the sky with Old Man Zheng Yuan, Bai Ning Bing, and Fairy Miao Yin protecting her.
At the center, two Immortal Gu Houses were situated beside each other. They were Longevity Heaven's Calamity Luck Altar and Heavenly Court's Demon Judgment Board. Each time Fairy Zi Wei gave instructions, these two Immortal Gu Houses would cooperate and use their methods to attack a corner of the battlefield.
Qin Ding Ling and Bing Sai Chuan did not doubt Fairy Zi Wei's anxiety, they also lacked a wisdom path great expert, they were willing to put in effort for this.
Everything they did was for the eventual goal, Fang Yuan!
Originally, these three forces restrained each other while chasing Fang Yuan, they had their own vigilance.
But now that the battlefield killer move enveloped Fang Yuan and Spectral Soul, these three forces started to work together, exerting their effort and energy into unraveling this battlefield killer move.
Fang Yuan's craftiness and viciousness was deeply etched in everyone's minds, since he put up an ambush here, he definitely had ill intentions.
The three factions' Gu Immortals felt something amiss, they quickly worked together, attempting to thwart Fang Yuan's plans with all their effort.
It was truly a wise decision.
But…
Guh.
Fairy Zi Wei suddenly shook as she spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Oh?" Seeing this change, all of the Gu Immortals' attention was drawn.
Fairy Zi Wei wiped the blood off the corner of her lips, her expression was pale but she gritted her teeth, continuing her deduction.
"Heavenly Court nurtured a great immortal, for her master, she is really giving it her all." Within Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan sneered as he tried to attack the two forces with words.
Within the Immortal Gu House, Qin Ding Ling snorted coldly, frowning: "Why is my luck wavering so much?"
At the next moment, Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan suddenly took action, profound light flickered, the Shadow Sect immortals were all enveloped, before they shot outside like a meteor!
Bing Sai Chuan and Qin Ding Ling's hearts jumped, they did not think anymore, quickly controlling the Immortal Gu Houses to follow after Fairy Zi Wei.
Boom!
A terrifying explosion occurred at this moment.
Calamity Luck Altar had just started to move when an immense force assaulted it from the back.
Bing Sai Chuan growled: "Zi Wei harmed us!"
Calamity Luck Altar suffered a huge blow, but its momentum rose as it charged towards Fairy Zi Wei with killing intent.
Within Demon Judgment Board, Fang Zheng lacked experience compared to Bing Sai Chuan and Qin Ding Ling. When the explosion occurred, Demon Judgment Board was still staying motionless on the spot.
Thus, Demon Judgment Board suffered much greater damage than Calamity Luck Altar.
At once, Fang Zheng felt like he had fallen into a tsunami, he was caught unguarded, the entire Demon Judgment Board was swept away by the explosion.
Rumble!
This explosion was created by Spectral Soul's self-detonation.
After the explosion destroyed the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield, the three forces' Gu Immortals who did not know what happened were greatly affected.
Both Immortal Gu Houses, Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Judgment Board, were heavily damaged, even though Fairy Zi Wei deduced the explosion slightly earlier, there was too little time, the explosion quickly implicated them, they were sent flying everywhere.
The numerous Heavenly Court Immortal Gu Houses were also sent flying like kites, blown away by the intense force.
The black bat group was even worse, hundreds of thousands of bats, be they desolate beasts or immemorial desolate beasts, were instantly blown to pieces.
The ground shook as the world seemingly collapsed, the entire scene was very chaotic now.
An extremely damaged fortress appeared in the air.
Qing Chou, which had turned into a giant, was blown into three pieces, it landed on the ground.
Xi Land was greatly damaged, it was originally complete and intact, now only less than thirty percent was left.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was covered in blood as he flew out of this secluded domain of heaven and earth, he had a sharp gaze as he fixed his eyes on the fortress.
It was Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress!
This rank eight Immortal Gu House truly had top notch defense, even though it was heavily damaged, it still managed to block the force of Spectral Soul's self-detonation.
At the next moment, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was stored into Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.
This Immortal Gu House was too slow, it could not be relied on all the time.
Fang Yuan appeared!
Instantly, he attracted the attention of all the Gu Immortals.
But Fang Yuan was not alone, Lu Wei Yin and Wu Shuai were also around him.
"Let's kill Fang Yuan!" Calamity Luck Altar was not in good shape, Bing Sai Chuan gave up on it and let the rest repair, while he went to kill Fang Yuan himself.
This rank eight great expert who had once fought alongside Fang Yuan did not conceal his deep killing intent towards the latter.
"Fang Yuan, what did you do to master?!" Fairy Zi Wei stopped escaping, she screamed out as blood oozed out of her nose and mouth.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue had a child-like appearance but an elderly voice, he smiled coldly: "Didn't you all feel the severity of the explosion earlier? Spectral Soul has already self-detonated and died."
What?!
The immortals heard this and were intensely shocked.
"The great Spectral Soul actually died?"
"The explosion earlier was too terrifying, it was clearly a soul path killer move, was it Spectral Soul's final attack before dying?"
"But how can this be! A great Demon Venerable…"
"No, Spectral Soul is no longer a Demon Venerable."
"Even so, he still has the number one battle strength in the world, to think that he actually died at the hands of Fang Yuan and the rest!"
"Fang Yuan actually killed Spectral Soul??"
The immortals' expressions changed, their pupils contracted as all of their gazes focused on Fang Yuan!
Even though Spectral Soul's death was caused by everyone's effort, Fang Yuan was undeniably the main perpetrator.
"Fang Yuan cannot be underestimated, he is too scheming, he actually managed to kill Spectral Soul, that is a former Demon Venerable!"
"He even destroyed fate Gu, it is not strange that he managed to achieve this."
"Kill him, we cannot let him escape. This demon being alive is truly the greatest misfortune of all lives in this world!"
"Yes, even if he was acting earlier, after killing Spectral Soul, he must definitely be in bad shape. If we don't kill him now, when will we?"
The immortals shouted in unison.
"Fang Yuan, even if I have to die here, I want you dead!" Fairy Zi Wei's expression was distorted, she gritted her teeth as she attacked.
On one hand, Fairy Zi Wei was modified by Spectral Soul and became extremely loyal to him, his death angered her deeply. On the other hand, she had constantly experienced failure as a result of Fang Yuan. In Heavenly Court, she failed, in Shadow Sect, she still failed, she kept losing to this Fang Yuan.
"Kill him, if Fang Yuan is not dead, the ones to suffer will be everyone present here." Demon Immortal Qi Jue called out as he attacked Fang Yuan as well.
At the same time, he secretly transmitted to Fang Yuan while chuckling: "Fang Yuan, when Spectral Soul self-detonated earlier, you did not let me into your Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, I'll forget that. If you want to escape now, you will need my help, take out some venerable true inheritances, show me your sincerity!"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's Xi Land was greatly damaged but he retained most of his own battle strength.
This old demon was still working with Fang Yuan to fight Spectral Soul one moment ago, immediately after, he flipped and changed sides, using the three forces to threaten and extort Fang Yuan again!
Fang Yuan was really not in good shape, the sovereign immortal aperture's myriad tribulation was still ongoing.
Beside him, Lu Wei Yin had a pale expression, his body was wobbling around, it would not be surprising if he fainted at the next moment.
Wu Shuai was looking terrible, even though his rank eight aura was not stable, he still retained some battle strength. Right now, he could only be sacrificed to try to stall for time. Even so, there was no guarantee regarding how much time he could fight for.
As for Qi Sea Ancestor, he was already put into Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture. Within it, Combat Beast King was still unconscious, Fang Yuan needed a Gu Immortal expert to manage the situation.
If not, Qi Sea Ancestor would be forced by the situation, to protect his main body, he would need to expose his identity.
"At the crucial moment, without any better options, I will need to sacrifice the Qi Sea clone and Wu Shuai clone to stall for time." Fang Yuan thought.
He transmitted to Lu Wei Yin: "What is the escape method that you mentioned earlier?"
When Giant Spectral Soul self-detonated, Lu Wei Yin made his move, forcefully activating the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield and suppressing the soul explosion miraculously, even though it only lasted a few breaths of time, it managed to successfully gain them some time.
Using this time, Fang Yuan's Qi Sea and Wu Shuai clone managed to hide inside Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
During which, Lu Wei Yin transmitted to Fang Yuan that he had a way to escape and leave Central Continent safely.
Precisely so, Fang Yuan let Lu Wei Yin into his Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
Firstly, Lu Wei Yin saved both of Fang Yuan's clones, that was a move demonstrating great sincerity.
Secondly, because Lu Wei Yin's battlefield killer move was broken, he suffered an immense backlash, his battle strength plunged and his threat level also diminished, Fang Yuan did not fear him now.
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Chapter 2058 Helping Fang Yuan Become Venerable
Lu Wei Yin replied Fang Yuan immediately: "Fang Yuan, follow me!"
However, Fang Yuan replied: "No rush."
At the next moment, he smiled coldly, his arms were folded behind him, looking at the three groups of Gu Immortals and their Immortal Gu Houses, he spoke calmly and casually: "Very good, which of you want to die first?"
Saying this, intense aura burst out of his body, his rank eight aura was fully intact and not weak at all.
All of the immortals stared with wide eyes.
"Wasn't he at his limit already?"
All of the excitement to attack was doused.
The immortals became hesitant.
Using this timing, Fang Yuan laughed loudly as he activated an immortal killer move, bringing Lu Wei Yin and the rest away, they turned into a sword rainbow, flying far away.
Different from earlier, Fang Yuan had already refined many heaven path dao marks, he had already gotten some freedom from the restrictions of the heaven path dao marks.
It was many times easier for him to use immortal killer moves now. Although he still needed to use the human path formation to attack the heaven path dao marks, he could already use other methods now.
"Fang Yuan escaped, chase him!"
"He was toying with us."
The immortals realized at once, they started to pursue him relentlessly.
All sorts of killer moves were unleashed, bombarding Fang Yuan and the rest.
It was as if the situation had returned to before, except Spectral Soul, Qi Sea Ancestor, and Qing Chou were gone, in exchange there was Lu Wei Yin instead.
But…
"Everyone, be very careful! The final struggle of this demon Fang Yuan cannot be underestimated."
"Let the other two forces fight, let's save our energy."
"Fang Yuan is too scheming, in my opinion, he might still have a second battlefield killer move or an immortal formation."
"That's right, in the Southern Border battle, Fang Yuan used a time path formation to trap the allied forces of Southern Border's righteous path. Lu Wei Yin is also a devious person, he set up the earth path formation to trap Spectral Soul, he did the same thing as Fang Yuan. I was wrong about him!"
"The great Paradise Earth's Southern Border inheritor actually collaborated with Fang Yuan so shamelessly!!"
The immortals' words were filled with righteousness and heroism against the evil enemies, they transmitted thoughts and exchanged conversations, trying to come up with a plan.
They chased with a huge commotion, but they were all feeling internally fearful!
The current situation was already very different from earlier, it had changed almost completely.
Fang Yuan managed to kill Spectral Soul, this incredible feat made all three forces very wary and fearful.
Furthermore, Fang Yuan was devious and crafty, he was ruthless and vicious, his battle achievements were deeply etched into everyone's hearts, the three forces' Gu Immortals were filled with trepidation.
On one hand, even if Fang Yuan was near his limit, his final struggle would cause any of them to suffer huge losses, their plans would fail completely; on the other hand, the three forces were not just fighting Fang Yuan, they were also mutual enemies.
Earlier, Spectral Soul and Qi Jue took on the role as the vanguard, the three forces were happy to follow behind them and try to reap some benefits. But now, Spectral Soul was dead, even though Demon Immortal Qi Jue appeared imposing, he was secretly extorting Fang Yuan for his personal gains, why would he really fight with his true strength?
Speaking of which, the three forces' Gu Immortals were wary of Fang Yuan, but was Demon Immortal Qi Jue not wary of him?
"Fang Yuan did not fight much in the few battles earlier. How much did he actually recover? Looking at his killer moves, they are clearly more complex and numerous, how much strength is he concealing? Does he have a fourth Immortal Gu House?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue thought to himself.
Earlier, Fang Yuan lost Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship, he immediately took out Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress. These three Immortal Gu Houses were all rank eight, they were peak creations of enslavement path, time path, and earth path.
Fang Yuan's abundant wealth truly shocked Demon Immortal Qi Jue. He would not be surprised even if Fang Yuan took out a fifth Immortal Gu House at this point.
"Just how deep is Fang Yuan's foundation?! Aren't the past venerables investing too much in him!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue gritted his teeth.
As Fang Yuan retreated, he suggested transacting using true inheritances, his attitude was tough at times, Demon Immortal Qi Jue could not make up his mind.
"Should I attack at this time?"
"How much strength does Fang Yuan have left? Would my gains be higher if I kill him?"
"But now, chasing and collecting true inheritances seems pretty good too…"
Among the people, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had the best time during this chasing period.
"We arrived! It is below this place." Lu Wei Yin suddenly transmitted.
Fang Yuan controlled the rainbow, he suddenly changed directions, he instantly broke through the rock layer, entering the next layer.
Rumble…
Fang Yuan and the rest heard loud rumbling noises around them.
A boundless earth qi river surged intensely as tides raged, Fang Yuan and the other two were surrounded by it, they felt like ants in the river, being extremely insignificant.
"This is… the manifestation of an earth vein?!" Fang Yuan was stunned before he soon realized it.
Lu Wei Yin nodded as he smiled: "Indeed, with the five regions becoming one, the earth veins have merged as well, with the movement of the earth veins, they will manifest themselves. It is about to reach that island."
Fang Yuan activated his killer move with difficulty as the sword rainbow shot down.
The sword rainbow was hard to maintain, it finally dissipated in the air after some time.
The three immortals fell onto a brown island, they were in sorry states.
This island was very small, it was only a few square kilometers in size. The island was deserted without any living beings, it had a plain terrain, there were three huge rocks at the periphery that resembled pillars, embedded into the grand earth vein.
Precisely because of these three rock pillars, the island remained unmoving despite the earth vein's movement.
"Fang Yuan, where are you running?"
"Chase!"
"What is this place?!"
At this time, the three groups of pursuers also arrived at this layer.
Someone activated a killer move but found that the earth path dao marks here were too dense, they suppressed almost all other paths.
Gu Immortals had to spend a lot of effort activating killer moves unless it was earth path, otherwise, only Immortal Gu Houses could still move around freely.
"Oh no, Fang Yuan came here with a plan in mind."
"No matter what he is trying to do, we must stop him!"
"Quickly destroy that island."
The three forces' Gu Immortals had imposing aura, they quickly got close.
However, Fang Yuan, Wu Shuai, and Lu Wei Yin attacked suddenly, destroying the three huge rock pillars on the island!
Without the support of the rock pillars, the island started to float away along the earth vein.
The three forces' Gu Immortals chased but the island moved rapidly, the difference between the two was just too big, the island quickly pulled apart some distance and in a few breaths of time, shook off the three forces' Gu Immortals.
The three forces' Gu Immortals were dumbfounded.
What the heck was happening?
It was just an island but it actually moved so quickly!
"We really escaped from them. What is this island? Where will it bring us to?" Wu Shuai touched the hard ground of this island with his hands as he asked in amazement.
Lu Wei Yin continued to cough blood, destroying the rock pillars earlier caused his injuries to be aggravated.
He did not answer Wu Shuai, he looked at Fang Yuan instead: "Fang Yuan, you must have recalled it already?"
Fang Yuan nodded, the moment he saw this island, a flash of inspiration struck in his mind. By the time he landed, he had already recalled it.
"This is Flying Earth." Fang Yuan told Wu Shuai.
Even though Wu Shuai was his clone, Fang Yuan did not give him a copy of all his memories, this was a precaution.
If Wu Shuai got captured in the future and got his soul searched, these memories would end up helping his enemies after all.
"In the previous life's five hundred years, the five regions became one, the two heavens combined, the earth veins of the five regions also merged and created many unique terrains. The people in the world called them the ten earths. They are Earth Abyss, Earth Trench, Earth Tunnel, Earth Cave, Earth Prison, Production Earth, Flying Earth, Formation Earth, Treasure Earth, and Tomb Earth."
"This island is one of the ten earths, Flying Earth, it is formed from the earth vein. It can move around in the earth vein as quickly as flying, its speed cannot be matched normally."
Wu Shuai finally understood: "So that's it."
He continued to sigh: "With the changes in the world, the underground has also become much more interesting."
He knew the essence of this island, he asked: "Then where can we go?"
Fang Yuan shook his head: "I have only heard of Flying Earth, I have never interacted with it. We can only follow along its trail now, we cannot control the direction. Lu Wei Yin, I wonder if you have any method?"
In this ambush battle, Lu Wei Yin's performance was very outstanding, Fang Yuan saw much value in him now.
This current generation inheritor of Paradise Earth had incredible power.
He first set up illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield, which was powerful enough to trap Spectral Soul and Qi Jue, it perfectly displayed the might of a proper battlefield.
Next, Lu Wei Yin controlled the battlefield and allowed the immortals to cooperate tightly while dealing with Spectral Soul. During the intense fight, Spectral Soul wanted to target Qing Chou but was obstructed by Lu Wei Yin multiple times.
After that, at the crucial moment, Lu Wei Yin displayed a powerful defensive killer move that blocked Spectral Soul's rampaging attack, allowing Qi Jue to have enough time to use his xi xi killer move. This was the turning point of that battle.
In addition, Lu Wei Yin used all life is bitter and suffering loss is a blessing to counter Spectral Soul, causing him to suffer an intense backlash.
Finally, he forcefully maintained the battlefield and suppressed Spectral Soul's self-detonation, allowing Fang Yuan's clones to escape the crisis.
After the battlefield was destroyed, he was the one who guided Fang Yuan to this Flying Earth and escaped successfully.
Lu Wei Yin's battle strength was definitely top tier in the current world, but Fang Yuan admired his nature even more. He was adept at enduring and persevering, he used the two killer moves, all life is bitter and suffering loss is a blessing, at the crucial moment to cause Spectral Soul to suffer a huge setback.
With his deep shrewdness and wisdom, Fang Yuan believed that Lu Wei Yin definitely had a method to control Flying Earth. After all, this involved earth path, it was Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's greatest expertise.
And as expected, Lu Wei Yin did not disappoint Fang Yuan.
He smiled and nodded: "I am not so skilled, but Paradise Earth's inheritance has a relevant method to control Flying Earth's direction and decide the place to stop at."
Wu Shuai heard this, his pupils shrank, he became quite cautious.
Lu Wei Yin seemed to have not noticed as he kept up his smile: "This earth vein travels along Western Desert, towards Eastern Sea, before reaching Southern Border and Northern Plains after that, I wonder where you want to stop at, Fang Yuan?"
Fang Yuan smiled too: "Didn't you invite me to be a guest of your Mushroomman Paradise earlier?"
Lu Wei Yin nodded: "Fang Yuan, now that Spectral Soul has been killed by us, I am sure you know of my sincerity already. This is not just my sincerity, this is also the sincerity of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable!"
"Even though I am not sure of the details, there is something written down in the inheritance that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable left behind — Gu Yue Fang Yuan is the Paradise Earth inheritor of the five regions! All of Paradise Earth's forces will help him, they will assist him to become a Gu Venerable with their full strength!"
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Chapter 2059 Paradise Earth“s Deeper Intentions
"What?" When Wu Shuai heard this news for the first time, he was stupefied.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was well reputed to be benevolent and kind, who did not know of his nature? He spent his entire life cleaning up the mess that Spectral Soul created, he did not have a single offensive method. All of his actions and words were meant to lead people to the path of kindness, he took joy in helping people.
Among the people he helped, were the numbers merely millions or tens of millions? In fact, not only humans, even variant humans and legendary immemorial beasts received his help. He even took action many times to repair mountains and rivers, he managed the natural resource points of heaven and earth.
Southern Border's Mushroomman Paradise, Eastern Sea's Merman Imperial Court, as well as the blue dragon whale, had all received Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's help.
Even Central Continent's Reincarnation Battlefield was created by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable because he did not want to see bloodshed between Central Continent Gu Immortals, he used it to resolve their conflicts.
And Fang Yuan?
He killed people like cutting grass, he was cold and callous. For his personal benefit, he destroyed fate Gu and disregarded the prosperity of humanity.
In order to cultivate, he plundered resources everywhere. He extorted, he stole, he snatched, he used all methods possible.
Everywhere he went, there was blood, there was disaster.
And now that Spectral Soul was dead, Fang Yuan became the genuine number one demon in the world!
It was not strange that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable managed to deduce the existence of Fang Yuan, all the other nine venerables had done the same. But Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable actually wanted Fang Yuan to become his inheritor, he wanted all of the forces of Paradise Earth to help Fang Yuan ascend to the position of a venerable?
This was simply bizarre beyond belief!
"Has Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable gone mad?" Wu Shuai's first thoughts after reacting were as such.
Immediately after, Wu Shuai thought: "Don't tell me Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable wants my main body to become a kind person? This does suit his style of action."
Indeed.
Fang Yuan was a demon.
After news of the earlier battle spread out, it would shock the world, Fang Yuan's title as the number one demon in the world would gain everyone's agreement!
If such a demon could turn over a new leaf and become righteous, it was definitely good news for the world and the people living in it.
Wu Shuai was shocked but Fang Yuan was expressionless, he did not show any external emotions.
Because he had already heard such words before he communicated with Lu Wei Yin.
Fang Yuan recalled the scene back then on the Red Lotus stone island.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable arrived at the stone lotus island, when he spoke with Red Lotus' will, he did mention that he wanted to snatch Fang Yuan as his inheritor.
For this purpose, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable took away regret Gu and placed it inside the blue dragon whale.
Because of this, future events happened, Fang Yuan entered the blue dragon whale's grotto-heaven paradise, taking regret Gu and releasing Shen Shang.
Back then, the ultimate mission of the merit board seemed to have intentions of inviting Fang Yuan to stay in the grotto-heaven, to accept the mission and become the new owner of the blue dragon whale. But Fang Yuan did not give in to temptation, he chose to leave and participate in the fate war, to destroy fate Gu.
After the fate war, Lu Wei Yin contacted Fang Yuan, stating that he wanted to help the latter.
These two matters were related in essence.
Thus, it was not so hard for Fang Yuan to accept this.
"Ever since I was reborn, I obtained many venerable true inheritances. These are the investments of the past venerables, they used me as a tool to destroy fate Gu."
"I originally thought that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had the same idea, but to think that he had deeper intentions."
Thoughts continued to flicker and collide in Fang Yuan's mind.
This was the greatest predicament of his life, it was truly a near death experience. The most dangerous moment was when Giant Spectral Soul used the killer move eat heart on him, Fang Yuan was truly defenseless at that moment, he had to gamble.
Thus, he forced himself to laugh and put up a perfect disguise, successfully hoaxing Demon Immortal Qi Jue to attack and betray Spectral Soul. That interrupted eat heart and allowed him to survive.
At that time, Fang Yuan was half a step from entering his grave.
What was the cause of this precarious situation?
Externally, Spectral Soul was chasing after him, trying to regain sovereign immortal fetus Gu and the dream realms.
Internally, there was Red Lotus Demon Venerable's scheme, he used the three thousand heaven path dao marks to restrain Fang Yuan and forced him to be unable to fight.
Fate Gu was destroyed, Fang Yuan had no value remaining. However much help he had received in the past, he would suffer a proportionate backlash at this moment!
All of the venerables who invested in Fang Yuan also abandoned him, they had resolute killing intent.
In such a situation, one venerable stood out from the rest, he lent a helping hand at the crucial moment, pulling Fang Yuan up from the abyss.
What was Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's intention?
What did he want from Fang Yuan?
Why did he think that Fang Yuan would become a venerable?
Why did he want to help Fang Yuan become a venerable despite the huge cost?
Surrounded by brown soil, earth qi rumbled.
Flying Earth continued to move within the grand earth vein.
"According to my understanding, in the Prophecy of Three Venerables, the next venerable is Great Dream Immortal Venerable. Does Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable think I have the capability to become Great Dream Immortal Venerable?" Fang Yuan's gaze flickered as he broke the silence, probing as he asked.
Lu Wei Yin replied: "The Prophecy of Three Venerables is well known to everyone, but now that fate Gu has been destroyed, the future is no longer certain. It is possible that Great Dream Immortal Venerable will emerge, it is also possible that this will not happen, right?"
"Fang Yuan, no need to say anymore, once you visit Mushroomman Paradise and receive Paradise Earth's true meaning, you will understand everything. At that time, I will definitely welcome you enthusiastically."
Lu Wei Yin smiled but was not willing to speak anymore.
After this battle, he was certain that Fang Yuan would go to Mushroomman Paradise, but he would not go now.
Lu Wei Yin knew of Fang Yuan's vigilance, he was a ruthless person but he was incomparably careful!
Even though Lu Wei Yin made such a huge contribution in this battle, if there was a chance, Fang Yuan would definitely kill him.
But Lu Wei Yin had been cautious, Fang Yuan had no such opportunities. When Spectral Soul self-detonated, he saved Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor, expressing his goodwill while also telling Fang Yuan he had a way to escape, that was the reason Fang Yuan let him into Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
When they got to Flying Earth, because he had a method to control it, he retained his value, Fang Yuan was unwilling to kill him.
But if he fainted, Fang Yuan would definitely deal the fatal blow, before soul searching Lu Wei Yin and learning of all the details.
Eventually, Fang Yuan chose to leave mid-journey.
He was pestered by the myriad tribulation, the most important thing now was to resolve it!
His battle strength was low now, otherwise, he would have attacked the weakened Lu Wei Yin.
Before departing, Lu Wei Yin spoke to Fang Yuan, expressing great sincerity: "Fang Yuan, I am sure you are deeply aware of the situation now. All the venerables want to kill you, this will not be your only predicament. We have very little time now, the actual circumstances are even more dangerous than during the fate war. If we act slowly, we will end up with terrible deaths. Thus, I hope you will come visit the Mushroomman Paradise as soon as possible."
Fang Yuan nodded, bringing Wu Shuai and leaving.
The two immortals left the earth vein, moving upwards. An hour later, they arrived at the surface, appearing in a desert.
There was nothing in the surrounding thousand li.
Wu Shuai suddenly smiled: "Lu Wei Yin seems to be in trouble. By helping us this time, and also being the leader of a variant human force, he is going to face the pressure of Southern Border's righteous path."
Fang Yuan nodded: "This is indeed problematic for him. Southern Border's righteous path is led by Wu clan, while Wu clan's leader, Wu Yong, is an ambitious and formidable person, he will not let go of this chance. But with Lu Wei Yin's political skills, I am sure he already has a way to resolve it."
Wu Shuai asked again: "Before parting, was Lu Wei Yin simply trying to scare us?"
Fang Yuan had a solemn expression, he shook his head slightly.
Wu Shuai's mood became heavy.
"Let's go, we will recuperate now, we really have no time left!" Fang Yuan said.
Earth vein.
"That demon Fang Yuan really escaped!" Inside Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu House, Qin Ding Ling stared with wide and furious eyes as she gritted her teeth, clenching her fists tightly.
This was the situation that she had not wanted to see, but it happened anyway.
Within Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan also let out a sigh.
He did not think that this would happen, the powerful and imposing Spectral Soul died while Fang Yuan, who was escaping from them, managed to flee. The biggest surprise was Lu Wei Yin, this inheritor of Paradise Earth was simply not worthy of being in the righteous path, he was Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's disgrace!
Of course, there was also the earth vein and Flying Earth.
The five regions were unified, the regional walls vanished, Gu Immortals of the five regions focused their attention on the fate war. The aftermath of the war had not settled, but qi tides already started to emerge, all Gu Immortals were busy dealing with them. Almost nobody had the time or energy at this time to explore the changes underground.
The earth vein was grand and vast, it was like a rumbling yellow river, creating huge commotions and sounds. Traveling around this turbulent earth vein was simply not easy.
The Flying Earth that Fang Yuan was on had already gone missing, the immortals traveled with great difficulty underground, their expectations regarding catching Fang Yuan became increasingly lower.
Wherever the immortals' gazes landed, they would see an abundance of earth path resources around the earth vein. And within the earth vein, there were even higher quality immortal materials.
"With the changes in heaven and earth, even the earth has become so foreign and unfamiliar."
"These earth path resources are very heavy, it is too troublesome to take them from the earth vein, that is, unless one has exceptional earth path attainment."
"Just these earth path resources that we saw along the way, if we can use them well, we can definitely change the situation. Ancient Soul Sect, who owns this Earth Abyss, is going to benefit, if they can absorb these resources, they will definitely become a much more powerful force!"
These were elites among the highest tier of Gu Immortals, they had excellent knowledge and understanding.
The resources underground were too abundant, this would have great implications. The way to extract these resources efficiently and make use of them would affect the entire world's situation in the future.
"Quick, take out some spare Gu worms, another three hundred were destroyed. Who can help me to replace the new Gu worms together?"
When Immortal Gu Houses moved in this earth vein, they would suffer the invasion of these earth qi, there would be increasingly more earth path dao marks carved on the Immortal Gu Houses.
That was unless it was an earth path Immortal Gu House, Immortal Gu Houses of other paths could not stay inside the earth vein for too long.
"Fang Yuan has disappeared for a long time already."
"Unless we can find another flying island like what they had, otherwise…"
"That Lu Wei Yin clearly had a method to control the flying island. He is Paradise Earth's inheritor, back then, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable cultivated earth path primarily."
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals did not say it explicitly, but they had intentions to retreat already.
Qin Ding Ling kept silent, she was unwilling, but Fang Yuan was actually going to successfully escape in front of their very eyes! She knew that Fang Yuan had already escaped for quite some time, there was almost no hope in catching him now.
But she still subconsciously kept silent.
After this battle, her trepidation towards Fang Yuan rose by several times. Spectral Soul went after him personally but could not kill him, instead, Fang Yuan managed to kill Spectral Soul in reverse!
"Gu Yue Fang Yuan… I underestimated you after all."
"No wonder even the wisdom path cultivator Fairy Zi Wei faltered in your hands time and time again."
"Wait, where are the Shadow Sect members?"
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Chapter 2060 Bai Ning Bing Versus Fang Zheng
Countless rock pillars flashed by with speed that resembled illusory figures.
These rock pillars were located in Earth Abyss, they naturally could not move. What was moving was Fairy Zi Wei's group.
"Since Fang Yuan can kill master, he definitely has a method to escape. I have fought against him many times, I understand him too well!" Fairy Zi Wei said.
After Spectral Soul's death, the weakest group became Shadow Sect.
Earlier, Fairy Zi Wei purposely shouted and drew Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court's attention to Fang Yuan, she secretly transmitted and directed these Shadow Sect immortals to escape mid-journey.
After that, she did not even get to the layer with the earth vein, she directly left the battlefield with these Shadow Sect immortals.
"No!" While flying, Fairy Zi Wei suddenly stopped, saying: "Even though I am not sure how long Fang Yuan, Longevity Heaven, and Heavenly Court will fight, we need to make some preparations in advance."
Fairy Zi Wei cast her gaze towards Bai Ning Bing, Fairy Miao Yin, and Lady White Rabbit.
"Farewell to the three of you." Fairy Zi Wei's tone became extremely cold.
Fairy Miao Yin's expression turned ugly, evidently, Fairy Zi Wei was going to discard them as used pawns.
Lady White Rabbit was feeling uneasy, while Bai Ning Bing smiled as she rubbed her chin, nodding cheerfully: "Interesting, getting chased like this is common, but I have never experienced such a status myself."
Even if they objected, what could they do?
Fairy Zi Wei was a rank eight great expert, she could suppress the three of them!
Fairy Zi Wei nodded, bringing Old Man Zheng Yuan and Ying Wu Xie away, quickly vanishing from the sights of Bai Ning Bing and the rest.
"What do we do?" Lady White Rabbit asked, she was lost and unsure.
Bai Ning Bing chuckled: "We are in big trouble, I am sure we will be caught very soon."
White Rabbit stared with large and clear eyes, she asked: "Are you sure?"
Bai Ning Bing nodded but said: "We can't be too sure, but Fairy Zi Wei is a wisdom path great expert, seeing her action earlier, doesn't it tell you the truth? Even though we have low cultivation level, we have our value. Didn't they find out Fang Yuan's traces using us as the connection? But now, Fairy Zi Wei gave up on us instantly, it meant that she gave up the method to detect Fang Yuan. This shows how much danger we are currently in."
"What should we do, let's leave now." Lady White Rabbit said anxiously.
"Why don't we split up?" Fairy Miao Yin asked: "Whoever gets caught will be the unlucky one, White Rabbit, go with me."
Among Fang Yuan's subordinates, Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit had the closest relationship. In this critical moment, she wanted to bring White Rabbit along with her.
"We can't escape, but I have a good plan." Bai Ning Bing said, bright light flashed in her eyes.
"What plan?" Lady White Rabbit was curious.
But after Bai Ning Bing told them, the two rejected it instantly.
"Isn't that too risky?" Lady White Rabbit was tongue-tied.
"You want to return to the black bat layer? You lunatic!" Fairy Miao Yin rolled her eyes.
Bai Ning Bing replied: "It seems dangerous there but the truth is different. With a vast number of bats in there, even pursuers will not detect us, they might go to the next layer while passing us by."
White Rabbit was dazed, it seemed that Bai Ning Bing's words made sense.
"Do you think Lord Fang Yuan will return to save us?" Lady White Rabbit suddenly asked.
Fairy Miao Yin's expression sank: "Don't forget that we participated in the chase against him earlier."
White Rabbit was anxious: "But we were forced to, there was no choice. Lord Fang Yuan is so wise, why wouldn't he understand it?"
Bai Ning Bing sneered: "You two are still hopeful about him? Not to mention that he is currently busy trying to save his own life, even if he could, with that cold aloof nature of his, why would he even come to save us? In fact, he would rather we die now, after we are dead, there will not be sufficient clues to deduce his location."
Lady White Rabbit was speechless.
Fairy Miao Yin gritted her teeth: "No need for more talk, White Rabbit, come with me. As for you, Bai Ning Bing, farewell."
Fairy Miao Yin had no interest in Bai Ning Bing's suggestion, after much interaction with her, she knew that this person was a lunatic.
Bai Ning Bing shrugged her shoulders: "Go ahead."
As she said that, an intense wind blew, the odor of blood spread throughout the area.
Rank eight Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board arrived, Fang Zheng's cold voice could be heard from within: "Where are you trying to go?"
Bai Ning Bing and the others were physically and mentally shaken, to think that their pursuers came so quickly!
Why was Fang Zheng here?
It turned out that after Heavenly Court, Longevity Heaven, and Demon Immortal Qi Jue lost sight of Fang Yuan, they lost hope while moving along the earth vein, they started to have other thoughts.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was the first to strike, attacking Calamity Luck Altar.
Within Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan was prepared for this, he blocked Demon Immortal Qi Jue's attack.
Seeing that his attack failed, Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not feel dejected, he called out: "Heavenly Court! If you do not fight Calamity Luck Altar now, are you going to wait until Longevity Heaven invades Central Continent?"
Bing Sai Chuan heard this, his heart sank.
"You are not wrong." Qin Ding Ling laughed as she gave orders to Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses, launching their attack as well.
However, Heavenly Court did not just encircle Calamity Luck Altar, they even targeted Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue snorted coldly: "Heavenly Court, your appetite is simply too big!"
Qin Ding Ling replied arrogantly: "Qi Jue, after that intense battle, how much battle strength do you have left? Go ahead and show us."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was silent!
There was nothing wrong with Heavenly Court attacking him, it was a wise decision.
"However, Qin Ding Ling is acting resolutely, is she putting up a farce or…" Demon Immortal Qi Jue had no time to think, Heavenly Court's attacks already arrived, and he had to defend himself.
The three parties fought above the earth vein.
"Fang Zheng, quickly go to the upper layers and pursue Shadow Sect. Fairy Zi Wei is able to use Bai Ning Bing and the rest to deduce Fang Zheng's location. We can also do that, go capture these people, as for Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan…" Saying this, Qin Ding Ling hesitated.
But soon, she continued with a firm tone: "As for the two of them, kill them if you can!"
"Yes." Fang Zheng acknowledged her orders, he controlled Demon Judgment Board and left the battlefield.
Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi Jue were trapped, they watched as Demon Judgment Board left.
Fang Zheng flew rapidly within Demon Judgment Board, using the Immortal Gu House's ability to find the traces of Shadow Sect.
Shadow Sect's members were all on the board list, Fang Zheng quickly found Bai Ning Bing and the other two immortals.
"Rank eight Immortal Gu House — Demon Judgment Board!" Lady White Rabbit's and Fairy Miao Yin's hearts sank, they felt a huge pressure.
They wanted to tell Fang Zheng about the direction that Fairy Zi Wei escaped to but there was an alliance agreement made earlier, if they betrayed Fairy Zi Wei, the consequences would be severe.
Cold light flashed in Bai Ning Bing's eyes, even with an enemy in front of them and possibly others behind, she still had an excited expression: "It's you, I know that voice, Gu Yue Fang Zheng."
Gu Yue Fang Zheng had a flickering gaze, he looked at Bai Ning Bing through the Immortal Gu House: "Bai Ning Bing, to think that we would meet here at this time."
Memories from before surged in his mind, it was as if he had just drunk some liquor before the battle, his entire body was filled with heated battle intent.
"Bai Ning Bing!" He shouted loudly: "Do you still remember Gu Yue Qing Shu?!"
In Fang Zheng's heart, Gu Yue Qing Shu was more of a brother than Fang Yuan to him. He was caring, he was gentle, he was responsible, he was admirable.
When he lived in Gu Yue village, even though Gu Yue clan leader took care of Fang Zheng and taught him personally, he was still a senior.
The care and concern that Gu Yue Qing Shu gave to Fang Zheng had always been kept in Fang Zheng's heart.
But such a person was killed by Bai Ning Bing, Fang Zheng witnessed the entire battle that involved Qing Shu's death.
"Gu Yue Qing Shu?" Bai Ning Bing was slightly dazed, how could she forget. Back in the day, she fought against Gu Yue Qing Shu, even though she killed the latter, she also lost an arm because of him.
But at the next moment, Bai Ning Bing turned a deaf ear, she laughed in disdain: "I would've forgotten if you did not mention him. That was an insignificant ant after all."
Gu Yue Fang Zheng's eyes widened in response, blood filled his eyes as killing intent surged in his body.
"Bai Ning Bing, die!"
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Chapter 2061 Demon Judgment Board!
"Dan… danger." Lady White Rabbit's expression turned pale.
"Quickly dodge it!!" Fairy Miao Yin screamed.
Demon Judgment Board became larger in the three immortals' eyes, quickly filling up their field of vision. The intense winds made Lady White Rabbit's breathing turn difficult.
Bam.
At the next moment, earth shook, rocks were sent flying.
Demon Judgment Board slammed into the tough ground with great intensity.
Bai Ning Bing and the rest split up and moved towards different directions, at the crucial moment, they evaded the attack.
Demon Judgment Board rose up, it charged again.
This time, it targeted Bai Ning Bing.
"So quick!" Bai Ning Bing's pupils shrank, she focused herself to deal with the situation.
Demon Judgment Board was covered in a light red halo, granting it even more speed. It did not use killer moves, it only charged wildly with rapid attacks, Bai Ning Bing had to dodge continuously, spending her effort on evasion and having no chance to retaliate.
"What do we do?" Lady White Rabbit asked anxiously.
Fairy Miao Yin had an ashen expression, she replied: "Let's go! This is their old grudge, let the two of them fight it out."
Lady White Rabbit was dragged by Fairy Miao Yin as they tried to escape the battlefield.
"Where are you going?" Gu Yue Fang Zheng suddenly turned around.
Even though he hated Bai Ning Bing deeply, he did not forget Qin Ding Ling's instructions. White Rabbit and Miao Yin were crucial clues to find Fang Yuan, how could they be allowed to escape?
Demon Judgment Board let out a wave of powerful blood red light, it radiated in the battlefield, Bai Ning Bing and the rest were enveloped by this blood red light, their expressions changed.
Under this blood red light, they felt the blood in their bodies drawn by a powerful force, it was as if the blood in their bodies was getting sucked into Demon Judgment Board, it was very uncomfortable.
"If we do not resolve this problem, we might get sucked dry of all our blood!" Fairy Miao Yin said solemnly.
Immortal killer move — Bai Xiang!
On the other hand, Bai Ning Bing successfully unleashed her killer move, she turned into a white ice giant.
The blood red light instantly became ineffective on her.
The killer move Bai Xiang was the famous trump card of the Southern Border rank eight Gu Immortal, it allowed the Gu Immortal to temporarily convert their body into another type of lifeform.
This move was incredibly powerful, it created the White Terror that once shook Southern Border, leaving its own mark in history.
Once Bai Ning Bing used it, she changed her circumstances. The ice giant did not have any blood in its body, Demon Judgment Board's killer move was useless against it.
Fairy Miao Yin's heart sank, with Bai Ning Bing's current condition, she could easily escape. But Bai Ning Bing did not do that, she attacked instead with great excitement and enthusiasm!
"This lunatic!" Fairy Miao Yin muttered, experiencing a complicated feeling.
However, when Bai Ning Bing's killer moves landed on Demon Judgment Board, they was like waves hitting the reef. No matter how Demon Judgment Board was attacked, it did not even move one bit against the currents.
Fairy Miao Yin frowned deeply as she called out: "White Rabbit, use that move!"
Lady White Rabbit nodded solemnly, she quickly used the killer move, protecting herself and Fairy Miao Yin.
Fairy Miao Yin took a risk and accepted her protection, using this chance, she unleashed her killer move, wondrous hand profound sound.
She grew five new arms, causing her to have a total of seven arms.
The seven hands moved by themselves, the smooth long fingers were moving in a dazzling motion.
Ding ding, dang dang…
Cling cling, clang clang…
With the movement of her fingers, sharp sounds could be heard whenever they touched.
The sounds even caused sound waves to start appearing in the surrounding air.
Sound waves moved like a storm, creating a huge commotion as the attacks landed on Demon Judgment Board!
"Fairy Miao Yin, thirty-seventh position on the Demon Judgment Board, she has rank seven cultivation level and the Profound Sound true inheritance. Among which, her wondrous hand profound sound killer move can be raised alongside the core Immortal Gu until it reaches rank eight." Fang Zheng muttered to himself.
On top of his head, countless texts in blood gathered to form a scarlet name list. Be they Fairy Miao Yin, Lady White Rabbit, or Bai Ning Bing, their names were present.
Fairy Miao Yin and Bai Ning Bing worked together, while Gu Yue Fang Zheng still had a calm expression.
After all, he was inside Demon Judgment Board.
The rank eight Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board was extremely powerful.
Normally speaking, rank seven Immortal Gu Houses could resist rank eight, they were the foundation of super forces.
As for top tier rank eight Immortal Gu Houses, they could resist pseudo-Immortal Venerables!
During the fate war, Fang Yuan used Myriad Year Flying Warship and Dragon Palace to fight against Duke Long. In the earlier battle, he used three Immortal Gu Houses against Spectral Soul, they were all rank eight.
Demon Judgment Board was also rank eight, but it was specialized in investigation.
Against rank seven Gu Immortals like Bai Ning Bing, Demon Judgment Board's battle strength was far superior, it could not be matched.
Waves of blood red light shot out of Demon Judgment Board!
These blood red lights shot down like rain, targeting Bai Ning Bing with an unceasing quantity.
Bai Ning Bing turned into a white ice giant, even though it was large and bulky, the giant's movement was actually very agile and flexible.
She dodged continuously, none of the blood red lights managed to hit her once.
"But as long as I get hit once, I will suffer heavy injuries!" Bai Ning Bing knew this in her heart, she focused and fought, the dangerous situation was making her more excited and thrilled.
Suddenly, Demon Judgment Board shook lightly, Bai Ning Bing got immobilized.
Bai Ning Bing could not move, she was shot by tens of blood lights.
The white ice giant was punctured in many places, it was reduced to ice shards in a few moments.
Lady White Rabbit screamed while Fairy Miao Yin's heart sank, the difference in battle strength was too great, they could not claim victory with just an advantage in numbers.
As the ice shards fell to the ground, an intense light burst out.
Within the icy light, the white ice giant reappeared.
Bai Ning Bing recovered fully!
This was the strongest aspect of the killer move Bai Xiang, as long as one shard was left, it could fully recover rapidly.
Fang Zheng was not surprised, he knew a lot of information about Bai Ning Bing. Long ago, the two were already enemies, Bai Ning Bing had fought against them many times, why would Heavenly Court not collect her information?
Furthermore, Demon Judgment Board had investigative abilities, the board list did not only include blood path demonic immortals. It was just that blood relation Immortal Gu made almost all blood path demonic cultivators unable to hide from it.
Bai Ning Bing got up and fought against Fang Zheng again, Miao Yin assisted her, half the blood red light in the battlefield dissipated.
As their blood was no longer affected, Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit flew out with preparation, they were about to escape.
Fang Zheng smiled lightly: "Not so fast!"
The dissipated blood red light turned into a ball that floated above the battlefield. Instantly, the blood suction force that vanished amplified by several times of before.
Bai Ning Bing shouted as she took action suddenly. Her ice path killer move hit the blood ball and caused it to scatter slightly.
"Surrender now!" Fang Zheng's lips curled up, he activated Demon Judgment Board, the formless pressure caused Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit's expressions to change.
At the crucial moment, Lady White Rabbit suddenly became ruthless, black shadows surged around her, enveloping her body.
Instantly, Black Tigress appeared on the battlefield!
Her eyes were pure black, her pupils could not be seen, only a dark and cold light was moving around. The area around her eyes was dyed black, her entire disposition changed from pure and innocent to vicious and ruthless.
Black Tigress took action, her dark path killer move landed on the blood ball with greater intensity than Bai Ning Bing's attack, causing more than half of it to vanish.
Black Tigress and Miao Yin were almost killed by Demon Judgment Board, they managed to narrowly escape.
Fang Zheng was not flustered, he raised his hand, Demon Judgment Board's aura changed.
With a change of method, he moved fluidly, blood qi surged, countless sand-like specks moved like stars, enveloping the entire battlefield.
"This is the killer move, blood speck star mark!"
"When was it used? I did not sense anything at all."
Even if Qin Ding Ling saw this, she would call out in praise. After Fang Zheng became the Demon Judgment Board Lord, he had improved greatly, he already learned to use the various methods of Demon Judgment Board, he could use the methods while managing to display his own style.
This time, even Bai Xiang was not spared, it got hit.
As the blood sand entered the three immortals' bodies, red marks started to appear, causing their movements to be restricted, their thoughts became slower, their immortal essence could not be instilled smoothly, they felt like they were trapped in quicksand.
The difference between the two sides was just too big!
Normally speaking, when Gu Immortals fought, if one side wanted to escape, it would be hard to stop them unless a battlefield killer move was successfully used to trap the enemy.
But Demon Judgment Board was a top tier rank eight Immortal Gu House, it was initially created to hunt demonic path Gu Immortals. Thus, other than investigative methods, even though Demon Judgment Board could not create a battlefield, it had ways to stop demonic path Gu Immortals from escaping.
Bai Ning Bing and the rest were about to be captured by Fang Zheng, but the ground suddenly shook as earth qi spewed up from the lower layer, the currents actually managed to pierce through the tough layer of ground.
With a loud sound, the brown earth vein rushed up like a grand river.
"What is this?" Bai Ning Bing and the other two did not know what was happening, they were shocked.
Even though Fang Zheng knew, at this moment, he felt like he was seeing Evil Dragon Di Zang Sheng.
As earth qi surged and flooded this battlefield, the earth path dao marks took over everything here, they corroded the surroundings.
From the surging earth vein, Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi Jue suddenly emerged.
Xi Land was above Demon Immortal Qi Jue's head, even though this secluded domain of heaven and earth was extremely damaged now, it was still useful. It was used earlier to draw all of the earth qi upwards earlier.
Meanwhile, Calamity Luck Altar was in charge of changing the direction of the earth vein on top of that effect, eventually creating this scene where the earth vein surged upwards!
"Longevity Heaven actually worked together with Demon Immortal Qi Jue?!" Fang Zheng was internally shocked.
Originally, under Qin Ding Ling's deployment, Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses encircled Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
The two sides fought intensely, Heavenly Court was unable to defeat them, while Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi Jue could not escape either.
Bing Sai Chuan thus communicated with Demon Immortal Qi Jue, they knew the situation was not looking good.
The two were genuine experts with lots of experience, they were suspicious about Qin Ding Ling's attitude and felt deeply worried.
Thus, the two sides cooperated seamlessly.
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Chapter 2062 Insanity
In order to break Heavenly Court's encirclement, Longevity Heaven and Demon Immortal Qi Jue collaborated, they made use of the earth vein to find a way out of Qin Ding Ling's arrangement.
After Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi Jue left the earth vein, they quickly split up as they ascended to the upper layers.
Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses also appeared after them.
Qin Ding Ling transmitted her voice to Fang Zheng: "Stop them!"
Even before her order, Fang Zheng was already prepared to do so.
Boom!
Demon Judgment Board shook intensely, a huge blood red beam of light shot towards Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Calamity Luck Altar.
The terrifying power of the attack made Miao Yin and Black Tigress shake internally.
In order to capture the three of them alive, Fang Zheng had been quite restricted, its current attack displayed the true power of Demon Judgment Board!
The intense blood red light assaulted, Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi were obstructed for a moment, they swiftly blocked it, Qin Ding Ling quickly arrived and tangled with them.
"Good job, Fang Zheng! After you're done with those three immortals, come here and work together to deal with these people." Qin Ding Ling ordered again.
At this moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's battle strength had fallen greatly after the fight against Spectral Soul, but as long as he worked with Calamity Luck Altar, they were evenly matched with Heavenly Court. Where was Qin Ding Ling getting her confidence from?
"Yes." Fang Zheng had a serious expression, the moment he received his orders, Bai Ning Bing attacked abruptly.
In fact, Bai Ning Bing's ice path killer move had been prepared for some time, but Fang Zheng did not pay any attention to it. He had once controlled Demon Judgment Board to fight against rank eight ice path Gu Immortal Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, he was attacked by the snowman race's immortal suppression coffin killer move. Fang Zheng still had a deep memory of that battle even now, compared to Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, Bai Ning Bing was just rank seven, she was far inferior to him!
However, after Bai Ning Bing activated her killer move, Fang Zheng's expression changed.
Bai Ning Bing did not attack Demon Judgment Board, instead, she targeted Fairy Miao Yin and Black Tigress!
Gu Yue Fang Zheng could only change his tactic in a fluster, blood red fog enveloped Miao Yin and Black Tigress at the crucial moment, blocking Bai Ning Bing's attack.
"Bai Ning Bing, are you crazy! You actually attacked us!!" Fairy Miao Yin broke out in cold sweat as she screamed.
"No! This might be the best way." Black Tigress' expression was shaken but she quickly understood it.
Fairy Miao Yin was dazed, soon, she also got it.
Fairy Zi Wei was once the leader of Heavenly Court, she knew everything about Heavenly Court. She had informed Ying Wu Xie and the rest about the details of the Immortal Gu Houses, Miao Yin, Bai Ning Bing, and White Rabbit were naturally not kept in the dark.
Because earlier, even though Spectral Soul led them, Fairy Zi Wei and the rest did not have an Immortal Gu House, they were weaker compared to Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court.
Thus, Fairy Zi Wei used information to make up for this gap.
Gu Yue Fang Zheng understood Bai Ning Bing and the rest quite well, but similarly, Bai Ning Bing and the rest also had a good understanding of Fang Zheng and Demon Judgment Board.
Especially the Immortal Gu House, its methods were difficult to change after creation, the more exceptional the Immortal Gu House, the more likely this was the case.
Why?
Taking Demon Judgment Board for an example, it was a top tier rank eight Immortal Gu House. Its abilities had reached the limit of a certain aspect, it was extremely hard to modify. Even if there were any good ideas, they might not be experimented on regarding this Immortal Gu House. Demon Judgment Board was extremely complex and was made of countless Gu worms. A single modification would change the entire structure, it would mean a complete makeover, that was as good as creating a new Immortal Gu House from scratch.
Fairy Miao Yin was not stupid, she had just failed to react at the first moment.
Now, she started to understand: "Southern Border's Tie clan has Demon Suppression Tower, it most excels at imprisonment, but Heavenly Court's Demon Judgment Board does not use such methods. Heavenly Court must have ordered Fang Zheng to capture us all alive. Thus, when fighting, Fang Zheng is very restricted, only against Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Calamity Luck Altar earlier, he used his full strength!"
As for why he wanted to capture them, the answer was obvious — to find Fang Yuan!
Fairy Zi Wei had constructed the wisdom path formation in front of all these Heavenly Court Gu Immortals, finally managing to deduce Fang Yuan's location. Why would Qin Ding Ling not know about their value?
Using this as the starting point, Fairy Miao Yin soon guessed: "It seems that Fang Yuan escaped successfully, Heavenly Court wants to capture us and use us to find Fang Yuan in the future. Even though they lack a wisdom path great expert now, Central Continent's ten great sects did not suffer losses, they have many wisdom path candidates. Furthermore, Fairy Zi Wei's true inheritance has already been contributed to Heavenly Court, the wisdom path formation is likely part of the inheritance."
Thinking of this, Fairy Miao Yin thought of Bai Ning Bing and gritted her teeth: "Bai Ning Bing, you lunatic!"
But at the next moment, Fairy Miao Yin stared with her eyes wide open.
Bai Ning Bing's insanity was beyond what she had expected, she actually dispelled the killer move Bai Xiang, she returned to a body of flesh and blood!
"Come, Fang Zheng, attack me!" Bai Ning Bing shouted as she moved like a white light, circling around Demon Judgment Board as she shot out countless icicles.
The icicles landed on Demon Judgment Board but could not penetrate it, only leaving behind some icy marks.
"Hahaha!" Black Tigress laughed loudly, she did the same thing as Bai Ning Bing, dispelling her defense and joining the battle.
"She went insane too!" Miao Yin sighed.
Black Tigress was ruthless and vicious, her nature was the opposite of White Rabbit. When she resolved herself, she even disregarded her own life.
The three immortals attacked Demon Judgment Board, especially Bai Ning Bing and Black Tigress who gave up on defense, they invested all of their energy into attacking, Fang Zheng was actually feeling quite troubled.
He wanted to capture these three female immortals alive, he did not want to kill them. Qin Ding Ling had already informed him, it would be best to get more clues to deduce Fang Yuan's location. If one of them was killed, it could lead to a failure in the deduction next time. Fang Zheng knew the heavy responsibility on him.
But the Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board's weakest aspect was the lack of methods to capture others. When Demon Judgment Board was created, which person in Heavenly Court would consider this aspect?
Demon Judgment Board, naturally by looking at its name, it meant killing demonic path Gu cultivators. What was the point of capturing them?
In this aspect,, Qin Ding Ling seemed to have made a mistake in asking Demon Judgment Board to capture them, but she had no other choices at the moment.
Among Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses, Demon Judgment Board had the strongest investigative ability. Even though Fang Zheng's cultivation level was low, Demon Judgment Board had an abundance of rank eight immortal essence and the wills of the past Demon Judgment Board Lords, it could display its full battle strength!
However, all Immortal Gu Houses had a fatal weakness, they were not flexible enough in terms of methods.
Demon Judgment Board was no exception, it was a final product that could not be altered. After it was created, its methods had always been the same until now, there had been no changes.
Fang Zheng fell into an awkward spot.
Using Demon Judgment Board, he had the upper hand, Bai Ning Bing and the rest were not his match. But just Demon Judgment Board alone could not capture them alive.
In terms of flexibility of methods, Gu Immortals far surpassed Immortal Gu Houses.
In the past, when facing this situation, the Demon Judgment Board Lords would take action personally. But Fang Zheng only had rank seven cultivation level, if he left Demon Judgment Board, Bai Ning Bing and the rest would be able to turn this around.
Right now, if Fang Zheng had a rank eight Gu Immortal helping him, it would be sufficient.
But why would he be given an assistant?
In the eyes of Qin Ding Ling and the rest, wasn't Demon Judgment Board enough? He still needed more help?
Heavenly Court's manpower was extremely lacking now, they could not deal with the situation easily.
"No, Lady Qin Ding Ling's arrangement was logical, but I actually encountered two lunatics! It made the logical deployment completely illogical." Fang Zheng thought.
Who would be so crazy as to give up on defense against a strong enemy and only choose to attack?
Wasn't that courting death?
But Bai Ning Bing and Black Tigress did that.
And amazingly, the results were quite favorable for them.
During the intense battle, Bai Ning Bing laughed loudly: "Gu Yue Fang Zheng, don't you want revenge? Kill me, don't you want to kill me? Come take action!"
Gu Yue Fang Zheng was silent.
Bai Ning Bing continued to provoke him: "This is why you are just a dog that Heavenly Court adopted. Your enemy is right in front of you but you do not even have the courage to try killing me. You are far inferior to your brother Fang Yuan!"
Hearing her provocative speech, not just Fairy Miao Yin, even Black Tigress was stunned.
She thought: "Hmph, I thought I was crazy enough to give up my defense. But looking at Bai Ning Bing, I pale in comparison."
Fairy Miao Yin and Black Tigress were very worried while Gu Yue Fang Zheng fell into silence.
Hearing Gu Yue Fang Yuan's name again, he could not help but raise his head, looking at the blood text above his head.
The blood text formed into a giant name list, the rankings and names on it changed constantly.
Not long ago, Spectral Soul, who stood at the top of the list, vanished, replacing him was the person at the second position —
Gu Yue Fang Yuan!
Defeated Heavenly Court, destroyed Fate, killed Spectral Soul!
The number one demon of the five regions and two heavens!!
Fang Zheng smiled bitterly.
Regardless of time and place, even though he was the great Demon Judgment Board Lord, Fang Yuan's name was still hanging above his head, Fang Yuan was still casting a shadow down on his life.
"Killing everyone on the Demon Judgment Board list is the grand ambition of the past generations of owners. But I know that I am not Fang Yuan's match. For all my life, I could only look at his shadow and hear about his legends. But…"
"Bai Ning Bing!"
"You are merely ranked twenty-seventh on this list."
"Do you really think I won't dare to kill you?"
"Where does your confidence come from?!"
Fang Zheng shouted loudly as Demon Judgment Board charged ahead as he spoke, in a breath of time, he arrived in front of Bai Ning Bing.
Intense winds blew towards her.
Bai Ning Bing had no time to dodge, at the next moment, Demon Judgment Board would crush her entire body to a pulp, she would die undoubtedly!
"No!" Fairy Miao Yin shouted in her head as her seven hands moved, shooting out profound sounds.
The profound sounds were multi-layered and attacked rapidly but they could not stop Demon Judgment Board.
Black Tigress spat out a mouthful of blood, she activated a method to block it but Demon Judgment Board still rampaged unhindered.
The two immortals could only watch in despair as Demon Judgment Board crashed into Bai Ning Bing and pressed down on her harshly!
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Chapter 2063 Number One Immortal Gu House In The World
Earth Abyss battlefield.
Boom!
Hit by Heavenly Court's attack, Calamity Luck Altar shook intensely, Bing Sai Chuan had a cold expression inside it.
Legendary immemorial beast Mao Li Qiu exploded and shouted: "Let this Grandpa Mao go out and kill them all!"
Five Elements Grandmaster shouted: "Grandpa Mao, this place has a huge hole, we need to repair it together."
Mao Li Qiu snorted as it helped to repair Calamity Luck Altar, it mumbled: "Taking hits like this feels really terrible! Bing Sai Chuan, Calamity Luck Altar was given to you to control, don't ruin master's reputation and prestige."
Bing Sai Chuan frowned as he answered: "Mao Li Qiu, take a look outside, there is someone who is even worse than us."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was the one that Bing Sai Chuan referred to.
He was indeed in a sorry state, Spectral Soul's self-detonation caused his Xi Land to suffer huge damage, but it was his greatest reliance since reviving. Even though he had many exceptional true inheritances, he did not have time to modify killer moves. Thus, his qi path methods were all old fashioned, only killer moves that used Xi Land as the core were strong enough to be used in the battlefield.
But now, Xi Land was heavily damaged, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's battle strength fell sharply.
"This cannot go on, Heavenly Court likely has strong reinforcements! Longevity Heaven, we need to work together again." Demon Immortal Qi Jue transmitted with great difficulty.
"Right now, Heavenly Court is at its weakest throughout history, why would they have reinforcements?" Mao Li Qiu mumbled.
"Don't be careless, nobody can truly assess Heavenly Court's foundation." After replying to Mao Li Qiu, Bing Sai Chuan agreed to Demon Immortal Qi Jue's request for cooperation.
He had also sensed something amiss.
Thus, Calamity Luck Altar first exploded with a strong attack and shielded Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Next, Demon Immortal Qi Jue gritted his teeth and summoned Xi Land, drawing upon the endless earth qi.
Calamity Luck Altar took over again, pulling upon the gradually declining earth vein.
"Hmph, trying the same trick again, you all are simply looking down on me!" Qin Ding Ling suddenly left the Immortal Gu House, she came to the outside world and used a luck path killer move.
The killer move's golden light shined everywhere, Bing Sai Chuan's expression changed, he quickly withdrew his hand like it was bitten by a snake.
"So close! This killer move vaguely counters Calamity Luck Altar. If I was slow, Calamity Luck Altar would have to resist the pressure of the earth vein, it would be suppressed and unable to escape, becoming an easy target." Bing Sai Chuan sighed to himself, Qin Ding Ling's method was out of his expectations.
Without Calamity Luck Altar's guidance, the newly rising earth vein started to fall again.
But Demon Immortal Qi Jue's and Calamity Luck Altar's efforts were not in vain, giant pillars of earth vein tributaries spewed out randomly in all directions, towards the sky and ground.
An earth vein tributary that was like a yellow-brown river flowed across the battlefield of Demon Judgment Board and Bai Ning Bing's group.
The three immortals were sustaining the battle with difficulty, resisting Demon Judgment Board.
Bai Ning Bing was still alive.
Even though she was crushed by Demon Judgment Board earlier, at the crucial moment, she used Bai Xiang once again.
Demon Judgment Board dodged, unwilling to fall into the earth vein tributary.
"Even heaven is helping me!" Seeing this scene, Bai Ning Bing's eyes shined with bright light, she felt surprised and joyful.
Her body suddenly expanded from fifteen feet to over twenty feet instantly.
"The time to escape is now!" Bai Ning Bing stretched out her hands to Miao Yin and Black Tigress.
The two hesitated for a moment before allowing Bai Ning Bing to grab onto their hands.
Bai Ning Bing did not hesitate, she jumped into the earth vein tributary immediately!
"Don't think of leaving!" Fang Zheng gritted his teeth as he drove Demon Judgment Board into the tributary as well.
The earth vein was extremely large, even the tributary was huge, after Demon Judgment Board entered it, it was like a small fish had entered the river.
"No, we can't escape. Demon Judgment Board is a rank eight Immortal Gu House!" Fairy Miao Yin's expression was pale.
After a short while, Bai Ning Bing was already unable to hold on.
A vast amount of earth path dao marks corroded her body, Bai Xiang was on the verge of collapsing, even though Miao Yin and Black Tigress were doing their best in terms of defense.
Bai Ning Bing smiled coldly, she was not flustered: "Of course we cannot match Demon Judgment Board, but now, it will depend on how resolute Gu Yue Fang Zheng is. Hehe."
At the moment of life and death, Bai Ning Bing actually laughed.
She turned around and dispelled Bai Xiang, exposing her true body.
Fairy Miao Yin and Black Tigress had already resolved themselves, they charged towards Demon Judgment Board alongside Bai Ning Bing.
"You people?!" Gu Yue Fang Zheng was shocked to see that Bai Ning Bing and the rest dispelled their defenses, he had to use a rainbow of blood red light to envelop the three immortals.
After receiving Demon Judgment Board's help, the three immortals were saved from the outcome of getting crushed by the earth vein.
Gu Yue Fang Zheng felt a huge rock weighing on him internally!
What was this?
He actually became the one who helped Bai Ning Bing and the rest!
But Gu Yue Fang Zheng had to do this, he had to complete the mission given by Qin Ding Ling and capture them alive.
"Gu Yue Fang Zheng, do you have any method to capture us? If Demon Judgment Board had it, you would have used it already. In this situation, you will need to leave the Immortal Gu House and use your own methods! Come, let us take a chance." Bai Ning Bing could not speak, she could only think internally.
If they lost, they would be captured and left helpless. Once their value was extracted, they would be killed, becoming the sacrifices to raise Heavenly Court's reputation.
Gu Yue Fang Zheng stared with wide eyes, gritting his teeth tightly.
Bai Ning Bing had won this bet!
Fang Zheng did not have any special method to capture them.
Unless he took a chance and brought all three immortals into the Immortal Gu House.
But if Fang Zheng did that, he would be too stupid! Because that was simply letting the enemies into his territory. Just Fang Zheng alone could not deal with the three immortals.
"You are very crafty, but so what?" Fang Zheng said through the gaps between his teeth: "If I capture you, you will still live for some time. But now, you will die. Congratulations, your efforts in battle have reaped you such great rewards."
Fang Zheng spoke sarcastically before abandoning Bai Ning Bing and the rest, leaving the earth vein using Demon Judgment Board.
The strong Demon Judgment Board could not stay in the earth vein for long. Just this short period destroyed most of Demon Judgment Board's mortal Gu.
Without Demon Judgment Board's protection, Bai Ning Bing felt an immense pressure, their lives were at stake, they struggled at death's door.
"Maybe Fang Zheng was right after all." Fairy Miao Yin smiled bitterly.
Bai Ning Bing snorted.
"What's that?" Black Tigress suddenly shouted.
The three immortals were like tiny bugs flowing along the earth vein tributary. From the boundless brown color surrounding them, a dark hole suddenly appeared.
"Go!" The three immortals had no choice, at the crucial final moment, they went into the dark hole precariously.
At almost the same time.
In a dense and lush forest on the surface, Fairy Zi Wei, Ying Wu Xie, and Old Man Zheng Yuan were traveling.
"This distance is not safe enough, we will continue moving." Fairy Zi Wei saw that Ying Wu Xie was moving slowly, she quickly reminded.
Ying Wu Xie gritted his teeth but his expression was dazed, he said dejectedly: "My main body has died, what do we…"
Fairy Zi Wei looked at Ying Wu Xie solemnly: "Even if the main body is dead, we still have you. Ying Wu Xie, you are his split soul, from today onwards, you are our master!"
"But…" Ying Wu Xie was not feeling happy at all, he was in low spirits: "Even my main body died in battle, this entire world is no longer in Spectral Soul's era."
Fairy Zi Wei frowned slightly, she was about to console him when Old Man Zheng Yuan suddenly spoke: "Something is up, don't move, let me deal with it!"
At the next moment, he activated his killer move, his body shot out white light that enveloped the three immortals.
After a few breaths of time, heaven and earth shook, birds flew out of the forest, a loud collision could be heard from afar, resounding throughout the place.
The three immortals raised their heads, they saw that the sky was dyed green, a grand and majestic Immortal Gu House descended from the sky, it shrouded even the sun itself, moving rapidly even though it seemed slow.
This Immortal Gu House was so big, it was definitely the number one in the world in terms of size. Its rank eight aura was vast as the sea, intimidating all living beings. Within the Immortal Gu House, clamor could be heard, it was filled with human vitality, seemingly comprising all kinds of people.
"This is… Divine Emperor City?!" Ying Wu Xie was shocked.
"Divine Emperor City was created by combining Divine Bean Palace and Emperor City. Isn't it stationary at the largest gathering point of Central Continent's human vein? It could actually move?" Old Man Zheng Yuan was shocked as well.
Fairy Zi Wei pondered: "This Immortal Gu House was made by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, there must be a reason for its movement. Strange, why didn't Qin Ding Ling relocate this house into Heavenly Court during the battle earlier?"
"So that's it." Old Man Zheng Yuan used his human path methods to investigate, he found something.
"Too strong, this Immortal Gu House is too strong!" Old Man Zheng Yuan's body shook, he was greatly shocked by his discovery.
"This Immortal Gu House contains countless people, it is filled with the profundity of human path. It can actually relocate the human vein gathering point with ease! Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's method is too amazing, his goals were too farsighted, he only exposed it now. Divine Emperor City gathers the strength of all the people inside, be they Gu Immortal, Gu Master, or mortal, they are gathered together and used in unison. Currently, this is likely the number one Immortal Gu House in the world!" Old Man Zheng Yuan praised, he sighed deeply.
"So that's it, it was a pity that Genesis Lotus miscalculated, this Divine Emperor City did not make it to the fate war in time." Ying Wu Xie said.
Fairy Zi Wei shook her head lightly: "How can a venerable fail his scheme so easily? There are extremely deep secrets behind all these, don't come up with a conclusion so casually."
The three immortals stopped in their tracks and hid in the forest, concealing their auras, as Divine Emperor City went past them and entered Earth Abyss, they finally let out sighs of relief.
"Let's go." Fairy Zi Wei was ready to move.
But Old Man Zheng Yuan stopped on the spot, smiling bitterly: "I cannot follow after the two of you anymore."
Ying Wu Xie was surprised: "Why?"
Old Man Zheng Yuan sighed: "That Divine Emperor City has already become the gathering point of human path in the world, since I cultivate human path, I am restricted by it. Earlier, it probably sensed me but because there was something more important, it chose to ignore me. To play safe, I should part with master and Zi Wei."
Ying Wu Xie's expression was grim, they suffered a setback again. Before this battle, Shadow Sect was full of people and prospered for some time. Now, only him and Fairy Zi Wei were left.
It was truly pitiful!
"Maybe trying to kill Fang Yuan was a terrible mistake!" Ying Wu Xie gritted his teeth, he felt extremely bitter internally.
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Chapter 2064 Captured Alive
Divine Emperor City was filled with noise and commotion.
The hundreds of thousands of people living in the city were looking towards the sky.
Profound green light had covered the sky of Divine Emperor City. Not only this, the city gates were also closed and guarded heavily.
"What in the world is going on?"
"You don't know? There were notices posted at the city gates, announcing the city will be closed for a period of time. During this time period, there will be abnormal phenomena and there is no need to panic."
"I also heard of this notice, but I did not expect such a huge and grand phenomenon."
The city residents discussed with relative calmness, no large scale chaos emerged.
Northern city area.
"Where did that fellow Hong Yi go?" Cao Yu sighed as he walked out of a dark alley.
Accompanying him was Xie Lan.
The two were Universal Life Academy's disciples, who were ordered to search for Hong Yi after he disappeared.
Regretfully, they had been at Divine Emperor City for two to three months now and had yet to make any progress.
Xie Lan frowned: "We have almost finished combing through Divine Emperor City by now and have contacted a dozen or so information path Gu Masters, but have not gotten any news regarding Hong Yi. This is probably the worst case scenario."
Cao Yu's eyes opened wide: "Are you saying Hong Yi entered a painting world? How can that be?"
Xie Lan looked around in a hurry and lowered his voice: "Keep your voice down, such secret news have been circulating in the city recently. Painting worlds were arranged by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, they can take in the city residents and return them safely after a period of time. Especially these days, how many Gu Masters have come to Divine Emperor City because they heard this rumor and wanted to find an immortal opportunity?"
Cao Yu was at a loss: "If Hong Yi really is inside a painting world, how are we going to find him?"
Xie Lan was silent for a while before saying with a sigh: "If that is the case, then we can only wait."
Eastern city area.
"Master, please take care." A female Gu Master sent her master off.
Most of the surrounding pedestrians were staring at the phenomenon in the sky, only a few were astonished at this sight.
The female Gu Master was a renowned refinement path master who was ranked among the top hundred in the Refinement Path Convention, and she was actually being so courteous to an unknown Gu Master.
This unknown Gu Master was wearing a long robe and a straw hat which hid his appearance under the shadows.
The unknown Gu Master moved cautiously and maintained his silence as he disappeared into the corner of the street.
"What exactly is going on? Such a phenomenon is definitely a Gu Immortal's doing." The unknown Gu Master moved along the empty alley and raised his head slightly to glance at the strange scene in the sky.
"Sigh, I did not expect to encounter such trouble in this trip to exchange Gu materials in the city. I just hope my identity won't be exposed."
"Just in case, I will choose a remote tavern to stay in until the city gates open again."
The unknown Gu Master was worried.
This person was Ben Duo Yi, who was taught the nature Gu refinement technique by Gu Immortal Yu Mu Chun.
He cultivated day and night, making huge progress. However, the cost of cultivating refinement path was high, and with no one else to depend upon, he had to frequently sell the refined Gu to purchase cultivation resources.
He was a hairy man and was hiding his appearance by using Gu worms. He had to move with caution in this gathering area of humans.
All kinds of people lived in Divine Emperor City, there were even rank six Gu Immortals.
But no one could imagine that under the cover of the profound green light, Divine Emperor City had not only left its original spot, it even flew towards Ancient Soul Sect and entered Earth Abyss to fight Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Calamity Luck Altar!
Immortal killer move — Great Qi Cloud Explosion.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's killer move struck Divine Emperor City but it only raised slight ripples on the surface of the profound green light.
"This is probably the number one Immortal Gu House in the present age!" Even a person like Demon Immortal Qi Jue felt demoralized.
His current strength was simply unable to shake Divine Emperor City.
"So Qin Ding Ling's trump card was this Divine Emperor City!" Inside Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan looked extremely serious.
Calamity Luck Altar was left behind by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, while Divine Emperor City was created by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable. In this confrontation between the two, Divine Emperor City firmly won against Calamity Luck Altar and by a huge margin!
Calamity Luck Altar was not huge, and when compared to Divine Emperor City now, it looked even smaller.
The number one large size Immortal Gu House in history, Divine Emperor City, was like a colossal jade cloud that seemed to cover heaven and earth as it obstructed Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Calamity Luck Altar's escape route.
And in the rear, Qin Ding Ling led the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals. Among the several Immortal Gu Houses, Demon Judgment Board was at the front, taking the position of the vanguard.
As the intense battle started, Divine Emperor City suddenly let out loud human voices, following which, the profound green light bubbled and formed a huge whirlpool.
The whirlpool blew out spiraling green wind that covered Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's expression changed greatly, he could only take out the damaged Xi Land. But Xi Land was also unable to block this move, and at the next moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue was absorbed into Divine Emperor City!
"Divine Emperor City suppressed Demon Immortal Qi Jue!" Inside Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan and the rest were horrified.
Even if Demon Immortal Qi Jue only had the damaged Xi Land, he had pseudo venerable battle strength. They did not expect there to be no disturbance in Divine Emperor City after he was absorbed.
Divine Emperor City's might shook the minds of Longevity Heaven's immortals.
It was no wonder Qin Ding Ling confronted them resolutely and had such a huge ambition as well!
"This is an emergency!" Bing Sai Chuan exclaimed in fright and activated the strongest method of Calamity Luck Altar without hesitating any more.
Golden lights shot out from Calamity Luck Altar and covered the surroundings.
The lights formed a broken path. The path extended far away, passing through the surface layer without damaging a single rock.
"Longevity Heaven, where are you trying to go!" Qin Ding Ling was aware that it was the crucial moment, she resolutely attacked and disturbed Calamity Luck Altar.
She cultivated luck path and opposed Giant Sun Immortal Venerable her whole life, and being an immortal concubine of Giant Sun before, she had a deep understanding regarding Calamity Luck Altar.
Calamity Luck Altar's method was disturbed by Qin Ding Ling; the golden path started shaking immediately, unable to maintain stability.
At this moment, the profound green light around Divine Emperor City formed another whirlpool.
"Are we also going to be captured by Heavenly Court?" Hei Lou Lan's heart sank as she sensed the worsening situation.
At this crucial moment, Five Elements Grandmaster hesitated for a bit before coming forward: "Let me hold them back, you should all leave!"
"No, little fellow, you cultivate formation path which will be very useful in the future. I, Grandpa Mao, am most suitable for this." Mao Li Qiu pushed Five Elements Grandmaster aside.
"Grandpa Mao…" Five Elements Grandmaster was stunned. Mao Li Qiu's status in Longevity Heaven was much higher than his. He had thought that sacrificing himself was the most sensible arrangement in this situation, but did not expect Mao Li Qiu to stop him.
Under this situation, Heavenly Court would never go easy on them.
Mao Li Qiu would probably lose its life if it went!
Bing Sai Chuan took a deep look at Mao Li Qiu, Mao Li Qiu, however, said casually: "Bing Sai Chuan, I will leave Longevity Heaven to you. Don't bring shame to Grandpa Mao, you must escape. Don't disappoint master, otherwise I will haunt you even if I turned into a ghost."
Bing Sai Chuan gritted his teeth: "Hmph, so much nonsense. Even if you die, make sure you die in the most brilliant way."
He had fought alongside Mao Li Qiu many times before and had deep friendship although they were quite rude towards each other. It was the way of these Northern Plainsmen, they only knew to express themselves with rough language.
Mao Li Qiu laughed heartily: "Then you can rest assured, I am most proficient in this!"
Bing Sai Chuan quickly opened the Immortal Gu House and closed it immediately. In that single moment, Mao Li Qiu had charged out.
"Come fight me, little ones of Heavenly Court!" Mao Li Qiu charged forward bravely.
In an instant, Demon Judgment Board was sent flying by Mao Li Qiu.
Mao Li Qiu fought madly and was soon soaked in blood with many bone fractures.
Its laughter however became more resonant and its aura kept on rising.
Divine Emperor City activated the spiraling green wind towards Calamity Luck Altar again.
Mao Li Qiu clicked its tongue as it flew forward and blocked the spiraling green wind with its body. At the next moment, like Demon Immortal Qi Jue, it was locked onto by the green wind and absorbed into the profound green light.
Using this crucial time, Calamity Luck Altar turned into a lump of light that escaped through the golden path.
Divine Bean Palace, painting world.
Boom!
Boom!!
Within short intervals of time, two enormous explosions reverberated throughout the whole painting world.
"What's going on?" Fairy Bi Xia and the rest were shocked and bewildered. They were cultivating with all their efforts inside the painting world and were completely unaware of what was going on outside Divine Emperor City.
"Something big has happened, Fang Di Chang." Shen Shang went up to Fang Di Chang with an excited expression.
Fang Di Chang was curled up in the corner of the alley, he was dirty and messy and his clothes were ragged. There was a bamboo cane beside him and a broken bowl in front of him.
He raised his head to look at Shen Shang and begged: "Lord, please give me something to eat, I have not eaten for three days and three nights now."
While secretly, he transmitted his voice: "Brother Shen, what happened?"
Shen Shang transmitted his reply: "I am not sure about the exact details. But two large paintings have been added at the edges of the painting world. Qi currents are gathered in one painting with wind howling all the time. The other painting is mysterious with beastly roars resounding again and again."
Fang Di Chang's eyes shined with bright light, he felt deep interest.
He was schemed against by Genesis Lotus's will, and his will had to escape secretly. With Shen Shang's help, the situation was showing improvement.
Fang Di Chang did not know what happened outside the painting world. But this situation had appeared for the first time in the painting world. Maybe they could probe the deeper secrets of the painting world through this?
Some days later.
At some part of Southern Border.
The fog in the valley dissipated and two people walked out.
One had a handsome face with dragon horns on his head and imposing dragon pupils, he was rank eight enslavement path Gu Immortal Wu Shuai. The other was wearing white clothes, had black hair, deep pupils and fair skin, he was Gu Yue Fang Yuan.
"Over three thousand heaven path dao marks have been refined, what should we do next?" Wu Shuai asked, "Should we go meet up with Lu Wei Yin first?"
Fang Yuan, however, was staring at his palm with a complex expression, there was slight loss, some curiously, and some excitement on his face.
His lips curled up into a captivating smile as he gave an irrelevant answer: "These three thousand heaven path dao marks are really amazing!"
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Chapter 2065 Compound Killer Moves
Divine Emperor City, painting world.
Three yellow leopards charged out of the dense shrubs that resembled a huge forest.
There were two female leopards and one male, they were growling at Ye Fan, while showing their sharp fangs that still had some bloody flesh hanging from them.
Ye Fan was surrounded, his heart shook slightly: "The concealment ability of these three leopards is so strong, I only sensed them when they moved. As for their battle strength, I will know after fighting them."
Thinking of this, Ye Fan immediately threw out several Gu worms.
Boom boom boom.
White smoke burst and spread, three valiant warriors appeared around Ye Fan.
Human path Gu worm — vagrant warrior Gu.
"Go." With Ye Fan's command, the three vagrant warriors immediately split up to deal with one leopard each.
Humans and beasts fought, after ten or so rounds, two of the vagrant warriors won while one lost.
Ye Fan slightly nodded his head as he appraised inwardly: "Vagrant warrior Gu is rank three and is specialized in fighting enemies on the move. These three leopards are also very nimble and have around rank three battle strength."
Ever since the Refinement Path Convention, Ye Fan had been cultivating inside the painting world. He not only had rank five hero Gu and rank three vagrant warrior Gu, he also had corresponding killer moves as well as relevant cultivation methods, so his progress was great.
Even so, he was frowning slightly at this moment.
"I have just entered the outside periphery of this growling beast painting world and there are already rank three strength enemies, it seems the level of this painting is rather high."
"I wonder what progress Hong Yi is making over there? It is time, I should return and join with him."
Ye Fan only came to probe some information. He was in charge of the growling beast painting world while Hong Yi went to inspect the qi howling painting world.
Ye Fan turned around and met Hong Yi along the way.
The two were like heroes who admired each other and had already become sworn brothers. While cultivating in the painting world, the two relied on each other as well as competed, the feeling of brotherhood deepened even more.
After learning of the situation on the other's side, the two brothers walked while pondering over it.
"There is more to this than meets the eye."
"Why would two paintings appear all of a sudden? Could it be, the painting world can continue to grow?"
"Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's methods are indeed unfathomable!"
"We cannot completely explore these two new worlds with just us two. The best thing is to borrow the strength of the residents of the painting world."
"Yes, that makes sense."
Soldiers guarded the city gates, people continued to move out of the city while a small portion entered from outside the city.
The two newly added paintings brought a huge impact to the painting world. The painting world had limited space, while these two new paintings had vast space which attracted attention from everyone in the city, thus giving rise to a large wave of crazed exploration.
Ye Fan and Hong Yi blended into the crowd and returned inconspicuously to the city. But the two were unaware that the moment they appeared in the city gate, they were noticed by some people.
Shen Shang was sitting on the second floor of a teahouse near the city gate and was watching Ye Fan and Hong Yi, while talking with Fang Di Chang through voice transmission.
"Look at these two, they have made a lot of progress again! Their bodies are emitting dense human qi, extraordinary, they will definitely have outstanding achievements in the future. Brother Fang Di Chang, if you return to your main body one day, you can inquire about these two. You might be able to make great use of them."
Fang Di Chang was sitting near the entrance of the street in a beggar's appearance. He replied secretly: "There is not much gap between immortal and mortal in the painting world. They have cultivated for so many days in here and are like fish in water, their strength can be said to be at the top level in here. Their exploration this time was quite short, if I had to deduce their journey, they probably only explored the periphery of the two paintings. From this, it can be deduced that these two painting worlds are very large, even Ye Fan and Hong Yi don't want to enter the inner parts rashly."
Shen Shang chuckled: "As expected of Brother Fang, the former wisdom immortal of Fang clan, you are able to see the overall situation from just a few clues. Ye Fan and Hong Yi want to borrow external force, we might as well save our energy for now. Look, the ten children of human path are here."
In fact, even without Shen Shang's reminder, there was already commotion at the other side of the street.
With Xiao Qi Xing at the front, Fairy Bi Xia, Sun Yuan Hua, Sun Yao, Ying Sheng Ji, Chen Da Jiang, and the rest appeared together, immediately causing a disturbance.
The passersby glanced at them and praised these ten people.
Fang Di Chang's gaze concentrated slightly, Xiao Qi Xing's group was the one that Shen Shang called the 'ten children of human path'. Shen Shang had already explained this, saying these ten had abundant human qi. Although it was inferior to Hong Yi and Ye Fan, it far exceeded ordinary people and they would have their own unique splendor in the future.
This was only natural.
These ten were selected from Central Continent's ten great ancient sects, they were Gu Immortal seeds Heavenly Court was cultivating. They were the ones who were specially supported to develop human path Gu Immortals.
Even a pig which obtained the full support of Heavenly Court and Central Continent's ten great ancient sects would have great accomplishments in the future.
The ten children of human path showed their brilliance during the expedition against Fang Di Chang, their talents were showcased even more over this period of time and their progress was astonishing. They had become famous people in the painting world and were recognized by the city's higher-ups, almost all the important tasks were entrusted to them.
The painting world was currently in an uproar with the addition of the two large paintings. The ten children of human path received the command to become the main force in exploring them.
"Besides the main culprit, Genesis Lotus's will, these ten were the ones who forced me to escape with my will, my soul being destroyed. Don't let me get any opportunity, otherwise I won't mind cutting down your numbers." Fang Di Chang snorted coldly.
Although only a will remained of him, his strength had recovered by a lot.
This was all thanks to the mysterious and mystical human path!
When Fang Di Chang was cultivating silently, he gained a much deeper understanding of human path. The most striking characteristic of human path was having a Gu worm transform into a human.
For example, Hong Yi's scholar Gu could transform into a scholar. Ye Fan's hero Gu could transform into a hero.
After transforming into humans, these scholar and hero Gu worms would have a common man's wisdom. Their disposition, thoughts, and way of doing things would become different depending on their types as well.
The most important thing was, when these Gu worms transformed into humans, they could use other Gu worms! Moreover their proficiency in using them originated from the Gu cultivator.
This was a terrifying thing.
Transforming the Gu worm into a human and giving them a group of Gu worms could instantly produce a Gu cultivator. Mortal level Gu worms that transformed into humans and could use other Gu worms were essentially regarded as Gu Masters. Immortal Gu transformed into humans were considered Gu Immortals!
Fang Di Chang could not help but think of his main body's sovereign immortal fetus Gu.
Sovereign immortal fetus Gu's effect and abilities were naturally not on the same level as these human path Gu worms, but they had a lot of similarities.
People crowded around the ten children of human path and moved out of the city gate.
This was the largest exploration scale.
After quietly looking at this scene, Fang Di Chang returned to the deserted alley and silently waved his hand: "Men."
Immediately, several beggars hurried towards him from their respective corners and greeted him with incomparable respect: "Sect leader, what instructions do you have for us?"
"Send some brothers to follow the crowd. They only have to probe for information." Fang Di Chang instructed.
Although the current him was formed from a beggar Gu, he was already a rank five five bags beggar[1].
This was not all, he borrowed Shen Shang's help to purchase large amounts of beggar Gu, and used a sect token Gu to form a killer move, establishing this Beggar Sect.
At present, most of the beggars in the whole city were already under his command!
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Immortal killer move — Myriad Thought Sword Waterfall!
Rumble!
With a loud sound, a grand waterfall appeared. The silver waterfall was majestic and vast, it fell from the sky onto a hill.
Each drop of water in this waterfall was a thought, it had the appearance of a sword.
Within a few breaths of time, the hill was flattened.
Fang Yuan stopped the killer move. The hill was completely gone and a shallow pool appeared in its place. The gurgling water was made of flowing sword thoughts.
"Indeed, the killer move's power has been increased by several times and it activates even more smoothly!" Fang Yuan meticulously observed the effects of the heaven path dao marks.
After resolving the myriad tribulation, Fang Yuan was not in a hurry to meet Lu Wei Yin and instead searched for a place to rest and reorganize.
The reason he used myriad thought sword waterfall was because this was not an ordinary killer move.
Most killer moves were based on a single path and Gu worms of other paths could only be supplementary even if they were mixed in. For example, rule path's five restriction profound light qi and time path's time cutting edge.
And there were some exceptional killer moves. They were compound killer moves which used two or more paths primarily. For instance, this myriad thought sword waterfall which was formed from the combination of wisdom path and sword path.
Fang Yuan had a lot of such killer moves; myriad dragon, yama, great thief ghost hand, myriad ghost sword dragon, jade flow pearl, and so on. To go into details, myriad dragon was a compound killer move formed from enslavement path and transformation path, great thief ghost hand was formed from soul path and theft path, jade flow pearl was formed from refinement path and space path. Myriad ghost sword dragon was even more complex, it was formed from the merging of ancient sword dragon transformation, myriad self, yama child, emperor yama, and familiar face. Every usage of myriad ghost sword dragon expended four thousand soul path dao marks from Fang Yuan's body.
These compound killer moves were much more powerful than single path based killer moves. Enemies had to consider two or more paths to think of a countermeasure, so they were much more difficult to resist as well.
These compound killer moves were normally used by Gu Immortals who cultivated multiple paths. For instance, Qin Bai Sheng cultivated soul path and metal path, he had a killer move called burning soul supreme gold which was a compound killer move formed from soul path and metal path. Every Gu Immortal who cultivated two paths had such killer moves; Heavenly Court's Thunder Ghost True Monarch had them because she cultivated lightning path and soul path, Duke Long naturally had them as well.
Because of conflicting dao marks, Gu Immortals who successfully cultivated multiple paths were very rare, so compound killer moves were also very rare in Gu Immortal world.
Fang Yuan was able to cultivate many paths because of the sovereign immortal body, so he accumulated many compound killer moves.
But even so, these compound killer moves could hardly be used at the top level.
This was because although Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal body did not have conflicting dao marks, the compound killer moves themselves would have a large internal friction because of their own conflicting dao marks, resulting in wastage of power.
"But heaven path dao marks have greatly improved this situation." Fang Yuan was able to sense this acutely and even verified his guess.
Right now, when he used compound killer moves like myriad thought sword waterfall, because of the reduced internal friction, the power had increased by several times!
"According to my deduction, if I use myriad ghost sword dragon now, the previous consumption of four thousand soul path dao marks would be reduced by a lot. Because of the reduced internal friction, I don't need to expend so many soul path dao marks to balance the strength of various paths."
"Over three thousand heaven path dao marks still cannot remove this kind of internal friction completely, but what if the number increased even further?"
"In the future, can I use the help of heaven path dao marks to create a killer move that contains every path?"
At this point, besides the exception of certain unique methods, Fang Yuan no longer had interest in single path killer moves.
He had discovered a new and vast world ahead of him!
[1] The Beggar Sect in Jinyong novels uses the setting where each member carries at least one pouch-like bag and the number of bags he/she carries indicates his/her rank in the sect.
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Chapter 2066 Never Give Up Until My Road Ends
Fang Yuan was holding an information path Gu worm in his hand, the Gu worm had records of the previous battle of pursuit.
Its contents were roughly: Heavenly Court had a huge victory, Spectral Soul was dead, Fang Yuan escaped, Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Mao Li Qiu were suppressed, Old Man Zheng Yuan was taken captive, Shadow Sect's Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie were still on the run, Qi Sea Ancestor, Bai Ning Bing, Lady White Rabbit, and Fairy Miao Yin were missing, the probability of them being dead was high.
"In this current age, even if there is no ranking chart of Immortal Gu Houses, Divine Emperor City is worthy of being the number one Immortal Gu House." Fang Yuan sighed.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, during the five regions chaotic war, information path great experts had jointly let out many ranking charts. There was fierce competition on every ranking chart, Immortal Gu House ranking was also the same.
But Divine Emperor City had not appeared back then.
Fang Yuan's rebirth had led to all kinds of huge changes, now, even before the Immortal Gu House ranking was published, Divine Emperor City firmly held the position of number one.
"If this continues, even if there is an Immortal Gu House ranking in the future, Divine Emperor City's number one position will be immovable." Fang Yuan estimated.
Divine Emperor City could suppress Mao Li Qiu and Demon Immortal Qi Jue, Fang Yuan was not astonished by this.
Divine Emperor City was created by merging Divine Bean Palace and Emperor City, although it did not have a rank nine Immortal Gu and was not a rank nine Immortal Gu House, it contained painting worlds.
This was Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's contented lifestyle killer move. It was a human path killer move with painting path effect that formed paintings of the lives of people. It was a rank nine level venerable killer move.
Against venerable methods, Duke Long was defeated and Di Zang Sheng was brought to its knees. Even if Demon Immortal Qi Jue's Xi Land was not damaged, he would still only be at pseudo venerable level, and Mao Li Qiu was some distance away from being at pseudo venerable level.
"My Myriad Year Flying Warship and Dragon Palace are destroyed, even if they were still here, they would only be at peak rank eight level. Divine Emperor City can be considered to be half a rank nine Immortal Gu House. If Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had not been destroyed back then, it could contest for the number one position."
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was refined by Long Hair Ancestor and Giant Sun Immortal Venerable together. It was divided into countless small towers that gathered wild Gu worms. After combining into one, they would form the main building and could even dispel calamities and tribulations.
When Giant Sun Immortal Venerable passed away, he had left behind Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, which could control the whole of Northern Plains' political situation even though Giant Sun had already died. Northern Plains held countless Imperial Court contests, and the Huang Jin bloodline was able to hold supreme status in Northern Plains' immortal and mortal world mainly due to Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
At present, Divine Emperor City was the largest gathering point of Central Continent's human veins. It was the largest storage and cultivation ground of Central Continent's geniuses, a sacred land of human path. Looking at the setup, it was similar to Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Even Fang Yuan felt wariness towards such an Immortal Gu House.
As for why Heavenly Court publicized this battle information, Fang Yuan understood it fully.
Heavenly Court was in dire need of a surge in morale.
Ever since their defeat in the fate war when Fang Yuan destroyed fate Gu in front of the whole world, Heavenly Court was simply stripped of its backbone. They lost their spiritual banner and it was even trampled on by Fang Yuan.
This outcome had enormous influence, the whole of Central Continent was covered in looming shadow. Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were furious and filled with hatred but were already fearful. The morale of Central Continent's ten great ancient sects fell much more and most were dispirited.
Central Continent was facing four regions and its situation was truly dangerous. If they were thought to be weak and easily bullied, when the five regions chaotic war starts, they would be besieged by the other four regions. At that time, even if Central Continent was strong like a tiger, they would still be torn to pieces by the hyenas.
Releasing this information would stabilize the internal forces and also frighten external forces, and Qin Ding Ling had to do this! Hiding the battle results might have some tactical advantages, but Qin Ding Ling was the leader of Heavenly Court and had to consider the whole world. So, she chose to give up the tactical advantage to recover the declining situation.
"Heavenly Court is filled with talents, even without a great expert like Fairy Zi Wei, they have Qin Ding Ling to stabilize the overall situation. Heavenly Court's foundation is extremely deep, it is not just a front." Fang Yuan sighed, he approved of Qin Ding Ling's decisiveness. He would do the same if it were him.
At their level, the five regions and two heavens were a chessboard. Fighting each other without any plans or vision might let them show off their strength for some time but it would lead them to a disastrous defeat.
Looking back at the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan.
There was no doubt that the biggest loser was Shadow Sect. Spectral Soul with pseudo venerable battle strength died, while the members were dead, missing, fleeing, or captured.
Next was Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's losses were severe!
Currently, the whole sovereign immortal aperture was in a miserable state. The vibrant Mini Southern Border was turned into ruins with only a few resource points remaining. The other four mini regions and the mini nine heavens were also not much better.
Many variant humans and humans died despite receiving Fang Yuan's protection.
The previous Combat Beast King had fallen into a coma after blocking the myriad tribulation and had yet to wake up.
The loss in Immortal Gu was also the largest that Fang Yuan had ever experienced in his life.
First, two rank eight Immortal Gu Houses were destroyed. Dragon Palace's core Immortal Gu, Dream Token, was preserved, along with Myriad Year Flying Warship's Years Flow Like Water, but they were injured and needed to recuperate. Many other Immortal Gu were destroyed in the battle, including Precaution, Fight, and so on.
There were many losses to earth path Gu worms as well. Although Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress still remained, Spectral Soul's self-detonation was terrifying. By blocking this attack, Fang Yuan had lost seven earth path Immortal Gu and countless mortal Gu.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was heavily weakened as a result.
Over this period of time, Fang Yuan had experienced the fate war, defended against myriad tribulations and the pursuit of others, his rank eight immortal essence was already close to drying up. He had almost finished all the immortal essence he had painstakingly accumulated before the fate war.
He had just made some progress in the Twelve Zodiac battle formation, but after the battle with Spectral Soul, he had to gather them again.
There was only a little of Reverse Flow River left, it could not be used.
Unlimited qi sea's strength had fallen to rock bottom and could no longer be considered a trump card.
Fang Yuan did not obtain any battle spoils from Spectral Soul. Spectral Soul's self-detonation had destroyed everything completely.
Undoubtedly, Spectral Soul was extremely hard to deal with, even in death, he did not leave behind any benefits to Fang Yuan.
After the chase, Fang Yuan's greatest gain was preserving his life, as well as over three thousand heaven path dao marks and the Qi Sea clone. He did not possess them originally, they were his gains from the fate war and from scheming against Heavenly Court. They had no association with Spectral Soul.
Even though Spectral Soul was dead, Fang Yuan also suffered in the aftermath.
Shadow Sect and Fang Yuan were losers, so was Longevity Heaven. They lost Mao Li Qiu, a legendary immemorial beast, and did not have any battle gains. It was just that when compared to Shadow Sect and Fang Yuan, their losses were much fewer.
After this was Demon Immortal Qi Jue, who lost a lot but also made a few gains. Demon Immortal Qi Jue had extorted many inheritances from Spectral Soul and Fang Yuan with no lack of venerable true inheritances. But his Xi Land was heavily damaged and he lost his freedom as well, imprisoned by Divine Emperor City.
So, this battle's biggest winner was Heavenly Court.
Spectral Soul died and Fang Yuan escaped with heavy losses. Heavenly Court then defeated Longevity Heaven, Calamity Luck Altar escaped Central Continent in a panic. Divine Emperor City suppressed Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Mao Li Qiu. Qin Ding Ling's group captured Old Man Zheng Yuan and put up a bounty for Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie. Qi Sea Ancestor, Bai Ning Bing, White Rabbit, and Miao Yin were speculated to have died in battle.
Such a battle result was truly impressive. It was a huge surge of morale to everyone in Central Continent.
Heavenly Court's battle result was spread all over the world. It was not just Fang Yuan who analyzed wins and losses, all the Gu Immortals were analyzing the overall situation too.
Among them, one person was the happiest.
"Brilliant, brilliant!" On the main seat in the hall, this Gu Immortal was holding the information Gu while praising repeatedly with joy in his eyes.
He was a middle aged man with an ordinary appearance, he had a strong body and sharp eyebrows. His expression revealed tyranny and some hints of ruthlessness.
He was Wu clan's first supreme elder, rank eight wind path Gu Immortal, a formidable expert of the present age — Wu Yong!
Sitting on the first seat to the left was Wu clan's second supreme elder, Wu Ba Chong. His battle strength was not outstanding in Wu clan, but he had the highest seniority, was steady, and dared to take on responsibilities. Previously, when every large force was creating difficulties for Wu clan, he came forward to stabilize the situation. He was a core member of Wu clan.
Wu Ba Chong asked Wu Yong respectfully: "I am not sure what good there is in this? Please enlighten me, my lord."
Wu Yong put down the information path Gu worm and explained with a burning gaze: "In the five regions and two heavens, the strong are respected. The so-called general trend is nothing more than the fight between those peak experts. Only when the strong ones are in a stalemate, will the weaker ones and super forces have space to grow. If a venerable is born, they would be invincible and rule as the sole leader, and all the heroes would have to lower their heads."
"Currently, with no venerable, the general trend flows with four people; Spectral Soul, Gu Yue Fang Yuan, Demon Immortal Qi Jue, and Qi Sea Ancestor. Besides them, there are super forces like Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven who can take part in the fight, with Immortal Gu Houses like Calamity Luck Altar and Divine Emperor City to influence the overall situation."
Wu Ba Chong felt puzzled and asked: "Divine Emperor City is publicly recognized to be the number one Immortal Gu House as it could suppress Demon Immortal Qi Jue. Calamity Luck Altar is slightly inferior but is also a very strong Immortal Gu House that showed its splendor in the fate war. Why put Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven below those four people?"
Wu Yong replied with a smile: "These two Immortal Gu Houses are indeed strong, but they can only be strong for some time. The greatest flaw of Immortal Gu Houses is that their methods are fixed. Once those methods are known, they can be targeted and countered. Immortal Gu Houses are difficult to modify, they are far inferior to individuals with pseudo venerable battle strength who can adjust themselves depending on the situation."
"Divine Emperor City is very strong since it could suppress pseudo venerable Demon Immortal Qi Jue. But when its methods are known clearly, its threat will fall by a level. Heavenly Court lacks a pseudo venerable, it is their greatest weakness. If Qi Sea Ancestor had not stood by Heavenly Court's side in this battle, Qin Ding Ling would not have had such success."
"So it is like that." Wu Ba Chong realized, "I now understand lord's happiness. In this pursuit battle, Spectral Soul died, Fang Yuan fled in distress, Demon Immortal Qi Jue was suppressed, Qi Sea Ancestor is missing with a high probability of being dead. This means the four pseudo venerables are mostly gone, and it is the perfect opportunity for us to develop."
Wu Yong nodded: "Naturally, it is better if such experts are dead. The most regrettable thing is Fang Yuan managed to escape, sigh, this demon is unfathomable, he cannot be evaluated by common sense. Maybe, when he appears again, he would be even stronger than before!"
Wu Yong's expression turned heavy when he mentioned Fang Yuan.
Wu Ba Chong was also filled with worries.
Fang Yuan had deep conflicts with Wu clan, and now that Spectral Soul was dead, Fang Yuan was the number one demon in the world. If he recuperated and came to attack Wu clan, it would be an apocalyptic disaster.
Wu Yong continued: "We can do nothing about pseudo venerables. So we should take this chance to develop and strengthen ourselves, when Fang Yuan comes to trouble us in the future, we can at least have strength to fight back. If this situation doesn't happen in the future, it will be preparation for the five regions chaotic war."
"Central Continent and Northern Plains are guarded by Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven. They have been operating for countless years and are like iron fortresses, let's not talk about them for the moment."
"As for the remaining three regions, Southern Border, Western Desert, and Eastern Sea are all disunited."
"The wave of the great era has already risen, Wu clan needs to ride this wave and rise up. Western Desert is filled with sand and countless oases, it is easy to defend but hard to attack. Eastern Sea has plenty of resources but has never produced a venerable, their nature is the most gentle. We should first integrate the whole of Southern Border's Gu Immortal world, then capture Eastern Sea and Western Desert. With resources of three regions to help me, I will pass my tribulation and become a pseudo venerable, then cultivate rank eight Gu Immortals and construct a peak level Immortal Gu House. Finally, we will attack Central Continent and Northern Plains!"
"Lord!" Wu Ba Chong was hearing this for the first time, his eyes opened wide in excitement but he felt nervous at the same time.
This was an aspiration to take over the world!
Can Wu Yong bring Wu clan to the peak? Or will they be turned into dregs by the tides of the era?
"There has never been a venerable in wind path. If there is a possibility, maybe I can fill this gap. Who can say for sure what will happen in the future?" Wu Yong only thought this inwardly and did not say it out loud.
He was sitting on the main seat but his gaze seemed to pierce through the hall and into the sky.
At the next moment, Wu Ba Chong heard Wu Yong's recital:
"The mirage of eternal life is not my pursuit, longevity without accomplishments is no less than shameful."
"Regional walls vanish as chaos ensues, the destruction of fate brings freedom to all."
"Eagle rules the sky and whale dominates the sea, without trying, who knows if I am a dragon or worm?"
"How can plain commoners ever understand why, I will never give up until my road ends!"
Wu Ba Chong was deeply moved as he stood up and knelt on the ground, swearing with a trembling voice: "This subordinate is willing to follow by lord's side, for the grand ambition of Wu clan, I will use every ounce of my strength and lay down my life!!"
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Chapter 2067 Seven-Seven Profound Soul Bird
"Wu Ba Chong, get up quickly." Wu Yong's laughter resounded in the hall.
Wu Ba Chong immediately felt a formless wind lifting him up firmly and gently.
"With your help, I will have nothing to worry about." Wu Yong was satisfied.
"I am ashamed." Wu Ba Chong bowed his head and cupped his fists, "My cultivation level is not enough to bear lord's expectation. But from now on, as long as lord gives a command, I will stake my life to accomplish it!"
Wu Ba Chong was not acting, he had wholeheartedly pledged his allegiance.
Wu Yong was truly a formidable leader, the moment he took his position, he got rid of the spies inside Wu clan.
Although there was the matter of Fang Yuan disguising as Wu Yi Hai to make use of Wu clan as well as secretly stealing dream realms, Wu Yong put in vigorous effort and had taken back all the lost territories of Wu clan.
In the Southern Border giant dream realm event, Wu Yong and Heavenly Court had reached an agreement, they returned the super clans' Immortal Gu, allowing him to gain incomparable prestige. Later, he led the Southern Border immortals to hunt down Fang Yuan, forcing Fang Yuan to flee from Southern Border to Western Desert in a miserable state.
During the Five Regional Mountain Range battle, he suffered a slight setback due to the schemes of Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin. But after the event, Lu Wei Yin could not defeat him and Wu Yong became the Southern Alliance's leader in the end.
During the fate war, Wu Yong took the initiative to lead the Southern Alliance's champions in the battle, disregarding Fairy Zi Wei's threats. In this battle, Wu Yong led the immortals and attacked the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, he unhesitatingly used the killer move unlimited wind which expended his wind path dao marks permanently. Be it his heroic bravery in the battle or the contributions he made, they were all deeply engraved in the minds of Southern Border's immortals.
After the fate war, Wu Yong returned to the clan to rest and recuperate. He modified and improved his killer moves as well as Immortal Gu House Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building. At the same time, he handled Wu clan's affairs, ensuring there was order and stability in Wu clan, which was growing day by day.
Whether it was in terms of cultivation, talent, battle strength, or leadership, Wu Yong was a rare genius from Wu Ba Chong's perspective. Even his mother, Wu Du Xiu, was below Wu Yong in the current opinion of Wu Ba Chong and many other Southern Border Gu Immortals.
"I am getting old, this is all my life will amount to. It is my honor to be able to follow a person like Wu Yong. I am really looking forward to seeing how far Wu clan can grow under his leadership." These were the inner thoughts of Wu Ba Chong.
Swoosh.
With a soft whistle, an information path Immortal Gu flew into the hall from the outside and landed on Wu Yong's hand.
Wu Yong probed with his divine sense and immediately learned of the content.
Wu Ba Chong guessed: "It is definitely a huge matter if an information path Immortal Gu is sent to deliver the message. I wonder if it is good or bad news?"
Shortly after, he saw Wu Yong smile: "Good news keeps coming, take a look."
Wu Yong handed the information path Immortal Gu to Wu Ba Chong.
Wu Ba Chong received the Gu and inspected it carefully, he then understood Wu Yong had made a big accomplishment from his scheme, he had successfully lured the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts into the formation.
"The Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts, they really are the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts!" Wu Ba Chong was excited.
The Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts were a famous demonic path group in Southern Border's Gu Immortal world comprising seven members. Every generation of the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts brought a huge disturbance and many losses to Southern Border's righteous path.
The Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts were arrogant and even infringed upon Wu clan's benefits many times. As the leader of Southern Border's righteous path, Wu clan naturally had to come forward to deal with this issue.
Thereupon, Wu clan and the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts could be said to be at odds.
Every generation's first supreme elder of Wu clan dedicated themselves to exterminating the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts. And every generation's Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts provoked Wu clan, as long as the colossal force Wu clan showed any weakness, they would attack like dogs hiding in the darkness, biting off a piece of flesh of Wu clan and run away immediately.
Wu clan was a super force and stably held the throne in Southern Border. But the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts were not ordinary, there was much evidence that suggested their inheritance was very likely to be from Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. As long as there was one person living in every generation's Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts, the inheritance would continue. And with time, there would be another six demonic immortals besides the survivor.
The life and death battles in every generation made it so that Wu clan and the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts had irreconcilable conflict. Wu clan became the biggest enemy of the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts, while the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts became a sore point of Wu clan that could not be gotten rid of. Every new member of the seven ghosts was committed to taking revenge against Wu clan.
Wu Du Xiu had mentioned three regrets in her last words, one of them was regarding the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts. In her life, Wu Du Xiu had commanded from behind the scenes and even personally attacked and killed over ten members of the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts, but had not been able to get rid of all of them at once.
As long as there was one survivor of the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts, they would bide their time patiently and fill the vacancies.
But now, according to the information in the Immortal Gu, all of the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts had ended up in Wu Yong's trap.
It was no wonder Wu Ba Chong was so excited.
Wu Yong took back the information path Immortal Gu and walked towards the outside while instructing: "The Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts are a disaster that Wu clan must get rid of. If we ignore them, they will definitely cause trouble for us and drag us down in the future. To be on the safe side, I will personally make a move this time."
Wu Ba Chong followed closely behind and asked for permission to take part in the battle. If they could kill the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts completely, it would be extremely significant to Wu clan!
But Wu Yong refused him: "I will take Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building with me, a lion uses its full strength even when hunting a rabbit. You need to guard the headquarters while I am gone."
"Yes." Wu Ba Chong could only helplessly accept the command.
Under his anticipating and respectful gaze, Wu Yong flew to the sky and disappeared into the horizon.
Wu clan's headquarters was located on Wu Yi Mountain and Wu Yi Mountain was located at the extreme southwest of Southern Border.
If you looked at the whole Southern Border from high above, you could roughly see: the intersection of yellow dragon river and red dragon river formed a 'X', and Wu clan's territory was at the lower part of this 'X'. Shang clan was on the right side.
Among all the Southern Border super forces, Wu clan was at the extreme south. Wu Yong was very satisfied with this location, as Wu clan would not be surrounded by enemies from all sides like Central Continent.
The surroundings of Wu clan's territories were isolated by yellow dragon river and red dragon river, the geography was highly beneficial to the clan's rise.
"The biggest weakness of Wu clan currently is insufficient Gu Immortals. Even if we annex the surrounding lands in the future, we won't have enough Gu Immortals to guard them."
As Wu Yong pondered over this, he thought of Fang Yuan.
It was Fang Yuan who created problems and havoc in Southern Border, making Southern Border go through many large battles. Not only Wu clan, the whole of Southern Border's Gu Immortal world lost many people!
Wu Yong was flying towards the northeast extremely quickly.
After some time, a corpse mountain was already in his sight.
This corpse mountain that was beside the river was thousands of feet tall and there were large numbers of zombies living in it. It was close to the whirlpool at the intersection of red dragon river and yellow dragon river.
More accurately speaking, this corpse mountain was called Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian. In the past, a rank eight Southern Border Gu Immortal turned into an immortal zombie, and fought against allied attacks of super forces in this peak, finally dying here. As time passed, on the mangled corpse of this rank eight immortal zombie, due to the nourishment of the natural essence from the river, along with the aquatic plants in the river that rooted themselves, this place turned into a corpse mountain.
The corpse mountain produced transformation path zombie Gu, as well as qi path zombie qi Gu.
Before the headquarters of Southern Border's Zombie Alliance was exposed, they had targeted this precious area and wanted to pay a high price to buy it from Wu clan to make it their headquarters, but Wu clan rejected them.
Later, Yao clan seized it from Wu clan. Wu Yong brought out Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building and took back the corpse mountain.
Because this resource point had high productivity and was also located at a strategic position, Wu Yong had stationed rank seven Gu Immortal Wu Zhen here.
After the fate war, qi tides emerged in the five regions. Qi tides swept the whole world, not only forcing the five regions' Gu Immortals to recuperate, they even exposed many true inheritance secret areas and grotto heavens of the two heavens.
Blood qi Immortal Gu, which Demon Immortal Qi Jue had seized in Western Desert, was one of the Blood Sea true inheritances, its traces were exposed because of qi tides.
A true inheritance had appeared on Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian as well. All the traces revealed this true inheritance was left behind by that rank eight immortal zombie back then!
A true inheritance of this level might not catch the interest of Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Fang Yuan, but it was a rank eight great expert's inheritance after all. It was enough for any super force to give it attention, it was reasonable for the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts to be tempted.
Wu Yong thus arranged traps, and now, the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts were all drawn into the trap and were just waiting for him to catch them.
An intense battle had already continued for some time at the peak of the corpse mountain.
"Cardinal directional wind formation! Such a pity that we, the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts, have a deep understanding of your Wu clan, this large formation cannot trap us!"
"The moment the formation breaks will be the moment your life ends, Wu Zhen!"
"Wu Zhen, the Corpse Emperor true inheritance appeared on Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian, but you intentionally concealed the information. Even if Wu clan's reinforcements arrive, you won't face a good outcome. How about you betray Wu clan and join us."
The Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts started to attack the wind path formation in four directions.
They had a lot of understanding of this formation because the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts had tackled the cardinal directional wind formation many times over the generations.
The formation was already on the verge of collapse.
Wu Zhen, who was controlling the formation from the outside, was riddled with wounds.
Suddenly, he received Wu Yong's voice transmission. His face immediately brightened as he activated some methods.
The cardinal directional wind formation changed immediately, a gentle wind blew in and turned into Wu Yong.
"What? This formation actually changed!"
"Wu Yong came! Wu clan's reinforcements came so fast?"
"Damn it, this was a trap."
The Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts were shaken but after the shock, their ferocity was stimulated.
"Kill!"
"Even if we die, we will make Wu clan suffer disastrous losses."
"If we kill Wu Yong, Wu clan will only be a joke!"
The Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts charged towards Wu Yong, but they were secretly discussing on how to break through.
Since it was a trap by Wu clan, the longer they stayed, the more unfavorable it would be for them. Moreover, Wu Yong was a powerful expert in the present age, he was a person at a level that was just under pseudo venerable.
The present Gu Immortal world publicly recognized Wu Yong, Qin Ding Ling, Bing Sai Chuan, Thousand Transformations Ancestor, and other experts to be on the same level, they were all experts merely below pseudo venerable level.
The Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts knew they were not Wu Yong's match, but they still had hope.
Wu Yong used this cardinal directional wind formation to lure these Gu Immortals, although there were some changes to it, it was still the original cardinal directional wind formation.
It was because this large formation was not a battlefield killer move that the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts let down their guard and attacked rashly.
Seeing the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts charging towards him, Wu Yong sneered: "Cowards putting up a strong front, you are nothing much."
At the next moment, strong winds appeared and frosty air blew.
Winds roared and snow started pouring down like a blizzard!
Three ghosts of the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts were frozen solid, and after two breaths of time, two of them died from the coldness.
"What killer move is this?"
"It is so cold!"
This was the killer move that Wu Yong had created during his recent closed cultivation session — Snowy Wind of No Return.
The Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts' formation was in chaos, Wu Yong's eyes shone with sinister light: "Cowards, you are not qualified to be my enemies."
Green leaves emerged from the bodies of the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts, branches grew rapidly.
The remaining five ghosts screamed miserably as their life force was completely seized. Lush willow branches grew on the corpses.
It was another creation of Wu Yong — Willow Wind!
The seven ghosts died, but their souls flew out of the corpses and merged into one, becoming an immemorial soul beast.
The soul beast had the appearance of a bird, its whole body was completely black and it had seven heads.
Wu Yong's expression was uplifted: "So it was the Seven Ghosts true inheritance, it is the incomplete product of Spectral Soul when he attempted to create the immemorial soul beast — Seven-Seven Profound Soul Bird. Jade Building, come to me!"
Wu Yong waved his hand, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building crashed towards the seven-seven profound soul bird like a green meteor.
The seven-seven profound soul bird struggled with all its strength, using all kinds of killer moves. Unfortunately, its consciousness alternated between clear and chaotic, and was finally suppressed by Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building in the end.
"Lu Wei Yin, I should not have trusted you!" The seven-seven profound soul bird let out an indignant cry at the last moment before falling unconscious.
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Chapter 2068 Two Choices
"Lord!" Wu Zhen put away the cardinal directional wind formation in excitement.
He personally witnessed Wu Yong sweeping away the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts with methods that were never heard of before and were also extremely powerful.
Everyone knew of the price Wu Yong paid to use unlimited wind in the fate war.
Wu Zhen had not expected Wu Yong's strength to increase so much in this period of time! In the whole battle, the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts were unable to counterattack at all.
Sensing the reverential gaze of Wu Zhen, Wu Yong smiled: "The Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts are rank seven at most, we could not deal with them properly because they rarely moved together. If they were not dealt with at once, our efforts would only be in vain."
Wu Yong's expression turned slightly heavy: "You heard what the seven-seven profound soul bird said just now, what do you think?"
Wu Zhen immediately revealed a serious expression as he analyzed: "From their dying words, all of the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts attacked Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian not only because of our scheme, Lu Wei Yin had been urging them from behind the scenes as well! Lu Wei Yin… he could actually influence the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts, maybe we can make use of this!"
Wu Yong laughed heartily: "Not bad, Wu Zhen, well said."
Wu Zhen had already guessed Wu Yong's next plan. In Wu Yong's plan, the first step was to unite Southern Border.
And the greatest obstacle to do this was Lu Wei Yin.
Lu Wei Yin was the current inheritor of Paradise Earth in Southern Border. Because of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's influence and his contributions to Southern Border's righteous path, Wu Yong could not easily make a move against him.
But who could have expected that during the pursuit against Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin actually helped Fang Yuan. This gave Wu Yong the perfect reason to make a move. And this time, Lu Wei Yin was secretly involved with the seven-seven profound soul bird, this gave Wu Yong the perfect excuse to lead the Southern Alliance and destroy the Mushroomman Paradise in the name of justice!
"Take care of your injuries, next, we will make a move against Lu Wei Yin and destroy Mushroomman Paradise!" Wu Yong's eyes shone with cold light and imposing battle intent.
Wu Zhen hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Lord, isn't it too early now? When qi tides appeared, many inheritances emerged in Southern Border. The Corpse Emperor true inheritance is only one of them. Currently, the Southern Alliance's super forces are all actively exploring and gathering these true inheritances. If we hastily summon them, wouldn't only a few show up and the other super forces conceal their strength?"
Wu Yong smiled and nodded: "You are right. The things you mentioned are one of the difficulties in attacking Lu Wei Yin and the Mushroomman Paradise. Besides this, there are several other difficulties. Firstly, Lu Wei Yin is extremely shrewd, he has all kinds of plans and unique methods, he is definitely not an ordinary opponent. Secondly, Mushroomman Paradise obtained Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's help, its foundation is deep and is not any inferior to the super forces. Thirdly, Lu Wei Yin helped Fang Yuan escape, if we attack him, we might have to fight Fang Yuan as well."
"Fight Fang Yuan?" Wu Zhen's face immediately turned pale.
The current Fang Yuan was the number one demon in the world. Just the possibility of having to fight him was enough to make a rank seven Gu Immortal like Wu Zhen feel uneasy.
Wu Yong laughed, his tone rising slightly: "But these difficulties are only difficulties, if we are afraid to take action because of difficulties, nothing can be accomplished. Farmers need to farm, but if they don't cultivate the land because they are afraid of drought, there would not even be a single grain of harvest. When fishermen fish, if they don't spread the net because they are afraid of drowning, their baskets will definitely be empty. Will our Wu clan retreat because of these difficulties?"
Wu Zhen's expression became solemn and he quickly cupped his hands: "Thank you for the guidance."
Wu Yong's gaze was deep as he continued to explain: "This is the best time to attack Lu Wei Yin. A person like Lu Wei Yin will only make more preparations if he has more time, and Mushroomman Paradise will be increasingly hard to attack. It is obvious that Fang Yuan escaped because he did not have strength to fight. If we miss this chance and he recovers, there will be no hope of destroying Mushroomman Paradise."
"As for those righteous path super forces concealing their strength? Hmph, do they think the Southern Alliance is so easy to join? As the alliance leader, I will gain the chance to reorganize the Southern Alliance once and for all."
Wu Zhen no longer had any worries and was completely persuaded by Wu Yong's plan: "I am willing to follow you, lord, and go on the expedition against the mushroommen."
Wu Yong nodded, saying a sentence before leaving: "Tend to your injuries first, the path of Wu clan's domination will require your contribution as well."
At the same time, Eastern Sea.
Xia clan headquarters.
The atmosphere was tense in the discussion hall.
Over ten variant human Gu Immortals were divided into two groups and were in a standoff.
On the left side, Chaotic Rock Grotto Lord, Rotten Egg Grotto Lord, and Hair Monster Grotto Lord were clustered around Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
On the right, Xiao He Jian led Green Forest Great Sage and Great Wisdom Immortal Mother.
There was also a third group formed from human Gu Immortals, having Crossing Heaven Immortal Monarch, Black Locust, and Rainbow Rock Immortal Concubine in it.
During the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, these variant human Gu Immortals were abandoned by Fang Yuan. After they escaped Heavenly Court, they returned to Eastern Sea.
Without Wu Shuai controlling the situation, these grotto-heaven lords of the two heavens were feeling panicky. Over these days, they were still pondering over how to resolve the qi harvest fruit disaster in their grotto-heavens, but made no progress.
"Xiao He Jian, are you prepared for when Lord Wu Shuai returns? I want to see how you will explain to Lord Alliance Leader why you promoted Lady Cold Ash repeatedly before!" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch took the lead to reprimand his political rival.
Xiao He Jian's expression was dark. Back then,he had promoted Lady Cold Ash to gather Gu Immortals and grow his force in contesting with Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's group. He had never expected Lady Cold Ash to be Spectral Soul's disguise! Not only this, at the crucial moment, Spectral Soul made his move and chased Wu Shuai and Fang Yuan, eventually destroying Dragon Palace.
Spectral Soul created such huge losses to the two heavens alliance and Xiao He Jian naturally had to be held responsible.
Xiao He Jian's expression was ashen in face of the accusation, he stared at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch: "It is not up to you to decide how much responsibility I bear. Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, don't forget, we are both vice alliance leaders, we have equal positions! I am aware of how big a mistake I made, I am willing to accept any punishments from Lord Wu Shuai. But this is not only my responsibility. Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, could it be that you didn't make any mistake? Think about it, who invited Lady Cold Ash into our alliance? Was it not you? You not only invited Spectral Soul, you even took in Heavenly Court's spy, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord. Your responsibility is bigger than mine."
"You!" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was furious.
After the defeat in the battle, Xiao He Jian had already realized his predicament. He had already made sufficient preparations for this meeting.
"Hehe. Speaking of which, isn't it all caused by humans? Be they Lady Cold Ash or Night Heavenly Wolf Lord, they are both humans. Human Gu Immortals cannot be trusted!" Great Wisdom Immortal Mother added sinisterly.
She was an inkman Gu Immortal, her Great Wisdom grotto-heaven had been invaded by Heavenly Court and suffered heavy losses.
Later, the two heavens alliance organized a rescue, but Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had been worried about his own Ice Crystal grotto-heaven back then and disregarded Great Wisdom grotto-heaven.
Thus, there was a crack in the relationship between Great Wisdom Immortal Mother and Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, Xiao He Jian had sensed it and recruited her. Great Wisdom Immortal Mother, whose strength had greatly fallen, became a member supporting Xiao He Jian.
Green Forest Great Sage was also a miniman like Xiao He Jian, so he had a natural closeness to the latter.
With these two supporting Xiao He Jian with all their strength, Xiao He Jian was barely able to contend with Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's group. But it was only barely.
This time, Spectral Soul's attack created a huge trouble for Xiao He Jian.
Thus, Great Wisdom Immortal Mother saw that the situation was bad and diverted the attention to the humans.
Her words immediately resonated with other variant human Gu Immortals.
"That's right, humans are crafty, they cannot be believed easily."
"In my opinion, our two heavens alliance should be a pure variant human alliance!"
"The performance of these human Gu Immortals in the battle was truly bad!"
Variant human Gu Immortals resonated with the words and looked at the human Gu Immortals in the hall with unfriendly gazes.
Crossing Heaven Immortal Monarch, Black Locust, and Rainbow Rock Immortal Concubine were pale, and were standing close to each other.
The two heavens alliance had been established not long ago, they had formed for an extremely short period of time. Now that they lost their powerful leader, they immediately showed signs of collapsing.
Right at this time, a majestic sound reverberated throughout the blessed land headquarters.
"Alright, stop fighting!"
Following which, a golden light shot down like a heavenly pillar.
The golden pillar of light dissipated, revealing two immortals.
One was wearing a white robe, with dark hair and deep pupils, while the other was tall and handsome, resembling a heroic champion. They were Gu Yue Fang Yuan and Wu Shuai.
All the immortals in the hall were shaken.
With Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian taking the lead, everyone knelt down on one knee and greeted: "Greetings to Lord Alliance Leader!"
After hesitating for a moment, they greeted again: "Greetings to Lord Fang Yuan."
Wu Shuai raised his hand: "Get up."
He was standing beside Fang Yuan, and Fang Yuan was grandly sitting on the alliance leader's seat.
The immortals had different expressions seeing Wu Shuai's subordinate-like attitude towards Fang Yuan.
Wu Shuai directly said: "You don't need to guess, I am a dragonman, but it is a fact that I am Fang Yuan's clone."
The immortals were stunned for a bit before reacting, their expressions were even more complicated.
They were not overly shocked by this relationship. After Heavenly Court spread the battle results, the relationship of Wu Shuai and Fang Yuan was widely speculated. After all, Wu Shuai and Fang Yuan's cooperation was extremely close in the battle, they were too trustful of each other, this was not common among demonic immortals.
The two heavens alliance's Gu Immortals had already heard of these rumors, they appeared loyal and devoted on the surface but had many guesses inwardly.
So when Wu Shuai admitted it, the immortals did not find it hard to accept.
Wu Shuai continued: "The reason I gathered everyone is to rally our forces and vie for supremacy, while also to get rid of the qi harvest fruit disaster in your grotto-heavens."
The immortals' eyes shone, one of them asked: "Could it be that lord alliance leader has a way to resolve it?"
Wu Shuai smiled: "I naturally don't have a way to deal with it, but my main body has."
The immortals cautiously looked at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan wore no expression and his gaze was indifferent as he spoke for the first time: "Right now, you have two choices. One is to let me annex your grotto-heavens, only through this way can the qi harvest fruit calamity be resolved."
The immortals turned pale, some were furious but dared not to say anything.
At once, the hall fell into silence.
Rainbow Rock Immortal Concubine broke the silence and asked respectfully: "I wonder what the other choice is?"
Fang Yuan leaned back on the wide chair and narrowed his eyes: "The second choice is that you will all be killed by me, thereafter, I will annex your grotto-heavens."
All the immortals were deathly pale and it was a scene of complete silence.
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Chapter 2069 Eastern Sea“s Alliance Army
Facing the extremely forceful Fang Yuan, the variant human Gu Immortals gritted their teeth and their gaze flickered with dark light. Many glanced around, hoping someone would speak up.
Unfortunately, Fang Yuan was currently the number one demon in the world, even Spectral Soul had died in his trap. His demonic prestige was increasing rapidly and the variant human Gu Immortals dared not to touch his nerve.
No one dared to resist Fang Yuan but no one surrendered and offered their headquarters either.
Anyone could see these Gu Immortals were not willing to!
Their grotto-heaven headquarters was the place where they lived day and night, it was their home and their sacred land. If they really offered their home to Fang Yuan, their friends and family would definitely blame them for the betrayal, and their own conscience did not allow it.
Back then, when Heavenly Court invaded Ice Crystal grotto-heaven, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch directly staked his life and did not hesitate to expend his lifespan to activate the killer move extreme ice crystal light immortal suppression coffin. Great Wisdom Immortal Mother directly sold the racial inheritance regarding the Qian Kun Crystal Wall to Wu Shuai to save her Great Wisdom grotto-heaven. All these showed that the grotto-heavens of the two heavens had great significance to the variant human alliance's members and they held an important position in their hearts.
But what could they do?
Fang Yuan's power was known to the whole world. He was currently the number one demon, Heavenly Court was defeated by him, fate Gu was destroyed by him, and now, even Spectral Soul was killed by him!
After the pursuit battle, although Fang Yuan had only rested for a little over ten days, which was a brief time, the variant human Gu Immortals in the hall had no doubt that Fang Yuan could exterminate all of them!
Their only hope might be external reinforcements.
But where would these variant human Gu Immortals find external reinforcements?
Should they approach Heavenly Court or Longevity Heaven?
What a joke!
An even more crucial point was that almost all the two heavens' grotto-heavens were facing the qi harvest fruit disaster. If they did not surrender to Fang Yuan and let these qi harvest fruits grow, their grotto-heavens would be destroyed.
But if they surrendered to Fang Yuan, they would be giving their lives to Fang Yuan. After they joined his side, it would be easier said than done for them to leave him again.
Fang Yuan's ruthlessness was already known to all. Previously, he had dispatched many of his subordinates to attack Central Continent, but after the fate war, Fang Yuan only escaped by himself, these subordinates were still wandering around the five regions. And just recently in the pursuit battle, Fang Yuan and Wu Shuai had left Heavenly Court using Dragon Palace, leaving the variant human Gu Immortals behind in Heavenly Court.
Who could feel safe following such a leader?
"Have you all thought it through? My patience is limited." Fang Yuan's expression was indifferent as he gave an ultimatum.
The immortals' mind shook, many were pale and broke out in cold sweat.
Among them, the human Gu Immortals felt the most regret.
If they had known this, they would have directly surrendered to Heavenly Court.
In the present age, humanity was the ruler and they would not accept the surrender of variant human forces. But it was a different concept if humans were to surrender.
In fact, during the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, when they were escaping Heavenly Court, it was not that they did not think of imitating Night Heavenly Wolf Lord and surrendering to Heavenly Court. But they simply did not have the chance with the variant human Gu Immortals watching them like hawks.
So, it was not without reason that these variant human Gu Immortals showed doubt and suspicion towards the human Gu Immortals.
The hall was still deathly silent, Fang Yuan's expression was indifferent, but the variant human alliance members felt increasing pressure.
Fang Yuan had not used any killer moves, but most of the Gu Immortals felt like they were suffocating and their thoughts were being suppressed.
Unable to endure such pressure, one of the alliance members, Golden Fur Immortal Monarch, clenched his teeth and agreed, offering his immortal aperture to Fang Yuan.
Golden Fur Immortal Monarch was a rank eight hairy man Gu Immortal, he had his own reasons for doing this.
He knew Fang Yuan had annexed Lang Ya blessed land and had rarely sent Lang Ya Sect's hairy man Gu Immortals into battle. Golden Fur Immortal Monarch surrendered to Fang Yuan, thinking he would receive similar treatment.
Hairy men were proficient in Gu refinement, this had an enormous value which might preserve the lives of the people of Golden Fur grotto-heaven and even give them high statuses. It was far better than being slaughtered by Fang Yuan and forcefully annexed.
With Golden Fur Immortal Monarch agreeing, the remaining people felt even more pressure and urge to follow suit. It was like a gap appearing on a large dam and causing the flood to gush out of it.
But right at this time, alarms rang — a large group of Eastern Sea Gu Immortals were approaching this place with several Immortal Gu Houses!
Wu Shuai glanced at Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan nodded lightly. Wu Shuai turned around to look at the immortals: "The enemies have arrived, we will talk after repelling them."
The immortals finally let out sighs of relief.
If it were normal times and Eastern Sea's righteous path had organized a joint attack on them, these people would be extremely worried and fearful. But right now, they felt the pressure on them going away and were actually grateful instead.
Immediately, Wu Shuai and Fang Yuan stayed behind the scenes, while Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian led the variant human alliance to meet the Eastern Sea alliance army.
The Eastern Sea alliance army had many people. Shen clan's first supreme elder Shen Cong Sheng, along with Tang clan's first supreme elder and Xie clan's first supreme elder, were personally taking part in the battle.
There were many Immortal Gu Houses as well, over ten at least. Eastern Sea was rich and populous, and was the number one region in terms of resources, so it was also the number one in terms of the number of Immortal Gu Houses possessed, surpassing even Central Continent. Naturally, they had very few peak rank eight Immortal Gu Houses like Dragon Palace or Myriad Year Flying Warship.
Among the Immortal Gu Houses present, there was only one rank eight Immortal Gu House — Green Cloud Spark Warship, which belonged to Eastern Sea's Hua clan. Rank six Immortal Gu Houses were most numerous, after which was rank seven.
The two armies confronted each other in the sky, Xia clan's first supreme elder walked out of the Eastern Sea alliance army, it was rank seven Gu Immortal Xia Rui Zhi.
"Despicable variant humans, you disturbed Eastern Sea and invaded my home, your sin is too heinous. Today is the day you will all die!" Xia Rui Zhi shouted with a righteous aura.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch sneered: "Cowardly rat, you actually dared to come and court death."
Xiao He Jian also ridiculed: "Homeless dog, what gives you the confidence to challenge us?"
Xia Rui Zhi's face reddened with anger, he said through clenched teeth: "Variant humans, you deserve to die! I will fight first, who among you dares to face me alone?"
Xia clan's territory was seized by the variant human alliance; as the victim, Xia Rui Zhi naturally wanted to start the fight.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch immediately said: "A mere rank seven dares to start the fight. Never mind, my variant human alliance has no need to bully the weak, we will send someone with similar cultivation level to fight you."
Under Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's instruction, a rank seven snowman Gu Immortal flew out and fought Xia Rui Zhi.
Both sides had just fought three rounds when Shen Cong Sheng stood up: "Who wants to fight me?"
Shen Cong Sheng was rank eight, his battle strength was also publicly recognized to be at the peak of Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world. This time, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian did not dare to be overconfident. Under Fang Yuan's secret command, Xiao He Jian personally came out to fight.
Shen Cong Sheng and Xiao He Jian fought for a while, when another rank eight Gu Immortal from the Eastern Sea alliance army challenged, but he was not at Shen Cong Sheng's level.
The variant human alliance had many rank eight Gu Immortals, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch thought for a while before sending a rank eight rockman Gu Immortal to meet the challenge.
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Chapter 2070 Huge Victory in Battle
The two armies confronted each other, and the intense battles in the three battle circles attracted countless gazes.
Xiao He Jian was a rank eight expert and in terms of strength, he was at the same level as a Heavenly Court member. And after returning from the blue dragon whale, Shen Cong Sheng also had a great improvement in his strength. The two were evenly matched.
But in the other two battle circles, the variant humans were at a disadvantage.
Chaotic Rock Grotto Lord was defending more than attacking, while the rank seven snowman Gu Immortal was already showing signs of defeat. His opponent was Xia Rui Zhi, who might be only at rank seven but was Xia clan's first supreme elder after all, he had abundant resources and many methods.
After several more rounds, Xia Rui Zhi suddenly shouted and used a fatal killer move to strike the snowman Gu Immortal.
The snowman Gu Immortal could not dodge it, his expression turned to despair.
Right at this time, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch suddenly attacked Xia Rui Zhi with an ice path killer move.
Eastern Sea's alliance army was furious, they took actions to protect Xia Rui Zhi while blocking Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's sudden attack.
Taking this chance, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch pulled back that rank seven snowman to his side.
"Variant human Gu Immortals, you don't have any sense of honor indeed, losing the battle as well as disgracing yourselves!"
"It was a one on one fight and you actually interfered to save your people? Alright, since you don't respect rules, then we shall attack together."
"Kill! Slaughter these variant human Gu Immortals!"
The Eastern Sea alliance army was furious, the whole army charged towards the variant human alliance like a rushing tidal wave.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and the rest had a change of expression..
Eastern Sea alliance army's offense was fierce, over ten Immortal Gu Houses took the lead and wreaked havoc. Comparatively, the variant human alliance had more rank eight Gu Immortals, but they lacked an Immortal Gu House and could only use their own bodies to fight.
Right at this crucial moment, an ant army suddenly appeared, forming a dazzling torrent that charged at the Eastern Sea alliance army.
The Eastern Sea alliance army was immediately obstructed by millions of ants. Many of the Immortal Gu Houses were infiltrated by the ants and could only use all their strength in defending, at once, the formation was in chaos.
Wu Shuai slowly showed himself, even without Dragon Palace, he was still a rank eight expert!
"Lord alliance leader!" The variant human alliance's morale soared immediately.
On the contrary, the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals were pale in shock.
"Why is Wu Shuai here?"
"Wasn't he together with that demon Fang Yuan?"
"If he is here, what about Fang Yuan?"
As if answering the questions of the Eastern Sea immortals, Fang Yuan's figure also appeared.
"You guys have a lot of guts." Fang Yuan waved his hand with a slight smile, a five-colored ray of light shot out.
A rank seven Immortal Gu House was struck by the five-colored light; it started shaking violently for a few breaths of time before it was no longer able to resist and exploded violently.
The Gu Immortals inside were horrified as they exclaimed: "This is a compound killer move, it actually contains metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, a total of five paths!"
Fang Yuan snapped his fingers, countless butterflies made of light flew out.
The butterflies of light flew in the sky and charged upon all the Immortal Gu Houses like a rainstorm.
Immortal Gu Houses used their abilities and resisted with all their strength.
The light butterflies changed their colors and ingeniously dodged most of the attacks as they infiltrated the Immortal Gu Houses.
"This is also a compound killer move, it contains the profundities of transformation path and refinement path!"
"Don't let these butterflies near the Immortal Gu Houses, they can forcefully refine Gu worms!"
The Eastern Sea alliance army shouted in chaos.
The variant human alliance's immortals were dumbfounded.
With just his strength, Fang Yuan disrupted the whole Eastern Sea alliance army, this was pseudo venerable battle strength! This was the strength of the number one demon of the present age!
"Fang Yuan, how have you been?" At the crucial moment, qi currents surged like the roars of tidal waves, Qi Sea Ancestor appeared.
The Eastern Sea alliance army's morale finally stabilized.
"Qi Sea Ancestor is making a move!"
"He also has pseudo venerable battle strength, only he can fight Fang Yuan."
"Qi Sea Ancestor also returned? Wasn't he missing?" The variant human Gu Immortals were astonished, their expressions turning heavy.
The reason that the Eastern Sea immortals organized this army to attack the variant human alliance, aside from Xia clan actively contacting other forces and taking the initiative to offer many resources, was because Qi Sea Ancestor had secretly returned and gathered these immortals.
"Fang Yuan, let's go!" Qi Sea Ancestor broke the heavenly wind qi wall and entered immemorial white heaven.
Fang Yuan laughed: "Since you are in such a mood, then I shall accompany you." Saying so, he also charged into immemorial white heaven.
No one dared to follow them, the sky over the Eastern Sea was already in chaos at this moment.
The fight between Fang Yuan and Qi Sea Ancestor in immemorial white heaven shattered the sky and caused darkness to loom over Eastern Sea.
Suddenly, Fang Yuan's cold laughter could be heard: "Qi Sea, I am no longer the same as before. This is the killer move sword feather bladewing, let me see if you can block it."
When his words ended, the immortals saw countless sword feathers in the sky that pierced the heavenly wind qi wall and floated down, shrouding the whole battlefield.
Shortly afterwards, countless sword feathers formed into bright bladewings which rapidly cut everything in their path. The Immortal Gu Houses appeared extremely fragile in front of these bladewings, only the rank eight Immortal Gu House Green Cloud Spark Warship was able to resist them.
Xia clan's Immortal Gu House, Whale Fishing Boat, had its final layer of defense penetrated, over ten bladewings flew in and started a rampage.
"Ahh!" Xia Rui Zhi let out a mournful howl, he was actually killed inside the Immortal Gu House!
The immortals were horrified.
"Look at another move of mine, heartache crying blood." After a while, Fang Yuan's voice appeared again.
The Eastern Sea Gu Immortals immediately felt extreme heartache, and large amounts of blood flowed out of their mouth, eyes, and nose.
This was a compound killer move formed from blood path and wisdom path!
"There is also thunder note stream." After another while, Fang Yuan's voice resounded throughout the battlefield.
Countless formless qi currents slashed the sky.
Qi currents weaved into a net that covered all the Gu Immortals and Immortal Gu Houses, engraving lightning and qi path dao marks on their bodies.
"Too horrifying! This is a compound killer move of refinement path, lightning path, and qi path."
"As long as we are trapped inside, we will constantly receive injuries."
"Retreat, retreat!"
Both sides could not continue to fight, they started retreating madly without daring to stay even a second longer in the battlefield.
"Fang Yuan, you have actually progressed so much in just over ten days!" Qi Sea Ancestor's voice finally spread, his voice vaguely contained shocked emotions.
The Eastern Sea Gu Immortals' heart turned cold when they sensed his tone.
"Qi Sea, you are still injured, how can you be my match? Today will be the day your life ends." Fang Yuan said, his voice was sonorous and resounded through the heavens, further horrifying the Gu Immortals.
Boom boom boom!
Loud explosions resounded like countless firecrackers were set off near the ears.
Both sides' immortals looked up at the sky and saw qi waves fiercely moving around. The sky changed colors as if signifying the end of the world.
The enclosed heavenly wind qi wall fluctuated intensely. Right now, the thick qi wall gave people a feeling of fragile paper that was being torn by countless beasts.
Large amounts of powder scattered down.
This was the powder from splitting the heavens.
Qi Sea Ancestor and Fang Yuan had shattered the sky!
Shortly after, the immortals heard Qi Sea Ancestor's exhausted voice: "Fang Yuan, it is easy for you to defeat me but you are dreaming if you think you can kill me."
Fang Yuan laughed loudly: "Qi Sea, where are you going?"
The terrifying explosions in the sky seemed to be showing signs of slowing down.
Both sides let out sighs of relief. The aftermath of these two pseudo venerables' fight were too terrifying. They shattered the heavenly wind qi wall, these immortals could not imagine what the consequences would be if they were in the range of this fight!
"What are you in a daze for, attack!" Wu Shuai suddenly shouted, waking up the stupefied immortals, "Qi Sea is defeated, we must trap these remaining people here, our victory is secured when Fang Yuan returns."
"Attack!!!" The variant human alliance was roused, their morale rose to the peak from these words.
The immortals charged towards the Immortal Gu Houses.
They were attacking Immortal Gu Houses with their physical bodies, this battle tactic was obviously not sensible. But all the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals inside the Immortal Gu Houses were ashen and their hearts were cold.
If they said they were not afraid, they would be lying!
Even the Immortal Gu Houses were unable to give them any sense of safety.
"Retreat! Retreat!" Shen Cong Sheng shouted.
The Eastern Sea immortals fled without any hesitation.
The variant human Gu Immortals were most proficient in fighting these kinds of advantageous battles. They chased without resting and with imposing momentum.
After chasing for one hundred li, Fang Yuan returned and attacked.
The Eastern Sea alliance army looked extremely fragile in front of him, most of the Immortal Gu Houses were directly shattered.
"Obediently surrender now, offer up your Immortal Gu and you can still live." Fang Yuan called out, "All members of the variant human alliance, listen to my command, no one is to attack those who surrender!"
The variant human alliance won a huge victory in this battle! The Eastern Sea alliance army suffered many casualties and even more were taken captive by Fang Yuan. Many Eastern Sea Gu Immortals chose to believe in Fang Yuan, seeing that this was a certain loss, they surrendered and gave up resisting.
Although Fang Yuan was the number one demon in the world and was extremely vicious, he had once captured Southern Border immortals, and as long as the ransom was received he released them alive.
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Chapter 2071 Eating Fruits, Devouring Heavens
"No doubt, this is a very rewarding victory!"
"Eastern Sea's righteous path is no big deal."
"I wonder if Qi Sea Ancestor died in battle? If he is dead, the whole of Eastern Sea will be ours!"
The variant human alliance Gu Immortals were extremely excited.
Fang Yuan detained the captives while commanding the variant human Gu Immortals to clean up the battlefield.
"Lord Fang Yuan, I am willing to follow you and offer my Golden Fur grotto-heaven!" Golden Fur Immortal Monarch suddenly knelt before Fang Yuan and proclaimed loudly.
The immortals were silent for a while before cries of pledging allegiance came from everyone.
The entire variant human alliance submitted to him without exception!
Wu Shuai was inwardly happy upon seeing this, while Fang Yuan was still indifferent.
This scene was within the expectations of these two.
If Fang Yuan forced these alliance members earlier, he naturally could suppress them even then, but it would not be like now when these people were willingly following him.
This arrangement that Fang Yuan and his two clones planned gave them a lot of gains.
One was the huge external pressure brought by the Eastern Sea alliance army's attack. The members of the variant human alliance was forced to unite, they observed the dangerous external environment and the deep malice held towards the variant humans by the entire human Gu Immortal world!
The other was that Fang Yuan displayed his peak level battle strength, leading the variant human alliance to a massive victory. This gave a deep impression to the variant human alliance immortals that they could not oppose Fang Yuan, and also made them feel some sort of anticipation towards their future after submitting to Fang Yuan.
From the perspective of these variant human immortals:
One, all their grotto-heavens were facing the qi harvest fruit disaster. If they did not surrender to Fang Yuan, they would not be able to deal with it by themselves.
Two, the outcome of going against Fang Yuan was displayed in front of them, they could not do this if they wanted to live.
Three, although Fang Yuan was ruthless, he was strong. Following such an expert would give them a much brighter future than fighting alone.
Humanity had dominated the five regions for a long time, these variant human Gu Immortals of the two heavens swallowed their anger and bore with it, and were already habituated to their lowered statuses.
They lacked the spirit and state of mind that were possessed by the members of Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven. This was already shown in many of the past battles. The variant human alliance's Gu Immortals had low fighting spirit and prioritized their own safety.
All these reasons made it almost certain that everyone in the variant human alliance would surrender to Fang Yuan.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Fang Yuan was not in a hurry to count his gains, he sent a command: "We will invade Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven and Night Wolf grotto-heaven!"
The immortals were shaken, once again feeling Fang Yuan's forcefulness and tyrannical character.
Even this large battle could not satisfy Fang Yuan's appetite, he still wanted to continue fighting and take down Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven and Night Wolf grotto-heaven.
Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven was a soul path grotto-heaven secretly controlled by Spectral Soul when he was alive. Now that Spectral Soul was dead, Fang Yuan was going to exploit the weakness and wipe them out.
As for Night Wolf grotto-heaven, its previous owner, Night Heavenly Wolf Lord, had surrendered to Heavenly Court, which was known by Fang Yuan and used to his advantage. Wu Shuai had killed Night Heavenly Wolf Lord in Dragon Palace, but to conceal the information, they had immediately invaded Heavenly Court and could not care about Night Wolf grotto-heaven at that time.
Now that Fang Yuan was free, he was going to take revenge and annex them.
Thereupon, the variant human alliance charged towards immemorial black heaven majestically.
The army drew closer, but before the battle even started, Night Wolf grotto-heaven opened its entrance. With Ye Zhi leading them, the grotto-heaven Gu Immortals moved out of their home and bowed to Fang Yuan, asking him to accept their surrender.
Fang Yuan did not start a slaughter, he took in all of them, then led the army towards Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven.
However, Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven was a scene of desolation.
After Spectral Soul had possessed Lady Cold Ash's body, he had placed An Xun behind in Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven to take care of the logistics.
After the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, only Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie escaped among the Shadow Sect members. After Fairy Zi Wei escaped, she immediately contacted An Xun and ordered him to flee.
An Xun fled, but naturally not with empty hands. Besides emptying out almost all the storage, he even detonated the qi harvest fruit before leaving, causing Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven to suffer severe damage.
The remaining Gu Immortals of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven had just patched up the holes and not even rested for a few days when they were faced with Fang Yuan's army.
Against Fang Yuan's army, Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven did not have any strength to fight back and was conquered almost instantly.
The remaining Gu Immortals of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven were led by An Chong. These people's souls were not tampered by Spectral Soul and they had fought An Xun before he left, they were all injured to some degree.
Fang Yuan did not reject anyone and took them in as well.
Now, it was time to create a new agreement.
Fang Yuan learned from his previous lesson, he did not establish a connection with other subordinates and let his clone Wu Shuai take his place.
This way, even if a powerful enemy captured these subordinates in the future, they could only deduce Wu Shuai's position through the clue from the agreement. Fang Yuan's main body would be secure.
Now, Fang Yuan had completely taken over the variant human alliance!
But this was not enough.
The qi harvest fruits in many two heavens' grotto-heavens had already become extremely large and were at the point of self-detonating.
Fang Yuan first went to Grand Swine grotto-heaven.
Under all the immortals' gazes, Fang Yuan raised his hand and released white light. The white light lingered around the huge qi harvest fruit and turned into vast fog.
The fog blocked investigative methods. Fang Yuan was still not assured, he ordered the immortals: "Get back, don't use any Gu worms or you might disturb my method."
The immortals obeyed.
White fog spread and shrouded Fang Yuan's main body, outsiders were unable to tell what was going on inside.
Fang Yuan opened his sovereign immortal aperture, from which the Qi Sea clone flew out.
The Qi Sea clone went up to the qi harvest fruit, his eyes glowed like he had seen the most exquisite delicacy.
The Qi Sea clone stabbed his hand deep into the qi harvest fruit and used his qi path method.
Immortal killer move — Qi Jue Revival!
Fang Yuan had learned Demon Immortal Qi Jue's qi harvest fruit revival method and modified it to create this method. He had used this move to create the Qi Sea clone previously.
Under the killer move Qi Jue revival, the qi harvest fruit started to shrink, turning into large amounts of qi path dao marks that were directly added to the Qi Sea clone's body.
"After devouring this fruit, I will gain about sixty thousand qi path dao marks." Qi Sea Ancestor estimated with a joyous tone.
This amount was very impressive!
On average, an ordinary grand tribulation gave about seven thousand dao marks, while an ordinary myriad tribulation gave about eighty thousand.
If it were just grand tribulations, a qi path Gu Immortal needed to undergo eight or nine grand tribulations approximately to accumulate sixty thousand qi path dao marks. (The new dao marks from the grand tribulation included dao marks of the Gu Immortal's main path as well as some dao marks of other paths.)
From another perspective: As long as Qi Sea Ancestor absorbed this qi harvest fruit, it was like passing half a qi path myriad tribulation without any risk!
So, Qi Sea Ancestor could make enormous gains by absorbing the qi harvest fruits.
Fang Yuan inwardly estimated: "The Qi Sea clone was made from Heavenly Court's qi harvest fruit, he possessed over eight hundred thousand qi path dao marks the moment he was born. After absorbing three qi harvest fruits like this one, the amount will cross one million. My own qi path dao marks is also at this level. When the Qi Sea clone absorbs all the qi harvest fruits in the two heavens' grotto-heavens, his qi path dao marks will surpass mine and accumulate to an unprecedented level!"
Fang Yuan's one million qi path dao marks were obtained from annexing Qi Sea grotto-heaven. The Qi Sea clone was starting anew and accumulating by himself. But by relying on the killer move Qi Jue revival and the qi harvest fruits, his accumulation speed became truly terrifying.
Clearly, for a long time from now on, the Qi Sea clone would become Fang Yuan's number one clone. Based on just battle strength, he would not be lower than the main body, and might even be stronger!
There were many factors that influenced a Gu Immortal's battle strength, for instance the Gu Immortal's individual battle attainment, the battle environment, the level of the Gu Immortal's Gu worms, killer moves, Gu formations, Immortal Gu Houses, and whether the Gu Immortal had an excellent combat system or not.
But the top of these factors would always be the Gu Immortal's cultivation level!
One thousand dao marks could grant a hundred percent amplification.
Besides freaks and monsters like Fang Yuan, Feng Jiu Ge, and the past venerables, on average: rank six Gu Immortals had zero to nine thousand dao marks. Rank seven Gu Immortals had ten thousand to thirty thousand. Rank eights had one hundred thousand to three hundred thousand.
So, the gap between the battle strength of rank seven and rank eight far surpassed the gap between rank six and rank seven. The gap between the latter stages of Gu cultivation would become increasingly bigger. Until they reached rank nine Gu venerable level where an individual could become invincible in the world, dominating everyone and everything.
Why was Northern Plains' Old Ancestor Xue Hu was the number one rank eight in Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world?
He was from the demonic path and lacked suitable Immortal Gu. The main reason was his ice and snow path dao marks far surpassed ordinary numbers.
"According to your estimation, how many dao marks does Demon Immortal Qi Jue have?" Inside the endless white fog, Fang Yuan asked the Qi Sea clone.
Qi Sea clone absorbed the qi harvest fruit while replying: "Maybe over five hundred thousand."
Fang Yuan nodded in agreement.
From the various traces in battles, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's dao marks were slightly lower than Duke Long's. It was very likely because of Fang Yuan and the Southern Alliance disturbing the revival process and causing Demon Immortal Qi Jue to hasten it.
But Demon Immortal Qi Jue had Xi Land.
Xi Land was a secluded domain of heaven and earth!
A complete secluded domain of heaven and earth was a rank nine level immortal material.
So, as long as the qi path killer moves used Xi Land as the core, they would gain terrifying strength, even Spectral Soul could not face them easily.
This was similar to how Fang Yuan had once used reverse flow protection seal to leave a group of enemies without options.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's killer moves were outdated and he lacked Immortal Gu, the two pillars that allowed him to have pseudo venerable battle strength were dao marks and Xi Land. After Xi Land was damaged, his battle strength fell sharply and he was finally imprisoned by Divine Emperor City.
The Qi Sea clone fully absorbed the qi harvest fruit and returned to the sovereign immortal aperture.
Fang Yuan withdrew the endless fog, the alliance members rejoiced when they saw the qi harvest fruit was completely gone.
"We are saved, our homes are saved!"
"As expected of Lord Fang Yuan, he is truly unfathomable and all-powerful!"
"Lord Fang Yuan, my home is in imminent danger, please save it first."
All kinds of flatteries were thrown at Fang Yuan.
Although not even a few of these Gu Immortals were good at fighting, their boot-licking skills were deep and improving day by day.
Fang Yuan then smoothly annexed this Grand Swine grotto-heaven and merged it into Sovereign grotto-heaven.
Grand Swine grotto-heaven was a rank eight transformation path grotto-heaven, it produced boar type desolate beasts, ancient desolate beasts, and even immemorial desolate beasts.
Fang Yuan's transformation path attainment level was at great grandmaster, he naturally could annex it.
Why did he not annex it before?
It was naturally because this Grand Swine grotto-heaven had fused with a nine heavens fragment and had taken in heaven path dao marks, which invaded the heavenly spirit and caused it to become powerless and dull.
Fang Yuan could now refine heaven path dao marks, expanding the 'food option' of sovereign immortal fetus Gu. From now, all grotto-heavens could be annexed by Fang Yuan, even if they had fused with a nine heavens fragment. (As long as the corresponding attainment level was sufficient.)
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Chapter 2072 Easily Creating Killer Moves
Fang Yuan began to create compound killer moves once again.
His divine sense was inside the sovereign immortal aperture, observing all sorts of mortal Gu.
He casually took out two wind path Gu worms from them.
Rank one clear wind wheel Gu and rank two jade wind wheel Gu.
When the former was activated, it would create a light green cyclone below each of the Gu Master's feet and increase their movement speed.
The latter was one of the possible advancements of clear wind wheel Gu. It could form a pair of jade green cyclones which circulated around the Gu Master's arms like armbands, and could increase the Gu Master's punching speed.
"I currently lack movement abilities in a large fight, why not use this as a base to create one?" Fang Yuan had an inspiration and fell into contemplation.
Ever since he fought the Qi Sea clone in immemorial two heavens, he had been thinking of this aspect.
Although it was a show to trick Eastern Sea's righteous path and the variant human alliance, Fang Yuan had truly fought with the Qi Sea clone.
If it were not real, how could there have been such terrifying phenomena? That fight had even cracked the sky and caused the powder of the heavens to scatter down!
In this friendly spar, Fang Yuan had used all kinds of killer moves, most of them put up an excellent performance. Even the worst ones were at ordinary level, at least their performance was up to par, there was neither surprise nor disappointment.
This spar made Fang Yuan understand his deficiency. Although he had already created many compound killer moves, they were mostly offensive or defensive methods, he lacked movement killer moves.
The two wind path Gu worms gave Fang Yuan an inspiration.
In his conceptualization, when he activated the wind path Gu worm, two cyclones would condense below his two feet and they would continuously rotate like two wheels. As long as some time passes, the wheels would rotate increasingly faster and thus increase Fang Yuan's speed continuously.
"Let me see how many wind path Immortal Gu I have."
Fang Yuan had very few wind path Immortal Gu on him, but the large battle earlier provided him many wind path Immortal Gu.
The variant human alliance members also had some.
If it was still not enough, Fang Yuan could also extort the whole of Eastern Sea's righteous path and demand wind path Immortal Gu.
Fang Yuan had too many options!
Soon, Fang Yuan obtained several wind path Immortal Gu from his subordinates and they were all of rank seven level.
After pondering over it and trying out many wind path Immortal Gu as well as referencing wind path killer moves, the initial form of Fang Yuan's wind path killer move was created.
After the first activation, two cyclone wheels formed under both feet which could move the Gu Immortal's body.
Fang Yuan frowned slightly after testing the killer move, he felt its greatest flaw.
Although this killer move would become increasingly faster, its initial speed was too slow and it would need some time for it to show even a slight improvement.
How to improve it?
This was actually a common issue with wind path killer moves. Be they a gentle wind or fierce gale, they both needed some time to reach their strongest state.
But there were naturally many methods to push their strength to the maximum at the very start. If one's wind path attainment level was high enough, the killer moves could be modified to be extremely exquisite. They could also sacrifice a lot of time to prepare the killer move in advance and let it erupt at once. It was also possible to expend much more immortal essence to increase the strength.
However, Fang Yuan threw these methods to the back of his mind!
Because those were all ordinary solutions.
Fang Yuan targeted fire path instead.
Fire path's explosive strength was far beyond wind path. Based on just burst potential, fire path was at the top one or two among all paths.
After choosing several suitable fire path Immortal Gu, this compound killer move's modification was completed!
"Let's name it fire-wind wheel." Fang Yuan casually chose a name.
The killer move fire-wind wheel had burst speed and could also become increasingly faster, the crucial points were that it consumed little immortal essence and also did not need much mental control.
Fang Yuan tried it once again and was rather satisfied with it. Fire-wind wheel was a rank seven killer move, but was at an extraordinary level that trampled upon at least seventy percent of all existing killer moves!
However, it would be a different situation if this killer move were in the hands of other Gu Immortals.
Almost no Gu Immortal with a clear mind would use it. Based on just the internal friction between wind path and fire path, this killer move's practical results were lowered to rank six level.
Expending immortal essence for a rank seven killer move but getting rank six effect. This killer move would be lower than low grade in other Gu Immortals' evaluation.
This was the advantage of over three thousand heaven path dao marks.
It greatly reduced the internal friction between different dao marks, giving hope to many killer moves in Fang Yuan's hands.
Most importantly, the difficulty of deducing compound killer moves had fallen greatly for Fang Yuan!
If they were ordinary Gu Immortals who primarily cultivated wind path and were to conceptualize a killer move like fire-wind wheel, they definitely would not foolishly choose to use fire path Immortal Gu as another core. At most, they would use some other paths' low rank Immortal Gu as supplementary, and the quantity would be few as well.
The most common result would be to use countless fire path mortal Gu to reduce the internal friction as much as possible. But with this, the killer move would include too many Gu worms; the difficulty of its activation would soar, the concentration required would increase, and the overall value of the killer move would also fall.
For a killer move to be practical, there could not be too many Gu worms, the immortal essence burden could not be too heavy, the effect had to be good, and there could not be an obvious flaw.
So, creating a killer move was an extremely difficult project!
But for Fang Yuan, he could conceptualize compound killer moves with not only dual cores, but three cores, four cores, and more. Wind path did not have burst potential, so he casually chose fire path.
Single path killer moves had limited space for modification.
Compound killer moves were even more so, because they had to consider internal friction, which caused the number of compound killer moves in history to be far fewer than single path killer moves.
Single path killer moves had always been orthodox, they were the most mainstream!
But Fang Yuan's current situation was completely different.
Because of the great reduction in internal friction, he had much more room than ordinary Gu Immortals when creating and modifying killer moves. In his situation, the more paths there were in this world, the lower the difficulty of conceptualizing killer moves!
Because of this, Fang Yuan could rapidly create a large amount of compound killer moves in a short period of time.
He had countless Gu recipes and killer moves, so even if his wind path and fire path attainment levels were not high, he could find references and easily conceive a killer move like fire-wind wheel!
When he sparred with the Qi Sea clone before, Fang Yuan used killer moves like sword feather bladewing, heartache crying blood, thunder note stream, and refinement butterfly. They were only a small portion of the outstanding ones in his collection.
Three thousand heaven path dao marks might be few but they truly opened up a brand new world for Fang Yuan!
Since ancient times, countless heroes and experts had only lightly dabbled in this new world. They could only explore a few steps before they were forced to halt helplessly.
But with the help of heaven path dao marks, Fang Yuan made over ten steps, or even one hundred steps, easily obtaining an unprecedented achievement.
"Heaven path is all-encompassing and emphasizes balance of all beings, it is truly wondrous beyond words!" Over the next few days, Fang Yuan secretly created and modified compound killer moves, while leading Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai to clean up every grotto-heaven.
Most of the qi harvest fruits of the variant human alliance members were devoured by Qi Sea Ancestor, while some were left behind to grow in the grotto-heavens.
Fang Yuan annexed three rank eight grotto-heavens: transformation path Grand Swine grotto-heaven, time path Time Difference grotto-heaven, and rule path Novelty grotto-heaven.
The three grotto-heavens were rich in resources and had deep foundations. They were located on the nodes of heaven veins and had been taken care of by heaven's will for many years.
Fang Yuan made ample arrangements. He split up these three grotto-heavens and placed them all over the sovereign immortal aperture.
For instance, Grand Swine grotto-heaven's two super resource points were rolling fall cliff and pin tree snowfield.
Rolling fall cliff was home to a large number of desolate beast jumping pigs. These desolate beasts did not know how to walk and could only jump. When they grew to a certain size and their bodies were fattened enough, they would move to the tallest cliff and jump down.
A majestic waterfall flowed down the cliff. The water of the waterfall was boiling, containing endless fire path and water path dao marks, creating hot steam all year round.
When jumping pigs jump into the boiling waterfall, ten percent of them would die from the corrosion of fire and water path dao marks, while the remaining ninety percent would receive severe burns as well as bone fractures from the fall, barely surviving.
But as long as these jumping pigs survive, they would breakthrough to become deadly fat pigs!
Deadly fat pigs were not desolate beasts, their life essence had broken through to another level, becoming ancient desolate beasts.
Rolling fall cliff had an impressive number of deadly fat pigs and jumping pigs. The scale of the deadly fat pigs produced every year was number one in five regions and two heavens!
And pin tree snowfield was home to grand swines. The grand swine was an immemorial black pig, even its bones were black. Its body was as large as a mountain and its movement was slow.
Pin tree snowfield was extremely vast. Fang Yuan put it in Mini Northern Plains, increasing the area of Mini Northern Plains by twenty percent.
There were over five hundred grand swines of all sizes and ages.
Fang Yuan had all of a sudden become the largest pig farm owner in the world!
As for Time Difference grotto-heaven and Novelty grotto-heaven, they each had one super resource point.
Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture had suffered severe losses due to the myriad tribulation. But annexing these three grotto-heavens immediately showed an improvement, the development of the grotto-heaven even increasing to twenty-five percent!
This development was slightly higher than before the myriad tribulation.
Previously, the sovereign immortal aperture only had one super resource point, it was Dang Hun Mountain which produced guts Gu. Next was the dragonfish resource point, which Fang Yuan had invested a lot into and grown to a giant resource point.
On one hand, Fang Yuan's management of the sovereign immortal aperture involved seizing grotto-heavens like Hei Fan grotto-heaven and Qi Sea grotto-heaven, but how could these two grotto-heavens have the security of the variant human alliance's grotto-heavens! Heaven's will was even taking care of the latter.
On the other hand, Fang Yuan's management also included creating eerie fire dragon python, sand gull soil, and Five Light Mountain. They were all at the initial phase and the investment in them was also little, their growth could not compare to the resources in the variant humans' grotto-heavens.
Finally, Fang Yuan also focused on raising humans and variant humans but did not put his energy in investing resources on them.
After annexing, the follow-up arrangements were extremely diverse and numerous, Fang Yuan handed these to the humans and variant humans in the immortal aperture to deal with.
He started on refining the heaven path dao marks contained in these grotto-heavens!
As for Qi Sea Ancestor, he returned to Qi Sea.
Xia clan's surviving Gu Immortals were all in qi sea and cried tears of joy when they saw Qi Sea Ancestor.
Qi Sea Ancestor was still alive, this was the greatest news!
Eastern Sea's large and super forces had sent representatives to station in qi sea. The moment they received this news, they also let out sighs of relief.
Without Qi Sea Ancestor, they simply had no way to deal with Fang Yuan.
"This defeat is my fault." Qi Sea Ancestor took the responsibility, "Cough cough cough."
"Don't say that, Ancestor! It was my Xia clan who conceived the plan to attack the variant human alliance."
"Sigh, I am too ashamed to face those comrades who died in combat…" Qi Sea Ancestor looked up and sighed, his eyes were slightly red.
"Qi Sea Ancestor, please heal your injuries for now. Tell us whatever resources you need, the whole of Eastern Sea will support you with all our strength!" Eastern Sea's Shen clan Gu Immortal spoke, other super forces' representatives also nodded with no objection.
Under everyone's gaze, Qi Sea Ancestor coughed a mouthful of blood and sighed: "The important thing now is not my injury. Many of those in the two heavens who sided with me still have the qi harvest fruit problem in their grotto heavens. I need to get rid of these qi harvest fruits first!"
The immortals were immediately moved, the eyes of many Gu Immortals of the two heavens turned wet with tears.
"Qi Sea Ancestor, you are truly worthy of being the role model of Eastern Sea's righteous path!"
"Lord Ancestor, we, the two heaven's Gu Immortals, will follow your lead without question!!"
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Chapter 2073 Enthusiastic Cultivation
Sovereign immortal aperture, Mini Central Continent.
A new time path immortal formation's activation had reached a crucial point.
"Go." Fang Yuan willed, a large lump of cactus honey shot into the formation.
This was a rank eight time path immortal material.
At the next moment, profound light erupted and turned into countless light specks, which then spread rapidly like silver-white fireworks.
The light specks dissipated rapidly without any indication, as if the formation that Fang Yuan had constructed with great effort had completely failed.
However, when Fang Yuan used his investigative killer move, he saw the phantom image of a pool in midair. This pool was similar to a year essence pool but it was not big, only about ten percent of the size of a year essence pool.
Fang Yuan observed for a while before nodding in satisfaction, this formation arrangement was a success.
With a thought, he opened the rank eight year essence pool in the mini nine heavens. A tributary of the River of Time flowed down and gathered into the newly constructed sub-pool.
When the water of the River of Time in the sub-pool had accumulated to a certain level, it started to operate on its own. The river water passed through the bottom and poured onto the ground below.
At the bottom of the year essence sub-pool was an area of white fog. The fog covered a marsh which had a large number of desolate plants — extreme marsh flowers.
Some of these flowers were in the shape of an erect bud that was the size of a house. Some were blossomed and looked like a trumpet with their petals connected, and strands of white mist constantly spread towards the outside from the pistil of the flowers.
This was the flower mist extreme marsh that Fang Yuan had constructed meticulously.
Rank eight Immortal Gu Regret's food was the fresh extreme marsh flower mist.
Under the irrigation of the tributary of the River of Time, the whole flower mist extreme marsh's time was sped up. The water of the River of Time continued to spread over the surroundings, but walls of blue translucent light appeared around the flower mist extreme marsh.
As such, the time acceleration was only limited to the range within the walls.
"Success, it can even be said to be perfect." Fang Yuan inspected several times and was greatly satisfied when he found no issues.
Fang Yuan had obtained the method of the light blue translucent walls from Time Difference grotto-heaven.
Time Difference grotto-heaven's large resource points were all like this, encapsulated by walls of light, the rate of time inside was many times faster than other areas. Thus, Time Difference grotto-heaven had an outstanding production of time path resources.
Fang Yuan added the year essence pool on top of the original foundation, every sub-pool was in charge of regulating the time of a time path zone. The rank eight year essence pool was the main dam and these year essence sub-pools were secondary dams. The tributary of the River of Time drawn from the River of Time was first gathered into year essence pool and its largest distributary was spread over the whole immortal aperture, while many sub-distributaries gathered into secondary dams and sped up the production of the resources.
Like this, Fang Yuan's resource production was accelerated by over ten times!
Naturally, this method was not just used to speed up the resource production, it could also be used on Gu worms.
When the Gu worms were placed in a slowed time path zone, their food requirement would fall sharply.
This method showed minimal effect in other Gu Immortals' hands, the reason was simple — dao mark conflict. The time path zones were a time path method in essence, if they were used on Gu worms of other paths, the higher their rank, the lower the effect they would have on them.
Fang Yuan possessed heaven path dao marks which could reduce internal friction. After he attempted this method, he found the effects were quite wonderful.
On one hand, it could reduce the food requirement of the Gu worms; on the other hand, it could increase resource production. The issue of food for Gu worms was resolved before it even became a problem.
Qi Sea Ancestor left, but Fang Yuan was not idle during these few days.
The blessed lands left behind by the dead Eastern Sea Gu Immortals were almost all annexed by him.
And regarding the two heavens' grotto-heavens, Fang Yuan intended to leave them alone for the moment.
First, the sovereign immortal aperture needed food and had to annex a grotto-heaven once in a while, it could also reset the countdown of calamities and tribulations, which allowed Fang Yuan to make arrangements flexibly.
Secondly, grotto-heavens were like flower pots that were growing the qi harvest fruits. Although there was not a big hope, if the qi harvest fruits could continue to grow, it would not only be a suppression towards the variant human alliance members, it could also nourish the Qi Sea clone.
As for the three grotto-heavens that Fang Yuan annexed before, they were necessary.
Fang Yuan urgently needed to replenish his immortal essence.
The efficiency of using immortal essence stones was too low in replenishing rank eight immortal essence, the main source was self-production.
But the immortal aperture's immortal essence production depended on the immortal aperture origin core. And whether the immortal aperture origin core was strengthened or not, it depended on the immortal aperture's development.
To increase the development, Fang Yuan had to annex those three grotto-heavens.
The fate war had consumed a large amount of Fang Yuan's immortal essence reserves. Afterwards, Fang Yuan did not have any time to rest, he ran around many places during the qi tides, searching for a way to deal with heaven path dao marks. After finding the method, Fang Yuan entered Heavenly Court, which immediately started the pursuit battle.
Over this period of time, Fang Yuan had fought too many battles and almost all the battles were against strong enemies who were at the peak of the Gu Immortal world.
By now, Fang Yuan's immortal essence reserves had already fallen below the warning line, he needed to rest and recuperate and could not fight anymore within a short period of time!
"Fortunately, I seized the year essence pool and have plenty of time path methods that are able to speed up my immortal aperture's time flow to the limits. Otherwise, my immortal essence would have already been exhausted."
"Such a pity that I don't have rank eight Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus, otherwise I would not have to be worried about this."
Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus could produce rank eight immortal essence, its owner, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, had been the venerable with the largest immortal essence reserves! Since Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable began his cultivation, he seemed to have never had to worry about primeval essence or immortal essence. On the contrary, his enemies would often fall into the awkward situation of using up all their primeval essence and immortal essence when fighting Genesis Lotus.
Fang Yuan lacked immortal essence currently and it was delaying his recovery.
To explore dream realms, he needed immortal essence.
To cultivate soul path, he needed immortal essence.
He had lost many of his Immortal Gu and they needed to be refined. He had many low ranked Immortal Gu which needed to be upgraded. The injured Immortal Gu needed to be repaired using refinement path methods, which also required immortal essence.
Because of the lacking immortal essence, he had to reserve the final bit of it for any unexpected situations, so Fang Yuan could only put these tasks aside for the moment.
Only because the difficulty of creating compound killer moves was very small, he was able to barely manage it. Testing new killer moves no doubt required immortal essence, but it was within an acceptable range.
Besides accumulating immortal essence and deducing compound killer moves, Fang Yuan was relocating resource points as well as sorting out the immortal materials.
The resource points of the two heavens' grotto-heavens that could be moved were all relocated by Fang Yuan. After all, these grotto-heavens were in the immemorial two heavens, they had to defend a vast area and would not be able to defend against enemy attacks in time.
The countless immortal materials were sorted out and stored in several storages within the sovereign immortal aperture. Fang Yuan imitated Heavenly Court and constructed several large disclosed storages as well as several highly valuable hidden storages.
The variant human Gu Immortals enjoyed the favor of heaven's will and were truly rich.
Among the resources, wood path immortal materials were most abundant. Because Xiao He Jian and Green Forest Great Sage were minimen, besides them, there were also two wood path grotto-heavens.
There were naturally many immortal materials of other paths as well, but what gave Fang Yuan a pleasant surprise was he was able to get luck path immortal materials, and at an astonishing scale at that!
For example, luck path ancient desolate beast rolling cat, after collecting all of them, Fang Yuan discovered he had gathered dozens.
This small cat was extremely exquisite and could roll around on an adult's stretched palm.
The rolling cat looked extremely endearing with its snow white fur, tender claws, and large shiny black eyes. Its purring sound was also extremely delicate, meow meow meow…. the listener's heart would go wild.
There was also lucky jade, this was a rank eight luck path immortal material. It let out dazzling light from time to time and contained a dense number of luck path dao marks.
Tooth gap water was another luck path material. It looked no different from ordinary spring water, but if one drank it, it would get stuck in the gaps between teeth; it was not only extremely unpleasant, it even reduced the Gu Immortal's luck sharply.
"The variant human alliance does not have anyone cultivating luck path. But these people were able to develop a utopia away from the rule of humanity, they secluded themselves from the world and propagated, their luck naturally would be high. Let alone when they have the favor of heaven's will!" Fang Yuan carefully pondered, it made sense to gain these luck path immortal materials.
These luck path immortal materials were highly valuable to Fang Yuan and they came at the right time.
Because he needed to advance many luck path Immortal Gu but had only raised the rank of Cooking Luck Pot. Cooking Luck Pot's rank was somewhat too low for the current Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan estimated he would earn a large amount of immortal materials and even Immortal Gu in the future.
Because those Eastern Sea Gu Immortal captives were still locked in the sovereign immortal aperture!
Fang Yuan's extortion letters were already sent to every large force of Eastern Sea.
After the heads of Eastern Sea's righteous path received the extortion letters, they sent them to Qi Sea Ancestor, hoping to listen to his opinion and ask him to decide.
Qi Sea Ancestor had just finished running around all the two heavens' grotto-heavens that had allied with him and absorbed all of the qi harvest fruits.
Currently, his qi path dao marks had broken through two million!
In less than half a month, the Qi Sea clone's strength rose explosively at a shocking rate.
The Qi Sea clone did not publicize and hid it for the moment, he would hide it however long he could.
"If those remaining qi harvest fruits could grow up again, it would be better." Qi Sea Ancestor secretly hoped, but he knew there was not much chance of this happening.
The qi harvest fruits were produced because of qi tides. Almost all the grotto-heavens were sitting on heaven veins, so they had major issues with this.
In the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, the five regions' qi tides showed no movements, which signified the merging of the five regions' qi was near completion.
Qi Sea Ancestor was also pondering about his own cultivation.
He did not lack dao marks nor immortal essence, but killer moves.
Qi Sea Ancestor only had few presentable killer moves. Although he obtained Primordial Origin's true inheritance, Heavenly Court was too familiar with the killer moves in it and they needed to be modified.
Qi Sea Ancestor's ambition naturally was not limited to just this.
He wanted to create his own combat system!
His killer moves alone could bully some rank eight experts or the weaker pseudo venerables. But when facing people like Spectral Soul and Duke Long, he needed an excellent combat system.
The main factor that influenced a Gu Immortal's strength was cultivation level. But killer moves, Immortal Gu, immortal essence, favorable conditions, and so on also were influencing factors. For instance, special killer moves like reverse flow protection seal could allow the Gu Immortal to bypass ranks in battle. A combat system was also one of the factors.
To most Gu Immortals, a combat system was not necessary. Because the mentioned factors were enough to create a difference in battle strength and decide victory or defeat.
But to Fang Yuan and Qi Sea, a combat system was a must.
Because when cultivation level, killer moves, Immortal Gu and other common factors could not decide victory or defeat, it would depend on who had a mature and more outstanding combat system.
Fang Yuan's extortion letters made a round before finally arriving at Qi Sea Ancestor's desk.
Qi Sea Ancestor did not even take a glance at them, because he was aware of the content.
"My injuries are not light, I need to recuperate in closed cultivation." Qi Sea Ancestor's one sentence made Eastern Sea's righteous path lose the will to resist Fang Yuan. Even Qi Sea Ancestor did not stand up, who else could resist Fang Yuan?
Pay the immortal materials obediently to get back their clans' Gu Immortals?
Qi Sea Ancestor spoke once again: "I have already contacted Heavenly Court, maybe they will send their troops to reinforce us."
The Eastern Sea righteous path Gu Immortals felt complicated emotions and could not say anything.
After all, Qi Sea Ancestor was 'heavily injured' and he even contacted Heavenly Court for them, he did not act indifferent towards them.
As a lone cultivator who sided with the righteous path, Qi Sea Ancestor had already done what he could!
As for those Xia clan Gu Immortals, they rested and recuperated inside the Qi Sea formation. Their first supreme elder was already killed by Fang Yuan, the remaining few Gu Immortals became much more obedient.
They had been anything but obedient before, especially when the variant human Gu Immortals escaped from Central Continent. These Xia clan Gu Immortals had been extremely happy and thought the chance to regain their home had come.
The result…
The result was, the Qi Sea clone went along with and made use of their plan, their last Immortal Gu House was dismantled, their first supreme elder was killed.
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Chapter 2074 Contribution Board
Eastern Sea, Hot Springs blessed land.
Ever since Fang Yuan subdued the variant human alliance, he had been in closed cultivation within Xia clan's headquarters.
And the dragonman clone Wu Shuai was representing him in handling the alliance's daily affairs.
"I have taken note of your contributions, you may leave now." Wu Shuai's voice rang in the hall.
"This subordinate takes his leave."
At the next moment, the palace door opened and two miniman Gu Immortals flew out; they were Xiao He Jian and Green Forest Great Sage.
After leaving the palace, the respectful expressions on their faces disappeared and were replaced by grief and helplessness.
The reason the two immortals were summoned was because Fang Yuan had taken a fancy to their wood path Immortal Gu.
Under Wu Shuai's persuasion, the two immortals could only offer their wood path Immortal Gu.
Green Forest Great Sage transmitted his voice that was filled with anger: "Lord Xiao, what do we do now? My forest Gu is the core for many of my killer moves, I have lost almost all my battle strength without it."
Xiao He Jian's expression was unsightly as well: "Hmph, you only lost rank seven forest Gu, I had to offer rank eight Gu myself."
The two naturally were not willing to contribute, but the situation was beyond their control, what could they do about it?
In fact, this situation had been happening often recently. Alliance members were all furious but did not dare to revolt.
"The list has been published!" Suddenly, an excited voice reached the two miniman Gu Immortals' ears.
The two immortals changed direction and arrived in front of an information path mortal Gu House.
There was a list pasted on this mortal Gu House, and there were two large words written at the top: Contribution Board!
Looking below that, Xiao He Jian was listed at the top, his contribution points as high as four digits. As for Green Forest Great Sage, although he was not among the top three, he was top ten as well.
Green Forest Great Sage became slightly happier: "Lord Xiao, look, you are in first place! Alliance Leader did not deceive us, he really remembered our contribution to the alliance."
He was depressed earlier, but now his mood had gotten much better.
Xiao He Jian snorted while commenting in his head: "This is just an exploitation method of the higher ups! I did not expect this demon Fang Yuan to have such political skills as well."
"Sigh, I don't have such indomitable strength like his and my headquarters still have the qi harvest fruit. In the current situation, what else can I do other than follow Fang Yuan?"
Xiao He Jian had outstanding strength and was not any weaker than a Heavenly Court expert. Unfortunately, even with his strength, he could only lower his head in front of Fang Yuan.
He was not willing to do so, but what could he do?
Circumstances often gave people no choice!
"Contribution board?" Soon, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and the rest also learned of this significant news.
"Over this period of time, alliance members were frequently summoned and pressured to offer Immortal Gu. Even Xiao He Jian was not exempted, what should I do?" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was worried.
"My name has not appeared on the contribution board, this is not a good thing as a vice alliance leader." Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was feeling somewhat anxious.
But he was reluctant to part with his ice and snow path Immortal Gu.
"If so, I need to gather a batch of immortal materials and offer them. I have to be among the top on the contribution board!" Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch soon made up his mind.
Naturally, Fang Yuan could force all of his subordinates to hand over their Immortal Gu. But this action would be too unsightly. The tiny bit of unity gathered would dissipate. If this happened, Fang Yuan's previous efforts would have somewhat been in vain.
Although Fang Yuan was a demonic overlord, he was also deeply aware of the righteous path's tricks.
Putting up a contribution board could ease many conflicts and could also stimulate the enthusiasm of others.
Naturally, it was still the same in essence, the strong were exploiting the weak!
On the very day Fang Yuan put up the contribution board, a major event happened on Qi Sea's end as well.
The Gu Immortals of Eastern Sea's righteous path had gathered in the hall and appointed Qi Sea Ancestor as the alliance leader of Eastern Sea's Righteous Qi Alliance!
Fang Yuan led the variant human alliance which became a huge threat to Eastern Sea's super forces. Especially the miserable defeat not long ago, it had increased the wariness and worry of Eastern Sea's large forces regarding Fang Yuan's force.
Facing the bullying of the strong, the weak naturally had to work together.
Forced by Fang Yuan, every super force's intention to unite had never been so strong!
As for the alliance leader's position, there was no space for competition. All the clans jointly appointed Qi Sea Ancestor. Only Qi Sea Ancestor, who had pseudo venerable battle strength, could openly face Fang Yuan.
The Qi Sea clone did not pretend to be modest, this situation was within his expectations.
"Since I am the Righteous Qi Alliance's alliance leader, I will give commands for the overall situation, I hope everyone will not merely pretend to obey the orders." Qi Sea Ancestor said solemnly.
"We don't dare to." Eastern Sea's righteous path immortals responded.
"There are three major tasks presently." Qi Sea Ancestor went into details, "First is the creation of an alliance storage, every clan has to offer a certain amount of resources, including not only immortal materials, but Immortal Gu recipes, immortal killer moves, and so on."
"The second task is to immediately create a contribution board and mission board. It will be fair and impartial, anyone who contributes to the alliance from now on will have their merits known to everyone. The Righteous Qi Alliance's affairs should be handled by people who are qualified to take on the tasks."
"The third task is that alliance members should help and protect each other. If there is a traitor, other members must ally to get rid of the traitor, there must be no conniving."
"Reasonable, very reasonable." The immortals agreed.
They all knew that they could only create the foundation of the alliance by doing this. Otherwise, the Righteous Qi Alliance would only exist in name and would be better off not established.
Qi Sea Ancestor held the first group discussion.
The first topic was regarding the exchange of true inheritances and the communication of geniuses across various clans. Some clans had many refinement path Gu Immortals, while some were strong in wisdom path. Such collaboration could truly strengthen the whole Righteous Qi Alliance's strength.
The second topic was a discussion on how to negotiate with Fang Yuan and get back the captured Gu Immortals.
All the clans hoped Fang Yuan could return the intact Gu Immortals with their immortal apertures. For this, they were willing to make a concession in terms of ransom.
The third topic was to contact Heavenly Court openly with the Righteous Qi Alliance's name, hoping to ally with Heavenly Court and establish an even stronger alliance army to exterminate Fang Yuan and the variant human alliance.
After receiving this information, Wu Yong pondered quietly in the study room for an entire afternoon.
Recently, Wu Yong got rid of the Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts, increasing his reputation even more. However, soon afterwards, news of the fight between Fang Yuan and Qi Sea as well as the defeat of Eastern Sea's righteous path was spread all over the world.
The following developments made Wu Yong feel like they were too much to take in.
Eastern Sea had split into two large alliances which entered the stage of confrontation!
"Lord." Wu Ba Chong sought an audience.
Looking at Wu Yong's solemn expression, Wu Ba Chong knew of the situation and his tone became much more gentle.
The changes in Eastern Sea's situation were a heavy strike to Wu Yong's ambition.
Wu Yong had intended to invade Eastern Sea after uniting Southern Border. But now, Eastern Sea underwent a complete change, let alone the matter of two large alliances, Fang Yuan was openly occupying an area of Eastern Sea.
Wu Yong's great plan that was just about to start was showing signs of failure already.
"Lord, do we still attack Mushroomman Paradise?" Wu Ba Chong asked.
Wu Yong's gaze flashed, he was too familiar with Wu Ba Chong and asked directly: "What happened this time?"
Wu Ba Chong handed an information path mortal Gu.
Wu Yong received and browsed it.
He crushed the information path mortal Gu and slammed his fist on the desk. Bang, the brushes and papers were scattered everywhere.
"These cowards, scoundrels!" Wu Yong clenched his teeth, his gaze carrying a trace of malevolent light.
The information stated that a large number of Southern Border clans had secretly contacted Lu Wei Yin.
Their reason for doing this was clear.
Fang Yuan displayed the might of the number one demon in the world, which struck fear in these super forces!
They might not want to be directly affiliated with Fang Yuan, but not long ago, Lu Wei Yin had collaborated with Fang Yuan and ambushed Spectral Soul. So these super forces secretly contacted Lu Wei Yin to ally with him.
This was the way of survival for these super forces.
On the surface, they could not tolerate the existence of demon Fang Yuan, but secretly, there was communication between them. In case something happens in the future, there would be a trace of friendship and an opportunity to survive.
"Lord, demonic forces are rampant currently. Since lord has the great ambition of uniting the world, why not endure for some time and wait for a good opportunity?" Wu Ba Chong persuaded.
Wu Yong fell into silence.
He was aware of his plan and knew its pros and cons very well.
In the Gu world, strength ruled above all! In ancient times, Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable led humanity in overthrowing the rule of the variant humans. And at present, pseudo venerables like Fang Yuan and Qi Sea Ancestor were leading the whole world. The result of their confrontation would influence the politics of all five regions.
An alliance of weaklings to fight the strong?
History proved that this would always end up badly!
The conflict of dao marks made numbers lose their advantage.
Since ancient times, it was not that no predecessors thought of putting effort in this aspect. Ancient battle formations and Immortal Gu Houses emerged at opportune timings, but what of it?
Look at the fate war, the main characters were Duke Long, Fang Yuan, Feng Jiu Ge and others. They were all Gu Immortals!
Even Demon Judgment Board, Dragon Palace, Di Zang Sheng and others only served as support.
Naturally, Wu Yong's plan was not making an alliance of weaklings to fight the strong.
He wanted to plunder enough resources through the alliance to increase his cultivation and battle strength to pseudo venerable and even venerable level!
Developing a force was only a method to grow stronger, it could gather resources and pressure enemies. In the end, everything depended on oneself.
Looking at the history of the five regions, super forces were no more than vassals of the strong. A super force's prosperity and decline was determined by the condition of their top experts.
After a long while, Wu Yong broke the silence and spoke: "Wu Ba Chong, your suggestion is reasonable. Alright, we will put off the attack on Mushroomman Paradise for the moment."
"We need to do several things now." Wu Yong said while tapping the desk with his finger.
"One, actively search and plunder all kinds of inheritances, strive to find venerable methods so that we can openly resist existences like Fang Yuan."
"Two, spread rumors boasting about Fang Yuan's strength, emphasize on the conflict between Fang Yuan and Heavenly Court, and try to make them fight each other."
"Three, secretly take part in internal affairs of other Southern Border clans. Assassination, instigation, temptation, no matter what methods are used, I want them to be more obedient!"
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Chapter 2075 Venerable Revival
Central Continent.
Flowing Silver blessed land.
"Spare, please spare me!"
"Retreat, she is demonic immortal Zi Wei! She is not someone we can fight."
"Such bad luck, we just invaded and demonic immortal Zi Wei arrives!"
The Central Continent Gu Immortals sighed as they escaped everywhere in a hurry.
"Did I let you leave?" Fairy Zi Wei sneered, purple radiance spreading from her whole body.
The radiance shone upon half the sky, most of the Central Continent Gu Immortals died miserably, and only one escaped alive.
Fairy Zi Wei was a rank eight Gu Immortal and a wisdom path great expert. Against these rank six and rank seven Gu Immortals, she displayed absolutely despair-inducing battle strength.
After easily killing the Gu Immortals, Fairy Zi Wei waved her finger, the Gu Immortals' souls were pulled to Ying Wu Xie.
"Master's soul foundation will greatly increase once again after devouring them." Fairy Zi Wei said with a smile.
Ying Wu Xie, however did not feel joy and was low-spirited: "Sigh, even if my foundation is stronger, so what? The main body is dead, I am merely a lingering split soul that is barely living."
"Master, don't lose spirit." An Xun quickly persuaded, "I have brought almost all the soul path resources of Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, they are food for your cultivation."
During this period of time, An Xun had already joined with Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie.
After urging Ying Wu Xie, An Xun said to Fairy Zi Wei: "Lady Zi Wei, did you intentionally let that transformation path Gu Immortal leave? Why did you do that? Are you hoping for him to bring in even more Gu Immortals?"
An Xun's soul was tampered by Spectral Soul and had extreme loyalty towards Ying Wu Xie. He would object to anything that went against Ying Wu Xie's benefits.
Right now, he was staring fixedly at Fairy Zi Wei with a questioning look.
Fairy Zi Wei sneered and did not respond.
Ying Wu Xie quickly lightened the mood: "If I am not wrong, that transformation path Gu Immortal should be Steel Rush Warrior. He is Fang Yuan's subordinate, a Gu Immortal of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven. After the fate war, he has been drifting about in the outside world."
An Xun frowned and felt indignant: "It was Fang Yuan who killed our master's main body, he is our sworn enemy. There is even more reason not to let him leave!"
Ying Wu Xie sighed: "At present, Fang Yuan's demonic might is overwhelming, he has completely subdued the variant human alliance and is occupying a region of Eastern Sea. When he fought Eastern Sea's righteous path alliance, he displayed pseudo venerable battle strength and should have already broken free from the shackles of the heaven path dao marks. He is now calling his subordinates to return, do you think any super force will dare to block them? Even Central Continent's ten great ancient sects are turning a blind eye to it."
Fairy Zi Wei added: "Fang Yuan is crafty, despicable, sinister, and vicious. In his youth, he slaughtered his whole clan and relatives to increase his aptitude. He is cold and heartless, be it the fate war or the recent battle against Heavenly Court, he threw those subordinates away without any hesitation. Even if we killed this Steel Rush Warrior, can we inflict any loss to Fang Yuan?"
"Damn it!" An Xun clenched his fists as he realized: "This demon's dominance has been established, we cannot destabilize him indeed. Not only this, even killing his subordinates poses a huge threat should Fang Yuan decide to investigate it. Since this demon has already recovered his battle strength, why has he not gone to fight Heavenly Court?"
Fairy Zi Wei analyzed while looting Flowing Silver blessed land: "I have a suspicion, that is Fang Yuan's immortal essence reserves. It is very likely he lacks immortal essence currently. He may only have been putting up a front when fighting Qi Sea Ancestor, currently, he should be completely focused on recuperating."
"Are you sure?" An Xun's eyes shone: "Maybe we can make use of this!"
Fairy Zi Wei fell into silence once again.
Ying Wu Xie gave a bitter smile: "Do you know what our greatest gain in fighting with Fang Yuan is?"
"What?"
"It is that this person, Fang Yuan, can never be estimated with common sense. According to the previous battles' intensity and frequency, it is common sense for him to be lacking immortal essence now. But no one knows how many methods he has, how many venerables have provided resources for him, what miraculous methods he has brought back from his rebirth. Even my main body fell to his trap, it was not easy for us to escape, it is better if we don't try to provoke him." Ying Wu Xie explained.
Fairy Zi Wei frowned, Ying Wu Xie's words did not upset her, instead she felt somewhat worried about Ying Wu Xie's morale.
Fang Yuan showed astonishing performances so frequently that Ying Wu Xie was now filled with fear. This was not the disposition of the grand Spectral Soul!
Ying Wu Xie was not just a split soul of Spectral Soul, he was the master whom Fairy Zi Wei and An Xun had devoted their loyalty to, they were looking forward to his rise.
To lift Ying Wu Xie's spirit, Fairy Zi Wei pondered for a while and said slowly: "Fang Yuan is terrifying indeed. He has always been pressured by all forces. Be it the forceful push by great venerables or the pursuit of Heavenly Court when I led it, he had to keep on wandering around from place to place for a long time in a precarious state."
"According to my guess, Fang Yuan was only a chess piece, and the moment he destroyed fate Gu, the venerables who supported him abandoned him. Not only abandoned, they even want to get rid of him! Be it the shackles from heaven path dao marks or Spectral Soul's pursuit, they are both evidence of this."
"But now, Fang Yuan has escaped the shackles and killed Spectral Soul. He is free from the venerables' arrangements and obtained freedom. He never had the time to develop himself properly, but now he has."
"Currently, he is growing stronger with every moment of time at an unknowable speed. Even though I am a wisdom path great expert and have fought Fang Yuan many times, I am unable to estimate how strong he will be the next time he makes a move."
"But, no matter how strong he becomes, as long as he does not become venerable, he is not invincible." Fairy Zi Wei changed the subject.
Ying Wu Xie gave a bitter smile: "Who can say for sure, Fang Yuan might have already become a venerable the next time he makes a move."
"No." Fairy Zi Wei smiled, "The realm of venerable is not that easy to reach. Since ancient times, there have only been ten of them. Venerable ascension holds an enormous secret! All the clues point out that the venerables who helped Fang Yuan will not inform him of this secret."
"So that's it!" An Xun clapped and said excitedly: "This is too good. As long as Fang Yuan does not become a venerable, he will only be a pseudo venerable, no matter how strong he is, there will be limits. Be they Qi Sea Ancestor or Divine Emperor City, they both can fight him."
Ying Wu Xie let out a breath of air: "That means, as long as Fang Yuan does not become venerable, we still have hope?"
Fairy Zi Wei nodded: "Although Fang Yuan is strong, there are many restrictions on him. Fate Gu is destroyed, the order of the world has turned chaotic. Since Demon Immortal Qi Jue revived, could venerables not revive as well? That would not make sense. Demon Immortal Qi Jue was only a pseudo venerable."
An Xun's heart shook: "Lady Zi Wei, you once led Heavenly Court, can it be that you have some clues on venerable revival?"
Fairy Zi Wei shook her head slightly: "This is only my guess, I have no evidence. But one thing is obvious; the stronger the Gu Immortal, the more difficult it is for them to revive. Demon Immortal Qi Jue consumed a grotto-heaven and also borrowed the help of the qi harvest fruit. Even so, because of the severe interference during the revival process, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's strength was not consistent with Heavenly Court's records, it fell after the revival. A venerable's revival will be countless times more difficult than Qi Jue's."
As she said this, Fairy Zi Wei could not help but think of Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable.
She already had many suspicions.
These last days, although she and Ying Wu Xie were pursued, Heavenly Court did not chase them intensely.
After carefully thinking of it, although Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's arrangements showed up during the fate war, they clearly were not focused on guarding Heavenly Court.
Under the control of Genesis Lotus' will, Divine Bean Palace and Emperor City combined, forming Divine Emperor City. But during the fate war, it only stayed in Central Continent and did not move.
And the battle not long ago proved Divine Emperor City could move.
And after the bamboo tree painting that Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable arranged at the topmost floor of Heaven Overseeing Tower absorbed many of Northern Plains' Gu Immortal experts, it flew out of Heavenly Court and left without a trace.
Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable had left behind various methods, but Fairy Zi Wei all along felt Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's focus was on other things, and not on defending Heavenly Court and protecting fate Gu.
"Fang Yuan might have also sensed this so he did not attack Divine Emperor City, I assume?" Fairy Zi Wei gazed towards Eastern Sea.
It was unknown who released the rumor in treasure yellow heaven, but rumors that were luring Fang Yuan and Heavenly Court into fighting were spreading wildly.
There was only one discussion in the whole of the world of the five regions' immortals — the fight between Fang Yuan and Heavenly Court's Divine Emperor City would decide who was the ruler of the world!
Wu Yong only started it, Western Desert's Gu Immortals, Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world, Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world, and even the two heaven's Gu Immortals had strong motives to secretly give momentum to this rumor.
"This plan is quite good, but what kind of person is Fang Yuan, will he fall for it?" Fairy Zi Wei sneered.
The world's game of chess that involved all living beings was decided by the fight between several people. Although Fairy Zi Wei did not have the strength to participate, as a wisdom path great expert, she had the ability to observe this game.
Flowing Silver blessed land was looted completely and Fairy Zi Wei successfully obtained the Flowing Silver inheritance as well.
This was a metal path inheritance created by Silver Horn, a rank seven Gu Immortal of Central Continent.
It did not have much value to Fairy Zi Wei. Ying Wu Xie and An Xun also cultivated soul path, so the true inheritance's value was not big. The useful part of it were the immortal materials in the blessed land.
After making sure they did not miss out on anything, Fairy Zi Wei and the group immediately left this place.
Immemorial black heaven.
Under Bing Sai Chuan's lead, Hei Lou Lan arrived in front of Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
"Longevity Heaven actually hid such a trump card!" Hei Lou Lan was inwardly shaken.
The rank eight Immortal Gu House in front of her was much larger than Calamity Luck Altar, its grand dark golden body revealed signs of vicissitudes that spanned across countless years, but had a disposition of being firm and unshakable.
"I brought you here to seek an audience with a person." Bing Sai Chuan led Hei Lou Lan inside the depths of Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
"You, you are?!" Hei Lou Lan's eyes widened as she saw Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, who was sitting cross-legged on a cushion mat.
The intense reaction from her bloodline and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun's appearance made Hei Lou Lan quickly confirm the identity of this person.
She immediately knelt on the ground and bowed: "This unfilial descendant greets Ancestor Giant Sun!"
"Good child, get up." Immortal Zombie Giant Sun smiled kindly.
A formless and gentle force lifted the agitated Hei Lou Lan.
She had just stood up when she heard Immortal Zombie Giant Sun continue: "You are my outstanding descendant, if we talk about who was unfilial, those Gu Immortals of Hei tribe were the unfilial ones. They are cowards who actually surrendered to an outsider — that junior Bai Zu."
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun paused before continuing: "Hei Lou Lan, from today onwards, you will cultivate in Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, in the future, you will go to Northern Plains and rebuild Hei tribe!"
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Chapter 2076 Earth Treasury
Bai Ning Bing opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was warm yellow light.
"You are awake." A seemingly familiar voice resounded in her ears, but she could not be certain.
A few breaths of time later, Bai Ning Bing's vision became clearer.
She saw Fairy Miao Yin and Black Tigress beside her.
Bai Ning Bing barely had any strength left, she used her hands to push her upper body up: "Where is this?"
She looked around and saw she was in a cave. The cave was extremely peculiar, its form was like a sphere, and Bai Ning Bing's group was at the bottom of the sphere.
The spherical cave's inner walls had large patches of scattered yellow soil. From time to time, red lights flashed, like they were flowing on the yellow soil which seemed to condense into blood veins.
"Wait a moment, these are…" Bai Ning Bing was bewildered. She saw immortal materials embedded in the inner walls at set intervals of distance.
The first material she saw was a piece of copper near her.
The copper was firm and dominant, it was inlaid in the soil and glittered with cold metallic light.
"Isn't this rank seven immortal material domination copper?" Bai Ning Bing recognized it.
She then saw a pure white iron lump not far from the domination copper.
The iron lump's aura was even stronger than the domination copper; it was the rank eight immortal material white snow iron!
"What's going on here? In the production area of domination copper, there would not be other rank seven metallic materials. But just a brief look and I can see more than five types of rank seven metallic materials."
"And white snow iron only appears in rooster iron mines, how could there be lone white snow iron here?"
"Looks like even you don't recognize this place, Bai Ning Bing." Black Tigress said with disappointment.
Fairy Miao Yin said with a smile: "We only woke up a while earlier than you and are also greatly puzzled about this place. This place is too fantastic, it seems to be a storage for immortal materials. Not only metal path immortal materials, there are also materials of other paths. Take a look over there."
Fairy Miao Yin pointed towards the left of Bai Ning Bing.
Bai Ning Bing looked towards the direction and saw a small patch of soil where a dozen or so large round turnips were growing.
"I know, this is white wine turnip, white wine is produced inside it. Although it is only rank six, it is a rare food path immortal material." said Bai Ning Bing.
"Now look here." Fairy Miao Yin pointed again.
Bai Ning Bing discovered a lump of wind.
This wind had condensed into a lump, the size of a woolen ball, it was dark green and its sounds were low and deep.
Bai Ning Bing had obtained Bai Xiang grotto-heaven and followed Fang Yuan for a long time, she could be considered to be experienced and knowledgeable. After seeing this lump of wind, she narrowed her eyes as she thought of its relevant records.
"This is profound eerie wind, a rank eight wind path immortal material. It only appears deep in the underground, even Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals have a huge desire for it."
Metal path immortal materials like domination copper, white snow iron, and others; food path immortal material white wine turnip; wind path immortal material profound eerie wind. Besides these, Bai Ning Bing and the rest also discovered red snake iron, orchid vitality qi, dream soil and so on.
"What is this?" Bai Ning Bing and the group saw a small fox above them.
Its hairy tail and limbs were all trapped in the soil. When it saw Bai Ning Bing's group had discovered it, it curled into a ball from fear and let out soft whimpers.
The three female immortals' eyes widened, they were dazed for a while before they said in unison: "Blue smoke fox child!"
This was a rank eight transformation path immortal material, even [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] had records of it.
"What place is this?"
"Blue smoke fox child is already extinct, but this place has it."
The three immortals then discovered purple manor soil.
This was a rank eight immortal material which looked like a patch of soil with purple grains, purple smoke rose above from the ground. The purple smoke could only rise half an inch before it condensed back to even smaller grains that fell on the purple manor soil.
"This purple manor soil had long been completely extinct. Because its effect was too powerful, it only appeared for a brief moment in history." Fairy Miao Yin said with certainty.
Purple manor soil's effect was extraordinary. A strand of purple smoke, when put inside an aperture, could raise a mortal Gu Master's cultivation level. And when enough purple manor soil was put inside an immortal aperture, it could similarly raise a Gu Immortal's cultivation level!
The three immortals searched roughly for a while and found that there was many kinds of immortal materials here. Although the quantity of each material was slightly little, their overall value was enormous!
"Crystal essence is the highest in quantity here. Earth path crystal essence, water path crystal essence, lightning path crystal essence, and so on. Could this be the legendary secluded domain of heaven and earth — Hu Land?" Black Tigress guessed.
Fairy Miao Yin shook her head: "Although [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] did not record it in details, since Hu Land is mentioned together with Xi Land, it should be similar to Demon Immortal Qi Jue's Xi Land."
Bai Ning Bing smiled: "It is really amazing and mysterious! There are even heavenly crystals here, aren't heavenly crystals a product of the nine heavens? We should be deep underground right now."
The three immortals continued to discuss and soon rejected the previous assumption.
"So crystal essence is not the highest in quantity here, it is the blood veins buried in the soil."
At every set interval of time, the earth blood veins would shine and flow like blood capillaries had grown in the ground. Because of them, Bai Ning Bing had discovered the flowing red light before.
Following the blood veins, the three immortals discovered its source, which was also their most important discovery.
A delicate little black-yellow heart.
With it as the source, the net-like blood veins spread out widely.
The three immortals looked at each other before shaking their heads, none of them recognized the history of this black-yellow heart.
"But this is clearly a luck path immortal material."
"It is rank nine, the most valuable immortal material here!"
"There are no signs of humans here, the work of nature really leaves one dumbstruck."
"The world is vast, it is truly mysterious and interesting, spectacular and exquisite. If us Gu Immortals don't live a brilliant life, then we truly would have lived in vain, what meaning is there in such a life?" Bai Ning Bing was full of praise.
Fairy Miao Yin looked at Bai Ning Bing's expression and sighed helplessly.
Bai Ning Bing was such a person, she concentrated on herself and pursued excitement, she did not care about life or death, let alone talk of any morals or ethics.
Fairy Miao Yin disliked Bai Ning Bing before, but if not for Bai Ning Bing risking her life to fight in the previous battle, Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit would have been Heavenly Court's prisoners.
Black Tigress said: "This is great, these immortal materials will definitely be of huge help to master."
The master she was talking of was naturally Fang Yuan.
Fairy Miao Yin glanced at her, sighing helplessly in her mind once again.
She knew: Lady White Rabbit was not much different from Bai Ning Bing, she was also an abnormality. Lady White Rabbit's true inheritance was extremely strange and was a top tier dual path cultivation technique.
Lady White Rabbit cultivated light and dark path, following the idea that light cannot exist without darkness and darkness cannot exist without light. When Lady White Rabbit's cultivation was rank six, her transformation, Black Tigress, would be rank seven. When Lady White Rabbit possessed rank seven cultivation, Black Tigress would possess rank eight cultivation!
But this inheritance had a huge influence on the cultivator's mental state.
Lady White Rabbit was pure and kind while Black Tigress was fierce and ruthless, both had extreme characters. Not only this, once the feelings of acknowledgement and reverence were accumulated in the depths of White Rabbit and Black Tigress, they were unable to be changed.
After the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, Black Tigress was even more in admiration regarding Fang Yuan. Because even Spectral Soul was killed by Fang Yuan!
Hearing that Black Tigress wanted to offer these immortal materials to Fang Yuan, Bai Ning Bing's face immediately turned dark. Her eyes let out a dangerous light as she took a step forward: "You actually have such a stupid thought?"
"Are you calling me stupid?" Black Tigress raised her brows and said furiously: "You really think I am afraid of you?"
"You two!" Fairy Miao Yin immediately stood between the two: "It was not easy for us to escape here. Our lives and freedom that we obtained by using all our efforts should not be used on strife between ourselves. What we need to consider is what we should do next!"
Bai Ning Bing and Black Tigress were persuaded as they stopped with a snort.
The three immortals continued to explore.
They dug a small hole and saw the raging earth qi outside the cave.
"We are still in the earth vein!"
"What do we do?"
"With just our strength, even if we collaborate, the risk is too high."
This discovery worried the immortals.
Fortunately, this place did not restrict communication with the outside world.
The three immortals easily connected with treasure yellow heaven and quickly understood the situation after the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, as well as the rising storm in Eastern Sea during this period of time.
Black Tigress was exulted: "Master finally broke free from his predicament and became the number one demon lord!"
Fairy Miao Yin was somewhat worried: "I did not expect Heavenly Court to still have a trump card like Divine Emperor City. Even the powerful Demon Immortal Qi Jue was captured. Sigh, Heavenly Court's foundation is truly too deep."
Black Tigress snorted: "What is a mere Immortal Gu House? Its methods are fixed and hard to change. As long as master probes all the methods of Divine Emperor City, it will be easy for him to crack this Immortal Gu House."
Black Tigress' eyes were shining as she said in a firm tone: "I am going to return, master has already sent the word and summoned his subordinates. I will immediately return and continue to follow master!"
Fairy Miao Yin nodded, approving of Black Tigress's thoughts.
She knew the five regions' regional walls were gone, fate Gu was destroyed, and it would be a chaotic world in the future. To survive in this chaotic world, it was best to rely on the strong.
Naturally, Fairy Miao Yin knew of Fang Yuan's ruthlessness and coldness, but she had nowhere else to go now.
Compared to Black Tigress, Fairy Miao Yin had limited loyalty towards Fang Yuan.
What she cared about was mainly herself.
So, when Fairy Zi Wei captured Fairy Miao Yin, Fairy Miao Yin had cooperated.
But the current situation was different, Fang Yuan was now recognized as the number one demonic immortal in the world. Even Heavenly Court was vaguely suppressed by him! Even if Fairy Miao Yin wanted to side with other forces, who would dare to accept her? Would they not be afraid of Fang Yuan knowing about it and coming to settle the score?
Bai Ning Bing sneered at the other two: "Looks like you still want to follow Fang Yuan? Hehe, do you have a brain or not? Who do you think is the cause of our situation? Wasn't it Fang Yuan who abandoned you? He could abandon you once, he can naturally abandon you a second time, or even a third time."
"Why do you always want to rely on others? This is the best opportunity to gain freedom! Although our alliance agreement with Fang Yuan is still there, it has already been suppressed by Fairy Zi Wei. The world thinks we died in battle, even Heavenly Court is in the dark. You still want to return?"
Fairy Miao Yin sighed: "Bai Ning Bing, don't forget our status. We are wanted demonic immortals, listed on the Demon Judgment Board and hunted by the righteous paths of the five regions. What else can we do if we don't go to Fang Yuan? If we fight by ourselves, we will be discovered one day and be hunted for bounty by waves after waves of Gu Immortal experts."
Bai Ning Bing laughed loudly: "Running for our lives will definitely be exciting. Don't you have any anticipation towards it?"
Fairy Miao Yin rolled her eyes.
Black Tigress snorted: "Even if Lord Fang Yuan abandons me again, I am still willing to follow him!"
Bai Ning Bing and Fairy Miao Yin were speechless.
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Chapter 2077 Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool!
Sovereign immortal aperture, Mini Central Continent.
Fang Yuan's months of arrangements (in the immortal aperture's time) had reached the crucial moment!
Within a square shaped pool, there was a small pavilion situated at the center.
Following Fang Yuan's will, a Gu worm slowly flew towards the pavilion.
This Gu resembled a round pearl, it was as large as a goose egg, the pearl had countless markings on it that were moving around, they were brilliant like a blooming field of lotuses, or the rumbling of clouds.
It was blood asset Immortal Gu!
This was a unique Gu created by Lang Ya land spirit by combining some blood path Gu recipes he bought in treasure yellow heaven.
Blood asset Immortal Gu's effect was to protect a portion of the immortal materials or Gu worms during refinement. If the refinement failed, some of these immortal materials or Gu worms could be restored afterwards using blood asset Immortal Gu.
Blood asset Immortal Gu was originally only at rank six, but not long ago, Fang Yuan had used the Long Hair refinement path formation to refine it to rank seven.
Blood asset Immortal Gu House slowly flew to the top of the pavilion where a golden seat was constructed.
Inside Fang Yuan's mind, thoughts surged like tidal waves. This step looked simple from outside, but in actuality, Fang Yuan spent one hundred thousand thoughts every second to complete this final step!
Splat.
With a soft sound, blood asset Immortal Gu finally landed on the golden seat.
Shortly after, as Fang Yuan transferred his immortal essence, the golden seat produced an attraction force that fixed blood asset Immortal Gu in place.
Blood asset Immortal Gu burst out with dense blood light.
The blood light was like water as it flowed down from the roof of the pavilion, dying everything in its path; the white jade-like pavilion was dyed crimson red.
After it dyed the pavilion, the blood light continued to spread and covered the calm pool.
The pool water became red like blood.
Slight waves appeared on the surface of the pool. Burble burble, waves struck the squarish rock walls surrounding it, but the waves immediately disappeared, as the pool became calm once again.
Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool's construction was finally completed!
Fang Yuan wiped off the sweat on his forehead. After maintaining the tense state for over a month, he could finally relax.
He immediately felt an extremely intense exhaustion spread from his bones to his entire body.
"I consumed too much mental energy, a lot of immortal essence was also expended." Fang Yuan was aware of it, his mind was exhausted and he wanted nothing more than to fall asleep without caring for anything else.
He did just that.
This sleep lasted for two days and two nights.
Thereafter, he finally recovered his spirit.
Shortly after, Fang Yuan used his divine sense to inspect this Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool.
After inspecting once and finding there were no mistakes, he nodded in satisfaction.
To construct this refinement pool, he had racked his brains and spent an enormous effort!
And after paying such a price, the constructed Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool was without any doubt the peak creation of refinement path in the present world.
Fang Yuan's Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool's was conceptualized by merging Immortal Gu Houses and immortal formations together, such as Regret Pool, Refinement Cauldron, and Long Hair refinement path formation.
Regret Pool was one of the three legendary pools of the world along with Heavenly Pool and Wine Pool, they were all famous in history. When Gu Immortals refined Immortal Gu successfully in it, they could leave an insignia behind. When the Immortal Gu was destroyed, Regret Pool could be activated, using the power of the tributary of the River of Time and the preserved insignia to refine the Immortal Gu again, the success rate was about fifty to sixty percent.
Sun Ming Lu, one of the seven extremities of Longevity Heaven, imitated Regret Pool and constructed a super Gu formation, fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation, to refine rank eight Fortune Rivaling Heaven for Old Ancestor Xue Hu.
Refinement Cauldron was the most proud masterpiece of Long Hair Ancestor, it possessed the ability to forcefully refine Immortal Gu. In the five hundred years of Fang Yuan's previous life, Lang Ya blessed land relied on it to defend against seven waves of enemy attacks. The Immortal Gu of the Gu Immortals who invaded the blessed land were forcefully refined, and countless Gu Immortals were captured like this.
Long Hair refinement path formation was even more so the strongest foundation of Lang Ya Sect, the essence of its trump cards. The formation was extremely outstanding and only hairy man Gu Immortals could control it. In history, Long Hair Ancestor had refined Immortal Gu for Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable by using this formation. Before the fate war, Fang Yuan had refined many Immortal Gu by similarly relying on the grand might of this formation.
If Fang Yuan's refinement path and time path attainment levels were not at quasi-supreme grandmaster, he would never be able to think of such a design.
Just the design of this Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool was unprecedented, and it was likely that no one in the future would be able to accomplish it as well. The price that Fang Yuan paid to construct this Immortal Gu House was shockingly high!
First of all, Fang Yuan dismantled the Long Hair refinement path formation that had a long history and was unparalleled; one of its cores, rank eight Immortal Gu Advance Refinement, was still used as a core, becoming a portion of the foundation of Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool.
Secondly, Fang Yuan used rank eight Immortal Gu Regret, which was the essence of Regret Pool, to construct the pavilion in the pool.
Thirdly, Fang Yuan specially constructed a year essence sub-pool outside to lead a tributary of the River of Time into the square pool. To accomplish this step, Fang Yuan arranged three rank eight time path Immortal Gu; Early Autumn, Mid Autumn, and Late Autumn (from Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform).
Finally, Fang Yuan even put the incomplete form of Refinement Sea into the pool. Lang Ya land spirit had heavily invested in Refinement Sea because he wanted to create a refinement path secluded domain of heaven and earth. To successfully put in the incomplete form of Refinement Sea, Fang Yuan had to use rank eight Immortal Gu Water Refinement as well.
The entire Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool had four main cores; rank eight Immortal Gu Advance Refinement, Water Refinement, Regret, and rank seven Immortal Gu Blood Asset. Thus, it was named 'Four Elements'. There were over twenty supplementary Immortal Gu; rank eight Early Autumn, Mid Autumn, and Late Autumn were among the top ones. As for mortal Gu, there were over one hundred million, their types were as numerous as stars, this was simply unheard of.
Fang Yuan had used almost all his refinement path Immortal Gu in this, time path Immortal Gu, wisdom path Immortal Gu and other paths' Immortal Gu were also not invested in small numbers. Fortunately, he controlled the variant human alliance and also extorted Eastern Sea's Righteous Qi Alliance, only then did he have a sufficient number of suitable Immortal Gu.
With such an amazing investment without any regard for the cost, Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool had the abilities of Long Hair refinement path formation, Regret Pool, Refinement Cauldron, Refinement Sea, and so on. It was infused with various refinement path techniques like flesh body blood refinement technique, seven kill blood path Gu refinement method, Bei Luo ice refinement method, and so on. It could utilize refinement path killer moves like slumbering lightning python, wind grind, reflect snow, muffled thunder stone drum, dragon-shaped blizzard, heavenly light ring, refinement snake lifespan flower, omnipresent four seas, and even 'one step back, sea and sky expands'.
As soon as Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool was constructed, it became the number one refinement path Immortal Gu House in the entire history of Gu cultivation!
There was no debate, nothing could rival it.
"If news about it is spread, Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool can absolutely compete with Divine Emperor City and Eighty-Eight True Yang Building for the position of the number one Immortal Gu House."
Divine Emperor City was a human path sacred land, while Eighty-Eight True Yang Building controlled Northern Plains, raising the Huang Jin bloodline to its height. And Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool was as good as them.
It merged the essence of human style Gu refinement and hairy man nature Gu refinement. With it, not only could the cost of refining Immortal Gu decrease sharply, the success rate had also increased beyond imagination!
Whoever controlled this Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool would have an unceasing supply of Immortal Gu!
"But, Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool is not comprehensive. It is heavily focused on Gu refinement, and has almost no strength in other aspects like offense, defense, movement."
"Moreover, in this world, only I, Fang Yuan, can construct it. Even if other Gu Immortals get its blueprint, they can do nothing with it!"
If a Gu Immortal saw Fang Yuan's design, they would praise it endlessly at first. But when they started delving deeper, they would begin to curse and feel disdain, they would think this design was too naive and absurdly impossible.
Because the design of Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool did not consider the case of conflicting dao marks in almost all the areas.
Only inside the sovereign immortal aperture, where there were no conflicting dao marks, could Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool be turned into reality.
In fact, as long as Fang Yuan took out Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool from his aperture, this Immortal Gu House would automatically collapse because of the severe internal friction and rejection of different dao marks!
In fact, it would not have been possible to construct this Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool when Fang Yuan had three thousand heaven path dao marks.
It was because Fang Yuan annexed three rank eight grotto-heavens, Grand Swine, Novelty, and Time Difference, and refined their heaven path dao marks, that he was able to meet the lowest requirement for refining Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool.
Each of these three grotto-heavens had merged with a nine heavens fragment before, and the nine heavens fragments contained heaven path dao marks.
Time Difference grotto-heaven possessed over seven hundred thousand time path dao marks and had over eight hundred heaven path dao marks.
Novelty grotto-heaven contained over one million and six hundred thousand rule path dao marks and had over one thousand nine hundred heaven path dao marks.
Grand Swine grotto-heaven had the most dao marks, with over three million and two hundred thousand transformation path dao marks and over three thousand three hundred heaven path dao marks.
At present, Fang Yuan's heaven path dao marks had already grown to over nine thousand!
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Chapter 2078 Targeting Luck Path Firs
Most of the two heavens' grotto-heavens possessed a vast number of dao marks.
The main source of these dao marks were not tribulations but the contribution of generations of Gu Immortals.
For instance, Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven had over seven million soul path dao marks! With such an amount of soul path dao marks, the grotto-heaven contained a large number of super resource points.
At the start, Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven only had over one hundred thousand soul path dao marks. After it fused with a large nine heavens fragment, it was free from calamities and tribulations.
With the favor of heaven's will, Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven produced Gu Immortals generation after generations.
These Gu Immortals were humans, although they could casually choose their cultivation paths, most of them chose soul path.
Because the grotto-heaven had all kinds of soul path dao marks, it could be said they would enjoy a natural advantage in cultivating soul path. Even if Gu Immortals chose other paths, their number was extremely few and it was many times more difficult for them to obtain cultivation resources of other paths.
In fact, the two heavens were not places where ordinary rank six and rank seven Gu Immortals could explore.
Normally speaking, only a few rank seven experts and ordinary rank eights could take the risk to explore the two heavens to gather resources.
And after these soul path Gu Immortals died, almost all of their immortal apertures merged with Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven.
Although these Gu Immortals did not have the sovereign immortal aperture and there would be a lot of internal friction when merging immortal apertures, because their dao marks were mainly soul path dao marks, there was much more benefit than loss in merging.
As this continued for generations after generations, it had accumulated to the current number of over seven million dao marks!
Since the moment he started cultivating, be it in his previous life or now, Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool was Fang Yuan's largest investment. He had thrown in all the resources of refinement path into it, even using time path, rule path, wisdom path, blood path, and other paths.
With Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool, Fang Yuan's refinement path ability had a massive increase, becoming the number one in refinement path in the present world. Adding on his quasi-supreme refinement path attainment level, even over the long span of history, he was absolutely among the top three in refinement path.
But because he had invested many Immortal Gu of time path, rule path, and other paths, the relevant paths' foundation had subsequently decreased.
Over this period of rest, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress had yet to be repaired, immortal essence reserves had already returned to normal, many Immortal Gu were invested, but because of a massive surge in his major paths' dao marks, Fang Yuan's overall strength had not decreased but increased instead!
Fang Yuan's days were getting better.
Thinking of before, Fang Yuan had lived almost every day in a precarious state, he was forcefully pushed forward by schemes of venerables and hunted down everywhere by Heavenly Court. And now, Spectral Soul was dead, Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven were recuperating, Fang Yuan no longer had a lot of external pressure and he could formulate his cultivation plan much more relaxedly.
From a long term view, constructing Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool was absolutely a highly rewarding project!
"Now, it is time to refine and advance my luck path Immortal Gu to rank eight level." Fang Yuan looked at Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool with pride, he already had a plan.
When fate Gu existed, the ratio of fate and luck in the world was about nine-to-one. Now that fate Gu was destroyed, luck path's influence had no doubt surged!
Especially when the five regions chaotic war was in accordance with the overall situation; the more chaos there was, the more effects luck path could display.
"My current immortal material reserves have already reached an unprecedented level, I have the capability to refine rank eight luck path Immortal Gu. But it is still not enough to construct a complete Refinement Sea. Hmm?"
Just as Fang Yuan was pondering, he suddenly received Black Tigress' message through treasure yellow heaven.
"They are still alive and trapped in an earth vein. Interesting, they are hiding in Earth Treasury. This is good, Earth Treasury is one of the ten earths, every Earth Treasury holds abundant immortal materials, especially the rank nine luck path immortal material, favored heart, it is perfect for my current usage!"
Fang Yuan could not help feeling happy.
Rank nine luck path immortal material could refine rank nine luck path Immortal Gu.
But just a single Earth Treasury's favored heart was far from enough.
Among Fang Yuan's luck path immortal materials, most were rank seven while a small portion were rank eight. He clearly did not have the foundation to try refining rank nine luck path Immortal Gu.
But using rank nine immortal material to refine rank eight Immortal Gu could slightly increase the success rate as well.
With favored heart, Fang Yuan was like a tiger who gained wings!
Southern Border, Chi clan headquarters.
Bam.
The current Chi clan first supreme elder slammed the table fiercely and said through clenched teeth: "Outrageous!"
This rank seven Gu Immortal, who looked rather young, had pale white skin and dark eyes that showed signs of excessive drinking, was furious at this moment.
It was Chi Bang.
He was Chi Qu You's son, Chi Qu You had greatly supported him and had internally appointed him as the next first supreme elder. Although Chi Qu You died in the fate war, because he had made sufficient arrangements, Chi Bang succeeded in inheriting the position.
After Chi Bang got the position, he sensed that the situation was greatly different from before.
Previously, he was under his father Chi Qu You's protection, there was Chi Qu You to shelter him from any trouble. But now, he had to face the pressure directly.
This time, Southern Border's super force Yang clan had given him a tough problem.
The cause of this was a sound path inheritance. This sound path inheritance was called Roar, it had a long history and its reputation was spread far and wide. It had been passed down since long ago.
The previous generation Roar inheritor was only rank seven but the one before that was a rank eight Gu Immortal.
That was to say this Roar sound path inheritance could let someone cultivate to rank eight, it had high value.
More importantly, this Roar inheritance was in Chi clan's territory, but was extremely close to Yang clan as well.
After Chi Qu You died, Chi clan lost its only rank eight Gu Immortal and Chi clan was weak internally. Yang clan decisively made its move, encroaching on Chi clan's border and surrounding the inheritance ground. At present, they were actively exploring that sound path blessed land.
Chi clan had to do something about Yang clan's conduct. Their territory was invaded and this concerned their reputation. If they did not handle this properly, Chi clan's reputation would drop to the floor.
But, what could Chi clan do to protect their prestige? Could Chi clan beat back Yang clan's invading force?
Could they fight? How would they fight? If they could not fight, what should they do?
This was the problem Chi Bang was facing.
"What do you three think?" Chi Bang inquired the three rank seven Gu Immortals in front of him.
Chi Da Pi immediately said with a loud voice: "Of course, we fight back and kill those scoundrels of Yang clan!"
"Keep your voice down." Chi Bang quickly shook his head and looked at Chi Gui.
Chi Gui frowned: "First supreme elder, we need to consider this properly."
"What are you afraid of!" Chi Da Pi opened his eyes wide, "Yang clan does not have a rank eight Gu Immortal, they only sent two rank seven this time. If our Chi clan does not fight back, we would be the laughing stock of all of Southern Border's righteous path."
Chi Gui heaved a sigh: "Even though they only sent two people, they are famous experts. Yang Yin Guang is proficient at freezing soul profound light, which is very hard to defend against. The other, Yang Wen Kui, dual cultivates wisdom path and information path, he is the brain of Yang clan."
"According to our investigation, Yang clan's other Gu Immortals are stationed in Yang clan's territory, but we cannot say for sure that Yang clan is not pretending and is secretly transferring their forces. Even if Yang clan is not pretending, we need to consider Yang clan's Immortal Gu House as well. Since Yang clan invaded our territory, it is very likely that they have mobilized their Immortal Gu House, and it is being stored inside the immortal aperture of one of the two Yang clan immortals, just that they have not used it yet."
"Yes." Chi Bang nodded then looked towards Chi Shang: "What do you think about this?"
Chi Shang wore a white robe, he was handsome but his gaze looked somewhat distant.
"Chi Shang? Chi Shang?" Chi Bang called out softly.
But Chi Shang seemed to have not heard anything, his eyes looked towards the front in a daze.
The three immortals looked at each other before sighing in unison.
Clearly, Chi Shang's mind was wandering again. He was the most hopeful genius of Chi clan to become a refinement path great grandmaster, he was called the formation devotee and would often blank out. He would even forget to eat when he thinks of a formation path problem. If not for the clan's care, he would have likely forgotten to eat and died while immersed in his thoughts.
Chi Shang did not pay attention to Chi Bang. Chi Bang was inwardly furious, but he had to treat him nicely.
Before participating in the fate war, Chi Qu You had summoned Chi Bang to the study room and said to him: Chi Shang is the perfect helper that I am leaving to you.
In fact, the three Chi clan rank seven Gu Immortals in the study were the trusted aides that Chi Bang relied on.
But these trusted aides were unable to help him resolve this issue.
Chi Bang had to make the decision himself.
Right at this time, an information path Gu worm was passed on through treasure yellow heaven.
After Chi Bang browsed with his divine sense, his eyes brightened in joy: "Excellent, Alliance Leader Wu Yong heard of this matter and is willing to cooperate with our Chi clan. After expelling Yang clan, they won't take the Roar inheritance and will even send their Immortal Gu House to help us. But they want us to reach a further agreement with them, mainly wanting our clan to set up many immortal formations in Wu clan's resource points."
"There is such a good thing?" Chi Gui was greatly surprised. Wu Yong's conditions were extremely good and he was inwardly moved.
"What do you two think?" This time, Chi Bang directly ignored Chi Shang, asking only Chi Da Pi and Chi Gui.
Chi Da Pi cupped his fists: "The decision is completely up to you, first supreme elder."
Chi Gui hesitated slightly: "If we rely on Wu clan to beat back Yang clan this time, it looks as if we have profited greatly, but Wu Yong is a formidable character, why would he make an unprofitable transaction?"
Chi Da Pi said: "Did you forget? Back then when Wu clan was weak, Yang clan seized Wu clan's poisonous waterfall and went after their corpse mountain. Lord Chi Qu You took an Immortal Gu House to drive them away, then Wu clan seized back poisonous waterfall. Wu clan and Yang clan have enmity."
Chi Bang patted his forehead: "Right, Chi Da Pi is correct. Talking about it, Wu clan seems to have always been trying to rope us in. Back then when Yi Tian Mountain's dream realms still existed, Wu clan brought our Chi clan along whenever they did the immortal opportunity business. Wu Yong is a formidable character, and although my father has passed away, my Chi clan still has value. This time, let Wu clan work for us while we sit back and relax, haha!"
Chi Gui saw that Chi Bang had already made the decision and could only suppress the unease in his heart.
He thought for a bit and added: "This time, if we ally with Wu clan, we need to consider Ba clan's feelings and thoughts."
"Right, Ba clan…" Chi Bang felt a headache.
Super forces had been in power for a long time and had complicated relationships with each other. It was extremely troublesome to deal with them.
Ba clan wanted to get the position of overlord in Southern Border and wanted to replace Wu clan. There was a great deal of conflict between Ba clan and Wu clan.
And Ba clan had a close relationship with Chi clan, they were not merely allies, they had an alliance marriage!
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Chapter 2079 Rank Eight Dog Shit Luck
"My Chi clan is facing difficulties but Ba clan is not doing anything to help. They even tried to interfere and support Chi Xu Zhi when I was about to take my position. Ever since that damned Chi Xu Zhi married a female immortal of Ba clan, his ambition has been rising day by day." Chi Bang's tone was filled with hatred as he recalled.
He slammed the table: "I have decided to agree with Wu clan's alliance, as for Ba clan… I will send a letter of explanation and hope they can understand."
The news of Chi Bang's agreement to cooperate reached Wu Yong.
Wu Yong laughed heartily: "This young Chi Bang is no cause for concern!"
Clearly, Wu Yong's plan was working smoothly.
With Chi Qu You dead, Chi clan's internal structure was weak. Ba clan had a change of leadership, the previous first supreme elder, Ba Shi Ba, was captured by Fang Yuan and lost his immortal aperture as well as his cultivation. After Ba De took his position, Ba clan became unstable.
Wu Yong intuitively sensed the crack in these two clans. The incident regarding the Roar inheritance was like a heaven-sent opportunity to Wu Yong, how could he not grasp it?
"Good news, I have good news." At this time, Wu Ba Chong suddenly came before the door and sought an audience.
"Come in." Wu Yong said: "What's the news?"
He rarely saw the stable Wu Ba Chong express such joy.
Wu Ba Chong said: "When Wu Bei was exploring Space Comprehension Pit, he unexpectedly discovered a large amount of dry clear qi!"
Wu Yong was slightly dazed before applauding: "This is indeed good news."
Wu Du Xiu had three regrets in her life.
The first was the group, Fierce Gorge Seven Ghosts, that Wu Yong had already eliminated. Second was she was not able to refine eight-faced prestige wind Gu.
Wu clan had been gathering immortal materials for eight-faced prestige wind Immortal Gu for many years, and only lacked one main material: dry clear qi.
Wu Bei unexpectedly obtained dry clear qi this time, which was enough for Wu clan to refine eight-faced prestige wind Gu.
"Wu Bei is indeed my clan's lucky star. Reward him!" Wu Yong quickly thought before speaking.
"Eight-faced prestige wind Gu is a rank eight Immortal Gu, it is a major matter if we are to refine it, we must treat it seriously and make many preparations. Everyone in Wu clan needs to give their all for this refinement." As Wu Yong said this, he sighed: "Refining rank eight Immortal Gu is difficult, truly difficult! Even Fang Yuan, with Lang Ya blessed land's help, will struggle with refining rank eight Gu. This is a serious matter, we might have all the immortal materials but we need to consider this carefully."
Wu Ba Chong's excited state slowly calmed down.
"Lord is right, I was too rash."
Wu Yong was able to maintain calm and logic, Wu Ba Chong felt even more admiration towards him.
Wu Yong said: "We will put aside refining eight-faced prestige wind Gu for now. Chi Bang has already agreed to ally with us, what we need to do now is to pressure Ba clan and make them unable to interfere in this matter."
Wu Yong took precautions and thought of everything, he had already started to get rid of this future obstacle in advance.
It was another round of planning and arrangements.
Wu Ba Chong left the study room while praising inwardly: "Lord Wu Yong has both battle strength and a strategic mind, would my Wu clan even have to worry about not accomplishing great things under his lead?"
Days later, in the sovereign immortal aperture.
Fang Yuan's time path clone was controlling Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool.
"Rise!" The time path clone shouted, rank eight immortal essence poured in crazily.
Boom!
The blood-like water in the square pool suddenly rose towards the sky like a reverse waterfall.
The whole Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool began making noises, it was activated to its limit.
The blood waterfall rose in the air and formed a whirlpool at the top.
The whirlpool rotated rapidly while letting out brilliant radiance.
After the whirlpool absorbed a large amount of blood water, it gradually calmed down.
Finally, an Immortal Gu flew out of the whirlpool.
The whirlpool dissipated, the reverse flowing blood waterfall also fell down to the square pool; only some blood water remained in the pool.
Blood red light retreated like birds returning to their nest, to the top of the small pavilion in the pool. That was the position of blood asset Immortal Gu.
Fang Yuan's time path clone regulated his breath for a while before moving his will. The Immortal Gu that was floating in the air flew into his palm.
This Immortal Gu looked like a dung beetle.
Its whole body was golden yellow, it had three parts to its body; head, stomach, and tail. its head was like a crescent shovel which had paddle like tentacles in its sides. Its stomach had a horizontal ridge, and its tail was oval.
It had two pairs of legs and a pair of tails. Every tentacle was rough and thick, and had hard black barbs on their ends.
It was dog shit luck Immortal Gu; after having gone through Fang Yuan's refinement, it had advanced to rank eight.
Dog shit luck Immortal Gu was the core Immortal Gu of Cooking Luck Pot.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable created luck path and left three great true inheritances: Self luck, all living beings luck, and heaven and earth luck. Cooking Luck Pot was the peak creation of the essence of self luck true inheritance.
Before the fate war, Fang Yuan had thrown in almost all his luck path Immortal Gu into Cooking Luck Pot.
This time, he dismantled Cooking Luck Pot and advanced the rank of all its luck path Immortal Gu.
Dog shit luck Immortal Gu was the primary target, but Fang Yuan succeeded in his first attempt at refinement.
Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool had fifty to sixty percent success rate even when refining rank eight Immortal Gu. This was such a terrifying success rate that if news about it were to spread, it would shake the whole Gu Immortal world; it might even lead to crazed attacks by Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court.
With rank eight Dog Shit Luck, Cooking Luck Pot's rank had already advanced to rank eight.
If one were an ordinary Gu Immortal, they would stop here. But Fang Yuan was far from being satisfied, he would now advance qi luck Immortal Gu, connect luck Immortal Gu, luck plan Immortal Gu, luck inspection Immortal Gu, and so on.
The time path clone maintained the activation of Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool.
Following the rapid expenditure of rank eight immortal essence, the almost used up pool water began to fill up again.
This pool water was the refinement water of the incomplete Refinement Sea which was mixed with the water of the River of Time, and had gone through refinement path methods using water refinement Immortal Gu as the core, to form this wonderful creation.
The time path clone opened the hidden door of the Immortal Gu House's storage, the luck path immortal materials inside began to fall into the pool.
Among them was the favored heart.
Fang Yuan had already brought back Lady White Rabbit and Fairy Miao Yin.
What he used was a killer move involving Fixed Immortal Travel.
The killer move Jade flow pearl was no longer suitable for the current Fang Yuan because of his enormous dao marks.
But it was of no issue, Fang Yuan had created many compound killer moves and had already created the new heaven and earth travel killer move!
With the help of over nine thousand heaven path dao marks, heaven and earth travel directly sent Fang Yuan to the nearby Earth Treasury.
In the heart of the mighty earth vein, Fang Yuan withstood the strong pressure leisurely and stored the whole Earth Treasury into his immortal aperture.
Bai Ning Bing had already left secretly but Fang Yuan did not care about her. There was clearly no reason to waste time on her at this moment.
After refining dog shit luck Immortal Gu, rank nine luck path immortal material favored heart shrunk a little. Another layer of its surface was refined and merged into the pool water.
Such usage of immortal materials had already reached the peak of brilliance.
Blood red light once again spread from blood asset Immortal Gu and covered the whole pool.
The pool water billowed, the immortal materials inside it melted and mixed with the blood water.
After a while, everything was in place. Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool's efficiency in processing immortal materials was astonishing.
The time path clone threw luck inspection Immortal Gu into the water.
The second round of refinement had begun!
Immemorial black heaven, Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
A tribulation had just dissipated in Hei Lou Lan's blessed land.
Hei Lou Lan revealed joy at the impressive gains of this tribulation. She could not have passed it alone, but with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's guidance and Bing Sai Chuan's protection, she easily succeeded.
"It has not been long since I came to Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, but over this period, I have already gone through many calamities and tribulations; my strength has been increasing rapidly day by day."
"My previous feeling was not wrong, it seems Longevity Heaven really wants to heavily nurture me!"
Hei Lou Lan inspected her immortal aperture.
After she came and met Immortal Zombie Giant Sun for the first time, Bing Sai Chuan used time path methods to increase her immortal aperture's time flow to an astonishing level.
At the same time, Longevity Heaven supported her with an endless stream of strength path immortal materials. There was simply no hidden threat of advancing too rapidly.
With such an abundant amount of strength path immortal materials, it would naturally attract strength path calamities and tribulations.
Longevity Heaven held the strongest luck path methods in the world which were extremely helpful in undergoing tribulations. Hei Lou Lan only had to sit back and enjoy the spoils.
With the support of the second largest super force in the world and being valued highly by Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, Hei Lou Lan deeply felt the advantage of relying on a force.
She did not need to worry about nurturing and refining Gu, and also did not need to go gather Gu recipes, killer moves and so on; someone would directly send them to her.
Even the management of immortal aperture and the arrangement of resource points were planned for her by specialized wisdom path Gu Immortals.
Hei Lou Lan only needed to ponder on the usage of Gu and train her killer moves.
Although she was a descendant of the venerable, her life was full of hurdles, and after meeting Fang Yuan, she had to endure even more hardship and face life and death situations many times. So, after obtaining the huge support, besides being extremely thankful, she cherished this opportunity even more so!
She was deeply aware of how precious such an opportunity was and how difficult it was to come by.
She cherished every minute and every second of her time, and besides the necessary rest, she cultivated hard every day.
Once in a while, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun would summon her to evaluate and guide her.
This time when he called for her, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was no longer able to watch Hei Lou Lan train in such a self-damaging way, he urged: "Hei Lou Lan, my descendant. Don't be overly harsh on yourself, everything in the world emphasizes on balance between work and rest. Gu Immortal cultivation is also the same. If you carry on like this and stay in a tensed state all the time, it will instead be harmful."
Hei Lou Lan faced Giant Sun immortal zombie but still insisted on her thoughts: "Lord ancestor, the toughness I am experiencing is not too much to handle. In the past, I cultivated beside Fang Yuan and saw the effort he made. The world thinks he got his current accomplishments because of the help that venerables gave. But in my opinion, even if no one helped him, based on his character, he would still be able to stand out and wreak havoc in a region."
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was slightly stunned before smiling, appreciating Hei Lou Lan even more: "Looks like you are regarding Fang Yuan as your enemy and the goal to surpass. Good, with such determination and spirit, you are worthy of being my, Giant Sun's, descendant!"
"But, it will be very difficult for you to surpass Fang Yuan, it is simply like a mortal trying to ascend to heaven. I won't conceal it from you, Fang Yuan's strength has been increasing rapidly in this period of time, the speed is extremely astonishing."
Hei Lou Lan looked at Giant Sun immortal zombie doubtfully.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun explained: "Although luck inspection Immortal Gu is no longer with me, Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace contains similar luck inspection killer moves, moreover because it has been here for too long, all the luck of the five regions and two heavens are in my sight."
"Recently, I have been looking at Eastern Sea repeatedly, over at Xia clan's headquarters, the luck has been rising constantly and fiercely, even I have rarely seen such a case in my life."
"Spectral Soul, Heavenly Court, and my Calamity Luck Altar failed to kill Fang Yuan, finally giving him the chance to develop. He obtained the help of several venerables and has excellent character, as well as plenty of experiences from several rebirths. The more time he has, the stronger he will grow. If you want to catch up to him, you will only have a trace of hope if you make a desperate effort."
Hei Lou Lan's expression was serious as she asked firmly: "Please instruct me, Ancestor, what way is there?"
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable shook his head slightly: "It is not time yet, continue to cultivate hard for now."
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Chapter 2080 Fang Yuan“s Luck
Over two months had passed in the sovereign immortal aperture, a brand-new Cooking Luck Pot finally presented itself before Fang Yuan.
Its whole body was shining in golden light. When observed carefully, a platinum light would occasionally shine inside and outside the pot, giving a strong sensation of richness.
The sides of the pot were as thick as a child's fist.
There were eight lifelike dragon statues around the outer edges of the pot.
These eight dragons' tails were all at the base of the pot, coiling around each other and extending their claws to become the legs of this pot.
The eight dragon tails pointed in eight different directions, towards the north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest.
Each dragon claw was attached to the surface of the pot, the dragon bodies moved upwards as the dragon heads hung on the edge, looking inside. The dragon eyes were shut as if they were sleeping.
Cooking Luck Pot was now a rank eight Immortal Gu House!
Compared to before, not only had its size increased, the eight dragon statues were clear and vivid, unlike the blurry and crude image when Cooking Luck Pot was rank seven.
The current Fang Yuan possessed over nine thousand heaven path dao marks, the difficulty in conceptualizing compound killer moves had decreased sharply. So, even though Fang Yuan's luck path attainment level was not high, he had the ability to modify Cooking Luck Pot and make it even stronger.
But after careful consideration, he gave up on this idea for the moment.
If Cooking Luck Pot were to be made like Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool, then when it was used outside his aperture, its might would be reduced greatly. And Cooking Luck Pot needed to be used outside the aperture.
When Fang Yuan fought Qin Ding Ling before, Qin Ding Ling targeted Fang Yuan's luck, but at the crucial moment, rank seven Cooking Luck Pot appeared above Fang Yuan's head to block Qin Ding Ling's rank eight luck path killer move.
At Fang Yuan's level, because the enemies were too strong and had many methods, his defense had to be all-rounded. Fang Yuan not only needed to protect his body and soul, he needed to maintain his luck as well.
The strongest experts placed great emphasis and importance on their own luck.
Because it could affect a major part of their strength!
Even the recently revived Demon Immortal Qi Jue had such thoughts. Back when he fought Qi Sea Ancestor and Qin Ding Ling above qi sea, in order to preserve his luck, he chose to retreat wisely.
Fang Yuan raised the rank of Cooking Luck Pot to protect his luck. Cooking Luck Pot's structure and origin made it such that it was weak in offense and strong in defending the Gu Immortal's luck. Luck path offensive methods were mostly in the true inheritances of all living beings luck and heaven and earth luck.
The luck path Immortal Gu used in Cooking Luck Pot were all rank eight and were enough to defend his luck.
Naturally, Cooking Luck Pot still had Immortal Gu that were not rank eight.
For instance, food path Immortal Gu Cook was still at rank seven.
It was not that Fang Yuan did not want to raise its rank, he lacked the corresponding rank eight food path immortal material. Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool's blood asset Immortal Gu's situation was also the same, it was still at rank seven due to the lack of rank eight blood path immortal materials.
Rank eight food path immortal material and blood path immortal material were not easy to gather in a short period of time.
This was greatly related to their paths.
The more flourishing the path was, the more corresponding immortal materials there would be. They would be easier to gather and there would be many more Immortal Gu. There would also be a lot of Gu Immortals cultivating that path.
In Gu Immortal cultivation, the more Immortal Gu recipes were created, the more immortal materials were cultivated which then added on to the prosperity of the whole path.
Food path and blood path were never truly prosperous, there were also few Gu Immortals who cultivated them. Compared to food path, there were more blood path cultivators, but most of them were only Gu Masters. There were few blood path Gu Immortals, which was not much help in making blood path popular.
On one hand, it was because of Heavenly Court's Demon Judgment Board. On the other hand, Blood Sea Ancestor, who created blood path, was only at rank seven.
Speaking of it, luck path was also never prosperous, but because Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had created and developed it, its reputation was spread far and wide.
Gu Immortals who truly cultivated luck path were not numerous.
After Giant Sun Immortal Venerable passed away, there were almost no luck path experts in history. Maybe only Qin Ding Ling could be barely considered one.
The main reason was because Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had hidden his three true inheritances deeply and did not spread them wantonly.
Qin Ding Ling could become a famous luck path expert because she had derived some foundation from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, and later, she changed her original path and spent countless years in comprehension before she was able to reach the success of today.
So, Fang Yuan felt extremely fortunate for being able to raise the ranks of so many luck path Immortal Gu.
Because luck path was not prosperous, it was difficult to gather luck path immortal materials. He was able to loot so many luck path immortal materials from the two heavens' grotto-heavens, which was something that would not happen frequently.
Naturally, the success in refinement was mostly due to Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool.
Without Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool, then it would have been impossible!
Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool had fifty to sixty percent success rate in refining rank eight Immortal Gu. This success rate was enough to mass-produce rank eight Immortal Gu.
A higher success rate led to lower expenditure of immortal materials, which saved Fang Yuan a large amount of luck path immortal materials.
If it were an ordinary Gu Immortal who had all of Fang Yuan's luck path immortal materials and they were able to advance just one rank eight Immortal Gu successfully, they would already be immeasurably thankful.
When ordinary Gu Immortals refined rank eight Immortal Gu, their expenditure of immortal materials would be at least more than ten times of what Fang Yuan used!
Old Ancestor Xue Hu was a good example.
To gather materials to refine rank eight Fortune Rivalling Heaven, he spent all of his accumulations and even squeezed his subordinates dry, finally leading to the collapse of the whole of Snowy Mountain blessed land.
This was still the case when Old Ancestor Xue Hu had captured Ma Hong Yun, which saved him a large amount of luck path immortal materials!
Forget about Old Ancestor Xue Hu, even Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable had to cooperate with Long Hair Ancestor for Gu refinement.
With Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool, Fang Yuan's refinement path strength was absolutely among the top three in all of history. This advantage was just brought into play and had already shown a frightening performance, the benefits it brought were unimaginable for outsiders!
At least, Fang Yuan was aware that even Long Hair Ancestor, who had once cooperated with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, did not have as high of a success rate as him.
A new issue propped up in front of Fang Yuan, he was slightly worried of being too successful in advancing his Immortal Gu to rank eight; with too many rank eight, he would have to worry about their food.
The food of rank eight Immortal Gu was a lot more difficult.
Back then, to feed regret Gu, Fang Yuan directly created an enormous flower mist extreme marsh!
But Fang Yuan was already prepared in this aspect, his wisdom path attainment had always been supporting him silently.
Fang Yuan learned from Time Difference grotto-heaven and did not hesitate on spending a large amount of material resources and effort in constructing year essence sub-pools, which he spread over the whole of the sovereign immortal aperture, creating various time path zones.
With these zones and the help of over nine thousand heaven path dao marks, the problem of feeding rank eight Immortal Gu was alleviated to a huge degree.
Fang Yuan willed and activated rank eight Cooking Luck Pot to inspect his luck.
Cooking Luck Pot quietly floated above his head, it was slightly drifting earlier but was now stationary as it started to rotate slowly.
The previous Cooking Luck Pot's rank was lower than Fang Yuan's which led to Fang Yuan being unable to inspect all of his luck; every time, he could only inspect the portion inside the pot.
But now, Cooking Luck Pot could bear all of Fang Yuan's luck.
Fang Yuan could finally witness the complete form of his luck again.
His luck was like a pure silver pillar of light, even though it was slim, it was tall, shooting towards heaven, seemingly trying to pierce the sky.
At the bottom of this dense pure silver light pillar, there was a lump of yellow qi guarding it, looking like a dust cloud that seemed to support the pillar.
At the top of the pillar, there were three clouds, one was black as ink, one was golden and dazzling, one was shining with starlight.
Such a scene made Fang Yuan fall into contemplation.
After a long while, he collected his thoughts and observed the luck again.
But this time, he did not observe his own luck, but looked at his clones' luck outside Cooking Luck Pot.
Among the clones' luck, the most majestic and grand naturally belonged to the Qi Sea clone.
Qi Sea Ancestor's luck was like the ocean. Milky white qi currents flowed, becoming endless sea waves.
"The Qi Sea clone's luck fits his name, they are both a qi sea." Fang Yuan knew the reason.
The luck's appearance was tightly connected with the individual's condition.
Qi Sea Ancestor's qi sea luck not only originated from his name, but also because he took command of qi sea and controlled the qi sea formation. More importantly, several days ago, Fang Yuan had completely handed the killer move unlimited qi sea to the Qi Sea clone.
It was because the Qi Sea clone wanted to create his own combat system and wanted unlimited qi sea to be its core.
"The Qi Sea clone possesses over two million qi path dao marks, has many qi path Immortal Gu along with the complete Primordial Origin qi path true inheritance, and is also the Righteous Qi Alliance's alliance leader. All these reasons gave birth to such a boundless white qi sea luck."
"But although this white qi sea is enormous, the qi currents are moving in disorder and chaos, which shows hidden undercurrents and threats."
Fang Yuan thought carefully and felt this hidden threat originated from two aspects.
First, the Qi Sea clone was attempting to create a combat system which was causing his thoughts to be in chaos. If he succeeded, maybe the qi sea would recover. if he failed, this internal chaos might still continue.
Second was the Qi Sea clone's clone identity. The relationship of the Qi Sea clone and the main body was not exposed but there was the danger of it being exposed at any time. Demon Immortal Qi Jue already knew this but was suppressed by Divine Emperor City.
Once this secret was revealed, it would have a severe impact on Qi Sea clone, which was why there was a possibility of the qi sea luck falling apart.
"The Qi Sea clone is my strongest clone, he has rank eight cultivation and pseudo venerable battle strength. So, he has such a vast milky white qi sea luck. But it can be seen from this that the Qi Sea clone has a flaw; there is limited space to progress and grow."
Fang Yuan compared his own pure silver light pillar with the milky white qi sea luck, he could clearly see that the pure silver light pillar was shooting up towards the sky while the qi sea luck's foundation was unstable, it could only suppress his current situation.
"If the qi harvest fruit plan shows results, maybe the qi sea luck could reach the clouds as well. Unfortunately, the qi harvest fruits left in the two heavens' grotto-heavens are showing extremely slow growth. It will be very difficult for them to give any qi path dao marks to the Qi Sea clone anymore."
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Chapter 2081 Luck of Fang Yuan“s Clones
Second to the Qi Sea clone's luck was Wu Shuai's luck.
His luck had weakened by a lot.
Dragon Palace was destroyed and could not be constructed within a short period of time, the Four Dragon Generals were dead, and even Di Zang Sheng was suppressed in Heavenly Court.
Wu Shuai's luck still had the flying dragon's form. This was closely related with his dragonman identity.
When observed carefully, Wu Shuai's dragon luck seemed to be formed from ants.
The countless ants gathered to form an ant-dragon luck.
"Besides handling the variant human alliance's affairs as my representative, Wu Shuai is researching enslavement path methods to increase his battle strength. This is why there is the ant-dragon luck."
Fang Yuan observed his time path clone's luck.
The time path clone's luck was still in the shape of a miniature River of Time. But compared to before, it was much more vast and the water was flowing rapidly.
Zhan Bu Du's eagle luck had not changed much.
But Li Xiao Bai's luck had a huge change in appearance.
His luck had been a blooming flower with thin layers of nectar in its pistil, which signified how Li Xiao Bai's cultivation would improve back then.
But now, his luck's appearance had changed into a white wall.
There were three poems on the wall with different lengths. When read carefully, it was clear they were the three masterpiece poems that Li Xiao Bai had 'created'.
Every letter of the poem was pitch-black, which was even more conspicuous on the white wall.
Moreover, countless dark, inky characters were flying around the white wall, about to fly into the wall.
"This is his poem wall luck." Fang Yuan realized in his mind.
After Li Xiao Bai obtained the Book House inheritance, he progressed rapidly, walking on the path of becoming renowned in the world.
Not only did he change his vital Gu, he also roamed the world to collect poems, and formed three killer moves with the poems he created (copied and stole).
These three information path killer moves made him the number one Gu Master in Profound Literature grotto-heaven and also the Gu Immortal seed who was looked upon favorably by countless people. There were even discussions saying he was a talent that was hard to come by in several hundred years!
Li Xiao Bai's outstanding achievements naturally attracted Old Immortal Hua Yu's attention.
There were all kinds of indications that Old Immortal Hua Yu had decided to nurture Li Xiao Bai with all his strength!
The Qi Sea clone and Fang Yuan's main body were aware of Li Xiao Bai's recent condition, but they did not interfere and only watched from the side.
Back when Fang Yuan had created Li Xiao Bai, it was to scheme for Profound Literature grotto-heaven's information path inheritance to fill the deficiency in his information path aspect.
However, because Profound Literature grotto-heaven was an information path grotto-heaven with extremely strict monitoring, Fang Yuan could not give too much support and Li Xiao Bai had to move ahead by himself.
The result was that only after Fang Yuan had gone through the fate war, the pursuit battle, killed Spectral Soul, and resolved the issue of heaven path dao marks did Li Xiao Bai finally show some advancement and progress.
Moreover, Profound Literature grotto-heaven was also in the Righteous Qi Alliance, most of the contents of its information path true inheritance could be obtained through the internal exchange between Righteous Qi Alliance members.
This was life.
Sometimes, plans could not keep up with changes; sometimes, changes could not catch up to plans.
Like this, the chess piece Li Xiao Bai had a new arrangement.
So, Fang Yuan was going to let him develop naturally.
Last was the pure dream clone's luck.
The pure dream clone was still at rank five level, the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body would attract dream path calamities and tribulations when undergoing immortal ascension. Even the current Fang Yuan did not have confidence to deal with it.
But the pure dream clone's luck had also changed.
His luck was like a drifting pink fog that fluctuated constantly. But this lump of pink fog had condensed now, becoming a sandbox.
The sandbox was still pink in color, it was very small but yellow sand entered it continuously, turning into pink sand that strengthened the sandbox.
"Sandbox luck… what is this trying to say?" Even Fang Yuan was puzzled.
After activating wisdom path methods, Fang Yuan's eyes shone sharply as he made some guesses, but they had to be confirmed.
Fang Yuan counted; unknowingly, he had already created eight clones.
Creating these clones was one of the gains Fang Yuan had from studying Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul relied on clones to create Shadow Sect and Zombie Alliance. Fang Yuan's clones also gave him huge help.
"Among the eight clones, only Fang Di Chang was sacrificed. Huh? Wait, this is…" Fang Yuan suddenly discovered a piece of luck.
This piece of luck was vague, almost transparent, and gave an extremely weak feeling.
Fang Yuan had almost missed it, but after carefully observing it, he showed pleasant surprise: "This is Fang Di Chang's luck? He is still alive!"
During the fate war, Fang Yuan was schemed by Genesis Lotus, not only losing Divine Bean Palace but also Fang Di Chang.
Such a long time had passed, Divine Bean Palace had already combined with Emperor City to form Divine Emperor City, becoming the number one Immortal Gu House in the world; Fang Yuan thought Fang Di Chang was already done for.
But he had never expected to gain some clues from this round of luck inspection.
"How did I not discover it before?"
"I see."
"Cooking Luck Pot has just advanced to rank eight, my luck inspection method is many times more powerful than before. Also, it is clear that Fang Di Chang made some progress in this recent period of time. Combining both of these causes, my connection with him was strengthened by a lot and I am able to see his luck now."
Although Divine Emperor City possessed painting worlds, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, who had left behind the killer move contented lifestyle, was active before Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
Because of this, Divine Emperor City was rather weak in the aspect of luck path.
Discovering Fang Di Chang was alive and strengthening himself, this was a pleasant surprise. But Fang Yuan did not change his plan.
He had no plans to attack Divine Emperor City in the short term.
Divine Emperor City was not a Gu Immortal, its methods were fixed and hard to change, it was not a problem to let it be. And Fang Yuan was a pseudo venerable who had finally gotten the opportunity to rest and recuperate safely, it was a splendid time for him to focus on cultivating.
Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool was constructed and most of the grotto-heavens had yet to be devoured, Fang Yuan's strength would soar without stopping now. Why would he take the risk during this precious period of time to fight Divine Emperor City?
After inspecting his and the clones' luck, Fang Yuan understood a lot.
Cooking Luck Pot could allow Fang Yuan's main body to greatly increase his clones' luck, but Fang Yuan did not do so.
On one hand, the situation of both the main body and the clones was much better. After getting through the previous predicament, their luck was spontaneously rising, it was the so-called 'when misfortune reaches the limit, good fortune starts to rise'. So there was no necessity.
On the other hand, what this consumed was not immortal essence, but the luck of Fang Yuan's main body. After all, it increased the clones' luck by using the luck inside the pot.
"I should refine wood path Immortal Gu now." Fang Yuan once again invested in his Gu refinement project.
As for why he chose wood path, the reason was simple.
Fang Yuan had gathered a lot of wood path immortal materials and they were enough for refinement. The variant human alliance's Xiao He Jian and Green Forest Great Sage were rank eight miniman Gu Immortals, their grotto-heavens were wood path grotto-heavens which provided enough wood path immortal materials.
"Let's first raise Immortal Gu Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus to rank eight."
Divine Emperor City, painting world.
In the newly added growling beast painting world, a camp was being constructed rapidly.
The camp's location was selected after careful thought, it was in a strategically located area and there was a stream flowing near it.
Zhao Shu Ye was standing on a boulder and commanded the hundred craftsmen in constructing the camp.
"Although craftsman Gu has weak battle strength, it has broad usage." Fairy Bi Xia was standing beside Zhao Shu Ye and praised as she looked at the busy work site.
Zhao Shu Ye's head immediately lifted as he said proudly: "It is our Fairy Bi Xia who has good foresight. Craftsman Gu's prospects are much higher than thief Gu, soldier Gu, and officer Gu. Besides processing immortal materials and constructing Gu houses, it can also refine Gu!"
Fairy Bi Xia nodded: "Yes, if not for your craftsman Gu, how could we have constructed ten camps and explored deeper into the growling beast painting world. But, how can you control so many craftsmen alone? This is an enormous burden to the mind. Did you use organization Gu?"
Organization Gu was a type of human path Gu worm which allowed human Gu to form a group. Fang Di Chang's sect token Gu was also of this type.
Zhao Shu Ye laughed heartily and did not hide it: "Right, I used labor union token Gu and constructed a labor union. I am carrying union head Gu and gave supervisor Gu to twelve or so high ranked craftsman Gu. I have given one vice union head Gu out as well and still have three in my hand. No need to hurry, as my labor union continues to grow, they will have ample scope to show their abilities."
The two were discussing when the emergency bugle was played.
Fairy Bi Xia's expression had a slight change: "Beast groups came to attack again."
Zhao Shu Ye said indifferently: "With Xiao Qi Xing and others here, we don't need to worry."
Sure enough, at the next moment, Xiao Qi Xing's voice spread throughout the camp: "All forces, attack!"
Thump thump thump thump thump…
There was a series of footsteps, and as the white smoke was blown away by the wind, the wide camp was filled with soldiers.
Soldier Gu were in the highest number, there was the small group leader level sergeant Gu, lieutenant Gu, the higher ranked captain Gu and even chief captain Gu were used.
The size of Xiao Qi Xing's army had increased again in this period of time.
Divine Emperor City was truly the sacred land of human path cultivation!
The army charged towards the beast tide, both sides collided like huge sea waves.
After the stalemate lasted for a while, the orderly battle lines began to show uneven gaps; a large number of wild beasts and soldiers had died in the most intense areas. Immediately after, these gaps were filled by soldiers and beasts.
Roar—!
Several powerful beasts appeared. Their size was clearly larger than others, like fortresses rampaging on the battlefield.
Xiao Qi Xing's expression showed a trace of seriousness: "The deeper we go in, the stronger the beast groups are. Everyone, please make your moves."
"Alright." Chen Da Jiang, Gu Ting, and the rest began to attack.
This large battle lasted for an hour, the beast tide retreated, and there were casualties in Xiao Qi Xing's group as well.
After half a day, the camp's construction was finished. The supply group along with merchants, peddlers, citizens, and even beggars settled in the camp.
These camps were like the strongest nails that were firmly fixed in their position, becoming the support for the ten children of human path to explore deeper.
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Chapter 2082 Defeated Army
“Sect leader.”
“Sect leader.”
Fang Di Chang walked to a hidden corner of the camp where he was greeted by two to three beggars.
Fang Di Chang also had a beggar’s appearance with ragged clothes and foul odor coming off of him.
The ten children of human path organized a large army and entered the newly appeared growling beast painting world, playing the role of pioneers. At every set interval of distance, they would construct a stable camp before the logistics and support came to fill the camp, giving ample supplies to the army led by the ten children of human path.
Fang Di Chang had been following in secret and also mobilized Beggar Sect to look for an opportunity.
“How is the situation?” Fang Di Chang asked.
“Our sect brothers have been following the pioneering army.”
“Sect leader, the situation is good. We gathered many wild beast corpses and valuable skin and fur. We are going to be rich!”
“It is just that we got into a conflict with some merchants and guards because of this.”
Fang Di Chang frowned: “What are the casualties?”
His Beggar Sect developed quickly, its members were not only the human path Gu worms he used, there were also many of Divine Emperor City’s native beggars.
Hearing the number of casualties, Fang Di Chang’s frown became deeper.
“Although Beggar Sect is easy to grow, beggar Gu are the cheapest human path Gu worms with very low battle strength. They are disadvantaged when facing merchants, guards, and others. Only by uniting and forming a numbers advantage will they not suffer losses.”
Fang Di Chang sighed inwardly, Beggar Sect seemed to be enormous but it did not have much strength. It was not reliable to use Beggar Sect to deal with the ten children of human path in the future.
Fang Di Chang entered the tenth camp, but the ten children of human path had already marched even further and were constructing the twelfth camp.
“I can only rely on the beast tide now. The deeper we enter growling beast painting world, the stronger the beasts become.”
Fang Di Chang’s only hope was for the beast tides to defeat the ten children of human path.
Not only defeat, it would be even better if they suffered serious loss with casualties. Only then would Fang Di Chang have an opportunity to exploit.
“I can do nothing about this, my current strength is too low. The only thing I can use is Beggar Sect. The ten children of human path are all Gu Masters and possess primeval essence, they can only maintain their human path Gu worms for some time. But I am using Shen Shang’s immortal essence, which is akin to unlimited primeval essence, so I can maintain these beggar Gu all the time.”
As Fang Di Chang thought up to this point, his gaze suddenly darkened and a feeling of weakness spread from the depths of his body.
Fang Di Chang quickly took out human will Gu and placed it in front of his nose, breathing in deeply.
A gust of human will was absorbed into his body and merged with his will.
Fang Di Chang’s body was formed from a beggar Gu, it did not have a soul and only a will. And a will was difficult to maintain and would be expended rapidly when thinking.
Fortunately, in Divine Emperor City’s painting world, there was human will Gu.
Human will Gu produced human will, which could change into any form of will. With its help, Fang Di Chang’s will could continue to exist and be active.
At this time, in the depths of the growling beast painting world.
A lifelike will was floating in the air.
He was wearing a green and white robe, he had a gentle demeanor and had a smile on his face; he was Genesis Lotus’ will!
And below him, Mao Li Qiu was lying on the ground in a curled up position. It was bound by a huge formless force, making it unable to even budge.
Not only this, another powerful force was constantly extracting its dao marks.
“Dog shit Genesis Lotus, release me and fight me if you have the guts!” Mao Li Qiu shouted.
Genesis Lotus’ will shook his head: “Mao Li Qiu, are you still not conceding? You are in a hopeless situation, unless Giant Sun Immortal Venerable revives and comes to save you, your death is certain.”
“And you yourself are aware that there is no hope for that. Your only chance at survival is to surrender.”
“Otherwise, as time passes, your strength will continue to fall. Until… you die.”
Genesis Lotus’ will urged, his voice was persuasive and his expression was kind.
Mao Li Qiu, however, roared in fury: “Then so be it, I don’t want it, you can take all my dao marks!!”
Genesis Lotus’ will was astonished.
At the next moment, Mao Li Qiu not only released all his defense but also cooperated with the absorption force, abandoning his dao marks.
Amidst the dazzling profound light, countless dao marks spread towards the surroundings and entered growling beast painting world.
Some dao marks fell to the ground, turning into giant beasts of all kinds of sizes and shapes; some dao marks flew to the sky, condensing together into vicious birds that covered the sky.
The painting world was extremely profound, it could collect external dao marks and paint them into all kinds of birds and beasts.
But at this moment, with Mao Li Qiu’s full cooperation, the painted beasts surged in amount and soon surpassed the safety boundary.
“Oh no.” The expression of Genesis Lotus’ will changed, not having expected Mao Li Qiu to be so impulsive.
It was suppressed in the painting world, although it had a way to attack, it still had enough strength to defend. If it defended with all its strength, it could last for a long time. Therefore, Genesis Lotus’ will came to persuade it to surrender.
To Mao Li Qiu, the most sensible path would be to let the painting world wear down its strength bit by bit while holding on for as long as possible.
Like what Demon Immortal Qi Jue was doing; he was suppressed by Divine Emperor City and could not break free on his own, but he placed his hopes on the future.
Who could be certain of the future?
But Mao Li Qiu did not follow this logic, it went against the plan of Genesis Lotus’ will.
An unprecedented violent beast tide formed and rushed madly towards the army of the ten children of human path!
The ten children of human path had a huge change in their expressions the moment they saw the beast tide.
“Retreat, this beast tide is too fierce!”
“Even if we use all our strength, we are not their match.”
“Retreat, the urgent matter is to preserve our energy for later.”
The ten children of human path were all elites, they retreated without hesitation.
But retreating was not easy, the beast tide was like a tsunami that threatened to drown the world. Many birds moved faster than the beasts and pestered the pioneering army.
The ten children of human path fought a bloody battle and were finally able to carve a path out.
When they reached the eleventh camp, the whole army was reduced by half, they suffered immense losses!
The beast tide continued to rush forward as if it was endless!
The camp was constructed properly and had thick defense, but it was quickly showing signs of collapsing under the beast tide’s charge.
“Heavens, looks like we have completely angered these beasts.”
“This beast tide is so fierce, even if we add all the previous beast groups, they are not even one-tenth of this.”
“Retreat!”
The ten children of human path retreated to the tenth camp.
Fang Di Chang had already left earlier.
He had already received the information, and understanding the strength of the beast tide, he knew the tenth camp was definitely going to collapse.
Although he wanted to look for an opportunity to retaliate, he did not want to disregard his own safety. In fact, with just Beggar Sect’s strength, he might not be able to get revenge even if he staked his life.
The tenth camp also fell and was run over by the beast tide.
The ten children of human path could only retreat again and again, the beast tide also paid the price, but the scale was truly too large. It could completely bear the price!
Finally, the terrifying beast tide chased away all the humans.
The painstakingly built camps were destroyed with not even one remaining.
Not even ten percent of the troops following the ten children of human path survived, the other residents of the painting world faced even more severe losses.
The surviving group of people were in an extremely miserable state, they were all shocked and terrified.
The city gate closed shut. The city guards looked solemn, the beast tide had arrived in front of the city!
The ferocious beasts did not stop and began to attack the city.
The offensive and defensive battle lasted for three and three nights, the city was actually on the losing end. Many times, giant beasts directly climbed the city walls and carved a path of blood on their way to the inner areas, causing massive casualties.
At the crucial moment, large numbers of divine bean soldiers appeared and participated in the defense, beating back the beast tide.
“The divine bean soldiers are working for us!”
“Right. This was Divine Bean Palace’s killer move, and after we succeeded in slaying the immortal, the divine bean soldiers became our helpers.”
The ten children of human path were shocked and joyous, as well as deeply regretful.
Their losses were too severe this time, almost all their previous accumulations were gone. The only fortunate thing was that none of them had died.
Fang Di Chang had already left this city to a much further area.
Beggar Sect’s losses were also big.
The crushing defeat that Fang Di Chang hoped for had happened, but this level surpassed his expectations. Still, the ten children of human path helped each other and were united, he did not find any chance to attack them.
The beast tide disappeared, the large number of wild beasts returned to growling beast painting world. They scattered everywhere, making the difficulty of exploring growling beast painting world much higher than before.
The painting world was like a huge beast that was licking its wound. The claw that had stretched into growling beast painting world earlier had almost shattered.
“I did not expect growling beast painting world to be so dangerous, it can be deduced the other painting should also be at a similar level.” Shen Shang found Fang Di Chang.
The two exchanged information.
Fang Di Chang informed Shen Shang about the intel collected by Beggar Sect, for instance, the losses of the ten children of human path, as well as Ye Fan and Hong Yi’s performance in this expedition.
And Shen Shang informed Fang Di Chang of a huge discovery.
Shen Shang was the person who had explored the deepest and he witnessed the scene of the beast tide transformation!
“Using dao marks to paint, sure enough, painting path’s methods are mysterious and exceptional. But if so….” Fang Di Chang analyzed, “It seems like growling beast painting world is suppressing a great enemy of Heavenly Court in its depths. The battle between the beast tide and the humans is essentially a method to weaken this enemy and increase the suppression.”
Shen Shang approved of Fang Di Chang’s analysis as he said: “I wonder who is being suppressed inside? They are at least a rank eight Gu Immortal! The enemy of an enemy is a friend, we might have a chance of cooperating.”
“The losses to the army were severe this time, only one-tenth survived. In a short period of time, it should not be possible to organize an exploration army. Do we use this chance to go to the depths of the painting?” Fang Di Chang shook his head, “No, those beasts don’t care about anyone.”
Shen Shang nodded: “The gap between immortal and mortal is not large in this painting world. It seems we can only wait for the exploration army to be organized again. We can then take the chance to go deeper.”
When the large battle between the humans and beasts had settled in the painting world, Fang Yuan had secretly arrived in Mushroomman Paradise.
Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus was successfully raised to rank eight and Fang Yuan also created a large number of compound killer moves.
Over on the Qi Sea clone’s end, the Qi Sea clone contacted Heavenly Court again and again to organize an alliance army to attack Fang Yuan’s variant human alliance. But although Heavenly Court had agreed, they did not show any signs of taking action.
Such an attitude made Fang Yuan believe the severity of the situation.
Mushroomman Paradise’s entrance opened, Lu Wei Yin personally welcomed Fang Yuan to the depths of the blessed land.
They had just sat down when Fang Yuan asked: “Is Spectral Soul still alive?”
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2083 Lu Wei Yin’s Invitation to Tea
Gurgle gurgle!
The tea was boiling and was letting out yellowish-brown strands of steam.
In the small wooden cabin atop the mountain, experts that could influence the world were sitting in front of a small tea table.
One was the number one demon in the current world — Gu Yue Fang Yuan.
The other was Southern Border’s Paradise Earth inheritor Lu Wei Yin. His comprehensive battle strength might not reach pseudo venerable level, but his defensive prowess was enough to compete against a pseudo venerable.
The fresh mountain air blew in from the open window, mixing with the fragrance of the tea.
Fang Yuan gazed afar, outside the window were tall mountains and clean rivers, looking like utopia. Cranes flew, apes shrieked, desolate beasts and plants were abundant and docile.
There were treehouses and villages around the mountains, lots of commotion could be heard from chickens and dogs, there were columns of smoke rising from houses, it was a serene and tranquil atmosphere.
In the sky, there were many floating mountains. These mountains were made from float soil and could stay in the sky, there were many specialties in each mountain, their environments varied. Some had long green vines that extended like hair. Some had drizzles and beautiful rainbows. Some had waterfalls with huge crashing torrents that gathered in huge pools.
And this mountain that Fang Yuan was on stood majestically on the ground and was the tallest mountain in Mushroomman Paradise.
Fang Yuan had just sat down when he asked Lu Wei Yin: Was Spectral Soul still alive?
Lu Wei Yin only smiled and did not reply, instead concentrating on making tea.
The tea was prepared.
This was extreme serene mind tea, it was created with rank eight immortal materials. The tea fragrance was refreshing and seemed to be mixed with the smell of soil after rain.
The tea, the location, and Mushroomman Paradise itself seemed to complement each other. Right now, they were not distant immortals who were high and mighty, but were instead experiencing the joy of an ordinary farmer’s life and the tranquil state of mind.
“Please.” Lu Wei Yin handed the tea cup to Fang Yuan with both hands.
The tea had been boiling hot just earlier, but in just a few breaths of time, the steam disappeared and the tea turned into cooled tea[1].
Fang Yuan took a sip, but Lu Wei Yin directly lifted the large bowl-sized cup and took huge mouthfuls.
Fang Yuan’s eyes shone, he gained some insight and copied Lu Wei Yin’s drinking method.
Gulp.
His Adam’s apple moved up and down as Fang Yuan took a large mouthful of tea.
This time, Fang Yuan had a very different feeling. The tea was not ice cold, but there was a gentle coolness that seeped into Fang Yuan’s organs and intestines. His internal heatiness[2] was swept away, the tea was mellow and refreshing along with a trace of sweetness.
Gulp, gulp, Fang Yuan finished the whole cup of tea.
“Good tea.” He had a peculiar expression when he placed the tea cup down.
That one bowl of tea had added one thousand earth path dao marks in his body!
When a Gu Immortal passes a heavenly tribulation, they would only obtain seven hundred and fifty dao marks. And earthly calamities normally gave two hundred and fifty.
This extreme serene mind tea actually increased so many dao marks. It was akin to a Gu Immortal risking their life to pass a heavenly tribulation and an earthly calamity.
Lu Wei Yin spoke slowly: “This Mushroomman blessed land received Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s help and turned into a paradise, thereby being free from calamities and tribulations. Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable also left behind his Virtue true inheritance here, so this Mushroomman Paradise’s name became Virtue Paradise.”
“Before Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable became venerable, he cultivated and studied in this place. When he became venerable, he changed this place into Virtue Paradise and lived here for some time. Lord Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created extreme serene mind tea during this period of time.”
“Although food path was passed down, it was kept secretive by Spectral Soul and was almost never exposed to outsiders. Lord Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable spent his life mending the disaster caused by Spectral Soul and brought order to the chaotic world. Thus, he did a deep research on food path.”
“He left behind many of his food path gains in Virtue true inheritance. In his view, food path had huge potential but there were too few people cultivating it. If it was truly developed, it could bring fortune to the world. For instance, this extreme serene mind tea is essentially a food path killer move formed from expending rank eight immortal materials. So, it can add earth path dao marks.”
“The talent of a venerable is truly deep and unfathomable.” Fang Yuan praised.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created the killer moves suffering loss is a blessing and all life is bitter to counter Spectral Soul’s food path methods. These two methods played a crucial role during the ambush of Spectral Soul.
But Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable did not stop here, he pushed food path to an even higher level!
In the present five regions Gu Immortal world, almost all the tea and wine were incomplete food path Gu recipes. This was already acknowledged by Gu Immortals.
Just drinking wine or tea was merely to delight the tastebuds and show off one’s wealth, or maybe display the results of one’s refinement path improvement.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, however, completed this aspect and turned tea and wine into food path killer moves. Like this, food path finally showed its own unique splendor!
“Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s food path methods can change tea and wine into killer moves. After tasting the food, Gu cultivators can increase their dao marks. This is a method that can change the entire structure of the Gu Immortal world!” Fang Yuan realized.
The influence of this method was enormous!
In history, the main source of dao marks was to undergo tribulations.
But this food path method broke away from this situation.
Fang Yuan had eat strength Immortal Gu and could do this. But Immortal Gu were unique, while Paradise Earth’s food path method could be learned and referenced to create a number of other similar killer moves.
Eat strength Immortal Gu could not be popularized, but killer moves could be spread everywhere, these were two different concepts!
Fang Yuan’s gaze turned deep and dark.
Just this extreme serene mind tea was enough to show Lu Wei Yin’s deep accumulation and foundation.
This Virtue Paradise had deep foundation and did not lack rank eight earth path immortal materials. Lu Wei Yin could simply use this tea to accumulate earth path dao marks beyond common sense.
It was no wonder he could fight Spectral Soul.
Fang Yuan looked beyond the window once again and at this Mushroomman Paradise. His previous evaluation of this place was raised by several times.
This food path method was extremely beneficial to Gu Immortal cultivation. Virtue Paradise had many Gu Immortals, these Gu Immortals’ strength very likely surpassed other same ranked immortals.
But, since the start, Lu Wei Yin had only moved around by himself and did not reveal these other Gu Immortals.
This person’s shrewdness and patience made Fang Yuan have a different view of him.
Sensing the deep meaning in Fang Yuan’s gaze, Lu Wei Yin said modestly: “Fang Yuan, do not overestimate me and this Virtue Paradise. Although we have this food path method, the cost to use it is truly high. Virtue Paradise produces large quantities of earth path resources, but besides me, who cultivates earth path mainly, most of the Gu Immortals here are mushroommen and what they cultivate is poison path. There are also a few human Gu Immortals who cultivate wood path and water path.”
“This food path method’s efficiency is not that high. For instance, this bowl of extreme serene mind tea used a large number of rank eight earth path immortal materials to only give several hundred earth path dao marks.”
“Of course, Fang Yuan, you have the sovereign immortal body which does not have conflicting dao marks, so your gains should be greater than normal.”
Lu Wei Yin concluded: “Even Lord Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable said in his last words that this food path method is not even worth mentioning when compared to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, Red Lotus Demon Venerable, and other venerables.”
Venerable methods were extremely majestic and could change the world.
For instance, Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable led humanity’s uprising and founded Heavenly Court. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable created wisdom path and tricked heaven’s will, setting the foundation for Heavenly Court to stand for countless years.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left behind his bloodline and created Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, taking the whole of Northern Plains as his courtyard.
Red Lotus Demon Venerable made arrangements that spanned over one million years to destroy fate Gu.
Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable left behind his methods to create Divine Emperor City. The painting world developed and established the foundation of human path.
These were all arrangements that influenced not only one generation, they would result in endless development throughout the whole world!
Fang Yuan frowned as he guessed something from Lu Wei Yin’s tone.
He directly asked: “Since Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable mentioned Genesis Lotus in his last words, did he already know Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable would create Divine Emperor City?”
Lu Wei Yin nodded: “When Lord Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable roamed the world and saved lives everywhere, he got familiar with Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable’s methods. Back then, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable left behind Divine Bean Palace to restrict Spectral Soul and to plot against him when he had yet to be a venerable. Qing Chou’s core is hatred Gu which was formed through Divine Bean Palace, the relationship between Qing Chou and Divine Bean Palace is extremely close.”
“Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable’s original plan was to merge Qing Chou, Divine Bean Palace, and Emperor City during the fate war to form Divine Emperor City and protect Heavenly Court.”
“However, a mishap occurred before this time. Fang Yuan, you collaborated with Fang clan to drive away Qing Chou and seized Divine Bean Palace. Even though Divine Bean Palace merged with Emperor City afterwards, it lacked Qing Chou.”
“Without Qing Chou, Divine Emperor City’s strength was incomplete. The will of Genesis Lotus inside it probably wanted to protect the human path gains, so it did not participate in the fate war.”
Fang Yuan’s expression was complex: “So it was like this.”
Genesis Lotus’ plan was originally perfect.
During the fate war, Qing Chou could sense the existence of Spectral Soul’s damaged soul, it would possess rank nine hatred Gu and have pseudo venerable battle strength. Not only could it help Duke Long to guard Heavenly Court, it could even exterminate Spectral Soul’s damaged soul.
Unfortunately, Fang Yuan unintentionally destroyed this plan.
Originally, Qing Chou had been nurturing hatred Gu inside Divine Bean Palace and strengthening itself. But after being driven away, this process was disrupted. Thereupon, during the fate war, Qing Chou did not have the expected battle strength and it was separated from Divine Bean Palace.
When the fate war ended, Genesis Lotus’ will contacted Qin Ding Ling, which was why Red Heart Traveler and Nine Spiritual Fairy collaborated and secretly moved to bring back Qing Chou to Heavenly Court.
So in fact, it was not Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable who plotted against Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan who first broke Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable’s plan. This led Genesis Lotus’ will to have no options left other than to appear suddenly during the fate war and modify his plan.
So then, why was Fang Yuan willing to accept the alliance agreement and cooperate with Fang clan to drive away Qing Chou?
The crucial key was great thief Immortal Gu.
After obtaining great thief Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan created great thief ghost hand with the rank nine killer move ghostly concealment as the core and the rank seven great thief Immortal Gu as a supplement, forcibly stealing rank eight Soul Beast Token from Qing Chou’s body.
Without Soul Beast Token, Qing Chou’s strength fell sharply, which led to Fang clan’s victory.
And where did great thief Immortal Gu come from?
It was obtained by Fang clan from their Thieving Heaven true inheritance.
[1] This can be called herbal tea which is also literally cooling/cooled tea.
[2] Chinese medicine theory which is resolved by consuming ‘cooling’ food or drinks.
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Chapter 2084 Spectral Soul“s True Main Body
"So Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable did not just arrange heaven form, this is also another arrangement but I did not notice it earlier." Fang Yuan thought to himself.
He suddenly had a thought as he asked: "Is Qing Chou also alive?"
Towards the end of the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, Divine Emperor City came to participate in the battle, causing a huge commotion, was it really to suppress Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Longevity Heaven?
Fang Yuan thought about the fragments of Qing Chou's corpse.
What was Divine Emperor City's true motive?
It was a debatable question!
Lu Wei Yin's expression turned solemn as he sighed: "I only got an answer after returning here and recuperating for some time. What was the main reason why Divine Emperor City joined the battle? In that situation earlier, the aura of rank nine hatred Gu was completely gone, it seemed to have been destroyed."
"However, Qing Chou is a living being formed from a killer move. I cannot be certain if it is dead or alive. Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's method is simply too unfathomable, we can only sigh in amazement!"
Turning a killer move into a legendary immemorial beast was simply too profound, even Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin could only watch without being able to decipher it.
Lu Wei Yin continued: "I cannot deduce Qing Chou's current state, but regarding Spectral Soul's situation, I am very clear about it."
Fang Yuan smiled lightly: "Please tell me."
Lu Wei Yin beat around the bush for so long, he finally got to the main point.
He answered: "Spectral Soul can be said to be both alive and dead at the moment. because his true main body has always been inside the Door of Life and Death."
Fang Yuan nodded as he sighed: "As I had expected."
When Spectral Soul self-detonated, Fang Yuan already felt something amiss. After refining all of his heaven path dao marks, Fang Yuan thought back about the situation and had even more suspicions brewing.
The great Spectral Soul actually died like this?
Spectral Soul was the most heaven defying one out of all the venerables after all!
In the five hundred years of Fang Yuan's previous life, Zombie Alliance was around while Shadow Sect hid in the dark, Spectral Soul secretly controlled the whole of Heavenly Court. Duke Long did not appear at all, he was evidently harmed by Spectral Soul. He even plotted against Feng Jiu Ge, using that chance to seize Lang Ya blessed land, he controlled the overall situation and was the mastermind behind the five regions chaotic war.
As long as Great Dream Immortal Venerable did not appear, Spectral Soul would be the greatest winner in this situation.
Thus, Fang Yuan invaded Hu Immortal blessed land and was aided by Song Zhong, managing to kill Feng Jin Huang.
Who was Feng Jin Huang?
In her childhood, dream wings Immortal Gu came to her, Feng Jin Huang was the prospective Great Dream Immortal Venerable!
Who was Fang Yuan?
He was an otherworldly demon, before Fate was destroyed, he was the only one who could create different outcomes.
And who was Song Zhong?
He was publicly Song Zi Xing's son, but in reality, he was created from his blood fetus.
And Song Zi Xing?
He was known as the Blood Dragon, he was a member of Shadow Sect, one of Spectral Soul's split souls!
In the five hundred years of Fang Yuan's previous life, there were many hidden truths.
At that time, fate Gu was not destroyed, Demon Immortal Qi Jue could not revive, the other venerables could only watch as Spectral Soul wreaked havoc.
Spectral Soul was too overbearing, in the end, heaven's will had to choose Fang Yuan to return to the past and change everything!
During the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, on the surface, Fang Yuan successfully stopped Spectral Soul.
But was that really the case?
Spectral Soul knew that Fang Yuan had been reborn as a result of heaven's will. According to his original plan, he would be able to control Heavenly Court and manipulate the five regions chaotic war, but heaven's will would still obstruct him. If Fang Yuan failed, a second or third otherworldly demon might appear, Spectral Soul would never be able to stand at the peak of the universe.
Thus, he changed his plan, at that moment, he started working together with Red Lotus Demon Venerable.
Eventually, he gave sovereign immortal fetus Gu to Fang Yuan, creating a complete otherworldly demon!
After the fate war, fate Gu was destroyed by Fang Yuan.
Spectral Soul wanted to reclaim the sovereign immortal body.
His plan was perfect. He had no lack of soul path attainment level, with the sovereign immortal body, he would be able to annex Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven and others, instantly regaining his strength!
Thus, he would be ahead of the other venerables, he would have the initiative.
The advantage of being first was unimaginable, if Spectral Soul succeeded, he would be the strongest person, the entire world would be trampled under his feet.
But he did not succeed.
Red Lotus Demon Venerable plotted against him, while the heaven path dao marks restricted Fang Yuan, they also protected him.
Spectral Soul did not regain the sovereign immortal body, his growth became very different.
While chasing after Fang Yuan, Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven worked together, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's inheritor Lu Wei Yin also interfered, eventually managing to kill Spectral Soul.
Fang Yuan tried to put himself in Spectral Soul's shoes, if he were Spectral Soul, what would he do?
Thus, he found a huge flaw in Spectral Soul's plan —
It was too risky!
During the dream realm battle, Duke Long defeated Purple Mountain True Monarch and broke into the blessed land, capturing Spectral Soul and taking the Door of Life and Death.
Spectral Soul's life was in the hands of Heavenly Court, if Fairy Zi Wei did not go after information and clues but killed Spectral Soul right away, would that not ruin everything?
Fang Yuan would not make such an arrangement if it were him.
What about Spectral Soul?
Even though he had the strongest killing nature, he was not stupid at all.
Thus, the most likely case was that the captured Spectral Soul was not the true main body of Spectral Soul!
If Fang Yuan were Spectral Soul, he would also create a clone to disguise as his main body and let Heavenly Court capture him.
Firstly, it would lower the enemy's guard.
Secondly, the clone was a trap as well, Fairy Zi Wei fell right into it.
Thirdly, the amount of information and true inheritances that the clone had would not be the same as the main body, even if he was captured, the enemies would not gain much.
And finally, even if the clone was killed, the main body would not be affected.
Fang Yuan had two pieces of evidence regarding his suspicions of Spectral Soul.
The first one was Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was the crucial person in their pursuit of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan and Spectral Soul used their respective true inheritances to lure Demon Immortal Qi Jue into becoming their ally.
Eventually, Fang Yuan won Demon Immortal Qi Jue over, Spectral Soul was forced to self-detonate and died.
After the battle, Fang Yuan recalled this contest, he felt that victory was simply too easily obtained, it was quite different from his expectations.
But if Spectral Soul was just a split soul, everything would make sense.
Spectral Soul did not predict the rebirth of Demon Immortal Qi Jue, because fate Gu was destroyed, all fixed traces were erased, the future was uncertain.
Spectral Soul's plan was for his split soul to get captured by Heavenly Court, he would only place certain memories into it. These memories would not make Heavenly Court suspicious, but they would also not contain precious information like valuable true inheritances.
Thus, Fang Yuan won against Spectral Soul in this aspect.
The second piece of evidence was obtained by Fang Yuan recently.
Through luck inspection, he checked his own luck and found that at the top of his pure silver pillar of light, there were three clouds. Among them, one was pitch-black like ink.
Who could cause such disturbance to him?
This black cloud was obviously pointing towards Spectral Soul!
If Spectral Soul was still alive, would he let Fang Yuan off? Shadow Sect and Zombie Alliance spent years of accumulated resources and even the ten extreme physiques to create sovereign immortal fetus Gu. Would Spectral Soul let Fang Yuan off? Impossible!
On the other hand, with the revival of Demon Immortal Qi Jue, the world knew that it was possible for venerables to be revived now.
Spectral Soul's main body had likely already planned for his revival long ago.
In fact, did the other venerables not have such plans?
In the past, due to fate Gu, nobody could revive. But now that it was destroyed, who would not want to revive?!
Nobody knew which venerable would be the first one to revive fully. Nobody was clear when they would revive. It was even possible that a venerable would revive at the next moment.
Thus, the situation was quite precarious for Fang Yuan.
Once a venerable revives, the value of his pseudo venerable battle strength would fall greatly. His status as the number one demon in the world would turn him into a target instead.
After the battle, Lu Wei Yin told him to use his time well before departing, this was what he meant.
Fang Yuan did exactly so.
After the battle, he used his time to its limit, he did not relax for even a moment.
Once his strength returned and was able to deal with risks, Fang Yuan came to Virtue Paradise.
He came here not for Lu Wei Yin, Paradise Earth's true meaning, or to inherit Paradise Earth's true inheritance.
He only had one objective.
"Tell me. Lu Wei Yin, how do I become a venerable?"
Fate Gu was destroyed, the future of the world became uncertain, anything could happen now.
Not only the Gu Immortal world, even Gu Masters were starting to see the turbulence of the future.
Fang Yuan was fighting, the mortal Gu Masters were also struggling.
Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range.
Four Gu Masters traveled together, they entered deep into the mountain range for investigation.
They had rank four cultivation level, together, they could resist rank five. In Central Continent's Gu Master world, they were famous demonic path experts.
They were the Four Great Obscenities; Eastern Obscenity Chen Yin Dao, Western Thief Yu Ba Guang, Southern Disturbance Shi Bao and Northern Squandering Fan Chun Yao.
"Sorrowful winds are blowing again." Yu Ba Guang alerted the rest, among the four, he had the most effective investigative methods.
"Quick, take out the Gu House." Chen Yin Dao immediately ordered, he was the leader of the four.
The Gu House was kept by Fan Chun Yao, he was in charge of healing and support.
The four Gu Masters quickly hid inside the Gu House.
Sorrowful winds blew outside the Gu House, the entire place was creaking and shaking, from time to time, Fan Chun Yao had to replenish Gu worms in place of those that died from the sorrowful winds.
"A terrible loss, this is a terrible loss!" Fan Chun Yao shouted in grief: "Along the way, we already lost so much by resisting the sorrowful wind, is there really anything good in this Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range?"
Chen Yin Dao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I cannot guarantee that, but as long as there is some hope, we need to take a risk! Not long ago, Gu Immortals fought on Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, they might have left something behind by chance, it may allow us to ascend to immortal!"
The moment immortal ascension was mentioned, the other three Gu Masters started to breathe heavily.
"As long as we become immortal, who would dare to attack us four immortals? We will no longer be pursued by anyone."
"Once we become immortals, those high and mighty female Gu Masters will all be at our mercy, right? Hahaha."
"You need to be more ambitious! After becoming immortal, what's the point of going after mortals? We can target immortal fairies!"
The Gu Masters looked at each other and started to snicker pervertedly.
What they did not know was, Heavenly Court had already cleaned up the battlefield, all those immemorial year beast corpses were taken away already.
The four of them came to the ruins and searched for seven days but found nothing of value at all.
Just as the four were anxious and furious, preparing to leave, they finally found something.
"There is a person here! Quickly come."
"What's so strange about seeing a person, there are so many corpses here, they are the villagers living on the mountains."
"No, this person is still alive! And there is a weird phenomenon around him."
"What?"
The other three Gu Masters rushed up and saw Wang Xiao Er who had tightly shut eyes, he was still barely alive.
Around him, there were several wild flowers and grass, they were rapidly blooming and wilting, alternating between green and grey with his every breath.
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Chapter 2085 Four Conditions to Become Venerable
In this Gu world, looking at the past to the present, in the period of over three million years, ten Gu cultivators stood at the peak of the world, looking down on all the living beings.
In the long river of history, the five regions and two heavens had countless geniuses and heroes. If these people were akin to shining stars in the sky, then the ten rank nine Gu Immortals were each like suns, they were bright and dazzling, spreading their radiance over the whole world.
Their glory had never faded, their legends continued to be widespread.
They were the ten great venerables!
From the start of history until now, they were —
Three million years ago, Remote Antiquity Era: Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
One million years ago, Olden Antiquity Era: Limitless Demon Venerable, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, Red Lotus Demon Venerable.
Three hundred thousand years ago, Medieval Antiquity Era: Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
A hundred thousand years ago, Late Antiquity Era: Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable.
These ten stood at the apex, dominating the world with unparalleled might, they suppressed their entire era with no rival that could match them!
Their methods were terrifying, even after a long period, they still remained like eternal arrangements.
Their intelligent schemes spanned across the eras, existing throughout the past and present, they used all living beings as their pawns. Even after death, they still continued to influence countless future generations.
Towards these people, Fang Yuan had the deepest feelings in this aspect compared to everyone else in the world.
Fang Yuan was extremely clear about the gap between him and these venerables. Even though he was the number one demon of the current world, having pseudo venerable battle strength, he was not confident in fighting against a venerable.
Venerables dominated heaven and earth, everyone else other than them were ants.
The fate war was a huge lesson to everyone, any method left by any venerable could turn the entire situation around just like that.
Only a venerable could resist another venerable.
Putting it crudely, the reason why Fang Yuan succeeded in the fate war was because he struggled and managed to survive while sandwiched between the battle among the ten venerables and heaven's will.
Towards these venerables who invested in him and treated him as a pawn, for every bit of admiration that Fang Yuan held towards them, there was also an urge to challenge them. For every bit of wariness he felt towards them, there was a bit of desire to match them.
If they could become venerables, why couldn't I, Fang Yuan, do it?
Furthermore, in order to pursue eternal life, the so-called rank nine venerable cultivation level was merely the stepping stone for Fang Yuan.
The plan to become venerable had already been set the moment he was reborn!
Years ago, when Fang Yuan had just been reborn, he looked up at the sky during those nights, viewing the moon, he felt incredibly minuscule. But now, he had already risen to the skies, venerable level was merely his next step of advancement.
But how could he become a venerable?
Fang Yuan did not know, he was uncertain, he did not understand.
There was a huge secret behind the ascension of a venerable!
This secret had never been publicly spread.
The ten venerables seemed to have some sort of tacit agreement, they kept this secret together.
Nobody in the world could find out, they could only analyze using some clues and common traits that everyone knew.
Among the ten venerables, there were nine males and one female. This meant that there was no gender restriction in becoming a venerable, it was possible for both sexes.
Venerables possessed invincible battle strength but they were not omnipotent. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable had once asked Long Hair Ancestor to refine Immortal Gu with them.
Two kings could not exist at the same time. In every great era, there was only one venerable, there had never been two venerables in the same time period. Contests between venerables were limited to the type in the fate war, where they competed using methods they left behind.
Each venerable possessed immense innate luck, phenomena could be seen for some when they were born, their lives were smooth sailing, for example, Red Lotus Demon Venerable. Some were not apparent in their early days, they only grew explosively after a certain period of time.
Seemingly, in the growth of every venerable, there would be one Dao Guardian in existence. Each Dao Guardian played a monumental role in the journey of the venerable's growth, they could be either friend or enemy.
It was publicly recognized that every rank nine venerable's main path was at supreme grandmaster.
The venerables were still restricted by lifespan, there were records in history where venerables used their full strength to hunt for lifespan Gu.
The ten venerables were all humans, there had never been a variant human venerable.
However, just this information could not truly deduce the secret of venerable ascension. One of the most successful deductions in history was the Prophecy of Three Venerables. Immortal Yi Yan said that in the future, there would be Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, and Great Dream Immortal Venerable.
This deduction did not involve the details of the secret of venerable ascension. Furthermore, after Fang Yuan destroyed fate Gu, this prophecy was no longer set in stone.
Then, what was the secret of venerable ascension?
Fang Yuan needed to know about this secret urgently.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's success was the best example, it was likely that the venerables were going to revive.
Thus, the best way to deal with this possibility was for Fang Yuan to become venerable himself!
Fang Yuan understood deeply: No matter how many grotto-heavens he annexed or how many immortal materials and dao marks he had, he could not become venerable. Thus, the most important reason why he came to Lu Wei Yin was for the secret of venerable ascension. Other things, like Paradise Earth's true inheritance or Paradise Earth's true meaning, were just secondary gains for the current Fang Yuan.
Sitting opposite each other, Lu Wei Yin drank his tea as he smiled.
He was not surprised by Fang Yuan's question.
He raised his head and placed down his tea cup, he raised three fingers and said directly: "There are four conditions to satisfy if you want to become a venerable."
"First, the Gu Immortal's immortal aperture origin core has to produce white litchi immortal essence."
"Second, the Gu Immortal's main cultivation path needs to have at least three hundred thousand dao marks."
"Third, the Gu Immortal's main cultivation path needs to be at least supreme grandmaster in attainment level."
"Fourth, after meeting the first three conditions, the Gu Immortal has to break through the Heavenly Dao blockade, after which the immortal aperture origin core will undergo a qualitative change and produce rank nine yellow apricot immortal essence."
Out of Fang Yuan's expectations, Lu Wei Yin actually told him the secret of venerable ascension directly and honestly.
Fang Yuan originally thought that Lu Wei Yin would make a transaction regarding this and list some conditions for Fang Yuan. Or more accurately, there had to be a reason why Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable chose Fang Yuan as his inheritor.
Fang Yuan did not know what Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was plotting.
But he had already decided that as long as he could obtain the secret of venerable ascension, he would be willing to give in to some extent and work with Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable.
However, Lu Wei Yin did not conceal this secret, he directly said it to Fang Yuan.
This was like a transaction where both parties were meant to hand over the goods and money at the same time, but suddenly, the trader tossed the goods to the buyer first.
Lu Wei Yin's action did not make Fang Yuan relax, he instead became more alert.
Lu Wei Yin had a deep scheming mind, Fang Yuan had lost to him once in the past and failed to regain upper extreme heavenly eagle. During the battle to pursue Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin worked with him and killed Spectral Soul together, this battle even showed Fang Yuan his strong mental fortitude and endurance.
How could such a person be so unwise?
Fang Yuan carefully thought about the four conditions of venerable ascension.
"The first two conditions are basically those of a rank eight Gu Immortal who has passed three myriad tribulations. I have already met this condition in qi path, time path, refinement path, and transformation path."
"As for the third condition of the main cultivation path being supreme grandmaster, I have not fulfilled this criteria yet, but my refinement path, time path, and enslavement path are already quasi-supreme, the difference is not huge."
"As for the fourth condition, breaking through the Heavenly Dao blockade?"
Fang Yuan frowned slightly as he asked: "What does the Heavenly Dao blockade refer to?"
Lu Wei Yin continued to explain for Fang Yuan: "The way of heaven is to take away surpluses while replenishing deficits, so all things are in balance and mutually restrict each other. A tall tree is the first to face destruction, soil that is nearest to the water will be the first to be swept away by the currents. But the way of humans is the exact opposite, it reduces the deficits and builds up the surpluses, by devouring the weak and continuing to learn, one can grow and make up for insufficiencies to become even stronger."
"The Heavenly Dao does not want the number of Gu Immortals to increase while they at the same time get stronger, thus calamities and tribulations occur. Calamities and tribulations are part of the Heavenly Dao blockade. Before becoming a venerable, the Heavenly Dao will send a tribulation far greater than any myriad tribulation!"
"Other than that, there is lifespan Gu. Lifespan Gu is a heaven path Gu worm, it cannot be refined by people. Even though the ten venerables were invincible in their eras, they were still bound by it. During an era with a venerable in existence, natural production of lifespan Gu will continuously fall."
"The third blockade is fate Gu, but you have already destroyed it."
Fang Yuan pondered: "There are basically three types of Heavenly Dao blockades, fate Gu has been destroyed while lifespan Gu is of no concern for now, the remaining tribulation blockade is the greatest hurdle that I will face."
"Is there a way to deal with the Heavenly Dao blockade? How did the venerables in history get past it?" Fang Yuan asked.
Lu Wei Yin answered: "There are ways to take shortcuts, luck path is one of them. The venerables in history all have immense innate luck, it mostly comes from two sources. The first is the favor of heaven's will, the second is the adoration of human path."
"Three million years ago, the variant humans were strong and disrupted the balance, the Heavenly Dao sought to deal with them, so heaven's will favored Primordial Origin and allowed him to become an Immortal Venerable."
"The best example of human path adoration is Red Lotus Demon Venerable. He is a child of humanity, he has extremely dense innate luck, when he was born, tribulation struck. The Three Dukes of Heavenly Court had to intervene and block the tribulation for Red Lotus."
Fang Yuan raised his brows: "Thinking about it, can human path methods be a way of breaking through the Heavenly Dao blockade?"
Earlier, Fang Yuan had used human path methods to interrupt with the Heavenly Dao, allowing him to gain time to take action. In this aspect, he was quite experienced.
Lu Wei Yin nodded: "Indeed, human path methods are a good way of breaking through the Heavenly Dao blockade. Precisely so, the various venerables had a common trait, they all comprehended something from [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] and created their own top tier human path killer moves!"
They continued to converse for some time, Lu Wei Yin answered every single one of Fang Yuan's questions to the best of his knowledge.
Fang Yuan finally understood the conditions to become venerable, he fell into deep contemplation.
After careful analysis, he found that only two points restricted him from becoming venerable: One was attainment level, the other was the Heavenly Dao blockade.
The latter could be dealt with eventually, Fang Yuan had Cooking Luck Pot in terms of luck path, he also had human path methods, he just had to elevate and develop them further.
The true problem was attainment level.
Quasi-supreme grandmaster attainment level, it seemed very close to the genuine supreme grandmaster, but that was actually very hard to reach.
If there was a suitable environment and sufficient time, Fang Yuan could work hard in cultivation and continue to deepen his comprehension, he believed that in this lifetime, he could definitely reach supreme grandmaster in at least one path.
But now, the revival of venerables had started to cast a shadow on his future.
"What method is there to allow me to get past this problem?"
Dream realms?
Obviously not.
Fang Yuan had already found out that the dream realms originating from Spectral Soul could only reach great grandmaster attainment level at most.
True meaning?
He thought about it: "Don't tell me, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable left behind his true meaning so that my earth path could reach supreme grandmaster?"
Seemingly sensing Fang Yuan's thoughts, Lu Wei Yin shook his head: "Lord Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's true meaning can only allow you to reach earth path great grandmaster. However, there is a solution in Paradise Earth's true inheritance."
Fang Yuan looked at the smiling Lu Wei Yin, an obscure light flashed in his eyes: "Oh, please do tell me."
Lu Wei Yin thus said: "Fang Yuan, you have read [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], you must know this secluded domain of heaven and earth, Primordial Domain. The truth is, if one can enter Primordial Domain, they would be able to make one of their paths reach supreme grandmaster."
"Primordial Domain?" Fang Yuan was moved: "You know where it is."
Lu Wei Yin's eyes flashed with bright light: "At the deepest layer of Crazed Demon Cave!"
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Chapter 2086 The Secret of Venerable Invincibility
"Primordial Domain… is at the deepest layer of Crazed Demon Cave?" At once, thoughts collided in Fang Yuan's mind rapidly.
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]] did mention Primordial Domain but the description was vague and ambiguous, it depended on the reader's own perspective and comprehension.
"Even if Primordial Domain has such power, is it really at the deepest layer of Crazed Demon Cave?" Fang Yuan would not believe Lu Wei Yin's words so easily.
But this was quite possible.
Fang Yuan had been to Crazed Demon Cave, he had observed then that Paradise Earth went there and even created his own Dao field.
Fang Yuan could not enter the deepest layer, but Paradise Earth was an Immortal Venerable, his ability could not be easily assessed.
"If this is real, then Paradise Earth's objective is in Crazed Demon Cave?"
Fang Yuan's mind was turbulent but his expression remained unchanging.
Lu Wei Yin looked at his expression as he sighed internally: "This Gu Yue Fang Yuan is the number one demon in the world after all, no wonder heaven's will and the venerables chose him as their pawn. Just this information is not enough to gain his trust!"
Lu Wei Yin had no choice but to continue speaking: "Primordial Domain is indeed at the bottom of Crazed Demon Cave, it is quite unique, it is both the beginning and the end, it contains the supreme profundity of the whole of heaven and earth. Limitless Demon Venerable used it and rank nine derivation Immortal Gu as the cores to derive new worlds and create brand new heaven path dao marks."
"In a way, Crazed Demon Cave is far more important than even Heavenly Court!"
Lu Wei Yin said slowly as he exposed even more secrets.
During the Olden Antiquity Era a million years ago, humanity's first Demon Venerable, Limitless Demon Venerable, attacked Heavenly Court and threatened to destroy it, forcing Star Constellation's will to engage in a game of chess with him.
The chessboard was secretly linked to Crazed Demon Cave, as the two venerables schemed, their thoughts collided and new ideas were born, they created brand new heaven path gains.
These gains went into Crazed Demon Cave through the chessboard, helping Limitless with his derivation.
Star Constellation pretended to be unaware but she was prepared for this long ago, she went along with the plan.
The venerables of the future, like Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, and Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, all visited Imperfection Regret Pavilion and knew of the two venerables' game, they understood the importance of Crazed Demon Cave.
During the fate war, the silhouettes of both venerables vanished within Imperfection Regret Pavilion, but this was only the end of a segment of their game. The true place to decide victory was still Crazed Demon Cave!
All the venerables knew this, they all took part in some way. For example, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable created his Green Lotus Dao field in the eighth layer of Crazed Demon Cave. Reckless Savage Demon Venerable created his Savage Wilderness Great World, while Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable made his Yellow Earth Great World.
This way, the situation became more complex.
Fang Yuan was shaken internally: "This has been one of my deepest suspicions so far. A portion of the venerables spent so much effort to create their Dao field in the eighth layer of Crazed Demon Cave, why did they want to defend their own big world so much? Unless, they are also after Primordial Domain?"
"Venerables have already become venerable, Primordial Domain is not necessary to them. Wait, that might not be the case!" A flash of inspiration sparked in Fang Yuan's mind, he saw through the fog and observed a corner of the truth.
"Haha." Lu Wei Yin laughed loudly: "Fang Yuan, you truly live up to your reputation, you are someone who did not falter to the venerables' plots no matter how many were in your way. You have already understood a portion of it."
"Indeed." Lu Wei Yin continued: "Fate Gu has been destroyed, venerables can revive now. However, the stronger the Gu Immortal, the more troublesome and bigger the price their revival will be. If they are careless, even if they revive, they will not have their former strength. For example, Demon Immortal Qi Jue was interrupted by you and Wu Yong, his strength fell and he was no longer in his peak condition."
"Venerables are the same. After they revive, even though they will not have their venerable blockade and will be able to regain rank nine cultivation level, the competition between venerables will be intense. Even though venerables left behind revival methods, they are still limited in the end. Thus, the venerables want to make their revival certain, it would be best if they had their former peak battle strength the moment they revived."
Fang Yuan nodded continuously.
He could understand the venerables' mentality.
When fate Gu was around, everyone was unable to revive. But all the venerables still left behind some methods, once fate Gu was destroyed, these methods would activate and allow them to revive.
However, venerables were in opposing factions, they had their own perspectives, they also schemed against each other.
Who would not want to be the strongest person in the world?
Who would want the existence of venerables other than themselves?
The venerables were wary of each other, they thwarted each other's plans, even though they were dead, they still competed with each other in the dark.
Due to the long duration of history, this type of competition would usually benefit the venerables of the future eras. For example, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable.
But nothing was absolute.
Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable came before Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, but his arrangements, Divine Emperor City and Qing Chou, still managed to harm Spectral Soul!
Or the situation of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable entering the Red Lotus stone island and taking away regret Gu, it was an easy task.
But all in all, this was the general trend.
Later venerables had a greater advantage in this contest.
Because the entire Gu cultivation world was continuously developing and growing. In the Remote Antiquity Era, in Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's time, there were only four to five paths, qi path was the strongest. But now? There were paths of all kinds, mainstream paths numbered to at least twenty!
Taking Divine Emperor City as an example, it was created by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable using his peak wood path and painting path attainment at that time, it could even mimic human path. But in terms of luck path, it was quite lacking. After all, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable only appeared after Genesis Lotus.
In fact, it was not certain if Divine Emperor City was still the peak product of wood path at this current time.
Three hundred thousand years had already passed since Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's era. During this long period, wood path had grown tremendously, countless geniuses emerged, they had their own developments, they promoted wood path to a new level.
Only painting path was still at its peak.
Why?
Painting path had been kept as a secret by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, it was not leaked to the outside world.
Thus, the current painting path was still kept at its peak state from back then.
This was also why a portion of the venerables held onto their own paths' true inheritances and did not spread them widely.
Like Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's luck path true inheritances.
Lu Wei Yin continued to expose more secrets: "Fang Yuan, do you know that Duke Long had moved the Door of Life and Death into Crazed Demon Cave before the fate war?"
Fang Yuan's gaze flickered: "Heavenly Court knows that Spectral Soul's main body is inside the Door of Life and Death, so they moved it away in advance and prevented him from succeeding his plot? No wonder Spectral Soul and Fairy Zi Wei could not find the Door of Life and Death even after ransacking Heavenly Court's treasuries."
Lu Wei Yin drank some tea before continuing: "Duke Long did not just relocate the Door of Life and Death, he even moved a portion of Heavenly Court's immortal graveyard into Crazed Demon Cave!"
Fang Yuan was stirred: "This means that I only destroyed a portion of Heavenly Court's immortal graveyard, the rest is inside Crazed Demon Cave. Is this the backup plan that Heavenly Court had? It does seem like the way of a righteous path super force. After all, Heavenly Court had limited Gu Immortals, even if they woke up, they could not retain their peak battle strength, Star Constellation's will also needs some Gu Immortals to hibernate and support her."
"I was about to get to Star Constellation's will." Lu Wei Yin's gaze was bright as a torch, he stared at Fang Yuan: "Do you know that for a long time, Star Constellation's will has not showed herself to tell Heavenly Court what to do?"
Fang Yuan was finally moved, he understood the implicit meaning behind these words.
Fang Yuan stared at Lu Wei Yin: "You mean to say, Star Constellation has already revived using her will?"
Lu Wei Yin nodded: "Although I am not certain, this is very likely to be the case. If Star Constellation Immortal Venerable revived, she would definitely lurk in the eighth layer and try to obtain the ninth layer's Primordial Domain. Once she enters it, she will regain her supreme grandmaster attainment level in wisdom path, she will be able to use the primeval energy of the world for herself and become a complete and genuine Dao Lord!"
Fang Yuan frowned deeply.
He had originally thought that no venerable had revived yet. But from this conversation, he knew that it was likely at least one venerable had already revived.
And this revived venerable, the only female among them, was terrifying, the only wisdom path venerable.
This woman was so strong that even after her death, she could scheme against three Demon Venerables of the future. Even though the true details were quite different from what Heavenly Court publicly announced, it was true that Heavenly Court was saved by Star Constellation's schemes and arrangements, surviving the onslaught of three Demon Venerables.
This contribution was undeniable, every time Fang Yuan thought about it, he could feel how terrifying it was!
As for why Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was no longer a wisdom path supreme grandmaster, Fang Yuan knew clearly.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable died three million years ago during the Remote Antiquity Era.
Too much time had passed!
Wisdom path had developed until today, it had already undergone a complete revolution in terms of improvement and elevation.
Quasi-supreme grandmaster meant that the Gu Immortal's understanding of the path was already at the limit of heaven and earth, they were already touching that ceiling, they had almost completely understood the profundity of the path. But they were just inches away, unable to break through.
As for supreme grandmaster attainment level, not only did they need to comprehend the full profundities of the path, they also had to innovate further. At this level, each time the Gu Immortal improves, it would be an unprecedented feat, it would elevate the upper boundaries of the entire path, it would even elevate the whole of heaven and earth to some degree.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's wisdom path supreme grandmaster attainment level back in the day was no longer supreme grandmaster in today's world.
Even though she merged with heaven's will and studied Heavenly Court's wisdom path research results at all times, this was still true.
Forget about the difference between Star Constellation's will and a clone, just Heavenly Court's wisdom path research results alone only represented a portion of the whole of wisdom path.
Only after Star Constellation Immortal Venerable entered Primordial Domain could her wisdom path attainment level return to supreme grandmaster, she would become a Dao Lord again.
"What is a Dao Lord?" Fang Yuan heard of a new concept from Lu Wei Yin once again.
This journey to the Mushroomman Paradise was truly valuable. He had already understood the conditions of venerable ascension, he also learned of the venerables' schemes, and now, the term Dao Lord was likely concerning the secret of venerable invincibility!
As expected, at the next moment, Lu Wei Yin smiled: "Why could the past venerables be invincible in the world? The difference between venerable and pseudo venerable lies in the concept of Dao Lord. Why could venerable methods remain for so many years without dissipating? This is also due to the concept of Dao Lord."
Before Fang Yuan could ask him, Lu Wei Yin immediately answered: "The so-called Dao Lord refers to the lord of a certain path. When a Gu Immortal becomes venerable and has supreme grandmaster attainment level, they will be the leader of that path, their own improvement would signify the improvement of the path, that would also be the improvement of heaven and earth, that person is a Dao Lord."
"As a Dao Lord, the Gu Venerable can sense all of the natural dao marks of heaven and earth of that particular path and refine them! After refining the dao marks, the Gu Venerable can manipulate them at will."
Fang Yuan could not help but feel shaken: "Refine them? Manipulate them at will?"
Lu Wei Yin continued to speak: "After every venerable becomes venerable, there will be a period of time when they roam the world. For example, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable or Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable. But the truth is, during this period, they are refining the natural dao marks of the world, they are turning the entire world into their personal battlefield killer move."
This was the secret of venerable invincibility!
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Chapter 2087 Obtaining Southern Border“s Paradise Earth True Inheritance
"So this is the secret of venerable invincibility…" Fang Yuan sighed in his heart.
This trip to the Mushroomman Paradise was truly not in vain!
Fang Yuan obtained a lot of secrets involving venerables, he also had some sort of guess towards Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's motive.
At this point, the signs shown in Fang Yuan's luck inspection were verified.
His luck was like a pure silver pillar of light, even though it was slim, it was tall, shooting towards heaven, seemingly trying to pierce the sky.
At the bottom of this dense pure silver light pillar, there was a lump of yellow qi guarding it, looking like a dust cloud that seemed to support the pillar.
At the top of the pillar, there were three clouds, one was black as ink, one was golden and dazzling, one was shining with starlight.
These three clouds were phenomena that seemed to be obstructing Fang Yuan's luck from rising further.
The black ink cloud should be Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. After all, the current Shadow Sect was already left with few members, it had little threat.
The starlight cloud was most likely the revived Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. It radiated mystery, it had an aura filled with wisdom.
As for that golden cloud, there was no need to guess, it was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. In the fate war earlier, Giant Sun's attack came from Northern Plains with imposing might, arriving in Heavenly Court with unparalleled strength!
During the battle to pursue Fang Yuan, even though they lost one legendary immemorial beast, Longevity Heaven's strength did not fall much, they still retained their foundation. The Huang Jin family was like the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent, it dominated Northern Plains and ensured that the whole of Northern Plains was controlled by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's bloodline descendants.
Crazed Demon Cave was in Northern Plains, there was no way to avoid Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Longevity Heaven.
"Maybe, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable chose to create Longevity Heaven in Northern Plains not because he was a Northern Plainsman but because of the crucial Crazed Demon Cave, he wanted to make his arrangements."
Fang Yuan had many thoughts, he pondered about the deeper meaning of this.
If it were him, he would make the same arrangements.
If fate Gu was not destroyed, everything would not matter. But once it was destroyed, the venerables could revive. By then, whoever occupied Northern Plains and encircled Crazed Demon Cave would have the clear advantage!
Fang Yuan looked at Lu Wei Yin again: "Since Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created the Yellow Earth Great World, then by helping me become venerable, does he also want me to help him revive successfully?"
Lu Wei Yin nodded and smiled: "Precisely. Back then, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable brought blessings to the world, but his main true inheritances were left in the five regions. Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance is here. Eastern Sea's Paradise Earth true inheritance is in the blue dragon whale. Central Continent's Paradise Earth true inheritance is Reincarnation Battlefield. Northern Plains' Paradise Earth true inheritance is inside the Yellow Earth Great World. As for Western Desert's Paradise Earth true inheritance, someone seems to have taken it already."
"Venerables have left behind their revival methods but they are limited. As long as they are destroyed in advance, these venerables will not be able to revive. But if they revive, the difficulty to take them down will be at a whole new level compared to before."
"Now that fate Gu has been destroyed, the River of Time's lower stream is in turbulence and chaos, the world is experiencing an unprecedented shift in era. Who can be sure of what will happen in the future? Not just venerable revival, just talking about Great Dream Immortal Venerable alone, will she still appear? Pseudo venerable is just pseudo venerable in the end."
"By now, Fang Yuan, I am sure that you no longer suspect our sincerity. As long as you help Lord Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable revive, we will be the closest allies. Not only will we give you Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance, we will also provide clues for Eastern Sea's and Central Continent's Paradise Earth true inheritances, the value is simply immeasurable."
Fang Yuan was silent.
Lu Wei Yin was here to convince him, he was not just qualified to do so, he was incredibly skilled!
"As expected, every venerable had extremely deep wisdom." Fang Yuan was starting to understand the accuracy of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's scheme.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable did not need to worry that Fang Yuan would reject him!
Because the things that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable offered had immense value, not only would Fang Yuan be moved, he also needed these venerable secrets urgently.
The reason why Lu Wei Yin exposed these secrets to Fang Yuan earlier was not because he was stupid or generous.
It was because Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable knew about Fang Yuan's nature.
To work wholeheartedly with a person like Fang Yuan, the first condition was that he needed to be assured. Otherwise, even though Fang Yuan was a risk-taker, with his immense vigilance, he would not help to revive a venerable while only being a pseudo venerable!
Thus, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable needed to help Fang Yuan become venerable.
Red Lotus and Spectral Soul were worried that Fang Yuan would become unstoppable when he became a venerable, thus they wanted to get rid of him. But Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable wanted to help Fang Yuan in this, while the other venerables were fighting alone, he had already cooperated with Fang Yuan.
Venerables were the strongest existences in heaven and earth, they were at the limit of the world. In a contest between such individuals, their strength would usually be quite equal, any bit of difference would decide the eventual outcome.
Thus, if Paradise Earth worked together with Fang Yuan, the advantage would be huge.
All these were simply alluring temptations.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable did not just tempt Fang Yuan with the present gains, he even lured Fang Yuan with the future benefits of working together.
Of course, other than allure, there was also pressure!
Lu Wei Yin had already told Fang Yuan clearly: The venerables want to revive in Crazed Demon Cave, would you not stop them? If not, after losing this opportunity, you will definitely suffer in the future.
Fang Yuan, look at what you've done in the past!
Longevity Heaven, Heavenly Court, and Shadow Sect were all his enemies, if the venerables revived, they would not let him off.
Even if they had no grudges, hehe, as a pseudo venerable closest to the level of venerables, would those revived venerables want more chess players in this world to compete with them?
Paradise Earth was a good person, he only expressed kindness to others. However, Paradise Earth's magnanimity and scheming ability definitely lived up to his title as a venerable!
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable tempted and pressured Fang Yuan at the same time, what would he choose?
How else could he choose?
At the next moment, Fang Yuan nodded with a grim expression: "Alright, I agree to this. Let's set the agreement."
Lu Wei Yin waved his hand: "I believe in you, Fang Yuan, why would we need to set an agreement?"
He was bullshitting.
The true reason was that Fang Yuan had methods like myriad beings assimilation transformation, almost no alliance agreements in the world could restrict him.
Lu Wei Yin had no choice but to show his tolerance in this issue.
Fang Yuan was a logical person, if he was not logical and vigilant, he would not reach this stage today. Precisely because of his logic and wariness, he knew that working together with Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had benefits, while refusing had its demerits.
This was more effective than any alliance agreement in the world!
Lu Wei Yin slowly stood up: "Since we are in an alliance, Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance is yours now. Please follow me."
Fang Yuan followed Lu Wei Yin and left the house, going to a mountain peak.
Outside the house, the sky was tall and the clouds were wide, the fields under the mountains were green, the breeze was gentle and the trees were swaying slowly.
Lu Wei Yin pointed at the base of the mountain: "Fang Yuan, firstly, this Mushroomman Paradise is now your property. You can freely annex it, of course, you can let it remain here as your territory in Southern Border's Gu Immortal world."
Fang Yuan was moved, this gift was not a small one. Mushroomman Paradise had existed for over a hundred thousand years, it had abundant resources, comparable with top tier grotto-heavens in the two heavens.
Let alone the giant resource points inside, just the countless mushroommen living here were definitely something unique among the five regions and two heavens! This was the best mushroomman resource in the world, there was no contest!
Next, Lu Wei Yin handed Fang Yuan more than ten Immortal Gu, they were mostly earth path.
Among them, one was an information path Immortal Gu that recorded the details of Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance.
Fang Yuan's divine sense entered and saw everything at once, he found that this true inheritance had three components. The main part was the earth path true inheritance, there was the core killer move, paradise creation, after using this move, the immortal aperture would no longer have calamities and tribulations.
The second part was related to human path, Fang Yuan had seen the contents before, when Lu Wei Yin tried to reform Fang Yuan in the dream realm, Fang Yuan had obtained this Virtue true inheritance before.
This true inheritance had a weird requirement. It needed the inheritor to maintain a just heart, to be a virtuous person. The greater the user's virtues, the easier it was when cultivating.
The core Immortal Gu was accumulate virtue Gu. As long as Fang Yuan did good deeds and acted kindly, it would continue to refine itself. The greater the accumulation of kindness, the higher the rank of the accumulate virtue Gu refined.
Accumulate virtue Gu had many incredible uses, the most useful one was to modify Fang Yuan's physique into the Righteous Virtue Physique that was only inferior to the ten extreme physiques, but it did not have any of the ten extreme physiques' flaws, it represented a limitless future and potential!
Fang Yuan only took a few looks before he sighed in amazement towards Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's talent.
Earlier, he had only interacted with a small portion in his dream, he did not understand its full profundity.
The human path segment of Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance opened a new door for Fang Yuan, he saw a new perspective of human path. It stemmed from the morals of people, developing in this direction. If Gu cultivators chose to cultivate this way, it would definitely create change and become a central part of Gu cultivation in the future.
If this cultivation information was spread widely, it would definitely cause the righteous path to prosper.
Additionally, the refinement method of accumulate virtue Gu was also incredible!
It was able to refine accumulate virtue Gu in the person's body through acts of righteousness and kindness. This was a type of human body Gu refinement method, or rather, a human path Gu refinement method.
From this aspect, one could see that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had shocking refinement path attainment.
Fang Yuan currently lacked this essence of refinement path, it was a huge inspiration to him.
"I am only a quasi-supreme in refinement path, mainly consisting of the hairy man Gu refinement method. To become a genuine supreme grandmaster, I lack these things! But how many of these things are in existence? Where are they left at? This human path refinement method of accumulate virtue Gu seems to have some similarity with Qing Chou's hatred Gu refinement."
Fang Yuan thought about it for a while, he was secretly happy internally.
He next moved his attention to the third portion of Paradise Earth's true inheritance.
This was regarding the dream path.
The core killer move was: three lifetime dreams reform a chosen one.
This killer move used fetus earth maze as the foundation to create a dream realm. It allowed the people who entered the dream to live in the same dream together for three lifetimes, one could experience the mortal lives fully and comprehend life and death, understanding the vicissitudes of human ways and forgetting the evil in their heart, turning over a new leaf.
Fang Yuan had already been hit by this move before, Lu Wei Yin was the user.
The reason why Lu Wei Yin understood Fang Yuan's nature and goal so well was also because of this move.
Thus, Fang Yuan obtained two rank seven dream path Immortal Gu from him.
The first was dreaming Immortal Gu, it was the core Immortal Gu of three lifetime dreams reform a chosen one, it was not a surprise.
The other Immortal Gu made Fang Yuan very happy.
"Even though this Immortal Gu is only rank seven, it carries a huge significance in my case, its importance surpasses rank eight Immortal Gu, and even rank nine!"
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Chapter 2088 Dream Path Master
The dream path Immortal Gu held in Fang Yuan's hands now was a round ruby-like jewel that was cut in half.
This semi-circular ball-shaped Gu worm looked very cute, its red color was also very attractive.
Its head was only ten percent of its body, its back was round and smooth, there were black markings all over, resembling a tortoise shell.
This was rank seven dream path Immortal Gu — Dream Armor.
It was a defensive dream path Immortal Gu!
Fang Yuan had many Immortal Gu currently, but he only had one dream path Immortal Gu, it was rank eight Dream Token, the core Immortal Gu of Dragon Palace.
Dream Token was shaped like a dragonfly, it had a round head and long body, with a pair of pink ruby eyes and four pairs of transparent wings. Looking closely at its thin wings, one would also see a faint layer of rainbow halo.
Looking at the two, Fang Yuan found that dream path Immortal Gu seemed to all look very pretty.
"I wonder what Dream Travel and Dream Wings look like?" Fang Yuan could not help but think.
He had five hundred years of memories, he knew that dream wings Immortal Gu was in the hands of Feng Jin Huang, while dream travel Immortal Gu was in Lady Poison Scorpion's hands.
it was not that Fang Yuan had no intentions of targeting them.
All along, he could not effectively deal with Feng Jin Huang, while he had little confidence in regards to Lady Poison Scorpion.
In his previous life, Dream Travel, Carefree Travel, Fixed Immortal Travel, and Liquor God Travel were the publicly recognized four great movement Immortal Gu. Even though Fang Yuan was strong, Lady Poison Scorpion could travel through dreams and instantly enter any single dream realm.
"Currently, dream path is still not developed enough, dream realms have not manifested everywhere in the outside world. Dream path immortal materials are still rare, while dream path Immortal Gu are even rarer, and yet I already own three of them." Fang Yuan was quite happy with this result.
In the previous life, the manifested dream realms were even larger than Spectral Soul's dream realm, they were everywhere in the five regions.
Thus, everyone could enter dream realms for exploration, it was unlike now where dream realms were occupied by the experts.
A vast amount of dream realms meant countless opportunities for Gu cultivators to excavate dream path Gu materials. With these materials, dream path started to develop rapidly as a path.
Thus, at this current time, dream path had only started to grow in its initial state. Thieving Heaven's dream realm, Paradise Earth's dream realm, and Spectral Soul's dream realm were just small flames that could not boil this entire pot of water.
To boil the pot of water that was dream path, Spectral Soul's dream realm was just too small, the entire world's strength was needed.
In Fang Yuan's case, the Immortal Gu Dreaming and Dream Token were even less important than Dream Armor.
Because Dream Armor was a defensive Immortal Gu.
With this Immortal Gu, he would have the capability of resisting dream path tribulations, the Pure Dream Reality Seeker clone would be able to undergo immortal ascension!
Fang Yuan recalled his luck inspection results earlier.
The pure dream clone's luck was like a pink sandbox, it was very small but yellow sand entered it continuously, turning into pink sand that strengthened the sandbox.
The sandbox luck predicted that the pure dream clone would receive the help of Paradise Earth, now it seemed like that was truly the case.
Fang Yuan activated Cooking Luck Pot again to inspect his luck.
His silver luck pillar did not change much, the pillar of light only became slightly larger while most of the yellow sand below it had vanished.
The pure dream clone's luck was still like a pink sandbox but no more yellow sand fell into it. The sand pile in the box was very tall, there was a feeling of collapse or breakthrough at the next moment."
"I gained Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance, with his help, the pure dream clone has the opportunity to breakthrough. But even so, the risks are still huge, I need to make even more preparation."
Fang Yuan quickly understood.
After Cooking Luck Pot reached rank eight, Fang Yuan obtained even more benefits from luck path.
He was increasingly feeling the advantage of luck path, it was no wonder that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable managed to rise to the top back then!
Crazed Demon Cave was definitely a place to visit, but Fang Yuan could not go now.
Currently, his strength was growing explosively, Fang Yuan intended to raise his battle strength to the limit before heading to Crazed Demon Cave.
Even though Lu Wei Yin claimed that the situation was extremely urgent, Fang Yuan had Luck Inspection, he knew that he still had some precious time left.
"More preparation leads to better future results, let me first research on dream path methods before I help the pure dream clone to ascend!"
Fang Yuan looked at himself, his dream path knowledge was undoubtedly the number one in the current world.
The knowledge of dream realm exploration that he brought along with rebirth was still the top tier research result of the current world, but his advantage was quickly shrinking.
However, after Fang Yuan was reborn, he still made incredible progress in dream path.
The killer move unravel dream came from his memories, from Shadow Sect, he obtained lead soul into dream, switch soul in dream, and pure dream reality seeker transformation. From Dragon Palace, he obtained dreamy light smoke, dream within dream, and dream revelation. And now from Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance, he obtained three lifetime dreams reform a chosen one.
Fang Yuan had more dream path killer moves than dream path Immortal Gu.
Many of the dream path killer moves had core Immortal Gu of other paths, there was no helping it, he used a vast number of dream path mortal Gu in place of a dream path Immortal Gu. For example, killer moves like lead soul into dream and switch soul in dream.
"What I need now is a dream path defensive killer move that uses dream armor Immortal Gu as the core. After that, I need a dream path movement method so that I can escape danger and gain some time to recuperate. After that is healing and finally offense."
Even though Fang Yuan's dream path attainment level was ordinary, he was confident in creating new dream path killer moves.
The reason was that he had unrestrained heavenly mark, he could create a large number of compound killer moves!
Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court were definitely plotting to contest in Crazed Demon Cave, they would not send troops to attack Fang Yuan's variant human alliance.
Not to mention approaching Fang Yuan.
As for the Southern Alliance led by Wu Yong, they would be glad if Fang Yuan did not find them for trouble. Why would they come to him and court death?
The external environment was unprecedentedly safe, Fang Yuan started to enter closed cultivation, he created dream path killer moves, he made good progress every day.
More than ten days later, Fang Yuan suddenly stopped, entering a daze.
He advanced to dream path master!
This was the explosive growth of his accumulation, it was extremely smooth after long periods of foundation building. When creating his killer moves, he had unknowingly succeeded and stepped into the next realm.
Ever since rebirth, Fang Yuan had been pressured by external forces, he had never invested any time or energy into dream path.
Until now, he started to truly cultivate dream path, he put effort into it.
Because his foundation was deep, he was able to progress rapidly from the start, raising his dream path attainment level.
Master attainment level — the Gu cultivator's use of Gu worms had already reached an artistic level, they were no longer amateurs.
The most evident trait was the emergence of instinct. Their understanding of Gu worms and the conceptualization of immortal killer moves for that path had also turned into the cultivator's innate ability. It was like a natural skill that came with them from birth, smooth and easy to use.
For example, Fang Yuan had a very vague idea of dream path Gu worm compatibility for killer moves, he had to try to find out if they would succeed or fail. But now, before trying, his instincts would tell him if some ideas were more feasible or if they were meant to fail even without trying, whether he would only waste his time, energy, and resource if he went ahead.
"Good! Having dream path master attainment level is truly icing on the cake! My dream path achievement is definitely at the top of the current world. But… this might change after some time."
In the memories of Fang Yuan's previous life, there were many dream path geniuses. Among them were shocking talents like Feng Jin Huang and Lady Poison Scorpion, raising dream path attainment level was much easier for them compared to others.
Some people were born with compatibility with certain paths, talent was something that could not be explained. Especially for Great Dream Immortal Venerable seeds like Feng Jin Huang and Lady Poison Scorpion!
Fang Yuan had self awareness, he knew that others would surpass him soon in the aspect of dream path attainment level.
But Fang Yuan would not give up on developing dream path, he would not commit the same mistake as in his previous life.
Dream path was the great trend ahead, the revolution of the future, there was a huge advantage in a new path.
"But now is not the time to truly cultivate dream path!" Fang Yuan understood his circumstances clearly.
He had to become a venerable first to resist the external threats, only then would he have time and opportunities to develop his dream path slowly.
After hearing of the four venerable ascension conditions from Lu Wei Yin, after careful consideration, Fang Yuan guessed that refinement path would be the most likely path that he would become venerable in.
First becoming a venerable in refinement path, then going onto becoming venerable in other paths.
This was the advantage of the sovereign immortal body!
The other venerables would only be able to stare at his growth.
Even though Spectral Soul knew how to refine sovereign immortal fetus Gu, after failing in his pursuit of Fang Yuan, he had already fallen behind in terms of progress.
Fang Yuan had far greater potential for development than the current venerables.
At the same time, Central Continent, Spirit Affinity House.
In a certain Gu refinement secret room within Spirit Affinity House, Feng Jin Huang's Gu refinement was reaching its crucial stage.
"I am about to succeed." Feng Jin Huang's eyes shined: "As long as I refine this dream path mortal Gu, I will have defensive abilities in dream realms. This is definitely a huge breakthrough… urgh!"
Suddenly, the light in front of Feng Jin Huang exploded, the Gu refinement failed as she coughed out a mouthful of blood, falling down.
"How did this happen?!" Feng Jin Huang was extremely shocked, this was not supposed to happen, the dream path mortal Gu recipe had been checked more than ten times, how could there be a mistake?
Even if any mistake was present, it should not have triggered at this crucial point.
"This is not a problem with my Gu recipe, the problem is the Gu material!" Feng Jin Huang's head was hurting greatly, but she still understood what had happened.
"When refining the Gu, I did my inspection. The Gu materials must have been tampered with, and it must be the work of an immortal, that is why I could not notice it."
"I was plotted against."
"Someone wants me dead!"
Thinking of this, a deep chill emerged from the depths of Feng Jin Huang's heart.
She struggled to get up but halfway, she fell over.
Her face was pale as her aura weakened, the strength in her body dissipated as well.
"I am going to die here." Feng Jin Huang gritted her teeth as tears appeared in her eyes. her beautiful and elegant face was plastered on the cold ground, she had no strength to raise it herself.
"Master…" Before dying, Feng Jin Huang thought of Duke Long, her mother, and her father.
"I am not willing to die here!" Feng Jin Huang shouted in her heart.
Suddenly, she heard some quarreling outside.
"Fairy, fairy, you cannot go in!"
"I, Zhao Lian Yun, am the current generation fairy of Spirit Affinity House, I can use any Gu refinement room I want, why can't I choose this best room?"
"Fairy, this room has been taken already, you barged in like this, what if an accident occurs when the person inside is refining Gu…"
"Accident? Hmph! How can there be any accident?" The moment she said that, there was a loud sound, the third door of the secret room was forcefully opened.
"Ah, what is going on?" The Gu Master in charge of the Gu refinement secret room became pale with shock.
"Her Gu refinement failed, she suffered a backlash. Quickly give way, how can a Gu Master like you save her from these injuries?" Zhao Lian Yun pushed the Gu Master aside, a dark light flickering in her eyes.
The Gu Master was covered in sweat, thinking about the history between Feng Jin Huang and Zhao Lian Yun, she was flustered and did not know what to do.
"Aren't you scramming? If you interrupt my healing, can you bear the consequences?" Zhao Lian Yun called out again.
The Gu Master gritted her teeth: "Fairy… ah!"
Zhao Lian Yun waved her hand, a lump of profound light sent the Gu Master flying far away.
Zhao Lian Yun approached Feng Jin Huang as she squatted down.
The two peerless beauties looked at each other.
The Gu refinement secret room fell into dead silence.
This was truly a twist of fate, the two of them had reversed statuses at the moment.
Feng Jin Huang was not flustered in the face of death, she said calmly: "So you are the ones who want me dead."
She was intelligent, after seeing Zhao Lian Yun, she thought of Li Jun Ying and Xu Hao. The latter two had deep grudges with Feng Jiu Ge.
Zhao Lian Yun sighed as she extended her hand towards Feng Jin Huang.
Feng Jin Huang had no strength to resist, her vision fell into darkness.
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Chapter 2089 Come Compete Yourself!
Water vapor surged, three Gu Immortals flew rapidly among the clouds.
"Faster, faster!" The Gu Immortal in front was the current first supreme elder of Spirit Affinity House.
The three Spirit Affinity House immortals that were moving showed unease and anxiety on their faces.
It turned out that after Zhao Lian Yun forcefully sent the rank five Gu Master guarding the Gu refinement room away, this Gu Master felt very worried and went to inform the higher-ups of Spirit Affinity House.
After receiving the news, first supreme elder and the rest could not wait any more, they quickly rushed towards the place!
Nothing had to happen to Feng Jin Huang!
Earlier, even though Feng Jiu Ge betrayed them in the fate war and caused Fairy Bai Qing and Feng Jin Huang to fall from grace, Heavenly Court dealt with the issue calmly, they did not punish the two of them.
According to the rules of the righteous path, they could not punish them. This was because Feng Jin Huang and Fairy Bai Qing did not betray their sect, Feng Jin Huang was even the disciple of Duke Long.
During the pursuit of Fang Yuan, Qin Ding Ling handed out emergency orders. Spirit Affinity House's first supreme elder personally controlled the Immortal Gu House and brought Feng Jin Huang to the battlefield, where she collected all of the dream realms that Fang Yuan left behind.
Feng Jin Huang made a huge contribution in this battle!
Before the first supreme elder left, Qin Ding Ling secretly transmitted to her and said: "Take good care of Feng Jin Huang. Even with the destruction of fate Gu, dream path is still the future trend of the world."
Spirit Affinity House instantly understood the intention of Heavenly Court — they still thought highly of Feng Jin Huang and wanted to nurture her. All of the dream realms that Feng Jin Huang collected were kept with her, Heavenly Court did not take a single one away!
The three immortals flew into the Gu refinement secret room directly.
"Fairy Lian Yun, you need to calm down… hmm?" The three immortals were surprised.
They did not see Feng Jin Huang's corpse, instead, they saw that Feng Jin Huang and Zhao Lian Yun were facing each other.
Traces of blood was still seen on Feng Jin Huang's lips but using their investigative methods, the three immortals found that she was very healthy, completely uninjured.
"What is going on?"
"Did Zhao Lian Yun really save Feng Jin Huang?"
"This is too strange. Zhao Lian Yun has always been part of the anti-Feng faction, Feng Jin Huang failed her Gu refinement this time, she came at a peculiar timing, she evidently wanted to deal a fatal blow. Why did this happen?"
The three immortals were unable to understand.
Looking at the situation, Feng Jin Huang had the upper hand, while Zhao Lian Yun's expression was quite ugly.
"Feng Jin Huang, very well done!" Zhao Lian Yun looked at Feng Jin Huang deeply in the eyes, she spoke with deep meaning before leaving.
She walked past the three immortals without even greeting them, this went against her usual demeanor, it showed how terrible her mood was.
Feng Jin Huang wiped the blood traces off her lips as she smiled and greeted the three supreme elders.
The three immortals quickly understood the reason, they sighed in their hearts.
"This must be due to Feng Jin Huang's plan, she must have sensed something and went along with the scheme to lure out the enemies, causing Zhao Lian Yun to expose herself."
"Ever since the fate war, Feng Jin Huang's improvement has been very evident. Predicaments truly help to train people."
"But what should we do about their conflict?"
The three immortals were secretly troubled.
On one hand, there was the anti-Feng faction, Li Jun Ying and Xu Hao were the pillars holding this faction up, they helped Zhao Lian Yun become the current generation fairy of Spirit Affinity House. With her addition, the faction was already the number one force within Spirit Affinity House.
On the other hand, there were Fairy Bai Qing and Feng Jin Huang. This mother and daughter pair was not easy to deal with, they had deep foundations. Even though Feng Jin Huang seemed to have lost her grace, she was still very important to Heavenly Court. After all, her father was Feng Jiu Ge, even though he betrayed the righteous path, as long as he was not dead, Spirit Affinity House could not ignore his existence!
The conflict between the two factions became the greatest internal threat of Spirit Affinity House, but the first supreme elder was unable to do anything.
"Feng Jin Huang, if you want to refine Gu in the future, you can come to my mountain peak." The first supreme elder looked at Feng Jin Huang for a while before speaking amicably.
She pretended not to know about the fact that Zhao Lian Yun came to find trouble earlier.
There was no direct evidence.
The only evidence was the Gu refinement materials, but they were destroyed already.
Even if there was evidence, the first supreme elder would likely not want to deal with it. Having it manifest now would just trigger the internal threat, causing the decline of the sect.
The first supreme elder was very mature. She knew that Spirit Affinity House had fallen into some internal strife now, it was like a volcano bound to erupt soon. She needed to use a pot lid and cover the top, stalling for as much time as she could. During this period, she had to dig some routes to redirect the lava away and release the inner pressure to stabilize the situation.
Zhao Lian Yun returned to her mountain with a livid expression.
She did not enter the hall, she stood on the mountain peak, looking at the dark weather.
She knew that someone would come.
As expected, a while later, Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying flew over together.
This couple's expressions were not good, along the way, they already knew that the plan had failed. But they still needed to find out the details from Zhao Lian Yun herself.
Before Xu Hao or Li Jun Ying spoke, Zhao Lian Yun already asked them: "How did Feng Jin Huang find out the flaw in the Gu materials? Do you have anything to say about this failure?"
Xu Hao was silent.
Li Jun Ying said grimly: "I underestimated Feng Jin Huang. Lian Yun, you know about my title as Illusory Fairy, I am skilled at such things. Especially when I became a shadow path great grandmaster recently, even if the Gu material were to be placed in front of first supreme elder, she might not have found out."
Zhao Lian Yun's expression was cold as she waved her sleeves in anger: "But it happened anyway, what explanation do you have?"
Xu Hao spoke: "Maybe Duke Long left Feng Jin Huang some defensive methods. Or maybe this is the power of dream path. After all, we are not familiar with dream path, that demon Fang Yuan has also relied on dream path to fight strong enemies while he was weak."
Xu Hao continued: "Alright, this was our mistake. Fairy Lian Yun, according to our agreement, after helping us with this matter, we no longer owe each other anything. Since this plan failed, let it be, it was our fault after all, we will treat it as a completed task. From today onwards, we do not owe each other anything!"
Hearing his words, Li Jun Ying showed anxiety on her face, she wanted to speak, but Xu Hao stopped her with his hand.
Zhao Lian Yun's expression eased at this moment, she nodded at the two immortals before turning around and leaving without speaking.
The two immortals saw that Zhao Lian Yun went into her palace, they had to return.
Along the way, Li Jun Ying said angrily: "If not for our help, how could this Zhao Lian Yun have gotten the divine concealment of Thieving Heaven's true inheritance? If not for our help, how could she have become the current generation fairy? She actually wants to keep a clear distance from us now, she is truly an ingrate. And husband, you actually let her off so easily, do you know that she is the best weapon for us to deal with Feng Jiu Ge! To think that you are a wisdom path cultivator, sigh."
Xu Hao smiled: "My dear wife, don't worry. Even though we failed, there were gains too. Firstly, we learned about Heavenly Court's intentions through the first supreme elder's actions. Secondly, we now have Zhao Lian Yun on our side for good. Thirdly, we also found out some of Feng Jin Huang's abilities."
Li Jun Ying was slightly dazed before she realized: "That's right, even though we failed, Zhao Lian Yun also became enemies with Feng Jin Huang. Even if we do not look for Zhao Lian Yun, Feng Jin Huang will eventually 'repay' her for this, the enemy of an enemy is a friend, so she is still on our side."
"Precisely." Xu Hao nodded.
Li Jun Ying smiled: "Husband, you are really a wisdom path cultivator, I was wrong earlier."
Xu Hao smiled, showing a gaze full of bitterness: "Feng Jin Huang is truly the daughter of Feng Jiu Ge, her attitude, talent, and dream path methods surpass my expectations. Our original plan was to use Feng Jin Huang as the bait to lure Feng Jiu Ge into attacking Spirit Affinity House angrily, to make him conflict with Heavenly Court."
Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying's target was still Feng Jiu Ge after all.
Even though Feng Jiu Ge was strong and even ten of Li Jun Ying and Xu Hao together could not fight him, was there really a need to face him in combat?
Humans were the spirit of living beings, there were many ways to kill an enemy stronger than yourself.
Xu Hao, who cultivated wisdom path, thought of a plan to use Heavenly Court as the blade to exterminate Feng Jiu Ge.
This was the flair of a wisdom path Gu Immortal, he was skilled at using other people or situations to achieve his goal!
"This plan failed, I truly underestimated Feng Jin Huang. After this, she will definitely stay by her mother's side, we will not have many opportunities to strike again in the future." Xu Hao was very worried.
Feng Jiu Ge had once suppressed Xu Hao, causing him to live a life shrouded by darkness. This was their grudge.
When Feng Jiu Ge was in Spirit Affinity House, his family occupied all of the resources, causing Li Jun Ying and Xu Hao to progress slowly in cultivation. This involved their benefits.
Feng Jin Huang cultivated dream path and was highly regarded by Heavenly Court, she was the forerunner of the new era. This was a future threat.
Spirit Affinity House and Heavenly Court could not be depended on, the only one who could defend Xu Hao's benefits was Xu Hao himself.
If he did not do his best, who would help him?
"The journey of cultivation involves competition and conflict, we can only win if we stake our lives on important gambles." Xu Hao muttered, determination flashing in his eyes again.
Some days later.
Eastern Sea.
On a nameless island in a nameless sea area, Fang Yuan let out his dream path clone.
"Start." Fang Yuan said plainly.
The dream path clone nodded as he took a deep breath, shattering his aperture at the next moment.
The complete Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique's aperture was different from an ordinary rank five aperture, it was constantly alternating between shattering and forming at all times, yet its aperture wall had a thin layer that was able to fix this dream path aperture in place.
At this time, Fang Yuan's dream path clone only used primeval essence to assault the wall before it shattered.
At the next moment, formless heavenly power surged towards him from all over the place as the pure dream clone's body started to rise into the air.
Rumble!
Clouds gathered in the sky as thunder rumbled.
The waves around the island became more intense, soon turning into huge tides!
The environment became quite hostile, using Gu worms in this area, be they immortal or mortal, would result in backlash.
If the backlash was severe, even Immortal Gu would be destroyed!
Heaven's will was seemingly enraged!
Fang Yuan was a hated scoundrel, he actually wanted to become a dream path Gu Immortal in advance.
This was not part of the plan of heaven's will.
This went against the arrangement of fate.
It could not be spared!
It could not be forgiven!
Fang Yuan looked up at the sky, his gaze was peaceful yet determined.
So what if the Heavenly Dao did not allow it?
Then contest!
Then fight!
In this world, the most reliable thing was neither your clan or sect, nor your family or lover, it was yourself.
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Chapter 2090 Meng Qiu Zhen
Fang Yuan's pure dream clone had already shattered his aperture to start the immortal ascension.
Once this process started, it could not be stopped. Either he became an immortal or he would face failure in death!
Heaven qi poured down like a calm yet swift breeze, earth qi rose up with a heavy and stable feeling.
The pure dream clone emitted a dense human qi as well.
The complete Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique was the eleventh extreme physique, it contained an immense amount of human qi to begin with.
As the three qi converged, qi currents surged and intertwined, creating a huge cocoon that enveloped the pure dream clone's entire body tightly, leaving no gaps outside.
At this juncture, Gu Masters had to be mindful to regulate the three qi and fuse them together. The three qi had to be balanced, if human qi was slightly in excess, it would lead to self-detonation. If heaven qi was slightly more, the Gu Master would dissolve into the sky. If earth qi was slightly denser, the Gu Master would turn into a fossil and suffocate to death.
This step was precarious.
But Fang Yuan had absolute confidence in the pure dream clone.
He had already given the pure dream clone an abundance of memories regarding immortal ascension. This not only included Fang Yuan himself but also those he soul searched. For example, the Northern Plains Gu Immortals like Hei Cheng, or Southern Border Gu Immortals like Xia Cha, there were also many Eastern Sea, Central Continent, and Western Desert Gu Immortals that Fang Yuan harmed.
In the long history of Gu cultivation, in terms of immortal ascension experience, the pure dream clone's accumulation was definitely rare.
The difficulty of the pure dream clone's immortal ascension was not the three qi, but the tribulation!
In the sky, heaven and earth qi rumbled like a turbulent sea. A vast amount of pink fog covered the sky of a few thousand li, it was grand and majestic, emitting a dense aura of dream path.
Fang Yuan's main body was solemnly awaiting it, this immortal ascension definitely enraged heaven's will greatly, the difficulty was far beyond ordinary.
Bam bam bam…
At the next moment, rumbling thunder could be heard unceasingly.
Within the sea of pink clouds, more than ten balls of light shot down.
These balls were all pink in color, they were large as mountains, the surfaces were smooth without any impurities.
The balls of light did not move quickly, they gave people a feeling of being weightless.
As the ten pink balls descended, they were aimed at the pure dream clone who was floating in the air.
Fang Yuan immediately acted to obstruct them.
There were countless thoughts accumulated in his mind, at once, his thoughts collided, killer moves were unleashed in rapid succession, creating a huge sky of fireworks that blocked the ten pink balls.
The following scene was a slight shock to Fang Yuan.
One pink ball shattered into countless bubbles that spread in the sky.
One pink ball engulfed everything in its path as it expanded by several times.
One pink ball shattered and turned into desolate beast nightmare demonic colts, rapidly approaching the pure dream clone.
One pink ball turned into a lump of dream realms that flew over.
One pink ball turned into a dream path Immortal Gu, rapidly vanishing into thin air.
…
The ten pink balls had varying effects, it was a chaotic scene!
Any ordinary Gu Immortal would have flustered by now, but with Fang Yuan's deep wisdom path attainment, he made the most appropriate reaction right away.
He first released the desolate level year beasts in his immortal aperture to resist the nightmare demonic colts.
Next, he waved his sleeves, dense smoke flew out and captured all of the dream butterflies that got close to the pure dream clone.
After that, he used pure dream reality seeker transformation on the dream realm!
But this dream realm still approached the top of the pure dream clone's head as its form changed violently, resisting Fang Yuan's pure dream reality seeker transformation.
"It seems that this dream realm contains heaven's will." Fang Yuan did not worry.
Even though he had not undergone a dream path immortal ascension before, he had already made many deductions regarding this.
This was one of the scenarios that he deduced.
A large amount of wisdom path and dream path Gu worms were rapidly activated in the sovereign immortal aperture, they formed a killer move, heaven's will dissipation.
This killer move was modified by Fang Yuan, it was originally able to dispel the heaven's will in dream realms but the efficiency was too low. After modification, by adding in dream path Immortal Gu, the speed became faster.
However, the brand new heaven's will dissipation could not work on this dream realm.
"What is going on?" Fang Yuan frowned.
At the next moment, thoughts collided in his mind, inspiration flashed.
"This dream realm is fake!"
"This is why pure dream reality seeker transformation did not work earlier. Even if I use heaven's will dissipation, the result is the same."
"But in that case…" A dark light flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes as he hesitated for once: "Looking at the scene in front of me, what is real and what is fake?"
The seemingly chaotic tribulation had real and fake elements to it.
But even with Fang Yuan's strength, he could not tell.
One skill to dominate the world, this was the power of dream path, even Fang Yuan's main body succumbed to it unknowingly.
"Indeed, the pure dream clone is only undergoing immortal ascension, the tribulation cannot be this powerful. There were desolate beasts and dream path Immortal Gu… Why did I not realize this earlier?"
Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk uncontrollably.
The dream path tribulation was truly peculiar, not only could it blur reality and truth, it could even silently affect Fang Yuan's thoughts and mental state.
Dream armor Immortal Gu had been given to the pure dream clone long ago, Fang Yuan quickly used his compound killer move.
Using dreaming Immortal Gu as the core, his body started to shine in a layer of profound light, it was able to defend against some dream path abilities.
Fang Yuan instantly felt his mind clearing up, he was no longer disrupted when thinking.
But that did not help the tribulation that the clone was facing.
At this time, Fang Yuan could only stop his actions!
Just a mere rank six tribulation was able to force the pseudo venerable Fang Yuan to no longer take action.
Because soon, Fang Yuan realized that he could not decipher the reality and illusion of this scene, was that the case for the pure dream clone too?
Even though Fang Yuan felt that the pure dream clone's cocoon had never changed location, it was likely that its traces had already been concealed.
If Fang Yuan did anything now, he might be killing the pure dream clone in reality!
At this time, dream path defensive methods became extremely precious.
Fang Yuan did not move, he let the dream path tribulation hit him, only using the compound killer move to defend himself.
As for the pure dream clone, he was defended by dream armor Immortal Gu.
The pure dream clone did not have the sovereign immortal body, he could not use Fang Yuan's compound killer moves.
The pure dream clone also had to stabilize the three qi, he could not divert his precious thoughts into activating any dream path killer moves.
The truth was, Fang Yuan was only a dream path master, he could not create dream path killer moves compatible with the pure dream clone in this short period of time.
Thus, the pure dream clone directly activated dream armor Immortal Gu instead.
Even though dream armor Immortal Gu was rank seven, the pure dream clone had the immortal essence that the main body gave him.
Fang Yuan was very patient, he watched the dream realm descend upon his clone, he watched as the nightmare demonic colts got free from the year beasts and attacked the pure dream clone.
The dream path tribulation lasted for over forty-five minutes before the clouds in the sky dissipated.
Heaven and earth was clear again.
As heaven and earth qi faded away, the sea became calm again.
The nightmare demonic colts on the ground returned to their original form, they were actually the desolate level year beasts that Fang Yuan released earlier.
As expected, the cocoon was not far away, it was to the left of Fang Yuan!
This discovery made Fang Yuan's heart turn cold. The cocoon was at a dangerous spot, if Fang Yuan used any killer move, he could likely implicate it.
By then, Fang Yuan's main body would be the culprit that killed the pure dream clone!
The dream path immortal ascension was truly dangerous.
If Fang Yuan took risks, it was likely that his main body would be the biggest obstacle for his clone's tribulation. Thankfully, Fang Yuan was vigilant and only did the tribulation after getting dream armor Immortal Gu.
Even so, this immortal ascension was very dangerous, he almost failed to pass it.
"This dream path tribulation even managed to affect my main body, let's call it bewildering illusion dream tribulation." Even though Fang Yuan also had a compound killer move that contained dreaming Immortal Gu and could be used for investigation, this killer move was clearly not enough to decipher the truth.
The key was that he had too few dream path Immortal Gu.
Dream Armor was with the clone, the main body only had rank seven Dreaming and rank eight Dream Token.
If Dream Token was used alone, the user would die from using it, because this Immortal Gu uses all of the Gu Immortal's foundation (immortal essence, emotions, true meaning) to create a dream realm.
The size and power of the dream realm would depend on the situation.
Back then, Wu Shuai was a peak rank eight Gu Immortal, he was a quasi-supreme grandmaster in enslavement path, after sacrificing his life, Dragon Palace gained the power to enslave the Four Dragon Generals.
Dream Token was very hard to use alone, killer moves that used it as the core were very difficult to activate. In Fang Yuan's case, it was not even as useful as rank seven dreaming Immortal Gu.
The three qi fused into one lump.
The pure dream clone tossed a rank five dream butterfly mortal Gu into it.
At the next moment, there was a loud sound as the three qi exploded, creating an immortal aperture.
With the creation of the immortal aperture, it started to absorb the surrounding heaven and earth qi of the pure dream clone in a frenzy and grew rapidly.
The pure dream clone put in dream armor Immortal Gu and the rest, quickly soothing the three qi and stabilizing the newly created blessed land.
The blessed land was completed, even though it was not comparable to the sovereign immortal aperture, it was a super grade blessed land, far beyond high grade.
The complete pure dream clone had a ten extreme physique, thus, it was not strange to have a super grade blessed land that only ten extreme physiques could obtain.
With the blessed land, a portion of heaven and earth qi still remained.
The pure dream clone used the chance to refine his vital Gu.
The dream butterfly mortal Gu that he tossed in earlier was his vital Gu.
During the resonance with heaven and earth earlier, he learned of three dream path Immortal Gu recipes from natural inspiration, dream butterfly Immortal Gu was one of them.
Dream butterfly Immortal Gu successfully became rank six, Fang Yuan finally had a total of four dream path Immortal Gu now!
After the Immortal Gu was refined, new dream path tribulations appeared in the blessed land, but the might was far lower than the immortal ascension tribulation.
This time, Fang Yuan's main body did not need to do anything.
Fang Yuan gave dreaming Immortal Gu to the pure dream clone, the latter used the three Immortal Gu to pass the tribulation.
"Dreamy light smoke of the otherworldly guest,"
"Calling out the inner soul of my nightly dream."
"Even if this is not fated for a hundred years,"
"I leave behind this mortal shell to seek reality in my dream."
After the tribulation, the pure dream clone sang his poem, he placed his palm by his chest, bowing at the main body: "From today onwards, my name is Meng Qiu Zhen[1]."
Fang Yuan laughed: "Good name. Meng Qiu Zhen, show me your dream path blessed land."
He was very interested in the dream path blessed land.
This dream path super grade blessed land had a total of 8000 km2 of land, the rate of time was forty-six times, the immortal aperture origin core would produce fifty-five green grape immortal essence each year.
This was the standard of a super grade blessed land, there was nothing out of the norm.
The truly satisfactory thing for Fang Yuan was the special environment of the blessed land.
"This is the best location to nurture dream path immortal material, the potential for development is huge, it did not disappoint me after all." After some observation, Fang Yuan was quite satisfied.
The severe lack of dream path immortal materials had always troubled him.
With this dream path immortal aperture, he had a foundation to develop more immortal materials.
Throughout history, the signature development of a new path was the emergence of Gu Immortals that cultivate the path! Because of the unique and enclosed environment, the Gu Immortal's immortal aperture could rapidly grow a large amount of immortal materials of that path, these immortal materials would flow into the market and push the path to prosper and progress.
[1] Literally Dream Reality Seeker, he uses a part of the physique as his name, this is also what the last part of the poem refers to.
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Chapter 2091 Clear and Bright Eyes
"Kill, kill him!"
"Don't let him bring the Immortal Gu away!"
"That Immortal belongs to me, Gu Diao Gui Men, don't think of leaving."
The pursuing group was closing in, Feng Jin Huang had two paths ahead of her to choose from.
Only one could allow her to escape, the other path would lead to Diao Gui Men's blessed land headquarters.
Feng Jin Huang did not hesitate, she chose the left path and rushed out.
With a loud sound, the view before her shined brightly.
Feng Jin Huang was slightly dazed, she soon found that her soul had returned to the outside world. The dream realm from earlier had already vanished.
"I passed the dream realm, as expected, that wild soul path Immortal Gu is the key!" After her soul returned to her body, Feng Jin Huang showed an excited expression: "This time, my soul path attainment level rose. Dream path master attainment level is really helpful when exploring dream realms."
Ever since that dangerous situation in the Gu refinement secret room, Feng Jin Huang benefited from the ordeal instead and advanced to dream path master.
The last scene of the dream realm earlier was also Feng Jin Huang's first attempt, she did not know which way was the right one. But at the crucial moment, her dream path master instincts told her which was the correct route to take.
"It is a pity that I cannot control the instinct gained by becoming a dream path master, it works at times but does not have effect at other times."
"If I can become a dream path grandmaster, this instinct will be many times stronger, I can even use dream path Gu worms to form killer moves that mimic other paths as well."
Feng Jin Huang sighed internally.
This advancement to dream path master was already an incredible experience to her, she had been fortunate to succeed after facing immense danger and the threat of death.
Feng Jin Huang could clearly feel that her understanding and accumulated knowledge of dream path had been used up, she barely became a dream path master. To raise her attainment level again, she would need to accumulate more foundation next, this would take a long time.
After packing up, Feng Jin Huang stood up and pushed the door of the cultivation secret room open.
Passing the long walkway, she arrived in the living room.
Fairy Bai Qing had already cooked food, the table was full of delicacies.
Seeing Feng Jin Huang, Fairy Bai Qing smiled: "Huang Er, has your cultivation for today ended? Looking at your expression, you must have succeeded."
"Indeed, mother. Dream path master attainment level is truly phenomenal, it is so helpful for my dream realm explorations!" Feng Jin Huang sat down and described the final scene of the dream realm: "If not for my instincts, my soul would have gotten heavily injured now."
Fairy Bai Qing's smile faded away: "I've already looked into it, that situation is quite clear now. The ones plotting against you are Li Jun Ying and Xu Hao. Li Jun Ying secretly became a shadow path great grandmaster but kept a low profile, allowing her to tamper with the Gu materials. But eventually, Zhao Lian Yun did not harm you but saved you instead. I am truly seeing this otherworldly demon in another light. No wonder she could become the current generation fairy, it was not just because she was the lucky person who received love Gu's recognition."
Feng Jin Huang had a complex expression on her face.
She recalled the scene in the secret room, fear still lingering in her heart.
Back then, she was completely defenseless, she was fish on the chopping block, Zhao Lian Yun could decide her life and death.
Even though Feng Jin Huang survived without any danger in the end, this situation still stirred her inner heart greatly!
Fairy Bai Qing continued to speak: "Huang Er, I have already inspected your body, there are no problems. Did Zhao Lian Yun really just save you, she did not list any requests?"
Feng Jin Huang shook her head: "Even though she did not say it, I have already guessed her plan. After all, her eventual goal is very obvious. Mother, forget about this, let's eat! After eating, I need to continue exploring dream realms."
Fairy Bai Qing nodded: "As long as you know what you are doing. But cultivating day and night all the time is no good, cultivation has its own pace to follow."
"Mother!" Feng Jin Huang interrupted Fairy Bai Qing: "I know about the concept of pacing myself, but I also know that I need to be stronger. I can only protect you when I am stronger, I do not want to be the one who is constantly protected. Only by getting stronger can I fulfill master's dying wish and become a dream path Gu Immortal. Only by getting stronger can I make people like Zhao Lian Yun and Fang Yuan unable to bully and plot against me. Only by getting stronger can I face my father directly and engage with him in a fight to show him my true goals!"
Fairy Bai Qing was dazed for a moment.
Feng Jin Huang's eyes were seemingly emitting bright light, two rays of light shot into Fairy Bai Qing's heart.
Fairy Bai Qing held down her worries as she smiled: "Huang Er, since you have made your decision, go ahead and do it. I will support you all the way! If you have any needs, I will do my best to help you."
Feng Jin Huang left her seat and came to Fairy Bai Qing, she held her mother's hands: "Mother, I know you love me. Do you have any method to get guts Gu? I need guts Gu the most now."
Fairy Bai Qing smiled bitterly: "Oh Huang Er, this request is too much for me. You know that guts Gu is only produced on Dang Hun Mountain, and this mountain is in the hands of that demon Gu Yue Fang Yuan, he has already stopped selling guts Gu publicly for a long time now. All of the guts Gu in the market are just the remaining stock that he sold in the past, with the quantity dwindling, the price is also getting higher."
Feng Jin Huang sighed: "Mother, you know that many methods can heal my soul but they will have certain side effects, nothing can match guts Gu. I must become a dream path Gu Immortal, if my soul has too many varying dao marks at that time, it will limit my future potential."
Fairy Bai Qing patted Feng Jin Huang's hands: "I will do my best, sigh, if only your father was here…"
Feng Jin Huang's expression changed as she said in displeasure: "Mother, don't mention him in front of me!"
"Alright, alright, I won't talk about him."
At the same time, Affection Peak.
"To think that the sect sent you to convince me." The owner of Affection Peak, Zhao Lian Yun, looked at the person with a smile.
Bu Zhen Zi smiled bitterly: "Fairy, please don't take offense. This was a task given to me, I had no choice but to come here and talk to you."
Zhao Lian Yun's smile widened: "You are too polite. Back then, when we went to Northern Plains and fought on Snowy Mountain, if not for your protection, I would have died already, please come in, I have prepared some tea for you."
Bu Zhen Zi was a rank seven Gu Immortal who cultivated phantom path, back then, he was ordered by the sect to protect Zhao Lian Yun, he showed a good performance in Reverse Flow River and was heavily nurtured after returning to the sect.
Spirit Affinity House's higher-ups also considered this point, they sent Bu Zhen Zi here to convince Zhao Lian Yun to stop her actions.
Bu Zhen Zi arrived in the evening, when the tea ceremony ended, the moon had already appeared into the sky.
"Fairy, there is no need to send me off, I will take my leave now." Bu Zhen Zi cupped his fists, his expression was joyful, this discussion was quite successful, Zhao Lian Yun was far more magnanimous and easy-going than he had expected.
Zhao Lian Yun nodded: "Goodbye."
Bu Zhen Zi said sincerely: "Fairy, I have already understood your circumstances and problem, I will go and inform first supreme elder, please do not worry."
Zhao Lian Yun smiled: "I will have to trouble you then."
Zhao Lian Yun watched as Bu Zhen Zi left, even after his figure vanished into the clouds, she still remained standing at the top of Affection Peak.
Night winds howled, the surrounding mountains were covered in dense fog, nearly concealing even the bright moon in the sky.
This was Spirit Affinity House's main headquarters, the moon in the sky was just an immortal formation in essence.
Zhao Lian Yun was dressed in white, her clothes moved along with the wind, she had long black silky hair and clear skin, her eyes were furrowed as she looked at the night sky.
She was Spirit Affinity House's current generation fairy, her status was very high, even a rank seven expert like Bu Zhen Zi had to speak to her politely.
She had the Thieving Heaven true inheritance of divine concealment, she controlled love Gu, she could command people at will, it was really not easy for an otherworldly demon like her to reach this stage.
However, none of these made Zhao Lian Yun happy.
"Right now, I have become an immortal but you are not by my side. Sigh, being an immortal is no better than a mortal…"
The huge five regions and two heavens were still not her homeland, she could not truly feel at ease.
She was once favored by fortune, she encountered Ma Hong Yun, whom she entrusted her heart to.
But destiny was also cruel, she got separated from Ma Hong Yun, getting sold publicly as Feng Jiu Ge bought her, she participated in the Reverse Flow River battle but watched as Fang Yuan killed Ma Hong Yun in front of her.
She was used by Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying as a pawn, she had once knelt on the ground and begged, she tried all ways possible to become the current generation fairy.
She was given trouble at the secret inheritance peak, at that time, Spirit Affinity House's Gu Immortals were very cold to her.
After hearing of Fang Zheng's successful immortal ascension, she went to visit him and even brought gifts.
She helped Fang Zheng train his blood turns cold killer move.
With the help of Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying, she became the Affection Peak Lord. She knew about this couple's scheme, but she had to agree to deal with Feng Jin Huang for them.
But not only did Feng Jin Huang not die, Zhao Lian Yun saved her instead.
This was Zhao Lian Yun's scheme.
"Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying made use of me, but I can also make use of their hatred towards Feng Jiu Ge to manipulate them! If they want to deal with Feng Jiu Ge, they will need to rely on me. I can also use them to cultivate and grow faster. Thankfully, I have divine concealment, it allows me to face wisdom path Gu Immortals with ease."
"Bu Zhen Zi and I have some history of fighting together, we can become allies for benefits."
"Fang Zheng has already become the Demon Judgment Board Lord, my investment was truly worth it."
"And Feng Jin Huang also owes me this favor, maybe we can join hands to deal with Fang Yuan. After all, he snatched her Hu Immortal blessed land."
Zhao Lian Yun schemed with all her strength, a vague web that connected several forces was already forming around her.
She only had one goal, that was to retrieve Ma Hong Yun's soul from Fang Yuan and revive her lover!
"Fang Yuan…" Zhao Lian Yun muttered, the worry on her face deepened immediately.
Fang Yuan was like the fog that covered this sky, he was grand and vast, compared to him, Zhao Lian Yun was insignificant and weak.
Her goal was like the moon in the sky, clouds covered it and hid everything from her, almost completely obscured.
She could not see the path ahead, she could not find a destination.
Zhao Lian Yun gritted her teeth, her body was like a weak white flower that would be blown away by the wind at any time.
But her eyes were still shining brightly.
"I need to persevere!"
"I cannot give up."
"If even I fail, then who can still save Hong Yun?"
"In this world, he can only rely on me. And I can only rely on myself!"
"Tomorrow, I will head to Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range. The traces of their fight can still be found there, I can gain first-hand information and deduce Fang Yuan's current strength."
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Chapter 2092 Wang Xiao Er“s Amnesia
Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range.
In an ordinary and common cave, the four great obscenities of Central Continent chose to rest in this place.
Eastern Obscenity Chen Yin Dao, Western Thief Yu Ba Guang, Southern Disturbance Shi Bao and Northern Squandering Fan Chun Yao, they all had rank four cultivation level, they were infamous in Central Continent's Gu Master world, they had taken the chastity and lives of many innocent girls.
At this time, these four men were standing in a circle, they stared at a young man who was unconscious, observing him.
"Why hasn't he woken up yet?"
"He has been sleeping these last days, he has not even eaten anything but he is still full of vitality."
"Do you guys think he is an immortal?"
The four Gu Masters were talking about Wang Xiao Er.
Wang Xiao Er was an ordinary shepherd, but life was extremely cruel to him. During the battle to pursue Fang Yuan, the aftermath caused the mountain he lived on to be destroyed, all of his family members were dead.
But for some reason, Wang Xiao Er did not die, he even fell into this peculiar state.
"Think about it, when we first met him, the grass and flowers around him were blooming and dying constantly. He might be a Gu Immortal who joined that battle, he got injured and his enemies thought he was dead, but he used some method to preserve his life, except he fell into a coma afterwards." Yu Ba Guang tried to connect the events.
They were just Gu Masters after all, they did not have the information that Heavenly Court was spreading around in treasure yellow heaven.
"But if he is an immortal, why would an immortal dress like this?" Shi Bao pointed at Wang Xiao Er's clothes as he showed a strange expression.
Wang Xiao Er's clothes were tattered and patched up, he obviously had the lowest status in society, he was not even qualified to become a Gu Master.
Fan Chun Yao rubbed his chin: "If only we can soul search him, we would know the truth. But these days, even though we used all our soul searching methods, there was no effect. This is definitely something a Gu Master cannot do."
Soul searching methods had been widely spread ever since Spectral Soul created them, it was simply too convenient after all.
Any demonic path Gu Master who did not know a single soul searching method would be too ashamed to call themselves demonic.
The four Gu Masters gritted their teeth, they had never seen such a peculiar situation, they did not know what to do now.
Eight eyes stared at Wang Xiao Er fixedly.
Chen Yin Dao spoke: "Sigh, look at his motionless state, if only this were a female immortal."
The other three looked at each other.
"Hehehe." At the next moment, they chuckled knowingly.
After some silence, Shi Bao suddenly shouted: "Screw it, waiting like this will have no progress! I am going to take action."
"What are you thinking of doing?" Fan Chun Yao asked.
Shi Bao snickered: "This!"
Before finishing his words, he attacked abruptly, he activated an offensive Gu worm and shot out a red light at Wang Xiao Er.
"You are crazy!" The others were shocked.
But soon, all of their attention was drawn by the phenomenon around Wang Xiao Er.
They saw that traces of silver threads glowing around Wang Xiao Er, these threads easily blocked the red light, it weakened and dissipated instantly.
Shi Bao was dumbfounded, the others showed the same expression. They all knew that this was Shi Bao's strongest method, but it was easily dispelled by this Wang Xiao Er.
"Looking at his aura alone, this is clearly just a mortal."
"But he managed to block Shi Bao's attack in his sleep, this is something that even a rank five Gu Master has to block carefully."
"If he is not an immortal, what can he be? This is not something a Gu Master can do."
"Wait, his eyelids are moving!!!"
The four were shocked, the cave fell into dead silence.
Wang Xiao Er slowly opened his eyes, his vision was still blurred, his mind was in a mess.
He sat up.
Plop, plop… the four Gu Masters knelt down on the ground, shouting: "Immortal, spare us!"
Wang Xiao Er was shocked: "Who are you guys? Where am I? Wait, who am I?"
Wang Xiao Er hugged his head as pain could be seen on his face.
The four demonic path Gu Master looked at each other, a similar thought appeared in all their minds.
"Don't tell me, the immortal… lost his memories?!"
Several days later.
In a valley at night, a raging bonfire was burning.
"Come, drink wine!" Chen Yin Dao placed his arm around Wang Xiao Er's shoulder as he took out the precious wine that was kept for years, offering it to him.
Wang Xiao Er's face was already red, he was covered in the odor of alcohol.
Once he took the bowl, Shi Bao smiled as he handed the fragrant barbecued meat to Wang Xiao Er.
"Come, eat, little brother." Shi Bao's tone was so mushy he even felt like vomiting, this evil individual had never been so nice to anyone.
Wang Xiao Er was not only looking rosy, even his clothes had changed, the quality was much better than before.
He drank wine and ate meat as he said: "Brothers, you are really nice people, not only did you save me, you are treating me so well."
"Don't mention it!" Chen Yin Dao patted Wang Xiao Er's shoulder: "It was fate that we met."
At the same time, his heart was bleeding internally: "My wine that has been kept for more than ten years, I couldn't even bear to drink it myself!"
"We are all people in the same situation, this is nothing." Yu Ba Guang returned, he had just arranged some investigative Gu worms in the surroundings, he showed an honest and dependable smile.
"Rely on family when at home, rely on friends when outside. As long as everyone helps each other, I believe this world will become a better place!" Seeing the other three's performances, Fan Chun Yao did not want to fall behind as well.
They were all shocked by the scene in the cave earlier. After confirming that Wang Xiao Er was a Gu Immortal who had lost his memories, they decided to treat him like their own ancestor.
After all, if Wang Xiao Er regains his memories in the future, seeing how well the four of them treated him, he would not do anything bad to them.
Wang Xiao Er drank wine and ate meat, after filling his stomach, he went to sleep on the comfortable and large bed that the four of them prepared.
He had truly gotten amnesiac.
Even though he did not lose his ability to function as a person, he could not remember any of the details of his past.
During this period, the four Gu Masters had brought him back to the ruins but his memories did not return.
All that happened was that Wang Xiao Er remembered his own name, he told the four great obscenities.
Wang Xiao Er felt that life was very blissful.
But the other four Gu Masters felt like life was currently torture.
Since when did these four demonic path Gu Masters act so subserviently before? They were ruthless and cruel, they did things without worry, why would they put up this groveling attitude?
Thus, a few days later, these four Gu Masters could not take it anymore.
"Guys, even though I want to know the immortal ascension method from this immortal, this life is really too hard to live."
"I know, we have to be careful all the time, it is really stifling."
"My worry is, if this Gu Immortal recovers his memories, will he really reward us?"
"If he is a righteous path Gu Immortal, he will easily learn of our past deeds. What will he do to demonic path members like us?"
"If he is a demonic path Gu Immortal, if he recalls the scene of us attacking him, will he rip out our tendons and skin?"
The four of them had deep chemistry after years of living together, their thoughts were quite similar.
The four of them discussed for a while, they decided to get away from Wang Xiao Er.
Life was too painful while reward was nowhere in sight, in fact, they might be awaiting death instead.
"How can we get free from Wang Xiao Er?"
"We can't leave too directly, if he regains his memories, wouldn't he come after us for trouble?"
"I have a good idea."
"Tell us, tell us."
"We are currently here, there is slaughter soul crater nearby, we will enter this place and get free from this problematic person!"
The next day.
The four Gu Masters brought Wang Xiao Er deep into slaughter soul crater.
Slaughter soul crater had a plain terrain, but the actual environment was very complicated.
This place was part of Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, it was originally an ordinary mountain that had nothing special in it. But after the huge battle involving Fang Yuan, this place was implicated.
At that time, Black Heaven Temple's Gu Immortals witnessed themselves how this slaughter soul sunken land formed.
Spectral Soul shot out a black soul ball but Dragon Palace dodged it.
This soul ball shot into the mountain valley.
There was no sound, at the instance, with the valley as the core, the surrounding thousand li of mountains and valleys turned into black dust that flew away with the wind. The originally bountiful mountains vanished soundlessly, only a huge crater was left.
The crater was formed by Spectral Soul's killer move, it was filled with soul path dao marks.
The living beings who had once lived here were wiped out, but their souls remained.
Soul path dao marks, wind path dao marks, earth path dao marks, and others converged to form a dense fog, all sorts of soul beasts started to live in the fog.
The surrounding living beings either entered by mistake or were attacked by the soul beasts, either way, the more living beings that died here, the more souls that remained, this slaughter soul crater's fog became increasingly denser.
The five of them carefully avoided many strong soul beasts, they went to the center of slaughter soul crater.
Yu Ba Guang made an excuse of scouting the area as he left, the other four did not move away.
Wang Xiao Er did not understand the situation, he asked: "Brothers, why are we here?"
"Clearly, we want to leave you here. Of course, we won't do it directly, we will lure some soul beasts here and pretend to be outmatched, in order to protect you, we will lure these soul beasts away while risking our lives." Chen Yin Dao smiled to himself as he thought.
Other than putting up a show, the four great obscenities also had another thought.
In the event that this immortal died at the hands of the soul beasts, would he leave any inheritance behind?
Those who were in the demonic path were normally people with extraordinary guts.
The four great obscenities were outstanding members in this aspect.
Chen Yin Dao did not speak the truth of course, he patted Wang Xiao Er's shoulder: "Brother, we came to Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range to collect some Gu materials. This slaughter soul crater was created by the fight between immortals, before it calms down completely, we have a lot of opportunities to get rich here."
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Chapter 2093 Chaotic Battle of Five People
Slaughter soul crater was still forming now, during the process of conflicting with the surroundings, many gaps would naturally appear. After it stabilizes and reaches balance with the surroundings, the living beings would return inside, beast groups and beast kings would guard their own territories and expand the crater. By then, outsiders would not be able to enter easily.
Right at this time, the howling of soul beasts could suddenly be heard.
Chen Yin Dao was slightly surprised: "Yu Ba Guang's ability to lure beasts has increased."
But soon, they found something amiss.
What lured the soul beasts here was not Yu Ba Guang, but a group of Central Continent righteous path Gu Masters.
These people passed the soul fog and arrived in front of Chen Yin Dao, they were at first happy to see reinforcements but soon, their expressions changed.
Someone shouted: "Oh no, the four great obscenities!"
After observing the situation, Chen Yin Dao relaxed and smiled coldly as a sharp gaze flashed in his eyes: "This is my lucky day."
An intense battle ensued.
The Central Continent four great obscenities obtained great victory.
Not only did they kill some soul beasts, they even captured some righteous path Gu Masters alive.
"What a coincidence, these five remaining ones are all girls."
"Look at this one, she looks really cute."
"This one is not bad too."
"My favorite is this one, look at her tiny mouth and big eyes!"
The four demonic path Gu Masters assessed the girls with increasing fondness.
As their captives, the female Gu Masters were extremely fearful.
"What are you trying to do!"
"I'm warning you, don't have any evil thoughts, otherwise, even if I die, I won't let you succeed!"
"Hmph, I am a Gu Master of Spirit Affinity House, consider the consequences before you act."
Facing the threats of the girls, the four great obscenities laughed wildly instead.
"Yes, this is what I like, I love this expression."
"Go on and scream, shout louder, nobody is going to save you!"
"So what if you are from Spirit Affinity House? Back then, we even targeted Heavenly Lotus Sect's Fairy Bi Xia. It was a pity that guy called Fang Zheng ruined it. Hmph, we will find him and settle the score eventually."
The four great obscenities slowly approached the female captives as they chuckled lewdly to themselves.
"Brothers, what are you guys doing?" Wang Xiao Er spoke from behind them, he was completely muddled.
The other nine people were all stunned.
Chen Yin Dao frowned.
The atmosphere from earlier was completely ruined by Wang Xiao Er's words.
Shi Bao directly walked towards Wang Xiao Er and wrapped his arm around his neck, bringing him to the female Gu Masters as he chuckled: "Brother Wang Xiao Er, we will give you an eye opener today. You will learn what the true joy of the mortal world is!"
The other three obscenities looked at each other, they communicated with each other subtly and nodded.
All of them were daring people who had been on the righteous path's arrest warrants for years, they lived lives of worry and danger, they were used to maximizing their happiness regardless of consequences.
Wang Xiao Er was going to be dealt with later anyway, in fact, dragging an immortal through the mud was also quite fun!
Let's do that!
Thus, the four great obscenities surrounded Wang Xiao Er.
"Oh, so little brother does not know this. Don't worry, us elder brothers will teach you!"
"Come on, this is a really fun thing to do."
"After one attempt, you will be hooked."
"Half the fulfillment of life lies here."
Wang Xiao Er nodded repeatedly as he asked with interest: "What should I do?"
Shi Bao had a muscular body and impatient nature, he immediately dropped his pants: "Do this!"
The female Gu Masters shouted in unison, some had their eyes shut.
"Hehe." Yu Ba Guang had a slim body, he also removed his pants.
There was another wave of screaming.
Fan Chun Yao was slightly chubbier, he pouted as he removed his pants, pointing downwards: "Look!"
The female captives screamed even louder now.
Shi Bao and Yu Ba Guang stared with wide eyes, they showed an indignant expression but the fact was right here, it made them feel helpless.
Chen Yin Dao quietly pulled down his pants.
The female Gu Masters' screams reached an unprecedented peak.
The other three obscenities raised their thumbs in unison, saying: "As expected of our boss!"
"Let me do it too." Wang Xiao Er was excited, he quickly removed his pants.
"Eh?" The female captives gasped at the same time.
The four great obscenities cast their gaze at the same time.
The surroundings fell into a state of awkwardness.
Shi Bao was the most straightforward person, he walked towards Wang Xiao Er and patted his shoulders in sympathy.
"This is not your fault, you should blame your parents instead!" Fan Chun Yao consoled.
"Don't worry, even though you have a poor foundation, this also proves that you have a lot of room for improvement. I have many Gu worms, I can help you." Yu Ba Guang encouraged.
Chen Yin Dao did not speak, he only thought to himself: "This Wang Xiao Er really lives up to his name[1]!"
"Let's go, I can't wait anymore!" Shi Bao walked towards the female Gu Masters.
"No, don't come here!" The female Gu Masters quickly shuffled backwards, some had pale expressions, some had bright red faces.
"Let's go together, together." Fan Chun Yao clapped.
"But they don't seem too willing, this isn't appropriate?" Wang Xiao Er asked softly.
"Don't worry, don't worry, just follow what we do." Chen Yin Dao encouraged Wang Xiao Er.
Just as the five were about to take action, they heard a cold snort.
Instantly, the four great obscenities and Wang Xiao Er turned into motionless statues.
The female captives were extremely shocked.
Next, Zhao Lian Yun walked out of the dense fog.
She came here to try and deduce Fang Yuan's strength through the traces he left behind, but now, her mood was very heavy.
While she was about to return, she found that a female Gu Master of Spirit Affinity House had gotten into danger, she immediately took action.
Thus, the Central Continent four great obscenities were taken down easily.
After expressing her identity, Zhao Lian Yun saved these female Gu Masters.
The female Gu Masters thanked her profusely, the Spirit Affinity House Gu Master was even filled with admiration and excitement: "Fairy Lian Yun, these four great obscenities have committed many atrocious acts, this is their retribution! These people have sinned greatly, even killing them is too cheap of a punishment."
Zhao Lian Yun smiled: "Taking their life is really too good for them. How can we uphold justice for those women they harmed? I have a good method, just watch."
Zhao Lian Yun waved her sleeves as the five guys started to move again.
Despite being so close in proximity, they could not see Zhao Lian Yun and the rest, they were stuck in some illusion.
"Beauty, here I come!" Shi Bao pounced at Fan Chun Yao.
After Fan Chun Yao was pushed to the ground, he continued smiling: "Ah, you are really rough."
The five men were stuck in a physical brawl, engaging in a chaotic 'battle'.
The female Gu Masters watched with dumbfounded expressions, they quickly turned red.
"Oh heaven." A girl covered her eyes but continued to peek through the gap between her fingers.
"This hurts my eyes!" Someone gasped.
"This position is possible?" A mature female Gu Master recorded this knowledge in her mind.
"Alright." Zhao Lian Yun waved her sleeve: "Leave with me, these people will continue with this until the soul beasts eat them or when they die of exhaustion."
The female Gu Masters were shocked by Zhao Lian Yun's method, they obediently followed her and left the place.
But even Zhao Lian Yun could not have anticipated this, after a few minutes, silver threads started to shine around Wang Xiao Er's body.
These silver threads radiated the surroundings, causing the five who were locked in intense physical engagement to awaken, they remembered everything that happened.
There was dead silence!
"We were so unlucky, a female immortal actually came!!" Fan Chun Yao was internally shocked.
"This female immortal is too vicious, that was more cruel than just killing us." There were tears in Yu Ba Guang's eyes as he grabbed his hair and screamed internally.
"I actually, I actually…" Chen Yin Dao no longer had the disposition of a leader, his eyes were hollow, he muttered as he thought of suicide.
"Urgh!" Shi Bao started to vomit profusely.
"What happened guys?" Amidst the silence, Wang Xiao Er spoke with a confused expression: "Why did we stop?"
The four of them were shocked!
They turned around to look at the naked Wang Xiao Er, they were frozen like statues.
Wang Xiao Er scratched his head: "Brothers, why are you looking at me? Oh right, those female Gu Masters were all brought away. I thought they were going to play a game with us?"
Shi Bao stopped vomiting, the four of them looked at each other with complete silence.
"Erm…" After some time, Chen Yin Dao spoke with a trembling voice: "Brother Wang Xiao Er, you are really smart. Those women that we invited were… audiences. Didn't you see their expressions? Think about it, they were all excited, very excited and focused, they were watching in amazement. We were helping these people feel joy and pleasure, isn't this how us men should act?"
"As expected of our boss!" The other three obscenities raised their thumbs in approval.
Wang Xiao Er clapped with his fist and palm as he realized: "So that's it, brothers, you are all good people."
Chen Yin Dao laughed loudly: "Of course we are."
Saying so, he wiped his tears away.
Next, he said to the other three: "So be it that this happened, don't tell anyone about it. We are doing a good deed but we will not publicize it, this is how true gentlemen act."
The other three nodded rapidly.
Of course!
If they spoke about this, it would be too humiliating, what would everyone think of them?
Wang Xiao Er asked again: "Brothers, are we still going to play?"
The atmosphere froze once again!
Shi Bao cursed: "Play my ass! Play what?"
"They, they have all left, nobody is here to see it." Yu Ba Guang added in with a meek voice.
After getting scolded, Wang Xiao Er felt quite happy as he smiled innocently: "Oh, it is great that we're stopping. Brother Shi Bao is right, my butt still hurts a lot now."
The scene fell into silence again!
Shi Bao slammed his fists on the ground repeatedly.
Yu Ba Guang lowered his head, biting his lips as blood started to appear.
Fan Chun Yao slammed his own head with his fists, trying to send himself into a coma.
Chen Yin Dao stared at Wang Xiao Er with wide eyes, his lips were shaking.
Wang Xiao Er looked at Chen Yin Dao as he asked in confusion: "Brother Chen, do you have anything to say to me?"
At the next moment, Wang Xiao Er realized: "Oh, I get it, does your butt hurt too?"
Cough!
Chen Yin Dao spat out a mouthful of blood as he fell down on the ground.
"Boss!"
"Boss!"
"Boss!"
The others who were still naked quickly ran over to him, trying to help Chen Yin Dao.
Chen Yin Dao was very feeble now, he barely managed to open his eyes as he said weakly, in an almost sobbing voice: "Go away… don't touch me."
[1] In certain slangs his name sounds like 'small little brother'.
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Chapter 2094 Brotherhood
Days later.
Sunlight pierced through the darkness, radiating on the world.
In a certain valley near the periphery of Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, Eastern Obscenity Chen Yin Dao, Western Thief Yu Ba Guang, Southern Disturbance Shi Bao and Northern Squandering Fan Chun Yao had already woken up, they were sitting on an icy rock, looking at the sky as they laid spread eagled, their eyes were hollow, there was no life in them.
Ever since that terrible ordeal in slaughter soul crater, every night, the four great obscenities and Wang Xiao Er would lose control of their bodies, they would engage in the indescribable activity together.
The four great obscenities would lose their senses each time, by the time they wake up, they would realize that they had done some horrifying act once again.
Even though Wang Xiao Er got rid of a portion of Zhao Lian Yun's method, some of it still lingered.
"This is a curse! The most vicious curse in this world!"
"That fairy from Spirit Affinity House looks so kind and delicate but she is truly too vicious, she is evil to the core!"
"I don't believe it, I don't believe it, maybe I am just dreaming now. I will wake up from my nightmare one day, right?"
"I am a great man, how can I do something so shameful, I have let down heaven and earth, I have let down my parents, I have let down myself!"
The four great obscenities were silent on the outside but they were all crying out in their hearts, feeling sadness and anger, regret and pain.
Wang Xiao Er walked out of the Gu House at this moment.
He had just woken up, he rubbed his eyes and looked at them, asking in concern: "Brothers, why are you up so early, you are all naked outside, you might catch a cold."
The four great obscenities' bodies shook intensely.
They turned around and looked at Wang Xiao Er, showing a complex emotion on their faces.
On one hand, they revered Wang Xiao Er, because of Zhao Lian Yun's method, if not for him, they would have died of exhaustion already. They believed in Wang Xiao Er's identity now, only an immortal could dispel another immortal's method!
But on the other hand, they hated Wang Xiao Er. Ever since they saved him, nothing good had happened. Not only did they return from Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range empty handed, they even received the greatest humiliation of their lives!
After a long silence, their boss Chen Yin Dao spoke bitterly: "Brother, you woke up."
"Yes, our exercise last night was too intense, I slept very soundly." Wang Xiao Er smiled innocently: "Recently, I've started to feel pleasure from this, brothers, what you told me earlier makes sense after all."
The four great obscenities' bodies shook again.
The four of them looked at each other, sensing the fear and horror in each others' eyes.
"Don't tell me this immortal was like this to begin with?!"
"What sort of person did we actually save!"
"Maybe he has the ability to lift our curse but he purposely chose not to, this is something we should think about."
"Is he really amnesiac, or is he pretending? If I like men too, as an immortal, I might want to play around in the mortal world as well…"
The four felt more terror as they thought about it.
They wanted to get away from Wang Xiao Er but they could not do that anymore.
Each time the curse activated, they needed Wang Xiao Er to dispel it. If they left, they might die the following night.
Thus, the four of them had to keep Wang Xiao Er happy, so that he would get rid of this fatal danger for them.
"Seriously, what is this situation!" Chen Yin Dao wanted to cry but he had to smile forcefully: "Xiao Er, this is nothing much, we enjoy blessings and endure misfortune together, we are brothers after all!"
After finishing his words, Chen Yin Dao stared at the other three.
They had to resist the disgusting feeling as they spoke in agreement as well.
"Indeed, this is our brotherhood!"
"Otherwise, why would there be a saying about brotherly relationships?"
"We were destined to meet, as your elder brothers, we need to take care of you."
Wang Xiao Er smiled and nodded: "It was really my fortune to have met you brothers."
"No, this is the greatest misfortune of my life!" The four of them screamed internally.
Wang Xiao Er added: "Let's continue to play tonight!"
"Don't remind me, you scumbag!!" The four of them cried out in anguish in their minds.
While Wang Xiao Er was away, the four of them gathered during the day.
"We cannot let this go on!"
"We cannot live life like this."
"Guys, do you think Wang Xiao Er really lost his memories or is he pretending?"
"We need to test it. Go capture a few mortal women tonight, no matter what, we need to let Wang Xiao Er know we are normal people. If he really lost his memories, we will turn him back to normal, if he is pretending, we will make sure he cannot put up with the act anymore!"
The four great obscenities shouted in unison, they were going crazy these last days.
This method was risky, but even if they angered the immortal Wang Xiao Er, death was still a good reward at this point!
At night time, the four great obscenities captured over a dozen mortal women.
The women were all brought into the Gu House.
Wang Xiao Er was a little excited: "Brothers, you have worked hard to invite such a large audience tonight."
"Brother, let us teach you something tonight." Chen Yin Dao patted Wang Xiao Er's shoulder as he said solemnly.
"Alright, I will do my best to learn it, I will listen with my heart!" Wang Xiao Er clenched his fists, showing an excited expression.
But reality was still cruel to them.
When their activity reached the climax stage, the four great obscenities were shocked to find out — they could not do it!
"Quick, turn hard now."
"Oh, why, why did this happen?"
"I actually, I actually don't feel anything towards women. Waaaaaaaaa…"
"Why do I feel more excited and pleasured when I look at men now?"
The four men wanted to struggle but the curse activated at the next moment.
The female captives were shocked to see the battle of five men, it was a climactic fight, some of them were very excited while the others felt disappointment.
Some even wanted to join in but were sent flying with one slap.
This incident was a huge blow to the four great obscenities.
"Let's suicide, this is not a life that we can lead."
"Living is worse than death, I'd rather die now."
"Can anyone kill me, please come out now!"
The four of them were sick of life, they were listless and dejected all the time.
Seemingly granting their wishes, not long after, righteous path Gu Masters came to pursue them.
"We finally found you! You dared to target our Spirit Affinity House's disciple, did you really think we would let you off?" Qin Juan said with anger, attacking the four great obscenities.
The four great obscenities were in despair and felt life was not worth living, after leaving Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, they did not bother to conceal their traces, they were no longer as vigilant as usual.
After hearing that they were alive, Zhao Lian Yun felt a little interested, she passed down a sect mission to kill these people and investigate the truth.
Qin Juan was close to Feng Jin Huang, but she did not know that this mission which carried a huge reward was listed by Zhao Lian Yun. The Spirit Affinity House Gu Master who got captured in slaughter soul crater earlier was close to her, thus, she took on this mission.
The four great obscenities screamed about not wanting to live every day, but at the moment of crisis, they erupted with an intense will to survive.
For half a month, they fought nearly ten times.
Qin Juan had rank five cultivation level, she suppressed the five of them.
Even though the four great obscenities were famous demonic path Gu Masters in Central Continent, they were just demonic cultivators that the ten great ancient sects allowed to live. These demonic cultivators were useful in training their sect disciples, thus, they made use of these people to act as a trial for their members.
The ten great ancient sects did not mind minor characters like the four great obscenities, thus they were allowed to cause chaos in Central Continent and hide successfully from arrests.
But the situation was different now, the Gu Immortal Zhao Lian Yun had sent a mission, the force pursuing them was different from usual.
The four great obscenities escaped with Wang Xiao Er as they tried to come up with a plan.
"We can't live in Central Continent anymore!"
"What do we do?"
"We can only go elsewhere, boss, you can decide for us."
Chen Yin Dao pondered: "Northern Plains is dangerous and lacks resources, we can't go there. Even though Eastern Sea is rich, the righteous path is fighting against those variant humans, it is too dangerous. Western Desert is full of deserts, and the environment is bad. Let's go to Southern Border instead."
"Alright, we will go to Southern Border!"
Southern Border.
Underground.
"According to Lu Wei Yin, it should be here. Mm, found it." Fang Yuan went deep underground, suddenly, his eyes shined as he found his target.
He saw that at the walls of this small Earth Trench, there was a field of pink grassland.
Each 'grass' was pink, moving without any wind.
Looking at the 'grass', each was thin and long, resembling fur.
"This is the earth dream fetus hair, Meng Qiu Zhen, come out." Fang Yuan opened his immortal aperture door as the pure dream clone came out.
Meng Qiu Zhen took a glance and praised it as he took action, using dream path methods to carefully store the earth dream fetus hair away.
After Fang Yuan obtained Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance, he gained many earth path Immortal Gu, he also had methods to search for immortal materials underground and the ability to control Flying Earth.
The Mushroomman Paradise had existed in Southern Border for a long time, after tens of generations of accumulation, they found a lot of treasures deep under Southern Border.
Among the treasures, Fang Yuan found some locations with dream path immortal materials.
The earth dream fetus hair was just one of them.
Dream path Gu materials and Gu worms had appeared in the world long ago, for example, Fang Yuan's Dream Token and the spring dream fruit tree that Bo Qing and Mo Yao found.
This was like how water path Gu worms and materials existed during Ren Zu's era, but water path was only created by Central Continent's Shui Ni, the founder of Spirit Affinity House, during the Medieval Antiquity Era.
Dream path was similar.
Even though dream path had not been formally created, the dream path Gu worms and materials that existed in history had already appeared.
But dream path was different from water path, it would have an explosive growth in the future.
By then, the five regions and two heavens would be full of dream realms.
Because dream path Gu materials would be too easily obtainable, and because a vast number of Gu cultivators could use them, dream path would quickly progress as a path.
Countless dream path Gu Masters would cultivate more dream path Gu materials to refine more dream path Gu worms, pushing the progress of dream path to an unprecedented level!
If Great Dream Immortal Venerable truly appears, then dream path would reach its peak popularity in history.
Thus, Fang Yuan was not surprised that some dream path immortal materials were hidden away.
Meng Qiu Zhen successfully took the earth dream fetus hair, he went back inside Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture.
Next, Fang Yuan went to another location, there were many nine tune dream flowers there.
Meng Qiu Zhen had a lot of things to do.
On one hand, he had to organize dream path killer moves, on the other hand, he had to plant resources and develop his immortal aperture.
According to Fang Yuan's plan, after these dream path immortal materials were successfully retrieved, Meng Qiu Zhen would have a complete set of dream path methods.
At that time, he would take the place of Fang Yuan's main body and invest himself into exploring dream realms.
To play safe, Meng Qiu Zhen would first use up Spectral Soul's dream realms before moving onto Paradise Earth's dream realms, just in case there was a trap.
Even though this was highly unlikely, Fang Yuan was still a vigilant person.
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Chapter 2095 Sheng Tian True Inheritance
Meng Qiu Zhen was controlled by a Gu worm, his eyes were shut, he was brought into a secret location by someone.
"Alright, number three, you can open your eyes now." A shrill voice could be heard beside him.
The Gu worm suppressing Meng Qiu Zhen had been kept away, Meng Qiu Zhen opened his eyes and found that he was in a dark cave.
Meng Qiu Zhen was kneeling on the ground, in front of him was an old man.
The old man had a sharp voice, his face was covered in paint, he gave off a peculiar and cold feeling.
"This is the leader of Painted Faces — Sly Heart Old Man." Meng Qiu Zhen thought: "To think that I would meet this legendary person from a hundred thousand years ago."
Indeed, Meng Qiu Zhen was exploring a dream realm now.
This dream realm naturally originated from Spectral Soul.
This Sly Heart Old Man in his dream was a wisdom path and transformation path cultivator, he was a legendary person who existed between the eras of Spectral Soul and Paradise Earth a hundred thousand years ago. He was also the creator of a demonic path organization, it was called Painted Faces.
This organization was like Zombie Alliance and Shadow Sect, it was a huge organization that spanned across all five regions, something rarely seen in history.
All of the members in the organization had painted faces of various colors to differentiate their varying statuses.
Painted Faces was an assassination organization, killing Gu Masters was just an ordinary thing, when they were at their peak, they even had Gu Immortal experts, as long as the price was paid, they could kill Gu Immortals for their customers!
Meng Qiu Zhen had already entered this dream realm for a long time, he went from the initial one hundred and eighth position to third position.
"According to my instincts, if I can become the number one position in the organization, I will pass this dream realm." Meng Qiu Zhen was very certain, his dream path master instincts told him the answer already.
Sly Heart Old Man took out three Gu worms: "Number three, you want to become number two, but it will not be easy. There are three Gu worms here, choose one. Each one contains the details of a mission."
Meng Qiu Zhen secretly activated dream butterfly Immortal Gu.
Almost all the other paths' Gu worms could not be used freely in dream realms, but dream path Gu worms were not restricted.
After dream butterfly Immortal Gu was instilled with immortal essence, it vanished from within Meng Qiu Zhen's immortal aperture.
Meng Qiu Zhen first placed his gaze on the Gu worm to the left.
At the next moment, he saw that after he chose the Gu worm, he went into a seizure, saliva appeared from his mouth, he died on the spot.
Sly Heart Old Man looked at his corpse as he said coldly: "What a pity, number three, even though you are skilled in transformation path, your wisdom path attainment is too low, it was your bad luck to have chosen this."
Meng Qiu Zhen retracted his gaze as the scene vanished, he looked at the middle Gu worm.
At the next moment, he saw another scene.
After he took the second Gu worm, Sly Heart Old Man suddenly attacked.
With a loud sound, his palm slammed onto Meng Qiu Zhen's chest.
Meng Qiu Zhen was caught unguarded, his ribs broke, his heart burst, his eyes stared widely as he died on the spot.
Sly Heart Old Man sneered: "So you are the spy after all, you went after this Gu worm, not knowing the trap that I set, I had already gave out some false information to trick those spies of the righteous path!"
Meng Qiu Zhen retracted his gaze.
Evidently, the first two Gu worms could not be chosen, but the third one might not be correct either.
Meng Qiu Zhen wanted to continue checking but Sly Heart Old Man rushed him: "Quickly choose, what are you waiting for?"
Meng Qiu Zhen knew that this Painted Face organization was dark and cruel, they had no regard for human lives, if he waited anymore, Sly Heart Old Man would activate the Gu worm in his body and he would be punished, he might suffer heavy injuries or even die on the spot.
Thus, Meng Qiu Zhen did not use dream butterfly Immortal Gu again, he quickly spoke and chose the third Gu worm.
For just a moment, a complex expression flashed on Sly Heart Old Man's face.
After being silent for some time, Sly Heart Old Man nodded: "You chose the most appropriate Gu for you, it seems your luck is not bad. Maybe you can gain some benefits there, you might even be able to return alive."
Saying so, Sly Heart Old Man took a few steps and exposed the door behind him: "After opening this door, you will enter a tunnel, you need to walk quickly, do not stop, otherwise the tunnel will digest you. After passing it, you will reach a place, over there, do your best to survive. If you can find a way back and meet me once again, you will gain our organization's number one position."
"Yes, lord." Meng Qiu Zhen immediately got up, pushing open the door and entering the tunnel.
This tunnel was quite unique, it was round in shape but the inner walls were made of flesh and blood, there was slight vibrations in them as gastric acid flowed out constantly.
Meng Qiu Zhen activated the defensive method of this person but still felt deep pressure. Like what Sly Heart Old Man said, if he stayed for too long, he might really get 'digested'.
He quickly got past the creepy and wet flesh tunnel as he arrived in a huge world.
Within the primitive forest, fierce beasts roared as strange birds growled.
Far away, two beastman groups were fighting.
Meng Qiu Zhen turned around and looked back, the tunnel had already vanished, he only saw an ordinary mountain wall.
Meng Qiu Zhen was shook internally, to ensure that he could efficiently explore dream realms, the main body had given him many details of history: "That tunnel really is the intestine of the gluttonous demon frog, this is the place where Reckless Savage Demon Venerable left behind his true inheritance — Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven!"
Days later, the dream realm dissipated.
Meng Qiu Zhen had a tired expression as he started to inspect his gains.
"Transformation path and wisdom path attainment levels went up. Not bad." Meng Qiu Zhen was rather satisfied.
Forget about transformation path, but his wisdom path attainment level really needed a boost.
Especially when Fang Yuan knew his own luck, and the fact that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had very likely already revived.
The true Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven was naturally vast and boundless, but Meng Qiu Zhen was only in a dream realm.
Meng Qiu Zhen had dream armor Immortal Gu's protection, and also dream creation Immortal Gu and dream butterfly Immortal Gu as methods. Especially dream butterfly Immortal Gu, even though it was an investigative Gu worm, its use in exploring dream realms surpassed Dream Armor and Dream Creation.
Dream path master attainment level gave him instincts.
When instincts worked, Meng Qiu Zhen would use them to find the correct answers rapidly.
When instincts did not work, then Meng Qiu Zhen would use dream butterfly Immortal Gu to foresee the future possibilities of the dream realm and avoid danger, he would quickly find the most appropriate methods.
Like how Meng Qiu Zhen used dream butterfly Immortal Gu in front of Sly Heart Old Man earlier to find out the correct choice, in the past, Fang Yuan would have to test it one by one. If he chose wrongly, his soul would be injured, he would waste time healing himself and restart the dream realm all over again.
Even though Meng Qiu Zhen only had rank six cultivation level, his efficiency at exploring dream realms was many times that of Fang Yuan's main body!
Southern Border.
Central Continent's four great obscenities and Wang Xiao Er were forced into desperation by Qin Juan.
There was a sinkhole behind them.
"Don't come here, otherwise, we will jump off!" Wang Xiao Er shouted in anxiety.
Qin Juan smiled coldly as she walked closer: "Then jump, you will die if you do that. Behind you is Southern Border's Sun Moon Sinkhole, the pit is unfathomably deep, not just Gu Masters, even Gu Immortals cannot explore it easily. If you jump, you will surely die!"
The four great obscenities were currently injured, they gritted their teeth.
"Qin Juan, we'll remember you, you lunatic!"
"We already escaped to Southern Border but you actually pursued us all the way here, what are you after?"
"Even though we captured Spirit Affinity House's female Gu Master, no matter what relationship she has with you, we did not touch her at all."
"Qin Juan, you received a sect mission to kill us. But if we die like this, you won't be able to report your mission easily too, right?" Chen Yin Dao suddenly said with a deep gaze.
Qin Juan's movement froze for a moment.
But in just a moment, she realized that the enemy was trying to probe her.
And she fell for it, some information was leaked from this action.
Qin Juan concealed the shame in her heart as she placed her arms behind her back, looking at these defeated individuals, she said arrogantly on purpose: "I can't report it? Killing you is the best evidence I need! But it is not that I cannot let you live, hand over all your Gu worms and surrender, if I bring you back to Central Continent, you will still have a chance to live."
Chen Yin Dao sneered: "We know about the crimes we've committed. After Miss Qin Juan said that, it confirmed my guesses."
Qin Juan also sneered: "So what if you guessed it? Can you turn this around? Do you still have a chance?"
A strange expression appeared on Chen Yin Dao's face: "Actually, we still have hope. Brother Wang Xiao Er, we'll depend on you now!"
Saying so, he pushed Wang Xiao Er, who was hiding at the back, to the front.
Wang Xiao Er was shocked: "Brothers, I am not a Gu Master."
Qin Juan also felt confused, she had fought with the four great obscenities for this long, she knew that Wang Xiao Er was a mortal.
"Hmph, trying to bluster and act mysterious!" Qin Juan was about to attack.
But at the next moment, there was a loud explosion.
A huge air current surged as wind blew strongly.
Wang Xiao Er, Qin Juan and the others who were near the sinkhole were caught off guard, they were sent into the air by the currents before crashing down heavily.
"What happened?!" Everyone was shocked.
Next, the figure of a Southern Border Gu Master moved along this current as he flew into the sky.
"Kong Ri Tian, don't think of leaving!!"
The Gu Master who landed on the ground first was the demonic path Kong Ri Tian, he escaped without even turning around as he shouted: "Wu Ji, you are the leader of Wu clan, yet you are not keeping your promise!"
Wu Ji chased after him as she shouted: "What's the use of keeping my word to a demonic path scoundrel like you, leave behind the Gu worms of Sheng Tian true inheritance!"
Next, Shang Xin Ci, Xiao Yan, Counterfeit Master, Tie Ruo Nan, Yi Chong, and others also descended from the sky.
"Chase him, don't let him escape!"
"That is a Gu Immortal true inheritance!!"
As the group chased, a dust cloud was created along the way.
Qin Juan, Wang Xiao Er, and the rest were all stunned.
Seeing that he was about to be caught, Kong Ri Tian shouted at Qin Juan and the rest: "The people in front, whoever can help me escape will share this Gu Immortal true inheritance with me!!"
Qin Juan and the rest heard this, their eyes shined brightly.
"You cannot escape, everything belongs to my Wu clan!!" Wu Ji was enraged, she jumped into the air.
Both her fists were clenched, she raised them above her head as she activated a mortal killer move.
Boom!
As she landed on the ground, she slammed down, the ground shook, rocks were sent flying.
A huge vibration force spread to the surroundings rapidly, no one could avoid it in time, they quickly put up their defenses in a panic.
Qin Juan and the rest were also implicated, their expressions changed.
Wu Ji was the number one expert of the current Southern Border Gu Master world!
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Chapter 2096 Wu Ji Chooses Her True inheritance
Southern Border, Wu clan headquarters.
"Quick, quick, bring me the white king head flower herb." Wu clan's rank six Gu Immortal Wu Zhen Zhu called out with an anxious tone.
She was controlling the formation, her thoughts were focused on it at the crucial moment, she could not distract herself.
Thankfully, there were a few rank five Gu Masters assisting her, hearing these words, they quickly got to work.
White king head flower herb was a rank six immortal material, it was tossed into the immortal formation.
This immortal formation of Wu clan was famous in history, it was called dead sea life retrieval formation. It originally belonged to an Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortal, but after this Gu Immortal came to Southern Border and provoked Wu clan, they got killed instead.
Dead sea life retrieval formation was a healing immortal formation but the core Immortal Gu was only rank seven. That Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortal was indeed a rank eight Gu Immortal but before dying, all of their Immortal Gu were destroyed.
Wu clan spent a hundred years to finally refine the relevant Immortal Gu, managing to set up this dead sea life retrieval formation again.
Wu Ji and the rest had died on Yi Tian Mountain, the reason why they were able to revive was mostly because of fate Gu's destruction, and also due to the effect of this dead sea life retrieval formation.
As the formation slowly stopped, light faded as Wu Ji woke up in the formation with a pale expression.
"It seems that I revived again!" Wu Ji smiled lightly, she wanted to get up but her body was too weak, she only succeeded after three tries.
"You should relax a little, Wu Ji. This is the fifth time this month." Wu Zhen Zhu came to Wu Ji as she frowned deeply.
Wu Ji smiled indifferently: "Don't we have this formation? Even if I die, I can revive."
Wu Zhen Zhu scoffed: "Don't think so highly of Gu Immortal methods. Wu Ji, do you know that you almost died earlier, you managed to revive because of the dead sea life retrieval formation. But this method has less and less effect as a person uses it continuously, you are playing with your life! You have a good future, why don't you care a bit more about yourself, at this rate, you will die for real!"
Wu Ji raised her brows as her eyes shined brightly: "I'm someone who has died before, what is there to fear about death? Precisely because I had died before, I treasure life even more now."
Wu Zhen Zhu rolled her eyes in anger: "This is considered treasuring your life? Since you already obtained Sheng Tian true inheritance from Kong Sheng Tian, you can give it to the clan already, why did you still go after him relentlessly? Why did you not retreat even against the attacks of everyone?"
Wu Ji laughed loudly: "This is how I treasure my life. After dying once, I reassessed my own life, how should people live? Everyone has their own answer. This is my answer, the duration of life does not matter as much as the value of the life that is being lived."
"Even though I am not a Gu Immortal, I know about your circumstances. Lady Zhen Zhu, why do you think Gu Masters want to become an immortal so badly? After becoming an immortal, there will be countless calamities and tribulations, wouldn't they be courting death? How many Gu Immortals have died from tribulations? Don't they know the danger? Aren't they continuing to face danger head on because they want to obtain the true meaning of life?"
"In this great era, if I do not advance bravely, I will be letting down heaven for giving me this life, I will be wasting my second chance. I, Wu Ji, want to become immortal, I want to see things at a greater height, I want to gain more strength. This is the meaning of my life."
After hearing Wu Ji's words, a complex expression appeared on Wu Zhen Zhu's face.
She actually had high expectations of this junior Wu Ji, therefore she came to talk to her. But after talking, she found that she failed to convince Wu Ji, instead, she became the one who was convinced.
"Since you have decided this, I have nothing else to say." Wu Zhen Zhu sighed.
Wu Ji had a sincere expression as she bowed: "Lady Zhen Zhu, junior will remember the concern that you have shown to me."
Saying so, another Gu Immortal appeared: "Hahaha, Wu Ji, I heard your words earlier. As expected of the number one Gu Immortal seed of Wu clan, you did not shame our reputation."
"Wu Zhan Ping, you came here for…" Wu Zhen Zhu asked but she had a guess in her heart, she was quite happy for Wu Ji.
Wu Zhan Ping nodded at Wu Zhen Zhu as he looked at Wu Ji: "I am Wu clan's supreme elder in charge of guidance, Wu Ji, you have sufficient cultivation level and merit, I am tasked to guide you along the road of becoming an immortal!"
Wu Ji took in a deep breath, she clenched her fists unconsciously. This moment had finally arrived, she had been looking forward to it for a long time.
Wu Zhan Ping said solemnly: "Wu Ji, you are a senior of the mortal Wu clan, after being the clan leader for many years, you know of many Gu Immortal secrets. Our Wu clan cultivates many paths, we are most proficient in wind path, it is the reason why we are at the top of Southern Border's Gu Immortal world, our status is immovable."
"You can choose other paths too, we have almost all paths in our inventory, but I have a suggestion for you!"
Wu Zhan Ping had heard Wu Ji's words earlier, he liked this junior and was willing to say more things.
Wu Ji quickly replied: "Please teach me senior, I will listen."
Wu Zhan Ping continued: "Rather than choosing a path, it is more like you are choosing a true inheritance. Our Wu clan has the strongest wind path true inheritance, our first supreme elder Lord Wu Yong also cultivates wind path, he uses the strongest wind path true inheritance in Wu clan as well. However, there are many wind path cultivators, competition is very steep, I would not recommend you to choose it."
"Right now, Wu clan has two true inheritances that even us Gu Immortals feel desire towards, it is only that our paths have been set, changing it has too high of a cost. During normal times, we might have the opportunity to do that, but with the turbulent era now, chaos is everywhere, it is the best opportunity for you juniors."
Wu Zhen Zhu heard this, she agreed and said with happiness: "This means that first supreme elder is really taking out these three true inheritances to nurture our Wu clan's descendants?"
"Indeed, Lord Wu Yong has incredible foresight and magnanimity, everyone in Wu clan holds him in high regard." Wu Zhan Ping praised from the bottom of his heart, he told Wu Ji: "There are three true inheritances of high value that even us Gu Immortals want, I will list them for you, choose wisely."
"The first true inheritance is called Corpse Emperor true inheritance. He was a Southern Border rank eight Gu Immortal who turned himself into a zombie when his lifespan was near its end, hence the title. Corpse Emperor was in the demonic path, he was ruthless and vicious, causing super forces to join up and attack him. He died during the battle and his immortal zombie body turned into a corpse mountain upon his death. This mountain is hundreds of meters tall, zombies roam all over the mountain, it produces transformation path zombie Gu and qi path corpse qi Gu."
"Back then, Southern Border's Zombie Alliance wanted ownership of this mountain and offered a high price to buy it from us to use as their headquarters, but we rejected them. Right now, it seems like our decision was right. Zombie Alliance was a front of Shadow Sect, but that's not our issue now. The point is that with the shift of the era, a true inheritance appeared on Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian, which is this Corpse Emperor true inheritance."
"This is a rank eight enslavement path true inheritance, Wu Ji, if you choose it, Wu clan will definitely nurture you well. An enslavement path Gu Immortal can fight a group on their own, the problem with enslavement path is the huge amount of resources needed, but Wu clan can help you with it. The only downside is that this true inheritance lacks Immortal Gu."
Wu Ji considered it for a while before shaking her head: "Enslavement path is not my style, Immortal Gu are also hard to refine, I am not skilled in Gu refinement. It is too hard to cultivate this true inheritance well, even with the clan's help, I will not choose it."
"Alright, then onto the next one." Wu Zhan Ping continued to speak: "This true inheritance is a soul path true inheritance, it has a greater origin, it concerns Spectral Soul Demon Venerable!"
"This true inheritance is called seven-seven profound soul true inheritance, the most amazing method is to raise soul beasts and nurture them into seven-seven profound soul birds. Once a seven-seven profound soul bird is created, it is almost impossible to kill. Even if they were gravely injured, as long as one of them is still alive, they will reappeared in a short time. Even though this true inheritance also lacks Immortal Gu, it is able to bypass that and nurture soul beasts instead, the cultivation journey will be easier."
Wu Ji shook her head: "Even though soul beasts are strong, I dislike it. I cultivate my own body, raising soul beasts is like becoming a nanny, it does not suit me."
Wu Zhan Ping frowned slightly: "Choosing a true inheritance is not child's play, Wu Ji, consider it well before making a decision."
"Indeed." Wu Zhen Zhu also nodded: "Be it Corpse Emperor true inheritance or the seven-seven profound soul true inheritance, they are extremely rare, Wu Ji, you need to treasure this opportunity."
Wu Ji was unmoved: "Immortals, thank you for the advice, may I know what the third true inheritance is?"
Wu Zhan Ping: "The third true inheritance is the Sheng Tian true inheritance you retrieved. The person who left this true inheritance behind is famous in Gu Master history, he is called Kong Sheng Tian."
"Kong Sheng Tian had qi escape Immortal Gu, this Gu is incredible, it was once fourth place on the List of Mystical Gu. But in recently years, because of the number one demon in the world, Gu Yue Fang Yuan, Spring Autumn Cicada received public recognition and got elevated to the third mystical Gu, causing qi escape Gu to fall in ranking."
Speaking of Gu Yue Fang Yuan, Wu Zhan Ping and Wu Zhen Zhu showed complex expressions.
Wu Ji could acutely sense that these two Gu Immortals' breathing became slightly disoriented.
Fang Yuan had once disguised as Wu Yi Hai and made his way into Wu clan, even someone as intelligent and perceptive as Wu Yong fell prey to his acting. But Wu clan was no longer qualified to take revenge on him, over the course of the fate war and the pursuit over Fang Yuan afterwards, even the variant human battle that happened in Eastern Sea recently cemented Fang Yuan's throne of the number one demon in the world, nobody could topple his status.
Not wanting to continue talking about Fang Yuan, Wu Zhan Ping got back to the topic: "Kong Sheng Tian was a qi path Gu Immortal, he was most skilled at movement methods. The qi path movement killer move that he created back then was named Kong Sheng Tian, it is incredibly powerful. If you obtain this true inheritance, you will move unhindered in the world, you will always have the initiative."
"This true inheritance was retrieved by you after all, it could be said you are fated for it. But the Immortal Gu in the true inheritance are likely in the hands of that Kong Ri Tian now."
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Chapter 2097 Number One Person In Dream Path
Wu Ji's expression sank: "If that Kong Ri Tian did not have Kong Sheng Tian's bloodline, I would not have lost that contest!"
Wu Zhan Ping shook his head: "You did not lose. That Kong Ri Tian has Immortal Gu but he is just a mortal, even though he escaped luckily, so what? He cannot run for long, many righteous path Gu Immortals are already targeting him. If my Wu clan's Gu Immortals succeed, this true inheritance's value will rise greatly, it will suit you more."
But Wu Ji still shook her head: "These three true inheritances are enslavement path, soul path, and qi path, they are all wonderful. It is a pity they do not suit me, I should continue cultivating my strength path."
"Hmm?" Wu Zhan Ping frowned.
Wu Zhen Zhu urged her: "Wu Ji, I know you have a strength path true inheritance, but that true inheritance has a low quality, its original owner was only a rank six Gu Immortal, it cannot compare to these three true inheritances at all."
Seeing that Wu Ji was unmoved, Wu Zhen Zhu continued to speak: "And most importantly, strength path is declining, it cannot compare to enslavement path or soul path. Even though qi path was declining, with the merging of the five regions, qi tides appeared and qi path started to experience a rise again. Choosing qi path is definitely wiser than staying with strength path."
But Wu Ji shook her head: "I'll choose strength path! Even though other true inheritances will allow me to have an easier time, if there is a strength path true inheritance, I'll still choose it. I will walk on strength path in my life, if I cannot use someone else's foundation, I will create my own."
Wu Zhan Ping was unhappy: "Wu Ji, you are not a Gu Immortal yet, you do not know the difficulties that we face. The benefits of these three true inheritances are simply indescribable, but you cannot feel them yet. Listen to me and choose one of the three, in the future when you cultivate on this long journey, you will be glad about the decision you made today."
Wu Ji's expression had never been so solemn, she bowed deeply at the two immortals: "Great immortals, I, Wu Ji, will never forget the care and concern that you have shown me. But if I do not choose strength path, I will regret it at the next moment. I have already decided on this, I will not change it further. Even if I fail in the future, I am willing to bear the consequences!"
"You!"
"Sigh…"
Wu Zhen Zhu and Wu Zhan Ping shook their heads, they felt pity for Wu Ji who had given up such a great opportunity.
Meng Zhen immortal aperture.
The sky here was filled with a pink aurora that constantly moved and changed.
At the center of the immortal aperture, there was a field of 'pink grassland', it was the earth dream fetus hair that Fang Yuan had spent a lot of effort to dig from Southern Border's underground.
There was also a small sea of flowers situated at the north-most part of the immortal aperture.
The flowers were all nine tune dream flowers, this type of flower only had one petal each, but it spiraled upwards from the roots and showed a spiral form with nine layers, it was quite peculiar.
At the southeast of the immortal aperture, Meng Qiu Zhen specially created a lake.
The lake had little water, it was hundreds of feet lower than the water level of the nearby shore. The entire lake was like a bowl that had a bit of water left inside it at the bottom.
This lake water was called dream river water, in the lake, there was a type of monstrous fish that looked like a tongue, it was bright red and moved agilely, it was called tongue tip small dream fish.
Finally, at the north-most part of the immortal aperture was a field of desolate bones.
Hundreds of huge bones were buried on the ground, a portion of them was still exposed externally.
These bones were also dream path Gu materials, they were obtained from the corpses of a few dream path ancient desolate beasts. Meng Qiu Zhen placed them here and set up the Gu formation, creating this bone dream sand farm.
The sand farm was nourished using the bone marrow, gradually turning the soil into dream sand.
Earth dream fetus hair, nine tune dream flower, dream river water, tongue tip small dream fish, and dream sand, these were all the dream path Gu materials that Fang Yuan obtained during this period of time.
Currently speaking, dream path Gu materials were still very rare.
Fang Yuan had almost ransacked the entire underground area of Southern Border but he only collected this much.
"But inside Meng Zhen immortal aperture, these Gu materials will be nurtured well, soon, a stream of immortal materials will be produced."
Meng Qiu Zhen was quite confident about this.
Even though there were dream path dao marks at these dream path Gu materials' original locations, the surrounding dao marks were still mostly earth path, they were suppressed and could not develop well, they were simply living between the cracks.
But now, they were moved into Meng Zhen immortal aperture, they were like flood dragons released into the ocean, or tigers entering a mountain, they could grow freely without restraint.
In this relaxed environment that was predominantly made of dream path dao marks, these dream path Gu materials would have great growth.
In addition, Fang Yuan had memories of the future, he had outstanding methods to nurture them, Meng Zhen immortal aperture's time difference with the outside world was also quite good.
"This way, my dream path development has finally gotten on track, as long as I work hard, I will have ample gains in the future." Fang Yuan assessed himself.
His investment into dream path would stop here.
In terms of dream path mortal Gu recipes and experience in exploring dream realms, Fang Yuan had five hundred years of memories, he still had the upper hand.
In terms of dream path Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan had four of them, he was definitely the top person in the current world.
In terms of attainment level, Fang Yuan was a dream path master, there might be others who were at this level as well, but he was without doubt still among the fastest group of people.
Furthermore, in terms of dream path Immortal Gu recipes and immortal materials, Fang Yuan was certainly the person with the number one results! He had two dream path Immortal Gu recipes that were undoubtedly accurate and exceptional. In terms of immortal materials, Fang Yuan also had an absolute advantage, Feng Jin Huang was just a mortal, even if Lady Poison Scorpion was a Gu Immortal, she was not an immortal ascended from the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique, she could not compare to Fang Yuan.
Comprehensively, Fang Yuan was definitely the number one person in the world in terms of dream path!
Such results already exceeded Fang Yuan's expectations. In his plan, he only had to maintain a certain lead in dream path.
And now was still not the time for the true rise of dream path.
Taking Meng Zhen immortal aperture for example, it was definitely the number one dream path Gu material production ground in the world, but it could only produce rank six dream path immortal materials, the quantity was also pitifully small.
Without sufficient dream path immortal materials, Fang Yuan could not raise the ranks of his dream path Immortal Gu.
The truth was, even though he had rank eight Immortal Gu like Dream Token and could use killer moves like dreamy light smoke, he could not gain an advantage against Duke Long or Spectral Soul in combat.
In battles of the highest level, dream path was only a special method that could intimidate and make the foes wary.
Fang Yuan wanted to explore Crazed Demon Cave, he would need to face the likely revived Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, who was inside the Door of Life and Death.
Facing such existences, his dream path methods that were still at the early stages of development were unreliable as his main methods.
"The truth is, by combining the perfect Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique and Spectral Soul's split soul method, I can create dream path Gu Immortals in bulk. But the extra dream path immortal apertures are useless, the greatest gain will still be natural inspiration, I will obtain new dream path Immortal Gu recipes. Even if I try to use the ascension tribulation to refine Immortal Gu, it will not be easy."
Tribulations were controlled by heaven's will, they could be strong or weak. When strong, there would be more heaven and earth qi, after succeeding the tribulation, there would be a lot of heaven and earth qi left behind to use for refining Immortal Gu.
But if heaven's will reduced the strength of the tribulation, there would not be extra heaven and earth qi, he could not refine dream path Immortal Gu in that case.
If heaven's will did that, Fang Yuan's gains would be very small. Firstly, the cost of creating Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies was high, he had to use a large number of dream realms!
If heaven's will tried something new and altered the tribulation contents, Fang Yuan would be in danger as well. After all, Fang Yuan's dream path foundation was already exposed to heaven's will last time.
Thus, recuperating for some time and using Meng Zhen immortal aperture to hide from heaven's will and develop rapidly, while refining new dream path Immortal Gu before undergoing tribulation was the best method now.
Continuing to invest in dream path would not have much relative returns. If Fang Yuan continued his investment, he would face heaven's will's suppression and also the pressure of being a frontrunner, it would be difficult and troublesome. He might as well wait until dream path flourished and dream realms were everywhere, after the trend grew to that extent, he could use the opportunity to develop, saving time and energy.
Thus, Fang Yuan did not want to keep the dream realms that he had.
In the hands of others, these dream realms would give them an opportunity to stay ahead of the era. Be it Western Desert's Tang clan, Central Continent's Feng Jin Huang, or Northern Plains' Lady Poison Scorpion, they would be the same.
But for Fang Yuan, the true value of these dream realms was that they could raise his attainment levels and allow him to annex more grotto-heavens.
Meng Qiu Zhen was truly the dream path clone that Fang Yuan took effort to create, his dream realm exploration efficiency was many times higher than the main body.
As Fang Yuan's attainment levels rose, he made great gains.
At the same time, he also continued to annex the grotto-heavens in the two heavens.
Each grotto-heaven had at least a million dao marks, a thousand heaven path dao marks, as well as a vast amount of cultivation resources.
These grotto-heavens had long histories behind them, Fang Yuan annexed everything, it was the same as instantly taking the accumulations of others for countless years.
Fang Yuan's strength grew time and again, each time, his improvement was huge, this speed was simply unheard of.
The specialty of the sovereign immortal body and the power of unrestrained heavenly mark, they surpassed the logic of the cultivation world. Either one would allow a person to rise to the top, leaving their name in history.
The most terrifying thing was when they were used together, the effect would be even greater! The actual result created would far surpass a simple addition of the two.
But be it a rise in foundation or strength, Fang Yuan still remained as a pseudo venerable.
He might be the number one pseudo venerable in history, but that was pointless.
Without becoming a venerable, there would be no qualitative change.
Fang Yuan cultivated secretly while annexing immortal apertures, he also inspected his own luck very often.
The silver white pillar of light was getting thicker, but the clouds above him were also growing in size. Be it the black cloud representing Spectral Soul Demon Venerable or the golden cloud representing Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, they were growing.
As for the star cloud representing Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, it had expanded by several times, far surpassing the other two.
The situation had not reached the worst scenario yet, Fang Yuan still had time to continue his cultivation and recuperation.
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Chapter 2098 Hu Land
Rotten Mud Mountain was one of the famous mountains of Southern Border.
If it were in Western Desert, Eastern Sea, or Northern Plains, it might be more famous, but Southern Border had too many mountains, it had the most number of famous mountains in the five regions, Rotten Mud Mountain became quite inconspicuous, it gave people a feeling of being ordinary.
This place produced rotten mud, it was a common Gu material that had poison path and earth path dao marks, it had very little value in the market due to abundance.
During rainy seasons, Rotten Mud Mountain would turn into a temporary swamp, the rotten mud would turn into rotten swamp mud, which was a widely used Gu refinement material.
During winter, the rotten mud would combine with the ice and snow path dao marks and turn into rotten frozen mud, it was also a common resource. Because it was very fertile, when mixed in soil to nurture crops, the effect would be outstanding. Many Southern Border villages made use of it.
Furthermore, rotten frozen mud was the food of the smelly fart fat worm, thus, this Rotten Mud Mountain also produced the smelly fart fat worm as well.
The smelly fart fat worm was a rank one poison path Gu worm, it looked like black boar Gu, often sold by unscrupulous merchants as fake black boar Gu.
Similar to the smelly fart fat worm in name was smelly fart Gu, it was also a rank one poison path Gu worm. Similar to the smelly fart fat worm, smelly fart Gu was also living in Rotten Mud Mountain.
Living on what grew around them, there were several villages that survived using the resources of the Rotten Mud Mountain.
These villages were all scattered around the periphery of Rotten Mud Mountain, even though they competed with each other, they were more likely to work together.
Because Rotten Mud Mountain was a famous mountain, it could obviously produce immortal materials, the mountain even had poison path desolate beasts or ancient desolate beasts.
These villages did not have Gu Immortals, they were at most rank five Gu Masters, they would not dare to live on the mountain.
Rumble…
On this day, the people in the few villages heard thunderous sounds, they became shocked and uncertain.
"What is happening on the mountain?"
"Why is there thunder for no reason?"
"The mountain is dangerous, we Gu Masters cannot understand what is happening."
Next, people heard the shouting of people.
"Kong Ri Tian, you cannot escape! I know that you are hiding here, but can you hide here forever?"
"Come out now and hand over your Gu worms, I can still spare your life. If you miss this chance, after I search the mountain and find you, you will wish you were dead instead!"
Wu clan's Gu Immortal shouted, his voices creating sound waves that spread around the area.
The people in the villages at the periphery of the mountain were instantly shook.
"An immortal!"
"An immortal appeared. Oh heavens!"
"I know about this demon Kong Ri Tian, he specially targets pure and innocent girls, to think an immortal would go after him, he's dead meat!!"
"Did Kong Ri Tian get an Immortal Gu so an immortal is coming to snatch it?"
"Hmph! This is not snatching, the immortal is just upholding justice and righteousness."
"Do you guys think we will meet an immortal if we go there? Will we obtain a way to become immortal?"
After the fate war, everyone in the world learned of the existence of immortals. Before that, because most people lived in isolation, many people thought that immortals were just legends.
"Damn it!" Kong Ri Tian was covered in injuries, he hid in a rotten mud cave with a face full of despair.
"Sigh, Wu clan's immortal is too domineering. I have implicated you all!" Kong Ri Tian looked at Wang Xiao Er and the four great obscenities, feeling guilt.
On that day, after leaving the sinkhole, the situation turned chaotic. The four great obscenities were originally after Kong Ri Tian's immortal inheritance, but they ended up getting chased together.
Kong Ri Tian also knew about the four great obscenities' desire, he used the inheritance to lure them, they ended up working together and escaping for their lives.
After all, Sheng Tian true inheritance had only showed itself slightly, Gu Immortals did not pay attention to it yet. Kong Ri Tian only had to face rank five experts like Wu Ji or Shang Xin Ci.
The four great obscenities had great strength themselves, together with Kong Ri Tian who was a famous demon in Southern Border, they managed to escape by working together.
However, good times did not last, because Sheng Tian true inheritance was exposed, all the super clans started to go after it, they sent Gu Immortals out.
Kong Ri Tian and the rest got into huge danger, they hid everywhere they could, eventually ending up in Rotten Mud Mountain, but now, Wu clan's Gu Immortal was here to send them into despair.
"So be it if we die, so what?"
"Brother Kong, say no more, this is our fate!"
"Speaking of which, dying in the hands of an immortal is quite glorious too."
The Central Continent four great obscenities chuckled, they were all demonic path members, at this desperate moment, they displayed their grand attitude towards life.
"Alright, enough of such talk. Who said you would die?" Suddenly, from Kong Ri Tian's body, a will floated out.
Seeing this will, Central Continent's four great obscenities showed a complex expression.
This was Kong Sheng Tian's will, other than the will in Sheng Tian true inheritance, there were also Immortal Gu and immortal essence. This way, Kong Ri Tian had Gu Immortal methods to use.
This was also the reason why the four great obscenities did not attack Kong Ri Tian to snatch the inheritance.
These people were able to struggle until now from the pursuit of Gu Immortals, it was all thanks to Kong Sheng Tian's will.
"Lord ancestor, you are finally awake. Are your injuries healed already? Do you mean we can still survive?" Kong Ri Tian's eyes shined with bright light, he asked in succession.
Kong Sheng Tian's will sighed: "I am not injured, using Gu Immortal methods just takes a huge toll on me. Thus, I had to sleep and use Gu worms to replenish my will. As for whether you can be saved, of course you can! Why did I ask you to come here before I fell asleep? It was because this place allows us to escape from these people."
After saying this, Kong Sheng Tian took action and activated his Gu Immortal method.
Everyone was shocked to find out that a long tunnel secretly appeared in this rotten mud cave without any commotion.
They all entered the tunnel as they went deeper underground, arriving in a hall.
Kong Sheng Tian's will sighed deeply after returning here: "Back then, my main body spent a hundred years and used all sorts of clues to investigate and track down this place after much effort, I finally found this Hu Land. It was a pity that my body was too old then, I did not have long to live, I could only make arrangements and leave."
"Hu Land? Is it the secluded domain of heaven and earth recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]?" Everyone was surprised, they had heard of it before.
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]] was simply too widely known in the world.
Kong Sheng Tian's will smiled arrogantly: "Of course! Hu Land shares the same reputation as Xi Land, it is a supreme secluded domain of qi path. Little Ri Tian, you know that my main body's most signature method was to shoot out currents from my body's pores and move rapidly. Hu Land and Xi Land are complementary[1], it is a perfect pair with my killer move, using it, we can definitely escape from these pursuers."
"That is great!!" Everyone was surprised and joyful.
Even though they did not fear death, the best situation was obviously to survive.
Kong Sheng Tian's will sighed as he added: "It is a pity that you are not a Gu Immortal, Little Ri Tian, you cannot bring this secluded domain of heaven and earth with you. Once I use this killer move, you will scatter and fly out like meteors, the speed is incredible and nobody can catch you, but this Hu Land will be left for those Gu Immortals outside."
Kong Ri Tian did not mind it: "Ancestor, keeping our lives is already good enough. Since we cannot bring the secluded domain of heaven and earth away, Wu clan can keep it safe for us now. One day, I will take it back, that Wu Ji or Shang Xin Ci will moan under my legs, they will suffer for this!!"
Kong Ri Tian said this, his gaze turned ruthless, he emitted the aura of a demonic path member who had no fear for anything, he was filled with evil intentions.
Kong Sheng Tian's will laughed loudly: "Good, this is how my descendant should act like!"
Kong Sheng Tian was also a demonic path member back then, he liked descendants like Kong Ri Tian.
Speaking of which, even though Kong Ri Tian had committed countless sins, he did not lack talent or a proper nature. Otherwise, he would survive in Southern Border for so long and even gain the reputation of a strong demon.
Chen Yin Dao spoke: "Lord Gu Immortal, these people are my brothers, we would like to travel together. I heard from lord's words that we will be separated?"
Kong Sheng Tian's will nodded: "Indeed, if my main body was still here, I can use Hu Land to let you guys escape together. But I am only a will now, I can barely use Hu Land, be it direction or destination, I cannot control either. Maybe you can stay here and hide elsewhere, after I leave with Little Ri Tian, that Southern Border Gu Immortal might go after us instead."
Chen Yin Dao and the rest were troubled.
Since they could leave, they definitely should leave.
Staying here was too risky!
Central Continent's four obscenities were experienced with living like fugitives, they knew that staying behind was the same as courting death.
But if they escaped, they would not be together with Wang Xiao Er.
And if they were separated and the cursed activated…
"Brother Kong, I would like to speak to you." Thinking of this, Chen Yin Dao sighed deeply, he decided to speak the truth.
Kong Ri Tian was a little surprised, even though he cooperated with the Central Continent four great obscenities, he kept his guard up. But now that his ancestor was awake, he was not afraid of the four great obscenities' sneak attack.
Kong Ri Tian went to a corner with Chen Yin Dao as they conversed quietly.
"So that's it." Kong Ri Tiang gasped.
"Why else would we be like this?" Chen Yin Dao spoke very helplessly.
Kong Ri Tian blinked wildly: "I thought that Central Continent people had such interests, speaking of which, when I first saw that, I was shocked, to think that you brothers would have such interests!"
Their conversation could be heard as muffled voices in the air.
"Brothers, what do you think boss is telling Brother Kong?" Wang Xiao Er was confused, he asked in curiosity.
[1] Xi Land sucks in qi, Hu Land expels qi.
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Chapter 2099 Wu Yong“s Excitemen
The other three obscenities had ugly expressions too.
Kong Ri Tian was not just in the demonic path, he had the same 'hobbies' as them, they could be considered the same kind of people.
To think that they would have to expose the truth to him now, it was truly shameful and humiliating!
Hearing Wang Xiao Er's words, they even felt their anus tightening up.
The four great obscenities were already in deep anguish while Wang Xiao Er was starting to enjoy himself. Because he was a mysterious immortal, the four great obscenities did not dare to say anything.
Thus, the three of them gave vague replies: "Boss has his own good reasons for not telling us."
"Xiao Er, we need to believe in him."
"Boss is definitely thinking for our sake, he just does not want us to worry. This is not a problem!"
Wang Xiao Er felt a little embarrassed from their words: "I was wrong, I was wrong! Brothers, don't blame me, I was just curious."
After Kong Sheng Tian understood the situation, he returned to his ancestor Kong Sheng Tian's will and explained everything to him.
Hearing this, Kong Sheng Tian's will showed a peculiar expression.
"Let me try first." Kong Sheng Tian's will did not say that confidently.
"Immortal, please go ahead!!" Chen Yin Dao and the rest quickly shouted with expressions of endless gratitude.
Kong Sheng Tian's will was in no rush to treat them, he first used investigative methods to inspect their fortune.
After taking a look, Kong Sheng Tian's will had an idea: "Hmm, the size of these people's fortune qi is much larger than normal, it is not weak at all. Especially that Wang Xiao Er, is he really an amnesiac immortal?"
Kong Sheng Tian's will decided to save them.
The Central Continent four great obscenities were mere mortals, whether it was worthwhile to help them would depend on their fortune.
Kong Sheng Tian was a demonic path Gu Immortal, he naturally did things with a focus on benefits.
Just using Hu Land to let them escape would not consume much immortal essence, he would only have to use a method. But to treat the four great obscenities' problem would incur a huge cost.
Especially when the immortal essence that Kong Sheng Tian left behind were limited in quantity.
Next, Kong Sheng Tian started his true investigation.
A moment later, Kong Sheng Tian's will showed a serious expression, he shook his head: "I cannot treat your problem."
Kong Ri Tian was surprised: "Ancestor, even your methods cannot work?"
Kong Sheng Tian's will sighed: "I can heal most injuries in this world, but the immortal method on you guys is quite extraordinary, it is caused by the legendary love Gu. This Gu belongs to Spirit Affinity House, it seems that the person who used it on you is the current generation fairy. You are quite lucky to have even met Spirit Affinity House's fairy."
The four great obscenities' expressions turned pale.
Wang Xiao Er was confused: "Do my brothers have a huge hidden problem in their bodies?"
He became anxious: "All of you hid this from me, didn't we say that we would share good times and bad times together? What problem do you have, even though I can't help, I can at least try to share your burden!"
Wang Xiao Er said this, he got anxious, there was even slight rage in his tone.
The four great obscenities looked at Wang Xiao Er, feeling pain internally.
Or more accurately speaking, their butts were starting to hurt again.
Was it their good luck or bad luck to have met such a person? They were lucky because they could survive until now because of him. But why was it that they would rather have never met him?
"This is our fate." Chen Yin Dao sighed bitterly: "Immortal, since you cannot save us, we might as well stay here and wait for death."
Kong Sheng Tian's will chuckled as he waved his hand: "Even though I cannot save you, I have a method that can alleviate your problem. I can temporarily suppress this problem within you, it will not bother you for some time."
"You can do that!" The four great obscenities became excited, they quickly thanked him profusely.
Wang Xiao Er was also quite excited.
Kong Sheng Tian's will pondered again: "According to my deductions, your fortune does not exist in Southern Border, it is still in Central Continent."
"What?" The four great obscenities looked at each other, they were chased out of Central Continent after all, but hearing Kong Sheng Tian's words, they still had to return to Central Continent?
Kong Sheng Tian's will snorted coldly: "This is all I'll say, whether you believe it is up to you. Go!"
The reason he spoke to these mortals for so long was because of his inheritor Kong Ri Tian. As for Wang Xiao Er, Kong Sheng Tian's will did not want to involve himself.
If his main body was around, he might intervene.
But now, who knew what background Wang Xiao Er had? Was he really having amnesia or was he pretending? Even if he did lose his memories, looking at him, he still had defensive methods.
Kong Ri Tian had not become a Gu Immortal yet, he was even pursued by Southern Border's righteous path Gu Immortals, Kong Sheng Tian decided to act ignorant.
He wanted nothing to do with Wang Xiao Er.
"Go." Kong Sheng Tian spoke as he activated a killer move, utilizing Hu Land.
Normally speaking, when Gu Immortals used killer moves, a strong aura would leak out and cause others to be wary.
But Kong Sheng Tian's method could conceal the aura to a relatively perfect degree.
This method was really rare.
In the current five regions, only Wu Yong could do it.
This meant that when Kong Sheng Tian was alive, he was definitely a huge headache for his enemies, they could not easily defend against him.
Thus, when Wu clan's Gu Immortal found something amiss, it was all too late. He watched as these people flew away in all directions, unable to stop them.
Wu clan's Gu Immortal was upset but also filled with shock and uncertainty.
Because he found Hu Land!
"This is a qi path secluded domain of heaven and earth? I am going to make a huge contribution!" After Wu clan's Gu Immortal confirmed it, he became intensely happy, he started to contact Wu clan's first supreme elder Wu Yong.
When Wu Yong received the news, he was settling the clan affairs in his room.
"Hu Land?!" He immediately stood up from his seat, his eyes shining with bright light.
Next, he opened his mouth, he blew out a mouthful of green wind.
After the green wind moved around and grew into the size of a fist, it entered Wu Yong's mind.
Thoughts collided in Wu Yong's mind as they were constantly produced, the green wind would absorb them and assist in the collision speed, allowing him to think faster.
Even though Wu Yong was a wind path expert, his attainment level was beyond the level of mimicry, he could easily copy the trait of wisdom path.
"Hu Land is a secluded domain of heaven and earth, if Wu clan can obtain it, this might be the chance for me to start my domination!" Wu Yong was extremely happy, it was as if a fire burned in his heart, blazing intensely.
There were many secluded domains of heaven and earth recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]. For time path, there was the River of Time, for space path, there was space cave, also know as space door. For qi path, there was Xi Land and Hu Land. For rule path, there was Reverse Flow River, Cheng Bai Mountain, and Miniscule Mountain. For information path, there was Qian Kun Crystal Wall, Whisper Forest… and for soul path, there was Dang Hun Mountain and Luo Po Valley…
There were also some secluded domains of heaven and earth that comprised several paths, for example City Well, the Blue Sea of Life, and Ordinary Abyss.
Gu were the essence of heaven and earth, fragments of the Great Dao, even though secluded domains of heaven and earth had scattered dao marks, the total number usually surpassed rank nine Immortal Gu.
These secluded domains of heaven and earth were not just recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], very rarely, they had been obtained by Gu Immortals or super forces, leaving behind their own legends.
If a secluded domain of heaven and earth was used well, it could give a huge benefit to the super force. Even pseudo venerables and venerables would benefit greatly from them.
Ignoring anyone else, just the pseudo venerable Demon Immortal Qi Jue, he had used Xi Land to participate in a top level fight of the Gu Immortal world immediately after reviving.
Wu Yong knew: "For a super force, if they could develop a secluded domain of heaven and earth well, they would gain immense profits from a monopoly in the market, for example, like Dang Hun Mountain."
"For a Gu Immortal, a secluded domain of heaven and earth was the replacement of a rank nine Immortal Gu, it could shake the entire era, causing a new trend to emerge in the immortal world!"
Rank nine Immortal Gu were too hard to get.
There were not many rank nine Immortal Gu even in history.
For example, fate Gu, Heavenly Court spent millions of years trying to protect and restore it.
Or wisdom Gu for example, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable spent a lot of effort to keep it within Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
There was also hatred Gu, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable plotted for hundreds of thousands of years before succeeding.
The venerables in history were the group that had the most number of rank nine Immortal Gu, all of their vital Gu were rank nine. Other than them, the number didn't even reach five.
Thus, the value of a secluded domain of heaven and earth was apparent. Using a secluded domain of heaven and earth as the core to activate an immortal killer move would often have great effects.
Like Fang Yuan's reverse flow protection seal.
"I need to do my best and obtain this secluded domain of heaven and earth, I need to get it secretly and prevent information from leaking!" Wu Yong made up his mind.
The secluded domain of heaven and earth had huge implications if it was exposed, the whole of Southern Border would get involved, the other four regions might even come to snatch it.
But now, this secret had not been exposed yet, Wu Yong saw a great chance for himself.
Other forces only knew about Sheng Tian true inheritance, they did not know about this Hu Land.
Earlier, Wu clan's Gu Immortal had already fought against the other clans' Gu Immortals, they left on their own accord. Right now on Rotten Mud Mountain, there were no other lone and demonic cultivators.
In the past, if a rank eight inheritance like Sheng Tian true inheritance appeared, the entire Southern Border Gu Immortal world would be moved, many people would be sent out to fight for it.
But it was different now.
All five regions had inheritances appear, they were all exposed due to the qi tides.
Wu clan's Gu Immortal was able to defeat the competitors mostly due to this reason, the other super forces were busy dealing with their own territories, they were trying to get the inheritances of the highest value.
Sheng Tian true inheritance was just one of them.
Compared to Southern Border's righteous path, Wu Yong was more worried about the pseudo venerables.
"Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Qi Sea Ancestor are both qi path Gu Immortals, this Hu Land has huge significance to them."
"But luckily, Demon Immortal Qi Jue is currently suppressed by Divine Emperor City, while Qi Sea Ancestor is fighting against the variant human alliance led by Fang Yuan, he has no time to spare."
"As for Fang Yuan…"
Wu Yong was still most worried about Gu Yue Fang Yuan!
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Chapter 2100 Fire Thunder True Inheritance
In the past, Wu Yong chased after Fang Yuan and forced him to go from Southern Border to Western Desert. Now, Wu Yong was afraid that Fang Yuan would approach his clan and snatch Hu Land away!
Wu Yong knew that if Fang Yuan came for it, he would not be able to block him.
Immortal Gu were easily destroyed, Fang Yuan might act carefully, but these kinds of secluded domains were hard to destroy, he was almost certainly going to succeed in snatching it.
"Fang Yuan has the sovereign immortal body, he can cultivate any path, that is quite terrifying, Hu Land is definitely useful to him. If this Hu Land is exposed, my Wu clan will not be able to keep it, it will be taken away. By then, not only will we waste our time and resources, we may also incur deaths. Wu clan's prestige may also fall, it will be better if we leave it alone!" Wu Yong thought about the situation.
He decided to send people and secretly take Hu Land away. If it got exposed during this process, he would immediately abandon it.
Even though Wu clan was big, it was not the match of someone like Fang Yuan!
In this world, the number of people did not matter, only individual strength was of importance.
"Those villages around Rotten Mud Mountain have no Gu Immortals, but we need to prevent the mortals and Gu Masters from exposing the news. Maybe we can make use of the 'beast tide' to settle this problem."
"There is no rush to find Kong Ri Tian, we can just investigate it secretly. Hopefully, he does not expose his location before I get Hu Land."
If he still kept up the commotion, he would cause suspicions — Wu clan's Gu Immortal was actually unable to capture Kong Ri Tian, wasn't that too strange? What method did Kong Ri Tian use to escape from Wu clan's rank seven Gu Immortal?
By then, they would cast their suspicions on Rotten Mud Mountain.
Thus, Wu Yong would rather have Kong Ri Tian hide himself these few days without exposing his location.
"To lure the attention of Southern Border's Gu Immortal world, I might need to activate my arrangement in Ba clan in advance to create a smokescreen for me to take Hu Land."
"Of course, there is the one biggest flaw in this plan, that is Kong Ri Tian."
"Kong Ri Tian has Kong Sheng Tian's will, he can connect to treasure yellow heaven. At the crucial moment, if he exposes the secret of Hu Land, it would cause our Wu clan to suffer a huge amount of conflict."
"But this possibility is quite unlikely."
Wu Yong analyzed to himself.
Firstly, Kong Sheng Tian cultivated qi path, Kong Ri Tian would definitely cultivate qi path too. If Wu clan obtains Hu Land, from their perspective, they would want to compete with Wu clan in the dark and retrieve Hu Land without a commotion. They would not want a large number of competitors to emerge.
Secondly, if Kong Ri Tian exposed the secret of Hu Land, he would be the mortal enemy of Wu clan, it was not a wise thing to do since it would cause them to take revenge. At the same time, Kong Ri Tian would expose the secret that he was still escaping, other Gu Immortals would go and capture him.
Even though the possibility was unlikely, the chance was still there.
The risk of secretly taking away Hu Land was very huge to Wu clan!
But the benefit it involved was also massive, Wu Yong was willing to take the risk.
Some days later.
Above red dragon river, Wu clan's, Xia clan's, and Ba clan's Gu Immortals were nervously anticipating a contest.
River water surged as ripples spread with explosive sounds, this was the fire thunder river segment of red dragon river, it produced fire path and lightning path Gu worms.
A newly discovered rank eight true inheritance was hidden at the bottom of this river segment.
The person who set up this true inheritance was called Fire Thunder Divine Lord, he cultivated fire path primarily with lightning path secondarily, even though he was a lone cultivator, he had above average luck and experienced many fortuitous encounters.
He was not a Southern Border Gu Immortal, he came from Western Desert.
He had once caused chaos in Western Desert's Gu Immortal world, several Western Desert super forces chased after him. Even though he managed to survive, by the time he got to the fire thunder river segment of red dragon river, his injuries could not be healed, before dying, he made his arrangements.
Precisely because of his arrangements, this river segment turned into the fire thunder river segment gradually over time.
Fire Thunder Divine Lord's methods were not eye-catching, they were very close to that of nature, even though this was the intersection of Ba clan and Xia clan, the two super forces did not notice anything strange, they thought it was a natural development.
Even though fire thunder river segment produced fire path and lightning path Gu worms, no Immortal Gu had ever been produced. Thus, Ba clan and Xia clan did not pay attention to it.
For mortals, even though the fire path and lightning path mortal Gu were alluring, the environment was too dangerous, few rank five Gu Masters would take the risk.
Thus, Fire Thunder Divine Lord's true inheritance remained hidden for so long, until now when the qi tides swept through the world, it was unveiled.
Fire Thunder Divine Lord was a rank eight Gu Immortal, the rank eight true inheritance he left behind was quite high quality, it caused almost all of Southern Border's super clans to compete for it.
After some probing and fighting, only three competitors were left.
One was Wu clan, the other two were Ba clan and Xia clan.
Ba clan's current first supreme elder was Ba De, he was tall and had a plain look, he had a strong body with broad shoulders and chest, his skin that was not covered looked like thousand year old tree bark, there was even green moss growing on it.
He had a large mouth and broad nose, his eyes were covered by a black cloth, covering them completely. His dark green beard hung down to his waist, while his jade green hair extended to the back of his waist.
Ba De floated in the air as he called to Wu Yong: "Wu clan, you are overstepping your boundaries, this is the territory of my Ba clan. Regardless of what true inheritance it is, this belongs to Ba clan. Wu clan, as the leader of the Southern Alliance, the leader of Southern Border's Gu Immortals, why are you not being a role model, are you ignoring the rules of the righteous path?"
Wu Yong smiled as he said gentlemanly: "Since when has this fire thunder river segment become yours? The territorial boundary between Xia clan and Ba clan is a sensitive area, Ba De, you need to speak more carefully, at least, you need to ask about the opinion of our comrades from Xia clan."
Before he finished, Xia clan's Gu Immortal Xia Zhao spoke: "Lord Wu Yong, regardless of whether this is Xia clan's or Ba clan's territory, it is still our matter. Wu clan is far away at the southern-most area, even Qiao clan is nowhere close to the fire thunder river segment."
Even though Xia Zhao only had rank seven cultivation level, Xia clan's original first supreme elder Xia Cha had already been turned into a mortal Gu Master by Fang Yuan, Xia Zhao was now the current first supreme elder, on the same status as Ba De. Thus, it was not strange that he spoke.
Xia clan and Wu clan had conflict between them even from before now, their relationship was not good.
Ignoring anything else, just merely in recent years.
Xia clan and Wu clan conflicted over Frosty Peak, Fang Yuan had disguised as Wu Yi Hai and forced Xia Fei Kuai away, winning the contest.
After that, Xia clan still made an attack and took over Qiao clan's empty origin pit. Qiao clan was Wu clan's subsidiary force, invading Qiao clan's territory was offending Wu clan. After that, Wu Yong used Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building to turn the situation around, Xia clan was forced to return empty origin pit.
Xia clan's external supreme elder Immortal Yan Huang had once owned Moon Bowl, but Wu clan had already taken possession of this territory.
Thus, even though Xia clan and Ba clan were not harmonious, because Wu clan was the strongest among them, these two clans were actually standing on the same side now.
Qiao Si Liu's expression changed slightly.
She was one of Southern Border's three great fairies, her beauty was on par with Fairy Miao Yin.
Her cultivation level was also rank seven.
This time, with Wu clan's action, Qiao clan had to show some effort as their subsidiary force, thus they sent Qiao Si Liu to accompany Wu Yong.
Qiao Si Liu knew about the rules of the righteous path, seeing Ba clan and Xia clan joining up against Wu clan, she became anxious internally.
Righteous path Gu Immortals had a set of rules to follow, they were not as free as the demonic path or carefree as the lone cultivators.
Even though Wu Yong was strong, seemingly the number one person in Southern Border, without a good righteous reason, he could not take Fire Thunder true inheritance by force.
At this moment, Wu Yong's reputation and his status as the Southern Alliance Leader became the chains that bound him.
If Wu Yong took it by force, he would lose everyone's support, Southern Border's righteous path would lose faith in his impartiality as the alliance leader.
Wu clan was a powerful force but they did not cultivate fire path or lightning path, a rank eight fire thunder true inheritance was really not significant to Wu clan. If Wu Yong tried to take it now, Wu clan's losses would be even larger instead!
Against Xia clan and Ba clan's resistance, the smile on Wu Yong's face became even more evident: "Go, bring the person here."
He instructed.
The Wu clan Gu Immortal behind him opened his immortal aperture's entrance, a mortal Gu Master came out.
Wu Yong introduced: "This Western Desert Gu Master is the bloodline inheritor of Fire Thunder Divine Lord. Whether fire thunder river segment belongs to Ba clan or Xia clan does not matter, what is clear is that the Fire Thunder true inheritance in the river belongs to this little friend."
The expressions of Ba clan's and Xia clan's Gu Immortals changed.
Wu Yong smiled again with calm composure: "As righteous path members, how can we snatch other people's inheritances? This true inheritance has its owner, it belongs to this friend from Western Desert. As the Southern Alliance Leader, I need to be impartial in my actions, if anyone suspects his identity, you can extract his blood and test it."
"As expected of Lord Wu Yong! So he came prepared." Qiao Si Liu's eyes shined as she calmed down.
With this excuse, Wu clan had the right of reason, they could block any accusations that came at them, Wu Yong could use his full strength. In contrast, Ba clan and Xia clan fell into an awkward spot.
Ba De and Xia Zhao looked at each other, their expressions were ugly.
Wu Yong made such ample preparation, they were quite surprised.
Even though Wu Yong had just risen to power recently, his political skill was a huge lesson to the entire Southern Border Gu Immortal world.
Ba De and Xia Zhao knew that since Wu Yong brought out this bloodline descendant, his identity had to be authentic. Even if Wu Yong was faking it, he would have done it with a superb method that could not be seen through for now.
Ba De and Xia Zhao discussed among themselves and took a few steps forward.
Ba De had a solemn expression: "How can we return an inheritance of Southern Border to Western Desert?"
Xia Zhao added: "Since Fire Thunder Divine Lord died here and left his true inheritance in Southern Border, this is simply the will of heaven."
Ba clan and Xia clan could not back out, the true inheritance was in-between their territories, if they backed off now, would they still keep their reputation?
Wu Yong was not surprised by their words, he waved his sleeves:"Then let the three of us compete for it."
The situation had reached this stage, they could only fight to determine the outcome.
"Let me exchange blows with you!" Ba De shouted as he acted first.
Xia Zhao only had rank seven cultivation level, he quickly flew away and attacked from afar, helping Ba De to restrain Wu Yong.
Wu Yong laughed heartily, intense winds blew as the sky turned dark.
Ba De cultivated wood path, he activated his killer move, countless ancient trees and flying leaves appeared in the sky.
But against Wu Yong's killer moves, the trees were sliced apart and the leaves wilted away.
After three rounds, Ba De and Xia Zhao got defeated by Wu Yong, the superior side was very obvious.
"Anything else to say?" Wu Yong smiled.
Xia Zhao had a livid expression, he remained silent. He could not help but recall the time when Xia Cha was still rank eight, at least back then, Wu Yong was not so arrogant.
"He actually became this strong!" Ba De was internally shaken as he clenched his fists: "But I still have another trump card killer move unused. If I try… can I defeat Wu Yong?"
Ba De thought about it, he relaxed his clenched fists.
Just this Fire Thunder true inheritance was not important enough for him to expose the killer move that he had kept a secret for years.
Ba clan and Xia clan left in the end.
Wu Yong brought the Western Desert Gu Master to the bottom of the river as he retrieved the Fire Thunder true inheritance.
The Western Desert Gu Master knelt down on the spot, requesting to join Wu clan.
Wu Yong agreed immediately.
This Western Desert Gu Master was called Zhong Yi, he had ample talent and a good character, he could become a Gu Immortal seed with some nurturing, Wu clan had no losses in taking him in.
Because of Fang Yuan, a number of Wu clan's Gu Immortals had died. Wu Yong needed more Wu clan Gu Immortals to emerge now, thus he took in the surrounding Gu Masters of other regions as their clan's future external elders.
"Congratulations to Lord Wu Yong, you easily defeated Ba clan and Xia clan, obtaining Fire Thunder true inheritance." Qiao Si Liu said with deep politeness.
"In the current Southern Border, who dares to contend with our lord?" Wu clan's Gu Immortals gained a surge in morale, they spoke excitedly.
Wu Yong acknowledged their words, he said calmly: "Spread news of today's battle, I want the entire Southern Border Gu Immortal world to hear of it."
"Yes." Wu clan's Gu Immortals answered.
"Lord Wu Yong, I, mushroomman Gu Immortal Ke Xin Hong, seek your audience." At this time, a mushroomman Gu Immortal approached from the southeast direction, riding waves along the way.
"What?"
"A mushroomman Gu Immortal!"
"Does he come from Mushroomman Paradise? Such guts."
The Gu Immortals around Wu Yong had changes of expressions.
Ke Xin Hong wore a white shirt, he had a plain face, he did not conceal his appearance, there was a large mushroom above his head, looking like a hat.
Wu Yong's heart jolted.
At the next moment, Ke Xin Hong transmitted to Wu Yong: "Lord Wu Yong, I come from Mushroomman Paradise, I carry the orders of Lord Gu Yue Fang Yuan."
Wu Yong's expression did not change, he replied: "For what matter have you come?"
Ke Xin Hong smiled: "Sheng Tian true inheritance."
Wu Yong's pupils shrunk immediately.
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Chapter 2101 Fang Yuan Makes A Transaction
Wu Yong tried to stay calm as he exchanged some words with mushroomman Gu Immortal Ke Xin Hong.
"So Fang Yuan wants my Sheng Tian true inheritance but he has not discovered Hu Land!" After some probing, the worry in his heart was finally lifted.
The truth was, as long as Kong Ri Tian did not expose this secret personally, there was only a slight possibility that Hu Land would be discovered by anyone else other than Wu clan.
Back then, Kong Ri Tian and the rest used Hu Land to escape, no other Gu Immortal saw them.
"After Kong Ri Tian and the rest escaped, no news of them had emerged. Thus, outsiders like Fang Yuan would think that Kong Ri Tian is in my hands. Thus, he came to me for Sheng Tian true inheritance."
Wu Yong thought: "My actions earlier were not good enough. I should have announced immediately that Kong Ri Tian was captured by my Wu clan!"
Even though that was not true, if Wu clan publicized that, Kong Ri Tian would not come out to refute him anyway.
If Kong Ri Tian exposed himself, the Gu Immortals that were after Sheng Tian true inheritance would charge towards him like jackals, they would tear his weak little body to shreds.
"If Kong Ri Tian hears such an announcement from my Wu clan, he will also understand our motive. Keeping Hu Land a secret will also be ensuring his safety, he will not reject it."
Wu Yong had another plan, he could make up for his previous mistake.
Hu Land was a secluded domain of heaven and earth, it had immense value, if Wu clan wanted to own it, he would need to do it in secret!
"I can let you have Sheng Tian true inheritance." Wu Yong rapidly transmitted and replied Ke Xin Hong.
For Hu Land, giving up Sheng Tian true inheritance was a wise decision.
Moreover, this Sheng Tian true inheritance had just been obtained by Wu clan, it had contents but not Immortal Gu. The Immortal Gu and immortal essence were still in Kong Ri Tian's hands.
Ke Xin Hong was slightly stunned.
Wu Yong agreed so readily, it was out of his expectations.
He was a Gu Immortal expert of Mushroomman Paradise, after Lu Wei Yin submitted to Fang Yuan along with the entire paradise, he became Fang Yuan's subordinate.
This was the first mission that Fang Yuan gave him.
When Ke Xin Hong received this mission, he felt great internal pressure. He had heard of Wu Yong's name long ago, along the way, he was thinking of what to do if Wu Yong rejected or refused to agree with this.
To think that he would agree so easily after they met.
"I finally understand the might and prestige of my lord now." Ke Xin Hong sighed internally, filled with deep emotions.
Ke Xin Hong added: "Lord Wu Yong, my lord is willing to pay for the entire Sheng Tian true inheritance."
It was Wu Yong's turn to be stunned.
Hearing Ke Xin Hong's words, it seemed like Fang Yuan wanted a fair trade? He was not going to extort or snatch it by force?
Wu Yong quickly reacted, he listed his condition.
Ke Xin Hong frowned slightly, because Wu Yong wanted a rank nine wind path immortal material, it was quite rare in the market.
Ke Xin Hong could not decide this alone, he quickly communicated with Fang Yuan.
After receiving an answer, Ke Xin Hong started to smile again as he looked at Wu Yong.
Using treasure yellow heaven, this transaction was quickly completed.
Fang Yuan obtained the full details of Sheng Tian true inheritance, while Wu Yong obtained a rank nine wind path immortal material.
"Fang Yuan has a large number of grotto-heavens from the two heavens, it is not strange that he has rare immortal materials. But he really went ahead to transact with me?!"
Surprisingly getting a rank nine wind path immortal material, Wu Yong's preparatory work for refining eight-faced prestige wind Immortal Gu achieved a significant breakthrough.
But Wu Yong could not be happy!
Fang Yuan had the battle strength to snatch Sheng Tian true inheritance but he did not do that.
He only sent a mushroomman Gu Immortal and expressed his sincerity in making a fair trade, afterwards, he held his word and paid with a rank nine wind path immortal material.
"Fang Yuan is truly amazing!" Wu Yong sighed deeply.
As the saying goes, an expert swimmer would eventually drown, an expert combatant would die in battle, relying on one's specialty without possessing other skills was a dangerous thing.
Once people started to rely on something, they would unknowingly stay within their comfort zone, they would develop a mental pattern. When they encounter problems, they would use their specialty trait to resolve the issues, as time passes, all of their other methods and perspectives would vanish. Eventually, they would face the greatest predicament of their lives, it might be their end.
But Fang Yuan did not do that.
He had great battle strength and could snatch the true inheritance, but if he did that, he would waste a lot of time and energy, there was even a chance of failing.
After all, the information could be erased.
But using this transaction, Fang Yuan easily obtained Sheng Tian true inheritance without a hitch.
Wu Yong analyzed: "This can mean at least two things."
"Firstly, Fang Yuan has a lot of immortal materials, one rank nine wind path immortal material is not important in his eyes!"
"Secondly, even though he is the number one person in the world, he still keeps his composure and scheming mind, he does not overly rely on his strength. Sigh, it would have been great if I managed to kill him back then. Fang Yuan has already grown fully, with such a nature, he is too terrifying."
When Sheng Tian true inheritance's transaction ended, Fang Yuan's main body was already in Western Desert.
Western Desert, Fang clan's headquarters.
Fang clan's supreme elders were almost fully gathered, they stared at Fang Yuan like he was a fatal enemy.
"Everyone, don't be too nervous, really, I came here to make a transaction with Fang clan." Fang Yuan smiled.
But Fang clan's immortals felt huge pressure weighing on them.
Fang clan's first supreme elder Fang Gong said: "Is it our fortune or misfortune to have received your attention?"
"Everyone, we have quite the relationship actually." Fang Yuan started to activate his killer move.
As the aura leaked, all of Fang clan's Gu Immortals stood up from their seats, they quickly activated their Immortal Gu, a battle was about to start.
"Fang Yuan, what are you doing?"
"This is our Fang clan's headquarters!"
"Earlier when we were outside, you said you wanted to make a transaction, if you attack now, who will believe your words in the future?"
Fang clan's Gu Immortals called out with intense nervousness.
Fang Yuan smiled coldly: "If I wanted to harm you, I could have attacked from the start, can your Fang clan stop me?"
As he said so, his appearance changed.
Fang clan's Gu Immortals were shocked: "Suan Bu Jin?"
Fang Yuan activated familiar face again, changing into another appearance.
Fang clan's Gu Immortals saw Fang Yuan's appearance, they became shocked again: "Fang Di Chang?"
Fang Yun frowned, he was the adopted son of Fang Di Chang, seeing Fang Yuan's transformation, he felt repulsed: "Lord Fang Yuan, did you come all the way to our clan just for this display of transformations to mock us?"
Fang Yuan looked at Fang Yun, saying with deep meaning: "Yun Er, during this time when I was gone, why didn't you convert to wisdom path? Father gave you three wisdom path Immortal Gu and even my wisdom path inheritance. Fang clan has no wisdom path Gu Immortal at the moment, if you do not take up this responsibility, who will?"
"You, you!" Fang Yun pointed at Fang Yuan, he stared with wide opened eyes, filled with shock.
The other Fang clan Gu Immortals also had a change of expression.
They realized something from his words, they had a guess regarding the truth, the reality of it made them sink into panic.
"Indeed, I am Suan Bu Jin, who also became Fang Di Chang later on. I have interacted with you guys much more than you think." Fang Yuan looked around as he laughed heartily.
Fang Gong's expression was livid, he could not wait anymore, he stood out: "What evidence do you have?"
Fang Yuan gave a bunch of evidence to the Fang clan Gu Immortals as he transmitted to Fang Gong, snickering: "Fang Gong, you and Fang Di Chang decided to sacrifice Suan Bu Jin to refine Divine Bean Palace, do you really want me to expose it?"
Fang Yuan not only had evidence, he even had accurate facts, Fang clan soon realized the whole story.
"So Fang Yuan infiltrated our Fang clan long ago!"
"He even became our external supreme elder!"
"Oh heavens, even our second supreme elder Fang Di Chang was replaced by him, we did not even notice!!"
After Fang clan's Gu Immortals realized the truth, they all turned pale as cold sweat broke out.
It was too terrifying.
If not for Fang Yuan's reveal, they would still think that Fang Di Chang was currently trapped inside Divine Emperor City.
Ever since the fate war ended, Fang clan had been trying to negotiate with Heavenly Court to get back their supreme elder Fang Di Chang.
"This means that Divine Bean Palace trapped your clone, while our second supreme elder died at your hands!" Fang Gong looked at Fang Yuan with a cold gaze.
Fang Gong was tall and sturdy, with long white hair and beard spreading around his head like a lion's mane, he had bulging muscles that resembled rocks. Facing the murderer of his second supreme elder, if it were any other person, he would have attacked already.
But against Fang Yuan, he could only restrain himself, he looked at Fang Yuan with a complex gaze, there was anger and hatred in his eyes, but also helplessness and wariness.
Fang Yuan was too strong, his demonic might was unparalleled, his reputation was unmatched, Fang Gong did not dare to make a rash move!
Fang Yuan continued: "Saying that Fang Di Chang died at my hands is both correct and also wrong. Fang Di Chang's body is destroyed but his soul is in my hands, do you want it back?"
Back then, to avoid the detection of soul lantern Gu, Fang Yuan did not kill Fang Di Chang, he only separated his body and soul.
Fang Di Chang's soul was still kept in Fang Yuan's hands.
Fang clan's Gu Immortals heard this, they became excited.
"Fang Di Chang's soul is in your hands?"
"Great, our second supreme elder can be saved!"
"No wonder Central Continent has been so vague all this time, so they did not even have our second supreme elder in the first place."
"In the current world, Fate has been destroyed, as long as Fang Di Chang's soul is around, if he gets a Gu Immortal body, he would return to Fang clan again."
"If this Gu Immortal body cultivates wisdom path, then after Fang Di Chang revives, he will be an immense help to your entire clan!"
"Now tell me, friends from Fang clan, do you want to make a transaction with me?" Fang Yuan stated his ultimatum.
Fang clan's Gu Immortals were silent, they looked at Fang Gong.
At the crucial moment, only a rank eight Gu Immortal like Fang Gong could make the decision!
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Chapter 2102 Going After Tian Nan“s true inheritance
The answer to Fang Yuan's question was obvious for Fang clan.
Fang Gong nodded as he thought about his words before saying in a solemn tone: "Of course we are willing to transact, but Sir Fang Yuan, what do you want? If your request is too much, or if it exceeds our capability, then…"
Fang Yuan waved his hand, interrupting Fang Gong: "Firstly, I need Thieves Den. Secondly, I need Fang clan to take over green ghost desert and provide me with a vast number of soul cores, what I will give to you is not just Fang Di Chang's soul. We can slowly discuss the details later."
Fang Yuan gave loose conditions, Fang clan's Gu Immortals were excited about it but also held suspicions.
Fang Yuan seemed to know what they were thinking: "I can easily destroy your entire Fang clan, why would I need to resort to other methods? I'll let you know, I've already done a transaction with Wu Yong. I am not a brutal person, killing is just a method. Unless I have to, I will not use brute strength to satisfy my requirements."
Fang clan's immortals were shaken internally, Fang Yuan's words had hidden meaning. He was saying that if they did not satisfy him, he would wage war on them, they would lose terribly and even get wiped out!
Fang Gong felt bitter internally, against this powerful and domineering Fang Yuan, what could he choose?
Actually, the moment Fang Yuan showed up, Fang clan no longer had a chance in the matter.
Fang clan had to cooperate with Fang Yuan, they had to undergo transactions.
Otherwise?
Death!
Heavenly Court could not stop Fang Yuan, Spectral Soul was even killed by him, even before that, Southern Border's rank eight Gu Immortals were also harmed by him!
What could the mere Fang clan do against him?
Even a super force would be exterminated.
Looking at the past, Northern Plains' Hei tribe had been destroyed, replaced by Bai Zu tribe.
There was also Qing clan, back then, they were incredibly powerful, but after provoking the young Spectral Soul, they were wiped out. Green ghost desert was now Qing clan's graveyard, it was right beside Fang clan.
Sometimes, one person could wipe out an entire force.
In the Gu world, strength ruled above all!
Thus, even though super forces had deep foundations, they would often be very careful when dealing with lone immortals or demonic immortals, especially when engaging in combat.
In order to survive, Fang clan agreed to Fang Yuan's requests.
The two sides negotiated for some time before they arrived at a conclusion.
Fang Yuan's terms were too relaxed, Fang clan could barely believe this was real.
Was this the number one demon in the world, Gu Yue Fang Yuan?
Because reality was much better than their expectations, these Fang clan Gu Immortals' moods improved drastically!
"I said before, I am not someone who enjoys killing brutally, cooperating with me has great benefits." The person who slaughtered his clan, killed all the Gu Immortals in Hei Fan grotto-heaven, participated in the Dong Fang tribe incident, partially accountable for Snowy Mountain blessed land's destruction, annexed his allies in Lang Ya Sect and the variant humans, destroyed Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, captured Southern Border's righteous path Gu Immortals, killed Gu Immortals from all the five regions and two heavens, participated in Heavenly Court's climactic battle, and the one who slaughtered Spectral Soul, Fang Yuan, said with an earnest expression.
Fang clan's Gu Immortals had twitching eyelids as they quickly agreed with him.
"Lord Fang Yuan is right!"
"Working with Lord Fang Yuan is our clan's greatest blessing."
"Actually, we know about your circumstances back then, Lord Fang Yuan, Heavenly Court was simply too much of a bully!"
Fang clan's Gu Immortals uttered words that seemed to be their heartfelt feelings, they showed no signs of insincerity.
Fang Yun and Fang Leng were still too young, they remained silent.
"If Lord Fang Yuan is interested in creating a clan, my Fang clan will do our best to help you!" Fang Gong ended the conversation with a promise that held great meaning.
Fang Yuan looked at him with a deep gaze before leaving.
At the next moment, he activated a killer move and vanished from everyone's sight.
Fang Gong tried to induce Fang Yuan into creating a clan, it was for the sake of Fang clan. If their secret transaction was exposed in the future, Fang clan would be in a passive spot, their reputation would fall, they might even get attacked by other super forces.
But if Fang Yuan creates a clan, he would go from the demonic path to the righteous path. by then, if this transaction was exposed, Fang clan would only face some criticism.
Gu Masters and Gu Immortals who were lone and demonic cultivators could convert their statuses into members of the righteous path.
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was one such example.
If a demonic or lone cultivator had enough battle strength to make the righteous path forces wary, they would not want to fight. When these Gu cultivators create their clan, if they were adept at dealing with the surroundings forces to create beneficial relationships, they might reach a certain agreement and balance, they would become part of the righteous path.
The truth was, many super forces in history, be they in Western Desert, Eastern Sea, or Southern Border, involved such cases.
Fang Yuan's transaction with Fang clan made Fang Gong realize that Fang Yuan was someone with such political view and ability.
If a strong demonic cultivator stops focusing on fighting or killing, he would act like a righteous path member, he would be able to change his status.
"It is a pity that is not my goal." Fang Yuan smiled lightly to himself.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, he created the Blood Wing Demon Sect, at its peak, there were ten thousand members, he learned of the true essence of strength at that time.
In this world, a person's strength can surpass an entire organization's, any sort of organization was just icing on the cake.
Only when an individual had high battle strength would they truly be strong!
Even the number one super force, Heavenly Court, had to rely on venerable methods to survive at the moment of crisis. Otherwise, it would have been destroyed already.
"Thieves Den." Fang Yuan started his closed cultivation, deciphering this damaged Immortal Gu House.
Meanwhile, his clone in Eastern Sea, Qi Sea Ancestor, was also negotiating a transaction with Song clan.
Right now, there were only Qi Sea Ancestor and Song Xia Qi in the hall.
Song Xia Qi was a rank seven Gu Immortal of Song clan, he was tasked to be stationed in qi sea, he was their representative.
Right now, Song Xia Qi had an ugly expression, he could not sit still. Because earlier, he had received a "small" request from Qi Sea Ancestor — Tian Nan's true inheritance!
Qi Sea Ancestor claimed that his descendants wanted some development in refinement path, thus he wanted to make a transaction with Song clan.
Song clan had once competed with Ruo Lai clan and Cai clan over the ownership of Ascending Heaven Plain, in the end, they won the true inheritance of Old Eccentric Tian Nan.
Old Eccentric Tian Nan was a genius of the Remote Antiquity Era, he had high seniority, the first refinement path supreme grandmaster recorded in history, he was on par with Old Immortal Kong Jue and Long Hair Ancestor.
Even after three million years, Old Eccentric Tian Nan's true inheritance still had immense value.
Song Xia Qi was silent for a while before replying: "Reporting to ancestor, I would not dare to lie. Ever since we obtained this refinement path true inheritance, our Song clan has been researching upon it, we specially chose to nurture Gu Immortal seeds to make Tian Nan's true inheritance one of our signature strengths in the future."
"This is a huge matter, I cannot decide on it, allow me to report it first. But I would guess that the result might disappoint you, ancestor."
Song Xia Qi said in a polite tone that he would report it, but he was clearly rejecting the idea.
Qi Sea Ancestor smiled as he waved his hand: "You do not need to worry, that was just a thought that I had. Since Tian Nan's true inheritance is so precious to Song clan, why would I snatch it from you? We can forget about this matter."
Song Xia Qi had a grateful expression, as he stood up to express his gratitude, he mentioned several other super forces in Eastern Sea, they also had deep foundation in refinement path.
Qi Sea Ancestor had a compassionate smile as he said: "I'll remember your suggestions, don't be in a rush to leave, I have made some new tea."
Meng Qiu Zhen passed many dream realms recently, causing Fang Yuan's food path attainment to jump through master level from zero foundation, becoming a grandmaster.
Qi Sea Ancestor was Fang Yuan's clone, they shared attainment levels, while he organized his combat system, he created some new qi path tea as well.
After drinking the tea, Song Xia Qi bid farewell to Qi Sea Ancestor respectfully.
After returning to his estate, he used an immortal killer move to communicate with Song clan's headquarters.
This matter concerned Qi Sea Ancestor, it was too important, Song clan's immortals soon learned of this situation.
Song clan's Gu Immortals put everything else aside as they quickly discussed.
"Hmph, back then our Song clan spent so much resources and manpower to gain ownership of Ascending Heaven Plain and obtain Tian Nan's true inheritance. This Qi Sea Ancestor wants to take the fruit of our labor just like that? Wishful thinking!"
"I think it was inappropriate to reject him on the spot. We need to give Qi Sea Ancestor some respect, at least, we should listen to his offer."
"No, Tian Nan's true inheritance is not for sale! Even though our Song clan specializes in light path and water path, these two true inheritances are not outstanding compared to other super forces. But with this Tian Nan's true inheritance, our success rate of refining Immortal Gu will rise sharply, the benefit for our clan is long lasting and immense."
Song clan had been looking for a refinement path true inheritance all this time.
The truth was, many Eastern Sea super forces were doing the same.
Because Eastern Sea had the most abundant resources and immortal materials, once they had a high quality refinement path true inheritance, the amount of benefits they would gain far surpassed the other regions.
"Tian Nan's true inheritance belongs solely to Song clan, this advantage might not be clear in the following years, but after decades or centuries, our Song clan's strength will definitely surpass the other super forces!"
"But offending Qi Sea Ancestor like this might not be appropriate? Thinking about our current situation, after the qi tides settled, all sorts of inheritances emerged, us super forces have been competing for them. Once we get into a deadlock, Qi Sea Ancestor would make the decision as the leader of the Righteous Qi Alliance. We need to consider if Qi Sea Ancestor will become biased after this, when he makes a decision in the future, will he purposely strip away our benefits?"
During this period of time, Qi Sea Ancestor was truly very busy.
Eastern Sea's righteous path forces joined his Righteous Qi Alliance, when they competed for true inheritances, it became the Righteous Qi Alliance's internal affair.
At some point, it became a trend to ask Qi Sea Ancestor to make the decision in a case of dispute, more and more forces started to find Qi Sea Ancestor.
Fang Yuan had very profound political skills, Qi Sea Ancestor was able to make decisions that could satisfy both parties in the dispute most of the time.
Thus, Qi Sea Ancestor's reputation rose every day.
Song clan's Gu Immortal had such a worry, it was not strange.
"We can satisfy any of his other requests, there is nothing wrong with improving our relationship with Qi Sea Ancestor. But he wanted Tian Nan's true inheritance… how do I put this? Qi Sea Ancestor has a really keen sense, as expected of someone who could contest with Fang Yuan!"
Earlier, Eastern Sea's super forces were friendly to Qi Sea Ancestor, wanting to rely on him to resist Wu Shuai and the variant human alliance. But now, after the battle to pursue Fang Yuan, Qi Sea Ancestor was enemies with Fang Yuan, the attitude of many Eastern Sea forces including Song clan had changed a lot.
"Song Xia Qi, when you rejected Qi Sea Ancestor, what did he do?" Song Qi Yuan asked.
Song Xia Qi quickly replied: "He gave up very quickly, there was no change in his attitude. He is very understanding and magnanimous, he even asked me to drink his tea. That new qi path tea is really amazing!"
Qi Sea Ancestor named his new tea triple layered qi tea. This tea was made using heaven qi, earth qi, and human qi.
In the cup, heaven qi was at the top, resembling floating clouds. Human qi was condensed into a lump, resembling a pill that floated in the middle of the cup. Earth qi sank to the bottom, the fragrance of the tea was deeply concealed, only after it was drank would it emit the fragrance and leave a lingering aftertaste.
After Song clan's Gu Immortals heard the description, the unease in their hearts faded away slightly.
"Qi Sea Ancestor is really magnanimous!"
"Our Song clan has always been respectful to him."
"Seeing his attitude, we should not have much to worry about. Even if he was angry, as the Righteous Qi Alliance Leader, he would not go overboard."
"Tian Nan's true inheritance concerns immense benefits, it will be the core inheritance of our clan in the future, we cannot lose it!"
After the Song clan Gu Immortals discussed for a long time, they made up their minds — they would leave this as it is.
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Chapter 2103 Song Clan Faces Disaster
Several days later.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Dream realm.
After an intense battle of life and death, the opponent in front of Meng Qiu Zhen finally fell to the ground.
"I want to see who you really are!" Meng Qiu Zhen lost control of the body, he was acting as a young man who angrily went up and pulled off the opponent's veil.
But the appearance shocked the young man deeply.
"Father, how can it be you?!" The young man shouted as his body trembled.
The one who fell was his father, he smiled in satisfaction as he said: "My son, you did well. You've learned all the killer moves of our clan, but your heart lacks sufficient hatred and sadness. I have a terminal illness anyway, I cannot live for long, it is better to sacrifice myself for you."
The young man broke into tears: "Father, why can't we give up on hatred and live in seclusion? Why must we take revenge at all cost?"
The young man's father stared at him fixedly: "Our entire family was killed by the enemy, your mother, your grandparents, your younger brothers and sisters, they were all killed. This hatred is above anything else, how can we not take revenge?! Remember, your father died because of this. If you do not take revenge, my death will be in vain, I would have died because of you!"
The young man's body shook as he said in a hoarse voice: "Father…"
He wept in pain as a pale blue flame started to burn around his body at this time.
His father saw this flame as became very happy: "Good, good, good, such a powerful agony blue heart flame, it is enough to take our revenge, we can take revenge now…"
Saying so, the young man's father took his final breath.
"Oh no." Meng Qiu Zhen cried out internally.
Seeing his father's death, the agony blue heart flame on the young man' body expanded rapidly, it burned with at least ten times of the intensity as before!
Meng Qiu Zhen's soul was still in the dream, he instantly felt a surge of sadness, anger, and hatred, they poured into his heart like a torrential river.
"I cannot lose myself! This is the hardest part of the dream realm." Meng Qiu Zhen desperately held on but he started to lose his grip in a few moments.
Create dream!
Without a choice, he immediately used a dream path immortal killer move to defend his soul.
In a newly created dream within a dream, he was situated in a large room.
The room broke out in flames, it was burning in blue flames.
Meng Qiu Zhen quickly took action, extinguishing the fire all over the house, trying to save it.
After a chaotic period, the fire started to dwindle, the sturdy house was also burned to a crisp, only an intact guest room was left.
"I survived." Meng Qiu Zhen let out a breath of air, dispelling the killer move dream within dream as he returned to the original dream realm.
The final hurdle of the dream realm was simply too fatal!
Meng Qiu Zhen was almost engulfed by emotions, he nearly forgot about reality and the dream completely, submerging entirely into this dream.
Of course, each time he explored a dream, his main body would stay outside to guard against any accidents, he would take action if something happened.
This dream realm was finally passed.
Together with the gains of the earlier few dream realms, Fang Yuan's fire path attainment level reached great grandmaster!
"Fire path attainment level reached great grandmaster, I can finally annex those fire path grotto-heavens in the two heavens. Looking at the time, Wu Shuai's method should have activated already." Fang Yuan's main body assessed.
Immemorial two heavens.
Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
On a vast grassland, there was red colored fire beard grass growing everywhere.
It was harvest season, Gu Masters of the grotto-heaven started to use Gu worms to collect the fire beard grass.
"Crack, crack…"
From somewhere, a terrifying sound could be heard from below.
The moment the Gu Masters sensed something, they were faced with a fatal threat.
Countless ants came up from underground, some were finger-sized, some were large as carriages, the number of ants was uncountably large, they instantly engulfed the entire fire beard grassland.
Skeleton grotto-heaven.
"What is going on? What is going on?!" The grotto-heaven Gu Immortal in charge of raising the bone armor hounds was flustered and helpless.
The thousand or so bone armor hounds that he was in charge of rearing started to growl in anguish, some were rolling on the ground, biting in a frenzy.
The Gu Immortal had a pale expression: "Oh no, I'm finished. Granny said that I had to take care of these bone armor hounds with utmost carefulness, but I actually screwed up so badly!!"
Some bone armor hounds started to die, a large number of ants crawled out of their corpses.
The Gu Immortal gritted his teeth in anger: "So these ants are the cause of this! I want you all to… ugh!"
The Gu Immortal was quickly shocked and uncertain.
Because more and more ants came out of the bone armor hounds, some were even coming out from the ground.
These ants were like raging tides, the size was growing rapidly, the Gu Immortal was very shocked. There was even Immortal Gu aura among them, the Gu Immortal did not dare to stay here, he quickly retreated.
Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
Imperial Court.
"Your Majesty, Chuzhou[1], Qingzhou, Lianzhou and other areas are experiencing ant plagues."
"The ant plagues are too terrifying, in just half a day, hundreds of thousands of mortals died, a hundred cities got wiped out!"
"Within the ant plague, there are rank six and seven immortal ants, all of the officials in the various provinces are troubled."
The current dynasty's emperor frowned with a solemn expression: "The ant plague is too vicious, it is not something we can resolve. The current matter at hand is to contact the Grotto Lord!"
Song clan headquarters.
"Grandpa, you're so nice to me, thank you for the Immortal Gu!" Song Yi Shi held the rank six water path Immortal Gu in her hands as she spoke happily.
Song clan's first supreme elder Song Qi Yuan was her grandfather.
At this moment, Song Qi Yuan looked at his beloved granddaughter, he said in concern: "Our clan is researching Tian Nan's true inheritance, this water path Immortal Gu is our first success. But my dear granddaughter, don't go around flaunting it, tell others that you captured this wild Immortal Gu by chance. Even though I am the first supreme elder, I cannot be openly biased towards you."
"I get it, I get it." Song Yi Shi looked at the water path Immortal Gu in her hands with overflowing joy, while she was toying around with it in her hands, her face suddenly turned pale as she held her tummy.
"So much pain, so painful!" She fell down weakly, her face had turned white like snow.
Initially, only her stomach was hurting, but soon, the unbearably intense pain spread to her entire body.
"My granddaughter, what's happening?!" Song Qi Yuan was shocked, he quickly checked.
At the next moment, Song Qi Yuan found that there were countless ants roaming around in Song Yi Shi's body, devouring her flesh.
The thing that made him even angrier was that these ants were actually eating away at her dao marks!
"Such evil ants, such vicious methods!" Song Qi Yuan quickly made his move.
A pure white light shrouded over Song Yi Shi, the light split into countless threads that entered her body, killing all of these ants in an instant.
Song Qi Yuan cultivated light path, his attainment level was very high, he used his methods with great proficiency, easily suppressing the situation.
But good times did not last long, soon, new ants grew out and continued to torture Song Yi Shi.
Song Qi Yuan's brows were tightly locked, he felt heartache at her plight but also deep anger, he soon realized the problem.
It turned out that these new ants were emerging from Song Yi Shi's immortal aperture!
"My granddaughter, bear with the pain, take a look at your immortal aperture!" Song Qi Yuan tried to speak to her in a gentle tone.
Song Yi Shi took a look at her immortal aperture as her face turned pale with shock, she cried with reddened eyes: "So, so many ants! Grandfather, my immortal aperture is going to be destroyed by these ants!!"
The terrifying ant plagues spread around the many Gu Immortals of the Righteous Qi Alliance.
The grotto-heavens of the two heavens were the main victims, Old Immortal Hua Yu, Granny Skeleton, and Fire Plain grotto-heaven's owner were the main targets. Other than them, there were the Song clan, the Ruo Lai clan, and the Cai clan. As for the remaining Eastern Sea super forces, even though they faced the ant plague too, it was to a smaller extent, involving their external resource points.
Once the ant plague appeared, it immediately received the attention of the entire Righteous Qi Alliance.
"This ant plague is too strange, it is clearly targeting us!"
"We didn't find anything strange earlier, the variant human alliance is completely intact!!"
"Such powerful ants, even an idiot knows that this is the work of Wu Shuai."
"To think that Wu Shuai is just a mere clone of Fang Yuan, yet he has such a terrifyingly vicious method."
The Righteous Qi Alliance soon found the culprit, they were furious and gathered to discuss it.
Many of the victims displayed the ants in their territories. The aura of these ants varied from weak to strong, from mortal to immortal. They came in all sorts of shapes and sizes, there was no clear pattern.
"These ants are very scary, the most terrifying thing is that they can devour dao marks to refine and raise their rank themselves!"
"They are too hard to eliminate, we could not find any ant eggs."
"And the biggest question now is, when did we get hit by this move?"
The Gu Immortals discussed among themselves while Qi Sea Ancestor sat at the main seat, holding this session for them. He had a worried expression but he secretly admired Wu Shuai internally.
"I've been trying to complete my combat system and create core killer moves. Thus, I asked the main body to get Sheng Tian true inheritance. To think that Wu Shuai has already gone one step further and innovated, creating an even more complex killer move, lingering poisonous ant plague."
Qi Sea Ancestor knew some details.
Even though Fang Yuan's main body and Wu Shuai did not tell him, they were not keeping things a secret either. In their interactions, they exposed some details.
It turned out that after Meng Qiu Zhen became an immortal and obtained multiple dream path Immortal Gu, his efficiency in exploring dream realms rose tremendously.
Fang Yuan's food path and poison path rose to grandmaster level. Clones shared his attainment levels, Wu Shuai used his quasi-supreme refinement path and enslavement path attainment levels, as well as wood path grandmaster, to create a qualitative change and make a breakthrough.
Originally, Wu Shuai's ants came from Green Ant Ascetic. Even though this method had great battle strength, a long time had passed since his era.
This time, Wu Shuai referenced the killer move Qing Chou, on the basis of Green Ant Ascetic, he made a breakthrough and allowed his ants to devour dao marks to auto-refine themselves into higher ranks.
But Wu Shuai's main body could not use the move, only Fang Yuan's main body could use it.
Lingering poisonous ant plague was in essence a compound killer move comprising poison path, enslavement path, refinement path, wood path, and food path, it even expended unrestrained heavenly marks!
This move had an incredibly powerful concealment effect, it began by using the advantage of poison path, possessing concealment and infectiousness. After the killer move's dao marks infect the target's immortal aperture, it would turn into miniature ants that devour the surroundings to grow stronger and increase in numbers. After they reach a certain size, they would turn into the terrifying ant plague.
To completely get rid of the ant plague, one would need to eliminate the respective dao marks.
But currently, the Righteous Qi Alliance had not found out this fact yet.
Even if they knew, they would not have efficient methods to deal with this compound killer move either.
[1] Actual cities in China.
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Chapter 2104 Helpless Immortals
In the hall at the bottom of qi sea.
The representatives of the clans in the Righteous Qi Alliance gathered with many different wills, discussing on how to resolve the lingering poisonous ant plague.
The ant plague had just been discovered, the clans did not have any good ideas.
Thus gradually, their gazes shifted towards Qi Sea Ancestor.
The grotto-heaven owners that resided in the two heavens were already gritting their teeth, they asked Qi Sea Ancestor to stand up for them.
The ant plague harmed almost all the two heavens grotto-heavens' Righteous Qi Alliance members, these people were considered closest to Qi Sea Ancestor, as for Eastern Sea's forces, only Song clan, Ruo Lai clan, and Cai clan were affected.
Thus, Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals deduced: "Did this method originate from the two heavens? Song clan, Ruo Lai clan, and Cai clan got hit by it because they have Ascending Heaven Plain?"
Nobody suspected Qi Sea Ancestor to be the culprit.
Because the ones who suffered the most were Qi Sea Ancestor's closest allies in the Righteous Qi Alliance.
After staying silent for a moment, Qi Sea Ancestor said: "We need to resolve this ant plague. In my opinion, this problem is even greater than the qi harvest fruit from before. As long as the qi harvest fruit does not explode, it would not damage the grotto-heaven. But this ant plague harms Gu Immortals and their foundations at all times."
"Among us here, some have not encountered this problem. But if we do not try to resolve this now, nobody will be spared in the future!"
The immortals in the hall were all very worried.
Gu Immortals were astute people, everyone acknowledged Qi Sea Ancestor's words. If not for this, they would not have gathered to discuss this so quickly.
The ant plague was like a fire, even though it was only burning some people now, if it was not put out in time, everyone would be affected by it eventually.
Qi Sea Ancestor continued: "Resolving this ant plague will not be like the qi harvest fruit problem. During that time, I could still try to solve it, but this ant plague does not concern qi path. Thus, we will have to rely on all of you, we must work together to get through this."
"We need to gather the wisdom path Gu Immortals of the respective clans and make deductions together. During the process, if they need any Immortal Gu, killer move, a particular path's Gu Immortal great expert, or even the help of a true inheritance, you need to provide it without holding back."
Qi Sea Ancestor's expression became increasingly solemn: "Even if we cannot resolve this, we need to be able to suppress and slow down the ant plague for now. If we cannot even suppress it, we will need to wage war on the variant human alliance again!"
Qi Sea Ancestor spoke with a firm tone, his expression was very serious.
The hall fell into silence.
The Gu Immortals stopped talking.
Qi Sea Ancestor's words made good sense.
The terrifying part of the ant plague was that it consumed the foundation of the Gu Immortal.
If it could not be restrained or stopped in time, the ant plague would grow increasingly strong while the Righteous Qi Alliance would became weakened severely.
After a long time, a clear difference in strength would be apparent between the Righteous Qi Alliance and variant human alliance, if they did not attack early and deal with the variant human alliance, eventually, the Righteous Qi Alliance would not have the strength to contest the variant human alliance anymore!
The killer move lingering poisonous ant plague involved many paths and even used up unrestrained heavenly marks. This killer move was at the strategic level, it had terrifying might.
"But waging war on the variant human alliance? Isn't that simply waging war on Gu Yue Fang Yuan and Wu Shuai?"
"How can we be Fang Yuan's match? Even Spectral Soul fell at his hands!"
"But if we do not fight, are we going to wait for death?"
"There is no longer an option for us, this demon Fang Yuan is too overbearing!"
"No, even Heavenly Court could not do anything against Fang Yuan, even though our Righteous Qi Alliance has many members…"
"Isn't Fang Yuan also accumulating strength right now?"
"Maybe we can get help from Heavenly Court?"
"Hmph, Heavenly Court is not worthy of being the leader of the righteous path, our Lord Alliance Leader has already contacted them, wanting to work together to deal with the variant human alliance. They have been stalling with excuses."
"In my opinion, the best situation is for us to work together and resolve this ant plague!"
"Even though Fang Yuan is behind this, he has not taken action personally, this is his probe towards us. We need to perfectly resolve this ant plague and show him our strength!"
The immortals in the hall discussed, they soon came to a consensus.
They did not want an all-out battle to the death.
Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals did not have the same nature as Northern Plains' Gu Immortals.
Furthermore, all of the clans were busy competing for the newly exposed true inheritances, they were too busy, why shouldn't they strengthen themselves instead of pitting their lives against the enemies?
For normal fights, they would be wins or losses, there was hope, that was why people would want to fight.
But to fight against Fang Yuan to the death?
It would not lead to the enemy's death, they would certainly die themselves!
All the Gu Immortals did not say this but they had the same opinion internally.
Heavenly Court's distressed state, Spectral Soul's loss, all these proved that Fang Yuan had terrifying might and incredible craftiness.
Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals did not know that Spectral Soul's main body was still around. In their eyes, Fang Yuan even managed to kill a former venerable, his strength was simply too much, his demonic might was unparalleled.
Unless they had absolutely no choice, they did not want to provoke such a person!
"In that case, let's try to resolve the ant plague." Qi Sea Ancestor's final sentence ended this meeting.
The Righteous Qi Alliance started to put in effort to research on how to resolve this.
But was the killer move lingering poisonous ant plague so simple?
The more the Gu Immortals from the Righteous Qi Alliance researched, the less confident they got. Facing everyone's expectations, even the wisdom path Gu Immortals doing the deductions felt increasing pressure as time passed.
Days passed, they did not produce any good results.
All the clans were unhappy, Qi Sea Ancestor also personally came to ask about it.
The wisdom path Gu Immortals with Hua An at the lead had to ask: "Don't be anxious, we have a discovery! The ant plague contains wood path profundity, these ants are able to grow while growing is a specialty of wood path. This is likely because Fang Yuan fought against Qing Chou and gained some inspiration from it."
To be honest, these wisdom path Gu Immortals were quite impressive to have realized this.
Thus, Eastern Sea's wood path experts were brought over and participated in the research.
There was no result again.
The wisdom path and wood path Gu Immortals felt increasing pressure, they shouted: "Enslavement path, enslavement path! The ant plague contains enslavement path profundity, these ants are organized in an orderly manner, they work in unison to create a huge plague, this is the power of enslavement path."
Thus, the Righteous Qi Alliance's enslavement path experts also joined in the group and participated in the research.
But the research still made no progress.
The wisdom path, wood path, and enslavement path Gu Immortals could not stand the pressure, they shouted again: "We need poison path experts!"
There were not many poison path experts but they still existed.
Under everyone's expectations, the poison path experts also joined in the research.
"We also need food path experts! These ants have the ability to grow from devouring food." The researching Gu Immortals said in agreement.
However, food path Gu Immortals were just too rare.
After talking among themselves, the immortals had to invite the famous Eastern Sea lone immortal, Zui Xian Weng.
Zui Xian Weng had many acquaintances, he had some sort of connection with most of the righteous path forces, but he was not currently in Eastern Sea.
"We need refinement path as well! We found that the core of the ant plague is refinement path! Undoubtedly, after Fang Yuan obtained Lang Ya Sect, his refinement path attainment is too deep. These ants are able to devour dao marks and refine themselves into Immortal Gu, this is too shocking!"
Eastern Sea's clans quickly put in effort together, they sent most of their clan's refinement path Gu Immortals over.
With everyone's collective effort, progress in the research was showing.
These clans' elites were really talented people.
But they could not find the most important and fundamental result!
Did this single move, lingering poisonous ant plague, overwhelm the entire Eastern Sea righteous path?
That was the fact of the matter.
This was simply unbelievable to the Righteous Qi Alliance's Gu Immortals, but they had no choice but to admit it!
Shen Cong Sheng said some words that showed deep wisdom: "At this point, I've already understood some things. That Fang Yuan has the sovereign immortal body, he cultivates all paths, he is an all-rounded genius. This compound killer move comprises poison path, wood path, refinement path, food path, and enslavement path profundities, he put the specialties of all these paths together in an intrinsic manner."
"As for us? We can only cultivate one path, or two at most. If we cultivate poison path, we cannot understand wood path. if we cultivate wood path, we know nothing about food path. Because of this, even if we work together, we cannot solve this ant plague problem."
Even now, the Righteous Qi Alliance had not discovered that lingering poisonous ant plague killer move also comprised heaven path profundity.
However, nobody in history had ever cultivated heaven path, it was normal that they did not discover this.
"How can a person cultivate every path like this?!"
"Speaking of which, Spectral Soul is too useless. Shadow Sect and Zombie Alliance spent over a hundred thousand years of accumulation to refine a rank nine sovereign immortal fetus Gu, but he actually lost it to Fang Yuan like this!!"
"Creating compound killer moves is simply as easy as breathing for him. After some time passes from now, he is going to have even more new methods."
"This demon only used one move to send us into panic and helplessness."
"Why is it that our Eastern Sea has to be the one suffering from this number one demon's method?!"
The Righteous Qi Alliance could not find a solution, while venting their frustrations out loud, they felt disdain towards Spectral Soul, they felt increasing hatred towards Fang Yuan, along with dense wariness, they also felt helpless and tearful about their own fate.
"In that case, let's fight with them!" Qi Sea Ancestor surged with fighting spirit, he said with a firm tone.
"Lord Alliance Leader, the situation has not reached that stage yet." A Gu Immortal immediately interjected.
Qi Sea Ancestor sighed: "Our Righteous Qi Alliance's losses have been severe these days, carrying on like this is pointless, we will fall into that vicious Fang Yuan's trap. If we wait anymore, we will not have the strength to fight anymore."
These days, the two heaven's Gu Immortals suffered tremendous losses.
Among Eastern Sea's righteous path forces, Song clan, Cai clan, and Ruo Lai clan suffered the most losses. As for the other clans… even though the ant plague also affected them, it had just started for them after all.
Thus, most of the righteous path clans did not want to wage war now.
Of course, this situation was something that Fang Yuan intended for when he took action earlier!
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Chapter 2105 Obtaining True Inheritances
"We still have hope!"
"We are not in a truly desperate situation yet."
"That's right, even though we gathered most of the elite Gu Immortals of our clans, we have not taken out our true inheritances for them to use as reference."
"With these true inheritance contents, if we can come up with ideas together, there is a high chance of resolving the ant plague crisis!"
Qi Sea Ancestor was silent for a while before nodding slowly: "The situation is very severe, I believe all of you know that even without me saying it. Thus, everyone needs to contribute their true inheritances, please show us your utmost sincerity! If anyone dares to hide their inheritance or conceal it, don't blame me for taking matters into my own hands."
"As long as we can get rid of the ant plague, the entire Righteous Qi Alliance will benefit. Everyone's efforts will be rewarded and compensated, I believe that our contribution board would be the best answer to you!"
To resolve the ant plague, all the clans started to make contributions.
Hua clan took out their snake poison qi thread true inheritance, Nan Gong clan took out great profound true inheritance, Xie clan took out remnant leaves true inheritance, Su clan took out big belly true inheritance…
Originally, even though Righteous Qi Alliance had a contribution board, there were few names on it.
Before this, Qi Sea Ancestor also asked the clans to exchange inheritances and killer moves mutually, but these were all superficial exchanges. After all, if there was no need to, who would take out their unique inheritance to trade to others?
But now, the situation was different.
Not only did the contribution board's length get longer, the intensity of the competition over rankings also rose, the names on the list moved up and down constantly.
Different inheritance details had varying value, some were more precious than others, while some were hard to assess.
But Qi Sea Ancestor was Fang Yuan's clone, they shared attainment level, he had deep knowledge about this and gave all the clans' inheritances an appropriate assessment of value.
Even if the contributor was not happy with it, Qi Sea Ancestor would gather the immortals and discuss together, each time, his arguments would convince all the Gu Immortals and leave them unable to rebuke him.
As this happened with increasing frequency, Qi Sea Ancestor's prestige also rose as well.
The Righteous Qi Alliance's members were all in awe towards Qi Sea Ancestor's wealth of knowledge.
"First supreme elder, are we really handing over Tian Nan's true inheritance?"
"This is Tian Nan's true inheritance after all!"
"Back then, in order to get Ascending Heaven Plain and obtain this true inheritance, we spent so much effort and suffered immense hardship!"
Song clan's Gu Immortals went to find Song Qi Yuan, they were very unwilling.
Song Qi Yuan sighed deeply as he said helplessly: "Can't you see the current situation? It has gone out of our control. Everyone knows that we possess Tian Nan's true inheritance, they have already been asking us to contribute it time and time again, even dragging it until now is our limit. Xia clan gave their molten casting true inheritance while Tang clan contributed their myriad fusion true inheritance, if we do not give them Tian Nan's true inheritance, we will not be able to explain for ourselves. Everyone is looking at us now, who would let us off?"
Song clan's Gu Immortals turned silent.
The situation had unknowingly gone out of their control.
Initially, all the clans had good intentions, in order to avoid war and to resolve the ant plague, they contributed some true inheritances.
Even though these true inheritances were of wood path, food path, and other relevant paths, they were not too important or valuable.
But even if the value was not high, they were still ranked accordingly.
Some people became higher ranked, some were lower ranked.
If the difference was not obvious, so be it.
But this contribution board indicated everyone's contribution very clearly!
The clans at the top would feel unhappy when they looked at it: "Why did we contribute so much while others make barely any contribution? Let alone the rest, doesn't that clan have that true inheritance we need? Why are they still keeping silent? Look at us, we even gave up our important true inheritance!"
With such pressure, those at the lower end of the list had to choose some inheritances to contribute.
This way, the people at the bottom would go to the top, they would feel unhappy again. If they still ranked below the rest, they would be mocked at by the top contributors, they might even face humiliating criticism: "Is this all that your clan has? You can't even give us anything good, you dare to call yourselves a super clan?"
Gu Immortals were astute people, when they took out their inheritances, they would think of offering those with similar value, to make sure everyone had around the same ranking.
But how could that happen?
There were too many names on the contribution board, who could be certain that their inheritance was 'just about right'?
And even if some Gu Immortals felt that it was about right, others would think differently.
Even if everyone was happy about it, hehe, don't forget who the person evaluating these inheritances was!
Qi Sea Ancestor pretended to be regulating this exchange but he was creating problems for them secretly!
Thus, all the different clans competed and mocked each other, the competition became intense. The clans started taking out more and more valuable inheritances, this led to the pain of loss, which turned into anger and unhappiness when they saw those people who contributed less than them.
Thus, the situation got out of their control.
All the clans had to take out their top tier true inheritances, Song clan was not the first one. And Tian Nan's true inheritance was already an eyesore to some people, they wanted it to be contributed.
"I've already given up this true inheritance, why is your Song clan keeping Tian Nan's true inheritance, do you think this is the right thing to do?"
"Hmph, my clan's sacrifice is so big, I need to make sure Song clan suffers as well."
"Song clan's Tian Nan's true inheritance definitely has huge value. Using this chance, we can obtain it easily while having a good reason for it, this is great!"
All the clans had many Gu Immortals, these were all elites.
The contribution of true inheritances became a competition, it turned into a political conflict between the clans, the Righteous Qi Alliance's members were tearing at each other, while the biggest beneficiary was the high and mighty Qi Sea Ancestor who watched this spectacle from his main seat.
Fang Yuan not only obtained Tian Nan's true inheritance, he also got several other refinement path true inheritances.
There were also some food path inheritances that he was interested in.
Undoubtedly, Eastern Sea was very rich, these super forces had very deep foundations.
They definitely had even better things, but it was not wise to ask them for more. If the pressure intensified, it might backfire instead.
What made the Righteous Qi Alliance slightly happier was that after the immense contributions, they finally saw some results.
Even though they could not get rid of the lingering poisonous ant plague, there were methods that could restrict its growth now.
Brainstorming was still an effective strategy.
Even though Fang Yuan's killer move was unique, with the hard work of the entire Eastern Sea righteous path, it was only a matter of time until they resolved it.
Using one killer move to decimate the entire region's righteous path was impossible to begin with.
Killer moves were fixed, they had flaws, that was why Gu Immortals could improve upon them.
Fang Yuan did not think this would work, his true motive was to get refinement path inheritances, everything else was an added bonus.
He wanted to become venerable through refinement path!
He had to become venerable to reach a qualitative change, that would give him the strength to resist Star Constellation, Giant Sun, and Spectral Soul.
Of course, it was not that Fang Yuan could not snatch these inheritances using force.
His current battle strength had surpassed the entire Eastern Sea righteous path.
But the efficiency was just too low, how could it compare to the speed of their willing contribution? Also, true inheritances could be destroyed, it was a risky thing to do. And finally, it would waste Fang Yuan's time and energy, his growth would become slower, Fang Yuan would also waste his luck.
All these super forces had immense foundation and huge luck, fighting against them would expend his own luck.
When he went to Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan would need to face venerable opponents, it was better to conserve his strength instead of wasting it.
This was also why Fang Yuan made transactions with Southern Border's Wu clan and Western Desert's Fang clan.
Fang Yuan's main body soon got hold of the contents of Tian Nan's true inheritance and the others.
Among all the inheritances that the Righteous Qi Alliance took out, Tian Nan's true inheritance had the highest value. Right now, on the contribution board, Song clan was placed at the top spot.
Old Eccentric Tian Nan described his grand and maniacal ambitions in this true inheritance.
He wanted to refine the immemorial two heavens and even the five regions, to turn them into his own external immortal aperture!
There was no doubt about it, he failed.
Even a venerable could only refine the dao marks of their own path in the outside world. Yet, Old Eccentric Tian Nan wanted to refine all the dao marks of the world.
In Fang Yuan's case, this was completely possible in theory. When Gu cultivators refine Gu, weren't they just refining the relevant dao marks or dao fragments of the Gu?
The biggest obstacle to Old Eccentric Tian Nan was none other than heaven path.
He found that no matter what idea he came up with, he could not refine heaven path dao marks.
Eventually, he found an extremely risky method but ended up failing. In historical records, Old Eccentric Tian Nan had an eccentric nature, he tried to refine the heavens and ended up dying as a result.
It was said that being half a step ahead of the era was genius, while being one step ahead of the era was insanity.
Old Eccentric Tian Nan was such a lunatic.
Two million years passed and the eras progressed, one person who managed to resolve Old Eccentric Tian Nan's biggest problem finally appeared.
Limitless Demon Venerable!
He succeeded in his heaven path refinement.
Over a million years passed again, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable entered Crazed Demon Cave in his exploration, he obtained Limitless Demon Venerable's method that could do this.
Indeed, it was unrestrained heavenly mark.
The unrestrained heavenly mark killer move that Lu Wei Yin gave to Fang Yuan had a long history, it was not created by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, Paradise Earth merely modified it, the source was Limitless.
And what surprised Fang Yuan was that in this Tian Nan's true inheritance, there were Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's notes.
It turned out that Reckless Savage Demon Venerable had also obtained Tian Nan's true inheritance in Ascending Heaven Plain.
Even though he learned the true inheritance's details, he did not destroy it, he even made it more sturdy to pass on to the future generations.
In his later years, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable returned here and added his own refinement path experience in Tian Nan's true inheritance.
"This old man Tian Nan is really daring, speaking of which, if I can refine the entire Heavenly Dao, that would be so cool!"
"It is a pity that refinement path does not suit me, I still prefer close combat using my body."
"But… I can make use of those remaining beastmen. Didn't they want to use food path to claim victory? Hehehe, wishful thinking!"
"They think I have not discovered that gluttonous demon frog."
Using the notes, Fang Yuan saw that the mystery of the past history was unveiled to an extent.
In historical records, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable used the lingering beastmen in his old age to create Reckless Savage grotto-heaven, he left behind his true inheritance inside it.
It turned out that Reckless Savage Demon Venerable was using Tian Nan's true inheritance to scheme against and make use of those beastmen's methods instead.
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Chapter 2106 Forcing A Rank Eight To Death
The night wind howled in his ears.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord flew in immemorial white heaven.
He concealed his traces as he moved, if others looked, they would only see a vague figure moving rapidly. The only thing was that the trail he moved on had high temperature, but wind soon blew the anomaly away.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord had rank eight cultivation level, but in an environment like immemorial white heaven, he still had to be very careful.
If he acted more brazenly, he would cause immemorial desolate beasts to attack him.
Especially those fire path immemorial desolate beasts, they had a huge interest in Fire Plain Grotto Lord.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord was not weak of course, but he was not in the frame of mind to bother with such problems. If he wanted to hunt immemorial desolate beasts in immemorial white heaven, he would need to plan and make preparations beforehand.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord rushed back to his grotto-heaven as he assessed his own body.
The ant plague in his body had already been suppressed.
Fire Plain grotto-heaven was affected long ago, the Gu Immortals in the grotto-heaven had also been hit by this vicious method.
Poison path excelled in traits like concealment and infectiousness, the Righteous Qi Alliance was right to ask poison path experts to participate in the research.
"The situation is stabilized at least, but Fire Plain grotto-heaven is still in deep trouble, we need a lot of contribution points to salvage it." Fire Plain Grotto Lord was very worried.
Fire Plain grotto-heaven's losses were severe this time.
Inside the grotto-heaven, the largest fire beard grassland had perished, turning into ruins. The fire beard grass that had great vitality was gone without a trace, not even the roots were left.
The vermilion flame wolves and red grass horses were also nearly extinct. The ant plague spared nothing, these wolves and horses were all eaten with no bones left behind.
"Our losses are too severe, but we still need to spend a huge sum to salvage this disaster!" Fire Plain Grotto Lord frowned tightly.
The Righteous Qi Alliance members paid such a huge price to research and gain some results that could suppress the lingering poisonous ant plague killer move.
Even brothers became sensitive when it came to money, not to mention this Righteous Qi Alliance that had barely any cohesiveness.
For the groups to survive and resist the powerful Fang Yuan, Wu Shuai, and the variant human alliance, they created the Righteous Qi Alliance.
Eastern Sea's righteous path paid a huge price for this, they would not allow the rest to use these gains without paying a cost.
According to the rules set by Righteous Qi Alliance, Fire Plain Grotto Lord had to pay a huge amount of resources or use high quality true inheritances in exchange for contribution points, which could be used to save Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
But what else could he do except that?
Fire Plain Grotto Lord sighed deeply in his heart.
He was filled with worries towards the present and the future.
"This is only the first move by that demon Fang Yuan! This is likely just a test, but our clan has already suffered greatly. He will definitely make a second or third attack."
"Fang Yuan possesses the sovereign immortal aperture, he can annex rank eight grotto-heavens. Those grotto-heavens of the variant human alliance are dwindling, he has already annexed many of them. My clan's Fire Plain grotto-heaven is definitely on his hunting list!"
"Or more accurately speaking, all the grotto-heavens in the two heavens are now his prey."
Ever since Fang Yuan annexed Grand Swine grotto-heaven and Time Difference grotto-heaven, he had not stopped annexing others.
The variant human alliance had been subdued by him long ago, they could only watch as he annexed their grotto-heavens, helpless against Fang Yuan.
Many were definitely furious that their homelands were annexed by Fang Yuan, but they did not dare to say anything in spite of their rage.
The commotion from the annexing of the apertures was too great, it was impossible to hide.
Therefore, Fire Plain Grotto Lord and others clearly were aware of this information.
"The enemy is too powerful, our Righteous Qi Alliance is clearly at a disadvantage. If we cannot match them in combat, we can only place our advantage in development." Fire Plain Grotto Lord analyzed inwardly.
The grotto-heavens of the two heavens had limited space, after countless years of development and accumulation, they had long since reached the point where they had no more development potential.
However, Eastern Sea was vast and rich, even if all these grotto-heavens were added together, they could not compare to the size and wealth of Eastern Sea.
This advantage was also the source of Righteous Qi Alliance's confidence against the variant human alliance. Even though the latter occupied Xia clan's territory, they only had a tiny area of Eastern Sea.
In this aspect, the Righteous Qi Alliance had a clear advantage.
"Fang Yuan can also tell that we have this advantage, thus he used the compound killer move to weaken us."
"He is definitely not going to stop here, by then, us Gu Immortals of the two heavens will become his main targets."
"Sigh! When will we finally be able to… hmm?!"
Suddenly, the scene before Fire Plain Grotto Lord changed abruptly.
The surroundings were covered in blue fog that trapped him in many layers.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord quickly stopped moving, he activated his defensive and investigative methods.
At the next moment, his expression changed.
"Battlefield killer move! Who are you, how dare you attack a member of the Righteous Qi Alliance! Come out, don't try to act mysterious!" Fire Plain Grotto Lord shouted.
But he only heard a wave of chuckling noises that resembled a child's voice.
The laughter spread around Fire Plain Grotto Lord, causing this rank eight Gu Immortal to be unable to discern where the voice was coming from.
Suddenly!
A child attacked him from the huge blue fog without any notice.
He stretched out his chubby little arm and quickly grabbed at Fire Plain Grotto Lord's back.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord had already used an investigative killer move, even though its range was restricted to less than half of the usual because of this battlefield killer move.
But it was enough for Fire Plain Grotto Lord to detect this child's action.
However, Fire Plain Grotto Lord was still too slow, the mysterious child succeeded.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord grunted as he was hit by the move.
Bam.
At the next moment, Fire Plain Grotto Lord unleashed a fierce attack and sparks of flames burst out and slaughtered the mysterious child on the spot.
The child died but there was no blood or flesh, he turned into a lump of blue fog.
"This mysterious child is made from the battlefield, but thankfully, the attack is not strong. Still, my defensive killer move was weakened by this, it has half of its strength left!"
Fire Plain Grotto Lord started to feel uneasy and anxious.
He needed to break this battlefield killer move quickly, even if he could not, he had to create a hole and communicate with the outside world to seek help.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord started to use his methods, he attacked the surroundings and tried to break the battlefield.
But it was useless, his methods were like harmless wind, the surrounding blue fog was endless and limitless.
From time to time, mysterious children would appear from the blue fog, they were either male or female, having blue eyes. They surrounded Fire Plain Grotto Lord as they attacked continuously.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord was clearly able to detect their appearance but he could not stop them from attacking, each time, he got hit by them.
"This seems to be a wisdom path battlefield! It is influencing my thoughts, causing me to act slower and slower, I cannot attack in advance to stop the children."
While Fire Plain Grotto Lord was thinking, his expression suddenly changed.
He felt that a fire path Immortal Gu was stolen by the children from his immortal aperture.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord quickly destroyed the child but the surrounding blue fog surged towards him, sweeping the exposed fire path Immortal Gu away.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord chased after it for a while but could not find anything.
"Oh no! This is a theft path battlefield, these mysterious children can steal my immortal aperture's Immortal Gu when they attack!!"
"I cannot stay here anymore, it is too dangerous!"
Originally, Fire Plain Grotto Lord felt that even though these mysterious children could not be guarded against, they were not strong, he could last a long time.
But now, Fire Plain Grotto Lord became deeply shocked, his hair was standing on end, his expression turned very ugly.
There was a pessimistic guess in his heart.
"This is a compound battlefield of theft path and wisdom path, or at least, it definitely contains these two paths!"
"I've never heard of such a compound killer move before."
"If this is a new killer move, then the user is most likely…"
Fire Plain Grotto Lord thought of a name.
He could not help but shudder.
Just this name alone made him break out in cold sweat.
He wanted this guess to be wrong, but at the next moment, Fang Yuan's figure slowly emerged.
Life was this cruel after all.
"Gu Yue Fang Yuan…" Fire Plain Grotto Lord took in a sharp breath, his eyes were staring wide as he looked at Fang Yuan in a daze.
This was the number one demon in the world, he was smiling and appearing in front of him.
"This is my new killer move, what do you think about it? Fire Plain Grotto Lord, obediently hand over your Immortal Gu and Fire Plain grotto-heaven, I might allow you to surrender." Fang Yuan said calmly, the surrounding blue fog concealed his body, making his smile even more peculiar and sinister.
This battlefield killer move was Fang Yuan's newest creation.
Fang Yuan ventured into the territory of battlefield killer moves, the results were quite promising.
This killer move used sneak attack Immortal Gu as the core, it was a compound battlefield killer move that contained wisdom path, theft path, refinement path, time path, and others.
After getting the information of Fire Plain Grotto Lord's route from Qi Sea Ancestor, Fang Yuan arranged an ambush here and used this method to test out the effect of his new killer move.
"Gu Yue Fang Yuan, I am not your match. Let me… let me consider your request." Fire Plain Grotto Lord had a hoarse voice as he lowered his head.
At the next moment, blazing flames started to burn around Fire Plain Grotto Lord's body with a loud sound.
Immortal killer move — Furious Red Heart Flames!
"Fang Yuan!" Within the fire, Fire Plain Grotto Lord shouted: "Don't force me! With just one thought, I can burn all of the Gu worms and resources in my immortal aperture."
"Let me off! Give me a way out, let me leave the battlefield, I will hand my Gu worms to you." Fire Plain Grotto Lord said with a distorted expression.
He knew that Fang Yuan was vicious and heartless, he tried to use this threat to survive.
But Fang Yuan snorted coldly: "Do you think I care about those few Immortal Gu? Or even the resources in your immortal aperture? Hehe, go ahead and burn. Incinerate your entire immortal aperture if you can, that will be a show!"
Fang Yuan did not take action personally, he vanished into the blue fog behind him.
Next, a large number of blue eyed children jumped out and attacked Fire Plain Grotto Lord continuously.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord was extremely furious and sad as the children attacked him. After enduring for a few breaths of time, he growled in anger as the flames exploded around him, he had actually burned himself to a crisp!
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Chapter 2107 Invading Fire Plain Grotto-Heaven
An exposed immortal aperture floated in the air, its entrance was not open but it absorbed the surrounding heaven and earth qi, Fang Yuan easily grabbed onto it.
His immortal killer move could capture and relocate immortal apertures, it had originated from Blazing Heaven Demoness' fire hand killer move.
Now, this method had been modified by Fang Yuan into a compound killer move, its power rose greatly, the effects were shocking.
Next, Fang Yuan deactivated the compound battlefield killer move and used heaven and earth travel to leave the place.
Soon, the immortal aura leaked and the surrounding ancient desolate beasts and immemorial desolate beasts were attracted.
Fang Yuan could not conceal his aura yet.
It was not his expertise.
After arriving at a safe location, Fang Yuan tossed Fire Plain Grotto Lord's immortal aperture into the sky.
This was a rank eight grotto-heaven, it could only be attached to the two heavens, it would not land in the five regions.
After the grotto-heaven door opened, it took in heaven and earth qi and quickly settled into this location.
But Fang Yuan did not move in, he only sent his immortal aperture's Gu Immortals to scavenge the grotto-heaven.
During this time, Fang Yuan annexed more grotto-heavens, his dao marks increased in numbers again, the amount was so much that if he entered this unstable grotto-heaven, he might cause it to burst.
Soon, his Gu Immortals returned, there were no Immortal Gu and they only brought very few immortal materials.
"Everywhere is burning, everything went up in flames."
"These are the only resources left, lord, please forgive us!"
"The newly born heavenly spirit is also trying to destroy everything in the grotto-heaven, this seems to be the obsession left by that rank eight Gu Immortal."
His Gu Immortal subordinates reported.
Fang Yuan did not mind this, he let them back into the sovereign immortal aperture.
After the grotto-heaven stabilized, Fang Yuan would forcefully annex this grotto-heaven.
Even if the heavenly spirit was unwilling to, Fang Yuan had a method to suppress the heavenly spirit, he had already modified it into a compound killer move.
Fang Yuan's ability at modifying compound killer moves was limited to only usual killer moves and battlefield killer moves.
When using his usual killer moves and battlefield killer moves, all the Gu worms were inside Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture, with the amplification of the unrestrained heavenly marks, he could unleash the might of a compound killer move.
As for ancient battle formations, Gu formations, and Immortal Gu Houses, their Gu worms were all in the outside world, without an environment of unrestrained heavenly marks, even if these methods were turned into compound killer moves, there would be no effect.
As Fang Yuan annexed grotto-heavens, he thought about the battlefield killer move he used earlier.
This killer move was not strong enough offensively, it was focused on combining theft path and wisdom path. But in actual combat, this battlefield killer move's effect was not good.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord was just an ordinary rank eight Gu Immortal, but Fang Yuan only managed to steal one rank eight Immortal Gu from him.
Immortal Gu were too easy to destroy, the Gu Immortal could destroy them with a single thought.
Even if Fang Yuan exerted his wisdom path methods to the limit, he could only affect the thinking speed of rank eights, he could not stop all their thoughts.
It was extremely difficult to reach that step.
Unless there was a huge difference in actual strength.
Fire Plain Grotto Lord was a rank eight Gu Immortal after all, he had many dao marks that naturally protected him. Furthermore, he also had decent defensive killer moves.
In history, almost no wisdom path Gu Immortals could reach this step against other similarly ranked immortals.
Looking at it carefully, certain people like Peeping Gentleman, Sect Leader Mei, Finger Deducing Steward and others had such achievements (many situations were unique and could not be replicated), but the total number was still less than five.
Even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was not in this list.
Of course, nobody knew if she could reach this step, there were no clear records in history.
This showed that it was extremely difficult to suppress all the thoughts of a similarly ranked expert and make them unable to resist at all, even if it was only for a short period.
The strongest methods of wisdom path Gu Immortals against their enemies were still emotion based.
Thought, will, emotion; these were the three main wisdom path cultivation aspects.
In this case, Fang Yuan's compound battlefield killer move did not have much value in actual use, it needed to be modified further.
Even the best theories had to be tested in practice.
Like a combat system.
Creating a combat system out of nothing by simply staying in isolation was very difficult. There was a need for a powerful opponent or intense battle of life and death to test if a combat system was really superb or not.
Thus, as Fang Yuan considered his own combat system these last days, he felt some gratitude towards people like Duke Long or Spectral Soul.
Precisely because of them as reference, Fang Yuan had the qualifications to create his own combat system.
After annexing this rank eight grotto-heaven, Fang Yuan's fire path dao marks rose in numbers again.
But Fang Yuan was not satisfied, he continued to move.
This time, he placed his sights on Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
Immortal killer move — Heaven Form!
Fang Yuan created a huge entrance into Fire Plain grotto-heaven through brute force.
The heavenly spirit of Fire Plain grotto-heaven was a rabbit.
Because it had devoured a nine heavens fragment before, the rabbit was dazed and slow. But now, it was jumping around, screeching in fear and panic.
The Gu Immortals of Fire Plain grotto-heaven noticed this and became very uncertain and shocked.
"The heavenly spirit is muddled but the past Grotto Lords have used the killer move humanly flame smoke to help it gain a bit of clarity compared to heavenly spirits of other grotto-heavens!"
"As long as the grotto-heaven faces danger, the heavenly spirit will be uneasy, this is a warning for us."
"When the ant plague occurred, the heavenly spirit became anxious already. In the grotto-heaven's history, there were several disasters too, for example, when immemorial desolate beasts attacked or when enormous fires burned, the heavenly spirit became uneasy."
"But we have never seen the heavenly spirit in such a wild mood, its voice even went hoarse from growling!"
The immortals in Fire Plain grotto-heaven looked at the heavenly spirit with increasingly uneasiness as well.
The heavenly spirit was becoming increasingly frenzied, its expression was fearful and it even slammed its head at the surrounding pillars.
Unfortunately, the heavenly spirit was not a real rabbit, it would not faint from this no matter how hard it hit the pillar.
"Go investigate! We need to get a result, we need to know what the danger is!"
"This danger is very severe, it might lead our Fire Plain grotto-heaven into the brink of destruction!"
"Quickly contact the Grotto Lord, only he can make the decisions in such a serious matter."
"Is the ant plague going to continue intensifying?"
Fire Plain grotto-heaven's Gu Immortals were very anxious, they quickly got to action.
"Oh, oh no! Grotto lord's life tablet Gu and soul lantern Gu have been destroyed!"
"What?"
"How is this possible?!"
The immortals of Fire Plain grotto-heaven became dazed.
Next, they found a huge hole in the sky.
Fang Yuan used heaven form killer move without concealing himself, he came openly and grandly.
If Fire Plain Grotto Lord was still alive, he might be able to use the entire grotto-heaven to resist Fang Yuan for some time while waiting for reinforcements.
But now, he was already dead.
"Fang Yuan, it's Fang Yuan…" Seeing the person beyond the hole, many of Fire Plain grotto-heaven's Gu Immortals became anguished.
"Why did this demon come for us?" Even more Gu Immortals turned pale as they shuddered with fright.
"Grotto lord is dead, this demon Fang Yuan might likely be the culprit. What are we going to do?"
"Everyone, we've already requested for help from Righteous Qi Alliance, now is the time we stake our lives and fight for survival!"
"This is our home, the place where we were born and grew up in, our friends and family all live here. We cannot run! We cannot let that demon devour our homeland like this!!"
After their initial panic, the immortals gathered their spirits and united to resist Fang Yuan.
"It is a pity I cannot go inside now." Fang Yuan rubbed his chin as he thought, looking at the huge hole formed by heaven form, he could only stand outside.
He had too many dao marks, according to his calculations, this Fire Plain grotto-heaven could not hold him either.
As long as Fang Yuan went in, with the conflict of dao marks, countless cracks would spread from this hole, the fire path dao marks inside would be forced to squeeze to the surroundings.
Seeing that the Gu Immortals were resolved to fight, Fang Yuan smiled coldly as they flew into the sky and attacked heaven form, he opened his immortal aperture.
At almost the next moment, a group of Gu Immortals led by Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit flew out of the sovereign immortal aperture, charging into Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
Gu Immortals of both sides engaged in intense combat.
At once, flames danged as lightning flashed. Figures flew around in the sky, clashing and parting, shock waves could be felt at intervals, killer moves were unleashed like fireworks, many Gu Immortals lost their lives amidst this beautiful show.
Immortal killer move — Wondrous Hand Profound Sound!
Fairy Miao Yin wore a pink dress, her two original arms were white like snow, the remaining six were translucent and pink, formed from her killer move.
Profound sounds spread out, attacking her surroundings in all directions.
Once Fairy Miao Yin appeared, she created a huge battlefield that enveloped three rank seven experts of Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
After several rounds, the three rank seven Gu Immortals got suppressed and fell into a disadvantage.
Fairy Miao Yin disregarded immortal essence expenditure, there was a reason for her current desperate attitude. She was once captured by Shadow Sect, she had to work with them and provide clues about Fang Yuan for Fairy Zi Wei.
There was a clear contrast between her and Lady White Rabbit, after returning to Fang Yuan, she knew she had to perform well to make up for her past mistakes.
Fairy Miao Yin wanted to perform well, the other Gu Immortals had similar thoughts.
Bing Yuan led the snowman Gu Immortals, she sent a wave of frost energy that froze the enemies. Shi Zong directed the rockman Gu Immortals as they unleashed a large number of falling meteors together, causing huge losses to the enemies. Inkman Gu Immortal Mo Tan Sang was a qi path cultivator, he waved his hands as a large number of qi gathered and moved, he attacked and caused a huge commotion, causing the enemy Gu Immortals to fall out of formation.
Comparatively, the hairy man Gu Immortals were slightly weaker.
After all, the hairy man Gu Immortals mostly cultivated refinement path.
But there were exceptions to this.
Golden Fur Immortal Monarch was covered in golden thread-like fur as he held a hammer and charged forward, he had ferocious might, raising the morale of others as well.
Strange Hair Grotto Lord was covered in black hair, he activated the incomplete Immortal Gu House Black Emperor Building and rampaged all over the place, having already killed one Gu Immortal from Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
Their Golden Hair grotto-heaven and Strange Hair grotto-heaven had been annexed by Fang Yuan, becoming a part of the sovereign immortal aperture.
As for Lang Ya Sect's hairy man Gu Immortals, the best performance was from rank six Gu Immortal Twelfth Hair, he cultivated enslavement path secondarily and controlled multiple desolate beasts, creating quite a commotion.
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Chapter 2108 Slaughtering A Hundred Million People
There were mushroomman Gu Immortals as well.
Even though the mushroomman blessed land had not been annexed by Fang Yuan, most of these mushroommen had already relocated into his sovereign immortal aperture. Ke Xin Hong was the strongest Gu Immortal among them, his poison path methods were extraordinary.
It was not long before Fire Plain grotto-heaven started to lose on all ends.
Not only did they have fewer numbers compared to Fang Yuan's subordinates, even when rank sevens fought against each other, Fang Yuan's subordinates were still stronger.
As Fang Yuan's subordinates attacked, they killed several more Gu Immortals of Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
In the end, the remaining Gu Immortals lost their morale, they wanted to surrender but Fang Yuan ordered for them to be killed regardless.
Next, they cleaned up the battlefield.
Fire Plain grotto-heaven cultivated fire path primarily, most of the immortal materials were also fire path.
Even though some were lost due to the ant plague, because the grotto-heaven's Gu Immortals did their best to preserve the materials, there was still a large quantity of valuable resources.
For example, there were twenty-eight charcoal lakes, distributed all over Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
Every charcoal lake's location was meticulously calculated, there were huge advantages in placing them there.
Fang Yuan had once constructed his own charcoal lake, but it was inferior to any single charcoal lake of Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
These charcoal lakes were self-producing, especially at the depths of the lakes, a large amount of immortal material fire charcoal was produced.
Other than charcoal lakes, Fire Plain grotto-heaven also had a huge forest.
Fire date forest!
Fang Yuan even found several ancient desolate plant giant disaster blazing trees.
This type of tree was covered in raging flames, nothing could get close to it. More impressively, this giant disaster blazing tree would cause bad luck to whatever life forms got close to it.
This was an immortal material that contained fire path and luck path.
The two heavens' grotto-heavens of Fang Yuan's subordinates contained a certain quantity of luck path immortal materials at minimum, Fire Plain grotto-heaven was no exception, it had luck path materials too.
Other than these, Fang Yuan also gained a large amount of flames.
The largest quantity was date flame.
This flame was vermilion red in color, it was condensed into a lump and the fire was very well hidden within. Even though it was an immortal material, even a mortal could hold it with their hands without getting burned to ashes.
Other than date flame, there was also phoenix song flame, black lantern blind fire, elephant tusk flame, firefly flame, flying flame, dragon snake dancing flame, and others.
What disappointed Fang Yuan slightly was that even though there were many types of flames, there were none of the rank nine unique flames of heaven, earth, and human.
The so-called three flames of heaven, earth, and human were the heaven flame bright light glorious ring fire, earth flame azure divine stone furnace fire, and human flame raging wave rising dragon fire.
After collating the immortal materials, he looked at the Immortal Gu.
There were very few Immortal Gu gained, he only obtained three.
One was a fire path Immortal Gu that was heavily injured, it was a Gu worm that was let out, Bing Yuan was very fortunate to have obtained it.
The other two were ant Immortal Gu, one was golden in color and large like a mountain, it resembled red copper. The other was small as a thumb, its body was extremely long, like a soft white noodle.
The red copper immortal ant could spit out fireballs while the white noodle immortal ant could produce large numbers of ants.
These were all the products of the lingering poisonous ant plague killer move.
When ants devoured the Gu materials within Fire Plain grotto-heaven, they would continue to refine themselves. Those that were mortal Gu could be elevated into Immortal Gu.
But Fang Yuan could not guess or estimate what Immortal Gu would be produced.
From these two ants, he could still barely see their origin.
The red copper fire ant should have been an arrow ant, its mouth could shoot out sharp spikes. After shooting three spikes, it would be weak, it would not be able to fight even a worker ant.
The white noodle immortal ant should be a queen ant. It was huge and had no offensive or offensive methods, but it could rapidly produce worker ants, soldier ants, armor ants, arrow ants, and others.
Army ants were just vicious insects in essence, but they could raise their strength, from being an ordinary beast, to beast king, to desolate beast, to ancient desolate beast and finally, to immemorial desolate beast level.
This just was like the dark web spider in the River of Time which was an immemorial desolate beast, or the tiger-striped honey bee in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] that was also an immemorial desolate beast.
But after Wu Shuai's modifications, these ants that the lingering poisonous ant plague produced had undergone a qualitative change, they all became Gu worms!
Even though Gu worms also ate food, they were the hosts of dao mark fragments.
The value of a mortal ant Gu far exceeded an ordinary ant or insect.
These ant Gu were all tough and strong, they had intense vitality and fighting spirit. A hundred ant Gu could easily slaughter a hundred ants of the same rank.
Most Gu worms had fragile bodies that could be easily crushed, but some also had tough exoskeletons and strong vitality.
For example, the chainsaw golden centipede that Fang Yuan used in the past.
The chainsaw golden centipede had two main advancement routes.
One was the rank four chainsaw killer centipede, the other was the flying vajra centipede, having rank three, four, and five versions.
When Gu Masters used these two Gu worms, the former could slaughter strong enemies while the latter could pierce bones and flesh, drilling into the enemies' body.
Even at Immortal Gu level, such Gu worms existed.
Like the sword legged dragon centipede Gu.
Rank seven sword legged dragon centipede Gu was seven li long, it had a centipede body and dragon head. Its countless limbs contained sword path dao marks, allowing it to carry tens of thousands of swords with it. Once it coiled around its prey, these sharp swords would attack from all directions, creating bloody holes in the ancient desolate beast, it was very fierce.
Wu Shuai elevated the essence of his army ants from insect to Gu, they gained a huge amount of potential for growth.
But this method had huge flaws.
The first flaw was the immense expenditure. Originally, ants could breed themselves with just some resources expended. But to create ant Gu, Gu materials would be expended for the refinement. Other than that, ant Gu also needed to be fed. The price of feeding ant Gu was many times higher than raising normal ants!
The second flaw was regarding the level of rank six and above.
Because Immortal Gu were unique, even though there could be countless desolate level ants of the same variety, there could only be one Immortal Gu of each breed.
If there were just a few ant Immortal Gu, then overall, the earlier army ants with desolate beasts would be easier to form and have greater overall strength as well.
"However, if I use this method to cultivate them, the new army ants will also be able to expand greatly in numbers." Fang Yuan observed the red copper fire ant and white noodle queen ant as he thought.
These two ants were Immortal Gu but Fang Yuan could not recreate them, he did not know their Immortal Gu recipes.
These ant Gu had successfully ascended after devouring the Gu materials and immortal materials in Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
The ant plague was extremely huge, involving almost the entire grotto-heaven, but only two ant Immortal Gu were produced in the end.
The killer move lingering poisonous ant plague contained refinement path profundity, it stood at the apex of the current world's hairy man nature Gu refinement technique!
Nature Gu refinement technique used the natural dao marks of the outside world to refine Gu and greatly raise the success rate.
The moment Fang Yuan created lingering poisonous ant plague, his attainment in the nature Gu refinement technique already surpassed Long Hair Ancestor in every aspect!
These ants could refine and ascend themselves, it was not just due to the Gu materials of the outside world, most importantly, Fang Yuan was expending his own unrestrained heavenly marks.
Long Hair Ancestor did not have any unrestrained heavenly marks after all.
"Using lingering poisonous ant plague, I can nurture a large number of ant Immortal Gu. As long as I have a large number of ant gu, if I expend a lot of resources, I will have a continuous stream of ant Immortal Gu produced. Even though Immortal Gu are unique, after obtaining red copper fire ant, I can still produce ant Gu like red copper water ant or yellow gold fire ant!"
With just a slight difference, the Immortal Gu would still be considered unique.
Fang Yuan made his deduction, he realized that the key obstacle to this was not the uniqueness of Immortal Gu but the resources needed.
Using this method to nurture ant Immortal Gu had too high of an expenditure.
Refining the two rank six Immortal Gu, red copper fire ant and white noodle queen ant, took so much in resources from Fire Plain grotto-heaven, it was sufficient to refine more than ten rank seven Immortal Gu normally.
The efficiency of using the resources was too low!
Other than immortal materials and Immortal Gu, there were also some Gu cultivation inheritances gained from taking down Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
The most valuable one was Fire Plain true inheritance.
Even though Fang Yuan did not get it from Fire Plain Grotto Lord, there was the original copy in Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
Fire Plain true inheritance was a high quality fire path true inheritance, it had a profound method called furious red heart flames. Fire Plain Grotto Lord had used it before his death to threaten Fang Yuan to let him off, it was used in his suicide.
There was also the killer move humanly flame smoke, this was a fire path killer move with human path effects. For Fang Yuan, it was quite valuable.
"Lord, what do we do with these people?" A subordinate Gu Immortal asked.
Fire Plain grotto-heaven was a human grotto-heaven, there were over a hundred million purebred humans here.
If they were all moved into the sovereign immortal aperture, the burden would be immense.
Fang Yuan thought about it and gave his orders plainly: "Kill them all to construct Human Sea."
Thus, the variant human Gu Immortals took action and engaged in a merciless slaughter.
A hundred million humans were all slaughtered, their bones, flesh, intestines, and soul were collected and classified into different groups of Gu materials, they were transported into the sovereign immortal aperture's inventory.
Their human qi was completely taken by Human Sea.
This incomplete artificial secluded domain of heaven and earth was obtained from Xia clan by Fang Yuan.
In order to become venerable, Fang Yuan would need to get past the Heavenly Dao blockade, these human path methods needed elevation to deal with it.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Fang Yuan annexed the immortal apertures of all these Gu Immortals, before finally targeting Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
He moved most of the resources in the grotto-heaven into Mini Red Heaven.
Because of his constant annexing recently, the sovereign immortal aperture had undergone a huge change, its development was currently at eighty percent!
The sovereign immortal aperture's Gu material inventory was completely full, more than ten more inventories were made in succession.
Be they the mini nine heavens or the mini five regions, they all had many resource points in them, at least hundreds or thousands of them.
After careful and meticulous deduction, Fang Yuan finally allocated all these resources to the most appropriate locations.
"Mini Red Heaven is almost full as well, the sovereign immortal aperture feels packed now." Fang Yuan sighed in his heart.
He felt that he was like a hungry fatty recently, he ate too much in a short period, he could not digest it well.
Normally, Gu Immortals cultivated one path, their immortal aperture's environment was quite simple and easy to manage. Most Gu Immortals did not have a huge immortal aperture, only space path Gu Immortals had the largest immortal apertures.
Fang Yuan, however, was different.
He cultivated all paths, the environment of his immortal aperture was very complex, almost all sorts of resources could be grown inside.
At the same time, his sovereign immortal aperture was also the largest and most unprecedented aperture, even a venerable's grotto-heaven might not be this big!
Thus, there were many things that he had to consider during this development.
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Chapter 2109 Wu Shuai“s Life In Danger
Fire path resources could not be placed too closely with water path resources, otherwise, they would affect each other's growth, not only would production shrink, they might even be destroyed.
But isolating all fire path and water path resources was also not a good idea.
Because fire path resource points also affected each other, they were not completely harmonious.
There were also a lot of immortal materials which had two types of dao marks, like giant disaster blazing tree's fire path and luck path.
A lot of Gu cultivation resources had dao marks of two paths or more.
Some resource points that produced immortal materials needed a lot of ordinary Gu materials in the vicinity for production to occur.
Some resources needed specific wind or water to grow as well.
There were also resources that needed an opposite environment. For example, frost ice flame was a fire path immortal material produced in an area of dense ice and snow path dao marks.
Thus, Fang Yuan had prepared for this, long ago, when annexing immortal apertures, he had specially split them up into portions and placed them scattered over the sovereign immortal aperture.
All in all, Fang Yuan was mimicking the characteristics of the five regions and nine heavens.
For example, Mini Southern Border had many mountains, Fang Yuan chose to put earth path resources there most of the time.
Or for example, Mini Red Heaven was fire based, so Fang Yuan placed his fire path resources there.
Fang Yuan could now feel the intricacy of the distribution of the five regions and nine heavens. Using this design, most resources could be classified and arranged, it could greatly lower the need for him to make deductions, he could control the influence of these resource points on each other more easily.
But it was not enough.
Each time Fang Yuan annexed a grotto-heaven, he would gain dao marks of a certain path.
With an increase of dao marks, there would be some influence for the following period of time on the entire sovereign immortal aperture.
Earlier, when he annexed Qi Xiang grotto-heaven, the sovereign immortal aperture gained a huge boost of qi path dao marks, currents started to appear all over the immortal aperture. There was the largest quantity of heaven and earth qi, allowing the sovereign immortal aperture to have no need to open its entrance and absorb external heaven and earth qi for some time.
After that, there were profound yin qi, luck qi, blood qi, astral qi, domination qi, life qi, death qi, righteous qi, orchid vitality qi, elderly qi, and other immortal materials.
Dao marks affected the entire sovereign immortal aperture, allowing it to produce resources gradually from a blank state. It started with mortal Gu materials, after dao marks accumulated, a qualitative change would occur, becoming immortal level Gu materials.
These resources were naturally formed as a result of dao marks.
The sovereign immortal aperture was gradually filled up like this, it reached eighty percent development now.
Other than resources, an increase in dao marks would also affect the production of existing resources.
After annexing Fire Plain grotto-heaven and gaining a bunch of fire path dao marks, the entire temperature of the immortal aperture would rise gradually, many water path or wood path resource points would suffer as a result.
If he gained metal path dao marks, a large amount of ores would appear in the soil, the fertility of the soil would change, affecting the growth of the vegetation above.
If he gained water path dao marks, there would be more rain, over time, floods might occur.
If he gained poison path dao marks, some plagues or diseases might erupt instead of being seasonal, they might spread widely and rapidly.
If he gained transformation path dao marks, many lifeforms might mutate when they grow, some might have different forms or natures, causing problems to their original groups.
Thus, during this period of time, the sovereign immortal aperture had not been peaceful.
Many strange things occurred at random times occasionally.
Like earlier, Mini Eastern Sea had eerie winds appearing out of nowhere.
Profound eerie winds swept the area, causing small islands to form on the surface of the sea.
But the area in which these profound eerie winds blew did not need islands, the earth path dao marks would obstruct the sea waves, while the soul path dao marks would kill the weak life forms and create soul beasts, changing the natural habitat.
Fang Yuan initially suspected the two neighboring sea areas, they were right at the core of the profound eerie winds, they were very plausibly the source of them.
But after some tests and deductions, Fang Yuan found that the reason was two far away sea areas, their dao marks influenced each other, like the repulsion of magnetic waves, causing profound eerie winds to be created between them.
As for situations like wild beast mutation that caused problems to beast groups, the spread of plagues and diseases, the increase of ores that destroyed the homes of rockmen, the burning of forests for no apparent reason, the fall of ice shards from the sky and others, they happened continuously.
All of the defending Gu Immortals were extremely busy, they went around taking action and salvaging the situation.
Fang Yuan's main body also took action frequently, setting up immortal formations at the important resource points, like he was patching up torn clothes.
"The boost of dao marks carry uncertainty, only time can digest and assimilate such issues. I need to let the sovereign immortal aperture develop and naturally acclimatize to these situations."
"Originally, the sovereign immortal aperture had a huge space and sparse resources, it was hard for them to affect each other. but now, after reaching eighty percent, there are too many resources that are closely packed together, their influence on each other is also not between two resources, but a large group of resources in the vicinity, they affect each other in a chain-like manner."
"And worse is that I used Time Difference grotto-heaven's method to construct year essence pools and created different time path regions. Because the areas have varying time flow, my deductions are even more complicated."
"When I bring in more immortal materials in the future, the deduction difficulty will rise by a hundred times! It is beyond my capabilities." Such deduction difficulties were simply too high, Fang Yuan was helpless about it.
"Furthermore, even if I can deduce the results, I will still need to modify the location of the respective resources. Each time I relocate them, it would be like a huge surgery, expending a lot of my resources, time, and energy."
"I am afraid that eighty percent is my current limit!"
After understanding this, Fang Yuan felt admiration when he looked at the five regions and two heavens.
The five regions and two heavens had far larger space than the sovereign immortal aperture, but all of their resources were appropriately located, they influenced each other in a harmonious way.
Even when the five regional walls vanished, when the earth veins merged, even after the heaven veins merged, these resource points were still unchanged, they were barely affected.
"I see, this is — heaven path!"
Fang Yuan's body and mind shook intensely, at this moment, he could sense the law of balancing of heaven path deeply!
"If my heaven path attainment level can rise to master level, I will be able to resolve this predicament and make a breakthrough, I can continue to develop the sovereign immortal aperture even further. What a pity, what a pity…"
In history, nobody had ever cultivated heaven path, even though Limitless Demon Venerable created unrestrained heavenly mark, he was still a rule path cultivator. As for Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, he cultivated earth path.
Fang Yuan might be the Gu cultivator who had the deepest venture into heaven path.
Fang Yuan activated Cooking Luck Pot, inspecting his own luck.
He saw that above the silver white pillar of light, there were still three clouds that were continuing to get larger.
But the silver white light pillar that represented Fang Yuan forcefully grew to around four times the original size. It was originally thin and slim, but now it was slightly 'thicker'.
This was caused by the annexation of Fire Plain grotto-heaven.
Because Fire Plain Grotto Lord and Fire Plain grotto-heaven had their respective luck, after Fang Yuan killed and devoured the grotto-heavens, he also expended some of his own luck.
After some time, Fang Yuan's luck would recover and grow even thicker.
In terms of the growth of luck, Fang Yuan was naturally the winner among them.
"It seems that my tactic is correct, my development far surpasses the three venerables during this period. But…" Fang Yuan pondered.
He acutely sensed that even though the silver white light pillar expanded to four times of the original, it was no longer as condensed as before, it was quite loose now, the light was also no longer as clear as before.
"The reason why my silver white light pillar grew this much is because I annexed many grotto-heavens, my foundation rose sharply. Other than that, I also created and modified many compound killer moves, my time path clone also made many rank eight Immortal Gu."
"But these things only reached a quantitative change, without qualitative change, it is still too loose."
"For example, the sovereign immortal aperture is still very unstable, the resources are not assimilated into the environment yet, I've only used some methods to forcefully place them here. If I am careless, a disaster will occur, I will suffer huge losses and my luck will fall."
"And even though I have many rank eight Immortal Gu and compound killer moves, I still do not have a proper combat system that perfectly uses them, I cannot link them together!"
"Thus, the silver white light pillar is loose."
Fang Yuan could feel the amazing aspect of luck path once again.
Through luck inspection, not only could he understand his current circumstances, he could also inspect his own flaws and weaknesses.
With this, he even had the direction that he was going to pursue next.
Fang Yuan took a look at the luck of his clones as well.
Qi Sea Ancestor, Zhan Bu Du, Meng Qiu Zhen, and the rest had increased luck.
His connection with Fang Di Chang was also becoming clearer.
But Wu Shuai's dragon luck was not in good shape, it was actually near the brink of collapsing!
"What is going on? Don't tell me that after creating lingering poisonous ant plague, it actually led to a bad result?" Fang Yuan soon ruled out this guess, he was quite confused internally.
Among his clones, Wu Shuai was the safest in terms of circumstances.
Qi Sea Ancestor's true identity was a hidden threat.
Meng Qiu Zhen faced danger when exploring dream realms.
Zhan Bu Du had already been sent away by Fang Yuan to lurk elsewhere.
Li Xiao Bai was a mortal Gu Master, he did not have much control over his situation.
The time path clone made use of Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool to refine a large number of rank eight Immortal Gu, yet he only had rank six cultivation level, if any accident occurs, he would die from backlash.
Even though Wu Shuai was also trying to get stronger himself, his main responsibility was to manage the variant human alliance. How could he be in danger?
And this was a fatal danger that could cost him his life!
Central Continent.
In an underground cave somewhere, an elderly Gu Immortal with a reddened nose laughed loudly: "I finally got here, I did not waste my effort for the last ten or so days without sleep!"
There was a rank eight Gu Immortal true inheritance in front of him!
The will that had been slumbering for a long time was awake, he looked at the elderly Gu Immortal: "If you want to obtain the true inheritance of myself and my wife, you need to agree to one condition."
"What condition?" The elderly Gu Immortal squinted and asked.
The Gu Immortal will sighed: "In my later years, I took in a traitorous disciple named Wu Shuai. He actually enslaved both me and my wife! If you want to obtain this true inheritance, you will need to shoulder the responsibility of taking revenge."
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Chapter 2110 Golden Bottle Drunken Wine
The elderly Gu Immortal's eyelids twitched, he had a certain guess, he asked: "So you are Senior Green Ant Ascetic, your wife must be Senior Wine Fairy?"
The Gu Immortal will nodded: "Indeed."
The old Gu Immortal let out a breath of air: "To speak truthfully, this junior is a Gu Immortal of Eastern Sea, Zui Xian Weng, over a million years have passed since your death."
The Gu Immortal will was slightly stunned before sighing: "Such a long time has passed… back then, to prevent that traitorous disciple from finding us, we specially hid our inheritance in an extremely concealed area, to think that it ended up like this, that traitorous disciple must have died already."
After pausing for a while, the Gu Immortal will thought of something and said: "Wait, Zui Xian Weng, put away your defensive method, let me test the truth of your words. How can I know if you are not one of my traitorous disciple's subordinates that came here to trick me?"
Zui Xian Weng hesitated for a moment but did not attack immediately, he was not confident in dealing with the arrangements here.
He spoke the truth: "I do not know if Wu Shuai is dead or not, but the situation is like this…"
Zui Xian Weng quickly explained everything, Green Ant Ascetic's will became stunned again, what in the world had happened?
Was this still Heavenly Court?
Fate Gu was actually destroyed!
Gu Yue Fang Yuan!
It was hard to imagine the existence of such a great demon in the world, truly a misfortune for the common people.
Green Ant Ascetic's will only accepted the facts after a long time.
"To think that the world became like this after a million years. Fate Gu was destroyed, even Duke Long lost and died! Whether that Wu Shuai actually revived or if he is just Fang Yuan's clone is no longer important, since that Fang Yuan inherited Dragon Palace, he will also inherit this grudge!" Green Ant Ascetic's will said firmly.
"So Zui Xian Weng, are you willing to oppose Fang Yuan for this true inheritance?" Green Ant's will asked.
Zui Xian Weng was silent for a long time before taking in a deep breath, gritting his teeth: "I am willing to do that!"
"Alright, we will make the agreement."
According to the instructions of Green Ant's will, Zui Xian Weng made his vow.
"Accept this inheritance, the two of us put all our effort into it, we created a killer move called golden bottle drunken wine!"
"Golden bottle contains green ants, drunken wine dilutes dragon qi! Army ant was created by me, I hid the one weakness of these ants extremely deeply, that traitorous disciple had no idea all along."
"As long as you use this golden bottle drunken wine killer move, you will be able to send the army ants into chaos and cause a backlash on the user. Most importantly, this is a food path killer move, it is hard to guard against!"
"So senior has prepared for it." Zui Xian Weng's eyes shined with bright light: "I cannot stay in this place for long, senior, please go into my immortal aperture, you can inform me of the remaining information later."
"Okay." Green Ant's will flew into Zui Xian Weng's immortal aperture, the latter took all the inheritance away and left.
Zui Xian Weng only took a glimpse of the inheritance details before feeling great joy internally.
This inheritance contained Green Ant Ascetic's enslavement path inheritance as well as Wine Fairy's food path true inheritance. The value of the enslavement path true inheritance was not high for Zui Xian Weng, but the Wine Fairy true inheritance was simply too valuable to him.
"It was not a waste of my effort to come here, it was worth it!" A smile appeared on Zui Xian Weng's face.
But the moment he left the place and arrived in the outside world, his expression immediately changed.
A battlefield killer move had been set up, it activated at once and trapped Zui Xian Weng.
"Heavenly Court! Qin Ding Ling!!" Zui Xian Weng was shocked to find out that Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were surrounding him.
The leader was a female immortal, she had a tall nose, thin lips and eyes, a body covered in golden armor, her legs were long and smooth, she wore a white cape on her back, she radiated an elegant and noble aura, she had an air of indomitability!
She was the current leader of Heavenly Court, rank eight luck path great expert, Qin Ding Ling!
Zui Xian Weng's heart sank to rock bottom, he broke out in cold sweat: "It seems that I will lose my life in this fight."
Thoughts flashed rapidly in his mind, Zui Xian Weng gritted his teeth and cupped his fists: "I am willing to contribute all my inheritances, I will make contributions to the righteous path."
Qin Ding Ling smiled brightly, emanating with heroic aura: "Green Ant Ascetic's and Wine Fairy's inheritances are good, but is our Heavenly Court so greedy? We are the righteous leaders of over three million years, the number one super force in the world. Since you had the fortune to find this inheritance, then it belongs to you. Please do us the honor, sit down and have a cup of tea."
Saying so, Qin Ding Ling sat cross legged in the air, she took out cushions, a table, and cups.
Zui Xian Weng sat down without a choice, Qin Ding Ling personally poured tea for him.
Tea fragrance spread out, but Zui Xian Weng felt his heart turning cold as ice, his entire body was shivering, his cold sweat could not stop pouring.
What status did Qin Ding Ling have, she was actually treating an Eastern Sea lone immortal like Zui Xian Weng in such a respectful manner? She certainly had huge motivations behind this.
"Feel free to drink it." Qin Ding Ling stretched out her arm, smiling as she pointed.
Zui Xian Weng had no choice but to take a sip, he immediately placed the cup down, he asked while faking calmness: "I wonder what Lady Qin wants to say to me?"
The smile on Qin Ding Ling's lips became even wider.
She spoke casually: "Haven't you already guessed my intention? Zui Xian Weng, you are a smart person."
"No need to be so pessimistic, in the current world, even though demons have the upper hand, it is only temporary. Even throughout the history of millions of years, the righteous path has been dominant for most of the time, while the demonic path can only hide at some corners. We are currently in a special era, so some geniuses will wreak havoc, don't think that they are domineering and overpowering, they are merely the pioneers that will pave a road for the venerables ahead."
Zui Xian Weng lowered his head, not daring to make eye contact with Qin Ding Ling.
His arms were placed on the table as he clenched them uncontrollably, his palms were covered in sweat.
"In this tough situation, no matter what overbearing request Qin Ding Ling states, I have no choice but to agree to it." Zui Xian Weng sighed in his head with great sadness.
But Qin Ding Ling took out some evidence immediately after: "Not long after, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable will revive and return to Heavenly Court, she will lead the rise of Heavenly Court once again."
Zui Xian Weng saw the evidence and became deeply shocked: "Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's revival?"
Qin Ding Ling smiled: "Fate Gu has been destroyed, even venerables can be resurrected now. Demon Immortal Qi Jue is the best example now, but he has already been suppressed by my Heavenly Court. If even Demon Immortal Qi Jue can revive, how can our venerables not do so? Our Heavenly Court has three venerables, throughout the world, which super force can rival us?"
Zui Xian Weng stared in a dumbfounded manner, thoughts started to collide rapidly in his mind.
He had already decided to say yes, but after seeing proof of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's revival, the balance in his heart was tilted towards Heavenly Court.
Even though Fang Yuan was strong as the number one demon, he only had pseudo venerable battle strength.
He could not compare to a venerable.
In the millions of years of human history, there had only been ten venerables, each one had shown their invincibility in their respective eras!
Venerables were invincible!
No matter how many pseudo venerables there were, they could not match a venerable in the end.
While Heavenly Court had the most number of venerables — Primordial Origin, Star Constellation, Genesis Lotus! Other than that, the only other super force that had a venerable was Longevity Heaven.
Zui Xian Weng's expression became calm gradually.
"I am willing to work for Heavenly Court!" He said in a solemn tone: "Let's set the agreement."
Qin Ding Ling shook her hands: "No need for that. With that Fang Yuan's ability, he will notice if we make an agreement. Furthermore, you need to return to Eastern Sea and join the Righteous Qi Alliance."
"We will not set an agreement?" Zui Xian Weng was stunned.
Qin Ding Ling added: "Write me a copy of the true inheritance, Heavenly Court will try to provide you the relevant Immortal Gu."
Zui Xian Weng was stunned again, he sighed in his heart: "No agreement and they are also giving me Immortal Gu?"
Qin Ding Ling waved her hand again: "You can leave now."
"This subordinate takes his leave." Zui Xian Weng left the battlefield with completely stunned emotions.
It was truly unbelievable.
He was freed just like that!
What Zui Xian Weng felt was deep admiration.
He started to admire Heavenly Court from the depths of his heart!
"This is the calibre of the number one force in the world! Qin Ding Ling is not afraid that I will not follow the agreement. With this attitude, she clearly doesn't think much of the inheritance, I am merely just one of her casual pawns. If I do not follow the agreement in the future, unlike Fang Yuan, can't Heavenly Court easily deal with me?"
Zui Xian Weng was filled with a chilly feeling internally.
While watching him leave, Fang Zheng could not help but ask: "Lady Qin Ding Ling, we're letting him go like this? What if he goes to join Fang Yuan and betrays us? Wouldn't we be giving this inheritance to Fang Yuan as well? Are we going to give up this method to counter Wu Shuai?"
Fang Zheng was very familiar with the content of the inheritance.
It turned out that Heavenly Court had found this inheritance long ago, but before taking it, Qin Ding Ling had some intuition. Her instincts told her to not take the inheritance, it would be better to make her move three days later.
Qin Ding Ling followed her instincts and waited for three days, finally trapping Zui Xian Weng.
At this point, she realized the meaning behind her intuition.
Qin Ding Ling smiled: "Fang Yuan possesses the sovereign immortal aperture and has annexed many grotto-heavens, he even has Paradise Earth's inheritor and the variant human alliance under him, we cannot estimate the speed of his growth at all. If we set an agreement with Zui Xian Weng, it will leave a huge piece of evidence behind."
"However, when Zui Xian Weng drank the tea, I had already used my method to influence his luck. This will cause him to become enemies with Fang Yuan without doubt."
Fang Zheng was not convinced, he held onto his beliefs: "Even so, I feel that we should gain a complete hold of this inheritance and use it as a trump card against Fang Yuan. This Zui Xian Weng is just a lone cultivator of Eastern Sea…"
Qin Ding Ling chuckled: "You are underestimating Zui Xian Weng while also overestimating the value of this inheritance."
"Zui Xian Weng is a person who can endure hardship, he is a wise man who knows his circumstances, he possesses one of the three pools in the world, Wine Pool, he is a food path expert. The inheritance of his lineage has always been passed down very stably, while his luck is also very deep and sturdy!"
"Food path is powerful, while Zui Xian Weng cultivates food path solely, he can almost be considered a representative figure of this path. This has significant meaning!"
"As for this inheritance?" Qin Ding Ling shook her head: "In my opinion, the most valuable thing is not the killer move golden bottle drunken wine, but that human path wine drinker Immortal Gu recipe."
This inheritance that Green Ant Ascetic and Wine Fairy created together contained a human path Immortal Gu recipe.
Wine drinker Gu.
Similar to hero Gu, scholar Gu, craftsman Gu, and farmer Gu, except that it was not at the mortal level, it was an Immortal Gu!
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Chapter 2111 Beast Tamer Gu
Fang Zheng blinked a few times, having understood something: "You mean to say that even if golden bottle drunken wine is effective and kills Wu Shuai successfully, he is still just a clone of Fang Yuan's, it will not truly shake his foundation. Right now, with Dragon Palace destroyed, Wu Shuai's biggest use is gone."
"Meanwhile, the wine drinker Immortal Gu recipe is the symbol of human path prosperity, it will be the path that our Heavenly Court will focus on in the future!"
Qin Ding Ling patted Fang Zheng's shoulder: "You have learned well!"
"No matter how strong Fang Yuan is, he is not a threat unless he becomes venerable."
"Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has already succeeded in Crazed Demon Cave, the most urgent matter is to bring her back now. No matter how great of a commotion Fang Yuan causes, he is just like a cicada's cry at the end of autumn, he has few days remaining."
"I am not Fang Yuan's match while Heavenly Court cannot afford another loss, thus, I have been dragging on the matter about the Eastern Sea Righteous Qi Alliance."
"Right now, we need to put in effort for the Crazed Demon Cave battle. It will not be easy to bring back our venerable, we need to conserve strength and prioritize on that."
"As long as Star Constellation Immortal Venerable returns to Heavenly Court, even ten of Fang Yuan added together cannot cause any problems for us."
"Yes, you are absolutely right!" Fang Zheng did not refute nor hold any suspicions towards Qin Ding Ling's plan.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had already proven her strength in history!
She had succeeded Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's position and stabilized the fruits of humanity's labor, she expanded on the prosperity of humanity by getting involved in the other four regions. Before dying, she plotted against three Demon Venerables and preserved Heavenly Court when they attacked, she was truly a great and noble contributor.
Fang Zheng sighed internally: "Fang Yuan, I am not your match. Right now, even Heavenly Court is inferior, but someone can deal with you in the end. Throughout history, evil has never prevailed! If Star Constellation Immortal Venerable makes a move, can you stop her? You are already finished, even though I understand you, I will not pity you. You deserve a bitter end, this is the price to pay for all the sins you have committed!"
Fang Yuan inspected the inheritance in his hand.
He read through it rapidly.
With Meng Qiu Zhen exploring dream realms for him, all of his attainment levels were rising shockingly.
Using these attainment levels, all sorts of inheritances felt shallow in his eyes. Only a small number could give him a decent surprise at times.
These inheritances mostly came from Qi Sea Ancestor and the variant human alliance.
Because of the qi tides, Eastern Sea's exposed inheritances were mostly gathered into Fang Yuan's hands now.
Of course, there were still some excellent inheritances that were kept secret by the lucky forces not contributing them.
But Fang Yuan did not mind it.
At his current level, most inheritances in the world had little to no value from his perspective. His attainment was too high, in just a few breaths of time, he could create a superb inheritance himself.
These inheritances were merely a small supplement to his theories and knowledge base.
"Treasure yellow heaven also has inheritance transactions, this is really a rare sight." Fang Yuan suddenly thought of something, he could transact most of these inheritances that he currently had.
What was the point of transactions? It was to exchange with others for some things that you were more suitable with, in order to cultivate more smoothly.
Because doing this had benefits for Fang Yuan to become venerable.
One of the four venerable ascension conditions was to break through the Heavenly Dao blockade.
The Heavenly Dao sought balance and suppressed Gu Immortals and venerables. The more widely spread these inheritances were, the stronger the cultivators would become, and the more effort the Heavenly Dao would need to suppress them.
This way, when Fang Yuan reaches a crucial moment in his venerable ascension, the Heavenly Dao blockade that obstructed him would fall in strength relatively.
This point was proven by historical records as well.
During the ten venerables' eras, countless geniuses emerged one after another, grand heroes existed at the same time, being as numerous as the stars in the sky!
"To breakthrough the Heavenly Dao blockade, other than luck path, there is also human path. Divine Emperor City is the sacred land of human path, if I can obtain the human path essence inside it, it will help me greatly!" Fang Yuan thought.
Divine Emperor City, painting world.
In a market within the city, people gathered together to watch the performance at the center of the square.
A middle aged man with a muscular body wore beast skin clothing and held a leather whip in his hands as he swung it.
As the leather whip moved, it emitted cracking sounds.
A leopard danced around on the ground while following the tune of the whip.
The middle aged man suddenly stored his whip, he placed his head into the leopard's huge mouth.
The leopard opened its mouth widely, its teeth were sharp as blades, only millimeters away from the man's skull.
The surrounding audience gasped loudly.
But the leopard did not bite it, after waiting for some time, the middle aged man moved his head out again.
Immediately, applause resounded.
The middle aged man took out a bronze bowl and walked around the audience while holding it.
He moved quickly as he raised the bowl, shouting: "Friends, if you have money, please support me, otherwise, please help to promote my performance. Haha, if you think this was enjoyable, don't hesitate to give some tips."
The middle aged man's entertaining performance was well liked by the audience, a large number of primeval stones were tossed into the bronze bowl as they emitted sharp sounds.
Not far away, a human path great expert, Eastern Sea's rank eight Gu Immortal Shen Shang, watched with a stunned expression.
"This is the reason why I got you to come here." Fang Di Chang said, as he sat beside Shen Shang and drank tea.
Shen Shang finally retracted his gaze.
"Amazing, amazing!" He praised uncontrollably: "This Divine Emperor City painting world is really amazing."
The middle aged man was a beast tamer, this profession had never existed in the painting world before. But after the ten children of human path led their troops to explore growling beast painting world and returned in failure, they recuperated for some time and this profession appeared.
In the market, in addition to hero Gu, scholar Gu, soldier Gu, and craftsman Gu, there was a new type of Gu — beast tamer Gu!
Once beast tamer Gu was activated, it could turn into a beast tamer.
Beast tamers were specialized to deal with wild beasts, they were more proficient at taming wild beasts to use for themselves.
Evidently, this new beast tamer Gu was created to deal with growling beast painting world!
"Who created this new Gu worm?" Shen Shang asked.
Fang Di Chang shook his head: "Beast tamer Gu appeared so naturally, I did my best to investigate but I found no specific targets."
Shen Shang nodded: "Your Beggar Sect is the strongest information collection organization in here. It might not be a person, it might be this painting world itself or Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's arrangement."
Fang Di Chang took in a breath of human will Gu to replenish himself before saying: "Now that beast tamer Gu has appeared, growling beast painting world will be at a disadvantage, it is only a matter of time until it is taken down. The scariest part of human path likely lies here. I underestimated this path after all."
Shen Shang moved his fingers around the cup as he concluded: "Now it seems that there are three types of human path Gu worms. The first are profession Gu, for example, craftsman Gu, hero Gu, and beast tamer Gu. The second are organizational position Gu, for example your beggar sect Gu and sect elder Gu. The third type are human emotion and virtue Gu, for example, traveling son Gu and doting mother Gu."
"Human emotion and virtue Gu? Brother Shen, it seems that you have made great progress in your cultivation recently, that is an appropriate classification." Fang Di Chang congratulated.
Shen Shang waved his hand: "I am ashamed, that is merely a classification of my own opinion."
Traveling son Gu and doting mother Gu were once regarded as emotion path Gu worms, but in essence, they were actually human path.
This was quite a common sight in history as well.
The essence of Gu worms usually only showed itself after the path progressed to a certain level.
"The painting world is really the sacred land of human path, I am feeling quite expectant now. When the ten children of human path leave this place and bring human path to the world of the five regions, I wonder how big the commotion will be, many different Gu worms will be classified into human path by then."
Shen Shang said with deep emotions: "I believe that many human path Gu worms scattered and forgotten somewhere in the world will gain recognition from people once again."
Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable had truly made a noble achievement!
Before him, human path was like the leaves on a tree, it only concerned a small individual group of cultivators.
But Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable created the painting world, he held up the tree of human path and supported its trunk, allowing it to grow and nurture.
Human path was no longer empty internally, it was a complete path now. It had most of the foundational roots and sturdy roots, it even had countless leaves on it.
Fang Di Chang did not speak, he was feeling increasingly worried in his heart.
Even though he had not gotten a clear understanding of Divine Emperor City and the painting world's profundities, there was already something that was certain to him.
Human path was bound to prosper, Heavenly Court had already started to focus on developing this path!
"I am afraid that developing human path has become Heavenly Court's main strategy! This path is not simple, what should my main body do now? He might not even know this yet, I am only a lump of will that is barely surviving. How can I inform my main body of this crucial information?"
With the destruction of fate Gu, anything could happen in the world.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had already revived, the Prophecy of Three Venerables was no longer certain, human path and food path had the chance of prospering in this new era.
Dream path was mentioned in the Prophecy of Three Venerables, it was originally the fated path that was meant to prosper or even rule over this new era!
In the past, human path was something that only venerables or individuals with great talent could comprehend. But after Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable strengthened its roots and foundation, human path was already suitable for everyone to cultivate. Heavenly Court owned Divine Emperor City, this was a huge advantage in itself.
As for food path, this path was created in the Olden Antiquity Era and had never been widely spread. Now, without the restriction of Fate, it also started to show signs of prosperity.
The entire world had gone chaotic because of Fang Yuan.
The dead were reviving, secluded paths were now starting to prosper.
As for the future?
Fang Di Chang shook his head, the future was too complex and uncertain, he could not see clearly beyond this chaos.
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
Hei Lou Lan was summoned by Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
"Hei Lou Lan, my descendant, it is now time for you to risk your life." Immortal Zombie Giant Sun got right to the point: "You want to surpass that Gu Yue Fang Yuan? Now is your chance! Go into Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven."
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Chapter 2112 Totem Killer Move
Hei Lou Lan woke up and opened her eyes in a daze.
"Where… is this?" Her blurry vision started to clear up, she found that she was lying on a stone bed.
Around the stone bed, there was a large tent made of skin.
At the center of the tent, there was a huge pot hanging on a metal rack.
The pot was bubbling and seemingly contained boiling soup. At the bottom of the pot, there was a red rat spewing fire continuously.
"You woke up?" The flap of the tent was pulled aside as a person walked in.
This was a beautiful middle aged woman, her clothes were quite simple, she had a beast skin top and skirt, her shoulders, tummy, and half of her breasts were exposed.
On her chest and back, there was a blue phoenix tattoo, not only was it very vivid and lively, it even emitted a faint blue light.
Hei Lou Lan struggled and managed to sit up.
During the process, she found that her clothes had been changed as well, it was the same as the middle aged woman, having a wild and brutish style.
"I am Desolate Extremity Lu Tong Lan, you are now inside Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven." The middle aged woman smiled as she walked towards Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan had fully woken up now.
Longevity Heaven had the Eight Extremities, their names were Heaven, Earth, Black, Yellow, Space, Time, Flood and Desolate respectively. Black Extremity was Sun Ming Lu, he cultivated formation path. This woman in front of her was Desolate Extremity, she had been staying within Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven.
"Lady Lu, what should I do?" Hei Lou Lan inquired. Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had only told her to listen to Desolate Extremity's instructions after arriving here.
Lu Tong Lan smiled: "In here, you should call me Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader. Your current identity is my illegitimate daughter, I birthed you long ago and left you outside. Recently, when relocating the tribe, I found you by accident and brought you back."
"Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven has countless tribes, we coexist with the beasts, it is very different from the five regions. Every ten thousand years, all the tribes would gather and hold the Myriad Tribes Ceremony. This is your fortuitous encounter!"
"Alright, now, you need to start drinking soup."
Lu Tong Lan scooped a huge bowl of hot soup and passed it to Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan sat at the side of the bed, she held the hot metal bowl, the fragrance of food drifted into her nose.
She was currently hungry, she immediately drank a large mouthful.
But when the soup entered her mouth, it had a peculiar and spicy taste, it was not nice at all!
"Cough cough!" Hei Lou Lan was not prepared for this, she almost gagged on reflex.
But Lu Tong Lan had a solemn expression: "Drink it, this soup is extremely important for you, you need to finish every single drop of it in the pot. Drink."
Hei Lou Lan knew that this was Immortal Zombie Giant Sun's arrangement, she frowned as she drank one bowl, followed by another.
By the third bowl, she could not take it anymore, her stomach was bloated and painful.
Lu Tong Lan had been guarding her the entire time, seeing this, she nodded: "Stop here for now, your body is at its limit."
Hei Lou Lan started to experience diarrhea, it was very serious, she almost went weak from it.
But Lu Tong Lan did not let her off, even though Hei Lou Lan was lying down in a weak state, Lu Tong Lan brought the bowl over and poured the hot soup into her mouth.
Hei Lou Lan drank as the diarrhea intensified, she felt extremely terrible.
"What is the point of drinking this soup?" Hei Lou Lan asked.
Lu Tong Lan answered: "Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven is different from the five regions, those who succeed in life are those who can eat well. I specially prepared this soup for you to expand your appetite. During the process of having diarrhea, your body is adapting to it. Even though it is initially very severe and seems nearly fatal, the symptoms will gradually become lighter. In less than three days, you will be back to normal and feel extremely hungry."
Hei Lou Lan stayed in the stone bed for two days and nights before regaining her strength, she could barely walk again.
By the third day, like what Lu Tong Lan had said, she recovered her strength and the diarrhea was gone, her appetite increased and her stomach growled since the early morning.
Lu Tong Lan cooked soup for Hei Lou Lan again.
"This is meat soup, it is different from before." Lu Tong Lan said while taking out five to six rats and tossed them into the pot.
The rat struggled in the pot, squeaking loudly.
Lu Tong Lan's expression did not change, she took out several poisonous snakes of various colors, tossing them into the pot.
The snakes and rats gradually melted in the soup, floating at the top like colorful mud.
Lu Tong Lan took out several black rocks that resembled charcoal and tossed them inside as well.
Hei Lou Lan's eyelids were twitching at first, but soon she understood certain details.
"Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader, are you refining Gu?" Hei Lou Lan asked in curiosity, she saw that when making the soup, Lu Tong Lan used many refinement path techniques.
Lu Tong Lan continued to cook the soup as she smiled and said: "Hei Lou Lan, you are quite perceptive. This snake-rat soup is already done."
Hei Lou Lan was stunned, she watched as Lu Tong Lan stopped cooking the soup.
"Did the Gu refinement fail? This is a pity." Hei Lou Lan said: "After all, the snakes and rats used earlier were ancient desolate beasts."
But Lu Tong Lan shook her head: "I said before, I am brewing soup, not refining Gu. The snake-rat soup is very perfect, you need to drink it all."
"What?" Hei Lou Lan was stunned again.
Lu Tong Lan scooped a huge bowl of soup and passed it to Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan drank a mouthful and frowned immediately, this soup was ten times as disgusting as the diarrhea soup earlier! With just one mouthful, her entire tongue went numb, even her throat was gradually becoming numb.
By the time she finished the hot soup, her entire body expanded like a balloon, even her skin and flesh were bloated, hair started to grow on her body rapidly.
The hair grew extremely quickly, after a few minutes, Hei Lou Lan's hair almost filled the entire tent.
And the hair had various colors.
Red, orange, yellow, green, azure, blue, purple, white, black, there were various colors of differing quantity, none of them were the same.
Lu Tong Lan inspected the hair, even counting the number of hairs of each color meticulously.
Next, at her will, the blue phoenix tattoo on her chest floated up and spat out a lump of blue fire.
The blue fire burned the hair, in almost an instant, all of Hei Lou Lan's newly grown hair was gone.
Hei Lou Lan stared with wide eyes and asked curiously: "What method is this? It is really amazing, I am completely unharmed."
Lu Tong Lan smiled: "This is my blue phoenix totem. Inside Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven, totems are the mainstream way of cultivation. Even though we use Gu worms as well, totems are the symbol of our strength and status."
Hei Lou Lan's eyes shined with bright light: "If I am not wrong, this totem is not simple, each line and marking on the totem is a dao mark! The essence of the totem is a killer move! There actually exists such an amazing method in the world, does everyone cultivate totems in here?"
"Hahaha." Lu Tong Lan laughed even louder: "Hei Lou Lan, you are the genius that our lord chose to send here indeed. You saw the essence of the totem with just one glimpse. Indeed, our Gu cultivation killer moves use Gu worms or expend Gu materials. While Gu worms are fragments of the Great Dao, Gu materials are agglomerations of dao marks. The totems here use the same logic, it is just that the cultivation way uses Gu worms to assist slightly, the main method is still to rely on our consumption and digestion."
"Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven is Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's immortal aperture, this Demon Venerable left his immortal aperture within the body of the gluttonous demon frog, allowing this grotto-heaven to have a food path environment."
The gluttonous demon frog was a legendary immemorial beast, it contained an unimaginable number of food path dao marks.
With the influence of food path dao marks, within Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven, humans could eat Gu materials to increase their corresponding dao marks. Using the Gu worms here, they can gradually construct their own totems.
Hei Lou Lan did not guess wrongly, totems were a special type of killer move. Normally, they would stay on the surface of the Gu cultivator's body. Once primeval essence or immortal essence was instilled, they would turn solid and fly out to fight.
"Totem killer moves have a lot of advantages, ordinary killer moves need to activate Gu worms and expend thoughts when they are used spontaneously. But totems only need to be constructed beforehand, you can save a lot of effort and time as a result!"
"In the five regions outside world, even though Gu Houses also contain fixed killer moves, totems can be refined and improved upon continuously. Meanwhile, strong Immortal Gu Houses have no room for improvement." Lu Tong Lan continued to explain.
Hei Lou Lan started to frown: "I have the Great Strength True Martial Physique, I should cultivate strength path, but this totem seems to be a transformation path killer move?"
Lu Tong Lan shook her head: "Not quite so."
"The other specialty of totems is that they can be suitable for all Gu paths. I, for example, cultivate fire path, after devouring all sorts of materials, I used Gu worms to construct my blue phoenix totem killer move. This totem is a fire path killer move, it is very suitable for me."
"As for you cultivating strength path, you can also construct your own strength path totem."
Hei Lou Lan cupped her fists and said solemnly: "Please teach me, senior."
"Of course." Lu Tong Lan pointed at the empty pot: "The snake-rat soup I gave you to drink earlier is meant to decipher your physique and learn what ingredients you are suitable to eat, and what kinds of ingredients are the best for your natural absorption and contain the most nutrients you need, as for your totem, it is something unique to you, only you will know what it truly becomes."
There were countless totems, even if they looked similar, each one was different.
Lu Tong Lan continued to speak in concern: "Hei Lou Lan, you need to make use of your time and quickly construct your totem. This killer move is the only method you can use when you join the Myriad Tribes Ceremony."
After Hei Lou Lan understood all this background information, she started to wholeheartedly cultivate this method.
Each time Lu Tong Lan cooked something, she would eat it without leaving anything behind, using this food path environment to allow her body to absorb dao marks.
Lu Tong Lan initially boiled soup, gradually, there was meat and vegetables, she also added more grains as well.
All of the food had one similarity, they tasted horrible.
But Hei Lou Lan was an ambitious person, as long as it could raise her strength, she could eat anything regardless of the taste, even if she felt intense pain in her stomach countless times, as if she was in living hell.
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Chapter 2113 Eating People
Hei Lou Lan cultivated while sitting on the stone bed.
Long after, she opened her eyes slowly.
She lowered her head and looked at her chest, there was a totem.
The totem was very simplistic and only had a few strokes, however, the markings were very clear, one could see a black cat that was drawn on it.
The black cat was young and small, it looked very adorable, its tail was raised up as its back was crouched, its front paws grabbed the ground, as if it was going to pounce at the next moment.
"Desolate Extremity lent me the relevant Gu worms, using them, the first form of my totem killer move has been completed."
Hei Lou Lan calculated the time in her mind.
Ever since she came here and cultivated the first form of her totem, thirty days had passed.
During these thirty days, Hei Lou Lan did not leave even once, other than eating and attending to daily affairs, she only cultivated the entire time.
She did not relax or slack off at any moment, she worked really hard.
Suddenly, there was an argument outside the tent.
"Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader, you are going overboard!"
"Indeed, these last days, you used so many ingredients in our inventory for your illegitimate daughter."
"Initially, you used the ancient desolate beast single horned deer to increase your daughter's appetite. After that you made the snake-rat soup and used ancient desolate beast snakes and rats just to find out the recipe most suited for your daughter! After that, you have been consistently draining our reserves dry, the ingredients you pick are at least desolate beast level."
"We nominated you as the leader but you are being so selfish, you have let down the entire tribe's expectations!"
Hei Lou Lan heard this and showed a peculiar expression.
It seems that the tribe elders were currently questioning and blaming their tribe leader Lu Tong Lan.
"Speaking of which, I have been using a lot of immortal materials recently, is Desolate Extremity unable to control the situation anymore?" Hei Lou Lan guessed.
At the next moment, Lu Tong Lan's voice resounded: "Tribe elders, no need to be angry. I am doing this for the sake of our tribe. Lan, come out."
Hei Lou Lan heard this and finally left the tent that she had stayed in for a month's time.
This was a valley with lush greenery, there was a river not far away.
There were tents of various sizes all around, they formed into a tribe.
The tent that Hei Lou Lan was in was right at the center, it was the safest location. At the same time, this was the largest tent in this place.
At the area outside of the tent, a group of people confronted Lu Tong Lan.
These people were also wearing beast skin and exposed a large portion of their body, most of them were elderly people, being all Gu Immortals. The thing that attracted Hei Lou Lan's attention were the totems on their bodies.
"Lan, come over here." Lu Tong Lan waved.
Hei Lou Lan did not speak as she walked towards Lu Tong Lan.
The tribe elders' gazes were focused on Hei Lou Lan's body, or more precisely, on her chest.
The expressions of the elders started to change.
Some were in disbelief, while some became very excited.
"This, this is?"
"Has my vision gone bad?"
"Can anyone confirm with me, is this the dark capital strength tiger?!"
Lu Tong Lan smiled: "Indeed, this is the dark capital strength tiger totem!"
The tribe elders were silent, their bodies were shaking from agitation.
Lu Tong Lan continued: "I know what you want to ask, since my daughter has the dark capital strength tiger totem, I am sure you all understand she has the sacred physique! Only the sacred physique can cultivate the dark capital strength tiger totem."
The elders gasped at once.
Lu Tong Lan waited for some time, after their discussions became softer, she continued: "Now, do you still think that I am being selfish?"
"Of course not!" An elder shook his head and said with a firm attitude.
"This is the sacred physique, it allows a person to directly advance in the Myriad Tribes Ceremony and challenge the Predicament!" An elder stared at Hei Lou Lan with a heated and excited gaze.
"As long as the sacred physique survives in the Myriad Tribes Ceremony, our entire tribe will benefit from it, we will become one of the back-up sacred tribes." Another elder started to dream about the beautiful future.
"Sacred physique? Are they referring to my Great Strength True Martial Physique?" Hei Lou Lan calmed down because she knew that the entire situation was still firmly within Lu Tong Lan's control.
Lu Tong Lan's lips curled up: "Why just the back-up, can't we directly become the sacred tribe?"
The elders' expressions froze before quickly shaking their heads.
"Tribe leader, don't be so hasty!'
"Your daughter has rank seven cultivation level but to become the winner of the Myriad Tribes Ceremony, her cultivation level is not high enough."
"We need to be patient, as long as she becomes rank eight, we will not need to challenge anything, according to the customs, she will be the Sacred King!"
"We need to protect and nurture her in order to become the sacred tribe. Why do we need to take a risk?"
Lu Tong Lan was silent for a while before nodding: "Elders, you are right, I was too hasty. But undeniably, the stronger Lan becomes, the higher our position in the Myriad Tribes Ceremony, and the more benefits our tribe will receive. Isn't that right?"
The elders nodded: "Of course."
Lu Tong Lan suddenly bowed: "Thus, I hope everyone can understand and help to improve Lan's totem with your full effort. The more benefits she receives, the more gains we will have later on!"
The elders reacted and some nodded in agreement, while others pointed at Lu Tong Lan and smiled brightly: "So this was all part of your scheme, Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader."
Because of Lu Tong Lan's meticulous arrangement, Hei Lou Lan was accepted by the tribe at her first appearance.
Hei Lou Lan also understood that one of the main reasons why Immortal Zombie Giant Sun sent her here was because the Great Strength True Martial Physique was really useful in Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven.
Afterwards, Hei Lou Lan asked Lu Tong Lan why the Great Strength True Martial Physique was considered the sacred physique in this place and why it had such a huge status.
Lu Tong Lan answered: "The rumor is that Reckless Savage Demon Venerable has the Great Strength True Martial Physique. Nobody can confirm if this rumor is true or not."
This was not important, Hei Lou Lan soon left this information behind.
She continued cultivating her totem killer move.
This time, not only did Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader Lu Tong Lan help her, the entire tribe was also chipping in.
Hei Lou Lan's totem soon grew from a small cat into a black leopard.
At this point, the elders' help also started to dwindle.
Throughout the process, the immortal material expenditure was immense. But the good news for Hei Lou Lan was that her dark capital strength tiger totem had incredible power when used, far beyond her previous methods.
The dark capital strength tiger totem became her strongest killer move!
"But this is not enough!" Desolate Extremity Lu Tong Lan said truthfully once after cultivating: "Since our lord sent you here, I will do my best to nurture you and not let our lord down! Those elders did not use up their inventory, but I do not have much resources left. Don't worry, in a few days, the situation will change."
The elders had their descendants too, even though Hei Lou Lan had the sacred physique, she was still the tribe leader's descendant, the elders would not expend all their resources for her, this was a natural thing.
Several days later, Blue Phoenix Tribe was suddenly attacked by their mortal enemy Fire Blend Tribe, they suffered huge losses and were forced to escape from the valley.
While retreating, Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader led her troops and retaliated harshly. Fire Blend Tribe was caught off guard and was forced out of the valley, allowing Blue Phoenix Tribe to regain their territory.
Fire Blend Tribe was not resigned to give up, they stayed outside the valley and went into a stalemate with Blue Phoenix Tribe, waiting for an opportunity to arise.
Late at night on this day.
Lu Tong Lan brought Hei Lou Lan away from the gathering point, going to a cave in the valley to meet Fire Blend Tribe Leader.
Fire Blend Tribe Leader looked at the shocked Hei Lou Lan and smiled while explaining: "I am Yellow Extremity Jiao Huo."
It turned out that this situation was just Lu Tong Lan's and Jiao Huo's performance.
Jiao Huo took out a large amount of immortal materials and handed them to Lu Tong Lan: "These are all the Gu materials I can find that are suitable for Hei Lou Lan."
"Other than that, we have these…" Jiao Huo had a strange expression as he took out several corpses.
These were the corpses of Fire Blend Tribe's Gu Immortal elders who had died from battle earlier!
Lu Tong Lan also took out several corpses, these were the ones sacrificed from Blue Phoenix Tribe.
In front of Hei Lou Lan, Jiao Huo started to cut the meat while Lu Tong Lan prepared the pot and flame.
Hei Lou Lan was stunned: "You want me to eat these people?!"
Jiao Huo cut the human flesh as he smiled: "No need to think of them as humans, just treat them as immortal materials. Normally speaking, when Gu Immortals die, as long as they are not immortal zombies, their dao marks will go back into their immortal apertures. But the Gu cultivators here are different, their immortal aperture will be digested by Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven before it falls in place, the totem killer moves on them are created by dao marks, they are fixed and contain the most value within the body."
Saying so, Jiao Huo picked out a few pieces of meat from the pile and tossed them into the pot.
Lu Tong Lan stirred the meat soup while saying: "Hei Lou Lan, there aren't many pieces of meat that suit you. But because they are humans after all, they are easier for you to absorb, it will help greatly in your totem's growth!"
Hei Lou Lan turned pale as her voice changed slightly: "Is the act of eating people popularized in this Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven?"
Lu Tong Lan looked at the human meat soup in the pot as she said plainly: "Of course not. Even though eating people can help the growth of totems, it is still a demonic act. Publicly eating your tribesmen means you are a demonic path member, you will face judgment. That is why we brought you here secretly to hide from the rest. You have the sacred physique, but if you are found to be eating people, your status will be lost. There is no helping it, we have little time, to raise your strength to the limit, eating humans is the best way."
"It's cooked, go ahead and eat."
Lu Tong Lan served the soup as Hei Lou Lan received it with a numb expression.
The human meat soup was far more delicious than all the food she had been eating previously. But after her first mouthful, Hei Lou Lan started to vomit intensely.
Lu Tong Lan and Jiao Huo looked at her calmly.
Hei Lou Lan vomited until even her gastric acid came out, she asked the two: "Have you eaten human flesh as well?"
Lu Tong Lan shook her head, but Jiao Huo nodded and said: "I was the first to arrive, after some time, my identity as an outsider was exposed and I got hunted down. All of my rations were consumed, I fell into desperation and had to eat people to raise the power of my totem killer move. Relying on that, I managed to survive and change my identity, eventually becoming the current Fire Blend Tribe Leader."
Lu Tong Lan said with a calm tone: "Hei Lou Lan, you can choose not to eat it. We will not force you to do this, we are only trying to complete master's tasks to the best of our abilities. I have not eaten human flesh before, I can understand why you reject it. This is only a method to become stronger, you can also eat other ingredients to help your totem grow, it will only take more time."
"It will take more time?" Hei Lou Lan's ears twitched.
She smiled bitterly as she muttered to herself: "The difference between me and him is already so large like a heavenly chasm, if I do not make good use of my time, how can I ever surpass him? If it were him in this situation, would he choose to eat the human meat?"
The answer was obvious!
"I'll eat it." Hei Lou Lan had a solemn expression as she came to the pot.
She drank the soup with huge gulps, she ate the meat in large mouthfuls!
Lu Tong Lan's expression changed while Jiao Huo nodded slightly.
Such a person… it was no wonder their lord had such a high evaluation regarding her!
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Chapter 2114 Hei Lou Lan, You Are Too Ugly
Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven.
The myriad tribes were gathered on Moon Field Slope.
"The Myriad Tribes Ceremony is held here?" Hei Lou Lan looked at the barren land and expressed her disappointment.
Every Myriad Tribes Ceremony was held at Moon Field Slope.
But in Hei Lou Lan's opinion, this place was empty and desolate, there was yellow sand everywhere, nothing else was in sight. When wind blew, sand would stir and move in the air visibly.
"The Myriad Tribes Ceremony is different from the Thousand Tribes Ceremony, it is a grand event that involves the entire Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven, held once every ten thousand years. This is my first time taking part in it too." Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader, one of the Eight Extremities, Desolate Extremity Lu Tong Lan, replied.
Behind them were the Blue Phoenix Tribe members.
Half a year ago, there was an intense fight between Blue Phoenix Tribe and Fire Blend Tribe, the result was that Blue Phoenix Tribe lost many Gu Immortal elders. But as a result, Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader gained a deeper control of the entire tribe.
"Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader, Sacred Child!"
"This is the Sacred Child?"
"Hahaha, I've heard that Blue Phoenix Tribe produced a Sacred Child, this is making us envious."
Entering Moon Field Slope, Lu Tong Lan met a few familiar faces. These people were either famous experts, tribe leaders, or elders, they had high authority and status.
Hei Lou Lan's reputation had already spread recently, her identity as a Sacred Child was too eye-catching.
"Hmph!" A cold grunt could be heard as Fire Blend Tribe Leader stared at Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader, Hei Lou Lan, and the rest with a furious gaze.
Around him, there was also a group of tribe leaders and elders.
"Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader, you came too slowly, are you afraid?" Jiao Huo asked arrogantly.
Lu Tong Lan immediately retaliated with a cold laugh: "Even if I am afraid, it will not be because of you. What fear can you create?"
"Tribe leaders, the Myriad Tribes Ceremony is about to begin, if anyone fights, they will be the enemy of the myriad tribes, we will use them as the ceremonial tribute." The elder of a large tribe saw this situation and came over.
Immediately after, the elder said to Jiao Huo: "Fire Blend Tribe Leader, why are you still here? My tribe leader has already held a banquet, you cannot be late."
Jiao Huo snorted coldly, leaving some words for Lu Tong Lan: "I'll let you off for now."
Saying so, he led the people around him and left.
"Fire Blend Tribe Leader, this guy…" After he left, the tribe leaders around Lu Tong Lan spoke out.
"Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader, even though Fire Blend Tribe Leader lost to you half a year ago and his strength fell greatly, you cannot be careless, he has already gone over to Yellow Bell Tribe."
"Yellow Bell Tribe is a super tribe, not just its tribe leader but even the first elder have rank eight cultivation level!"
These experts spoke one after another, detailing the information of Fire Blend Tribe Leader.
Hei Lou Lan listened without making a sound, gaining a deeper understanding of Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven's situation.
"The situation here is not too different from the five regions, the weaker forces still have to join larger forces. Lu Tong Lan and Jiao Huo are two of the Eight Extremities, even when they cultivate in here and use totem killer moves, they are still superior to others, being experts among rank sevens. Thus, a group of people gathered around them."
"But the truly top tier forces are still existences like Yellow Bell Tribe. It seems that Jiao Huo's plan succeeded, he made use of his tribe's weakness as an excuse to get close to Yellow Bell Tribe."
"Who could ever imagine that these two irreconcilable enemies were actually the closest allies in this world?"
Hei Lou Lan felt deep admiration towards these two people and their methods.
Days later, the Myriad Tribes Ceremony began.
"In the name of Great God Reckless Savage, Purple Gold Tribe offers thirty golden sand carps as tribute!"
"In the name of Great God Reckless Savage, Ice lake Tribe offers three fetus lions as tribute!"
"In the name of Great God Reckless Savage, Yellow Bell Tribe offers a vast heavenly sparrow group, ten sight plundering vines, and one outsider as tribute!"
At the central field of all the tribes, they took turns to slaughter and contribute their sacrificial tokens.
Some tribes were weak, they only contributed desolate beasts. Some tribes that were slightly inferior to Blue Phoenix Tribe offered ancient desolate beasts instead.
As for the strongest forces like Yellow Bell Tribe, they offered a large amount of ancient desolate beasts and plants, or even several immemorial desolate beasts and plants.
From time to time, outsiders would be captured and brought here to be killed in public view.
These outsiders were all Gu Immortals with at least rank seven cultivation level. The outsiders that Yellow Bell Tribe executed were even rank eight Gu Immortals!
"If these things were given to me as food, my totem would grow by a large amount." Hei Lou Lan felt it was a pity.
Be it desolate beasts or Gu Immortal corpses, once they landed on the yellow soil, they would melt like candles, absorbed into the earth gradually.
It was as if this ground was a silent beast devouring all of the sacrifices without making a sound.
"This Moon Field Slope contains a huge secret, it is definitely not so simple!" Hei Lou Lan thought, she watched as the sacrifices sank into the yellow earth ground, the soil that was dyed red slowly returned to its yellow color.
No matter what cultivation level the outsiders have, each time they were sacrificed, the myriad tribes would cheer.
The cheers were loud like tsunamis or earthquakes, it was truly stunning.
Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven had existed for so many years, rumors had definitely spread. Even Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had sent people in regularly, others went in as well.
"Good, kill them all! These otherworldly demons deserve death!"
"In historical records, each time the Myriad Tribes Ceremony is held, these otherworldly demons will appear."
"Let's kill all of these outsiders, how dare they invade our world!"
Hei Lou Lan listened to their discussions while feeling deep and strange emotions surging internally.
The inhabitants of Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven saw this grotto-heaven as the whole world, they treated outsiders as otherworldly demons, not knowing that the outside world was even larger!
This made Hei Lou Lan think of City Well in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], as well as the minimen living inside it.
The sacrificial ceremony lasted for a day, other than the super tribes who were allowed to openly hold their ceremony at the central field, the other tribes could only do their sacrificial ceremonies at their own camps.
On the night of the ceremony, there was a large bonfire celebration.
Leather drums made stunning noises as tens of thousands of bonfires were lit, countless people who wore beast skin clothings and feathered accessories danced around their bonfires as they laughed, danced, sang, and enjoyed themselves thoroughly.
Many men and women were attracted to each other, they held each other's hands and left the bonfire, returning to their own tents, away from the laughter and noise outside, to engage in the most intense and enjoyable ritual on their beds.
Of course, some approached Hei Lou Lan too.
"This is the Myriad Tribes Ceremony, the most sacred moment of all. Lady Sacred Child, we are a match made in heaven, we will produce the most outstanding offspring." The son of a tribe leader brought a large amount of immortal materials and approached Hei Lou Lan.
This young man belonged to a super tribe, on the same level as Yellow Bell Tribe. His father was the tribe leader, a rank eight Gu Immortal, while he himself was rank six.
Hei Lou Lan had an ugly expression, she rejected him on the spot.
The young man laughed instead: "Great, I didn't want to get close to you anyway, you are too ugly. But father gave me orders I could not defy, I had to come here. Hopefully, we never meet again!"
Other than the young man, an elderly rank eight expert also came to her.
He brought a large amount of extremely valuable immortal materials.
"With these immortal materials, Sacred Child, your totem will reach greater success!" The elderly rank eight Gu Immortal spoke: "Even though you are ugly, I am old and still do not have a son, we can cooperate and achieve a win-win status."
Hei Lou Lan had a cold expression and rejected him as well.
The old rank eight Gu Immortal shook his head and sighed before leaving: "Sacred Child, you are still too young, after missing this opportunity, it might never come to you again. Not everyone can accept your ugly appearance, only people like me who have already gone past that stage can ignore the opinions of everyone else."
Hei Lou Lan almost screamed at him to scram.
Even though she did not care about her appearance, she was still a great beauty at heart.
Her parents were both extremely good looking, she inherited their good genes and was beautiful enough to be a fairy of Northern Plains.
But within Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven, the concept of beauty differed greatly from the outside world.
The inhabitants here worshiped muscles, skin color should not be pale or smooth, they had to be dark and rough, giving people a sense of strength and power.
Thus, in this place, Hei Lou Lan was an ugly woman rarely seen in a hundred years.
The first time anyone sees Hei Lou Lan, they would subconsciously think: It was no wonder Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader abandoned this daughter in the past, she is simply too ugly! But possessing the sacred physique despite the ugliness, heaven is truly balanced and impartial.
On this night, Hei Lou Lan was pestered repeatedly until daybreak.
The Myriad Tribes Competition started!
At the area in front of every tribe, there was a blank space.
It was the field for their competition.
"I, Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader, challenge Stardust Tribe Leader by betting a divine peacock feather." Lu Tong Lan brought Hei Lou Lan to the area of Stardust Tribe.
She was challenging the tribe for Hei Lou Lan.
"It seems that Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader is after that white thread tendon of the five emperor eel." Stardust Tribe Leader smiled bitterly as he walked into the empty space.
In the Myriad Tribes Ceremony, a challenge could not be rejected.
"Please start." Lu Tong Lan instilled immortal essence, her blue phoenix totem shined in bright light, turning solid and flying towards Stardust Tribe Leader.
Stardust Tribe Leader gritted his teeth, shouting as his totem flew into the sky, turning into a single-horned mountain goat.
The single-horned mountain goat crashed towards the blue phoenix, creating a huge cloud of stardust.
The blue phoenix dodged as it chirped, spitting out a torrent of blue flames.
The blue flames were extremely hot, the single-horned mountain goat was swept by the flames and got encircled, it tried to break out several times.
Each time the single-horned mountain goat tried to act, the blue phoenix would intercept and force it back.
"Lu Tong Lan definitely has a stronger totem, but the main reason for this situation is the difference in combat attainment of the two tribe leaders." Hei Lou Lan watched at the side and realized.
"As expected of Blue Phoenix Tribe Leader, sigh, I admit defeat." Not long after, Stardust Tribe Leader said.
He needed to preserve his strength, the Myriad Tribes Ceremony had just started. If he got injured and could not fight anymore, more people would challenge him and cause him to lose more immortal materials.
Lu Tong Lan stopped immediately.
Stardust Tribe Leader arranged for the white thread tendon of the five emperor eel to be given to the winner.
Both sides did not go overboard.
"Stardust Tribe Leader, if you encounter any difficulties in the future, you can send a letter to my Blue Phoenix Tribe. If it is a trivial matter, we will definitely help you." Lu Tong Lan said before leaving.
Stardust Tribe Leader's expression soothed.
Even though one could not reject challenges in the Myriad Tribes Ceremony, they could invite others to help them out. This was also why many weaker forces chose to join or side with super forces of their own accord.
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Chapter 2115 Lou Lan Fights a Predicamen
With the full support of Desolate Extremity Lu Tong Lan, Hei Lou Lan started to devour a large amount of immortal materials again.
After digesting them, her totem finally reached greater success!
"Good, your dark capital strength tiger totem has formed completely. With just this move, you are a peak expert among rank sevens, even in the outside world of the five regions." Lu Tong Lan was very happy: "Now, if you are interested, you can give it a go."
The Myriad Tribes Ceremony had reached a cruel stage of the competition.
Every day, a large number of tribes were defeated, their experts got injured, and they lost many resources in their inventories. There were even those who went after their enemies, they did not bet on immortal materials but a person's life instead!
What made Hei Lou Lan feel a chill inside was that any Gu Immortal who died during the Myriad Tribes Ceremony would be sacrificed on the spot, merging into the yellow soil land.
Blue Phoenix Tribe was still in a good state.
Because of Hei Lou Lan's identity as a Sacred Child, as long as she was alive, when she reaches rank eight, the entire Blue Phoenix Tribe would be elevated to the Sacred Tribe, they would have high authority.
Thus, almost nobody provoked Blue Phoenix Tribe.
Even if some people felt jealousy and hatred, wanting to attack Hei Lou Lan before she grew stronger, they would be filled with caution, they would not attack the Sacred Child during this important event, it was disrespectful to Great God Reckless Savage after all!
During the day, the myriad tribes engaged in continuous combat. At night, countless tribe leaders and elders conversed in secret, forming alliances while working and scheming together.
Lu Tong Lan and Jiao Huo were also secretly in contact.
Anyone who wanted to target Blue Phoenix Tribe might likely contact Fire Blend Tribe, the opposite was also true.
Blue Phoenix Tribe, which possessed a Sacred Child, attracted a lot of jealousy, even including those people who were friendly to Lu Tong Lan normally!
Fire Blend Tribe did not have a good time either, they lost a good number of elders half a year ago, they became weaker and had to join Yellow Bell Tribe as a subsidiary force.
But Yellow Bell Tribe had enemies too.
All of the experts continued to fight and kill.
But thankfully, because only totems could be used in battle, the death toll was much lower.
In normal situations, other killer moves would be used in a battle of life and death. Totems were mostly trump cards, a good number of non-totem killer moves were also held as trump cards.
Hei Lou Lan gained a lot of insight these few days.
She saw all sorts of totems, she recognized many outstanding experts.
Her totem had already reached greater success, the path ahead of her was to continue eating with the dark capital strength tiger as the foundation, to fuse with other dao marks and gradually turn it into a totem that suited Hei Lou Lan specifically.
But there was another path, she could construct a second or third totem.
Experts who had many totems had a larger range of methods, but because their efforts were split, the quality of their totems were lower as well.
By investing the same effort and resources, cultivating one totem was naturally stronger.
As for which route to take, Hei Lou Lan was still thinking about it: "In historical records, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable had countless totems, each one was extremely strong. They had at least rank eight battle strength, some were even at pseudo venerable battle strength. It seems that Reckless Savage Demon Venerable took the second path."
As days passed, the situation of the myriad tribes changed rapidly every day.
Initially, those normal tribes with only Gu Masters started to lose and assimilate into each other rapidly. But this situation actually extended to the super forces as well, eventually, even a super force like Yellow Bell Tribe showed signs of downfall!
When three rank eight Gu Immortals died on Moon Field Slope, this yellow soil land started to emit a faint yellow light.
In this yellow light, a road slowly appeared before them.
"Myriad Life Road has appeared!"
"Huff… the myriad tribes challenge has finally ended."
"Only publicly recognized experts can enter the Myriad Life Road and find the immortal opportunities left behind by Great God Reckless Savage!"
Hei Lou Lan had some realization too: "So all the sacrifices are meant to open up this Myriad Life Road."
As the one with the sacred physique, she did not need to be tested, she was qualified to enter the Myriad Life Road immediately.
After the tribes discussed among themselves, they chose eighty-eight people.
There were eleven people of each respective rank.
Among the tribes, there were no rank nine Gu cultivators, thus the maximum number was only eighty-eight.
For some reason, this number struck a chord with Hei Lou Lan.
Under countless envious gazes, eighty-eight people stepped onto the Myriad Life Road.
From the outside, the Myriad Life Road looked like an illusory image. But when Hei Lou Lan and the rest stepped into it, they felt a completely different sensation.
"It feels like there is really a road, I can step on it firmly." Hei Lou Lan walked for over ten steps, her expression changed gradually.
She was accompanied by Lu Tong Lan.
Not far away behind her, there was Jiao Huo.
These two were part of the Eight Extremities after all, they had successfully emerged from the competition and became one of the eighty-eight chosen people.
"Walking on this Myriad Life Road, every step expends our strength, will, and even immortal essence." Hei Lou Lan said.
Lu Tong Lan added: "More accurately speaking, our foundation and strength are depleted at a certain rate proportionately."
There was fairness for everyone walking on this road, they experienced the same difficulty.
Gu Immortals were stronger than Gu Masters, but the difficulty level for Gu Masters was decided according to their own strength.
This caused many Gu Masters to move ahead of the Gu Immortals instead.
"I found a Gu worm, they are crawling on the ground, once we pick them up, they can be instantly refined!"
"Quickly look, there are so many food ingredients, this is worth a fortune."
Many people shouted and cheered, they quickly gained some plentiful rewards.
The myriad tribes outside could not see this scene, they could only see eighty-eight figures that shrunk to the size of black dots as they became concealed by the heavenly road in the sky.
Hei Lou Lan observed closely and soon found something strange.
"The heavenly road is uneven, the slope is upwards at times and downwards at times. When going up, there will be Gu worms and Gu materials, when going down, even though there are no rewards, we will expend less of our strength." Hei Lou Lan analyzed, suddenly gasping in shock: "Strange, this feels like something depicted in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]!"
She quickly looked at Lu Tong Lan as the latter smiled: "You are right, this is Upslope Road and Downslope Road."
Hei Lou Lan could not help but shake internally!
Her eyes shined with bright light: "This means to say, I can obtain the legendary ability Gu and effort Gu here?"
Lu Tong Lan replied: "That will depend on your fortune. If these Gu worm really exist here, I am sure they will be near the end of the heavenly road."
Hei Lou Lan gritted her teeth as she made up her mind: "This is a fortuitous encounter that I cannot let go of! In history, Gu worms that are mentioned in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] are all top tier Gu worms, they either have terrifying strength or incredible abilities. Ancestor Giant Sun was right, I need to make the best of this supreme opportunity to have a chance of surpassing that guy, Fang Yuan!"
Hei Lou Lan started to move ahead.
Lu Tong Lan instructed her: "Don't take the Downslope Road, try to walk on the Upslope Road. This is the guidance of our lord."
Hei Lou Lan was a little bewildered.
Normally speaking, the Downslope Road had a small expenditure on the person, it was most logical to walk on it. Only until the second half of the heavenly road should one start walking on the Upslope Road.
But Immortal Zombie Giant Sun's advice was the opposite.
Hei Lou Lan hesitated for a moment but decided to trust Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
She and Lu Tong Lan walked together, trying to go on the Upslope Road as much as they could.
They found a lot of Gu worms and materials while walking on the Upslope Road, yet most were just mortal Gu and materials.
Not long after, they started to find immortal materials. As for the Gu Immortals who traveled the same distance as them, because they walked on the Downslope Road quite often, their rewards were fewer and also kept within the range of mortal materials.
Hei Lou Lan realized at once: "The heavenly road does not calculate distance traveled but the quality of the road traveled instead. It does not split into the first or second half, it only sees if we are giving it our full effort when we walk on the road. By putting in my full effort, I have a chance of making desirable gains. But if I slack off and take the easy path, I might consume all my strength without gaining anything significant."
Lu Tong Lan and Hei Lou Lan continued ahead.
When they found the first rank six Immortal Gu, the first Predicament also appeared.
Predicaments had all sorts of shapes and sizes, they were translucent and had various colors.
The Predicament in Hei Lou Lan's path was light brown in color, it resembled a raccoon with the size of a mountain, blocking the heavenly road.
"Predicament, a wild beast recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]. It is extinct within the five regions, to think that it still exists here. But since this is the heavenly road, there is nothing strange about it."
Hei Lou Lan took in a deep breath, working with Lu Tong Lan to attack the Predicament.
The Predicament roared as it charged towards Hei Lou Lan and Lu Tong Lan.
The two of them felt their vision blurring and changing, they arrived in a light brown secluded space.
"We are inside the Predicament, we were eaten by it." Lu Tong Lan immediately said.
Predicaments were very special entities, rumor had it that the first person who created a battlefield killer move took inspiration from researching the Predicaments.
Each Predicament could also be treated as a natural battlefield killer move.
Within the Predicament, calamities and tribulations formed and descended.
Lu Tong Lan took the lead: "I will block the calamities and tribulations, Hei Lou Lan, you will break out of the Predicament!"
Hei Lou Lan was stunned: "What should I do?"
"You have the Great Strength True Martial Physique, according to the records of [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], you are a counter to these Predicaments! I do not know what you need to do, but just go ahead and try. Remember, you cannot spend too much time, the tribulations within the Predicament are unceasing!" Lu Tong Lan instructed.
Hei Lou Lan gritted her teeth, activating her strength path killer moves and attacking the place randomly.
A moment later, joy flashed on her face as she felt a movement in the space.
The tribulations became fiercer.
But Lu Tong Lan was very happy: "Continue with that, this Predicament is already staking its life to fight!"
Hei Lou Lan suddenly thought: She had the Great Strength True Martial Physique, but others did not. What could they do if they faced a Predicament?
"Dark capital strength tiger, come out!" Hei Lou Lan willed as she expended a large amount of rank seven immortal essence.
Roar!
With a surging black light, the huge black tiger condensed into solid form and charged ahead.
With a loud sound, a huge hole was formed.
"Let's go!" Hei Lou Lan and Lu Tong Lan flew out of the hole together, returning to the outside world.
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Chapter 2116 Fortitude Gu
The Predicament growled, clenching its body at the area of the injury.
The dark capital strength tiger totem created a huge hole and caused it to weaken greatly.
Its body continued to shrink like a burst balloon, until it was only half of its original size, before the hole closed up and mended itself.
After stabilizing its condition, the Predicament did not dare to attack Hei Lou Lan anymore, it screeched and ran away.
Hei Lou Lan did not chase it, she picked up the rank six Immortal Gu and continued on the road with Lu Tong Lan.
The two walked on the Upslope Road with all their effort, gaining greater and greater rewards.
A while later, they obtained two rank six Immortal Gu and one rank seven Immortal Gu.
Their encounters soon alerted the others, they started to use their full strength to walk on the Upslope Road.
Gradually, some expended all their strength and fell from the heavenly road, crashing onto the yellow land of the Moon Field Slope.
Some encountered the Predicaments but did not manage to break out, dying inside. There were some who defeated their Predicaments but lost too much strength, they had gloomy expressions.
Predicaments were a mystical type of wild beasts in essence, one's battle strength had to be greatly exceeding their endurance limit for them to lose. Only strength path methods had greater effect.
Hei Lou Lan felt more difficulty as she walked.
After defeating two more Predicaments, she found that from a total of eighty-eight people, only thirty or so were left.
"I am starting to lose my ability to continue, a lot of my strength has been depleted, while the Predicaments that show up are getting stronger. My remaining battle strength is only enough for one more Predicament." Hei Lou Lan gritted her teeth, feeling unresigned.
"Don't worry, I have a way, let's continue." Lu Tong Lan patted Hei Lou Lan's shoulder with an optimistic attitude.
After encountering another Predicament, Lu Tong Lan used her blue phoenix totem and worked with the dark capital strength tiger to defeat the Predicament.
"Be careful, don't let it escape!" This time, Lu Tong Lan shouted and acted in time, not allowing the Predicament to escape as they killed it successfully.
"Eat it." Lu Tong Lan cut the Predicament's flesh and gave Hei Lou Lan a piece.
Hei Lou Lan had read [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] before, she understood something.
Each piece of the Predicament's meat that she ate, she felt her strength returned by a portion. After she and Lu Tong Lan devoured the entire Predicament, her strength had mostly recovered.
But this way, the method was exposed.
Many Gu cultivators saw this and started to mimic them.
But a portion of the Gu cultivators were not surprised, they knew about this long ago.
"You cannot overeat the Predicament's flesh, otherwise, your heart will burn and your mind will collapse." Lu Tong Lan sighed: "Let's continue."
After several more minutes, Jiao Huo chased up to Hei Lou Lan and Lu Tong Lan.
"What do you want?" Lu Tong Lan pretended to be unhappy as she called out.
Jiao Huo snorted coldly: "Only seven of us are left, we want to cooperate, of course. We can settle the score outside, but here, we need to look at the big picture!"
Lu Tong Lan was silent.
"Tribe leader Jiao Huo is right, the Predicaments are getting stronger, we need to work together." Yellow Bell Tribe Leader also arrived, he looked at Hei Lou Lan and said: "Sacred Child, you are qualified to cooperate with us and fight together."
Next, Yellow Bell Tribe Leader looked at the others: "Since everyone could reach this far, we are all qualified to work together. What do you think?"
Among the seven that were left, one was rank six, two were rank eight, while the last four were rank seven.
Everyone looked at each other, turning silent for a moment.
"Working together will allow us to get further indeed!"
"But how do we distribute Immortal Gu and immortal materials?" The rank six Gu Immortal asked the crucial question.
If they had to compete, he would definitely lose against them.
Yellow Bell Tribe Leader pondered and spoke: "There is no need to fight over Immortal Gu and immortal materials, we can take them in turns. As for the sequence, we can discuss it. If anyone ignores the rules, they will be everyone's enemy. The Myriad Life Road only appears once every ten thousand years, whoever disobeys the rules will face the pursuit of everyone!"
"Okay." The other rank eight Gu Immortal agreed.
But regarding the sequence, everyone argued for a long time.
The one who was placed first naturally would get the lowest value of resources. The one who got the later rewards would gain greater value. But who had the confidence to last until the end?
Right now, everyone was near their limit, otherwise, they would not have cooperated. If their position was later and got eliminated before they could gain the rewards, it would be a huge loss!
Everyone thought about it for a while before deciding the sequence and continuing on.
After defeating two Predicaments, the first rank eight Immortal Gu appeared!
According to the sequence, it belonged to that rank six Gu Immortal.
Under everyone's gaze, the rank six Gu Immortal collected the Immortal Gu with trepidation.
The two rank eight Gu Immortals did not snatch it, their turn was later, this rank six Gu Immortal also had a decent status, his father was a famous rank eight expert.
With the appearance of a rank eight Immortal Gu, the group of seven became quite tense.
Moving along another segment of the Upslope Road, there were no Predicaments blocking their way, but the group found a dragon horn grass.
Dragon horn grass was an immemorial desolate plant, it was shaped like a coral, similar to a dragon horn, every segment was the length of a finger, it would grow by one segment every month.
According to the sequence, it was Jiao Huo's turn now.
Jiao Huo collected the dragon horn grass while feeling helpless internally, he wanted an Immortal Gu, Longevity Heaven did not lack such immortal material resources.
"Everyone, I can't continue. I'm really sorry, please understand, I am not trying to leave after getting my reward!" After walking for some time, the rank six Gu Immortal said with a pale expression and shaking body.
Yellow Bell Tribe Leader nodded: "Go back, at this rate, you will die of exhaustion."
The rank six Gu Immortal bowed deeply and fell towards the ground.
While in the air, he fell unconscious, luckily, there were people waiting for him at the ground.
After the rank six Gu Immortal left, the trend started as people also reached their limits. First was the other rank eight Gu Immortal, followed by Lu Tong Lan.
That rank eight Gu Immortal had not reached his turn yet before getting eliminated, he had an ugly expression when he left.
Lu Tong Lan was also at her limit, she instructed Hei Lou Lan to be careful before leaving.
Only four were left, they were Hei Lou Lan, Jiao Huo, Yellow Bell Tribe Leader, and a young rank seven Gu Immortal.
"What Gu is this?" Everyone's eyes lit up.
Everyone saw an extraordinary rank eight Immortal Gu, it looked like an ant with the size of an adult's fist, it emitted a rainbow colored light.
"This is quantity change Gu!" Yellow Bell Tribe Leader laughed heartily, it was his turn now.
With this Immortal Gu, he could make the target go from one to ten, ten to a hundred, increasingly greatly in quantity. Of course, the immortal essence expenditure was also raised accordingly. Some targets could not be multiplied, for example, any Immortal Gu.
Of course, this Immortal Gu could be used in combat as well.
For example, if the enemy shot out a torrent of flames, quantity change Gu could reduce the number of flames and weaken the enemy's offenses rapidly.
However, they had to defeat this Predicament in order to get the Immortal Gu.
After an intense battle, everyone won and shared the meat together.
Yellow Bell Tribe Leader was the happiest, not only did he get a top tier Immortal Gu, his strength also recovered to an extent.
Everyone continued on their way.
A Predicament blocked them again, but there was nothing on the ground.
One could not turn back on the heavenly road, they were forced to engage in a tough battle, killing the Predicament and eating its flesh.
Everyone recovered some more strength.
Walking on the Upslope Road, a rank eight Immortal Gu appeared.
It was a rhinoceros beetle that resembled an ingot of steel, it was thickly armored and stoutly built.
"This is actually… fortitude Gu!!"
"Fortitude Gu, did I see wrongly?'
"It really is fortitude Gu, this is an Immortal Gu recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]!"
Everyone was shocked as they looked towards the rank seven Gu Immortal. According to the sequence, it was his turn.
This Gu Immortal was really the greatest dark horse in this Myriad Tribes Ceremony. His entire body was shaking from excitement now!
After an intense battle, the Predicament shouted pitifully and fell on the ground.
Everyone split the meat while the rank seven Gu Immortal took fortitude Gu.
"This trip was worth it, it was worth it!" The rank seven Gu Immortal muttered to himself, feeling excited.
Yellow Bell Tribe Leader spoke to recruit him.
"I'll consider it." The rank seven Gu Immortal rejected immediately, Yellow Bell Tribe Leader frowned before relaxing his expression immediately.
"This person will not have a good time in the future." Hei Lou Lan saw this but did not expose it. The rank seven Gu Immortal's pride had swelled up, he was disregarding Yellow Bell Tribe Leader, thinking he had immense value himself.
But it was not strange, Hei Lou Lan knew that it was obvious: In the future, many people would go ahead and attempt to recruit this rank seven Gu Immortal. Maybe this rank seven Gu Immortal might get sick of hearing such words.
Everyone set off again.
Predicaments blocked the way, but there were no Immortal Gu or immortal materials.
One could not backtrack on the heavenly road, they had to kill this Predicament.
But Jiao Huo rejected the Predicament's flesh.
"I can't eat it anymore, I am at my limit. If I eat any more, my heart will burn and I will die." Jiao Huo sighed, looking at Hei Lou Lan deeply before leaving.
Only Hei Lou Lan, Yellow Bell Tribe Leader, and the rank seven Gu Immortal were left.
Hei Lou Lan had chosen her reward earlier, now that Jiao Huo was out, according to the sequence, it was Yellow Bell Tribe Leader's turn again.
But after several segments of road, they had no gains, they even met two Predicaments, after an intense battle, even though they gained some flesh, the recovery could not match the expenditure, their strength fell sharply.
"Don't be anxious or dejected. I've seen the pattern already, the further we go, the more the Predicaments and the fewer the Immortal Gu and immortal materials, but any rewards that show up are all top tier!" Yellow Bell Tribe Leader tried to raise the morale, he was the next beneficiary, he did not want his efforts to be wasted here.
Like what he said, they finally saw another rank eight Immortal Gu in the end.
This Immortal Gu was shaped like a spider but it was a long body and many compound eyes, shining in blue and red crystal lights, it seemed like a fusion of ruby and sapphire.
"Ability Gu! Another famous Immortal Gu from [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]!" Hei Lou Lan was tongue-tied.
"This Immortal Gu is incredible, it is even better than my fortitude Gu." The rank seven Gu Immortal also gasped.
"Kill this Predicament, I'll stake my life to kill this Predicament!!" Yellow Bell Tribe Leader's eyes were red, he spoke while breathing roughly.
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Chapter 2117 Ability Gu
The three of them charged towards the Predicament, this was truly a battle of life and death!
The three had insufficient strength left, while this Predicament was strong beyond their expectations.
Calamities and tribulations befell endlessly, the three immortals did their best and used their trump cards, they squeezed out every ounce of potential in them.
Hei Lou Lan's dark capital strength tiger totem was crippled, Yellow Bell Tribe Leader's golden bell totem was greatly damaged, the cost of repairing it would be huge. As for the rank seven Gu Immortal, he had rain eagle totem and thunder fish totem, they both lost their ability to fight, but thankfully, this rank seven Gu Immortal had a method to fuse the two damaged totems into the thunder rain fish eagle totem.
They avoided death narrowly!
After fifteen minutes of stalemate, the three immortals risked their lives and finally killed the Predicament.
Yellow Bell Tribe Leader was lying on the ground, he did not even have the strength to laugh, he could only cough: "Ability Gu is mine! You two are very skilled, regardless of whether you join my Yellow Bell Tribe, I will owe you both a favor. What are you doing!!!"
Suddenly, Yellow Bell Tribe Leader stared with wide eyes as he shouted in anger.
Because he saw that the rank seven Gu Immortal had secretly moved away and took the ability Gu on the ground.
"What else? I am snatching the Gu." The rank seven Gu Immortal placed ability Gu into his immortal aperture right in front of Yellow Bell Tribe Leader.
Cough!
Yellow Bell Tribe Leader coughed out a mouthful of blood and fell unconscious, falling from the heavenly road.
Hei Lou Lan gritted her teeth in anger: "I was just a step away, damn it!"
She wanted to snatch ability Gu too, but it was a pity that her location after leaving the Predicament's body was bad, she was the furthest person from the Immortal Gu.
Thus, that rank seven Gu Immortal succeeded.
The rank seven Gu Immortal smiled at Hei Lou Lan before falling from the sky.
"I do not have the strength to continue." Hei Lou Lan sighed deeply, even though she had great gains in this trip, she did not obtain any top tier Immortal Gu.
Right when she was about to leave the place, she suddenly froze as her palm seemed to have touched something.
"It feels like… an invisible Gu worm?"
Hei Lou Lan looked at it with deep focus, because she had touched the Immortal Gu, she could sense this Gu worm's strength path aura.
"An invisible rank eight Immortal Gu? What can it be? Don't tell me…" Hei Lou Lan was extremely happy, she grabbed the mysterious Immortal Gu and left the heavenly road.
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]], chapter five, section thirty-four —
Legend says that Ren Zu encountered the greatest Predicament in his life, he ended up creating his seventh child, Great Strength True Martial, and was saved as a result.
Ren Zu and Great Strength True Martial started to travel together.
Great Strength True Martial asked: "Father, where are we going now?"
Ren Zu replied: "My son, you still do not know the situation, I will explain it to you. I originally wanted to save your brothers and sisters, but fate Gu arranged everything, not allowing us to have a reunion. Right now, we need to break free from fate's control in order to be with our family again."
After hearing the story, Great Strength True Martial could not help but shout in anger: "This fate Gu is too wicked."
At the same time, strong Gu also shouted in his heart: "Experts hate restraints, especially fate."
Ren Zu patted Great Strength True Martial's head and consoled: "Don't worry, I have already thought of a way. I will use self Gu to gain strength and wisdom, after, I will obtain freedom Gu and break free from fate Gu's control. Now, let us go to a place called Qian Kun Crystal Wall, we will search for wisdom Gu there."
Great Strength True Martial nodded: "Let us go there then."
Ren Zu and Great Strength True Martial walked and walked, the road was uneven, there were many upslope and downslope roads.
Strong Gu encouraged Great Strength True Martial: "Oh human, walk on the Upslope Road, even though it is a harder journey, there are often good things there!"
Great Strength True Martial nodded: "Experts like to walk on the Upslope Road."
Great Strength True Martial took great effort to walk up the Upslope Road, he looked around and called out: "There's nothing here at all."
"No, it is right by your feet, pick it up now." Strong Gu instructed.
Great Strength True Martial squatted down, searching the ground with his hands, as expected, he found something hard, it was an invisible Gu.
"I found something good." Great Strength True Martial laughed: "So it is effort Gu."
Ren Zu found it strange: "My son, how did you find out its name? We can't see what it looks like."
Great Strength True Martial scratched his head: "The moment I obtained it, I saw effort Gu's appearance. As for why I know this is effort Gu, well, every expert should know what effort is. This is natural, there is nothing strange about it."
After all, you cannot see the effort of other people.
The pair of father and son set off again.
"This is great, now that I have effort Gu, it will help me greatly." Great Strength True Martial walked as he looked at effort Gu, feeling very happy.
He continued to choose the Upslope Road.
Ren Zu asked curiously: "Is effort Gu really that amazing? Can it allow you to achieve success?"
Great Strength True Martial shook his head: "Effort might not necessarily lead to success, but effort will give you a result. Regardless of the result, whether you put in effort or not will show a difference."
Ren Zu was very worried: "Oh son, you have just been born, don't be deceived by the Gu. I had once been deceived by wisdom Gu. I see that you are covered in sweat and pant heavily each time you walk on the Upslope Road, I do not see effort Gu helping you at all. I've heard of such rumors too, effort Gu can sometimes lie to you."
Great Strength True Martial shook his head as he wiped the sweat off his forehead: "Father, because you cannot see the effort I put in, you misunderstood things. You cannot understand the amount of effort I put in to walk this Upslope Road. Actually, the result of my effort is below my feet, every step, I move higher and further. There are many good things on the Upslope Road, humans cannot obtain them without effort."
"Is that really the case?" Ren Zu was half convinced and suspicious.
Ren Zu and Great Strength True Martial continued on their journey.
Great Strength True Martial kept walking on the Upslope Road, he continued to move up higher, he obtained authority Gu and fortitude Gu.
In the later part of the road, he found humility Gu and forgiveness Gu as well.
These two Gu worms took the initiative to follow Great Strength True Martial.
Great Strength True Martial asked for the reason while they replied matter-of-factly: "Because humility (forgiveness) is the authority of an expert to begin with."
Because Great Strength True Martial walked on the Upslope Road, an ability Gu suddenly appeared within him.
Great Strength True Martial held ability Gu as he said to Ren Zu: "Look father, this is the result of effort Gu. It awakened my potential, I have my own ability now!"
Ren Zu asked: "Then what is the use of this ability Gu?"
Great Strength True Martial shook his head: "I am not sure. People will only know their abilities and their strength after they use them. But it is definitely useful, it can last my entire lifetime."
Ren Zu shook his head, he still felt that his son was deceived by the Gu.
Ren Zu and Great Strength True Martial continued walking, the situation on the road was getting worse.
Downslope Road was easier to walk on, but it was getting rarer, there were more and more segments of Upslope Road.
Not only so, more and more Predicaments appeared on the road.
"Isn't there an easier road to walk on?" Ren Zu was helpless.
Cognition Gu flew towards Ren Zu: "Oh human, there is no other way. The more valuable thing you try to pursue, the more segments of the Upslope Road you need to walk on, and the more Predicaments you need to overcome."
Ren Zu and Great Strength True Martial had to continue on their way.
Indeed, as cognition Gu had said, they encountered more and more Predicaments, their road was completely blocked.
Ren Zu said: "Don't be afraid of the Predicaments, we still have our hope."
"But hope alone cannot defeat the Predicament, at this time, you will need me." Great Strength True Martial's ability Gu spoke.
Great Strength True Martial used his ability, defeating many Predicaments.
Ren Zu sighed at long last: "My son, your ability Gu is too amazing, it can actually do this. It seems I have underestimated your effort and ability."
Great Strength True Martial smiled: "Often, we humans do not lack abilities, we lack the opportunities to display them."
Strong Gu shouted in his heart with great ambition: "Kill them all, let's eat them all! That way, we can become even stronger."
Great Strength True Martial killed many Predicaments, he started to eat the Predicaments' head.
"So this is a bitter head? It is really bitter. But I can feel myself getting stronger."
He started to eat the Predicament's loss.
Great Strength True Martial immediately spat it out: "Experts do not like to swallow losses."
He also ate the Predicament's flesh.
Strong Gu got bigger, Great Strength True Martial also became more muscular than before.
Strong Gu was very satisfied about this change: "In this world, only by becoming stronger can one avoid getting bullied."
Great Strength True Martial gave some of the meat to Ren Zu: "Oh father, eat something, you are too skinny."
Ren Zu was so thin he looked like a rack of bones.
Eventually, Great Strength True Martial tossed ability Gu into the tribulation.
Ability Gu went through great hurdles and difficulties, but it got larger and stronger as well.
All sorts of tribulations and difficulties were prime opportunities to train one's ability, to develop one's ability, and to increase one's ability.
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Several days later, in Eastern Sea.
Fang Yuan looked at the two rank eight Immortal Gu in his hands, they were fortitude Gu and ability Gu!
"This time, my clone Zhan Bu Du did a great job, this is a great gain for us." Fang Yuan was very happy internally.
It turned out that after the fate war, Fang Yuan sent Zhan Bu Du into Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven immediately.
Fang Yuan knew about Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven long ago, there was information about it in the five hundred years of his previous life. Ma Hong Yun had once entered and walked on the heavenly road, obtaining fortitude Gu in the end.
Even though Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven was secluded, there were ways to sneak in. Otherwise, there would not be so many outsiders sacrificed during the Myriad Tribes Ceremony.
Before annexing Lang Ya Sect, Fang Yuan knew about Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven but did not have ways to enter.
But Lang Ya Sect could.
Lang Ya land spirit had once tried to recruit Chu Du, he even asked Fang Yuan to help in this matter. It was because Lang Ya land spirit had this method, he wanted to send Chu Du inside to explore and gain benefits.
The most popular paths in Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven were food path, strength path, and transformation path, among which, pure strength path cultivators were the most successful.
After annexing Lang Ya Sect, Fang Yuan gained control of this method.
He used it to send Zhan Bu Du inside.
And his gains were much larger than expected.
"Fortitude Gu is useful to me, ability Gu also has great prospects in the future. As for Hei Lou Lan, she went to Longevity Heaven and is receiving a lot of attention and help, it seems. It is a pity that Zhan Bu Du did not have the strength to kill her at that point in time." Fang Yuan did not feel much pity about this.
Hei Lou Lan was not important, the key was Crazed Demon Cave and the impending conflict between venerables!
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Chapter 2118 Wisdom Path Great Grandmaster
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Meng Qiu Zhen was exploring another dream realm.
Deep in the mountains, Meng Qiu Zhen sat cross-legged on a cliff with a torrential waterfall below him.
"Immortal, immortal!" A young man was covered in injuries, he crawled towards Fang Yuan and begged him to take him in as a disciple.
"You want me to be your master?" Meng Qiu Zhen smiled while feeling surprised internally, he tried to decipher the rules of this dream realm.
In the past, Fang Yuan would need to test it himself, but now, Meng Qiu Zhen had the dream path Immortal Gu, Dream Butterfly!
He activated dream butterfly Immortal Gu secretly to investigate while stalling for time as he spoke: "You are a mere mortal, but since you are able to find me after so many hurdles, this means we are fated. I have three cultivation paths, I will impart you one of them."
The young man was overjoyed, he kowtowed continuously on the hard ground, a dull sound was heard each time.
Meng Qiu Zhen said: "The first path is formation path, it emphasizes on…"
Meng Qiu Zhen continued to explain, he said the truth without any lies in his words.
The young man nodded in hesitation: "Lord immortal, even though formation path is very complex, I am willing to work hard!"
Meng Qiu Zhen shook his head, saying: "No hurry, my second path is strength path, it is powerful and direct, the advantage lies in…"
After Meng Qiu Zhen finished his words, the young man became very excited: "I want to learn strength path!"
Meng Qiu Zhen smiled again: "I have a third path, wisdom path. Strength path is very common but wisdom path is rare, it can benefit you immensely. Among which…"
After a lengthy description, the young man was overwhelmed with excitement: "Lord immortal, lord immortal! I am most willing to learn wisdom path, please teach me."
At this time, dream butterfly Immortal Gu finished investigating the dream realm.
The dream realm was not small, it had eight scenes.
It turned out that the immortal had once unknowingly destroyed a mortal village, causing the death of the young man's parents.
The young man became all alone, he suffered greatly in the mortal world, not knowing who his enemy was.
After much effort, he finally became the disciple of this immortal. He had great aptitude and had the Ten Extreme Physique, he was very suited for wisdom path cultivation.
When the young man found out that his enemy was his master, he started to exact revenge.
In the final scene, the master and disciple turned on each other, this was a difficult dream.
"No matter what I impart, this disciple will learn it completely and even innovate to surpass the master. Furthermore, he will cultivate wisdom path secondarily and have incredible wisdom path methods."
"Thus, this first scene is the most important chance to weaken this disciple!" Meng Qiu Zhen realized internally.
Without dream butterfly Immortal Gu, he had to test it himself, he definitely could not pass with his first try, his soul would get injured.
Meng Qiu Zhen would need to recuperate, wasting time and resources. After that, he would need to restart and explore the dream realm again.
But with dream butterfly Immortal Gu, he had the initiative, he was not in such a passive spot.
Even though dream butterfly Immortal Gu could only investigate the situation, the value of information was simply priceless.
Looking at the young man, Meng Qiu Zhen thought about it and smiled: "Then I will impart you my wisdom path cultivation. This method was not created by me, but I modified it personally, I named it — Nine-nine Multiplication Table."
"Nine-nine multiplication table?" The young man's eyes shined, just from the name, he felt that it was grand and impressive, it had an immortal flair.
Meng Qiu Zhen continued to spout nonsense: "Nine is the perfect number, nine times nine represents the concept of countless and boundless, the multiplication method is the rule of all beings, the extreme profundity of the natural order, those who lack aptitude cannot comprehend it. Come, let me teach you the first killer move — One Times One is One!"
The young man held his breath, he listened attentively and muttered to himself: "One times one is one, one times one is one, one times one is one."
Not long after, at the final scene.
"Master, this is my final…"
"Shut up! Don't call me master, you traitorous disciple, I am not your master."
"No, even so, I will call you my…"
"Shut up! I worked so hard to nurture you, I imparted my strongest method, the nine-nine multiplication table to you, but yet you repaid my kindness with enmity!"
"No, master. No matter how angry you are, it is a fact you killed my parents, there is no resolving that grudge. For the last time, I will call you my…"
Meng Qiu Zhen did not care, he directly used his killer move on his disciple.
The disciple was constantly interrupted, he could not call him 'master' for the last time.
Meng Qiu Zhen wanted to see this. Because he understood this disciple, who had created his own raging emotion killer move, it was incredible, it could use wisdom path to allow all sorts of emotions to surge in power. If he managed to say it, he would feel a sense of freedom, he would be able to use the killer move freely.
Once he activated the killer move raging emotion, he would gain a huge advantage in this dream realm, Meng Qiu Zhen would face great difficulty in trying to pass it.
The battle progressed like how Meng Qiu Zhen predicted, he kept attacking and did not give his disciple a chance to talk.
His disciple was constantly suppressed, without a choice, he had to give up on his strongest raging emotion killer move and use the nine-nine multiplication table method instead.
Immortal killer move — Eight Times Eight Is Eighty-Eight!
After a long time of fighting, his disciple finally used his killer move.
Cough!
He had just activated the killer move when it failed immediately, he suffered a backlash and became gravely injured.
"This killer move is wrong! Master, don't tell me you…" The disciple looked at Meng Qiu Zhen in disbelief.
"Oh my foolish little disciple, I'll tell you the real name of this killer move — Eight Times Eight Is Sixty-Six!" Meng Qiu Zhen snickered coldly as he attacked viciously[1].
The disciple lasted only a few rounds before his head was taken, he died with grievance.
Meanwhile, Fang Yuan's main body was comprehending killer moves now.
Using Gu worms alone often had all sorts of demerits or side effects. To fix this or to reduce the side effects, Gu cultivators started to use multiple Gu worms together in cooperation.
Killer moves were naturally developed on this basis.
Killer moves involved the use of multiple Gu worms, among the three aspects of nurture, use, and refinement, they came under 'use'.
When cultivators developed killer moves, they were surprised to find that natural killer moves existed in nature all along. From the bodies of desolate beasts or desolate plants, these cultivators found that they had many innate abilities, these abilities were all profound and mystical, like the upper extreme heavenly eagle's ability to enter and exit blessed lands and grotto-heavens.
The upper extreme heavenly eagle had dense space path dao marks on its body, these dao marks were distributed in a certain pattern, following the rules of space path to grant it the 'innate ability' to enter and leave blessed lands and grotto-heavens.
Thus, the essence of killer moves was dao marks.
"In this aspect, totem killer moves are the closest to the original form of killer moves." Fang Yuan praised internally.
Totem killer moves were developed in Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven, they did not exist elsewhere.
Totem killer moves had very high status, they could complement ordinary killer moves and battlefield killer moves, being on the same level as them.
With regard to using Gu, other than using single Gu worms, there were ordinary killer moves, battlefield killer moves, ancient battle formations, current generation Gu formations, as well as mortal and Immortal Gu Houses. But now, on this foundation, there was a new type — totem killer moves!
Compared to other ways of using Gu, totem killer moves had a clear advantage.
The most obvious one was that activating them was easy and quick, even a fool could control them. Totem killer moves needed very few thoughts, they were reliant on primeval essence or immortal essence instead. Unlike ordinary killer moves which needed to activate every single Gu worm, the processes were very different.
Secondly, totem killer moves were easy to assemble, the maintenance cost was also low. The Gu worms of ordinary killer moves needed constant feeding. The cultivator would also need a lot of time to find appropriate Gu worms. As for totem killer moves, they only needed the corresponding food ingredients. Gu materials were much easier to find than Gu worms!
The cost of feeding Gu worms was very high, but once totem killer moves were created, they would exist on the user's body, not requiring further food. Of course, if they were damaged, they would need to be repaired. By then, the cultivator would need to eat the respective food ingredients.
Thirdly, totem killer moves were very easy to publicize, many people could use them at the same time. Also, totem killer moves were suited for all paths!
Of course, there were disadvantages as well.
For example, the cost of creating a totem was not low. Also, with the creation of a totem, it would greatly affect the Gu cultivator's future cultivation, after all, it contained dao marks. And finally, totems were powerful but they had fixed methods, they were easy to counter. This was quite similar to Gu Houses.
Fang Yuan thought about it, he felt that the totem killer moves had some similarity to beast strength phantoms.
"These Demon Venerables and Immortal Venerables have unimaginable talent. Even though Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's personality was quite unexpected, his scheming abilities are top notch."
Originally, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's grotto-heaven only had strength path and transformation path dao marks.
But from what Fang Yuan learned from Old Eccentric Tian Nan's true inheritance, he used the beastman's method against them, fusing his own immortal aperture into the gluttonous demon frog's body.
This was simply akin to the action of a deity, it could not be described in plain words!
The gluttonous demon frog was a food path legendary immemorial beast, with it encompassing the immortal aperture, and along with Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's method, Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven started to develop a food path environment.
This food path environment was crucial!
It was because of the food path dao marks that Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven's cultivators could use refinement path methods to cook while having low food path attainment, creating the food that could allow them to cultivate totem killer moves.
In the outside world, without the help of a food path environment, Gu cultivators could not create such food so easily.
"This is actually food path cultivation!"
Fang Yuan thought about Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance.
In this true inheritance, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable developed food path, allowing tea recipes to become food path recipes. Using Gu materials to create tea, the cultivator could drink it to gain dao marks.
The essence of the totem killer moves in Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven was the same.
Gu cultivators could absorb the dao marks of Gu materials into their own bodies and create totem killer moves gradually. Totem killer moves were very suitable for their own cultivator, because during the process, their bodies would choose to absorb whatever it could absorb as nutrients.
"Hmm?" Fang Yuan's expression changed slightly, his thoughts were interrupted for a moment.
"My wisdom path reached great grandmaster attainment level." He could feel this change immediately, but his expression remained tranquil and peaceful.
[1] This is the author's idea of a joke, possibly regarding readers talking about his mathematics skills.
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Chapter 2119 Li Xiao Bai“s Immortal Ascension
Soon, Fang Yuan placed the matter of his wisdom path attainment level aside as he continued his comprehension.
"Be they Reckless Savage Demon Venerable or Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, they have a deep understanding of food path. In this aspect, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable is inferior to Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, he only made use of the gluttonous demon frog. But the way he used the food path environment to create the totem killer move archetype is truly too amazing." Even Fang Yuan could not stint on the praise towards such a move.
If one truly cultivated totem killer moves purely, they would need to undergo continuous deductions.
But in Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven, Gu cultivators only had to devour food ingredients and use the food path environment to naturally select the most suitable nutrition by their bodies themselves, those dao marks would develop into all sorts of totems on their own.
This was like using food path to make up for any deficiency in wisdom path, allowing countless totem killer moves to be born.
As for the Gu materials that the Gu cultivators devoured, where did those come from?
They were naturally produced by Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven itself.
Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven had bountiful transformation path dao marks, there were many mutated beasts and plants here, they had mutated and developed forms that far surpassed the five regions in diversity.
The wild beasts or plants living in Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven were all unique existences in the grotto-heaven, they could not be found elsewhere.
When Gu cultivators devour the mutated Gu materials, their totems would also continue to change and elevate. From this perspective, the Gu cultivator was making use of Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven's natural development to allow the totem killer moves to develop as well. Eventually, they would produce stunning results.
Just what Zhan Bu Du heard when he lurked in there was that there were over nine thousand basic totems in Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven.
Dark capital strength tiger, rain eagle totem, thunder fish totem, and golden bell totem were just part of them. Not to mention that aside from these basic totems, there were also unique totems that belonged to certain individuals.
"These totem killer moves are not very helpful to me, but there is high reference value in all the recipes that exist here!"
Fang Yuan originally had a food path true inheritance, it came from Shadow Sect and was the original food path inheritance in the world. Not long ago, Fang Yuan also obtained Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance, obtaining all sorts of food path killer moves, there were tea recipes that could increase the number of dao marks on a Gu cultivator's body. And now, Fang Yuan obtained all sorts of recipes to create totem killer moves.
Combining all of his accumulations, food path had developed to a certain degree, Fang Yuan was starting to see its true profundity and depth.
"All along, I thought that food path most excelled in feeding Gu and reducing the burden on the Gu cultivator. But the truth is, this is only one advantage of food path, the true power of food path is to help the Gu cultivator gain extra dao marks and raise their foundation!"
The advantage of food path was to sustain the livelihood of the Gu cultivator and Gu worms, while also using specific methods to make the target even stronger than before.
Fang Yuan had wisdom path great grandmaster attainment level, his wisdom path deductions were elevated to a new level. Thus, Fang Yuan could deduce all sorts of food path killer moves from just these recipes alone.
Food path had a huge difference compared to other paths, most food path killer moves were used on the user themselves.
Fang Yuan had a lot of immortal materials, if he expended them to form food path killer moves that were used on the sovereign immortal body, he would gain a vast number of dao marks!
Fang Yuan estimated: "If I compare the benefits, annexing grotto-heavens gives me the most dao marks, each time, I will gain millions of them. But now that the sovereign immortal aperture is reaching its peak capacity, the balance of the habitat is already close to toppling, if I continue with that, I will start to experience unfavorable losses instead."
"Using these food path killer moves to increase my dao marks might have small gains each time but with enough attempts, I can also accumulate a huge amount of dao marks."
"Additionally, to prepare for Crazed Demon Cave, I need to create some defensive food path methods against Spectral Soul Demon Venerable."
Spectral Soul's killer moves, bitter taste and swallow loss, left a huge impression on Fang Yuan.
He could not ignore them!
At the same time, because food path was not popularized, ordinary Gu Immortals could not effectively defend against it. Thus, if Fang Yuan developed some food path offensive methods, there might be great results too.
Fang Yuan held expectations towards food path, but the extent was not big.
Because his enemies in Crazed Demon Cave were either Star Constellation Immortal Venerable or Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. The latter's proficiency at food path was definitely higher than Fang Yuan, while the former had wisdom path quasi-supreme grandmaster attainment, the former leader of Heavenly Court, how could she falter so easily against food path?
"The enemies are too strong, food path is only a minor method, it cannot be used on that stage. But development is still necessary, I need to have defense against it at least. When I fight against Spectral Soul again, I will not be disadvantaged in food path anymore."
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan gave his time path clone new missions to refine another batch of Immortal Gu.
During this period of time, the time path clone had been using Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool to refine rank eight Immortal Gu without pausing.
A large number of Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan possessed had already been elevated to rank eight!
Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool had a terrifying success rate for refining rank eight Immortal Gu. Together with his huge stock of immortal materials and rank eight Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus' immortal essence, there was nothing that could stop Fang Yuan from refining rank eight Gu in bulk.
Most of his Immortal Gu were rank eight already.
The time path clone started to have free time, he refined some rank six or seven Immortal Gu as well.
Fang Yuan had a vast number of Immortal Gu recipes. These Immortal Gu recipes mostly came from Lang Ya Sect, while a portion came from his various inheritances. Even without Immortal Gu recipe, with Fang Yuan's increasingly powerful wisdom path methods and quasi-supreme grandmaster refinement path attainment level, he could also create his own with some casual deductions.
Earlier, the time path clone had already refined a batch of theft path Immortal Gu.
Most of these Immortal Gu were rank six, a few were elevated to rank seven.
Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool could refine rank eight Immortal Gu in bulk, those rank six and seven Immortal Gu were simply too easy in comparison.
The only thing stopping Fang Yuan was the fact that Immortal Gu were unique.
In this world, Gu Immortals had to make immense preparations until they reached their limit to refine Immortal Gu, after all that hardship and difficulty, they might not even succeed. The success rate was just too low! If anyone found out that Fang Yuan was refining Gu like this,they would be in disbelief and shock.
The truth was, Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool was something that surpassed the limits of any Gu Immortal's imagination!
As for the theft path Immortal Gu that he refined, Fang Yuan used them to reconstruct Thieves Den.
The previous Thieves Den Immortal Gu House had been used too many times, it was the original version made by Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, it was no longer suited for Fang Yuan. Thus, Fang Yuan used it as the foundation to modify and make adjustments.
Even so, he was mainly focusing on repairing and replenishing lacking Gu worms, he made few modifications, after all, this Immortal Gu House came from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, be it structure or killer moves, it was close to being perfect. Fang Yuan could modify it because the eras had changed, new Gu worms were developed that suited Thieves Den even more.
Cooking Luck Pot, Thieves Den, and Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, these were the three main Immortal Gu Houses that Fang Yuan focused on.
With Fang Yuan's current refinement ability, he could definitely reconstruct Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship.
But thinking about it, Fang Yuan wisely chose to give up on them.
These two Immortal Gu Houses had been used too many times, everyone knew about their information, they were also peak creations that had little room for modification.
If Fang Yuan rebuilt them and used them in battle, they would definitely be countered.
Ordinary enemies were still fine, but Crazed Demon Cave had Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, there could even be Limitless Demon Venerable!
If Di Zang Sheng were still enslaved under Fang Yuan, there was still a bit of value in Dragon Palace. Unfortunately, Di Zang Sheng was sealed by Heavenly Court, if Fang Yuan attacked Heavenly Court for it, he would waste a lot of effort and time, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable would have more opportunities to make her moves.
"Rather than rebuilding Immortal Gu Houses, I should design new ones. And the new Immortal Gu Houses that I conceptualize should revolve around my combat system as well."
Qi Sea Ancestor had already been preparing his own combat system, Fang Yuan was also facing the same difficult question.
"Against venerables, I need to have an outstanding combat system. It is a pity that Duke Long is dead while Demon Immortal Qi Jue is sealed, without them as my grindstones, I will have a lack of experience in creating my combat system."
Fang Yuan had always been considering his own combat systems.
He actually wanted some people with equivalent battle strength to show up so that he could have the inspiration to make a mature combat system.
Currently, Fang Yuan's most mature combat systems were sword path and time path, he used them during the fate war. Now that he gained rank eight fortitude Gu and ability Gu, he might be able to create a combat system around strength path as well.
Bzzz bzzz bzzz….
Cooking Luck Pot started to vibrate.
"Oh?" Fang Yuan raised his head and observed his own luck as well as those of his clones.
Soon, his expression became quite peculiar.
On the surface of his silver-white pillar of light, many small grey clouds formed.
Fang Yuan observed them carefully, he soon found that these external clouds came from Li Xiao Bai.
The luck of other clones was tranquil, but Li Xiao Bai's luck was changing intensely.
Fang Yuan deduced internally: "So Li Xiao Bai is undergoing immortal ascension. Looking at how his luck is changing, he is going to have a small problem. But why does this problem involve my main body? And looking at this, it has a huge relationship with me!"
Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed, the sky was covered in dark tribulation clouds.
Li Xiao Bai was dressed in white and he floated in the air, a thick cocoon of triple qi layers covered his entire body.
Li Xiao Bai was at the crucial moment of his immortal ascension!
"Xiao Bai, you must persevere." Su Qi Han was very worried, she stared at him with a fixed gaze, at the person whom she loved dearly.
Boom.
A pale green lightning ball shot down from the dark clouds with a trail behind it, approaching Li Xiao Bai.
Su Qi Han shouted in shock, at the crucial moment, Li Xiao Bai used his killer move and created a poem wall that blocked the lightning ball.
"This Li Xiao Bai is actually able to balance the three qi while blocking the tribulation with relative ease!" Far away, a young-looking man stared with eerie eyes, gritting his teeth.
"If you really become an immortal, then I, Du Zhi Xiao, will never be able to make it big. Oh Li Xiao Bai, blame yourself for being too outstanding. Being born in the same era as you is truly the misfortune of everyone who is forced to be a side character."
The young man Du Zhi Xiao said while shooting out a wave of grey smoke.
The grey smoke floated up and entered the tribulation cloud, causing it to become turbulent as the clouds rumbled intensely, shooting out three pale green lightning balls in response.
"What is happening? Someone made a move!" Su Qi Han watched as her eyes turned red: "Xiao Bai is in danger!!"
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Chapter 2120 From Today Onwards, You Are The Poet Immortal!
Seeing that the tribulation lightning was about to hit Li Xiao Bai, Su Qi Han flew into the sky.
She charged up relentlessly, wanting to sacrifice herself to block the lightning.
"Sigh, this foolish daughter." A figure suddenly appeared, stopping Su Qi Han.
Su Qi Han saw the person who came and became joyful and surprised, shouting: "Father!"
He was the current dynasty's Imperial Minister Su, a rank seven Gu Immortal of Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
"Li Xiao Bai is my son-in-law, why would I let him die on his own? Just be patient and watch, don't create trouble." Imperial Minister Su consoled Su Qi Han while sighing internally.
Truly, daughters would leave the parents to be with their husbands eventually.
Even though Imperial Minister Su appreciated Li Xiao Bai's aptitude, he was against Li Xiao Bai's actions.
Originally, Imperial Minister Su wanted Li Xiao Bai to marry into his family and to impart him Su clan's inheritance, so that Li Xiao Bai could undergo immortal ascension and become an official in the Imperial Court, he would progress smoothly and become a support pillar of Su clan.
But Li Xiao Bai continued to wander outside and gather more knowledge, he did not want to become an official, this action made Imperial Minister Su very unhappy.
Minister Su had made his attempts to recruit him in the past, but Li Xiao Bai's vision was too broad, why would he care about the small Imperial Court within Profound Literature grotto-heaven? He was Gu Yue Fang Yuan's clone, he had grand ambitions, this Profound Literature grotto-heaven could not hold him down.
"Even though this lad does not know what's good for him, he is still a Su clan member, the man that my daughter loves. Even though he is too rash in undergoing tribulation this time and does not know fear, I need to protect him!" Imperial Minister Su sighed deeply, waving his robe, a bright rainbow shot out, blocking the three pale green lightning balls.
"Damn it, damn it! Imperial Minister Su came after all!" Du Zhi Xiao watched with and shuddered in anger, he screamed internally with indignance: "Li Xiao Bai, you are simply too lucky, such a great person actually defended you. I hate it, I hate everything about you!"
Du Zhi Xiao watched as his plans were about to fail, right at this moment, a figure appeared on his left.
This figure appeared from the sky, it was clearly a Gu Immortal.
The masked Gu Immortal charged towards Imperial Minister Su.
Imperial Minister Su had to fight against him, he showed anger on his face: "Come! I have many political enemies, which one of them are you? You have such methods!"
The masked Gu Immortal spoke in a hoarse voice: "Imperial Minister Su, you understand it as well. Your son-in-law is exceptional but he is simply too dazzling. It is better if your Su clan is not so strong! Don't even think of helping him now."
"Someone is helping me?! Hahaha, great, wonderful!" Du Zhi Xiao was slightly stunned before becoming extremely happy, he started to jump around in joy.
"Father!" Su Qi Han shouted from the ground: "Help Xiao Bai."
Boom.
The tribulation lightning struck again, Li Xiao Bai had to use his killer move and create a poem wall.
Du Zhi Xiao screamed wildly: "Don't even think of blocking it!"
Grey smoke appeared from his body again, raising the power of the tribulation.
The poem wall was broken by the tribulation lightning, but most of its might was blocked, only the pale green fire was left on Li Xiao Bai's body, burning him.
"Xiao Bai!" Su Qi Han was deeply shocked, she charged towards him without second thoughts.
Since she could not resolve this problem, she would rather die together with Li Xiao Bai!
But at the crucial moment, Li Xiao Bai's hand pushed out of the cocoon, he waved at Su Qi Han: "Don't be rash, in this situation, in this danger, I gained a surge of inspiration, I have a feeling, I have the urge to recite a poem."
"What?" Su Qi Han was stunned.
Imperial Minister Su and the masked Gu Immortal also froze halfway through their fight.
Imperial Minister Su could not help but turn to look, the reason was that in the current dynasty and mortal world, there were many rumors of Li Xiao Bai surviving fatal danger by creating and reciting poems spontaneously.
"Again? I want to see if you have the ability to surpass the might of heaven itself!" Du Zhi Xiao had an extremely grim and dark expression.
In the past, he had an overwhelming advantage with victory in sight. In the end, because of Li Xiao Bai's poem, he turned the situation around and won.
This experience became the great psychological trauma of Du Zhi Xiao's life!
Everyone listened attentively as Li Xiao Bai recited:
Under the pine trees I ask of a disciple,
He replies, his master had gone to gather herbs.
Somewhere in the mountain he was for certain,
Within the dense clouds, his figure is hidden.
A chain of black characters flew out of Li Xiao Bai's mouth, becoming four segments that revolved around him.
A few breaths later, the poem turned into dense smoke that moved turbulently around him.
The pale green fire on Li Xiao Bai's body got completely absorbed into the smoke.
With a soft sound, the white clouds vanished while the pale green fire was extinguished, no longer able to obstruct Li Xiao Bai.
Du Zhi Xiao was dumbfounded.
Imperial Minister Su praised immediately: "Good poem, good poem. The diction is concise and straightforward, the words used can stir deep emotions, there is profundity in its plainness. To describe complex feelings with simple words, yet the sentiments are sincere and exciting!"
Su Qi Han raised her hands to her chest and looked up at Li Xiao Bai, her eyes shining with adoration: "Xiao Bai is truly a genius! The poem is free of flashy descriptions and feels very natural, but has vivid descriptions and appropriate intensity. Green pines and white clouds. The green and lush pines contain unparalleled vitality, the vast white clouds are thick and dense, remote and elusive, it makes one think of the autumn waters and beautiful women that remain as figures within the fog. It's so beautiful, this poem and its meaning is really too beautiful!"
The masked Gu Immortal laughed: "I understand, I understand now. Li Xiao Bai, you are a true secluded genius, the white clouds in the poem show your high purity, the pines represent your upright attitude. You want to get away from the mundane mortal realm and go to the world of pines and clouds that is beyond. I was simply worrying for nothing, how can a person like you lower yourself to the Imperial Court? Forget it, forget it, I'm leaving, I'm leaving. With talent like yours, if you die, it is the loss of the entire world in terms of poetry development! I don't want to be a sinner whose rotten reputation goes down in history."
As the masked Gu Immortal said that, he turned around and left.
Imperial Minister Su, who had a complex expression, was left behind.
"He left? He let him go just like that?!" Du Zhi Xiao spat out a mouthful of blood, he stumbled backwards for a few steps, barely controlling himself and not falling over.
"This happened again, another person was convinced by Li Xiao Bai's literary talent once again. I am indignant, I am not convinced, this is the treatment that I should receive instead!"
"Ahhhh!" Du Zhi Xiao screamed madly as grey smoke appeared from his body again.
At the same time, Du Zhi Xiao's appearance turned old, he went from a young man to a middle aged man.
The grey smoke floated to the air and was discovered by Imperial Minister Su: "You are the one causing trouble? Du Zhi Xiao, the former number one scholar in the world, to think you would act so despicably!"
Du Zhi Xiao smiled bitterly: "Number one scholar in the world? I am no longer number one, I will reclaim this title personally!"
Imperial Minister Su called out: "It seems that I am forced to kill you today."
"Wishful thinking!" Another person flew over from the right of Du Zhi Xiao.
This Gu Immortal was also masked.
"Another person is helping me?" Du Zhi Xiao was overjoyed.
The masked Gu Immortal fought against Imperial Minister Su, who was helpless to intervene anymore, watching as the grey smoke flew into the tribulation cloud.
The tribulation's power rose again, three pale lightning balls shot towards Li Xiao Bai.
Imperial Minister Su was very angry: "I have many political enemies, which one of them are you?"
The masked Gu Immortal smiled coldly: "So what if you manage to guess it? Your son-in-law cannot block this tribulation cloud, he is dead meat!"
"Xiao Bai!" Su Qi Han shouted again, her voice was filled with agony, her expression was of despair.
But Li Xiao Bai waved his hand again: "In this situation, in this danger, I gained a surge of inspiration, I have a feeling, I have the urge to recite a poem again."
"What?? Again? I don't believe it, I don't believe it!" Du Zhi Xiao shook his head in madness.
Imperial Minister Su was still worried: "Stimulation from danger can allow a Gu cultivator to gain a burst of inspiration and create a work that is divine and change his situation for the better. This has happened many times in the history of the current dynasty, but such situations often use up the Gu cultivator's potential, it cannot be forced. Li Xiao Bai is in danger!"
"Xiao Bai, I believe you, quickly recite it." Su Qi Han was filled with confidence.
Li Xiao Bai coughed once, sighing internally.
He did not want to keep a high profile, but there was no helping it.
His methods could not resist the tribulation alone, he had to rely on Profound Literature grotto-heaven's killer move, assisting literary talents.
This killer move was used by Profound Literature grotto-heaven's original owner, as long as the grotto-heaven existed, it would be effective.
As long as a purebred human created or recited outstanding poems or writings of any kind, they would obtain recognition and reward from this grotto-heaven.
Earlier, because of Li Xiao Bai's poem, he was rewarded and the pale green fire was extinguished.
Thus, Li Xiao Bai recited again:
Over a thousand hills with no birds in flight,
The myriad paths had not one footprint in sight.
A straw hat man sits in a small lone boat,
Fishing alone in the cold frozen moat.
Once the poem was recited, the tribulation lightning dispersed, the effect was simply too good!
"Good poem, this is a divine poem! Fishing alone in the frozen water, it is eerily quiet and chilly cold. Comparing a thousand hills and a lone fishing boat, the absolute contrast produces absolutely breathtaking effects. In this backdrop, the intense yin produces yang instead, a reverse reaction occurs and the fishing action becomes full of vitality and vivid movement, everything becomes crystal clear, showing the poet's clean inner heart, surpassing the mortal realm and having pride that is transcendent to all. I get it now, i really understand now. Li Xiao Bai, you never wanted to be an official from the start! You have such incredible talent, I really cannot bring myself to kill you, I am leaving!" The second masked Gu Immortal sighed with deep emotions, he praised intensely before leaving.
Cough!
Du Zhi Xiao coughed out another mouthful of blood, falling to the ground.
"This again, this again! I know his poems are good, really good, but that makes my heart hurt even more. I am really sick of such praises, it is disgustingly sickening, I want you to die, I want you to die!"
Du Zhi Xiao summoned the grey smoke again, turning from a middle aged man to an old man.
Li Xiao Bai was faced with a crisis again.
"Is there really a point in this?" Li Xiao Bai was really troubled: "I need to recite another poem now?"
He did not want to do that, it was too flashy and outstanding.
It would cause suspicions!
Thus, before he became renowned in the world, Li Xiao Bai controlled himself and only recited two poems. During the tribulation now, he recited another two new poems, it seemed that he was about to recite yet another 'new' poem now.
"I really can't do anything about you, fine, I'll recite it!" Li Xiao Bai looked at Du Zhi Xiao who was lying on the ground, he felt very helpless about this situation too.
Li Xiao Bai recited loudly:
The sun beyond the mountain glows,
The Yellow River seawards flows.
One can enjoy a grander sight,
By climbing to a greater height.
Li Xiao Bai's crisis was alleviated, the tribulation clouds dispersed, his three qi exploded into a new immortal aperture, he became an information path Gu Immortal!
"Oh heaven, since I was born, why did you create Li Xiao Bai?" Du Zhi Xiao shouted loudly in incomparable grief, he had a look of sadness, anger, helplessness, and hatred as he took his last breath.
"From today onwards, you are Poet Immortal Li Xiao Bai!" Imperial Minister Su flew to Li Xiao Bai with a complex expression.
He sighed: "The younger generations will surpass us in time, I had underestimated you all along. I wanted to make you an official of the Imperial Court, but your aspirations are too grand, compared to you, I am a mere commoner. It is truly laughable, from today onwards, go ahead and roam the world as you please, just don't let down my daughter."
"What?" Li Xiao Bai opened his mouth, he wanted to say that being an official was a good idea, he could have resources and a larger network. But his poem had already been recited, his 'aspirations' were shown.
Thus, Li Xiao Bai had to say: "Father-in-law, don't worry, I will protect Han Er."
Li Xiao Bai and Imperial Minister Su descended to the ground.
"My husband, you are too amazing! Your talent is vast as the sea, it cannot be estimated through logic anymore." Su Qi Han sprinted towards Li Xiao Bai.
Imperial Minister Su heard his daughter's words and felt a little uncomfortable internally, but he could not refute these words, after all, he had just witnessed the situation earlier with his own eyes.
Li Xiao Bai rubbed his nose, thinking that he had created too big of a commotion this time, he had to go along with the flow: "To speak the truth, ever since I was born, I had always felt that I was different from the rest…"
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Chapter 2121 Heaven“s Envy Immortal Gu
From Du Zhi Xiao's corpse, an Immortal Gu floated up and appeared on his chest.
This Immortal Gu seemed like it was made of crystals, it looked like a flea and was as large as a fist, curling up into a ball and staying completely silent.
"This Immortal Gu allowed a mortal like Du Zhi Xiao to exert influence on the tribulation?" Li Xiao Bai cleaned the battlefield of loot, he naturally found this Immortal Gu.
To activate Immortal Gu, immortal essence was normally needed. But there were exceptions that did not face such a limitation.
"It seems that this peculiar Immortal Gu can be activated by a mortal." Su Qi Han said.
"This Immortal Gu is very uncommon, let me check." Imperial Minister Su looked at this Immortal Gu with a peculiar expression and used his information path methods.
Profound Literature grotto-heaven was an information path grotto-heaven, it focused on collecting and accumulating information. Even though Profound Literature grotto-heaven was physically secluded, it had not dared to isolate itself from the world, it still maintained contact with the outside world.
And Imperial Minister Su was an important person of the Imperial Court, with his authority, he could gain access to much of the Imperial Court's secret information.
Soon, he got the answer: "This is heaven's envy Immortal Gu!"
"Heaven's envy Immortal Gu?" This was the first time that Su Qi Han had heard of this.
Imperial Minister Su explained: "Heaven's envy Immortal Gu is a heaven path Immortal Gu, there are other similar Gu like heaven's rage Immortal Gu, heaven's sorrow Immortal Gu, and others. This type of heaven path Immortal Gu cannot be activated even by a rank nine venerable."
"Father, you must be wrong? We saw Du Zhi Xiao activate this Immortal Gu with our own eyes to create trouble for husband." Su Qi Han retorted.
Imperial Minister Su shook his head: "I'm not done yet. Immortal Gu like Heaven's Envy is quite special, it can resonate with emotions of envy and jealousy to activate itself. But the price to use it is huge, often requiring lifespan. Thus, Du Zhi Xiao turned from a young man to a middle aged man, before becoming an old man."
Su Qi Han was dazed, she could not help but think of [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], saying: "I remember that in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], there are similar records. Don't tell me strength Gu and wisdom Gu are also heaven path Gu worms?"
Imperial Minister Su smiled faintly: "I am not sure about that either, even though [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] states that, heaven path Gu worms cannot be used by any Gu cultivator, the most famous example is fate Gu. You've both seen the fight during the fate war yourselves."
Su Qi Han pouted unhappily, thinking: "I thought that this Immortal Gu would be useful to Xiao Bai, but to think that it is a heaven path Immortal Gu. This Immortal Gu requires envy and jealousy to activate on its own, but my husband is someone with great personality, a noble and special individual in this world, how can he have such emotions? And the price of using it is too high as well, the lifespan needed is too much!"
Imperial Minister Su saw his daughter's disappointment, he smiled and said: "Xiao Bai, this heaven's envy Immortal Gu is yours. As for how to deal with it, that is your matter. If you offer this Gu to the Imperial Court, according to the rules, you will be compensated."
Su Qi Han's eyes shined with bright light.
Li Xiao Bai pondered: "Can I exchange for an information path Immortal Gu?"
Imperial Minister Su had a difficult expression: "That…"
Su Qi Han coyly grabbed Imperial Minister Su's sleeves: "Father! Our heaven's envy Immortal Gu is rank seven, we will take the loss and just exchange for some rank six information path Immortal Gu."
Imperial Minister Su flicked his daughter's forehead as he said jokingly: "You silly lass, you're looking down on the Imperial Court. Do you think Gu Immortals are so stupid? Even if a heaven path Immortal Gu is rank eight, it has little actual value, it is far inferior to a rank six information path Immortal Gu."
For her lover's sake, Su Qi Han did not give up: "Father! You are the current Imperial Minister."
Imperial Minister Su sighed, what else could he do, this was his beloved daughter.
"I'll think of a way and find a chance for Xiao Bai." He answered.
Su Qi Han smiled brightly, pressuring: "Father, I am sure that you can succeed!"
Imperial Minister Su smiled bitterly: "Little girl, I've never seen you so confident in your father before."
Li Xiao Bai was calm all along, he thought: "Father-in-law has many political rivals and enemies, if I ask him to get an Immortal Gu exchanged from the Imperial Court, he would face many obstructions, the chance of success is low. Even if he succeeds, he will lose a lot of his political power and bargaining chips, that is not a wise act."
Thinking of this, Li Xiao Bai said: "Father-in-law, Han Er, no hurry in giving it up. I'll try to put this heaven's envy Immortal Gu up in treasure yellow heaven and see if anyone wants to buy it."
Imperial Minister Su nodded: "That is a good idea, but Xiao Bai, don't be too optimistic about it Even though heaven path Immortal Gu are rare, nobody can directly use them, this is a well known fact. Who would use their own useful Immortal Gu to exchange for an unusable heaven path Immortal Gu?"
Su Qi Han sighed: "That is true."
Li Xiao Bai nodded: "I'll just give it a try."
Imperial Minister Su advised: "Don't dwell on it, putting an Immortal Gu up on treasure yellow heaven requires a continuous fee."
Li Xiao Bai's expression suddenly changed: "Someone bought heaven's envy Immortal Gu!"
"What?" Imperial Minister Su was stunned.
Su Qi Han called out in joy: "What price did they pay?"
Li Xiao Bai said with uncontainable excitement: "I… I already made the transaction. They are offering me rank seven poem wall Immortal Gu, this is an offer I cannot reject."
Li Xiao Bai's immortal ascension did not have excess heaven and earth qi to refine his vital Gu into an Immortal Gu. A large part of the reason was due to heaven's envy Immortal Gu.
Li Xiao Bai did not have the ten extreme physiques, he only obtained a high grade blessed land.
But in this transaction, Li Xiao Bai obtained his first Immortal Gu, and it was rank seven at that.
Imperial Minister Su looked at the poem wall Immortal Gu in Li Xiao Bai's hands, he stared in disbelief: "Someone actually bought this heaven path Immortal Gu? They even offered an information path Immortal Gu of the same rank? Which fool is this?"
The 'fool' that Imperial Minister Su spoke of was none other than Gu Yue Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan had always been paying attention to Li Xiao Bai's situation. Even though Du Zhi Xiao and heaven's envy Immortal Gu were out of his expectations, Fang Yuan had also not thought of interfering with Li Xiao Bai's development, but having an Immortal Gu was simply too important to Li Xiao Bai.
He had to help in this aspect.
Treasure yellow heaven was a safe place, nobody would be able to investigate the identities of the people undergoing this transaction.
With Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool, Fang Yuan had a high success rate in refining rank eight Immortal Gu, not to mention rank six or seven.
The time path clone directly refined poem wall Immortal Gu and raised it to rank seven.
He wanted to create some opportunity to hand this Immortal Gu to Li Xiao Bai, but to think that he would appear in treasure yellow heaven and sell heaven's envy Immortal Gu.
With such a great opportunity, Fang Yuan immediately grabbed onto it.
The transaction ended quickly.
Li Xiao Bai obtained rank seven poem wall Immortal Gu, even though he was only rank six and had insufficient cultivation level, this rank seven poem wall Immortal Gu was good enough to be his core Immortal Gu.
On the way back, Imperial Minister Su sighed to himself internally: This Li Xiao Bai's luck was simply unrivaled!
"So this heaven's envy Immortal Gu is the thing that caused my luck resonance." Fang Yuan obtained heaven's envy Immortal Gu and found that Cooking Luck Pot was vibrating slightly.
After inspecting it, he realized the truth of the matter.
Looking at his silver light pillar again, the clouds on the surface had gathered into one, giving one a feeling of congruity. The clouds revolved around the pillar as they moved slowly, not only were they clearly defending it, they were rising up too, clashing with the clouds that were at the peak of the pillar of light.
Fang Yuan was deeply shaken: "It seems that this heaven's envy Immortal Gu is the key to dealing with those venerables?"
Fang Yuan started to use wisdom path methods for deductions, sharp light flickered in his eyes for a long time, afterwards, he started to instill immortal essence into heaven's envy Immortal Gu!
Heaven's envy Immortal Gu shook intensely, resisting him stubbornly. But it could not stop Fang Yuan's powerful invasion, it started to falter.
A moment later, heaven's envy Immortal Gu absorbed a portion of the immortal essence and spat out a lump of grey smoke.
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with immense brilliance!
"I actually refined a part of heaven's envy Immortal Gu! Furthermore, I can actually activate a heaven path Immortal Gu!! Is it because of my unrestrained heavenly marks?"
Fang Yuan's unrestrained heavenly marks had already passed ten thousand in number. Every grotto-heaven that he annexed would provide the sovereign immortal aperture with a number of heaven path dao marks, which would be refined by Fang Yuan into unrestrained heavenly marks.
Earlier, he used his rank eight immortal essence to forcefully refine heaven's envy Immortal Gu, he actually succeeded partially.
Afterwards, he successfully activated heaven's envy Immortal Gu!
Fang Yuan did not lose any lifespan.
Fang Yuan calmed down and inspected it carefully, he found out new information: "Even though I can activate heaven's envy Immortal Gu, I cannot fully utilize it. I have only partially refined heaven's envy Immortal Gu, I've only barely managed to gain its recognition. Thus, I cannot exert its full strength yet."
Fang Yuan's thoughts clashed rapidly: "This should be the result of having unrestrained heavenly marks, I am different from everyone else. If I continue gaining unrestrained heavenly marks, will I be able to further refine heaven's envy Immortal Gu, or even completely refine it?"
"Wait!"
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration appeared in Fang Yuan's mind, it was like lightning that pierced the darkness, creating a huge commotion in his mind!
At this moment, Fang Yuan's lips became a bit dry: "Heaven's envy Immortal Gu is a heaven path Immortal Gu, fate Gu is too. Since I can refine heaven's envy Immortal Gu, does that mean that I can refine fate Gu and control fate as well?"
Southern Border.
Tribulations were raging, while Wu clan's Gu Immortal Wu Zhen controlled the situation.
He focused his attention on that qi cocoon.
Suddenly, a person shouted from within the cocoon, breaking out of it and creating an immortal aperture, becoming an immortal.
It was Wu Ji!
In this immortal ascension, not only did she obtain a super grade blessed land, her vital Gu even became an Immortal Gu.
Wu Zhen could feel Wu Ji's aura, he sighed: "Wu Ji, you chose strength path after all."
Wu Ji had no regret, she laughed: "This is precisely the path I seek!"
And on Shang Liang Mountain.
Shang Yan Fei gathered his children in the same hall.
He had died on Yi Tian Mountain, but because of fate Gu's destruction, he was revived by Shang clan's Gu Immortals.
Right now, he sat on the main seat with blood red light surrounding his body.
"Congratulations to father for succeeding in the immortal ascension, you have surpassed the mortal realm and become a blood path immortal!" Shang Qiu Niu was the eldest son, he was the first to speak.
After that, the rest of his children also congratulated him, including Shang Xin Ci.
Shang Yan Fei waved his hand: "Blood path has a poor reputation, keep the fact that I am now a blood path Gu Immortal as a secret. I gathered you here today because I want to distribute the family assets now, before I enter closed cultivation. The great era has arrived, I want you all to become immortals too and lead the new tides of this great era!"
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Chapter 2122 Nine Children Dragon Drawings
In the hall, Shang Yan Fei sat on the main seat.
He wore a black robe, his hair was red like blood, his face was that of a handsome young man. His children were all seated in the hall, gathered together.
Under their gazes, Shang Yan Fei took out a stack of beast skins.
Each beast skin had markings on it, vividly drawing a certain dragon-like beast. At the corner of the skin, there was text written in ink, giving off the dense aura of primitive civilization.
"These are the nine children dragon drawings[1], I had obtained them from a Gu Immortal's corpse in my younger days by chance. It is a pity this immortal opportunity is not suitable for me, even after asking Shang clan's supreme elders, I could not unravel it. Now, I will pass these nine children dragon drawings to all of you, I hope you can unravel the mystery and gain your own immortal opportunities."
Saying this, Shang Yan Fei diverted his gaze from the beast skin, looking at Shang Qiu Niu.
"Qiu Niu, come here." He called.
"Father." Shang Qiu Niu left his seat, walking towards Shang Yan Fei.
Shang Yan Fei passed him the first beast skin: "This is the Qiu Niu drawing, I gave you this name because of it as well. You are the eldest son, you have a dependable nature, I am very assured. This revival is the greatest opportunity in your life, don't let me down."
Shang Qiu Niu stretched out both hands and received the beast skin: "Father, I will do my best and not disappoint you."
"Ya Zi, come over as well." Shang Yan Fei waved his hand and called his son: "From today onwards, broaden your horizon and don't dwell on petty matters, it will benefit you."
"Yes, I will remember father's teachings." Shang Ya Zi took the beast skin and returned to his seat.
Shang Yan Fei called for his children one by one, distributing the nine children dragon drawings while saying words of encouragement.
Shang Xin Ci remained seated, she was not called.
She observed carefully, realizing that the nine children dragon drawings had varying beast drawings. For example, the Chao Feng drawing had a divine beast with a noble aura that could not be sullied. The Pu Lao drawing resembled a coiling dragon. The Bi Xi drawing looked like a giant tortoise that could carry mountains and rivers. There was also the Bi An drawing, it was like a fierce tiger with ferocious aura.
There were only nine beast skin drawings, they were soon distributed, but he had more than nine children.
Shang Yan Fei called for Shang Tuo Hai as well: "You have been managing the merchant caravan well. I will give you this entire caravan then. Other than that, I have a water path inheritance, it is the inheritance of a water path immortal. Even though it is largely incomplete, the contents are still worth a lot, I hope you can still continue to work hard in the future."
After that, he called for Shang Yi Fan: "This is a rank five Gu Master inheritance but it has clues to an immortal inheritance. It will be up to you in the future if you try to find it."
And finally, Shang Yan Fei called for Shang Xin Ci.
"Father." Shang Xin Ci walked towards her father.
Shang Yan Fei sighed: "I've already distributed all my wealth, only this house is left. Oh Xin Ci, among my children, you are the one who most surpassed my expectations. If you do not mind it, take this house."
Once he said that, the hall went into a commotion.
His other children looked at Shang Yan Fei and Shang Xin Ci, they wanted to speak but found that they could not.
It was clearly Shang Yan Fei's doing.
Under everyone's gazes, Shang Xin Ci replied with a calm expression: "I will thank father for this gift."
After the gathering ended, most of Shang Yan Fei's children came together secretly.
"Sigh, father actually gave the house to Shang Xin Ci."
"He did not even let us voice our objections!"
"It seems that father really wants Shang Xin Ci to be the clan leader. What should we do?"
"This is too unfair! What did we all get? Some absurd things or broken inheritances. As for that Shang Xin Ci? She is going to become the clan leader, she will definitely be nurtured by the clan and become a Gu Immortal seed!"
Initially, Shang Yan Fei was still a young master, he was suppressed by an alliance of other young masters. He took a step back and abandoned the position of young master of his own accord, becoming an ordinary clansman. During that fallen period, he stayed in this house.
Afterwards, when he became the clan leader, he maintained this place as a reminder to himself and later generations. The clan banquets were always held here as a result.
Afterwards, when Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing left Qing Mao Mountain to roam the world, when they escorted Shang Xin Ci to Shang Liang Mountain, they were also attended to in this house.
Shang Yan Fei gave this house to Shang Xin Ci, there was deep meaning behind it, it meant that he was giving the position of clan leader to her.
Even though Shang Xin Ci was already the clan leader for some time, according to rules and customs, she had to be appointed by the previous clan leader, that would leave no flaws for others to criticize.
"Father is too biased!"
"That's right, he loves Shang Xin Ci the most, what can we do?"
"Everyone, are we going to watch this happen? She is merely an illegitimate daughter!"
"Hmph, after I died, all of you are so useless, you actually let her become the clan leader."
"I did not decide the clan leader, there were instructions from the higher-ups, what can we do?"
"In my opinion, our Shang clan's supreme elders are too muddle-headed."
"Shang Xin Ci and Fang Yuan have a mysterious relationship, I'm afraid the higher-ups are thinking about that too."
Everyone's discussions came to a halt.
After a moment of silence, Shang Yi Fan said: "Fang Yuan lived on Shang Liang Mountain for some time in the past, but what sort of person is he? He is someone who can influence the entire world, why would he care about ants like us? Shang clan's supreme elders are overthinking it, can't they see that even after so many years, Fang Yuan has not helped Shang Xin Ci even once?"
These words injected life into the stale discussion.
The remaining children brightened up again.
They agreed in unison that Fang Yuan had already forgotten about Shang Liang Mountain and everything that happened here, they were simply unwilling to give up on the position of clan leader.
Shang Yi Fan continued to speak: "Shang Xin Ci has a huge force, but it is not impossible to fight her. We need to work together to win, we can go ahead and split her forces."
Shang Ya Zi snickered: "We need to use a multi-pronged approach so Shang Xin Ci cannot deal with everything at once. I met with an expert some time ago, if we can get his help, Shang Xin Ci will definitely face a lot of problems, her reputation will fall."
Days later.
The study room's atmosphere was tense.
Shang Xin Ci frowned as she listened to Shang Bu Li's report, sighing deeply: "To think that the situation is so severe, in just a few days, those budding issues have already swept through the entire market of Shang Liang Mountain."
A few days ago, counterfeit goods started to appear in Shang Liang Mountain's Gu worm market. These fake Gu were identical to the real ones, even if they were used, the effects would be the same. But after some time, they would expose themselves and self-detonate, the buyer would suffer huge losses.
These fake Gu appeared in Shang clan's market, it greatly affected their prestige.
The situation was very severe, Xiao Die stood beside Shang Xin Ci as she said to Shang Bu Li in displeasure: "Lord Shang Bu Li, you are in charge of the market. There has to be some time that passed for the situation to develop like this, why did you hold back the information and not report it?"
Shang Bu Li snorted coldly in anger: "I was too useless, I disappointed you, clan leader. The situation is too severe now, I cannot make any amendments, I will resign now, please don't stop me."
"You!" Xiao Die was dazed from shock, she said: "Who are you trying to scare?"
Shang Bu Li looked at Xiao Die coldly: "You are just a servant, I am magnanimous and will not blame you. But clan leader, I am resigning now, please approve of it."
Shang Xin Ci looked at Shang Bu Li deeply before replying calmly: "In that case, I will approve your resignation."
"Goodbye!" Shang Bu Li chuckled as he left.
"Is he really leaving things as it is?" Xiao Die was stunned.
"Clan leader, Lord Shang Tuo Hai seeks your audience." At this time, Xiao Lan reported.
Shang Xin Ci's gaze flickered for a moment before answering: "Let him in."
Shang Tuo Hai came into the study room and saw Shang Xin Ci's expression, nodding: "So you realized it."
Shang Xin Ci asked: "Because of the clan leader position?"
Shang Tuo Hai: "Precisely. Shang Bu Li had control of the slave market and had great business, but after your rise, because you did not like such cruelty, you banned the slave trade, causing Shang Bu Li to manage Shang Liang Mountain's Gu worm market instead. He has already been convinced by them, he is involved in this fake Gu conspiracy."
"This old fiend!" Xiao Die gritted her teeth in anger.
Shang Tuo Hai added: "This is not everything, Shang Bu Li is just the first to defect, more will appear soon."
Shang Xin Ci nodded: "And what do you want from this?"
Shang Tuo Hai replied plainly: "We are both illegitimate children. Even if you fall, I will not become the clan leader. I will rarely return in the future, I will lead the merchant caravan and explore the world, I want to become immortal too! But I cannot rely on the clan, if you become immortal in the future, I hope my act of kindness now will be repaid."
"I'll remember this."
"Goodbye."
Seeing Shang Tuo Hai leave, Shang Xin Ci had a complex emotion.
After leading Shang clan for so many years, Shang Xin Ci had developed many abilities and broadened her horizons. From her perspective, among Shang Yan Fei's children, Shang Tuo Hai definitely was top three in terms of ability, he was a prime choice in both talent and personality. It was a pity that he lacked opportunities, he did not receive the favor of greater existences.
"Fate has been destroyed, the great era is here. Countless people are competing and fighting for that chance of immortality." Shang Xin Ci sighed to herself internally.
Afterwards, like what Shang Tuo Hai reminded her about.
Zhu Ba and Wan Qian Shan resigned of their own accord. Xiao Yan got the news that some fire path Gu materials he needed were far away, so he went to search for them.
Xiong Tu, Xiong Huo, and Xiong Feng also received some information on how to save their ancestor Xiong Yan Po.
Zhou Quan and Wei De Xin also became 'coincidentally ill', they were bedridden.
At once, Shang Xin Ci was without her capable subordinates, she was alone without external help.
Those Gu Masters who bought fake Gu gathered together and started to create problems.
Shang Xin Ci had to bring Xiao Lan and Xiao Die to the scene and take control of the situation.
"These Gu worms are all fake, is Shang clan selling fake goods now?"
"Since Shang clan's leader is here, tell us, what will you do!"
"I spent most of my assets to buy a rank four Gu worm from you, but it turned out to be a fake Gu!"
"Shang clan's Auspicious Festival is held annually but there are actually fake goods sold to harm us buyers, this is simply unacceptable!"
"And more despicably, even though there are sales going on, the prices were actually adjusted upwards, it ended up being the same price as the market rate."
Facing all of the intense rage, Shang Xin Ci was still calm as ice: "Shang clan will pay all of you back twice the amount of your losses."
Just one sentence made the surroundings silent.
Shang Ya Zi and the rest who were watching from the dark became anxious, they started to give instructions.
From among the people, someone suddenly shouted: "Compensation, we demand compensation on the spot!"
"That's right, you give us open promises but use dirty tricks in the dark, this is all Shang clan's ploy!"
"Shang clan is selling fake goods, can we really trust your words?'
"I don't care, your shop cheated us of our hard earned money, I want to destroy it!"
The lurking experts within the crowd took action and attacked Shang Xin Ci.
Shang Xin Ci stretched out her hand, using a killer move to protect the shop behind her, she managed to block all of the attacks.
Xiao Lan and Xiao Die were ready to strike but Shang Xin Ci stopped them.
Light flickered in her eyes as her aura erupted, she activated a battlefield killer move.
The killer move pushed outwards, trapping all of the people who caused trouble, the noisy street instantly became silent all of a sudden.
"So powerful!"
"To think that Shang Xin Ci has such hidden strength!"
Shang Ya Zi and the rest watched with intense shock.
At that moment, they felt like they were looking at their father Shang Yan Fei, she had the air of a peak rank five expert!
[1] Search up nine sons of the dragon for their in-depth descriptions. The names of some Shang children are also from there.
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Chapter 2123 Xin Ci“s Immortal Opportunity
Shang Xin Ci had a benevolent nature but she showed an extremely strong stance now, suppressing the entire situation at the moment.
This was the Gu cultivation world — experts reigned supreme.
Even though Shang Xin Ci trapped everyone, she did not punish them, instead, she upheld her promise of paying them twice the amount back.
Even though she understood that people were intentionally causing this problem, she did not do anything to these people, she let them off.
"Shang Xin Ci actually released them!"
"Hmph, the excessive benevolence of a woman."
"To think that she did not make a move, if it were me, I would rather kill them all than let any possible culprit escape."
Shang Ya Zi and the rest discussed in secret, they expressed their disdain to conceal the unease in their hearts.
Shang Qiu Niu had a complex expression: "Maybe this is the difference between Shang Xin Ci and us. This might be the reason why father favors her to become clan leader."
"Shang Qiu Niu, what are you saying?" Someone immediately rebuked.
Shang Qiu Niu said plainly: "You saw it yourselves, Shang Xin Ci had strength that surpasses all of us. When she took the role of clan leader, she also stabilized Shang clan's position, all of our businesses made great profits. Even though she stopped the slave trade, our profits only fell for some time before rising again, far higher than before."
"We need to admit that Shang Xin Ci's capability surpasses us, right now, her reputation of benevolence had already spread widely. Father noticed this and gave the position of clan leader to her, he is not being biased or showing favoritism."
Shang Qiu Niu revived from death, the experience was his precious wealth, allowing him to think more rationally and calmly when situations occurred.
But immediately after, Shang Yi Fan smiled coldly: "Brother Qiu Niu, even if that is true, so what? Whoever becomes clan leader will be nurtured by the clan into an immortal. This is an immortal opportunity! So what if Shang Xin Ci surpasses us in ability and character, so what? Are you not going to vie for this opportunity?"
Shang Qiu Niu was silent for a while before nodding as he said solemnly: "I have to try!"
After Shang Xin Ci released the troublemakers, she went to pacify the shop owners.
An elderly man walked to Shang Xin Ci shakily as he expressed his gratitude: "If not for clan leader's appearance, I would have gotten into trouble. Sigh, it was because my vision was blurred and I lost my cool to greed, I believed in rumors and bought some cheap goods. To think that they were all fake."
Xiao Die pouted: "You're an old man, you've been in Shang Liang Mountain for so many years, this shop has been managed by you for so long, how can you be so shortsighted?"
The old man looked ashamed.
"Xiao Die." Shang Xin Ci expressed her understanding: "The Gu cultivators living here are also not having it easy. If it were me, I would want to earn more for my business, this is a logical thing."
Xiao Die snorted as she looked at the old man: "Old fellow, you were lucky to have met my young miss. Make sure you use your vision in the future, don't go after cheap gains, do you understand?"
"Yes, yes, I understand." The old man quickly replied.
"Young miss, let's go, seeing these people makes me angry. If they were not after cheap gains, why would the market be flooded with fake goods?" Xiao Die turned around and looked at Shang Xin Ci.
But the elderly man spoke: "Clan leader, please wait."
Shang Xin Ci asked: "Is there anything else?"
The old man spoke in trepidation: "I'm ashamed, I'm truly ashamed! I bought such a large batch of fake goods, they cannot be sold anymore. But if I destroy them, it would be a huge loss! Clan leader, didn't you say you will compensate us?"
"What?!" Xiao Die heard these words and exploded, she pointed at the old man's nose and shouted: "Old fellow, do you know no shame? You made a mistake while our clan leader defended you, yet you know no gratitude and even want to extort us?"
Xiao Lan was also disgusted by such behavior, she added: "You are already so old but your actions are truly despicable. Must all your losses be shouldered by our Shang clan? Even throughout this entire world, is there such a logic?"
But Shang Xin Ci stopped her two servants, she looked at the old man and the sellers behind him.
Shang Xin Ci's tone was still calm as before: "Old sir, thanks for reminding me. As the Shang clan leader, I will not go back on my promise. Since I agreed to double the compensation, I will do my best to follow it. You can get twice the compensation for the fake goods you imported."
"Thank you, clan leader!"
"Clan leader, you are the kindest clan leader I've ever seen!"
"Clan elder, you saved my entire family, without this compensation, we would be forced out of our homes."
All of the Gu Masters spoke, some teared up, some knelt on the ground, kowtowing to Shang Xin Ci.
"Let's go." Shang Xin Ci brought her two servants away, arriving at the entrance of the street.
The two servants were very indignant.
Xiao Die grumbled: "Young miss, you are just too kind. Not only did you release those troublemakers, you even compensated them twice the amount."
Xiao Lan also said: "Young miss, I know you are kind hearted and pity those people. But be it buyers or sellers, there are bad people among them. By compensating them all together, we have fallen into the culprit's schemes, they want to expend our primeval stone reserves."
Shang Xin Ci nodded: "Those are just primeval stones, we can still earn them back in the future even if we lose them now. But if Shang clan's reputation is ruined, then we will need to spend a lot of effort and time to rebuild it."
"If I mind these primeval stones instead, I would fall into the culprit's trap. The loss of primeval stones is not important, Shang clan's reputation is a bigger problem, I will not be a proper clan leader after all. They can use this excuse to take me down from the position of clan leader."
Shang Xin Ci spoke warmly and calmly, she showed no anxiety, giving people a feeling of peace.
The two servants understood after this.
Xiao Lan said in admiration: "So that is it. Young miss, you are really amazing, you see things so clearly!"
Xiao Die pouted: "Young miss is right, but this matter is too infuriating. That old man might not be a bad person but he is taking advantage of us to earn a profit now! Why are they not going after the culprit who caused them a loss, instead trying to bully us good people. If Lord Fang Yuan were here, he would beat these people till they pissed themselves, they would not dare to get up from the ground, who would dare to bully us!"
Xiao Lan stared at Xiao Die, stomping on Xiao Die's foot.
Xiao Die jumped from the pain, sticking out her tongue and apologizing to Shang Xin Ci: "Sorry young miss, I spoke out of line."
Ever since Fang Yuan's and Lu Wei Yin's battle when he was hit by the killer move, three lifetime dreams reform a chosen one, after Shang Xin Ci returned to Shang Liang Mountain, each time she heard of Fang Yuan's name, she would fall into agony and sadness uncontrollably.
Thus, the name Fang Yuan started to become taboo around Shang Xin Ci.
On the way back, the three of them were silent.
After reaching the end of the street, Xiao Lan said: "Young miss, Lord Zhou Quan and Wei De Xin have been sick for a long time, let's go visit them and see how they are feeling."
Xiao Die gave Xiao Lan a thumbs up secretly.
They tried to divert Shang Xin Ci's attention to other matters instead.
Shang Xin Ci nodded: "You are right, let's go visit them."
The three of them arrived at Wei De Xin's accommodation.
"Stop right there, who are you, why are you acting so suspiciously!" Xiao Die found someone suspicious at the entrance.
The suspicious Gu cultivator looked at Shang Xin Ci and his expression turned grim, but he was relaxed internally, knowing that Shang Xin Ci was a benevolent person, he answered: "I am Wu clan's Gu Master, I am here to send a letter to Lady Wei De Xin."
Xiao Die's expression changed as she looked at Shang Xin Ci: "Young miss, oh no. Lady Wei De Xin must have gone to Wu clan after seeing this terrible situation."
Shang Xin Ci knocked on Xiao Die's head: "Don't spout nonsense, Sister Wei is not such a person. She is the sister of Wei Shen Jing, it is not strange that they exchange letters. Come inside with me."
Shang Xin Ci let that Wu clan Gu Master leave, she entered the house, seeing Wei De Xin who was bedridden.
Wei De Xin had obviously found out about the conflict that occurred earlier, she handed an information path Gu worm to Shang Xin Ci the moment they entered, but Shang Xin Ci smiled and did not receive it.
Wei De Xin explained: "Those people have outstanding methods, they schemed against Zhou Quan and I, causing us to be bedridden. But I will not falter so easily, I sent a letter to my brother and asked for his help."
Xiao Lan was overjoyed: "That's great. Lord Wei Shen Jing is known as the Counterfeit Master, his ability at creating counterfeit goods is well known in Southern Border. If he can help us, we will definitely be able to solve this predicament of the fake goods!"
Shang Xin Ci smiled: "Not long ago, in Sun Moon Sinkhole, I met with Wei Shen Jing and we chased after the demon Kong Ri Tian."
Wei De Xin sighed: "Back then, Wei clan was plotted against by Shang clan, who was the mastermind. My brother was forced to roam outside, he had to join Wu clan to preserve his life. He bore hatred towards Shang clan and did not understand why I chose to join you. But he sent this letter to praise your character and morals, he sighed in admiration and said he understood my action."
"It is a pity he is busy now. Wu clan's clan leader Wu Ji has succeeded in her immortal ascension, she nominated my brother recently. Wu clan is focusing on promoting external elders, they want to make outsiders their Wu clan external Gu Immortals. My brother is facing a test now, he can only explain the situation to us but he cannot come personally."
"Ah!" Xiao Lan and Xiao Die looked at each other in deep disappointment.
Shang Xin Ci continued to smile: "It is truly a great fortuitous encounter for Brother Wei, if he loses this chance, he will regret it for life. Even though I am facing a problem, I cannot hold back Brother Wei from his great opportunity, after all, any competition to become immortal is filled with danger and difficulty. If Brother Wei needs help, we must lend him a hand."
"Clan leader, you are truly a great person, it is a pity I cannot help you." Wei De Xin sighed.
"Sister Wei, I still need to thank you. But you are currently injured, don't trouble yourself with this. Go ahead and recuperate, I have already gotten a solution for this problem." Shang Xin Ci's smile expanded.
Wei De Xin looked at her while sighing internally in her heart.
She had a deep understanding of Shang Xin Ci, she knew that this expression meant that Shang Xin Ci had no countermeasure or solution currently.
This situation was quite problematic, Shang Qiu Niu and the rest had cooperated. If this problem was not properly resolved, it might really affect Shang Xin Ci's position as clan leader.
Shang Yan Fei passed the clan leader position to Shang Xin Ci but there were rules in the righteous path. If Shang Xin Ci was chased out of this position, Shang Yan Fei, who had already exercised the role transfer, could not intervene to defend her anymore.
"Shang Xin Ci cannot save herself now, but she does not want to trouble me, so she said those words." Wei De Xin understood this, she smiled: "Since clan leader has a solution, I will rest at ease, I am going to recuperate now."
"You should." Shang Xin Ci smiled and said.
"Leave now, don't disturb my recuperation." Wei De Xin waved her hand, she knew that Shang Xin Ci's time was pressing, she did not want to waste her time.
The trio was 'chased' out just like that.
After leaving Wei De Xin's place, they went to visit Zhou Quan.
Zhou Quan said: "I've already learned of the matter that happened. Clan leader, you did the right thing!"
"In the past, I would not be able to see it clearly. But after these years, I've learned much from Steward Zhou and Sister Wei." Shang Xin Ci said humbly.
Zhou Quan looked at Shang Xin Ci, initially, he was forced by Fang Yuan to become Shang Xin Ci's subordinate and help her.
But gradually, he noticed Shang Xin Ci's nature and was shocked that there was such a person in the world.
If Shang Xin Ci was mindlessly benevolent, Zhou Quan would look down on her and leave.
But Shang Xin Ci had a perceptive nature despite her poor cultivation talent, she grew rapidly under Zhou Quan's and Wei De Xin's guidance, rising to the next level. Now, not only did she have strength, she could even manage the entirety of Shang clan.
Zhou Quan was pleased at her growth while also feeling admiration.
Because Shang Xin Ci had a consistent demeanor, she had her own bottom line. Her kindness and benevolence had never wavered because of the darkness and cruelty of the world. In contrast, from the cruelty and sadness she had seen, she noticed the pity and agony behind them, affirming her heart of kindness.
This was something that was very rare!
Before leaving, Zhou Quan reminded them: "Even if you pay them double, you can only lessen the problem, you cannot solve its root cause. The problem is the fake goods after all, you need to find the source and put a stop to it. You also need to find out the rest of the fake goods in the market and remove them. After these two problems are resolved, you will be able to truly get past the problem."
At night.
In the other room, Xiao Lan and Xiao Die had fallen asleep.
But Shang Xin Ci looked at the fake Gu on the table as she showed an expression of worry.
She smiled to herself soundlessly.
To prevent the rest from worrying and because of her clan leader responsibilities, Shang Xin Ci had always acted confidently. Only when she was alone would she show her true emotions.
At this moment, she was like a delicate flower facing an impending storm, it was truly heart aching to see her expression.
She was helpless against the fake Gu in front of her. The truth was, she had already done her best to get this far!
In the silent night, she let out a deep and helpless sigh.
"Clan leader, why are you sighing?" From within the fake Gu, light shined and gathered into the image of an old man.
Shang Xin Ci had a surprised expression, because this old man was the shop owner who asked her for compensation earlier!
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Chapter 2124 Admiring Fang Yuan
Seeing the old man's appearance, Shang Xin Ci thought of many things at this instant.
The mysterious old man was so strong, Shang Xin Ci did not even detect his method to lurk within the Gu worm.
He came with unknown intentions, he could either be having kind or malicious intentions. He might even be the culprit behind this fake Gu incident, this might even be one of Shang Ya Zi's plans.
But Shang Xin Ci was more willing to believe that the mysterious old man came with kind intentions.
Shang Xin Ci said solemnly: "I sighed earlier because Shang Ya Zi and the rest chose to pull me down from the clan leader position in order to fight for that immortal opportunity. But they did not care that these schemes would bring great misery and losses to others. In fact, they completely disregarded Shang clan's reputation, they only cared about themselves."
"But I can understand their choice. Who does not want to become a Gu Immortal and transcend the mortal realm, gaining great abilities? But does becoming a Gu Immortal mean one must treat the people as insects? Isn't there another way, a kinder and less damaging way for the weak?"
The old man heard this and sighed deeply: "Shang Xin Ci, oh Shang Xin Ci, I've stayed in Shang Liang Mountain for years, I believe that you mean this from the bottom of your heart, thus, I decided to help you!"
Shang Xin Ci bowed deeply but her expression was still calm and tranquil: "May I ask for senior's name?"
The old man smiled bitterly: "I am merely a pitiful person who is at his wits' end, I do not dare to expose myself. I know you are suspicious towards me, but I come with goodwill. You are someone worthy of my help, after becoming the clan leader for so many years, you know that to trust a person, what they say is not important, only their actions speak louder than words."
Shang Xin Ci nodded: "Please teach me senior, I am willing to listen."
The old man said: "I know the person who created the fake Gu as well as his residence. His name is Feng Tian Yu, your brother Shang Ya Zi befriended him and asked him to do this by offering huge benefits."
"Feng Tian Yu?" Shang Xin Ci's gaze flickered: "I know of this person, he is in the righteous path, once the young clan leader of a village. He has incredible refinement path attainment, he is a refinement path master, having rank four cultivation level. When he was rank three, he refined a rank five Gu worm. Although the rank five Gu died after half a day, he achieved instant reputation from that. Regrettably, his clan lost in a conflict and faced extermination, he was no longer the young clan leader that had limitless prospects, becoming a lone cultivator instead."
Shang Xin Ci was the leader of Shang clan, she knew the information of Southern Border's expert Gu Masters very clearly.
The old man nodded: "Feng Tian Yu has already reached rank five, but he keeps it a secret and only shows rank four cultivation level. I have a method for you to convince him and turn him over to your side, becoming your loyal subordinate."
Shang Xin Ci was very curious.
Feng Tian Yu had rank five cultivation level now, like Shang Xin Ci, he was also a refinement path master, extremely popular in Southern Border. Such a person would receive royal treatment anywhere he went, if he wanted to rebuild his clan and create Feng clan again, he would become the clan leader, a righteous path leader in the Gu Master world.
How could such a person submit easily?
The old man did not conceal anything, he told the method to Shang Xin Ci immediately.
Shang Xin Ci's expression changed: "Senior wants me to lie to Feng Tian Yu?"
The old man smiled: "That is not lying, it is true that you are acquainted with Fang Yuan. Of course, strictly speaking, it is still a lie. But Shang Xin Ci, if one lie can save countless people, will you do it? You have no other choice now, Feng Tian Yu is the culprit behind the fake Gu after all."
The old man's smile became wider: "In this world, being a bad person is not easy, but being a good person is even tougher. Because a good person has to defeat the bad person while defending their own morals and beliefs. Oh Shang Xin Ci, I am only giving you a method, as for what you are going to do with it, that is entirely up to you."
Shang Xin Ci did not hesitate: "Thank you senior, the method is very good, I am going to give it a try."
"Very good." The old man laughed: "This is why I like you. You have benevolence but you are not blinded by it, you know how to use various methods to deal with evil. In this world, pure kindness is akin to suicide, it can even harm your friends and family. But you are not like that, you are realistic in your goals, you are a truly practical good person."
At the end, the old man added: "This Gu worm contains a Gu Immortal true inheritance, I think this is the cultivation path most suited for you. Take a look, whether you cultivate it or not is entirely up to you."
Saying so, the old man's image vanished.
At the same time, a Gu worm flew up from the table, floating in the air, away from the pile.
Shang Xin Ci held it and inspected the details.
A moment later, joy flashed on her face as she muttered to herself: "Good deeds Gu?"
Shang Liang Mountain had an outer city as well as the inner city. The inner city was split into first, second, third, fourth, and fifth inner city.
The first inner city was called the central inner city, the political heart of Shang clan, and also their military base. Shang Xin Ci stayed here.
The second inner city was also known as the clan city, only Shang clansmen could stay here. Tokens were needed to enter.
Feng Tian Yu stayed in the third inner city.
The entire third inner city was extremely expensive and valuable, it used star stones everywhere. Not only buildings, but even the walking paths were made of star stones. At one glance, starlight could be seen in one's entire vision.
The streets had few people, quiet and serene, like a star palace.
There was no inn, there were only gardens.
Small gardens were rented at thirty primeval stones per day, while large gardens were a hundred primeval stones!
Feng Tian Yu was staying in a large garden.
He drank high quality tea and sat in a half inclined chair, his door was open as a breeze blew into the garden, he looked at the beautiful view of the bamboo forest.
"Brother Feng, you are truly enjoying yourself." Shang Xin Ci's voice resounded all of a sudden.
Feng Tian Yu shook intensely, he was so shocked he almost fell from his chair.
But at the next moment, he reacted and the Gu worms in his aperture got ready to strike. He turned around and looked at Shang Xin Ci, calming himself forcefully: "So Shang clan's leader has visited me, I am truly honored beyond words. Clan leader, your method is really amazing, I set up three Gu formations here after all, you actually managed to enter so stealthily, is there anywhere in the world that can keep you out?"
Feng Tian Yu mocked Shang Xin Ci's action of being like a thief, but she was not upset, she retorted: "How can my methods compare to you, Brother Feng? You caused a huge commotion in the market, the fake Gu flooded the market and resulted in conflict, as the clan leader, I almost lost all my reputation."
Feng Tian Yu was shook internally, he did not expect Shang Xin Ci to find him so quickly.
"How can this be? I am sure that my fake Gu have no clues leading to me, is there a problem over on Shang Ya Zi's end?"
Feng Tian Yu thought while sitting up, denying it entirely: "Clan leader, don't try to scare me, the blame of selling fake Gu is not something a small fry like me can shoulder."
Shang Xin Ci chuckled as she took a few steps, arriving at the door and looking outside, speaking with her back facing Feng Tian Yu: "Brother Feng, do you still not understand? Whatever I claim as the truth, even without evidence whatsoever, is the truth."
Feng Tian Yu could not help but feel shocked: "This Shang Xin Ci has a reputation for benevolence, everyone knows that, but after seeing her today, to think that she is such a domineering person!"
He felt immense pressure.
Shang Xin Ci's sudden appearance threw Feng Tian Yu into an extremely passive spot.
He was originally lying on the chair, he had a poor posture, he had to try to modify his posture while exchanging words with Shang Xin Ci, sitting upright gradually.
But Shang Xin Ci seemingly did not notice, she went past him and walked to the door, facing the outside with her back facing Feng Tian Yu, not concerned with his petty actions, she even gave him a chance to sneak attack her.
But Feng Tian Yu did not dare to move at all!
The more confident Shang Xin Ci was, the more wary and nervous Feng Tian Yu felt. Even though they had the same cultivation level, he had already unconsciously placed himself at the lower position.
Shang Xin Ci turned around, smiling: "Brother Feng, come work for me."
"What?" Feng Tian Yu stared with wide eyes, he was stunned, but soon, he laughed: "Shang clan leader, do you know the price that Shang Ya Zi paid to hire my service?"
Shang Xin Ci chuckled: "No matter what price he offered, you will definitely not be able to reject my offer."
Feng Tian Yu let out a breath of air, his eyes shined with brilliance as he stood up.
The moment Shang Xin Ci tried to recruit him, he understood that she was not able to resolve the fake Gu incident, otherwise, she could create a commotion and lead Shang clan's troops to kill him.
"So she still needs my help." Feng Tian Yu gained the psychological upper hand again.
He assessed Shang Xin Ci while smiling: "Then I will listen, I am sure that the great Shang clan leader will give me an offer befitting your status."
Shang Xin Ci raised her right index finger: "Firstly, your life."
Feng Tian Yu's expression changed, his voice turned more grave as he spoke coldly: "Clan leader, do you think I am helpless against you?"
Shang Xin Ci smiled confidently: "Don't worry, Brother Feng, you have rank five cultivation level, no need to be nervous."
Feng Tian Yu was internally shaken, she knew his actual cultivation level, she came prepared, this situation was perilous!
Shang Xin Ci added: "Other than that, if you perform well, you might be able to receive Lord Fang Yuan's audience."
"What?!" Feng Tian Yu's expression changed again.
Shang Xin Ci spoke without stopping: "Don't be so shocked, Brother Feng. I know far more things than you can ever imagine."
"I'll tell you the truth, I'm sure you know about my relationship with Lord Fang Yuan. I was able to discern your identity because I got help from Lord Fang Yuan's hairy man Gu Immortal subordinates."
"I handed up a fake Gu and that hairy man Gu Immortal actually praised it. He said that you are a genius, if you are able to progress further, you might gain Lord Fang Yuan's recognition and become his subordinate.
"Seriously? Is this true?" Feng Tian Yu was extremely excited, his face was flushed red.
Shang Xin Ci smiled: "Why would I lie to you? Since I can find you, I can easily take you down, what's the point of wasting my breath here?"
"I am sure you know my situation. The reason I became clan leader was because of Lord Fang Yuan. To tell you the truth, Shang clan has already cooperated with Lord Fang Yuan in secret."
Feng Tian Yu chuckled: "Shang clan? Lord Fang Yuan is the number one demon in the world! If Lord Fang Yuan wants to take something from Shang clan, will you dare to say no?"
"But I admire Lord Fang Yuan's refinement path talent the most!"
"Back then on Three Kings Mountain, I was blessed to have watched the scene of Lord Fang Yuan refining Fixed Immortal Travel personally. That was truly the greatest fortune of my life."
"I had once used rank three cultivation level to refine a rank five Gu worm that lived for half a day. But Lord Fang Yuan actually refined an Immortal Gu as a mortal! And he did it in that dangerous situation."
"His talent, his aptitude, his strength, and his wisdom is number one in the world! Since then, I believed wholeheartedly that Lord Fang Yuan would become renowned in the entire five regions and two heavens!"
"As expected!"
"Lord Fang Yuan defeated Heavenly Court in front of everyone in the world, he destroyed fate Gu!"
"And the greatest thing was that he used a refinement path method to destroy fate Gu. From then on, fate Gu can no longer exist in this world."
"From then on, all of us broke free of the restraints of fate!"
"He is a warrior, a hero, a savior. He has made the greatest contribution for the whole of humanity in history!"
"But no one understands him, they think he is in the demonic path, they are just too shallow, they are too ignorant! Lord Fang Yuan is an unprecedented existence, he is a great hero that only appears once in a billion years!"
"But I understand those so-called righteous path people. They are petty figures who feel fear, these weaklings and cowards are shamelessly trying to slander Lord Fang Yuan after realizing they can no longer harm him! They are obstructing the rise of humanity, they are sinners that obstruct the development of the world!!"
"Lord Fang Yuan is too outstanding, he is too amazing, he is too noble!"
"If I can follow him, if I can follow in the footsteps of such a noble figure, I… I do not know what else I can say."
"Huff, huff!"
"Amazing, this is too unbelievable."
"Today is simply the happiest day of my life!"
"Unbelievable, Lord Fang Yuan is actually taking me in as his subordinate. This is unbelievable, oh heaven!"
Feng Tian Yu got more and more excited as he spoke, his entire body was shuddering, he was almost about to burst out into spontaneous spasm.
His eyes shined with such a bright light as they turned red and tears gathered in his eyes, even Shang Xin Ci was feeling a chill as she looked at him.
That mysterious old man was not wrong at all.
Feng Tian Yu was a most fanatical admirer of Fang Yuan.
In fact, Fang Yuan's rise, his stories, the scene where he destroyed fate, all of them were widely spread.
Most demonic cultivators saw Fang Yuan as their idol, they looked at him as their goal and inspiration.
Even in the righteous path, there were many who admired him secretly, looking up to his courage in challenging the experts of Heavenly Court, he had incredible wits and was able to scheme despite danger.
Feng Tian Yu was not special, he was just one of them.
But because he had once interacted with Fang Yuan, and because of their similarities in refinement path, he who had once been a blessed young master experienced his entire family being slaughtered, the terrible ordeal in his life made his personality even more twisted and extreme.
Thus, because of his life experiences, he treated the strongest refinement path expert in the current world, the grand and legendary figure who he cannot surpass in this life, Fang Yuan, as his target for fanatical idolism.
Even though Shang Xin Ci did not produce any solid evidence, as long as there was hope, as long as there was a chance for him to get close to his idol, the divine existence in his heart, it was enough for him to feel extreme excitement, he could not control himself.
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Chapter 2125 Brother Feng, You?!
Several days later.
Second inner city of Shang Liang Mountain.
Shang Ya Zi and the rest had gathered together for a discussion, but they were soon enraged to find out that they were encircled.
"Zhou Quan, Wei De Xin! You are too daring, you dare to gather a bunch of Gu cultivators in the second inner city!"
"What are you trying to do? We are Shang Yan Fei's children, the blood siblings of your master Shang Xin Ci!"
"You outsiders dare to interfere and take action against Shang clan members on this Shang Liang Mountain?"
Shang Ya Zi and the rest were furious, they screamed loudly, getting their voices to spread out around the entire second inner city.
The second inner city was the residence of Shang clan's members, the commotion attracted the attention of countless clansmen.
Soon, hundreds of clansmen gathered here as they encircled Wei De Xin and Zhou Quan's group instead.
"What is going on?"
"Commander Wei De Xin and Steward Zhou Quan, they are Shang Xin Ci's most loyal subordinates."
"They are encircling Shang Qiu Niu, Shang Ya Zi, and the rest!"
"These two are simply too daring, they are trying to take action against our Shang clan's members openly!"
"Don't be rash, without Shang Xin Ci's instructions, why would these two dare to make a move?"
"A good show is going to start! This is clearly a fight over authority."
Shang clan's members discussed, the matter was getting heated, more clansmen were arriving.
Wei De Xin smiled coldly.
Zhou Quan announced loudly: "Recently, fake Gu have been rampantly spread in Shang Liang Mountain, we have already investigated the truth. You are all the culprits behind this, quickly surrender. Our leader is kind and merciful, she might let you off with a light sentence."
Shang Ya Zi and the rest shook internally.
Shang Yi Fan stepped out: "Bullshit! You dare to accuse us without evidence. Shang Xin Ci was clearly the one without ability or morals, she could not handle this problem, so she wants to put the blame on us? She is simply too wicked!"
"Don't worry, there is no need to deny it now." Wei De Xin interrupted: "Since we are publicly arresting you, we have concrete evidence."
"What evidence?"
"Where is Shang Xin Ci?" Ask her to come out and speak."
"That's right, why is she letting you two handle this, you are merely Shang Xin Ci's two dogs!"
Shang Ya Zi and the rest screamed.
Zhou Quan smiled coldly: "Everyone, are you afraid now?"
"We are descendants of Shang clan, we fear nothing! But often, forceful courage is stupidity. If we leave with you, in your territory, we will be forced to submit, even if we are innocent, we will be tortured and forced to accept this blame, we will become the culprits in the end!"
"Since you have evidence, then tell us right here, right now, in front of everyone in the city!!"
Shang Qiu Niu and Shang Chi Wen spoke.
Shang Ya Zi and Shang Yi Fan frowned.
"That's right, that's right, speak clearly in front of everyone here!"
"That's right! You are encircling the young clan leaders of our Shang clan!"
"Even if they are no longer the young clan leaders, they are not people that you outsiders can bully."
The Shang clan members at the periphery shouted.
Zhou Quan laughed: "Everything is within clan leader's expectations, alright, since you want evidence, I will leave you speechless. This is the evidence!"
Zhou Quan waved his hand as a large pile of Gu worms appeared on the ground.
Wei De Xin added: "Right now, all of Shang Liang Mountain's fake Gu are gathered here."
Shang Yi Fan laughed: "That's it? Taking a bunch of Gu and framing it on us?"
Zhou Quan laughed: "Of course not. We have solid facts that Feng Tian Yu is the person who refined these fake Gu. Furthermore, he is among you right now, he is naturally instructed by you."
Instantly, countless gazes gathered on Feng Tian Yu.
Shang Ya Zi and the rest were scheming, as a crucial person, Feng Tian Yu was naturally involved.
"It is Feng Tian Yu indeed!"
"Why is this refinement path master here?"
"I only recognized him just now."
"It really is Master Feng."
The surrounding talks became louder and rowdier.
Shang Ya Zi could not endure it anymore, he stepped forward and shielded Feng Tian Yu as he shouted: "Zhou Quan! You are framing us, this is a slander against a good friend of mine. We will not let this go! This matter is far more severe than you accusing us of this issue!! If you do not have solid evidence that Brother Feng is the person who made these fake Gu, I will seek an audience with father, I will ask him to uphold justice!"
Zhou Quan laughed: "Of course I have evidence. Tell me, Feng Tian Yu, are you the one who refined these fake Gu?"
Shang Ya Zi and the rest were dazed.
Next, the group heard Feng Tian Yu speak in a natural tone as he admitted: "Steward Zhou is right, I was instructed by Shang Ya Zi's group to refine the fake Gu and create problems in the market, they want to harm the current Shang clan leader."
"What?"
"What?!"
"Brother… Brother Feng, you?!!"
At this moment, the scene went silent.
Shang Yi Fan and the rest stared at Feng Tian Yu, their expressions were of disbelief and shock.
Shang Ya Zi turned around abruptly, rage and shock prominently displayed on his face.
Feng Tian Yu had actually betrayed them so suddenly?
What was he after?
How can this be!
Did Shang Xin Ci offer him an even greater price?
Impossible!
In order to hire Feng Tian Yu, Shang Ya Zi and the rest had expended their own wealth. How could Shang Xin Ci gather so much resources in such a short period of time?!
But this actually happened to them.
It was a fatal blow to Shang Ya Zi and the rest!
"No, you are not Brother Feng!" Shang Ya Zi's expression was twisted, he struggled: "You must be an impostor, no, even if you are real, I am sure that vicious woman Shang Xin Ci has you under her control!"
Shang Ya Zi's screams were so pale and weak at this moment.
Zhou Quan spoke: "Don't worry, Master Feng Tian Yu is not the only person I have as witness. The rest of you, what do you have to say?"
At the next moment, Shang Qiu Niu sighed deeply: "I admit, we committed this mistake."
"Shang Qiu Niu!!"
"Eldest brother, you?"
"Are you insane?'
However, Shang Qiu Niu was not the only lunatic, there was also Shang Chi Wen.
She also stood up and agreed with Zhou Quan's accusations.
Shang Ya Zi almost coughed out a mouthful of blood, Shang Yi Fan shook in anger: "You two, you are going to be the death of us!"
Shang Chi Wen smiled: "Not just us."
She had once managed the battle stage, she had a good relationship with Shang Xin Ci. Back then, Shang Xin Ci's information business also helped her.
Shang Qiu Niu waved his hands: "Not long ago, Feng Tian Yu and Shang Xin Ci approached me, since Master Feng Tian Yu has already joined her, what can we do? There is no chance of winning. Shang Xin Ci has amazing methods, we cannot upset her position as clan leader. We have lost, admit it."
The crucial point was still Feng Tian Yu!
Shang Ya Zi realized this, he stared at Feng Tian Yu with a gaze that could devour him whole: "Feng Tian Yu, answer me! I know you are not someone who goes after beauties. You are such an aloof person, having only interest in refinement path. I do not believe that Shang Xin Ci has such charisma to win you over entirely. Tell me, why is this happening?"
"Hmph." Feng Tian Yu snickered coldly: "How can mortals understand my pursuit? Quickly surrender!"
"You guys can all die!" Shang Ya Zi exploded entirely, he attacked.
Shang Yi Fan and the rest followed after.
Shang Qiu Niu, Feng Tian Yu, Zhou Quan, and Wei De Xin were also prepared for this, both sides burst into a chaotic battle.
Shang clan's members continued to watch, they did not interfere.
"The situation is quite clear now."
"To think that Clan Leader Shang Xin Ci is so amazing!"
"This is a miracle, someone was actually able to win over Master Feng Tian Yu."
"Empress Wu Ji had also tried to recruit him with a high price in the past, she was very sincere but Master Feng paid her no heed!"
Shang Yi Fan's and Shang Ya Zi's group soon fell into a disadvantage.
Zhou Quan and the rest came prepared, Shang Qiu Niu and Shang Chi Wen even betrayed them. This happened too suddenly and peculiarly, Shang Ya Zi was caught unguarded.
"No! I cannot lose, I still have a trump card. You guys forced me to do this, you guys forced me!!" Seeing that he was about to be captured, Shang Yi Fan shouted as he threw out a mortal Gu House.
The mortal Gu House was like a cage, it exploded, a mud monster was released.
At first glance, this mud monster was obviously extraordinary.
It had a vague human figure, mud moved along its body as countless faces surfaced.
These human faces had twisted expressions, they were filled with extreme hatred, everyone felt a chill upon seeing them.
"You bastard[1]!" The mud monster suddenly shouted as it attacked Zhou Quan and the rest.
Zhou Quan and the rest fought against it, they were heavily suppressed.
The flow of the battle was instantly overturned.
"Let's go!" Shang Yi Fan shouted loudly.
The mud monster did not differentiate enemy and ally, it had great strength, rushing into the crowd and slaughtering innocent mortals, creating chaos.
During the chaos, Shang Ya Zi and the rest escaped narrowly.
They could no longer stay on Shang Liang Mountain, they escaped and became demonic path Gu Masters.
The mud monster caused huge destruction and losses to second inner city.
Not only did it have terrifying battle strength, it was even nearly unkillable, its regenerative ability was outstanding too.
Eventually, Zhou Quan and Wei De Xin exerted all their effort, with the help of Shang Xin Ci, more than ten Gu cultivators were sacrificed before this mud monster was sealed again.
The fake Gu crisis was alleviated, not only did Shang Xin Ci keep her clan leader position, she even took Feng Tian Yu in as a subordinate, her reputation soared.
But Shang Yi Fan's final struggle also left a huge problem for Shang Xin Ci to settle.
After receiving the report, Shang Yan Fei smiled.
Shang Xin Ci's performance did not disappoint him, in fact, he was even pleasantly surprised.
He did not think that Shang Xin Ci would be able to achieve this.
The thing that satisfied him the most was that Shang Xin Ci did not really target Shang Ya Zi and the rest, she only dealt with the troublesome mud monster.
As for Shang Yi Fan's and Shang Ya Zi's group, since they had failed entirely, it was a better end for them to become demonic path Gu Masters.
"They all have my hidden blood path methods, they can be protected during critical danger. The qi tides are rampant, immortal opportunities are hidden everywhere. If they want to become immortal, they will need to work hard and find their own opportunities."
Shang Yan Fei had never overly doted on his children, he had forced his brother and sister to commit suicide when he first became clan leader.
He had once ignored all objections and expended much resources to murder every single person in a village. He murdered all those who surrendered, and their skulls piled into a hill, in front of those elders who first objected to his decision to retaliate.
He appointed people based on merits, even for his own children. There were fifteen Shang clan young master positions originally, but after his rule, he reduced it to ten.
"This matter has been settled, I need to set off and find the other Blood Sea true inheritances now. Blood Sea Ancestor… the more I investigate it, the more mysterious I find this person." Shang Yan Fei was finally at ease, his children had all grown up, they went on their own journeys now, they had their own destinies to follow. As for himself, he was going to find his own opportunities for development.
[1] It's the same one from Ni Xiang's arc.
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Chapter 2126 Ni Clan
In Shang Liang Mountain's first inner city, Shang Xin Ci was handling the clan affairs.
"Second inner city's reparations are finished, the fake Gu incident has also been settled." Shang Xin Ci inspected an information path mortal Gu in her hand with a slight smile on her face.
She then used her primeval essence to add new content into this information path Gu worm.
She made a decision that all the items in Shang clan's managed stores would be sold at a discount with the reason being 'the losses to the Gu Masters because of the fake Gu incident'.
"Like this, we can greatly increase Shang clan's reputation as well as earn primeval stones and make up for the losses caused by the double compensation."
Shang Xin Ci's delicate fingers loosened, and this information path mortal Gu let out a light as it flew out of the study room.
Shang Xin Ci picked up another information path mortal Gu on the desk.
The mortal Gu's information came from Shang Chi Wen.
Ever since Shang Bu Li resigned, Shang Xin Ci handed the task of managing Shang Liang Mountain's market to Shang Chi Wen.
The information in the mortal Gu said that there were a group of merchants who were hoarding goods to push up the prices. Shang Chi Wen's suggestion was to kill them all.
"Sigh, for their own self-interests, these people have harmed countless ordinary people!" Shang Xin Ci sighed in her head, she pondered and wrote a new message in the information path mortal Gu: Only kill the main culprit, let go of the others.
After this information path Gu worm also flew out, she looked at the third information path Gu worm that contained a request for help.
In the periphery of Shang clan's territory, a village encountered a beast tide and was in danger of being exterminated.
This village was a Shang clan vassal, but they only had several rank three Gu Masters and had little to no presence.
"Saving people is like quelling a fire, such distress calls should have been delivered urgently, why did it come through the regular affairs channel?" Shang Xin Ci frowned.
She understood the reason.
Her subordinates knew that, with her nature, she would definitely spare no effort to rescue them.
But the current situation was the opening stage of the great era, all kinds of inheritances were being fought over. Both mortals and immortals of Shang clan were extremely busy. Taking out some of their manpower to do this arduous and fruitless rescue task was a huge loss of human resources, as well as a loss of future profits.
"Considering the time, it might be too late already. Sigh, the hearts of the people…" Oftentimes, Shang Xin Ci felt her own insignificance. Like now, she could only sense her subordinates' thoughts but was unable to change them.
The longer she held this Shang clan leader position, the more she felt her powerlessness. Compared to Shang clan or even the entire world, she was really nothing important.
"Maybe this is the reason why almost all Gu cultivators stake their lives on chasing strength."
Shang Xin Ci pondered for a while, but still decided to assign a group of Gu Masters to commence on the rescue.
Even though it was very likely for that village to have already been destroyed by the beast tide by the time the rescue team set off.
The fourth information path mortal Gu mentioned good news.
A new qi path resource point was discovered in the surroundings of Shang Liang Mountain, and required Shang Liang Mountain to station some force there or support the nearby village.
Shang Xin Ci let go of the information path mortal Gu one by one, occasionally, Gu worms would fly into the study room.
Unknowingly, night passed and dawn arrived.
A dazzling information path mortal Gu flew in front of Shang Xin Ci.
Shang Xin Ci's mind jolted: "A task from the higher-ups."
Shang Xin Ci quickly took the Gu and looked into it. This information path mortal Gu's content was indeed about a huge matter.
The matter concerned the contest for Fur blessed land.
This Fur blessed land was located at the central region of Southern Border and contained Fur true inheritance, it was exposed because of the qi tide. Because of its remote location, it did not belong to any one of Southern Border's super forces, so it was fought over by all the super clans.
Righteous path Gu Immortals discussed and decided to send out Gu Masters to determine the winner, Gu Immortals were not to interfere.
The information path mortal Gu also had some secret information regarding the owner of the blessed land, Fur Immortal.
This immortal was a dual cultivator in wood path and transformation path. But she did not have an excellent method and was only carelessly dual cultivating. It led to conflict between wood path and transformation path dao marks, her battle strength was low her whole life and she was the target of bullying in the Gu Immortal world.
"None of the super forces have an interest in such a true inheritance, except, the blessed land's location holds true value!"
"It is not within our borders, in the event that our Shang clan wins in this contest and obtains this blessed land, it is only an exclave which will be difficult to manage."
"But, this territory can be transacted. I believe those super forces near the blessed land will definitely be willing to purchase it."
The curtain to the great era was pulled upon, there would definitely be huge commotion and unrest in the future.
At that time, this kind of blessed land would be a bridgehead for the super forces to expand their territories, or be an important front-line defense area, its value was high.
After all, these Southern Border super forces might not have any methods to relocate immortal apertures.
Shang Xin Ci evaluated inwardly.
Benefiting from the change in eras, she was exposed to even more information on Gu Immortals than Shang Yan Fei when he had been a clan leader.
Thus, even though Shang Xin Ci was only a rank five Gu Master, she had a deep understanding of the Gu Immortal world's situation.
"This is the most important priority for Shang clan, time is pressing, it must be dealt with immediately!" Shang Xin Ci felt troubled.
Despite having recruited Shang Qiu Niu, Shang Chi Wen and the rest, at the crucial moment, she had too few subordinates.
"Feng Tian Yu is not only a refinement path master but has rank five cultivation as well. I can let him take on the role of the head this time." Shang Xin Ci summoned Feng Tian Yu as she thought this.
Soon, Feng Tian Yu received the message and went up to the study room.
"Enter." Shang Xin Ci willed and the study room's door opened slowly.
Her study room was a mortal Gu House.
Feng Tian Yu had an excited expression: "Clan leader, I have good news to tell you!"
"Oh, what news?" Shang Xin Ci asked with a smile.
Feng Tian Yu: "I have been researching that strange mudman over these days, and I have discovered a shocking secret!"
"This mudman might be crazy and disorientated in thoughts, but he responds properly as long as we ask one question at a time."
"I asked him question after question like this and learned of his origin."
"His name is Ni Jian, he had been a young clan leader of a village. One day, a demonic path expert appeared and slaughtered everyone in the village, including him."
"But after he died, he was revived by a qi path Gu Immortal. This qi path Gu Immortal inquired about the culprit and after getting the answer, he was disregarded and left alone."
"This mudman Ni Jian was extremely strong, having near immortal level strength, but after such a long time, he has weakened to this state."
"I did not expect this mudman to have such an amazing history!" Shang Xin Ci sighed,"But how did such an ordinary village get connected to a Gu Immortal?"
Feng Tian Yu said with even more excitement: "This is the point that I pursued, I found that Ni clan's people have a huge secret! Once in a while, a Gu Master in Ni clan will awaken their bloodline. If they survive, an Immortal Gu will grow inside their body!"
"Immortal Gu?" Shang Xin Ci's brows rose subconsciously.
"This Immortal Gu was the reason for the Gu Immortal's attention." Feng Tian Yu's eyes shone, "This is too strange. A mortal Gu Master's body can actually give birth to an Immortal Gu! More importantly, the slaughtered Ni clan village was only a separated branch. There are many other clan branches that are blood-related to him in several areas of Southern Border."
Shang Xin Ci asked: "So, you are thinking of?"
Feng Tian Yu nodded: "Right, I want to request clan leader to allow me to investigate this huge secret! If we can grasp this kind of refinement path method, we can refine Immortal Gu while only being mortals."
Shang Xin Ci pondered before saying: "Then, go ahead with it, I will send some people to help you."
"No need, no need." Feng Tian Yu shook his hand, "I am a rank five Gu Master, even if rank four Gu Masters accompany me, they will only slow me down. Moreover, if such a contribution can be made, it will definitely be huge. I need to accumulate contribution points to have hope of seeing Lord Fang Yuan in the future!"
Shang Xin Ci nodded, seeing that Feng Tian Yu's attitude was so resolute, she could only let him go.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Mini Yellow Heaven.
A group of Gu Masters with the same surname arrived beside the gold fragment current.
An old clan leader whose hair had gone white and had rank five cultivation, stood with his back facing the gold fragment current as he called out towards the group of people.
"It has been about a dozen years since we mysteriously arrived at this place from Southern Border."
"Although I don't know what the reason is, it is definitely the doing of a Gu Immortal level existence!"
"Our Ni clan bloodline is all gathered in this place."
"Over this dozen years, our Ni clan has been developing and growing, the number of our Gu Masters has increased by ten times! However, recently, the weather of this mysterious place has become uncertain with dangers emerging constantly. Right now, in front of us, we have a life and death crisis."
"The gold fragment current is continuing to rise in water level, we must create more channels for the current! Otherwise, when the water overflows and turns into a flood, the surrounding thousand li will be completely submerged, we will lose our home and will no longer be able to live here."
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Chapter 2127 Sovereign“s Commotion
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Mini Western Desert.
An enormous pitch-black city occupied the desert.
This was a large city with rigid structure. The entire city was a hexagon and its walls had gone through the weathering of time. The city walls were more than two hundred li long, they were a hundred feet tall and tens of feet thick.
If a person stood on the grassland, they would see what looked like a huge black beast sprawling. If they got closer, they would need to raise their heads to look up at the huge city gate and walls.
Every edge of the city had defensive towers that were filled with countless holes that could shoot out arrows.
Every few li apart, there would be a wide path for horse carriages to move on.
There were even very secretive armories within the city walls.
Passing the city walls, one would arrive at the vibrant world within.
The city had many streets and shops, there were great numbers of houses and palaces. People and carriages were bustling, there was an endless flow of activity. Loud noises could be heard constantly, this was truly a lively city.
This was Inkman City!
It was created by the legendary inkman Immortal Yi Yan, and was a smaller version of Emperor City. Later, it was captured by Fang Yuan and moved to Mini Western Desert.
At this time, two inkman Gu Immortals, Mo Tan Sang and Mo Qi Yi, were floating in the air and looking at the surroundings with grave expressions.
"These toxic vines and windmill trees have spread over ten li in just three days, they are only around twenty li from Inkman City." Mo Tan Sang said.
Mo Qi Yi frowned: "We have already cleared them up over ten times, but every time we exterminate them, they grow back rapidly. Are we going to have to relocate again?"
Right now, the surroundings of Inkman City were covered in vegetation.
These vegetation were formed from purple-black toxic vines and huge azure-gold windmill trees. It was like a terrifying tsunami of plants engulfing everything in its path.
Mo Qi Yi sighed: "These vegetation have already started producing desolate plants, it is even more difficult for us to clear them up now. If we are not able to get rid of the source, even if we clear them up for thousands of times, we won't be able to solve the root issue. I thought we had moved to a good place, but I did not expect the environment here to be dozens and even a hundred times worse than Northern Plains!"
Mo Tan Sang patted Mo Qi Yi's shoulder: "Master has already sent people to help us, it is better if you speak less of such complaints."
Mo Qi Yi immediately kept quiet.
His master was the number one demon in the present world, a ruthless and vicious existence.
"Look, our reinforcements have arrived!" Mo Tan Sang suddenly pointed towards the faraway horizon with joy.
Mo Qi Yi looked towards the direction and saw four Gu Immortals flying over.
There were two snowman Gu Immortals, one hairy man Gu Immortal, and one mushroomman Gu Immortal. Among them, one snowman female immortal was tall and vibrant, she had blue eyes and hair, and looked pure and noble, she was Xue Er.
Mo Tan Sang and Mo Qi Yi quickly went forward to greet them.
Xue Er's identity was special.
Back then, because of what happened with Fang Yuan and her, on the surface, Xue Er's identity was Fang Yuan's fiancée!
Naturally, Fang Yuan had never acknowledged it, but he had not denied it either.
The snowman tribe, especially the snowman Gu Immortal behind Xue Er, Bing Yuan, was always trumpeting about this relationship, which led to every Gu Immortal in the sovereign immortal aperture knowing of it.
"I did not expect Lady Xue Er to come personally."
"With your help, my Inkman City's crisis can be considered to be resolved!"
Mo Tan Sang and Mo Qi Yi flattered.
Xue Er: "Inkmen and snowmen might be of different races, but both sides have already cooperated back when we were in Northern Plains. I came this time to help you two as well as to request for you to come back to help my snowman tribe once this matter is resolved."
The snowman tribe was living in Mini Northern Plains and had also encountered trouble.
The two inkman immortals quickly expressed they would give full support.
Bing Yuan: "We have already investigated the situation on our way. I and Xue Er will activate ice and snow killer moves, to freeze and slow down the growth of the vegetation to buy time for you."
The hairy man Gu Immortal: "I brought a large number of hairy man Gu Masters with me, we will modify Inkman City into one entity, forming a large Gu House. It will be extremely convenient for you to relocate in the future."
The mushroomman Gu Immortal: "I can solve the issue of the toxic vines, these toxic vines are a disaster to you, but they are superior cultivation resources for my mushroomman tribe. Moreover, I have already found the source of the toxic vines. By fighting poison with poison, I can make use of the toxic vines to fix this area of vegetation and stabilize it for some time."
The two inkman Gu Immortals showed both joy and new worries.
Mo Tan Sang asked the hairy man Gu Immortal: "Back in Northern Plains, Inkman City had a population of over eight hundred thousand, it has already crossed one million and two hundred thousand now. Modifying Inkman City will probably have some effect on the residents. Master had instructed me to preserve the lives of the residents and help them progress with all my strength…"
The hairy man Gu Immortal raised his hand and interrupted Mo Tan Sang: "You don't need to be too worried. Our Lang Ya Sect has already received master's command to modify all the cities in the sovereign immortal aperture. Every city has a specific blueprint, most of them will become mortal Gu Houses, while several large cities will be raised to become Immortal Gu Houses! I need to congratulate you two, Inkman City is one of the cities chosen to become an Immortal Gu House!"
Mo Tan Sang and Mo Qi Yi looked at each other, seeing the excitement on each other's faces.
Mo Tan Sang was speechless and could not help asking: "Isn't this too big of an investment? Master is actually so resolute! I naturally hope for such things to happen more often, but if this delays master's cultivation and uses up a lot of master's Immortal Gu, then wouldn't it be our fault?"
The hairy man Gu Immortal laughed loudly: "You are underestimating master! How can you estimate master's might and plans? Master's refinement path attainment has already surpassed the predecessors, reaching a level that you and I are unable to speculate. This evaluation was not made by me, Lang Ya land spirit personally said it."
"Currently, it is extremely easy for master to refine Immortal Gu. You have not seen those blueprints, they are all different and ingenious. Just choose one of them, it will take those ordinary Gu Immortals several years or even a dozen years to design them. But master casually drew them within a few minutes."
"Master's attainment and wealth rivals the scale of mountains and seas. This investment you see is just an insignificant amount to master."
This hairy man Gu Immortal's face was filled with fanatical reverence when he talked of Fang Yuan.
"I was wrong, I should be punished!" Mo Tan Sang quickly apologized.
That mushroomman Gu Immortal added: "Although us mushroommen have moved to this world just recently, we were immediately certain of the boundless potential of this world. To create the sovereign immortal aperture, Shadow Sect used up all of their accumulations. The important thing is it is able to show infinite grandeur in the hands of a divine hero like master."
"Every time master annexes a grotto-heaven or blessed land, there will be a huge surge of dao marks in the sovereign grotto-heaven and a large number of territories will be added out of nowhere. Just take these toxic vines, this species has never appeared in the five regions, and their toxicity is extremely strong."
The mushroomman Gu Immortal addressed Fang Yuan as master, it was natural and without any hesitation.
Although they had joined only recently, they were extremely optimistic and excited about their future.
Mini Southern Border.
At the base of Fire Bird Mountain, Shi Shi Cheng, Shi Zong, and other rockman Gu Immortals were controlling an immortal Gu formation.
As the immortal Gu formation started activating, the shaking Fire Bird Mountain reluctantly calmed down.
"Success." Shi Shi Cheng let out a breath of air and relaxed his mind.
Shi Zong said: "Master annexed Fire Plain grotto-heaven as well as immortal apertures of its immortals and Fire Plain Grotto Lord, causing a huge increase in fire path dao marks in the sovereign immortal aperture. This Fire Bird Mountain is a volcano and almost erupted because of this, fortunately, we discovered it in time and set up an immortal formation to suppress it. But from now on, someone needs to stay and preside over the immortal formation."
Shi Shi Cheng nodded: "We need to do that, but the number of Gu Immortals we can mobilize are already few, and now we are going to have one fewer."
Shi Zong heaved a sigh: "Yes. We are already hard-pressed to control these territories, it can be imagined how troublesome it is for master to look after the whole sovereign immortal aperture."
Shi Shi Cheng: "Didn't master take in many members of the variant human alliance and station them everywhere in the sovereign immortal aperture to salvage the situation? There is no choice, master annexed too frequently in this period of time. There is a huge increase in dao marks, and countless resources of every path."
Shi Zong shook his head: "What kind of person is master? He should have already known of these demerits beforehand. We don't need to be concerned for master, it is better if we look after our territories properly. Like this Fire Bird Mountain, it is not feasible to suppress it with just the immortal formation. We must modify this Fire Bird Mountain and make it adapt to the changed environment."
Shi Shi Cheng agreed: "Yes, the resources in the past all developed naturally bit by bit over a long period of time. But here, there are huge increases in dao marks, even this volcano was at the point of erupting. We must modify and quicken the volcano's adaptation process artificially. It is just that fire path is not the specialty of us rockmen, we need to send a request to Star Collection City."
Mini Blue Heaven, Star Collection City.
This was managed by the previous generation's Combat Beast King.
In the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, this rank eight Gu Immortal had made a great contribution by resisting the tribulation formed from three thousand heaven path dao marks.
After that, Fang Yuan personally healed him.
Fang Yuan had annexed too many apertures, causing instability in the sovereign immortal aperture. Fang Yuan then arranged Star Collection City as the main city and ordered the Combat Beast King to oversee the overall internal affairs of the sovereign immortal aperture.
"The issue of Inkman City at Mini Western Desert has been resolved."
"Mini Southern Border's Fire Bird Mountain was suppressed by using the formation. But they want fire path Gu Immortals to go modify the volcano? This needs to be coordinated."
At this time, an information path Gu worm flew over while making loud sounds.
Combat Beast King's expression changed: "Where did the rank eight disaster appear again?"
He quickly inspected the Gu worm and found that the source of the disaster was a huge fire rain formed in Mini Red Heaven.
Fire rain often appeared in Mini Red Heaven, and after the increase in fire path dao marks, its emergence had become much more frequent.
But this wave of fire rain was different, it kept on growing and shot through a charcoal lake, forming rank six level killer move meteor rain.
As the meteor rain entered mini orange heaven, its strength increased to rank seven level.
As it entered Mini Yellow Heaven, it resonated with metal path dao marks and its might increased to rank eight.
"Damn it! Only I can deal with this disaster. But it is already too late to go and resolve it now!" Combat Beast King's face was slightly pale.
He came from Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, the Gu Immortals there felt that it was their responsibility and glory to protect mortals.
Combat Beast King's heart was in deep pain: "I cannot salvage this. This disaster covers a thousand li. Dozens of resource points as well as the human Ni clan and rockman metal water branch tribe will be annihilated."
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Chapter 2128 Hu Land Projection
Ni clan's Gu Masters were using all their strength to deal with the gold fragment current.
They first used mortal Gu to make a grand embankment, then they dug a canal to draw away a portion of the river, the rising gold fragment current was gradually receding.
However, a large number of lifeforms lived in the gold fragment current.
Ni clan's army had invaded the territory of the river fish, frightening these fish monsters.
All kinds of river monsters swam to the surface and attacked, some even charged to the shore and attacked Ni clan's Gu Masters while letting out strange sounds.
Ni clan specialized in earth path, their basic Gu worm was rank one mud Gu. Earth path specialized in defense, Ni clan Gu Masters had constructed lines of defense and were prepared for the fight.
But the number of river monsters was high and they even had stronger myriad beast kings.
Under the frantic offensive waves of the river monsters, the defensive lines of Ni clan's Gu Masters broke one by one.
"Persevere!"
"Kill!"
"Avenge our clansmen!"
"Hold on and carve the future of our clan!"
Mud and blood splattered everywhere, groups of Gu Masters rotated as they resisted the attacks of the river monsters.
The Ni clansmen were brought into the sovereign immortal aperture and had been secretly nurtured by Fang Yuan, the number of their Gu Masters had increased by a lot. Adding on the strong survival pressure in Mini Yellow Heaven, these Ni clansmen had to unite and foster a harmonious environment.
In this defensive battle, Ni clan's army showed astonishing battle strength and resolute fighting spirit!
Finally, there were fewer river monsters and Ni clan's army was able to hold on.
They then began their counterattack.
The river monsters did not have much internal organization from the start, and under this sudden change of situation, they began to collapse rapidly.
The Ni clan Gu Masters carved a path of blood, leaving behind countless river monster corpses in their way.
These corpses were Gu materials, they were rich battle spoils.
Ni clan Gu Masters killed their way to the gold fragment current, various kinds of Gu worms were activated, their attacks landed on the river, raising countless dazzling golden waves.
"We won!"
"Quick, set up the Gu formation, it is not the time to rejoice yet."
"Yes, we must quickly set up the Gu formation, otherwise new waves of river monsters will come out."
Ni clan Gu Masters were setting up the formation with all their efforts.
They had meticulously prepared for over half a year for this, making proper plans and arrangements.
However, just as the Gu formation was about to finish setting up, the whole gold fragment current and the cloud soil they were on began to vibrate.
"What's going on? The river monsters are attacking again?"
"Something is wrong! Something is wrong!"
"Look up, oh heavens!"
Gu Masters exclaimed in shock, when they looked towards the sky, they all stiffened like rocks.
Because they saw the meteor rain falling from the sky.
Some of these meteors were only the size of a small field, while some were as large as a mountain.
And there were tens of thousands of them!
The large number of meteors whistled through the air, leaving behind blazing trails in their path as they pressed through the atmosphere and rained down with an irresistible momentum.
"We're doomed!" The faces of Ni clan's Gu Masters were deathly pale.
"Does heaven want to exterminate my Ni clan?" In the deathly silent battlefield, an elderly Ni clan Gu Master howled with grief and fury.
"I am not ready to die like this!" The current generation Ni clan leader, who was also the current generation Ni Xiang, clenched his fists, "We were close to success, my clan sacrificed so much to curb the flood, the beautiful future was already in sight. But now, we are going to die."
Everyone was hopeless.
Nature's might was so horrifying that these Ni clan Gu Masters did not even have the thought of resisting, they all felt their insignificance, this was the sorrow and helplessness of the weak.
But right at this time, the sky that was lit by the meteor rain dimmed suddenly.
Howl howl howl…
Ni clan Gu Masters heard waves of cries which seemed to have come from the nine layers of hell.
Temperature began to fall down rapidly, and the countless Gu Masters felt their hearts shaking!
"What… what is that?"
"Oh lords in heaven!"
"A black giant?!"
The Ni clan Gu Masters were horrified and in despair as they watched the scene before them with wide eyes.
They saw a giant appearing slowly, it was pitch-black like the abyss. Its body was so large that when it bent its leg, a huge shadow was cast on the ground.
As the giant stood up, its height was even more horrifying, directly reaching the sky with clouds floating beside its shoulders.
The black giant had two heads, its terrifying four eyes let out a dark, malevolent light that seemed to shoot through the sky!
Its hundreds of hands were raised high with their claws opened, forming a scene like that of an extremely ferocious and strange forest.
One of the pitch-black giant's head opened and breathed out a dark soul river.
The soul river was tumultuous, whipping up astonishing waves that drowned a large number of meteors.
The giant's other head opened and sucked in. Many small meteors were directly absorbed into its stomach.
Bam bam bam…
Its ghostly claws and giant arms moved through the air, catching the hill sized meteors!
Waves surged up and down in the Ni clansmen's hearts.
"It is truly capable of holding up heaven and earth, picking moon and stars at will!"
"This world was actually concealing such a terrifying monster!"
"Compared to this giant, our Ni clan cannot even be considered as ants."
Almost the entire meteor rain was stopped by the giant, only some fragments fell to the ground.
Some of these fragments fell on the gold fragment current and some fell on the cloud soil, they would definitely bring unknown influences to the original ecology.
The meteor rain died down and the giant also left, the enormous body slowly disappearing from the Ni clansmen's sight.
After a long while, the surviving Ni clan Gu Masters erupted with cheers.
And the greatest contributor to this, the black giant, turned into a ray of soul light that entered Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal body.
Indeed.
This black soul giant was the soul of Fang Yuan's main body!
After Fang Yuan inherited Shadow Sect's true inheritance, he had gained the supreme cultivation method of soul path.
This method divided soul cultivation to two layers: First layer was human soul, the cultivation starting from single man soul to hundred man soul, thousand man soul… until the highest hundred million man soul. Hundred million man soul was the limit of human soul, where it turned from phantom to solid and could interfere with the material world.
The second layer was desolate soul. Because fate Gu was damaged by Red Lotus Demon Venerable, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable found a way to break through the limit of human soul. Once the soul broke through to desolate soul, the soul's essence would transform, the soul alone possessing desolate beast level battle strength.
Fang Yuan's soul had already reached desolate soul level, his soul cultivation had never stopped and now had already reached sixty million desolate soul!
Ten desolate soul, hundred desolate soul, thousand desolate soul, ten thousand desolate soul, hundred thousand desolate soul, million desolate soul, ten million desolate soul, and hundred million desolate soul!
Reaching hundred million desolate soul meant the Three Headed Thousand Arms Demon Soul which possessed quasi-rank nine battle strength, the soul could directly resist calamities and tribulations, defying the heavens and stamping the earth, slaughtering deities and ghosts, shocking the world with unmatched might!
This was the peak level of soul foundation, and also the limit that the world could contain.
Hundred million desolate soul had three heads and thousand arms, Fang Yuan had not reached that level yet.
Fang Yuan's soul cultivation was similar to the previous Spectral Soul's, they both had two heads and over six hundred arms.
"Soul cultivation is really amazing."
"Just the soul itself has pseudo venerable battle strength. If it uses immortal essence, it can even activate killer moves."
"More importantly, such killer moves aren't used through Gu worms, but through the arrangements of dao marks like a natural ability."
Fang Yuan ruminated.
His soul manifestation had breathed out a tumultuous soul river, which was referenced from Spectral Soul's ability during the pursuit against Fang Yuan.
According to Spectral Soul's techniques, Fang Yuan transformed the referenced soul path killer move into soul path dao marks and engraved them on his soul.
Thereupon, this soul river killer move became an innate ability of Fang Yuan's soul.
As long as the related arrangement of dao marks was not destroyed, Fang Yuan could quickly activate this killer move without a need for Gu worms. This was an extremely simple, convenient, and quick method!
"Soul cultivation innate abilities, totem killer moves, as well as formation path great grandmaster that can use natural dao marks to set up the formation… they are all the same in the end."
"With the supply from Fang clan, I don't lack soul cores, and it is not difficult to cultivate to the peak hundred million desolate soul."
"This method can be one of my trump cards, it cannot be revealed casually."
The five regions and two heavens were monitored by heaven's will at all times, if Fang Yuan used this method in the outside world, it would be known by heaven's will. There was no such threat inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
"Let's look at the situation now." Fang Yuan activated Cooking Luck Pot and observed his luck.
"Hmm?" Fang Yuan frowned.
His luck did not look good.
At this time, his silver light pillar had become increasingly loose and was actually showing a sign of collapse!
Those three clouds above the silver light pillar had also changed.
The starlight cloud occupied the highest position, this signified Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was the greatest threat.
Below this was Spectral Soul's pitch-black luck cloud. Although it was suppressed by the starlight cloud, it had spread some darkness that penetrated into Fang Yuan's silver light pillar like roots, showing signs of taking root and sprouting!
And the golden cloud that represented Giant Sun had become much thicker, although it was below the other two clouds, it showed signs of accumulating energy and biding its time.
And besides the previous clouds, an anomaly had also appeared around the silver light pillar.
The indistinct shadow of a raised hill was projected on the surface of the silver light pillar…
Southern Border.
The travel-worn Feng Tian Yu stopped his footsteps.
He was gasping for air: "I have finally arrived."
Feng Tian Yu's journey was arduous. He wanted to find other branch villages of Ni clan, but found nothing.
That went without saying. Fang Yuan had already moved all the Ni clansmen into his aperture long ago.
Feng Tian Yu was not able to make any contribution and was extremely disappointed. But on his way, he found that this mud monster Ni Jian could devour mud Gu materials to increase its strength!
"All the Ni clansmen have disappeared mysteriously. If I return in disgrace like this, I won't be able to give any explanation, and it is also not my style. I might as well raise this mud monster's battle strength, and when Shang Xin Ci questions me after I return, I can give a proper reply."
Therefore, Feng Tian Yu moved around until he arrived at… Rotten Mud Mountain.
Rotten Mud Mountain might not be too famous, but it was still considered a famous mountain. Although there were poison path dao marks, it mostly contained earth path dao marks. These mud Gu materials were everywhere on the mountain and were suitable for feeding Ni Jian.
"It seems like a beast tide occurred here, the Gu Master village down the mountain is also destroyed. Alright, let me explore it alone."
Feng Tian Yu had rank five cultivation and also had Ni Jian with him. He moved up the mountain and gave the suitable mud Gu materials to Ni Jian to devour.
After several days and nights in the mountain, Feng Tian Yu arrived in an area.
Suddenly, Ni Jian spat out the mud Gu materials.
"What's going on? The mud here actually contains qi path dao marks?" Feng Tian Yu was astonished after investigating the reason.
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Chapter 2129 Golden-Red Armor
"This luck…" Fang Yuan frowned slightly.
Over this period of development, his luck had some growth, but the suppression from the three venerables had become even more clear now.
"I am growing day by day, but the three venerables are indeed beyond ordinary, they have stabilized the situation again."
"There may be some changes if my luck manages to solidify."
Fang Yuan sighed inwardly.
At present, he needed to stabilize the sovereign immortal aperture. The troubles in the sovereign immortal aperture were continuing to increase, unlike Fang Yuan's previous expectations where he thought the abnormal changes would decrease with time.
With no choice, Fang Yuan placed many of the variant human alliance's Gu Immortals inside. With these Gu Immortals working day and night along with himself taking frequent action, they managed to stabilize the unrest in the sovereign immortal aperture for the time being.
Moreover, he still needed to create a suitable combat system.
And the most important thing was to become venerable in refinement path!
Becoming a venerable would produce qualitative change.
Refinement path was divided into two major Gu refinement styles: hairy man heaven and earth style and human isolation style. Fang Yuan's hairy man heaven and earth style had already reached the peak and he could not improve anymore, currently, he was exploring the peak of human isolation style.
He gained a huge insight from Qing Chou's style and the accumulate virtue Gu refinement technique of Paradise Earth's true inheritance.
And the Ni clansmen could condense Immortal Gu in their bodies, it was the result of Ni clan Gu Immortal Ni Ren using a human path Gu refinement technique back then. In fact, this was very similar to Red Lotus Demon Venerable's method of destroying fate Gu and preventing it from emerging again!
"If I can reverse deduce Ni Ren's Gu refinement technique from Ni clan, I will be able to fill a huge gap in refinement path. Maybe, I can even ascend to refinement path supreme grandmaster!"
The best situation was if Fang Yuan could ascend to venerable before entering Crazed Demon Cave.
That would be the most stable.
If he could not become a refinement path venerable before then, the second best would be to raise his strength to the limits.
One was to get rid of the problems in the sovereign immortal aperture and annex all the two heavens' grotto-heavens, reaching the maximum accumulation.
Second was to form his own combat system.
Crazed Demon Cave was the greatest challenge Fang Yuan would face.
Because he was not facing just one Immortal Venerable, but several!
Currently, it looked like there was only Star Constellation, Spectral Soul, Giant Sun, Paradise Earth, and Limitless. But almost all the other venerables had entered Crazed Demon Cave and explored it.
When the time arrived, who would decide to jump out would be really uncertain.
Especially when the River of Time was so chaotic, even if Fang Yuan's Spring Autumn Cicada was raised to rank eight, it could not be used.
Fang Yuan only had one chance!
Finally, Fang Yuan's gaze moved to the surface of the pillar of silver light.
The previous clouds represented heaven's envy Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan already knew of it.
But what was this indistinct projection of a protruding hill?
Fang Yuan was not sure.
Southern Border, Rotten Mud Mountain.
"Nature is really amazing. There are actually qi path Gu materials in this Rotten Mud Mountain!" Feng Tian Yu praised.
These Gu materials had no value to Ni Jian.
Because Ni Jian could only recover his strength by increasing his earth path dao marks.
What Feng Tian Yu did not know was that these mud containing qi path dao marks were not a natural creation. It was the result of Kong Sheng Tian's will activating his killer move with the help of Hu Land.
Kong Ri Tian, Central Continent's four great obscenities, and Wang Xiao Er were able to escape because of this. It was unknown where they were now.
"This is strange, this amount of qi path mud is quite a lot. Is there a qi path immortal material buried deep under the ground? How could there be so much qi path mud with no rhyme or reason?"
Feng Tian Yu moved around, feeling increasingly odd.
He was a refinement path master, and had a lot of knowledge and experience.
He searched around before finally stopping at one area and ordered Ni Jian to dig.
However, even after digging for two days and nights, Feng Tian Yu did not discover any good loot.
After Wu clan's Gu Immortals secretly took away Hu Land, they had naturally cleaned up the scene. Even Gu Immortals would not be able to find out anything from just this qi path mud.
After all, qi tides had swept the world before, and qi path Gu materials emerged everywhere.
Western Desert.
Sand Heap blessed land was exposed because of qi tides, and Gu Masters continued to enter and explore it.
However, the environment here was extremely treacherous.
Wind raged and carried rough sand that cut like knives.
On the ground, sand waves rose and fell. If one was even a little careless, they would be buried under sand waves tens of feet high.
The only areas where one could stay in were the sand heaps that appeared inside the sand waves.
The sand heaps were of all sizes, even the smallest ones were the size of a hill.
There was space inside the sand heaps, not only was it tranquil, there were also a large number of cultivation resources.
At this time, inside a sand heap, a group of Gu Masters were surrounding a rank five Gu material. The atmosphere was solemn.
"I saw this wisdom bead grass first."
"Bullshit! We were clearly the ones who discovered it first."
"Everyone deserves a share, what is the use in talking about who discovered it first?"
While the Gu Masters were arguing, someone suddenly attacked.
The others were caught unprepared, and the person who got sneak attacked was heavily injured, shouting furiously: "Mo Li, you have such guts, you dared to attack me!"
Other Gu Masters immediately split up and stared at the attacker while also being vigilant of one another.
This Gu Master was a middle aged bearded man, he was wearing a white scarf on his head, and his triangular eyes let out a sinister light.
He sneered: "I was most wary of you. Now that you are heavily injured, my greatest obstacle is gone. Hahaha, all of you, die!"
The Gu Masters were stunned before erupting with fury.
"Mo Li, you have lost your mind!"
"Alright, let me see what ability you have to speak such words."
"Hehe, you have angered all of us. Everyone, attack together, let's get rid of this bastard first!"
Facing the group attack, Mo Li felt even more thirst to battle.
"Come, I will let you know my true strength." His whole body began shining with blue electricity.
He slowly rose to the air.
The chaotic and disorderly electric arcs became clear electric threads that covered Mo Li like they were clothes.
The killer move was activated successfully, Mo Li shouted: "Golden-red armor!"
Crack crack.
Pieces of armor floated out from his body, the hundred or so pieces followed the electric circuit and pieced together into one complete armor.
In an instant, Mo Li was dressed in full-body armor.
This armor let out metallic light, the golden and red lights emitted a domineering aura.
The armored Mo Li charged at the Gu Masters like an eagle.
At first, the Gu Masters attacked wildly, but the golden-red armor did not suffer any damage, there was only some soot left on its surface.
The Gu Masters were pale with shock as they began to evade and defend.
The armored Mo Li only charged around like a brute and many Gu Masters immediately died from the collision.
The remaining Gu Masters lost their will to fight and began to run everywhere.
Mo Li laughed coldly inside the armor, he then activated the armor's killer move.
At the next moment, the golden-red armor stretched out both hands, a circular marking shone on both his palms before several electric arrows flew out abruptly.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
The electric arrows flew with extreme speed, killing all the fleeing Gu Masters.
The battlefield became quiet immediately.
Mo Li slowly landed on the ground, the golden-red armor separated into pieces and disappeared. After that, the electricity weaved clothing also dissipated slowly.
Mo Li half-knelt on the ground, his breathing was rough and his face was sweating profusely.
"Although this golden-red armor has absolute might, the expenditure is too high. In just tens of breaths of time, my primeval essence, stamina, mental energy, and thoughts have been emptied. If not for your complete support, I would have only lasted half the time." Mo Li mumbled.
Peng Da's soul floated out: "Don't we have wisdom bead grass now? We can refine electric brain[1] Gu with it, with its addition, the consumption of golden-red armor will reduce by more than half and the time it can be maintained will increase by at least double!"
"Yes." Mo Li smiled and picked up the wisdom bead grass.
After Mo Li killed Peng Da and seized his Thieving Heaven true inheritance, he had been cultivating painstakingly. The killer move golden-red armor was his greatest achievement.
With this killer move, Mo Li's battle strength was able to surpass rank five Gu Masters for a short period of time.
And the reason Peng Da was cooperating with Mo Li was because Mo Li had encountered a life and death crisis before this, if Mo Li died, Peng Da's soul would also disappear. Mo Li promised Peng Da that as long as he helped, Mo Li would help resurrect Peng Da.
Peng Da and Mo Li reached an agreement.
"Let's go, we have ransacked this place already." Mo Li came out of the sand heap and arrived outside.
The strong wind almost blew him into the sand waves.
Mo Li activated his defensive method to endure the devastating sandstorm as he observed the surroundings.
He could not see other sand heaps and could only sand waves crashing down loudly.
Mo Li endured for about seven minutes before he finally saw a new sand heap.
"Such a large sand heap! This is the largest sand heap I have seen! There must be a lot of resources inside." Mo Li was exulted and was just about to jump into it.
Suddenly, the sand heap exploded.
Several figures flew out of it.
"Gu Immortals!" Mo Li's heart shook, he immediately retreated.
The Gu Immortals were fighting in the air, their fight seemed to shake heaven and earth, and even dispelled the large sandstorm.
"This is the power of a Gu Immortal, so frightening. Even if I have golden-red armor, I cannot endure the collateral damage of their confrontation." Mo Li watched secretly, his heart jumped wildly and his mouth was dry.
Mo Li observed carefully and gradually saw the actual battle situation — several Gu Immortals were attacking one person.
This besieged Gu Immortal provoked them while laughing wildly without any worries.
Amidst the chaotic battle, a shadow suddenly intruded.
This intruding Gu Immortal left shortly afterwards, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
The Gu Immortal, who was sneak attacked by this figure, roared: "Ling Hu Xu, you dare to steal my Fang clan's possessions!"
Ling Hu Xu laughed loudly: "Who asked you to be the nearest person to me? I didn't expect you to actually carry so many soul cores. Looks like Fang clan's plans in green ghost desert were quite successful."
The Fang clan Gu Immortal was restless and furious: "Ling Hu Xu, I will advise you to leave those soul cores alone! You are provoking a huge trouble."
"Haha, will I be intimidated so easily? Goodbye!"
[1] This has the same characters as computer.
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Chapter 2130 Pig-Head Land Spiri
Ling Hu Xu was a Western Desert demonic immortal who cultivated theft path.
Gu Immortal Fang Dong Xi of Fang clan could not restrain his anger. Sand Heap blessed land appeared too suddenly, Fang clan was unable to take out manpower within a short period, and could only mobilize him, who was the nearest to the blessed land.
He had not expected that the batch of soul cores he harvested in green ghost desert would be stolen by Ling Hu Xu during the chaotic battle.
"These soul cores are to be handed to Fang Yuan! I cannot lose them!" Fang Dong Xi was quite unlucky, he had a lot of resources in his immortal aperture, but what was stolen was the stuff that could not be lost.
Fang clan and Fang Yuan's cooperation could not be exposed.
Fang Dong Xi could not announce it and could only give chase.
Ling Hu Xu's cultivation had recently advanced to rank seven and his speed was extremely fast. Fang Dong Xi had already decided to chase him without resting.
But just as he was about to leave, he was obstructed by Shi Kang's killer move.
"Shi Kang, what are you trying to do?!" Fang Dong Xi shouted.
Shi Kang smiled coldly: "Fang Dong Xi, you and these people attacked me for so long, and you want to leave just like this?"
Fang Dong Xi's eyelids twitched in anger: "Shi Kang, you should rejoice that I am not going to attack you. Did you make some agreement with Ling Hu Xu in secret? The grand Shi clan is actually cooperating with a demonic bastard!"
The moment Fang Dong Xi spoke, he immediately made false charges.
But because of this disturbance, Ling Hu Xu had already disappeared.
Shi Kang laughed madly: "I have been in closed cultivation for several years, this is my first battle after coming out, it must be famous throughout the world. Don't even think of fleeing, come fight! All of you are the stepping stones for my name to spread far and wide."
The other Gu Immortals' faces darkened upon hearing that.
Fang Dong Xi said through gritted teeth: "Shi Kang, you are the one who spoke insolently and provoked us, which was why we encircled you. But because we are all from the righteous path, we did not use our full strength. Now, you have not only allied with Ling Hu Xu, you are showing so much contempt towards us, you are really looking for death! Everyone, attack!"
"Good, I also want to see what methods Shi Kang has gained over these years."
"Shi Kang, I have not seen you for several years and your guts have become so big. You think only you made progress?"
This time, Fang Dong Xi took the initiative to attack first, other Gu Immortals also attacked seriously from the sides.
Fang Dong Xi fought for a while before swapping with another Gu Immortal. Several Gu Immortals fought Shi Kang in turns!
Shi Kang did not get any breather, the pressure on him was several times higher than before.
The battle was rapidly becoming disadvantageous to him, but he was laughing with excitement: "Come, come!"
The Gu Immortals continued to battle intensely, and having observed the battle for a long while, Mo Li flew to that largest sand heap while clenching his teeth.
The Gu Immortals had flown out of this sand heap, they must have left many resources which had no importance to them.
"Fortune is found within danger!" Mo Li was originally a merchant. Right now, his spirit of taking risks was stimulated.
Mo Li entered the sand heap, he could still hear the sounds of the Gu Immortals' battle. Shortly afterwards, he found that his choice was correct.
As he moved deeper, he collected a large number of Gu materials on the way.
Previously, there were many wild beasts and vicious plants inside the sand heap. But because the Gu Immortals had already explored it, the beasts and plants were already killed off.
There were corpses of wild beasts everywhere, from thousand beast kings to even myriad beast kings.
These resources were insignificant to Gu Immortals who tossed them aside casually, but they were incomparably abundant gains to Mo Li.
It was like he had picked countless battle spoils for free.
"I have struck it rich, we've struck rich!" Mo Li was extremely excited.
He also saw many giant craters as well as terrifying poisonous blood.
It was obvious that the desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts were taken away by the Gu Immortals, but the huge ruins quietly displayed the horror of immortal fight.
"If I were exploring it, I might have become food for these ferocious beasts."
Thanks to the Gu Immortals who explored it already, Mo Li entered the core area of the sand heap.
Originally, this was the place with the most valuable resources, but Mo Li did not make any gains.
This place was already ransacked by the Gu Immortals.
"If an immortal material was left out, even if it was only a leaf, it would be an enormous fortune!" Mo Li was not resigned, he was going to search this area completely.
He really ended up discovering a large rock buried under the ground.
"This is a rank four Gu material, flying rock, it contains qi path and earth path dao marks." Mo Li sighed, this gain was far below his expectations, but it was better than nothing at least.
Mo Li was just about to lift this flying rock when the rock split apart.
A young man fell out from the split rock!
"What is this?" Mo Li was shocked before being curious.
This youngster was clearly a mortal, how could he appear here sealed in the flying rock?
Mo Li woke up this mortal young man.
The young man stated his identity: "I am Wang Xiao Er, from Central Continent. Uncle, thanks for saving me. Where is this?"
Mo Li gave a malevolent laugh as he grabbed Wang Xiao Er's clothes: "Speak, how did you appear here?"
Wang Xiao Er stammered: "I… I don't know."
Back then at Southern Border's Rotten Mud Mountain, Kong Sheng Tian's will had activated the immortal move using Hu Land and transported everyone.
But he had forewarned that the killer move would transport them to random locations.
Like that, Wang Xiao Er was sent to Western Desert and coincidentally fell here.
And for some unknown reason, he was sealed by the flying rock and fell into deep sleep.
Although Wang Xiao Er knew some reasons, he wanted to preserve the secret of the whereabouts of the four great obscenities.
Mo Li had plenty of worldly experiences, he could tell from Wang Xiao Er's expression that he was lying.
Bam.
Mo Li punched Wang Xiao Er so hard that Wang Xiao Er's nose bled: "Tell the truth, tell me everything you know, otherwise I am going to make you wish for death!"
Peng Da's soul suddenly came out and stopped Mo Li: "Stop!"
Mo Li stared at Peng Da's soul with an ominous gaze: "Brat, what are you trying to do?"
Peng Da's soul said through clenched teeth: "Uncle Mo Li, you are a rank five Gu Master, and he is only a child, a mortal. Why do you need to resort to cruel means against him? The Uncle Mo Li that I met was a person who saved me in the desert, and told me about living outside and helping each other. Uncle, don't deceive your conscience because of hatred! You are not this kind of person!"
"Shut up!" Mo Li shouted and smacked Peng Da's soul to the side, "How do you know that I am not this kind of person? Even if I was not like this before… humans change!"
Mo Li walked towards the frightened Wang Xiao Er: "Since you don't want to speak, I can only soul search."
Wang Xiao Er suddenly screamed, pointing towards Peng Da's soul: "Ghost, there is a ghost, a ghost!"
Peng Da's soul: "…"
"Stop making a fuss! Do you think that I will turn you into a ghost as well?" Mo Li punched Wang Xiao Er to the ground.
He had just finished speaking when a strange existence appeared while laughing: "Good, amazing. Young man, I have a high opinion of you."
Mo Li, Wang Xiao Er, and Peng Da's soul turned solemn, the three pairs of eyes stared at this existence that had appeared all of a sudden.
Wang Xiao Er shouted: "A talking pig? But why is there only the head and no body?"
Mo Li, however, shook with excitement: "Idiot, this is Sand Heap blessed land's land spirit!"
Mo Li walked towards the land spirit: "Speak, land spirit, what is your condition for acknowledging a new master?"
The pig-head land spirit floated above Wang Xiao Er and looked down: "My condition is simple, the person who can take the most beatings will be my master."
It then laughed towards Wang Xiao Er: "Young man, I think highly of you."
Peng Da's soul realized at once: "I understand, no wonder the Gu Immortal named Shi Kang was so rampant outside, he is trying to be beaten up through all means."
The pig-head land spirit smiled: "That Gu Immortal took a beating from ancient desolate beasts for a while, so he saw me and learned of the conditions to be my master. But he doesn't realize that it is not the one who can take more fierce beatings who will become the blessed land's master. Taking a beating is a grand cause. Not only do you need the ability to resist the beatings, you also need to have a firm and indomitable spirit to take the beatings!"
"Look at this youngster, he is obviously lying but even if he is beaten and is facing someone he cannot defy, he is still stubborn. This spirit to take a beating is worthy of admiration."
"So there is this way." Mo Li's eyes shone brightly as he saw hope of contending for the ownership of the blessed land.
The battle in the sky was still continuing.
But the attacking Gu Immortals had started to feel something amiss.
"Shi Kang, is this your strength after closed cultivation? You have been beaten to the point where it is difficult for you to even speak, if not for us holding back, you would have already died!" A Gu Immortal scoffed.
Shi Kang's face was already swollen and blue from the beating, his vision was blurry but he still laughed: "Nonsnc! I few grat. Peak conditon, fight five hundr ronds, no problm."
Another Gu Immortal said: "On account of our two clans' close relationship, Shi Kang, just retreat. How much blood have you coughed from the beatings? Anymore and you might not have any left."
Shi Kang opened his mouth to retort but coughed out a mouthful of blood: "Bulsht! I haf lot o' blood, can cough coupl o' mthfuls."
Fang Dong Xi sneered: "Shi Kang, even if you are most specialized in defensive killer moves and can turn into a rockman, you cannot hold out for long. You have already become the laughing stock of Western Desert's Gu Immortal world in this battle, if we fight any longer, you will be crippled. If you are sensible, then take out some resources to compensate for our losses. My Fang clan will let bygones be bygones!"
Western Desert's righteous path had rules, they did not go overboard in their contest over the inheritances. These resources in Sand Heap blessed land were not worth it to stake their lives.
Shi Kang was beaten so miserably that it had already surpassed the usual standard of contending. Could they kill him and attract the retaliation of Shi clan, causing this dispute to escalate? This was something that all the Gu Immortals including Fang clan did not want to see.
Shi Kang raised his head and was about to speak, but the slight exertion caused his right leg to crack in a crisp sound.
Shi Kang held his right leg and pressed it on the broken area while activating a killer move, rocks filled the gap and his rockman transformation was back in one piece for the moment.
Shi Kang still did not want to show weakness, he shouted at Fang Dong Xi: "Cme, I cn stil fiht!"
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Chapter 2131 Fang Yuan: Hu Land?
With the situation in this state, Fang Dong Xi and the rest stopped attacking.
"Strange!"
"This is really odd. Something does not make any sense."
"Shi Kang is not a suicidal person, there might be great benefits involved for him to push himself this hard."
As for what benefits, the Gu Immortals had a similar guess.
"Shi Kang entered with us and had only gone into that sand heap earlier. Could it be?"
The Gu Immortals suddenly flew down and entered the sand heap again.
Shi Kang was really anxious this time as he gave chase.
He yelled and cursed but no one cared.
The immortals arrived at the center of the sand heap within moments and witnessed a painful scene.
They saw Mo Li lying on the ground with his legs spread open, he was gnashing his teeth while his body shook from the intense pain.
Wang Xiao Er was standing in front of him and fiercely kicking the part between Mo Li's legs, the most vital area of a man.
On the other side, Peng Da's soul was also attacking Mo Li.
What attracted the Gu Immortals' attention was the pig-head land spirit.
The pig-head land spirit was cheering loudly: "Good, this way of taking a beating really makes people marvel! What moves me even more is this spirit, what kind of spirit to take a beating is this! Exposing your vital area openly and allowing such fierce attacks. And you, Mo Li, have persevered without a thought of giving up. What fearless courage! Your dazzling spirit continues to move me."
"Ah ah ah! Then, then you… ahh! Are you moved… ahh! Will you recognize me… as your… your master?" Mo Li's tears fell from the pain as he shouted.
The pig-head land spirit said with a solemn expression: "Soon, soon! You have already surpassed that Shi Kang."
Mo Li wanted to cry: "You, you, you… ahh, you said that just before… ughh!"
"Stop them!" Fang Dong Xi shouted first.
"A mere mortal wants to obtain a blessed land?" The Gu Immortals made their moves.
Shi Kang was also among them, his head was soaked with cold sweat as he rejoiced. The other Gu Immortals discovered this secret, if not for that, he might have been defeated by this audacious mortal.
Immortal moves shrouded the entire place, they descended like a tsunami.
Mo Li's group was deathly pale.
"Mother!" Wang Xiao Er held his head and tried to run.
"Land spirit, save me!" Mo Li was lying on the ground, his legs tremblings intensely.
The pig-head land spirit shook its head and flew away: "I cannot save you. To become my master, you need to have the spirit to take a beating, but even more than that, you need to have the strength to take the beatings."
But right as Mo Li was about to die miserably, there was a loud sound, and all the killer moves were destroyed.
"Who?"
"Come out!"
Three mysterious figures appeared from the corner.
Their bodies were shrouded in a layer of profound light, hiding their appearance and gender.
They stood silently, but their auras were closely connected and actually suppressed the side of Western Desert's righteous path.
Fang Dong Xi and the rest became solemn like they were facing a huge enemy.
"This profound light and this kind of image…."
"You? You are the legendary Yi clan!"
"Western Desert's Yi clan? There really is this super clan?"
There existed a hidden super clan in Western Desert, with powerful strength and a long history, seemingly existing since ancient times.
But this was only a rumor between Western Desert's super forces, and there had never been clear evidence.
"Since you know of our Yi clan, then retreat." One of the three mysterious figures spoke. Their voice was also modified, gender-neutral and hoarse.
Fang Dong Xi snorted coldly: "Cowardly people who dare not show themselves, who knows if you are really from Yi clan."
"You want us to retreat just like this? Aren't you too arrogant?"
"You are even more arrogant than Shi Kang."
Shi Kang rubbed his nose and was about to speak when another person said: "Look at the price of Shi Kang's arrogance, your outcome will be the same."
Shi Kang: "…"
A chaotic battle broke out.
Yi clan's three Gu Immortals had tacit cooperation, they had clearly trained together for years. They immediately gained the upper hand.
Western Desert righteous path might have been suppressed but they had superiority in their numbers.
The pig-head land spirit floated near the edge of the battlefield and watched the battle excitedly.
Gu Immortals prioritized defense to become the blessed land's master. They did not dodge the attacks they could dodge, and even moved towards the attacks.
They were also fighting for Mo Li; after all, he was the person who was thought highly of by the land spirit. If they could help him get the ownership, they would win this battle.
Finally, after a strange, fierce battle, Mo Li was taken away by Yi clan.
Wang Xiao Er was captured by Fang Dong Xi.
And the person who became the blessed land's owner was Gu Immortal Shi Kang. He had not wasted his efforts after all.
Fang Dong Xi returned to Fang clan and reported the outcome of the battle.
The matter concerned Fang Yuan, Fang clan's first supreme elder Fang Gong immediately convened the clan's Gu Immortals to discuss about it.
"We should kill Ling Hu Xu!"
"The issue now is, how do we explain this to Fang Yuan."
"We will tell the truth and let Fang Yuan kill Ling Hu Xu! But we need to hide our transaction with Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan is the number one demon in the world who cultivates all paths. We are unable to deal with Ling Hu Xu because he cultivates theft path and is proficient in escaping. If Fang Yuan were to take action, Ling Hu Xu would definitely die an extremely miserable death."
"That is not appropriate." Fang Di Chang shook his head, rejecting this suggestion.
His soul was traded to Fang clan by Fang Yuan, and he obtained freedom once again. Right now, he had possessed a rank five Gu Master's body and was preparing to undergo immortal ascension again, he was part of this discussion right now.
Fang Di Chang continued to analyze: "Do you think that possibility is likely, or is it more probable for Fang Yuan to find trouble with us instead?"
"What is the reason for Fang Yuan's transaction with our clan? It is because our clan is the closest to green ghost desert, and he needs countless soul cores to cultivate his soul. After all, he inherited Shadow Sect's true inheritance."
"If my grand Fang clan cannot even handle this properly, we will no doubt lose our value in Fang Yuan's eyes. At that time, what do you think he will do?"
Fang clan's immortals felt their hearts turning cold from this analysis.
Fang Gong nodded: "I approve of Fang Di Chang's words. Fang Yuan could step on Heavenly Court, it is very easy for him to deal with Fang clan. We cannot fight him!"
"Besides this, our clan also benefited plenty from transacting with Fang Yuan. The numerous immortal materials in Fang Yuan's hands are the most important transaction gains for our clan."
Fang Dong Xi was troubled: "But this time's soul core quantity cannot meet the requirement. Tomorrow is the day to hand over the goods, what reason will we use to delay it? If Fang Yuan wants to investigate this, he can easily realize the truth. But if we don't lie and say the truth, won't our value fall greatly in Fang Yuan's eyes?"
Fang Di Chang said: "We must tell the truth. But since the soul cores are not enough, we will use other things to compensate for them. Won't it be okay as long as Fang Yuan is satisfied?"
Fang Hua Sheng was worried: "Fang Yuan has a large number of venerable true inheritances, his standards are extremely high. Our Fang clan does have some items that can satisfy Fang Yuan, but every one of these items is a foundation of our Fang clan. We cannot hand over our foundation because of Ling Hu Xu, can we?"
Fang Di Chang laughed: "You are thinking too deeply. In my opinion, this matter is easy to resolve."
Fang Gong asked: "What plan do you have?"
Fang Di Chang: "Didn't we already soul search Wang Xiao Er? Although he is only a mortal, his body is mysterious and his experiences are also quite amazing. We know about Hu Land, this secluded domain of heaven and earth should already be in Wu clan's hands now. We will hand this information to Fang Yuan, it should satisfy him."
"Is that going to work?" Some were doubtful.
Fang Di Chang shook his head: "Don't treat Fang Yuan like us normal people. Spectral Soul and Qing Chou are already dead, Demon Immortal Qi Jue is suppressed, Qi Sea Ancestor was defeated by him. He is now the number one person in the world! Even if Wu clan is the number one super force of Southern Border… Hehe, they still won't be able to protect Hu Land."
Fang Gong nodded: "Then, let's do that. If Fang Yuan is not satisfied, we can only incur a greater loss once again."
He then sighed: "Such a pity about Hu Land. If only my clan knew of it, we would definitely conceal it and dig it up secretly. Now, we can only give it to Fang Yuan."
Fang Di Chang said in a heavy tone: "Fang Yuan should be satisfied. This person is terrifying! The most terrifying thing is not his strength, but his broadmindedness instead. He doesn't bother about trifling matters in order to accomplish the major goal, his broadmindedness and shrewdness are unfathomably deep and vast like mountains and seas."
"What gives me chills is that even though he is the strongest person in the world, he is still willing to trade with us and will not resort to brute force if he can."
"This kind of person is not someone our Fang clan or Heavenly Court can deal with. I am afraid that only the rumored venerable revival can curb such a terrifying demon."
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Mini Yellow Heaven.
At some corner of Ni clan, a Gu Master who had been unconscious for several days woke up dazedly from his bed.
"An Immortal Gu condensed inside my body!" The Gu Master looked weak and pale, but he could barely hide his joy.
"From today onwards, am I going to rise up towards the peak of my life?" The Gu Master was extremely excited, he had rank four cultivation and knew of Ni clan's secret.
"In the whole of Ni clan, there are three Gu Masters who have passed the difficulty of bloodline condensation and survived, and with me now, there are four who possess Immortal Gu. Now that I have an Immortal Gu, I will be Ni clan's fourth elder even though my cultivation has not reached rank five!"
The Gu Master's mind was filled with plans for his beautiful future, little did he know that his condition over the past few days as well as the thoughts going through his mind right now were all seen by Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan fell into thoughts: "Ni Ren's method is indeed an ingenious human isolation style refinement technique. After the event of the gold fragment current, although Ni clan lost a lot of Gu Masters, the surviving Gu Masters passed the cruel trial. After they returned to the clan, the phenomenon of bloodline condensation appeared successively. Over forty people got a fever and fell unconscious, but only two woke up successfully and refined Immortal Gu inside their body."
Right at this time, a message disturbed his thoughts.
"Hmm? Hu Land?"
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Chapter 2132 Nurturing Gu Immortals
Southern Border, Wu clan.
Over fifty Gu Masters were gathered in the hall.
"First supreme elder! Supreme elder Wu Qiao, supreme elder Mountain Moving." Gu Masters greeted together with solemn expressions and hardly concealable excitement.
Wei Shen Jing was among them.
He had finally emerged from the cruel competition and obtained the opportunity to become an immortal.
Besides him, there was Divine Doctor Sheng Shou and Wu Shen Tong, these two had been revived through the dead sea life retrieval formation. There was also Zhong Yi, the Western Desert Gu Master who had inherited Fire Thunder true inheritance.
These fifty or so people were geniuses of their generation and were Gu Master elites selected by Wu clan.
"You may stand." Wu Yong was sitting on the main seat, to his left was Mountain Moving Old Monster, and to his right was Wu clan's rank seven Gu Immortal Wu Qiao.
"The information on immortal ascension and the matters to pay attention to regarding immortal ascension have already been given to you. Over the following period of time, you should start closed cultivation and come out only when you feel you have the certainty to ascend to immortal. Our Wu clan's Gu Immortals will help you resist the immortal ascension tribulations with all their strength. You may leave now." Wu Yong raised his hand.
The group of around fifty Gu Masters retreated.
Wu Yong smiled towards Mountain Moving Old Monster: "Supreme elder Mountain Moving, I shall hand the matter of these Gu Masters' immortal ascension to you."
Mountain Moving Old Monster was not a Gu Immortal originating from Wu clan, his surname was Qin and his name was Jing Sheng, he was previously a lone immortal.
When Fang Yuan was disguised as Wu Yi Hai, there was the issue of Mount Snail where he reached an agreement with Mountain Moving Old Monster. Mountain Moving Old Monster obtained most of the benefits of Mount Snail, but this immemorial desolate beast still belonged to Wu clan in name.
But in the end, Fang Yuan's identity was exposed and Wu Yong went after him.
Mountain Moving Old Monster's situation immediately became awkward.
Wu Yong was a formidable character, why would he let go of this opportunity? He immediately exerted pressure on Mountain Moving Old Monster; using both forceful and persuasive measures, he made Mountain Moving Old Monster become Wu clan's external supreme elder.
Back to the present, Mountain Moving Old Monster quickly agreed to Wu Yong's command: "I am in deep admiration of first supreme elder's broadmindedness. I will stake all my strength to make sure the tribulations cannot harm anyone."
"Good." Wu Yong laughed, "I, Wu Yong, guarantee that the Wu clan I govern is fair with rewards and punishments."
"I shall take my leave and make preparations." Mountain Moving Old Monster left.
He knew the meaning behind Wu Yong's action.
He was an external elder of Wu clan, external elders were usually ostracized.
But Wu Yong's move was too revolutionary, he actually supported so many Gu Immortal seeds at once. What raised Mountain Moving Old Monster's attention the most was that these fifty or so Gu Masters were mostly outsiders.
Wu Yong ordered Mountain Moving Old Monster to be in charge of this matter: on one hand, he was worried of Wu clan's Gu Immortals being biased towards the clan members if they were put in charge; on the other hand, it was to reassure Mountain Moving Old Monster, using action to tell him — I, Wu Yong, am different from ordinary leaders!
When Mountain Moving Old Monster left, Wu Yong's gaze moved towards Wu Qiao.
Wu Qiao had been keeping silent and was feeling uneasy under Wu Yong's gaze.
Wu Qiao had been Wu clan's third supreme elder with high authority and status. But he was enticed by Qiao clan and had supported Fang Yuan, who had disguised as Wu Yi Hai. This action was the same as betraying Wu clan's benefits!
Later, Wu Qiao was in charge of guarding Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian but lost it to the enemies. This was a great stain to his reputation.
After Wu Yong took the position, he suppressed Wu Qiao to the limit. Wu Qiao's situation declined day by day and he was even stripped of his third elder position.
"Wu Qiao." Wu Yong spoke, "What do you think of my decision to support so many Gu Immortal seeds?"
Under Wu Yong's gaze, Wu Qiao's forehead became covered in sweat. He took a deep breath before standing and bowing, saying in a sincere manner: "Lord Wu Yong, I think this action has far more benefits in long term. I give my full support to it!"
Wu Yong laughed, he raised his tea cup and took a sip, before asking leisurely: "Then tell me how you will give full support?"
Wu Qiao took a deep breath and said what he had already prepared before.
Wu Yong did not comment and only nodded as he put down the cup: "Do it."
Wu Qiao was exulted, he quickly requested for leave. He did not leave directly like Mountain Moving Old Monster, instead he stood at the door and bowed deeply towards Wu Yong before leaving slowly.
This attitude was extremely respectful.
Only Wu Yong remained in the discussion hall.
He was expressionless, but was sighing inwardly.
This time, he invested all the resources of the clan to support the immortal ascensions of over fifty Gu Masters, this move could be considered crazy.
His move had caused dissatisfaction in many Wu clan Gu Immortals.
The main reason was that among these over fifty Gu Masters, less than half were Wu clansmen while the rest were outsiders.
Many Wu clan supreme elders including Wu Ba Chong thought: Wu Yong's action was shaking Wu clan's foundation!
"These short-sighted people." As Wu Yong recalled the recent times, when these people admonished his actions openly or secretly, he could not help but snort coldly.
Wu clan's greatest issue was the lack of Gu Immortals, there was not enough manpower to guard their territories. Let alone when they were planning to expand in the future.
However, Wu clan had few Gu Immortal seeds as well.
Even when they lowered the standard and revived some Wu clan Gu Master elites, the number of Gu Immortal candidates was only eighteen.
Although Gu Immortals could deal with the tribulations, the crucial point in immortal ascension was the balancing of three qi. Outsiders could not help in this, the Gu Master had to rely on themselves.
Eighteen Wu clan Gu Immortal seeds, according to history, only one or two among them might succeed in immortal ascension.
That would not do!
What use was there in gaining one or two rank six Gu Immortals for Wu clan?
This simply could not satisfy Wu Yong's ambition!
Thus, Wu Yong disregarded his subordinates' opposition and recruited outsider Gu Masters to be Gu Immortal candidates. Moreover, Wu clan treated them fairly and gave them full support.
"It is not that these people cannot see the situation, but they raised opposition because it threatened their own benefits."
"They have really disappointed me. Their vision is too narrow, without the five regional walls now, our Wu clan's enemies are not just Southern Border forces, but the entire five regions. And among the five regions, the most terrifying enemies are in Central Continent."
"Central Continent's sect system…" Wu Yong sighed.
With his foresight and wisdom, he was already clear of the superiority of the sect system. That was the reason he gave full support to outsider Gu Immortal candidates and recruited outsiders to become Wu clan's external supreme elders.
But even with his prestige, he encountered such opposition and resistance, it could be imagined what the situation in other super forces would be like.
Wu Yong had excellent political skills, he dealt with this situation by deploying Mountain Moving Old Monster and supporting Wu Qiao.
Mountain Moving Old Monster was an external supreme elder, for the sake of his own future in Wu clan, he would definitely do his best to support those outsider Gu Immortal seeds in their ascension.
And Wu Qiao was an astute person.
He saw Wu clan's situation and Wu Yong's plan.
To get back onto Wu clan's political stage, even if he did not approve of Wu Yong's move, he had to grab this opportunity, becoming Wu Yong's dog and standing against those opposing supreme elders.
Like this, Wu clan's internal disorder was quickly resolved by Wu Yong.
"There will be five or six among these seeds who will succeed in immortal ascension. I hope one of my Wu clansmen becomes a qi path Gu Immortal. Hu Land can be used then."
"In the future, if I am lucky enough to refine eight-faced prestige wind, my strength will rise by another level. Adding on Hu Land, my Wu clan will be among the top super forces in all five regions."
Wu Yong's mood turned much better when he thought of Hu Land.
He thought very highly of Hu Land.
If not for him cultivating wind path primarily and having accumulated a lot of wind path dao marks, he might have converted to qi path for Hu Land.
Wu Ji did not choose qi path and persisted on strength path, which had actually disappointed Wu Yong.
Hu Land's value was extremely high, this could be seen from Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
As long as a set of killer moves involving this kind of secluded domain of heaven and earth was created, the Gu Immortal would have near pseudo venerable battle strength.
Hu Land could be taken as a quasi-rank nine Immortal Gu, while it would be extremely difficult for Wu clan to obtain a rank nine Immortal Gu. Even refining a rank eight Immortal Gu was a huge trial to Wu clan.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Be it Mini Blue Heaven's Star Collection City, Mini Western Desert's Inkman City, Mini Northern Plains' Triple Sacred Mountain, or other areas, Gu Immortals were cheering in excitement.
Just the previous moment, Fang Yuan had issued the latest contribution board, mission board, and exchange list.
The contribution board and mission board were issued long before, but it was the first appearance of the exchange list!
It was this exchange list that made all the Gu Immortals in the sovereign immortal aperture excited.
The exchange list contained a large number of rank six and rank seven Immortal Gu, a dazzling lineup of immortal moves, Immortal Gu recipes, and countless immortal materials.
The Gu Immortals in the sovereign immortal aperture only needed to spend their accumulated contribution points to exchange for any cultivation resource on the exchange list.
"I have never seen such a rich list of immortal materials and such enormous immortal material reserves!" Even Lang Ya land spirit, who was extremely knowledgeable, was dumbstruck when he saw the exchange list.
"There are rank six to rank nine immortal killer moves, including common killer moves, battlefield killer moves, the present age Gu formations and Gu Houses, and even ancient battle formations. Eh? What is this totem killer move? I have never heard of it before." Many Gu Immortals exclaimed in shock.
The Gu Immortals who came from the variant human alliance cared much more about the Immortal Gu in the exchange list.
"Even these Immortal Gu can be exchanged?"
"Am I dreaming?"
"How difficult is it to refine Immortal Gu, but here, we only need to accumulate a certain amount of contribution points to exchange for an Immortal Gu?"
All of the Gu Immortals were moved.
They suddenly realized that becoming subordinates of Fang Yuan was a really fortunate thing!
"Our future is so bright after following master!"
"This is too good, looks like Lord Fang Yuan wants to nurture us."
"I have never seen a force have such wealth. Master's foundation is truly inestimable."
The Gu Immortals' eyes shined with excitement, their faces reddened, and some even cried in joy.
Some quick ones immediately looked at the mission board.
Previously, the tasks they completed were mandatory and they did not have much enthusiasm. But it was completely different now!
"Eh? The first task is so strange! Request for Lord Fang Yuan to protect us from tribulations, and we also get such rich contribution points in return?"
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Chapter 2133 Shi Zong“s Tribulation
Fang Yuan was secretly observing his subordinates' reactions.
He had issued the exchange list after careful consideration.
Previously, Fang Yuan had thought the sovereign immortal aperture's chaotic phenomena would pass with time. But they were instead becoming more severe.
Sometimes, some strange situations occurred, which were so serious that Fang Yuan's main body had to deal with them.
If he could increase the strength of the sovereign immortal aperture's Gu Immortals by a level or two, the chaotic state of the sovereign immortal aperture would be dealt with much more properly.
Fang Yuan had no way to completely resolve the issues in the sovereign immortal aperture, so he could only alleviate them.
Naturally, regardless of how he strengthened them, these subordinates would not have the ability to take part in the contest within Crazed Demon Cave. Fang Yuan also did not have such extravagant hopes.
Nurturing these subordinates required a large amount of resources.
Fang Yuan had devoured many of the two heavens' grotto-heavens and plundered the countless years of accumulations of these grotto-heavens, he naturally did not lack the resources to nurture them.
On the basis of cultivation resources, Fang Yuan had already surpassed most of the super forces in the world.
Even if Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven had much more accumulation than Fang Yuan, they could not copy his action.
Fang Yuan possessed Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool, it was extremely easy for him to refine rank six and rank seven Immortal Gu. That was why he could domineeringly place all kinds of Immortal Gu on the exchange list and let his subordinates exchange for them.
If Fang Yuan needed to use some Immortal Gu that they exchanged for in the future, he could just throw a compulsory mission at the person. Who would dare to go against Fang Yuan's decree?
At that time, Fang Yuan would give even more contribution points in exchange, the subordinate whose Immortal Gu was seized might even be quite happy.
The heated reactions of his subordinates was within Fang Yuan's expectations.
These Gu Immortals who were stimulated by the exchange list began to crazily accept the tasks, and took the initiative to go to various areas of the sovereign immortal aperture to work like bees.
As for the first task on the mission board, the Gu Immortals were discussing if Lord Fang Yuan had made a mistake?
But even after a few days, the task content had not changed.
The Gu Immortals became increasingly covetous, the contribution point reward of this task was sizable.
Shi Zong was the person to study the new exchange list for the longest time.
Recently, Shi Zong had been distressed over a huge issue.
He was the first supreme elder of Northern Plains' rockman tribe, he was rank seven and was about to face his third grand tribulation.
Rank seven Gu Immortals faced an earthly calamity every ten years, a heavenly tribulation every fifty years, and a grand tribulation every one hundred years.
Earthly calamities and heavenly tribulations were not big issues to Shi Zong. But a grand tribulation was huge trouble, the previous two grand tribulations had almost destroyed Shi Zong's confidence.
The third grand tribulation was imminent, Shi Zong was thinking of ways to delay the grand tribulation.
But he had turned the whole exchange list inside out and was still unable to find a trace of hope.
"The exchange list doesn't have any methods to delay calamities and tribulations!" Shi Zong frowned.
"Does master not have such methods? Obviously not!" Shi Zong's gaze locked on the first task in the mission board.
"Looks like master is encouraging us to accept this task."
Shi Zong was enticed.
His rockman tribe came from Northern Plains' northern icy plain, Fang Yuan had forced them on his ship.
But by now, Shi Zong found that this ship had already become a warship with a bright future and unimaginable fortune.
Since ancient times, the main criteria of a leader was — making use of both benevolence and authority.
Fang Yuan had no lack of authority, so when the exchange list appeared, it changed many people's hearts.
Shi Zong did not dare to betray Fang Yuan and had seen the benefits of following Fang Yuan, he thought for a long while and decided to take the risk, accepting that task!
He accepted the task openly and did not conceal it.
And soon, the news regarding him accepting the first task spread throughout the sovereign immortal aperture's Gu Immortal world.
"Shi Zong is a veteran rank seven Gu Immortal. If he can pass the tribulation successfully, he will become a rank eight!"
"Let's see what's going on with this task."
"Sigh, I also wanted to accept this task. I did not expect Shi Zong to seize the initiative. This is a good opportunity to express loyalty to master."
Not long after Shi Zong accepted the task, he was summoned by Fang Yuan's time path clone.
The time path clone was going to manage Shi Zong's immortal aperture and make preparations for the tribulation.
Shi Zong opened his immortal aperture, Fang Yuan's time path clone personally took control and stuffed earth path immortal materials inside his immortal aperture.
Worry soil, green pond rotten soil, diamond soil, great lake soil, concealing heaven dust, grand soil, region sand, impermanence rock, smoky warm jade, thousand year frost jade essence, dark inkstone, marrow sucking stone, regret water rock, round kun stone, hibiscus stalactite, stone heart liquid, eight-parts jade, and so on; the large number of earth path immortal material made Shi Zong speechless.
After coming to his senses, Shi Zong's heart jumped in fright.
"Gu Immortal calamities and tribulations are the result of Heavenly Dao seeking balance. Right now, my earth path foundation has increased to such an astonishing amount; my grand tribulation will become even more terrifying. Ordinary Gu Immortals want their calamities and tribulations to be as weak as possible, but master is completely the opposite, it is as if he wants the grand tribulation to become a myriad tribulation!"
Several days later, the time to undergo tribulation was here.
Fang Yuan's main body arrived at an ordinary sea area of Eastern Sea and opened his immortal aperture, letting Shi Zong out.
Shi Zong greeted Fang Yuan first before placing his aperture in the outside world.
The blessed land's door was opened and started absorbing a large amount of the outside world's heaven and earth qi.
Fang Yuan stood outside the entrance.
He could not go in.
He had too many dao marks; previously, when he attacked Fire Plain grotto-heaven, he was unable to go in as well, let alone this tiny rank seven blessed land.
The grand tribulation was on time.
First was the arrival of heaven path dao marks, then these heaven path dao marks transformed into dao marks of other paths based on the state of Shi Zong's blessed land.
Most of these dao marks were of earth path.
The transformed dao marks used and expended heaven and earth qi to turn into calamities and tribulations.
If Fang Yuan used big family qi Gu right now, he could absorb the tribulation qi and weaken the grand tribulation.
Right now, Fang Yuan was looking forward to the grand tribulation becoming even stronger.
Soon the grand tribulation took shape, Shi Zong's face turned pale.
"Yellow sky dust cloud! Heavens, it saw my immortal aperture was very prosperous and I had too many earth path resources, so this is specially targeting them."
Yellow sky dust cloud would gain increasingly powerful suction force along with time and absorb the immortal aperture's earth path resources.
The more earth path resources it absorbed, the stronger it would become, its range would increase and it would become denser with much more powerful suction force.
Among all the grand tribulations, yellow sky dust cloud was absolutely among the top few hated grand tribulations.
Shi Zong tried several killer moves, although they were effective, the effect was very little on such a large yellow sky dust cloud.
"I can only rely on master now!" Shi Zong's expression was dismal.
Right at this time, Shi Zong saw multi-colored and dazzling totems fly out of Fang Yuan's body and enter the blessed land, before charging into the yellow sky dust cloud.
These totems were of various types and shapes. There existed ferocious tiger and leopard, agile deer and rabbit, lush trees, as well as spinning flying rocks.
But no matter which one, they all emitted rank eight aura!
Shi Zong's body and mind shook together: "Oh heavens! More than twenty killer moves, all at rank eight level. Master actually has such terrifying strength!"
These were all totem killer moves.
Ever since Fang Yuan obtained the cultivation method of thousands of basic totems from Zhan Bu Du, he would cultivate this move whenever he had some free time.
Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven was the sacred land for cultivating totem killer moves, it was very difficult to cultivate totems outside of this place. Because there was no such food path environment, almost all the food recipes would lose their effect when placed in the outside world.
Fang Yuan, however, was different.
He had deep food path attainment, he modified these food recipes and turned them into killer moves.
With the help of these food path killer moves and countless Gu materials, Fang Yuan was able to cultivate over twenty totems.
These totems were all at rank eight level and were carefully selected by Fang Yuan, their power naturally would not be low. What was even more amazing was once these totem killer moves were formed, they were extremely easy and convenient to activate.
Fang Yuan willed, activating over twenty totems at once. In other words, he activated over twenty rank eight killer moves in an instant!
It was because he possessed the sovereign immortal body that he could fearlessly cultivate totems of so many paths. If it were other Gu Immortals, they would never be able to accomplish this.
Shi Zong watched with a stupefied expression.
Because at that moment, the extremely thick yellow sky dust cloud that covered the sky was shredded by these totems.
"Too vicious, too terrifying!" Shi Zong's thoughts fluctuated intensely.
But although the grand tribulation was destroyed violently, it did not stop. Instead it was trying hard to condense again.
However, the moment a trace of yellow sky dust cloud condensed, it was instantly torn into pieces by the totems.
Heaven's will did not give up but the totems were even fiercer.
Inexplicably, Shi Zong suddenly felt that the grand tribulation was somewhat pitiful.
Immortal killer move — Heaven-Human Sensation.
Immortal killer move — Human Executing Heaven's Work.
Immortal killer move — Unrestrained Heavenly Mark!
Fang Yuan made his move from outside the entrance, refining all the heaven path dao marks from the grand tribulation.
But the unrestrained heavenly marks fell on Shi Zong's blessed land.
But it was not a problem.
Fang Yuan took out an Immortal Gu House, it was the repaired Thieves Den.
Thieves Den's killer move — Steal Dao!
The theft path killer move's working principle was to use theft path immortal materials as the catalyst, the theft path dao marks in the immortal materials would be consumed instantly and the dao marks in the outside world would be stolen. The stolen dao marks must be attached to these theft path immortal materials.
So, if the stolen dao marks were disorderly, the immortal materials would have no value, like those immortal materials found everywhere in Crazed Demon Cave.
In short, Thieves Den had the ability to steal the outside world's dao marks but did not have a method to use them.
Moreover, Thieves Den was already a peak level creation and could not be modified, it had no room or potential for improvement.
These stolen unrestrained heavenly marks formed a heaven path immortal material.
Fang Yuan took this heaven path immortal material and activated a food path killer move — Devour Heaven and Earth!
This killer move was Fang Yuan's gain from his recent cultivation.
Fang Yuan's food path attainment level was grandmaster, he had countless food path killer moves and deep wisdom path attainment, it was not difficult for him to create a killer move to devour heaven path immortal materials.
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Chapter 2134 Fang Yuan, Just You Wait!
After consuming this heaven path immortal material, Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture gained nine more heaven path dao marks.
The grand tribulation that sent Shi Zong into despair, when turned into heaven path dao marks, merely amounted to nine. Moreover, this grand tribulation's strength was much higher than normal, a normal grand tribulation would give less than nine heaven path dao marks when transformed.
"Probably around seven." Fang Yuan estimated.
This could not compare to the gains from annexing the two heavens' grotto-heavens.
Each of the two heavens' grotto-heavens gave Fang Yuan several thousand heaven path dao marks. Fang Yuan devoured grotto-heavens one after the other, his sovereign immortal aperture's development had already reached eighty percent.
At present, his heaven path dao marks numbered over two hundred thousand!
Fang Yuan wanted to become venerable through refinement path, so he prioritized annexing refinement path grotto-heavens, which increased his refinement path dao marks to over six million!
"Currently, the sovereign immortal aperture cannot annex any more grotto-heavens. So I can only use this method to gain heaven path dao marks."
"Although the increase each time is small, Gu Immortals undergoing tribulations is a process that will never stop. Little droplets of water make a mighty ocean, I can accumulate a substantial amount with this method."
In the long run, this path of helping Gu Immortals undergo tribulation was quite bright.
The two heavens' grotto-heavens accumulated for a million or so years to have such foundations. But if Fang Yuan annexed one, there would be one less.
There was, however, an unending stream of Gu Immortals.
Shi Zong's tribulation succeeded and he advanced to rank eight.
When he returned to the sovereign immortal aperture, he immediately received the congratulations of many people and was asked about the exact details.
Shi Zong was already prepared, he had used Gu worms to record the complete video of his tribulation.
When this video was spread, it brought a strong impact to the sovereign immortal aperture's Gu Immortal world.
"Master is so strong!"
"He used over twenty rank eight killer moves in an instant, is he still human?"
"These are totem killer moves? They look quite convenient!"
From the start, the Gu Immortals were attracted by the totem killer moves. When Thieves Den appeared, they exclaimed in shock again.
When the video reached the end and the yellow sky dust cloud was completely destroyed by Fang Yuan, the Gu Immortals sighed, deeply moved.
"Master's methods are unimaginable, he can really destroy calamities and tribulations beforehand."
"In history, these calamities and tribulations will calm down only after they have vented everything. But Lord Fang Yuan has unfathomable powers, he can get rid of calamities and tribulations ahead of time."
"It can be inferred that this task is a huge fortune. Not only can we increase our cultivation level, we can also get a sizable amount of contribution points."
"Didn't you hear what Shi Zong said? Although he passed the tribulation and became a rank eight Gu Immortal, he did not gain any new dao marks."
"Ah? There was such a thing. No wonder this task compensated us with contribution points."
Shi Zong did not hide this, he was somewhat hesitant at first, but after the tribulation, Fang Yuan personally ordered him to publicize the truth.
No gain in dao marks, this news was like a bucket of cold water that poured on these excited Gu Immortals.
The Gu Immortals began to calm down.
This result needed to be properly considered.
No gain of dao marks was a huge loss to Gu Immortals. After all, undergoing tribulation was the main way of gaining dao marks.
Over the next few days, there was no movement. But when Shi Zong used these contribution points to exchange for two rank seven earth path Immortal Gu and three earth path killer moves, another person accepted the task of undergoing tribulation.
After that, more and more Gu Immortals began to imitate this, and it soon formed a wave in the sovereign immortal aperture's Gu Immortal world.
These Gu Immortals were shrewd, they had calculated the gains and losses.
Although they would lose a batch of dao marks, the value of the gained contribution points was far higher than the losses.
The Gu Immortal's battle strength and immortal aperture's environment would indeed weaken from the loss of these dao marks, but dao marks was only one of the factors.
There were many factors which determined a Gu Immortal's battle strength. For instance, Immortal Gu was a main factor, immortal killer moves as well were much more important than some thousands of dao marks.
The immortal aperture's environment would be influenced, but the Gu Immortals could exchange for all kinds of immortal materials to create even more resource points to fill this gap.
What made the Gu Immortals choose this path was that there was a special entry in the exchange list that allowed the Gu Immortals to supply the immortal materials and expend some contribution points, to ask for Fang Yuan's clone to use food path killer moves to increase their corresponding dao marks!
These various reasons created an unending supply of Gu Immortals who underwent tribulation.
Fang Yuan's heaven path dao marks continued to increase.
Southern Border.
Ke Xin Hong was flying through the clouds.
He was communicating with his friend.
"You don't know that all the Gu Immortals are accepting the assisted tribulation task. Some Gu Immortals whose tribulations are still far away will choose an option in the exchange list, it requests master's time path clone to accelerate their immortal aperture's time flow! They are using every means possible to accept this task."
Ke Xin Hong read up to here before replying with the information path Immortal Gu: "It is because the contribution points for this task are sizable, moreover, whoever obtains the contribution points first will be able to move a step ahead and do more missions, entering a beneficial feedback loop. Look at that Shi Zong, he has been thriving recently. His strength has surged, he can do and take on more difficult tasks, obtaining even more contribution points much faster."
"Unfortunately, I received a mandatory task now and have to go on a diplomatic mission to Wu clan. Otherwise, I would have been the first to accept this task."
His friend replied soon: "You need to be careful, you are going to Wu clan's headquarters to demand Hu Land. That is a secluded domain of heaven and earth, and Wu Yong is the Southern Alliance's Leader!"
Ke Xin Hong, however, was confident: "I am quite hopeful for this trip. Even if it fails, Wu Yong won't do anything to me. You have not personally realized and witnessed master's power and influence. Alright, I have arrived, I will contact you later."
Ke Xin Hong slowly flew down.
Below him was Wu Yi Mountain.
Wu clan's headquarters was located here.
Seeing Ke Xin Hong, two Gu Immortals immediately flew up from Wu Yi Mountain, at the front was Wu clan's second supreme elder Wu Ba Chong.
Ke Xin Hong had already notified them before coming here.
Wu clan's earnestness could be seen, they had sent Wu Ba Chong to welcome him.
"Envoy, please come in." Wu Ba Chong led Ke Xin Hong to Wu clan's headquarters.
"You came from afar and must be tired, how about resting for a while." Wu Ba Chong was polite.
Ke Xin Hong shook his hand: "Let's get down to business first."
"Alright. Please wait a while, our first supreme elder is handling some clan affairs."
Ke Xin Hong nodded and waited patiently.
He could understand that the leader of the great Wu clan could not be available so casually. Whether he was really busy or not, they had to put up this show.
After five minutes, Wu Ba Chong came again and led Ke Xin Hong towards the guest hall.
Ke Xin Hong saw Wu Yong there.
Ke Xin Hong did not speak nonsense and said directly: "Lord Wu Yong, I come with master's sincerity to have another transaction with your noble clan."
Wu Yong and Wu Ba Chong looked at each other, they had profited a lot in the previous transaction. Wu Yong asked with a smile: "I wonder what transaction it is?"
Ke Xin Hong smiled: "Master is willing to pay a price to buy the Hu Land in your possession."
Instantly, Wu Yong's pupils shrank and killing intent surged in his heart!
"What?!" Wu Ba Chong could not sit still, he stood, "What Hu Land? How could my Wu clan have this secluded domain of heaven and earth? Fang Yuan is definitely mistaken."
Ke Xin Hong smiled and did not refute.
Wu Yong's expression was dark as he interrupted Wu Ba Chong: "Alright, Ba Chong."
Wu Ba Chong immediately stopped denying it, but there was indignance and anger on his face. Veins popped up on his clenched fists as he stared rigidly at Ke Xin Hong.
If gazes could kill, at this moment, Wu Ba Chong would have already killed Ke Xin Hong a hundred times with his gaze.
Ke Xin Hong only looked at Wu Yong, turning a deaf ear to Wu Ba Chong.
He bowed: "Lord Wu Yong, what is your reply?"
Wu Yong suddenly showed a smile: "Since Fang Yuan wants to trade, of course we can. I believe he will definitely pay a satisfying price."
Ke Xin Hong could not help but feel a chill when he saw Wu Yong's attitude.
Wu Yong was really terrifying, in such a short period of time, he accepted this fact and made the most sensible choice!
Ke Xin Hong took a deep breath and said the price: "Master is aware that Lord Wu Yong desires rank eight Immortal Gu, Eight-faced Prestige Wind. Master is willing to personally refine this rank eight Immortal Gu."
"What?" Wu Ba Chong's expression changed again as he bellowed furiously: "Hu Land can be seen as a quasi-rank nine Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan is not taking out even one rank eight Immortal Gu and wants to exchange with such conditions. You are too insincere!"
Wu Yong said through clenched teeth: "This is indeed somewhat too overboard."
Ke Xin Hong smiled: "Wu clan excels in wind path, your only qi path foundation is in Sheng Tian true inheritance. Although Hu Land is a secluded domain of heaven and earth, it doesn't have much value for Wu clan."
Wu Ba Chong immediately refuted: "You can't say that, any path's attainment can be developed. Although my Wu clan excels in wind path, could it be that we cannot excel in qi path in the future? With Hu Land, I would rather change to qi path and replace my vital Gu! With such huge prospects, which super force would be willing to give it up?"
Ke Xin Hong glanced at Wu Ba Chong: "Second supreme elder, you are spot on, quite insightful. It is indeed correct, with Hu Land, the prospect of qi path is highly favorable. But…"
As he said this, Ke Xin Hong intentionally paused before saying deeply: "The prerequisite is… you need to possess Hu Land."
"You!!!" Wu Ba Chong's killing intent erupted and he looked ready to attack.
Ke Xin Hong's hidden meaning was that Wu clan could not keep Hu Land. Since they could not keep Hu Land, it was useless to mention any qi path prospects.
Ke Xin Hong looked towards Wu Yong and bowed again, saying respectfully: "Lord Wu Yong, I will be frank. If your noble clan is not satisfied with this price, we are willing to refine three rank eight Immortal Gu for your clan."
He then continued with a bitter smile: "This is my side's bottom line and there won't be any concession. Lord Wu Yong, please understand. I am only a messenger, I cannot make decisions."
Wu Yong was silent for a while before smiling: "You are an excellent messenger. I agree to your conditions. Wu Ba Chong, bring Ke Xin Hong to take Hu Land and send the rank seven fan wind Gu as well."
"First supreme elder!" Wu Ba Chong was indignant.
"Go." Wu Yong was solemn.
"Sigh!" Wu Ba Chong heaved a deep sigh as he looked at Ke Xin Hong with hatred.
"Follow me!" Wu Ba Chong quickly moved past Ke Xin Hong and walked out of the hall.
Wu Yong sat on his seat without moving.
The guest hall had bright lighting, but Wu Yong's face was dark and heavy.
Losing Hu Land had a huge impact on him!
"How did Fang Yuan know about Hu Land? Did he capture Kong Ri Tian?"
Wu Yong had a lot of doubts but he did not want to investigate it. Since the matter had already reached this stage, there was no meaning in talking about this.
After a long while, Wu Ba Chong returned to report: "Ke Xin Hong has left. Lord, should we send some people in disguise and ambush him?"
Wu Yong shook his head: "With Fang Yuan's wisdom, how could he not have expected such a loophole? Don't do unnecessary things."
Wu Ba Chong said through clenched teeth: "Damn it. Our grand Wu clan cannot protect Hu Land!"
Wu Yong said with a heavy voice: "We need to remember this. In here, in Wu clan's headquarters, we were forced to sell the secluded domain of heaven and earth! This is my disgrace, and also Wu clan's disgrace. In the future, if there is a chance, I will clear this humiliation and pay it back a thousand fold. Fang Yuan, just you wait!"
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Chapter 2135 Liver Life Formation
Fang Yuan was holding heaven's envy Immortal Gu in his hand.
Under the continuous supply of rank eight white litchi immortal essence, heaven's envy Immortal Gu let out a light, crystal-like radiance.
This Immortal Gu seemed like a flea made of crystal, it was as large as a fist and was curled up like a ball.
Suddenly, the crystal radiance from heaven's envy Immortal Gu burst, turning into countless broken crystal lights that shone dazzlingly!
"Success!" Fang Yuan was shocked, at that moment just now, he had actually refined this rank seven heaven's envy Immortal Gu.
The curled-up crystal flea stretched its body and meekly lay on Fang Yuan's palm.
"I am probably the first person in history to completely refine heaven's envy Immortal Gu."
At this moment, Fang Yuan had created history!
But, within an instant, his excited emotions calmed down.
He already had many unprecedented achievements.
"In this recent period of time, I have repeatedly helped my subordinates undergo tribulations. Although the heaven path dao marks gained each time are small in quantity, the numbers accumulate eventually."
"Adding these heaven path dao marks, I am finally able to refine heaven's envy Immortal Gu completely, breaking the previous limit."
"My guess was right!"
The fact was proved in front of him: As long as the unrestrained heavenly marks reached a certain number, heaven path Immortal Gu could be refined.
In the long river of history, there were countless Gu cultivators with geniuses as numerous as stars in the sky, and the ten venerables like ten large suns. But none of them truly cultivated heaven path.
Limitless Demon Venerable and Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable might have grasp of the killer move unrestrained heavenly mark, but from what Fang Yuan knew, they had not delved deeply into heaven path.
The former cultivated rule path and the latter cultivated earth path. Maybe Limitless Demon Venerable researched unrestrained heavenly mark to cultivate heaven path, but he had already become a rule path Demon Venerable at that time and could not turn back anymore.
From this, the advantage of the sovereign immortal aperture could be seen again.
Cultivate every path!
A brand-new unknown path emerged before Fang Yuan.
Heaven path!
Unrestrained heavenly mark was the key to starting heaven path cultivation.
This path had huge prospects and terrifying advantages, even mortals could understand a thing or two!
"Heaven path comprises everything and balances everything, all living beings, be they immortals or mortals, powerful or weak, are included in heaven path. All kinds of Immortal Gu, secluded domains of heaven and earth, are also under the restrictions of heaven path. Heaven path controls calamities and tribulations, it controls lifespan Gu. Venerables were powerful for an era, but when compared to heaven path, they are like a burning torch."
"If I walk this path…."
Fang Yuan could not help but daydream.
Apart from anything else, just lifespan Gu and fate Gu, these two factors made him feel a trace of excitement.
Every venerable in history was troubled by lifespan Gu, and fate Gu had never been directly controlled by Heavenly Court. Even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not have any solution, she could only become one with the Dao to interfere with heaven's will and distort the power of fate Gu.
"Among all the paths, the starting threshold of heaven path is the highest. One must grasp the killer move unrestrained heavenly mark first."
"I have only stepped on the road of heaven path, I still need to walk a long distance before I can touch the deeper profundities like lifespan Gu and fate Gu!"
"The battle of Crazed Demon Cave is imminent, I won't be able to accomplish this before the battle."
Although he had officially stepped on the cultivation path of heaven path and its prospects were bright and huge, Fang Yuan did not intend to fully delve into it.
The situation did not allow him to do so.
"At most, I can invest once more in heaven's envy Immortal Gu."
Cooking Luck Pot brought enormous convenience to Fang Yuan, letting him know that heaven's envy Immortal Gu might be the key in the battle of Crazed Demon Cave.
Heaven path's cultivation road was going to be long, and Fang Yuan had just taken the initial step. But heaven's envy Immortal Gu could be developed further.
"I have completely refined heaven's envy Immortal Gu, but it is only at rank seven. If I create its corresponding killer moves, it might be quite impressive at rank eight level. However, in my battle with venerables, rank seven will not be enough."
"I need to raise heaven's envy Immortal Gu to rank eight!"
Fang Yuan possessed Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool, but this was slightly troublesome.
Fang Yuan had a batch of heaven path immortal materials. It might not be enough if he were to try to refine many heaven path Immortal Gu, but it was enough to use on just heaven's envy Immortal Gu.
However, Fang Yuan's heaven path attainment was ordinary, he was not even at master level. Although his refinement path was as high as quasi-supreme, it would be quite difficult to research heaven's envy Immortal Gu's rank eight recipe.
It was not that there was no chance of success, but it would take too much time and energy.
In his initial estimation, it was going to require two to three years of deductions at the very least.
This was undoubtedly not feasible for Fang Yuan.
"Looks like I need to copy Wu Yong and raise some Gu Immortal seeds, before helping them undergo the ascension tribulation." Fang Yuan quickly found a way.
Fang Yuan did not care about the minimal gains in heaven path dao marks from immortal ascension of rank five Gu Masters. But when Gu Masters undergo immortal ascension, they would have a one-time opportunity to experience natural inspiration.
With this opportunity, the Gu Master questioned heaven and earth, and almost all their questions would be answered.
Since heaven and earth could produce heaven's envy Immortal Gu naturally, it definitely had heaven's envy Immortal Gu's recipe.
Fang Yuan did not demand much, he only needed a correct version of the Immortal Gu recipe of heaven's envy Gu, he could rely on his refinement path attainment to modify it to suit himself.
Moreover, Fang Yuan could also ask for some insights when asking heaven and earth.
For instance: "On the basis of certain kinds of heaven path immortal materials and the current situation, which heaven's envy Immortal Gu recipe is the easiest to refine?"
As he thought of this, he put a new task on the mission board and listed it at number one.
"Search for loyal and devoted Gu Immortal seeds who are suitable to undergo immortal ascension!"
Almost at the next instant, all the Gu Immortals in the sovereign immortal aperture knew of this task.
Ever since the establishment of the exchange list, these Gu Immortals had gone crazy!
Many of them had not even slept for months, using Gu worms to forcibly maintain their conditions, to complete tasks and earn contribution points.
Fang Yuan offered them the most suitable environment, reducing the difficulty of these Gu Immortals' cultivation to the minimum. Almost every day, they could feel their strength increasing.
Even if this increase was only a little, a little progress every day would accumulate to a terrifying amount after several days.
It was this euphoric feeling of experiencing the increase in their cultivation and strength that made these Gu Immortals unable to stop.
What gave Fang Yuan a pleasant surprise was that one of the human Gu Immortals developed an incomplete transformation path Immortal Gu recipe because of this — hard liver Gu.
This human Gu Immortal primarily cultivated transformation path, he was Solid Rock Warrior, who came from Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
Hard liver Gu strengthened the Gu Immortal's liver, giving them lasting and vigorous energy which then allowed them to complete all kinds of laborious tasks without needing to rest. But if it was used excessively, the liver would harden to the limit and trigger a terrifying explosion, inflicting heavy injuries and even death.
After Fang Yuan got familiar with the Gu, he modified and completed it, and even created rank six to rank eight Gu recipes.
After using Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool to refine it, rank eight hard liver Immortal Gu was used as the core of a Gu formation.
Fang Yuan named this Gu formation as liver life formation[1], it operated all year round and collected a fee for every use. If the Gu Immortals were interested, they could hand over some contribution points to enter, after they come out, they will be full of energy and motivation!
"Did you liver today?"
"How much longer can you liver for?"
"I feel like my liver is about to explode."
Such conversations had already become a common daily topic between the Gu Immortals.
So, when Fang Yuan put up this task, the Gu Immortals were like red-eyed sharks that had smelled blood.
"Great task!"
"It was published by master himself."
"The reward is extremely abundant!"
"I cannot, I have not slept in three months. I want to rest a little."
"What rest! Go and liver! The great era is in front of us, we must grasp this excellent cultivation opportunity!"
The Gu Immortals moved out towards all kinds of places to gather Gu Immortal seeds.
In just a short while, this task was completely taken.
The Gu Immortals who could not take it were extremely vexed.
Some shouted regretfully: "Oh, this task was quite excellent, but I missed it!"
Every task on the mission board had a limited quota to prevent Gu Immortals from taking just the tasks with the highest rewards, which would result in unreasonable and wasteful distribution of manpower.
Fang Yuan handed the task of gathering Gu Immortal seeds to his subordinates.
He estimated there would be quite a lot of Gu Immortal seeds, it was going to surpass super forces like Wu clan.
It was because Fang Yuan had annexed many forces like Lang Ya Sect and the two heavens' grotto-heavens, which had extremely deep foundations and long history. They definitely did not lack Gu Immortal seeds.
Using the little spare time he had, Fang Yuan personally went to strengthen Ni clan.
He quietly set up a year essence sub-pool in Ni clan's territory, forming a time path zone.
Ni clan's time would pass much faster, which would increase the rate of Immortal Gu production, it would become much more convenient for Fang Yuan to comprehend Gu refinement profundities of human isolation style.
"The sovereign immortal aperture has a huge number of variant humans, but not many humans."
"Most of the humans are from Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, but it can be foreseen that in the future, Mini Yellow Heaven's Ni clan will probably become the top human force."
Fang Yuan thought to himself.
He had just finished setting up the time path zone when Ke Xin Hong's message arrived.
The latter's diplomatic mission to Wu clan was successful and had obtained Hu Land.
Immortal killer move — Heaven and Earth Travel!
At the next moment, Fang Yuan moved from Eastern Sea to Southern Border, appearing in front of Ke Xin Hong.
After putting Ke Xing Hong in the sovereign immortal aperture, Fang Yuan returned to Eastern Sea.
He secretly arrived in a nameless sea area and toyed around with Hu Land as he waited for Qi Sea Ancestor.
"For you." Fang Yuan handed Hu Land to Qi Sea Ancestor.
The Qi Sea clone quickly received it and said excitedly: "Good, good, I have a premonition! With Hu Land, my combat system will be completed!"
"I will wait in anticipation." Fang Yuan's main body left shortly after.
He was also pondering about his combat system and had made much progress, but was still far away from completing it.
[1] In Chinese medicine, the liver gets damaged/heaty if one does not sleep properly at night. In this case, 'livering/ liver torture' is a common Chinese Internet term for staying up all night to game etc.
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Chapter 2136 Fang Yuan“s Secluded Domains of Heaven and Earth
Immortal killer move — Landscape as Before!
Fang Yuan activated the killer move.
The previous landscape as before Immortal Gu was only at rank six. But two months ago, Fang Yuan had successfully raised it to rank eight.
Rank eight was the limit of landscape as before Immortal Gu.
The limit of most Immortal Gu was at rank eight. After advancing to rank eight, they would have arrived at their peak and could not be advanced anymore.
Gu were the essence of heaven and earth, fragments of the Great Dao. These fragments had their respective limits, those with higher limits could accumulate slowly and reach rank nine, while those with lower limits might even be forced to stay at rank six.
There were many Immortal Gu, although they were unique, they covered almost all aspects imaginable. For instance, Fang Yuan used the killer move lingering poisonous ant plague, which gave birth to two Immortal Gu — red copper immortal ant Gu and white noodle immortal ant Gu. If there was a slight change, there might be another kind of Immortal Gu. For instance, dark-gold immortal ant, black noodle immortal ant, and so on.
Among all the Immortal Gu, only a small portion could truly advance to rank nine.
Rank eight landscape as before Immortal Gu was still a time path Immortal Gu. But the killer move Fang Yuan was using right now was a compound killer move.
It contained profundities of not only time path, but also earth path, water path, rule path, soul path, and other paths.
Under the effect of this compound killer move, Reverse Flow River let out soft gushing sounds as it started expanding at a rapid pace.
After Fang Yuan's nurturing over this period of time, the compound killer move that was used dozens of times showed great effects, Reverse Flow River, which previously only had a little trace left of it, had become a long narrow river!
Fang Yuan had all along been trying to restore Reverse Flow River, and he finally got a good result now.
He had previously thought of using orderly well.
This killer move was a rank nine killer move and came from Shadow Sect's true inheritance. This move used City Well as the core, it could modify secluded domains of heaven and earth, removing the conflict between dao marks, which made it convenient to restore them.
Dang Hun Mountain, Luo Po Valley, and Miniscule Mountain had experienced this move.
But Fang Yuan had never been able to grasp this killer move.
Because he lacked its crucial core Immortal Gu, Immortal Gu was unique, that core Immortal Gu was already in someone else's possession. Fang Yuan had thought of modifying this killer move but it was extremely difficult.
This was a rank nine rule path killer move, it had already reached a peak level where it had no room for improvement.
At least, Fang Yuan was unable to see any.
His rule path attainment level was at great grandmaster, and not quasi-supreme. He was still some distance away from seeing through this kind of rank nine killer move.
"Reverse Flow River is recovering faster right now, but at the later stage of its recovery, Landscape as Before's compound killer move will experience a fall in effectiveness continually, until it becomes negligible."
Landscape as Before's compound killer move was at rank eight level, while the complete Reverse Flow River was a secluded domain of heaven and earth, which was equivalent to rank nine in terms of quantity of dao marks. Because of the huge amount of dao marks, they could sometimes be used as quasi-rank nine Immortal Gu.
Naturally, this depended on the Gu cultivator's ability.
Conceptualizing killer moves with the secluded domain of heaven and earth as the core was only the start, the crucial point was how exceptional the created killer moves were, and if they could fully use the secluded domain of heaven and earth or not.
For instance, Fang Yuan's reverse flow protection seal made use of Reverse Flow River only at the intermediate level.
His Luo Po seal was only at the elementary level of secluded domain usage.
Orderly well killer move was different, it made use of City Well to the highest degree, and was at the advanced level.
There was no killer move that completely used secluded domains of heaven and earth.
Secluded domains of heaven and earth were not Immortal Gu, after all.
Immortal Gu was alive and could be used fully as long as immortal essence was transferred into them. But secluded domains of heaven and earth were non-living, their usage was limited.
An Immortal Gu was a connected body of fragments of dao marks. A secluded domain of heaven and earth was an amalgamation of countless dao marks, these dao marks were piled together, some were straight or bent, some were continuous threads, some were entirely different, and some were intertwined. There was no way to make use of all the dao marks.
Even venerables were not an exception.
This could be seen from the killer move orderly well.
"I have gathered quite a lot of secluded domains of heaven and earth. Dang Hun Mountain, Luo Po Valley, Reverse Flow River, City Well, Hu Land, as well as the incomplete Refinement Sea, Human Sea, and Qian Kun Crystal Wall."
Dang Hun Mountain was the first secluded domain obtained by Fang Yuan, he even entered Northern Plains to find a way to repair it.
Luo Po seal, which used Luo Po Valley as the core, had once helped Fang Yuan kill Gu Immortal experts.
There was no need to talk about Reverse Flow River, in that event of Old Ancestor Xue Hu refining fortune rivalling heaven Gu, Fang Yuan had relied on reverse flow protection seal to shock the world while being hunted by Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court.
City Well was obtained from the turbulent flow sea area, Fang Yuan had used it as a trap to kill many Eastern Sea Gu Immortals.
Hu Land was the easiest to obtain, he bought it forcefully from Wu Yong. Naturally, it was possible because of Fang Yuan's strength and reputation. These things had been accumulated since his rebirth, while being on the verge of life and death, and going through countless large battles.
The incomplete Refinement Sea came from Lang Ya blessed land, it showed Long Hair Ancestor's ambition. Unfortunately, although Fang Yuan obtained it, he did not have enough spare effort, time, and resources to complete it. Currently, the incomplete Refinement Sea was being intensely consumed by Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool.
The incomplete Human Sea came from Eastern Sea's Xia clan. Wu Shuai led the variant human alliance to invade Xia clan's territory, killing or driving Xia clansmen away, and looting this incomplete Human Sea.
The last was Qian Kun Crystal Wall. Put simply, it was a bunch of grey-white stone slabs.
The surface of the grey-white stone slabs were filled with black ink lines. Some were straight while others were curled, there were thin and thick lines. The lines were drawn over one another, some looked like letters while others looked like drawings of scenery.
Legends said that if one gathered all of the stone slabs, they could piece back Qian Kun Crystal Wall and the Gu cultivator would be able to enter Book Mountain again.
If one looked at the history of humanity, they would find that generations of Gu Masters, Gu Immortals, or even Immortal and Demon Venerables collected these stone slabs before.
Fang Yuan had obtained countless grey-white stone slabs from Great Wisdom Immortal Mother. According to what Great Wisdom Immortal Mother said, these stone slabs could form half the Qian Kun Crystal Wall!
Fang Yuan had obtained a batch of grey-white stone slabs from other sources like Lang Ya Sect, and the storage of the two heavens' grotto-heavens. Naturally, the number of these stone slabs could not compare to what Great Wisdom Immortal Mother had, and there were also fake goods among them.
Great Wisdom Immortal Mother's grey-white stone slabs were from the inkman race's true inheritance.
There were many fake goods among the stone slabs circulated in the market. But the grey-white stone slabs in the inkman race's true inheritance were all genuine.
"According to the records in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], Primordial Domain was originally inside Qian Kun Crystal Wall. Unfortunately, Limitless Demon Venerable took it away and put it in Crazed Demon Cave. Even if I construct Qian Kun Crystal Wall now, I won't be able to enter Primordial Domain."
Fang Yuan tried all ways to increase his battle strength, these secluded domains of heaven and earth were naturally going to be made use of.
Reverse Flow River was being restored, killer moves using Dang Hun Mountain and Luo Po Valley as the core were also being developed. Hu Land was given to the Qi Sea clone, Fang Yuan did not have time to put his effort into this.
Among all the secluded domains of heaven and earth, Fang Yuan paid the most attention to the incomplete Human Sea.
Back then, he chose to invade Eastern Sea's Xia clan mainly because of this artificial secluded domain of heaven and earth.
"All the venerables have human path killer moves, so I need to have some foundation in human path. Even if I don't become dominant in this path, I need to have means to defend against it."
Fang Yuan had suffered during the fate war.
The venerable methods were mostly human path methods, every move was terrifyingly powerful or had amazing effects, influencing the whole war.
Previously, Fang Yuan had ordered his subordinates to kill a hundred million humans in Fire Plain grotto-heaven to use in the incomplete Human Sea.
But this was not enough.
The previous resources were all spent, Human Sea was still some distance from completion.
"The variant human alliance also has many human grotto-heavens with large numbers of humans. But it is not convenient to target these humans."
"Firstly, it will cause dissension in these human grotto-heavens' Gu Immortals. Secondly, these humans will be moved to the sovereign immortal aperture in the future, and are foundations for me to develop human path. Lastly, there are so many humans in the world, why do I need to sacrifice my own people?"
Fang Yuan then issued a task — slaughter humans and gather resources.
Compared to the previous tribulation task, this task was obviously cruel and reeked of blood.
"Master is a demonic path member after all." Many human Gu Immortals lamented.
"But, I quite enjoy slaughtering the outside world's humans!" This task resonated with variant human Gu Immortals.
"Forget it, as long as it is not our grotto-heavens suffering, what does it have to do with us if other humans die?" Those owners of human grotto-heavens were glad about their allegiance.
Soon, over ten Gu Immortals quietly moved out from the territory of Eastern Sea's Xia clan.
There were many fishing villages in Eastern Sea's islands.
Birds chirped and dogs barked, smoke spiraled upwards.
"Kill." A miniman Gu Immortal flew towards these fishing villages and ruthlessly activated Immortal Gu.
Leaves fell down like a rainstorm, killing countless men and women, old and young, blood splashing everywhere.
"Back then, us minimen were captured by you humans. My mother was strangled to death in front of me by human Gu Immortals. I am only taking back some interest!" The miniman Gu Immortal's face was filled with hatred.
On a certain island in Eastern Sea, there was an enormous city.
Two variant human Gu Immortals united to bring forth a tens of feet high tsunami.
At the juncture of life and death, an Eastern Sea lone immortal walked out and blocked the tsunami.
"Stop, I am Gu Ming Xu. This is my homeland, I wonder what the issue is? Why are you implicating these innocent people?" This Gu Immortal shouted furiously.
The two variant human Gu Immortals came down from above the clouds and revealed their appearance.
"So it was Warm Sun Immortal Lord."
"Immortal Lord, you are wrong. Back then, this place had been the homeland of us hairy men. But you humans occupied it forcefully, my hairy man tribe fortunately had the protection of our supreme elder, so we were able to survive in the two heavens."
Gu Ming Xu could not restrain his anger when he saw the two variant human Gu Immortals: "So you are variant humans. You are really audacious, this place is near Eastern Sea's Tang clan. I have already requested reinforcements. Get lost, if you don't escape now, it will be too late!"
The two variant human Gu Immortals laughed loudly as they said: "Immortal Lord, why do you pretend to not know from where we came? Our master is Lord Gu Yue Fang Yuan! Let alone Tang clan, even if the whole of Eastern Sea's righteous path arrive together, they will be like chickens and dogs in front of our master."
"Gu Ming Xu, stop trying to put up a front."
"We are here to kill your fellow humans, to let you taste the pain and suffering we felt back then."
Gu Ming Xu lamented inwardly: "How can there be a demon like Fang Yuan, he actually sent variant humans to attack his own race! He is a traitor to humans, he has no bottom line and no sense of propriety. Damn it! Damn it!!"
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Chapter 2137 Fang Yuan Deserves Death!
Qi sea.
Because Qi Sea Ancestor lived here, the qi sea sea area had become the Righteous Qi Alliance's headquarters.
At this moment, a banquet was being held inside the qi sea formation.
Qi Sea Ancestor sat on the main seat while the representatives of Eastern Sea righteous path forces sat to his left and right.
Sitting to the left of Qi Sea Ancestor was a food path Gu Immortal.
He was an old man with a brandy nose, he raised his wine cup high and toasted Qi Sea Ancestor: "Lord Ancestor, I offer this toast of spring sea blossom wine to you!"
Qi Sea Ancestor nodded, his seat was high above the others which gave him a naturally overlooking vision.
Qi Sea Ancestor took a sip before commenting lightly: "Zui Xian Weng, your spring wind petals wine is quite good, it has a vague poetic flavor of youth."
This food path Gu Immortal was Zui Xian Weng.
After he inherited Green Ant Ascetic and Wine Fairy's true inheritance in Central Continent, he was then silently persuaded by Qin Ding Ling to be a chess piece.
According to Qin Ding Ling's arrangements, Zui Xian Weng returned to Eastern Sea and rested for a period of time before taking the initiative to side with the Righteous Qi Alliance.
Everyone in the Righteous Qi Alliance welcomed him warmly.
Because Zui Xian Weng was among the outstanding lone cultivators of Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world.
Zui Xian Weng possessed wine sea, he held a wine reception every year where he invited heroes and warriors of Eastern Sea. His connections were extremely wide, and he himself had good relations with all the large Eastern Sea righteous path forces.
There was a huge political significance for a representative character like him to join the Righteous Qi Alliance, just this significance itself had a huge value.
Because, although the Righteous Qi Alliance was established, most of its members were of Eastern Sea righteous path super clans. Besides them, there were also some two heaven's Gu Immortals who had joined Qi Sea clone.
Few Eastern Sea lone immortals joined the Righteous Qi Alliance.
Demonic immortals were even rarer.
Zui Xian Weng joining the alliance would definitely be a model example which would change some trend of Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world, maybe, other lone and demonic immortals would take the initiative to join.
Besides these, there was another reason which was somewhat connected to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's lingering poisonous ant plague killer move had caused a huge disturbance in Eastern Sea's righteous path. They were forced to take out their hidden true inheritances to research the killer move, only then were they able to find a way to restrain it.
During this event, the Righteous Qi Alliance had wanted to invite Zui Xian Weng. However, at that time, Zui Xian Weng had already gone to Central Continent and was secretly searching for Green Ant's true inheritance.
Zui Xian Weng cultivated food path, which was rare in the five regions and two heavens.
While rarer things were often more precious.
Zui Xian Weng was worthy of being recruited!
Qi Sea Ancestor discussed with Eastern Sea's super forces and held a large welcoming banquet. Not only were they trying to leave a good impression and gain the approval of Zui Xian Weng, they were also proclaiming the Righteous Qi Alliance's attitude towards lone and demonic immortals.
When Zui Xian Weng saw Fang Yuan, he was extremely respectful and even had a flattering expression.
For instance, now.
Zui Xian Weng's wine was clearly called spring sea blossom wine. But Qi Sea Ancestor called it spring wind petals wine.
Whether Qi Sea Ancestor had not heard clearly or if it was a slip of tongue, Zui Xian Weng did not ponder on it, he bowed: "Many thanks to Ancestor for bestowing the name!"
"Amazing, amazing, spring wind petals wine not only suits the characteristics of this wine, it is also filled with poetic sentiment, making one feel like they are being caressed by spring wind, while flower petals flutter in the air."
"It is a great honor for this wine to be bestowed a name by Ancestor. With Ancestor's granting of this name, I believe this wine will be known throughout the five regions!"
"Hahaha." Qi Sea Ancestor laughed heartily as he pointed at Zui Xian Weng, "Old Weng, you are quite witty."
The various clan representatives also chimed in, their complements were like waves that followed Zui Xian Weng and moved towards Qi Sea Ancestor.
These Gu Immortals were praising while cursing silently.
'I did not think this old guy Zui Xian Weng to have such a shameless side."
"Truly a boot licker."
"But it is not strange. He holds a wine reception every year where he invites all the forces. He has some skills in social interaction."
Tang clan's Gu Immortal Tang Tang was just about to raise his wine cup, when an information path mortal Gu flew in.
He viewed it with his divine sense.
'What?! The variant human alliance has attacked!' His body jolted, he was greatly shocked.
But after reading the information properly, he relaxed somewhat.
"Fang Yuan only sent ten or so Gu Immortals over different areas of Eastern Sea to kill mortals."
"What is he trying to do?"
"Not long ago, he invaded Fire Plain grotto-heaven and slaughtered a hundred million humans!"
Tang Tang was pondering, when he recalled the incomplete Human Sea.
After Fang Yuan invaded Eastern Sea's Xia clan, the information about this artificial secluded domain of heaven and earth had spread far and wide. So the Righteous Qi Alliance was well aware of it.
At this time, another information path Gu worm flew over.
"Gu Ming Xu is requesting reinforcements from my clan?" Tang Tang's heart stirred slightly.
This Warm Sun Immortal Lord was a lawful lone immortal, Tang clan had always wanted to recruit him but was rejected by him. Who could have expected a crisis to appear out of nowhere, Gu Ming Xu actually offended the variant human alliance.
In the request letter, Gu Ming Xu had clearly expressed: If Tang clan can provide help, he will join Tang clan!
"My Tang clan cannot offend a person like Fang Yuan! Isn't this trying to push my Tang clan into the fire?" Tang Tang sneered mentally.
They could not give support.
Tang Tang immediately crushed this information path mortal Gu and treated it like he had not seen it.
Fang Yuan's target this time were only the mortals, moreover, he avoided the people of the super clans.
So, Tang clan did not suffer any losses.
As for reputation, Tang clan's reputation would fall a little because they did not retaliate. But, other clans were also the same, Fang Yuan's action was not targeting just Tang clan.
Since everyone was losing reputation, it was same as nobody losing any reputation.
"As long as the situation doesn't worsen, this is only a small matter. Let Fang Yuan kill however many he wants." Tang Tang continued to enjoy the banquet.
After receiving this message, he began to deliberately observe the surrounding Gu Immortals.
Sure enough, these people received the news one after the other.
"Fang Yuan's subordinates are slaughtering mortals?"
"They are not our clansmen anyway, why provoke Fang Yuan because of this?"
"Eastern Sea has so many mortals, even if some are killed, the population will be restored in ten years."
"Let's drink, let's drink."
"Hahaha, good wine!"
The atmosphere became even more lively. As the banquet continued, these Gu Immortals were starting to get drunk, their faces flushed red as they enjoyed themselves.
Tribulation clouds surged continually.
A large amount of water splashed around in the time path clone's immortal aperture, like fish jumping madly.
This was a grand tribulation — Jumping Time Fish Tribulation.
"The outcome is set." The time path clone was observing the whole process calmly.
With the main body helping personally, there would definitely be no issue.
The jumping time fish tribulation was not strong, it was an ordinary type of grand tribulation.
Heaven's will did not trouble Fang Yuan, which was rare. But the time path clone was not surprised.
"In the recent period of time, my main body has not only helped Gu Immortals to undergo tribulations, he is also helping those Gu Immortal seeds to undergo immortal ascension. With him present, unless it is a dream path tribulation, there will be no issue. Heaven's will realizes this fully, the calamities and tribulations are ordinary so that the main body won't gain more heaven path dao marks."
While the time path clone was thinking, the tribulation clouds in the sky were almost gone.
Fang Yuan did not continue to attack, instead he took out ability Gu to give it a try.
But ability Gu was almost destroyed.
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]] clearly stated ability Gu would continue to grow stronger in calamities and tribulations. But Fang Yuan was unable to find a way to strengthen it.
According to simple deduction, the records in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] stated that calamities and tribulations were Gu materials to advance the rank of ability Gu.
Fang Yuan gave it a try right now, but discovered that calamities and tribulations were not suitable as Gu materials and were extremely hard to control. Fortunately, Fang Yuan had made ample preparations and was able to preserve ability Gu.
After obtaining this outcome, Fang Yuan did not hold back and destroyed the final lump of tribulation cloud.
This time, he did not devour the heaven path dao marks.
He left behind the time path dao marks from the tribulation in the time path clone's immortal aperture.
He did not touch the clone's foundation.
"Now, I also have rank eight cultivation." The time path clone was filled with emotions, "From now onwards, I shall use the name He Chun Qiu, what do you think?"
"Up to you." Fang Yuan's main body replied plainly.
Currently, among Fang Yuan's eight clones, Qi Sea Ancestor, Wu Shuai, the time path clone He Chun Qiu, and Zhan Bu Du had advanced to rank eight.
But Fang Yuan already did not lack rank eight Gu Immortals under him at present.
Southern Border.
Human Smoke Mountain.
This was Chai clan's headquarters.
Almost all of Chai clan's Gu Immortals were assembled, and with Chai clan's first supreme elder leading them, they welcomed three variant human Gu Immortals.
These three variant humans were snowman, hairy man, and rockman; they were Bing Yuan, Golden Fur Immortal Monarch, and Shi Zong.
"People of Chai clan, the three of us came with master's order, we are here to discuss a trade with you." As the leader of this trip, Bing Yuan spoke.
Chai clan's immortals were in serious and heavy moods.
It was not only because of Fang Yuan's reputation, but because of these three variant human Gu Immortals' auras.
Be they Bing Yuan or Golden Fur Immortal Monarch or Shi Zong, they were all at rank eight!
"What does Fang Yuan want? Could my Chai clan have something of interest to him?" Chai clan's first supreme elder asked.
"No need to be modest, Lord Chai Gan." Bing Yuan smiled, "My master is willing to purchase your noble clan's human path results, including the killer move congregated human talent, the human path mountain Human Smoke Mountain, as well as many mortals raised by your clan."
"What?!" The expressions of Chai clan's immortals changed.
"Fang Yuan is going too far!"
"He is trying to dig up our Chai clan's foundation."
"The main thing is, if we cooperate with this demon Fang Yuan, what reputation would our grand righteous path Chai clan still have?"
Chai clan immortals criticized softly.
The expression of Chai clan's first supreme elder was unsightly, he muttered for a while before asking: "My Chai clan does nurture the most mortals, these people live good and content lives in Human Smoke Mountain and do not cause trouble for anyone. I wonder what Fang Yuan wants to buy them for?"
Shi Zong sneered: "Of course, to kill them all."
Golden Fur Immortal Monarch had a crazed expression: "These humans your Chai clan is nurturing have abundant human qi, this is extremely good. Master's Human Sea is only lacking the final step. With these people, it can finally be completed."
Chai clan immortals were shaken.
"Disregarding lives so casually, this demon deserves death!!!" One female immortal, Chai Ke Qing, shouted furiously.
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Chapter 2138 Shaken Chai Clan
Thousands of years ago.
Southern Border, Human Smoke Mountain.
A cave at the peak of the mountain opened quietly, and an old man walked out of it.
He had an ashen expression.
In the past, he could not find lifespan Gu and could only use other lifespan extension methods. His lifespan was at its end right now, even if he found lifespan Gu or other methods, it would be of no use.
"I, the grand Chai Fu, cultivated to rank eight as a lone cultivator, but in the end, I still lost to lifespan. How sorrowful, how hateful!"
Chai Fu was filled with anger and sadness that was deep as the sea.
He walked down the mountain numbly, but a village at the base of the mountain gave him a surprise.
"Before I went into closed cultivation, there had been no humans inhabiting this place. But in just several years, this place became so lively?"
"I, the grand rank eight Gu Immortal Chai Fu whose name is spread throughout the Southern Border Gu Immortal world, won't live for long, but you mortals are living so well!"
Looking at the men and women in the village doing labor work and children playing around, Chai Fu's anger and hatred surged so much that he was about to slaughter all these villagers.
But at the next moment, he forcibly closed his eyes, his body trembled for a while before he gradually calmed down.
Chai Fu restrained the evil intentions in his heart as he smiled bitterly: "I, Chai Fu, might not be a good person, but I have never targeted people who have not offended me, and have never slaughtered innocents."
"Sigh, so be it if I die. What else can I do?"
"Even the ten venerables were unable to escape death."
"It is easy for Gu Immortals to live long, but how hard is eternal life!"
Chai Fu had looked back over his whole life when he was in closed cultivation. He had no regrets in his life, he had a clean record and was without lingering concerns.
With nothing else to do, Chai Fu disguised as a passing old Gu Master and entered the village.
"Is he a traveling doctor?" The villagers misunderstood Chai Fu's identity.
Chai Fu went with the flow and used that identity, receiving warm welcomes from the villagers.
There were Gu Masters in the village, but the highest was only at rank three, and they were not specialized in healing.
Many villagers asked for help from Chai Fu, and with Chai Fu's ability, it was a small matter for him to treat their illnesses.
Chai Fu was even more revered because of this, and at the same time, he also learned of this village's origin.
"So these people are actually my descendants from over a hundred years ago!"
This discovery made Chai Fu feel some lingering fear and thankfulness. Fortunately, he did not make a move earlier and slaughter them.
Shortly after, Chai Fu began to think about the meaning of life: "Maybe this arrangement of fate is for me to leave behind something."
Chai Fu had already thought of leaving behind his inheritance, and now his thought had solidified.
"It just so happens that I got an inspiration during my closed cultivation and thought of a human path killer move. Looks like fate is never aimless, it wants me to use this move here."
This killer move was congregated human talent!
Chai Fu had been conceptualizing a lifespan extension method, but he did not expect the final result to be this.
Congregated human talent was a human path killer move that could concentrate the aptitude of many people into a small group.
Chai Fu used this move as the foundation and the favorable location of Human Smoke Mountain to establish his super force, Chai clan.
Since the establishment of Chai clan, they had gathered and nurtured outsiders. They then used the killer move congregated human talent to transfer the aptitude of countless outsiders to Chai clansmen.
Thus, geniuses always emerged in Chai clan.
And those outsiders had mediocre aptitude, they could not cause any problems.
Chai clan had this huge advantage and could rise continually, aspiring for the position of number one super force of Southern Border. However, there were Ba clan and Xia clan near Chai clan.
The three clans were near each other and had always been in dispute. Whenever one clan was more powerful, it would be jointly attacked by the other two clans.
Adding on that Chai clan had previously been near the five regional walls and had small territory, it lacked in resources, even though they had a large number of geniuses, they did not have sufficient cultivation resources.
After the five regional walls disappeared, Chai clan became extremely excited. Because they could march towards Central Continent.
However, not long after the regional walls disappeared, qi tides engulfed the world. After the qi tides, inheritances appeared everywhere. All the super forces in five regions, even lone and demonic immortals, were scrambling everywhere for these inheritances.
In fact, even if this wave calmed down, Chai clan would still be in an awkward situation.
Would they dare to attack Central Continent?
Central Continent had the ten great ancient sects, and in terms of strength, they were stronger than Southern Border. Even more terrifying was that Central Continent's ten great ancient sects had the same superior — Heavenly Court!
Central Continent's ten great ancient sects fought each other, but if foreign enemies appeared, they would unite like one body.
And now, Chai clan encountered the greatest danger over the recent years —
Gu Yue Fang Yuan!
Fang Yuan sent three rank eight variant humans to discuss a trade with Chai clan, but their terms were excessive.
Fang Yuan directly asked for congregated human talent, Human Smoke Mountain, as well as the countless outsider mortals that Chai clan was nurturing.
This was directly excavating Chai clan's core foundation that established their status!
It was no wonder everyone in Chai clan looked unsightly, Chai clan's Gu Immortal Chai Ke Qing even shouted in anger: Fang Yuan deserved death!
"Impudent! You dare to curse my master. Looks like your Chai clan is asking for extermination." Shi Zong shouted.
"No need to report to master, us three will attack and exterminate Chai clan now!" Golden Fur Immortal Monarch directly took out his two large hammers with surging killing intent.
The expressions of Chai clan immortals changed intensely, they activated defensive killer moves and rose to the air.
A large chaotic battle seemed to be imminent.
"All of you, stop right now." Bing Yuan stopped the fight with a dark expression.
"Bing Yuan, this…" Shi Zong and Golden Fur Immortal Monarch looked at Bing Yuan.
Bing Yuan was the last to advance to rank eight among the three. Naturally, she had safely passed her tribulation with Fang Yuan's help.
But Bing Yuan was Xue Er's grandmother, and Xue Er had an extremely terrifying identity that made countless Gu Immortals wary.
She was Fang Yuan's fiancée!
Thus, Shi Zong and Golden Fur Immortal Monarch had no questions about Bing Yuan's leadership position among them, and they were obedient too.
"Restrain your aggression first." Bing Yuan spoke.
Shi Zong snorted as he restrained his aura. Golden Fur Immortal Monarch reluctantly put away his hammers while staring at these Chai clan Gu Immortals.
Chai clan's first supreme elder let out a sigh of relief, and under his lead, Chai clan Gu Immortals also returned to ground as a show of sincerity.
Bing Yuan's expression was solemn as she said to the Chai clan immortals: "We did not come here to make enemies out of Chai clan, we indeed came to do a trade."
"My master is a benevolent lord, his demon title is only a misunderstanding by the outside world."
"It is just that those people who misunderstood master did not have a good ending. But what can my master do? Are you going to show your neck and wait for death when others come to kill you? There is no such logic in this world."
"I believe you can understand it and won't add to master's problems."
Bing Yuan's words not only contained threat, she even distorted reality with her words.
Chai Gan did not want to refute, he cupped his fists and said: "I apologize for my clansman's careless remark. But if we agree to your condition, it will be akin to losing the foundation of our clan. Back then, when fate Gu still existed, it was Heavenly Court's foundation. Does this mean Lord Fang Yuan would request to buy fate Gu from Heavenly Court? Would Heavenly Court sell it? Trying to buy a super force's foundation out of nowhere, there is no such logic in this world, isn't that so?"
Bing Yuan smiled coldly: "Chai clan, that is your own problem. Don't try to take advantage of us variant humans, and don't try to take advantage of our master. Our master is benevolent, but besides a fair transaction, do you still want master to help you think of a way to maintain your foundation?"
Golden Fur Immortal Monarch snickered: "Isn't it simple if you want to keep your foundation? Just surrender to our master."
Shi Zong immediately added with sincerity: "Yes. If you become our master's subordinates, your future will be bright. If you keep on living like this, there are no prospects for you."
The three rank eight variant humans revealed proud looks.
They were deeply aware of this over the recent period of time.
Chai clan was silent.
They were using this tactful way to express their refusal.
The three variant human Gu Immortals did not persuade much, let alone elaborate on it. They would rather have fewer competitors.
Bing Yuan continued to urge: "You are all aware in your hearts, if master wants to forcefully demand the resources, he will personally make a move. Why would he send us three to negotiate? Isn't this an unnecessary move? You can rest assure of master's sincerity, take a look."
Bing Yuan opened her hand, revealing a rank eight Immortal Gu.
The Chai clan immortals were stunned and astonished, they transmitted their voices to each other and discussed.
"Fang Yuan is really willing to pay a price?"
"I thought that he was going to demand those things forcefully."
"Be careful, this Gu may be fake. Fang Yuan is crafty and sinister, we cannot be deceived by him!"
After the rapid conversation, Chai Gan shook his head: "It is a good Gu, we can see Lord Fang Yuan's sincerity. But I am ashamed to say that even though I am Chai clan's first supreme elder, my cultivation is only at rank seven, how can I be worthy of a rank eight Immortal Gu?"
Bing Yuan smiled: "Don't be in a hurry to refuse, take a look."
Bing Yuan opened another hand, revealing another Gu.
It was another rank eight Immortal Gu!
This time, many Chai clan Gu Immortals were moved.
Bing Yuan observed their expressions and said with a confident smile: "That's right, you did not see it wrongly. This Immortal Gu is perfect for your Chai clan, this Gu is what your Immortal Gu House lacks. If you add it, your Immortal Gu House will become a rank eight Immortal Gu House."
Chai Gan's grave expression was also somewhat swayed.
If Chai clan had a rank eight Immortal Gu House, they could fight against rank eight Gu Immortals, and even participate in the peak battle between pseudo venerable level existences.
Their power and authority would rise to another level!
It was a qualitative breakthrough!
But at this time, Chai Ke Qing yelled: "Fellow supreme elders, don't be deceived by the demon Fang Yuan and these variant human Gu Immortals. Even if these Immortal Gu are real, our Chai clan belongs to the grand righteous path, how could we lose our identity and honor for benefits! We must never collude with these demons. If we agree to this trade, what difference is there between us and the demonic immortals that we despise? If Ancestor Chai Fu were still alive, he would definitely berate us furiously!"
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Chapter 2139 Righteous Speech
"Hahaha." Golden Fur Immortal Monarch laughed, "You are wrong, little girl."
Shi Zong added: "It doesn't hurt to tell you. Your Southern Alliance's leader, Wu Yong, has already traded with us several times. He purchased a rank nine wind path immortal material from us, and also handed rank seven fan wind Gu to us to raise it to rank eight."
"What?" Chai clan's Gu Immortals were shaken.
Bing Yuan smiled: "Demonic path, righteous path, what's the difference? If my master converts to righteous path, who will dare to not accept him? In fact, not only Wu clan, Western Desert's Fang clan is also secretly working with us. Currently, Fang clan is using all their strength to develop green ghost desert and is supplying countless soul cores to master."
There was another round of disturbance among the Chai clan immortals.
They had heard of Western Desert's Fang clan and also knew of their recent movements. What impacted them even more was that Wu clan was secretly cooperating with Fang Yuan.
"How can that be?" Chai Ke Qing called out, "At least try to make a better lie. Lord Wu Yong is our Southern Alliance's leader, how can he reach agreement with you? Everyone, you should not listen to these variant humans' nonsense, they are just making lies to deceive us!"
But this time, Chai clan immortals were silent.
Chai Ke Qing had undergone immortal ascension just recently and had done so through relationships. Although she had talent, she had always been taken care of by Gu Immortal seniors and was not aware of how the world worked.
Her understanding of the Gu Immortal world was even less than Shang Xin Ci.
Since these variant human Gu Immortals said this, Chai clan's immortals believed that it was likely to be true!
Because they only needed to investigate it and would be able to find clues.
Since the variant human Gu Immortals had said it, they were not afraid of being verified, they could even provide direct evidence.
Chai Ke Qing did not believe Wu Yong would do such things, but Chai clan's immortals were people who were experienced and aware of worldly affairs. Not long ago, they themselves had reached an agreement with Lu Wei Yin secretly to leave a way out.
Bing Yuan continued: "My master is determined to create the secluded domain of heaven and earth — Human Sea. I think you all know about master's nature. Even if all the people in the world oppose him, he will do it, he will not give up because someone obstructs him!"
"You can also inquire about the recent events in Eastern Sea."
"We variant human Gu Immortals moved all around in Eastern Sea and slaughtered humans, it was to gather resources to complete Human Sea."
"Did any Eastern Sea righteous path super force oppose us openly?"
"Hehehe. The righteous Qi Alliance even has Qi Sea Ancestor, a pseudo venerable, but he pretended not to see it. Let alone your Southern Alliance."
The will of Chai clan's immortals were shaken, they started conversing secretly.
"There are indeed many tragedies happening in Eastern Sea Gu Immortal world."
"Yes, these variant human Gu Immortals might be detestable, but their words are not without logic."
"Eastern Sea's Righteous Qi Alliance has the pseudo venerable Qi Sea Ancestor, but it still ended up like this. Not to mention our Southern Alliance which doesn't even have such an expert."
"The worst thing is, Wu Yong secretly collaborated with Fang Yuan."
"Fang Yuan's influence is truly terrifying!"
"The enemy is strong while we are weak, it will be sensible to preserve our strength for the future."
No matter how much they hated to admit it, Chai clan knew they were not Fang Yuan's match, they were not even the match of these three rank eight variant humans in front of them. What made them even more hopeless was that even if they retaliated, the Southern Alliance would not provide them any protection. Even if the Southern Alliance provided protection, they would not be able to protect them.
Chai clan's Human Smoke Mountain had countless humans.
If they really fought, these people were Chai clan's weaknesses and Chai clan would not be able to protect them.
In history, when Ba clan and Xia clan caused troubles for Chai clan, they relied on this point, as long as they made a threatening move towards Human Smoke Mountain, Chai clan had to act carefully.
By now, Chai clan was already inclined towards cooperating with Fang Yuan.
There was nothing that could be done about it.
The enemy was strong while they were weaker by a huge degree!
Only Chai Ke Qing was still continuing: "Everyone, listen to me…"
"Shut up!" Chai Gan could not endure it anymore, he waved his hand and sealed Chai Ke Qing, making her unable to even budge.
Chai Ke Qing was shocked, she had never expected her first supreme elder to do this!
This method surprised the three variant human immortals.
When Chai Gan used this move, not even a slight aura leaked out from the start to finish.
Without being able to sense the aura, the three variant human Gu Immortals were unable to judge what path this killer move belonged to.
Chai clan was a Southern Border super force after all, it had some foundation.
Chai Gan's expression was cold as he stared at a Chai clan Gu Immortal: "Chai Dui Shan, control your own descendant."
"Yes." Chai Dui Shan immediately walked towards Chai Ke Qing and placed his hand on her shoulder.
Instantly, the seal on Chai Ke Qing was strengthened further.
Chai Ke Qing's mind shook intensely, her expression was one of incredulity. Her eyes moved towards the side and reddened as she looked at the ancestor that had once been so tall and grand in her heart.
Seeing this, the three variant human Gu Immortals had a similar thought —
The outcome was set!
A day later.
While Chai clan's headquarters were empty, Human Smoke Mountain was attacked by the biggest beast calamity of the past hundred years. An earth path immemorial desolate beast dug out from the ground.
At that time, Chai clan's immortals had gone out to fight for blessed lands, inheritances, and so on, and only a few rank six Gu Immortals were left to guard the headquarters.
In order to protect the common people, the Gu Immortals left behind, with Chai Ke Qing as the head, used killer moves without caring for losses to Chai clan.
This move inflicted damage on both enemies and oneself, although the immemorial desolate beast was killed, Human Smoke Mountain was heavily damaged and was almost turned into a crater.
Fortunately, they were able to protect some clansmen.
"Although there is a difference between immortals and mortals, Chai clan holds no such differentiation."
"Human life is most important, mortal lives are as precious as Gu Immortal lives! Even if we have to sacrifice our lives, it is worth it if we can save more lives."
"This is my Chai clan's principle, it is our integrity as part of the righteous path!"
Chai clan's first supreme elder Chai Gan proclaimed his words that were full of righteousness to Southern Border's Gu Immortal world after the event.
The three variant human immortals set off on a journey back in secret.
Human Smoke Mountain was naturally attacked by them.
According to the agreement between the three variant human immortals and Chai clan, Chai clan sold Human Smoke Mountain as well as most of the mortals on Human Smoke Mountain, only keeping their own clansmen. They also kept some random outsiders to put up a show.
Chai clan Gu Immortals did not make a move, the three variant human immortals dug up Human Smoke Mountain and slaughtered countless mortals.
Lastly, the three immortals took away Chai clan's human path results, while leaving a fire path true inheritance and three rank eight Immortal Gu to Chai clan.
"Hahaha, master's bottom line was five rank eight Immortal Gu for this mission, I did not think we would complete this mission with just three." Shi Zong laughed.
"Even if Chai clan is a super clan and has been in Southern Border for a long time, they are truly inept. Just three rank eight Immortal Gu were enough to blow them away." Golden Fur Immortal Monarch also showed his disdain.
At present, there were over twenty rank eight Immortal Gu listed on the sovereign immortal aperture's exchange list!
These rank eight Immortal Gu were of various paths and could be exchanged for using contribution points!
Fang Yuan had been helping many Gu Immortals undergo tribulation, which spiked the number of rank eight Gu Immortals in the sovereign immortal aperture. Because of this, Fang Yuan put some rank eight Immortal Gu on the exchange list.
This move stimulated all the rank eight Gu Immortals, they were excited to the point of madness.
Even though many Gu Immortals knew clearly: Fang Yuan was dangling a carrot in front of them so that they would work for him like a mule.
But this carrot was too large and too glossy, it really made them salivate!
How hard was it to obtain a rank eight Immortal Gu, how hard was it to refine it?
The Gu Immortals simply could not resist this temptation!
"Congratulations, Bing Yuan, for saving two rank eight Immortal Gu for master. When we return, you will definitely be rewarded with lots of bonus contribution points." Golden Fur Immortal Monarch flattered.
Fang Yuan's task rewards were not fixed, they could change according to the change in situation.
Bing Yuan laughed reservedly: "Actually, I don't care much about contribution points. I saved the two rank eight Immortal Gu not for contribution points, but to help my family. You know that my Xue Er is Lord Fang Yuan's fiancée after all."
"This again."
"Bing Yuan is showing off her relationship with master again!"
Shi Zong and Golden Fur Immortal Monarch looked at each other secretly, seeing the complex emotions in each other's eyes.
They had heard of Bing Yuan mentioning this relationship so many times that they started feeling nauseous. But even so, every time they heard it, Shi Zong and Golden Fur Immortal Monarch could not help but feel envious.
Not willing for Bing Yuan to stay on this topic, Shi Zong said: "Our side is clearly so strong, why do you think master still used such a huge price to trade with Chai clan?"
Golden Fur Immortal Monarch immediately replied: "In my opinion, master traded with Wu clan, Chai clan, and Fang clan, probably because he wants to convert to righteous path."
Shi Zong heaved a sigh: "If I had status and strength like master's, I would run wild, who can stop me? Hehehe, a mere Chai clan will be turned to ashes with just a flick of my finger. Will I still talk business with these people?"
Bing Yuan snorted coldly: "Which is why you will never become an existence like master. Master's considerations are always far-sighted, how can we reckon what he is thinking? If we make guesses, it is no different than ants trying to estimate the sun and moon."
"Yes, yes." Golden Fur Immortal Monarch quickly added, "Actually, even if we turn to righteous path, our lives will be pretty good. Just look at those Chai clan Gu Immortals holding back their anger, it was really refreshing. I, a hairy man, finally get to experience the taste of equality."
The three immortals looked at each other and saw smiles on the others' faces.
Bing Yuan said: "Whether master walks the righteous path or demonic path, we only need to know one thing. That is, we follow master's decision. If master wants to negotiate and do business, then we will do business. If master wants to kill someone, we will go kill that unlucky fellow."
"Naturally!" Golden Fur Immortal Monarch patted his chest strongly.
Shi Zong also nodded, saying with emotions: "In the history of humanity, besides Ren Zu, I only respect master!"
Over this recent period of time, Fang Yuan's subordinates had a huge transformation.
The transformation on the surface was the rapid increase in their cultivation level and strength. And the internal mental transformation was that their loyalty towards Fang Yuan was increasing rapidly.
The authority of the supreme demon, harsh agreements, and terrifying battle achievements made these Gu Immortals feel dread and not dare to rebel. On this basis, Fang Yuan only needed to give some benefits and these Gu Immortals would feel deeply grateful to him!
And currently, Fang Yuan's treatment towards them was something the other forces simply could not match.
Such huge benefits made these Gu Immortals gather tightly around Fang Yuan.
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Chapter 2140: Establishing Dao Veins
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
A huge butterfly was fluttering in the air.
This butterfly was pure-white and let out graceful cloud light. Its speed was sometimes fast, sometimes slow; when it was fast, it was almost like teleportation, and when it was slow, it moved leisurely like fluttering leaves.
This was a totem killer move — Cloud Light Butterfly.
The totem killer moves Zhan Bu Du brought from Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven had extremely high value.
Based on their grades, these totem killer moves were divided into: basic totems, unique totems, and super totems.
There were thousands of basic totems, including dark capital strength tiger, golden bell totem, rain eagle totem and so on.
After the cultivators of Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven refined a basic totem, they continued to develop the totem, making it a totem unique to them.
These totems were different for different Gu Immortals.
For instance, Zhan Bu Du combined rain eagle and thunder fish into kunpeng totem, which was his unique totem. It could not be copied by others because this totem was closely related to the distribution and scale of Zhan Bu Du’s dao marks.
Above unique totems were super totems.
There were extremely few of these totems and they were rare to the point of being only rumors and legends.
Zhan Bu Du only heard of them and had not seen any.
Many Gu cultivators of Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven also were doubtful regarding this grade of totem.
But in Fang Yuan’s opinion, they should exist.
“According to legends, super totems can leave the Gu cultivator and exist by themselves, they possess the ability to cultivate and can act by themselves. Isn’t this speaking of Qing Chou?”
Qing Chou was originally a killer move, but through Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable’s arrangements, it turned into an immemorial desolate beast.
Even the grand Spectral Soul went down because of Qing Chou.
All the myriad paths reached the same point in the end.
When totem killer moves were cultivated to the limit, they would be like Qing Chou, transforming from a dead killer move to a certain living form.
From another angle, Gu refinement was also the same.
Gu cultivators refined many dead Gu materials into a living Gu worm.
And Gu worms and killer moves were the same in essence.
Life, Gu worms, killer moves, and others, they were just a manifestation of ‘Dao’.
“Unfortunately, I still cannot improve totem killer moves into compound killer moves at the moment.” Fang Yuan sighed inwardly.
When totem killer moves were used to deal with the enemies, they had to leave the sovereign immortal body and would no longer be under the protection of unrestrained heavenly marks.
“Maybe in the future, when my heaven path attainment increases, I can use heaven path dao marks with totem killer moves to create compound totem killer moves.”
Fang Yuan already made some estimations.
His heaven path attainment level needed to increase.
In fact, his heaven path attainment had been rising all along.
He was continuously refining heaven path dao marks into unrestrained heavenly marks, and was using heaven path Gu like heaven’s envy Immortal Gu, these experiences gave him insights towards heaven path.
But his heaven path was still far from reaching master level.
Master level heaven path attainment was the starting point for qualitative change.
Fang Yuan continued to cultivate totem killer moves.
So far, he was accumulating totem killer moves.
Fang Yuan carefully selected these totem killer moves from the basic totems, and after perfecting them, they were at rank eight killer move level.
A message appeared that disturbed Fang Yuan’s cultivation.
Fang Yuan stopped his cultivation and inspected this message.
This message came from Lu Wei Yin.
The letter focused on the method of artificially creating earth veins.
“My thought of modifying the sovereign immortal aperture is possible after all.” Fang Yuan thought with some joy.
Over this period of time, Fang Yuan had published the exchange list and invested greatly to nurture his subordinate Gu Immortals. Because of this, Fang Yuan’s subordinates had a huge increase in their strength, they became extremely active and took the initiative to do missions everywhere.
The sovereign immortal aperture’s situation had already stabilized.
Fang Yuan estimated he could annex three more grotto-heavens before the ecosystem started breaking down again.
But Fang Yuan was not satisfied with this.
It was best if he could devour all the grotto-heavens and increase his strength to the limit before the battle in Crazed Demon Cave.
When he goes to Crazed Demon Cave in the future and faces off against venerables, he would have a much easier time.
However, even if Fang Yuan placed all the variant human alliance Gu Immortals inside the sovereign immortal aperture, including Qi Sea Ancestor to overlook the whole situation, he could not annex all the two heavens’ grotto-heavens.
Even if he could do so, Fang Yuan would not do it.
If he did it, the sovereign immortal aperture’s ecosystem would turn completely chaotic, and with just a little carelessness, it would break apart.
Currently, Fang Yuan was in a secure environment and there was already this threat. When he fights with venerables and they discover this weakness, they may have some special methods to exploit this weakness.
In fact, Fang Yuan’s silver luck pillar was loose and not condensed, it was hinting to Fang Yuan that this obvious weakness was very likely to be used by venerables.
Just relying on manpower did not work, Fang Yuan racked his brains and finally thought of another method.
That was to construct veins!
Heaven had heaven veins, earth had earth veins, and humans had human veins.
The so-called vein was extraordinary and special, not only was it an agglomeration of dao marks, but it also contained the characteristics of movement.
Heaven veins might be formless, but they contained abundant heaven path dao marks. At the same time, these heaven path dao marks were not constantly unchanging, they circulated and transformed continuously.
So when qi tides swept the world, there were qi harvest fruits every time they dissipated. And in the two heavens, because almost all the grotto-heavens were placed on a heaven vein node, the qi harvest fruits’ emergence became even more obvious, turning into a calamity.
Earth veins were similar.
After the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, earth veins appeared and spread throughout the five regions. Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin, and others used the characteristic of the earth vein movement to escape smoothly.
Why were there abnormal situations occurring in Fang Yuan’s sovereign immortal aperture?
What was the truth and source of it?
Where was the crux of the issue?
When Fang Yuan researched it, the answer he got was very thought-provoking.
The answer was — the non-conflicting dao marks of the sovereign immortal aperture!
By right, there should be conflict between different dao marks. But there was none of it in the sovereign immortal aperture, dao marks of all paths were harmonious.
Excessive harmony was not a good thing.
There was no absolute good or bad in the world!
Just like when Ni clan encountered the meteor calamity.
This meteor calamity was extremely destructive and Fang Yuan had to personally make a move to resolve it.
The source of this meteor calamity was just a spurt of fire rain in Mini Red Heaven.
After Fang Yuan annexed Fire Plain grotto-heaven, his fire path dao marks had a massive surge which caused frequent fire rain in Mini Red Heaven.
And among all the fire rain, one spell continued to grow and happened to shoot through a charcoal lake.
The fire rain’s dao marks and charcoal lake’s dao marks merged together, forming rank six level killer move meteor rain.
As the meteor rain entered Mini Orange Heaven, it combined with the dao marks on its way and its strength increased to rank seven level.
As it entered Mini Yellow Heaven, it combined with metal path dao marks and its might increased to rank eight.
When it was above the Ni clan army, the scale of these meteors was already dense enough to fill the sky, reaching tens of thousands!
The smallest were only the size of a small field, while some were as large as a mountain.
If there was the presence of conflicting dao marks, this calamity would have not occurred. It was very likely that when the fire rain shot through the charcoal lake, it would be restrained by the earth path dao marks in the charcoal lake, its might would fall sharply and it would end there.
But because of the harmony between dao marks in the sovereign immortal aperture, after the fire rain went through the charcoal lake, it became meteor fire rain.
After Fang Yuan realized this crucial point, he understood how to end the issues in the sovereign immortal aperture.
It was simple, that was to make the dao marks in the sovereign immortal aperture conflict!
Once there were conflicting dao marks, the sovereign immortal aperture’s biggest issue would be solved easily, it would be stable like the outside world’s five regions.
Lu Wei Yin’s letter also confirmed Fang Yuan’s idea.
He mentioned: When Shadow Sect refined sovereign immortal fetus Gu, Mushroomman Paradise had also secretly helped.
Spectral Soul might or might not have realized this issue.
But that was not important.
Spectral Soul and Paradise Earth might oppose each other, but they reached a tacit agreement through Red Lotus Demon Venerable because of fate Gu.
Lu Wei Yin analyzed: the fundamental reason for sovereign immortal fetus Gu being rank nine was non-conflicting dao marks. But if it were to be taken a step further and raised to rank ten, the dao marks had to conflict.
This conflict was not taking a step back, but instead, to make the sovereign immortal body’s dao marks follow the master’s intention, it could either be non-conflicting or conflicting dao marks at will!
Making the dao marks conflict could resolve the sovereign immortal body’s greatest flaw — strong attack, weak defense!
However, Fang Yuan clearly did not have enough capability to accomplish this.
Even Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was unable to do this.
After all, that would not be rank nine sovereign immortal fetus Gu, but rank ten!
Rank nine Immortal Gu were already rare and mighty, rank ten was only a rumor of legends.
Fang Yuan had lived for hundreds of years but had only heard rumors of two rank ten Immortal Gu.
One was destiny Gu, one of the main materials for refining rank ten destiny Gu was rank nine fate Gu.
Another was eternal Gu. This legend originated from [[The Legends of Ren Zu]].
Currently, from Lu Wei Yin’s letter, Fang Yuan learned of the possible third rank ten Immortal Gu — sovereign immortal fetus Gu!
Fang Yuan could not accomplish conflicting dao marks, then what should he do?
Easy!
Since he could not create conflicting dao marks, Fang Yuan went to the extreme, to make dao marks even more harmonious and condense them.
But this cohesion and harmony was selective, and would be under Fang Yuan’s control.
What was the solution?
Fang Yuan did not need to think much before the method of vein construction emerged in his mind.
There were many kinds of dao veins.
Heaven vein, earth vein, human vein, fire vein, water vein, and so on.
In Eastern Sea, undercurrents interwove under the sea, forming a natural route for transportation of goods. Many of Eastern Sea’s caravans made use of Gu worms to go deep under the sea and used the undercurrents to move rapidly, in a short time, they could travel for ten thousand li, or even a hundred thousand li, to engage in trade.
This was actually one of the forms of water veins.
Southern Border’s Paradise Earth true inheritance naturally contained the way to construct artificial earth vein. But Fang Yuan still wanted to consult Lu Wei Yin regarding the specific way to put it into practice.
Regarding him and Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, Fang Yuan was always on guard.
For instance, Fang Yuan had never let Lu Wei Yin enter the sovereign immortal aperture. Or for example, Fang Yuan preserved Paradise Earth’s dream realms and Mushroomman Paradise, he did not make a move on them without deep consideration.
“Adding in Lu Wei Yin’s suggestion, I can modify my previous idea and get an overall mature way to implement it. I can let those Gu Immortals finish the early steps.”
“Or maybe, I should let Meng Qiu Zhen explore Paradise Earth’s dream realms first and raise my earth path attainment, which would make it much more convenient for constructing the earth vein.”
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Chapter 2141: Fang Huan’s Revival
Central Continent.
In the depths of an Earth Trench.
Inside a pitch-black cave, two cold rays of light shone suddenly.
This was Bai Ning Bing’s gaze.
As she ended this closed cultivation session, she had not only created an ice path killer move, but also gained some insight towards ice path.
“I can clearly feel my understanding of ice and snow deepening by a little, I am not far from grandmaster level.” Bai Ning Bing mumbled.
“Such a pity that after I converted to dragonman, my comprehension speed of ice and snow path fell sharply. My current master level is mostly the accumulation from before.”
Previously, Bai Ning Bing possessed Northern Dark Ice Soul Physique and had an extremely high innate advantage when cultivating ice path and soul path. Her attainment levels in those paths could increase rapidly.
But after converting her body, it influenced this aspect.
Dragonman was specialized in enslavement path, if Bai Ning Bing were to change to cultivating enslavement path, she would have an advantage in it. But the level of this advantage could not compare to the help the Northern Dark Ice Soul Physique provided in cultivating ice path and soul path.
Man was the spirit of all living beings, the talent of the ten extreme physiques was far superior to the talents of the variant human races.
Bai Ning Bing cautiously walked out of the cave.
This cave was formed naturally and was at the side of a cliff in the Earth Trench.
Bai Ning Bing activated breath concealment ice pearl, shortly after, an ice thread-like thin line appeared on her slender and fair neck, circling around it.
This move was created by Bai Ning Bing and was not from Bai Xiang’s true inheritance.
The killer move did not let out any aura when activated. Because the aura was stored as tiny ice pearls on the ice thread.
The disadvantage of this move was that it sacrificed some of its power, and once there were too many ice pearls, they would combine into one and turn into a noose that would strangle Bai Ning Bing, causing serious injuries or even death.
“I must conceal my aura when exploring this deep into the Earth Trench.” Bai Ning Bing’s expression was calm as she quietly activated an investigative killer move to scout her surroundings.
After she left the Earth Treasury, she started cultivating in the depths of the Earth Trench. She was chased down by wild beast groups and suffered a lot.
Fortunately, with the killer move Bai Xiang, as long as a fragment of her body remained, Bai Ning Bing was undying, otherwise, she would not have survived until now.
“There are three immemorial desolate beasts within a hundred li radius, as well as an ancient desolate beast group.” Bai Ning Bing quickly understood her surroundings.
She only had rank seven cultivation, it was extremely dangerous for her to live in this environment. Even ordinary rank eight Gu Immortals found it difficult to explore this place.
With huge risks came huge rewards.
The cultivation resources here were at rank eight level. Even if Bai Ning Bing could not use them, she could sell them in treasure yellow heaven and buy the resources she needed.
Bai Ning Bing liked taking risks, most people would be on tenterhooks about this kind of life, but she immersed in it and enjoyed the thrill of being at the brink of life and death.
“Although it is dangerous to cultivate here, there is still a chance of survival. But in the five regions and two heavens, it is even more dangerous, be they Fang Yuan, Shadow Sect, or Heavenly Court, they will all hunt me down.”
Bai Ning Bing had a clear judgment of her situation.
“Hmm?” Bai Ning Bing had just walked out of the cave when her expression changed slightly.
She sensed that most of the wild beasts suddenly acted like cats that had smelled fish, beginning to rush towards one direction.
Some beasts and beast groups were unmoved, but they were soon engulfed by the will of the majority of the beasts and rushed forward as well.
Thereupon, a massive beast tide formed rapidly under Bai Ning Bing’s gaze.
“What’s going on? These beasts seem to be attracted to something, they gave up on their fights and territories to go after it. What could it be?”
Bai Ning Bing could not help but feel curious.
Without any hesitation, she immediately activated a movement killer move as she joined the beast tide.
The beast tide started gathering together, countless ancient desolate beasts and some conspicuous immemorial desolate beasts were surrounding an area.
This area was also on the precipice of the Earth Trench, it protruded slowly like a burial mound. At this moment, it was letting out yellowish-brown and red light.
The light was like water as it moved around dazzlingly.
On the peak of the burial mound, there was a tombstone! The tombstone seemed to have writings but they were obstructed by the light. They could not be seen even by using investigative killer moves.
Bai Ning Bing had already transformed into Bai Xiang state and joined with the beast groups.
“What place is this? There is such a dense earth path and fire path aura here. What is hiding here? Immortal materials? Or Immortal Gu?”
“But why is there a tombstone? The tombstone seems to have some characters written on it. Is it made by someone? Who is buried there?”
Bai Ning Bing looked at the surrounding beasts.
She had a trace of understanding: “Most of these beasts are earth path and fire path beasts, no wonder they were attracted here. There are only beasts of other paths here and they were forcefully pulled in by the beast tide.”
Boom!
Right at this time, the two lights over the burial mound suddenly shot towards the sky, turning into a giant yellow-red pillar of light.
The beasts roared in excitement.
Some beasts began to charge towards the pillar as if trying to get the top spot, but they were soon knocked down and trampled by the beasts behind them.
The beast groups fell into chaos and madness, fighting and killing each other as they charged towards the pillar of light.
But even if some beasts reached the front and collided with the pillar, they did not get what they wanted. The pillar of light remained unmoving, it was like a large mountain that refused to budge an inch.
Bai Ning Bing was a Gu Immortal and had intelligence far above the beasts. She hid outside the chaotic battle, and although she was still implicated, she mainly observed the changes.
As time passed, there were heavy casualties among the beast groups with corpses scattered everywhere. The yellow-red pillar of light also started to shrink, seemingly converging into the burial mound.
The beasts became even more frantic, their bloodthirsty, pained, and chewing noises filled Bai Ning Bing’s ears.
“This vast world is truly profound without limits and it has endless mysteries to explore. Let me see what is going on.” Bai Ning Bing began to move closer towards the mound.
When the beasts had killed each other and the survivors were riddled with injuries, the yellow-red light was completely absorbed by the mound.
The tombstone on the mound also dug into the earth.
The mound seemed to have reached the point of qualitative change as it suddenly split apart.
Crack crack.
Thin cracks spread all over the mound.
Shortly after, the mound burst open from the inside and a Gu Immortal’s aura leaked towards the surroundings.
A naked male immortal opened his eyes and looked at his surroundings in a daze: “Who… who am I?”
But at the next moment, he started becoming clear-headed as he recalled many things.
“I, I remember, I am Fang Huan.” The male immortal’s eyes shrunk in amazement and shock.
Roar—!
Beast groups roared and pounced towards the naked immortal agitatedly.
The male immortal opened his eyes wide and flew to the air: “I am alive again! I am Fang Huan, I am — Lava Demon Lord!”
Bam!
A huge sound erupted as red light waves spread from the male immortal’s body.
The light waves surged like a tsunami, drowning its surroundings.
Everywhere they passed by, the red light waves burned everything; most of the beast groups were burned to death instantly, and some of the surviving beasts were even more injured. Some were lying on the ground on the verge of death, while a small portion of the beasts went berserk as they charged towards the male immortal.
The male immortal Fang Huan’s expression turned solemn as he let out the red light waves again.
The red light swept the whole battlefield, causing a large number of casualties, but there were still several immemorial desolate beasts that managed to reach Fang Huan.
Fang Huan could not keep his composure anymore as he shouted towards Bai Ning Bing: “Lend me a hand. I will reward you heavily after this!”
“Okay.” Bai Ning Bing agreed without hesitation and attacked directly.
Within a short period of time, she easily killed those several immemorial desolate beasts.
It was because they were already heavily injured.
“Many thanks, friend! Fortunately, with your help, I could… ahh!” Fang Huan was suddenly cut into two at the waist.
Bai Ning Bing grabbed his head, holding his upper body as she smiled cruelly: “I thought about it, it is still more convenient to soul search directly.”
Fang Huan stared at Bai Ning Bing with wide eyes.
This female immortal had light-blue vertical dragon pupils and had a pair of spiral dragon horns. Her glistening silver hair was shiny like crystal, extending to her waist. Her skin was snow-white, and on her peerlessly beautiful face, there was a hint of crazed indifference.
“Such a beautiful woman…” Fang Huan died with his eyes wide open
Bai Ning Bing searched Fang Huan’s soul but was unable to obtain any valuable information. Although Fang Huan revived in the mound, he was still muddle-headed and did not know many things.
Bai Ning Bing landed on the broken mound and searched carefully.
There were still no gains.
“This area had such a large scale of earth path and fire path dao marks, but they have disappeared completely, and it is no different from ordinary ground now.”
But Bai Ning Bing looked at Fang Huan’s body: “No, to be more accurate, these dao marks condensed into the immortal body.”
“Wonderful, truly amazing.” Bai Ning Bing praised repeatedly.
Through soul search, she knew this Fang Huan was from a previous generation. He cultivated earth path, but later inherited heart fire true inheritance, so cultivated fire path as well. He did fire monster business and had been one of the tycoons of this business in treasure yellow heaven.
He had died long ago, but for some reason, he actually revived!
“This grave-like mound seems to have the same effect as Heavenly Court’s immortal graveyard, it can let Gu Immortals revive?!” Bai Ning Bing was excited about this discovery.
She had made a huge gain this time.
Not only did she discover the mysterious mound, she also captured Fang Huan’s soul and obtained his inheritance as well as cultivation insights.
The even bigger battle spoils were the beast corpses that filled the battlefield.
There were many rank eight immortal materials here! Rank seven immortal materials were even higher in number.
Sovereign immortal aperture, Mini Southern Border.
Rumble!
With a loud sound, a mountain landed on the ground like a large stamp.
The famous mountain was red and squarish. This mountain did not have even a trace of soil, it was completely formed from all kinds of copper. It was Copper Seal mountain.
Previously, Copper Seal mountain was targeted by the tribulation of the three thousand heaven path dao marks, half of it was split by the lightning, giving out dense smoke and sparks. The entire mountain had turned into a molten state and emitted a terrible smell.
But now, after Fang Yuan issued the corresponding missions, Copper Seal mountain was repaired by many Gu Immortals. It was not only restored to its former state, it was even larger now.
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Chapter 2142: Ideas About Resources
“Alright, we have finally moved this Copper Seal mountain now.” The exhausted Gu Immortals let out breaths of relief.
One rockman Gu Immortal did not rest and began to prepare.
After a long while, he activated an earth path killer move.
Under the effect of this killer move, Copper Seal mountain seemed to shake slightly. The base of the mountain started emitting a thin earthen-yellow radiance.
The threads of light gathered and formed a translucent, golden earth path mountain root.
The mountain root pierced the ground and began to spread quickly.
The rockman Gu Immortal continued to maintain the killer move, he had an expression of difficulty, his immortal essence was consumed rapidly.
Finally, he could no longer continue and stopped the killer move.
The mountain root stopped spreading rapidly and paused. It had entered deep underground and began to grow with normal speed.
In the coming years, this mountain root would join with the surrounding dao marks, maintaining and helping to stabilize Copper Seal mountain.
Trees had tree roots, while mountains had mountain roots. If they were casually moved, the roots could be broken and result in their destruction.
Therefore, moving famous trees and mountains required special wood path and earth path methods, otherwise, there were more disadvantages than advantages in moving them forcefully.
The rockman Gu Immortal sat cross-legged on the ground and started to recover.
He was extremely tired, his immortal essence expenditure was also the highest among the immortals. Naturally, after the mission completion, his contribution points would be that much higher as well.
As for the other Gu Immortals, they had finished resting and started to carry out the final inspection.
After a while, the immortals gathered once again.
“That will do, this Copper Seal mountain’s state is good.”
“The mountain root’s situation is also pretty good. Such a famous mountain and mountain root can completely bear the task of being an earth vein node.”
“Master is truly majestic and bold. He is actually constructing an earth vein in the entire mini five regions. This plan is really too grand and will need at least ten years to complete. It really makes me admire him endlessly.”
The immortals nodded, they had the same feeling.
“Alright, let’s leave. We need to relocate the next famous mountain.”
“There are not many Gu Immortals who can relocate mountains, but there will be fewer tasks like this as we continue finishing them, the contribution points are also abundant. Let’s work hard and try to finish some more.”
“Yes, yes. Recently, if someone cannot continue, they will make a trip to the liver life formation. No one wants to give up on those contribution points!”
“I already went before this.”
“Haha, is that so? I also went there!”
The immortals left Copper Seal mountain while conversing.
If the mini five regions were looked from high above, one would see about ten groups of people working hard to relocate mountains.
Of course, it was not just famous mountains.
Besides famous mountains, there were also the ten earths that could act as earth vein nodes.
There was a detailed description regarding ten earths in Southern Border’s Paradise Earth true inheritance.
The ten earths were: Earth Abyss, Earth Trench, Earth Tunnel, Earth Cave, Earth Prison, Production Earth, Flying Earth, Formation Earth, Treasure Earth, and Tomb Earth.
These ten earths could bear the task of being earth vein nodes.
The first step in Fang Yuan’s artificial earth vein construction was to arrange all kinds of earth vein nodes in the mini five regions. He would then use earth path methods to connect the nodes. Lastly, he would make adjustments.
Currently, Fang Yuan could only create half of the ten earths: Earth Abyss, Earth Trench, Earth Tunnel, Production Earth, and Formation Earth.
The other five earths were beyond his ability.
For example: Tomb Earth.
The formation of this earth was shrouded in mystery, even Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable could not see through it.
Gu Immortals could revive in this area.
Tomb Earth’s tombstone was also extremely mysterious, possessing the ability of information path. It seemed to be able to extract and condense all the information of the Gu Immortal’s life from the River of Time.
The greater the reputation of the Gu Immortal, the more detailed the writings on the tombstone, which seemed to provide more help towards the Gu Immortal’s revival.
The specific relation between them had to be verified.
At present, Fang Yuan’s subordinates were all moving mountains.
Mountains usually acted as earth vein nodes and not the ten earths.
These mountains needed to be at least of famous mountain level.
“There are not many famous mountains in the sovereign immortal aperture. I estimate they can only cover thirty percent of the earth vein nodes in the first step of the plan.”
The artificial earth vein project was extremely large and needed the most investment. Fang Yuan had annexed a large number of grotto-heavens and obtained an inestimable amount of cultivation resources, but now, he was starting to see the limits.
Fang Yuan still had a famous mountain which he did not use.
That was the recently obtained Human Smoke Mountain!
“It is better to keep this mountain. My intuition is telling me that if I continue to use Chai clan’s human path research results, I will be able to condense the essence of Human Smoke Mountain and form an incomplete Human Mountain!”
Fang Yuan was a human path grandmaster, his intuition regarding human path was much more accurate than human path masters.
After killing many mortals raised by Chai clan, Human Sea was complete, but Human Mountain had yet to form.
The combination of Human Mountain and Human Sea would definitely be extremely powerful. Even in five hundred years of his previous life, Fang Yuan had not seen it.
But this was a long-term project.
The investment in constructing a secluded domain of heaven and earth was extremely big, much bigger than the investment in an artificial earth vein!
The reason the incomplete Human Sea could be completed was because there were the painstaking accumulations of Eastern Sea’s Xia clan.
It was at its final stage and required human path resources.
Eastern Sea’s Xia clan suffered from their righteous path identity and could only collect the resources secretly. How could they dare to be like Fang Yuan, killing and massacring openly!
Firstly, Fang Yuan chose the targets of slaughter cleverly, he did not cross the limits of the Righteous Qi Alliance, they ignored it.
Later, he paid attention to Chai clan’s mortals.
Fang Yuan decisively gave up on a portion of the benefits to negotiate forcefully. Even a super clan like Chai clan finally submitted to Fang Yuan’s demonic might, lowering their head to cooperate.
“I am starting to lack resources.” Fang Yuan frowned slightly.
The plan of constructing Human Mountain was definitely far away in the future.
In fact, the incomplete Refinement Sea was also on the verge of being consumed.
Fang Yuan had invested too much in this recent period of time.
In fact, he had looted countless cultivation resources. These resources mostly came from two heavens’ grotto-heavens, which had a long history spanning several hundreds of thousands of years, and even a million years.
But it would not last long!
Fang Yuan had been refining rank eight Immortal Gu on a large scale, at the same time, he used rank six and rank seven cultivation resources to nurture his subordinates.
Fang Yuan had too many Gu Immortals under him!
Just Lang Ya Sect alone had many hairy man Gu Immortals, the variant human alliance had even more Gu Immortals. There was also the group of variant human Gu Immortals like Bing Yuan, Shi Zong and Mo Tan Sang.
Beast Calamity grotto-heaven’s human Gu Immortals were close to ten, including Combat Beast King.
And there was also Lady White Rabbit, Fairy Miao Yin, as well as Fang Yuan’s clones Wu Shuai, Zhan Bu Du, and others.
Not long ago, mushroomman Gu Immortals joined him. Among them, the strongest was Ke Xin Hong.
The size of Fang Yuan’s subordinate Gu Immortals far surpassed normal super forces. Even Longevity Heaven could not compare to him, that was to say, only the former Shadow Sect that had Zombie Alliance, and Heavenly Court that had the ten great ancient sects under it, could compare to him.
Were Wu clan to possess this many Gu Immortals, Wu Yong might be laughing happily even in his dreams. A formidable character like Wu Yong did not care about the difference in races, he only cared if they were usable or not. Naturally, it would be better if they were all human Gu Immortals.
Fang Yuan was expanding so much that no amount of cultivation resources would be enough for him to use.
Fortunately, his foundation was extremely robust and could last for this long.
But now, it was beginning to show signs of exhaustion.
“Looks like I need to plunder resources again.” Although his accumulations were still there, Fang Yuan was preparing for the future.
“I have already looted the resources of the variant human alliance. Only a portion of the grotto-heavens remain now.”
“Mushroomman Paradise’s situation is also the same. Almost all the mushroommen have moved over, let alone the resources accumulated there.”
Fang Yuan analyzed.
He had placed his hopes on Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven, but from the information Zhan Bu Du brought, Fang Yuan knew Longevity Heaven had placed its forces in Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven.
Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven itself was very powerful and was difficult to conquer. There were definitely forces eyeing it other than Longevity Heaven.
So, although that place had plenty of resources, Fang Yuan did not want to target it at the moment.
Eastern Sea’s blue dragon whale also had abundant resources.
But it was also not possible.
Ever since the last time he left, Fang Yuan had not been able to find any traces of the blue dragon whale.
He had used the killer move heaven and earth travel to try to enter the blue dragon whale’s immortal aperture, but failed mysteriously every time.
“There is still a group of two heavens’ grotto-heavens who submitted to Qi Sea Ancestor, they are all humans. These grotto-heavens also have plenty of cultivation resources. Maybe, I can cooperate with Qi Sea clone.”
For the moment, Fang Yuan did not want to invade super forces like Chai clan and Wu clan.
That would expend his own luck.
Any super force possessed enormous luck and had a few tricks up their sleeves.
There might not be many benefits and the risks were definitely huge. More importantly, even if he invaded super forces, Fang Yuan did not want to take over too much of the outside world’s territories.
It was much better to develop the sovereign immortal aperture, both his territories and himself were in one body, it was extremely flexible and convenient.
Other Gu Immortals did not have the sovereign immortal aperture, so it was more beneficial for them to occupy territories. If they possessed the sovereign immortal aperture, they might also make the same choice as Fang Yuan.
A strong wind suddenly blew over from Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool and charged towards the skies before dissipating.
He Chun Qiu brought good news, Wu clan’s fan wind Gu was advanced successfully, though it failed two times in the process.
Rank eight fan wind Gu!
In recent times, Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool had gone through some adjustments and its ability was much stronger now.
Including fan wind Gu, Fang Yuan had already refined over fifty rank eight Immortal Gu with Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool.
“I can sell true inheritances on a large scale in treasure yellow heaven and exchange for cultivation resources. The profits from doing Gu refinement business are also quite amazing.” Fang Yuan thought of two ways to gather resources.
According to Fang Yuan’s current refinement path strength, he was only unable to refine rank nine and rank ten Immortal Gu, as well as some specific rank eight Immortal Gu.
For instance, Fang Yuan lacked sufficient rank eight luck path immortal materials for fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu.
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Chapter 2143: Tiger Poison Gu
“You have only seven days left to live!”
Meng Qiu Zhen entered Paradise Earth’s dream realm, what welcomed him was this sentence.
“What?” Meng Qiu Zhen blurted out in astonishment.
In front of him was an old mushroomman granny.
She sighed and said in a guilty tone: “Little Mi, your grandmother is too useless, I really have no way to treat your illness.”
Using this short time, Meng Qiu Zhen quickly scanned his surroundings. He found that not only was there a mushroomman in front of him, he himself was also a mushroomman.
And right now, they were in a hut that was specific to mushroomman culture.
This hut had deep-green walls, it was constructed with special grass and mud. The roof of the hut was made with straws.
The furnishings inside the hut were simple and revealed this was a doctor’s home.
“Grandma, is it really hopeless? Is there really no other way?” Meng Qiu Zhen pretended to be in disbelief while trying hard to find clues regarding this dream realm.
The mushroomman granny hesitated for a moment before saying: “There is a way.”
Meng Qiu Zhen immediately asked: “What way?”
The mushroomman granny shook her head and walked towards a table.
There were medicine pots all over the table; some were white, some were gray, but most were black.
Some of these medicine pots were opened, they were filled with dried medicinal herbs or pitch-black medicinal liquid. Whereas some medicine pots were covered tightly with lids.
The old granny seemed to be in a complicated mood, she subconsciously moved these medicine pots before gradually calming down.
With her back towards Meng Qiu Zhen, she said: “The one thing I can think of that can possibly save you is not a method, but a person.”
“A person?” Meng Qiu Zhen got near to the old granny, he saw these medicine pots actually contained Gu worms.
The old granny sighed: “Sigh, you know her too.”
Meng Qiu Zhen had no idea who she meant, but he had plenty of experience and developed quite a glib tongue, he said: “Could it be her?”
“Indeed, her. My tribe’s previous witch, Huang Wan,” said the old granny.
Every mushroomman tribe had a witch. Different from the merman tribe’s saintess, witches did not hold authority, but they usually had high reputation.
Because witches were the most capable female doctors in the mushroomman tribe.
Without the witch’s support and blessing, the mushroomman’s next tribe leader would face questioning and might even be unable to take the position.
“You only have hope of survival by looking for the previous witch, Huang Wan.” The old granny emphasized.
Meng Qiu Zhen immediately asked: “Then, where is she?”
“Whip Mountain.” The old granny looked at Meng Qiu Zhen: “Little Mi, you are a good child, I have watched you grow up. The plague is terrorizing the tribe but you should not have been infected, it was because you helped me treat others of your own accord that you got infected. You also know a thing or two about Huang Wan’s matter. Although she is extremely strong, she betrayed the tribe, so you can only go look for her personally. The tribe won’t help you.”
Meng Qiu Zhen nodded, he keenly sensed that the old granny had some hidden meaning behind her words.
He suddenly had a flash of inspiration and asked: “But grandma, I simply cannot reach there with my strength. I must see Huang Wan to obtain her help. Not only to keep my life, but more than that, I want to bring back a way to treat the illness!”
“Good child, good child.” The old granny was relieved, “That is what I want you to do. Rest assured, you are taking the risk to go to Whip Mountain, your journey will be filled with dangers and Whip Mountain is moreover a human territory. How can I, your grandmother, let you go like that?”
The old granny turned sideways and opened all of the medicine pots on the table: “You can take three of the Gu worms here. They will provide a huge help to you.”
“Many thanks, grandma!” Meng Qiu Zhen said while thinking: It was like this indeed.
He had plenty of experiences in exploring dream realms. With just this conversation, he had already probed the key of this dream realm stage.
“The crucial hidden point of this stage of the dream realm is the selection of Gu.”
“If I did not sense the old granny’s hidden meaning and mentioned it, I might not have gotten the chance to select Gu.”
“Choosing three Gu worms will definitely lower the difficulty of the dream realm.”
“But which three would be better for me?”
Meng Qiu Zhen carefully observed the Gu worms while secretly activating dream butterfly Immortal Gu.
With the help of dream butterfly Immortal Gu, Meng Qiu Zhen soon found various clues of the second stage.
“Choose quickly, stop wasting time needlessly. You need to treasure every breath of time you have.” The old granny urged.
Meng Qiu Zhen said through clenched teeth: “Grandma, let me consider for a bit longer.”
The old granny said with a cold face: “Hmph, you are already in this situation, you must be decisive. Choose three Gu worms immediately, then leave the valley through this secret passage. If this time passes, that passage will be closed for seven days. Choose quickly!”
Meng Qiu Zhen was not able to put it off any longer, but fortunately, he had already gotten much information in this short period of time.
“I choose these three.” Meng Qiu Zhen quickly chose three Gu from the tens of medicine pots.
“Good. You chose well. Huang Xiao Mi, time is pressing, I can only help you till here, leave now!” The old granny’s voice had just ended when Meng Qiu Zhen’s sight turned dark.
The dream realm entered the second stage.
He had rank three cultivation, and using his Gu worms as well as the three new Gu, he traveled rapidly through the mountains, although it was arduous.
He walked through the dangerous man-eating forest, passed the high fog, and crossed the death marsh. He was now facing his final obstacle, a thousand beast king level black bear.
Meng Qiu Zhen fought a long and bitter battle with the black bear.
Finally, the black bear collapsed on the ground.
Its thick body shrank within a few breaths of time like a balloon that was poked.
In just a short while, its blood, flesh, and organs turned into purple poison which flowed out of its wounds and orifices.
Meng Qiu Zhen carefully squatted and took out tiger poison Gu.
This rank three tiger poison Gu was one of the three Gu he chose in the first stage of the dream realm. Once activated, it could emit tiger poison.
Tiger poison Gu was like a black scorpion, but its head had golden markings that resembled the character for ‘king’.
It came out of the white silver aperture and started absorbing the poison that was all over the ground.
Soon, the poison was completely absorbed by it, and its body was slightly enlarged.
With a shift of Meng Qiu Zhen’s will, tiger poison Gu obediently flew back into his aperture.
“The first stage had many poison Gu. Like snake poison Gu, dove poison Gu, bee poison Gu, and so on. Against the thousand beast king level black bear, bee poison Gu, which is restrained by bear physique, should never be selected. Snake poison Gu and dove poison Gu have rather slow effects. Only tiger poison Gu is specialized in dealing with this kind of large beast and its effect takes place quickly as well. Moreover, when used with poison liquid Gu, tiger poison can change form and become extremely practical in battle.”
In the fight with the black bear king, Meng Qiu Zhen used poison liquid Gu and tiger poison Gu to form a poison liquid tiger.
The poison liquid tiger was able to fight the black bear king head on, it greatly made up for Meng Qiu Zhen’s weakness in direct combat. Meng Qiu Zhen stayed at the back and continuously used poison path Gu worms to help the poison liquid tiger and claimed victory in the end.
Naturally, tiger poison Gu also had its disadvantage.
The disadvantage was quite big as well.
There was a common saying that even tigers would not hurt their cubs, tiger poison Gu had no effect towards infantile targets.
According to dream butterfly Immortal Gu’s information, Meng Qiu Zhen had already known in the first stage that the black bear was the final obstacle and also the most difficult one.
He acted according to the conditions and selected the most crucial tiger poison Gu.
“Tiger poison Gu’s toxicity and venom quantity has fallen greatly, even though I gathered the remaining poison after the battle.”
“Tiger poison Gu needs time to recuperate, my overall power has decreased quite a bit. Fortunately, this is the final obstacle, and this is a dream realm, not the real wilderness.”
“Huh? What happened?”
Meng Qiu Zhen’s expression changed slightly.
The second stage of the dream realm was still stable and did not disappear like he expected.
“Is there still another obstacle? It can’t be. Dream butterfly Immortal Gu already scouted everything.”
“Wait a moment, in the search before, there was also a mortal.”
This mortal did not have Gu Master cultivation, so Meng Qiu Zhen did not think much of it. Maybe, if tiger poison Gu was not selected, the mortal would provide some help to the Gu cultivator exploring the dream realm.
But now, Meng Qiu Zhen realized this mortal seemed to be a crucial factor.
According to the gathered information, Meng Qiu Zhen naturally knew of this mortal’s location.
He immediately moved towards the location.
Halfway on his journey, his strength started decreasing rapidly.
“What’s going on?” Meng Qiu Zhen immediately inspected himself and turned pale, “The plague has erupted! There were clearly about two more days left. Could it be, the battle with the black bear expended too much of my energy, and my body is unable to bear it so the plague erupted earlier?”
This plague was specific to mushroommen, once it erupted, mushrooms would grow all over the body.
The bigger the mushrooms grew, the more vitality they would extract from the mushroommen.
The plague broke out so violently that when Meng Qiu Zhen discovered it, he was already sapped of his strength and collapsed on the ground.
“Is this dream realm exploration going to end here?”
“I haven’t even seen Paradise Earth’s face.”
To help the main body’s plan of constructing earth vein, Meng Qiu Zhen started the exploration of Paradise Earth’s dream realm ahead of time.
“No, I still have hope.”
“Persevere, I must persevere, this place is not that far from that mortal’s location.”
Although Meng Qiu Zhen was powerless and could only lie on the ground, it had not reached the worst situation yet. At least, he had strength to breath and could use the Gu worms in his aperture.
He immediately activated a healing Gu worm and started delaying for time.
The healing Gu could not cure the root problem and only lessened the threat of the plague. But its effect was minimal like a child trying to stop a car.
“Damn it, the battle with the black bear king expended over half of my primeval essence. My primeval essence will be used up soon.”
Meng Qiu Zhen was forced into a predicament again.
But right at this time, he heard rustling noises.
“It’s that mortal’s footsteps. Good!” Meng Qiu Zhen’s eyes shone as he used all his strength to shout: “Help… help…”
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Chapter 2144: Pulling Mushrooms
Even though he used all his strength to shout, Meng Qiu Zhen’s voice was still faint.
“Who is asking for help?” A mortal girl pushed aside the brambles and came to the place.
“Here, look below…” Meng Qiu Zhen spoke, his voice so faint that it was like a whisper.
The mortal girl did not hear him, mumbling: “Did I hear wrongly? Sigh, it is getting late, I need to quickly gather mushrooms and sell them in Tu clan village. Eh? There are so many mushrooms here!”
The mortal girl saw Meng Qiu Zhen.
But right now, Meng Qiu Zhen’s body was already covered with mushrooms.
The mortal girl squatted and started picking the mushrooms on Meng Qiu Zhen’s body.
Every mushroom she picked, the cause of Meng Qiu Zhen’s falling vitality would decrease by one.
His illness was alleviated rapidly and his strength slowly recovered.
“That’s right, there are still two days before my illness truly breaks out. For now at least, my life should be safe!”
Meng Qiu Zhen quickly realized.
He then spoke: “Girl, the mushrooms on my body are delicious, it doesn’t matter if you pluck them all.”
The mortal girl jumped from shock.
“Don’t be afraid, I am also a person. It was me who asked for help earlier, thank you for saving me, kind girl.”
“But I did not do anything.”
Meng Qiu Zhen gave a forced smile: “Pluck all the mushrooms from my body and that will be saving me. These mushrooms are harmful to us mushroommen, but they are harmless and even beneficial to other races.”
The girl was shocked before smiling: “So you are a mushroomman, I have heard rumors about you guys since I was a child, the rumors said you were gentle and never harmed people. I had never seen a living mushroomman before I met you.”
Meng Qiu Zhen quickly said: “Pick the mushrooms quickly, I can’t last much longer.”
The girl’s hands were nimble, she rapidly picked the mushrooms from Meng Qiu Zhen’s body.
He was out of the hopeless situation and rescued from the brink of failure.
“There is still one last mushroom!” The girl said seriously.
“Wait.” Meng Qiu Zhen’s expression changed, “You don’t need to pick that mushroom — ahhh!”
The girl blinked her pure eyes and her face reddened slightly: “I can’t pull it out, does it hurt?”
Meng Qiu Zhen was pale as he took a sharp breath: “Don’t pull it.”
But the girl shook her head, saying stubbornly: “That won’t do, mushroomman big brother, you said it earlier, I need to pick all the mushrooms from your body for you to be cured.”
“Don’t, don’t, don’t… ahhh!”
The girl pulled up her sleeves, showing an extremely serious and cute expression: “Hmph, I don’t believe I can’t pull it out!”
Meng Qiu Zhen: “Ahhughhh—!”
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Amidst the miserable cries of Meng Qiu Zhen, the second stage was finally passed.
His sight changed from a chaotic whirlpool of colors to gradually clearing up.
This was a bustling and busy market with people walking everywhere.
“This is Tu clan village?” Behind Meng Qiu Zhen, the mushroomman Huang Xiao Mi, who was covered tightly, said in a low voice.
Meng Qiu Zhen’s mind shook slightly.
In the previous two stages, he had played the role of Huang Xiao Mi, but in this third stage, his identity was actually changed.
This situation was not common.
Meng Qiu Zhen quickly inspected himself.
“Huh, I became that human girl.” Meng Qiu Zhen sighed inwardly.
Huang Xiao Mi’s strength was barely enough, and now, Meng Qiu Zhen was a mortal, a young girl at that.
The change in identity caused Meng Qiu Zhen to feel some doubts.
What was the main mission in this Paradise Earth dream realm?
In the previous two stages, he had Huang Xiao Mi’s identity and had estimated the dream realm’s main mission was to save the mushroomman tribe by curing the plague.
But now that his identity changed, Meng Qiu Zhen immediately felt his speculation wavering intensely.
“No matter what, since Huang Xiao Mi followed the human girl into Tu clan village, I should still try to help Huang Xiao Mi to find the mushroomman witch.”
Meng Qiu Zhen decided to continue following the previous trail.
“Fang Tu, you came? Quick, the position beside me is very good, take it quickly. The evening market is not like the morning market, it only lasts for a short period of time.” A middle-aged uncle waved at Meng Qiu Zhen.
“Thank you, uncle.” Meng Qiu Zhen thought for a bit and placed her basket filled with mushrooms at the space beside the uncle.
Huang Xiao Mi silently helped Meng Qiu Zhen set up the mushrooms.
The middle-aged uncle took a glance and exclaimed: “These mushrooms are really fresh.”
“Naturally.” Huang Xiao Mi said proudly.
The middle-aged uncle’s gaze moved towards him: “This is?”
“This is my distant relative, he came to help me.” Meng Qiu Zhen quickly replied.
The middle-aged uncle did not ask anymore, the evening market had already started, crowds of people were moving around and everyone was busy.
Some were busy buying, some were busy selling.
The traded goods were all mortal materials like mushrooms, vegetables, bean cakes, and so on. This was a mortal market and had daily necessities. There were no transactions of Gu worms, unless a merchant caravan passed through Tu clan village.
After about five minutes, the crowd began to grow sparse.
At this time, sounds of disturbance came from ahead.
“Step aside, step aside!”
“Move aside, can’t you see Lord Green Beast is here?”
A young man shouted, five to six people were pushing through the narrow pavement.
Everywhere they went, pedestrians made way in fear and nervousness, while some even showed disdain and hatred inwardly.
“Fang Tu, hide quickly. Don’t let that ‘beast’ see you.” The middle-aged uncle quickly reminded.
“Ah?” Meng Qiu Zhen was dazed.
“Lady Fang Tu!” At the next moment, the leader of the group, the bald youngster, shouted. His eyes let out a sneaky light as he noticed Meng Qiu Zhen from far away.
“What’s going on?” Meng Qiu Zhen narrowed his eyes as he saw the bald youngster walking towards him with quick steps.
The bald youngster had thick brows and large eyes but had not even a single hair on his head; instead, there was a tattoo of a green beast on his head.
The bald youngster rubbed his green beast tattoo and smiled widely: “Lady Fang Tu, you are selling mushrooms again. I want to buy them.”
“Oh?” Meng Qiu Zhen was inwardly vigilant while asking, “How much do you want to buy?”
The bald youngster raised a finger: “I want to buy one kilogram. Help me pick the big and good ones.”
Meng Qiu Zhen began to pick the mushrooms.
“This is good, hmm, that one is also good, I want them.” The bald youngster nicknamed ‘Green Beast’ pointed here and there.
“Eh, I told you, I want this one and that one!” The bald youngster said.
“Which ones do you want?” Meng Qiu Zhen frowned, sensing that the young man seemed to be toying with him.
The bald youngster grinned: “Forget it, Sister Fang, let me help you, we will choose together.”
The bald youngster acted immediately.
“Soft, so soft.” He chose several mushrooms and said.
Meng Qiu Zhen replied: “These are all fresh, I picked them just today.”
“Smooth, so smooth.” The bald youngster praised again.
Meng Qiu Zhen slowly looked up and said with a frown: “You are touching my hand!”
“Ah, sorry, sorry.” The bald youngster laughed.
Meng Qiu Zhen opened his eyes wide: “You are still touching?!”
“Accident, it was an accident!”
Meng Qiu Zhen was speechless, he was actually being molested!
“Pfft, shameless guy, actually molesting an innocent girl in broad daylight!” Huang Xiao Mi could not endure it anymore, he shouted.
“Who are you? Why are you standing beside my Lady Fang!” The bald youngster was immediately provoked and stared at Huang Xiao Mi.
The two started arguing, sparks seemed to be flying in the air.
“This is the limit of dream butterfly Immortal Gu.” Meng Qiu Zhen sighed inwardly.
Dream butterfly Immortal Gu could inspect the details of the next event of the dream realm, but it could not inspect what the owner of Dream Butterfly would encounter.
Because the changes in the dream realm would occur when the Gu cultivator entered and interacted with the dream realm.
Meng Qiu Zhen had already inspected the bald youngster and this Tu clan village’s market in the previous stage. But he was unable to know what he would encounter specifically in advance.
The two argued in front of Meng Qiu Zhen, their argument got increasingly heated to the point of nearly exchanging blows.
Meng Qiu Zhen was just about to persuade them to stop when a flash of inspiration hit him, and he kept quiet.
“Ugh, I am getting angry! Brat, you are looking for a beating!!” The bald youngster suddenly rubbed his head and attacked.
“Hmph, who is afraid of you!” Huang Xiao Mi did not show weakness, attacking immediately.
The two started fighting.
“Don’t fight, don’t fight.” Meng Qiu Zhen called out while retreating. He was in a mortal body now, and had no ability to interfere in a Gu Master’s battle.
But fortunately, be it Huang Xiao Mi or the bald youngster, they both cared about Meng Qiu Zhen.
When Meng Qiu Zhen retreated to a safe distance, they started using Gu cultivator methods.
After several rounds, Huang Xiao Mi was clearly at a disadvantage and was not the bald youngster’s match.
“This ruffian is really strong!” Meng Qiu Zhen was slightly surprised. He was well aware of Huang Xiao Mi’s strength, after he acted as the latter in the first and second stage of the dream realm.
But he did not expect the bald youngster to be so strong, he had already suppressed Huang Xiao Mi.
“Wait a second, you are not a human, you are a variant human.” The bald youngster suddenly called out.
In the heat of the battle, Huang Xiao Mi’s identity was exposed.
“Amazing, you spy, what are you trying to do by entering my Tu clan village? You definitely have bad intentions! Hahaha, I am going to make a great contribution!”
The bald youngster continued to shout: “Attack him together, he is a mushroomman, we don’t have to uphold the moral of humanity against such a person!”
“Despicable! If you are a man, fight me alone!” Huang Xiao Mi was heavily outnumbered and captured, but he was still shouting indignantly.
“Hahaha. I will be Tu clan’s hero by catching you!” The bald youngster laughed, kicking the bound Huang Xiao Mi, “Just lie still, you variant human.”
After saying this, the bald youngster ran towards Meng Qiu Zhen and asked in concern: “Sister Fang, are you alright? You definitely had no idea or were forced by this mushroomman. Haha, how will you thank me now?”
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Chapter 2145: Being a Bystander
Meng Qiu Zhen shook his head, saying in an impatient tone: “Brother Mi is a good person…”
The bald youngster interrupted him, shouting hurriedly: “As expected, the scheming mushroomman threatened Lady Fang. Let’s go and report to the elders. Move!”
Under everyone’s gaze, Meng Qiu Zhen went with the flow and entered Tu clan village with the bald youngster, Huang Xiao Mi, and the rest.
On the way, the bald youngster reminded Meng Qiu Zhen softly: “Sister Fang, you need to report properly, otherwise you might be implicated as well. Variant humans like this mushroomman are vicious things, he is already sure to die!”
Meng Qiu Zhen did not respond.
The tied Huang Xiao Mi shouted: “That’s right, I deceived Fang Tu and threatened her. You are creating a huge trouble for your Tu clan by capturing me! Someone will definitely come to save me.”
Huang Xiao Mi was saved by Fang Tu, he clearly did not want to implicate his benefactor, thus saying this intentionally.
The bald youngster led Huang Xiao Mi to Tu clan village’s prison, and received praises from Tu clan village’s elders.
After everyone left, the bald youngster invited Meng Qiu Zhen to his home: “It is already late, Sister Fang, come to my home to have dinner and stay for the night. Back when we were neighbors, we used to play together. My mother will also be very happy if she sees you!”
“So this ‘Green Beast’ had this kind of relationship with Fang Tu?” Meng Qiu Zhen nodded and let the plot develop.
Soon, Meng Qiu Zhen followed the bald youngster to his home.
This was an ordinary two-storied bamboo building.
Only the bald youngster and his mother lived here.
The bald youngster opened the door to the kitchen and said loudly: “Mother, look who I brought?”
“Ahh, Little Fang. I haven’t seen you for many days. Are your parents okay?” The bald youngster’s mother was very enthusiastic.
“They are both fine, thank you, auntie.” Meng Qiu Zhen said half-heartedly.
The bald youngster’s mother nodded, smiling: “Little Fang is here as a guest, take a seat, I will prepare some dishes.”
The bald youngster said impatiently: “Mother, you should prepare more delicious food. This meal will be your son’s celebration feast as well.”
“You brat, what have you done this time?” The bald youngster’s mother frowned.
The bald youngster patted his chest: “Mother, your son made a huge contribution this time! I arrested a mushroomman and locked him in prison.”
“What?” The bald youngster’s mother paused.
The bald youngster quickly narrated the event.
The bald youngster’s mother frowned as she looked at Meng Qiu Zhen: “Little Fang, this brat likes to talk nonsense, is what he said true?”
“Yes.” Meng Qiu Zhen nodded before adding: “But big brother Huang Xiao Mi is a good person. I…”
Before he finished speaking, he was once again interrupted by the bald youngster: “Alright, Sister Fang, I have warned you several times. You can say this at home, but don’t talk about it outside.”
“Okay, okay.” The bald youngster’s mother waved her hand, “Brat, there is no more soy sauce left. Go to the nearby shop and get some soy sauce.”
“Ah?”
“Hurry up and go, how can I make food without soy sauce?”
“Oh, alright, alright.”
After the bald youngster left, his mother walked towards Meng Qiu Zhen: “Come, Little Fang, tell auntie what is going on?”
The dream realm’s third stage passed like this.
Fourth stage.
Deep in the night, underground prison.
“My identity changed again?” When Meng Qiu Zhen came to his senses, he immediately realized this.
He had left the mortal Fang Tu’s identity and become a Gu Master again; moreover, his cultivation was rank four!
“I am actually the bald youngster’s mother now?” Meng Qiu Zhen shortly discovered that the bald youngster’s mother was actually a mushroomman.
Meng Qiu Zhen immediately had a guess: “My current identity is probably that Huang Wan.”
This dream realm originated from Paradise Earth, what was special about it was the identities in the different stages of the dream realm were not fixed.
“I might even play the role of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable in the next dream realm.” Meng Qiu Zhen smiled.
Till now, he had not seen even the shadow of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable.
In the first stage of the dream realm, Meng Qiu Zhen learned that Huang Xiao Mi’s mushroomman tribe had a former witch – Huang Wan. She had great strength and was the only doctor that might be able to cure the plague.
However, he knew from the old granny that this former witch Huang Wan was expelled from the tribe for some reason.
“This mushroomman Huang Wan concealed her identity and lived in Tu clan village, a human territory. She even adopted a human child to perfectly conceal her identity. If that bald youngster knew his ‘mother’ was actually a mushroomman, I wonder what expression he would show?”
Meng Qiu Zhen laughed.
He used a very short period of time to get familiar with the Gu worms on him.
The Gu worms were comprehensive, covering attack, defense, movement, healing, and other aspects. Meng Qiu Zhen intuitively sensed some of these Gu worms could combine to form a mortal killer move.
Unfortunately, the situation now did not allow Meng Qiu Zhen to test the killer move or its possible combination.
“The third stage already gave obvious clues. Although this mushroomman Huang Wan was expelled from the tribe, her heart is with the tribe. She immediately moved during the night to save Huang Xiao Mi.”
“I must move quickly!”
Meng Qiu Zhen immediately went deeper into the underground prison.
The structure of the underground prison was simple and clear.
Very soon, he saw Huang Xiao Mi, who was tied to the wall in the deepest part of the prison.
Meng Qiu Zhen used his Gu worms, silently melting the lock on the prison door.
“Huang Xiao Mi, wake up.” Meng Qiu Zhen walked towards Huang Xiao Mi and was about to inspect his condition.
Suddenly, ‘Huang Xiao Mi’ detonated, turning into ash that covered Meng Qiu Zhen.
Shortly after, alarm bells rang and guards started shouting.
The whole prison started emitting dark-yellow light. The concealed Gu formation was activated.
“Oh no, it is a trap!” Meng Qiu Zhen helplessly discovered that ‘Huang Xiao Mi’ had completely disappeared.
He hurriedly retreated, using poison Gu to corrode the Gu formation but it showed little effect.
“Such guts! Breaking into my Tu clan’s jail!”
“It is indeed like that captive said, someone came to save him. Hmph! Surrender quietly and we might spare your life!”
Two elders with similar faces like they were twins were transported by the Gu formation and arrived in front of Meng Qiu Zhen.
Meng Qiu Zhen sneered as he started the fight.
The battle lasted for sixty rounds before he was defeated and captured by the two elders.
The dream realm dissipated.
“I failed.” Meng Qiu Zhen’s soul returned to his body as he sighed.
Paradise Earth’s dream realm was not easy to explore, but Meng Qiu Zhen had plenty of experience, he reached the fourth stage before failing.
His soul was quite injured, Meng Qiu Zhen began to think about the events while healing his soul.
“Those two elders are really strong! They both have rank four cultivation, and they have extremely good teamwork when fighting, like they are one person.”
“Not only do I have to fight those two elders, I also have to deal with the Gu formation. It is quite straining.”
“Naturally, there is another important reason, I am not familiar with poison path Gu worms. I should use this time to deduce the hidden poison path killer moves.”
“Hmm, there is another reason as well…”
Meng Qiu Zhen reflected on himself and realized he had been fretful in the dream realm.
Although that fake Huang Xiao Mi deceived his initial detection methods, if he was in his normal mental state, he would not have rashly entered the prison, and would have used Gu worms to inspect the situation once again.
“At that time, Huang Wan’s mood was extremely anxious and I was unknowingly affected by it, clouding my judgment.”
There were emotional disturbances in the previous three stages as well, but they were all suppressed by Meng Qiu Zhen.
At the fourth stage, the dream realm’s emotions would naturally be deeper than the third stage.
This was also one of the difficulties of exploring dream realms.
Using this time, Meng Qiu Zhen deduced five poison path killer moves which were mostly based on bee poison Gu.
Entering the dream realm again, Meng Qiu Zhen inspected patiently this time.
He made an astonishing discovery: Not only was Huang Xiao Mi fake, the whole underground prison was also fake.
“This is a fake prison, the real prison is still below. The Gu formation’s main body is also below!”
Meng Qiu Zhen carefully entered the real underground prison.
Tu clan village’s real underground prison was unexpectedly complicated and extensive!
The underground prison was like an ant nest, it was filled with thousands of paths intersecting each other, Meng Qiu Zhen felt like he had entered a maze.
“The whole mountain seems to have been dug and made into a prison.”
“This Tu clan village is clearly an ordinary force, but it was actually able to do this?”
“No, there is a trace of Earth Tunnel here!”
Meng Qiu Zhen was probing carefully and soon discovered traces of one of the ten earths, Earth Tunnel.
“This mountain must be of famous mountain level, it contains a natural Earth Tunnel. Tu clan village just slightly developed the Earth Tunnel and was able to gain a large amount of resources. No wonder they were able to nurture two rank four elders.”
Meng Qiu Zhen was moving everywhere in the prison.
The underground prison was mostly empty, and there were more beasts than mortals locked up in it.
Meng Qiu Zhen was still unable to find any clues even after some time. The dream realm had exhausted a large amount of his soul foundation by now.
“Those two Gu Masters!” Meng Qiu Zhen suddenly heard the sounds of Gu cultivators traveling through the Earth Tunnel from ahead.
He quickly moved aside and hid.
Swish, swish.
The two Gu Masters slipped out from the Earth Tunnel.
“The two rank four elders.” Meng Qiu Zhen was observing secretly, and immediately recognized them.
They were all along in the underground prison, so they were able to reach the fake prison immediately in the previous situation.
The two elders talked while moving.
“This mushroomman is quite tight-lipped, he actually endured such cruel torture!”
“Even if he does not say it, we are already aware that a mushroomman tribe has been hiding in the surroundings of Tu clan village. It is just that we don’t know the specific location.”
“Right, we must obtain the specific location of the mushroomman tribe from this captive and eliminate them!”
“In a few days, we will be able to remove the defensive methods on his soul. At that time, we will know everything by searching his soul.”
[0] The title is literally translated as buying soy sauce.
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Chapter 2146: Prison Break
The two elders gradually stopped, entering another tunnel as they moved along instead.
The two of them rapidly left the place.
Meng Qiu Zhen’s eyes twitched.
The scene in front of him reminded him of certain memories in his mind.
“In the five hundred years of the main body’s previous life, during the five regions chaotic war, a super clan known as Tu clan emerged in Southern Border. Their Gu Immortals were most skilled at digging tunnels and using them to launch sneak attacks in battle. Does this have anything to do with this Tu village?”
There were several possibilities regarding this.
Firstly, Tu village’s inheritance was excavated by someone. Secondly, Tu village’s bloodline was spread by descendants, they rose to become immortal during the era of abundant dream realms, or they were simply secluded Gu Immortals. Thirdly, Tu village’s members revived in Tomb Earth.
Meng Qiu Zhen successfully found his way to Huang Xiao Mi after following the route of the two rank four elders.
Huang Xiao Mi was curled up in a corner of the cell, having fallen asleep.
This time, Meng Qiu Zhen investigated carefully, after finding out that there were no traps here, he entered the prison cell.
He immediately found that Huang Xiao Mi was in poor shape, at the brink of death.
Huang Xiao Mi had the mushroomman plague to begin with, it was quite fatal. If one had insufficient resistance, they would die.
Today, he first fought against the bald youngster before getting interrogated by the two elders, his entire body was overgrown with mushrooms.
If Meng Qiu Zhen did not arrive in time, he would die in just a few more breaths of time.
Meng Qiu Zhen sighed to himself, it was a close shave, if he came later, this dream realm exploration would have failed entirely.
He immediately tried to save Huang Xiao Mi, thankfully, he was prepared for this.
The mushrooms on Huang Xiao Mi’s body continued to shrink until all of them went back into his body.
“Who are you?” Huang Xiao Mi was barely able to open his eyes, his vision was still blurred.
Meng Qiu Zhen answered immediately: “I am Huang Wan, I have already used a killer move to suppress the mushroomman plague in your body. Your situation is dire, your life force is almost depleted. I cannot pull out the mushrooms casually as it will consume your life as well.”
Huang Xiao Mi immediately thanked: “Thank you for saving my life, senior.”
“Sigh, it is still too early to say that. Let’s go out, I need to research on this plague. You don’t have much time left.” Meng Qiu Zhen said.
He had not created a poison path killer move that could heal Huang Xiao Mi’s illness yet.
However, the next scene might request for him to heal this mushroomman plague.
Naturally, that was just his guess.
While searching for Huang Xiao Mi earlier, Meng Qiu Zhen did not have a chance to activate dream butterfly Immortal Gu, thus he did not know what the following scenes would be.
“You need to persevere, let’s go.” Meng Qiu Zhen helped Huang Xiao Mi to get up as they left together.
But halfway through, they met the bald youngster.
“Stand there! As expected, someone came to save you.” The bald youngster shouted.
The two elders were behind him as well, they were furious and shocked.
“Such guts! Vicious thief, you dare to break into the prison!”
“Quickly activate the formation, capture this person as well.”
Once he said that, the Gu formation activated, the two elders fought while the bald youngster assisted them.
Meng Qiu Zhen sighed internally as he fought against them.
He had many poison path killer moves, they were evenly matched after fighting for some time.
But soon, the bald youngster saw a weakness and attacked Huang Xiao Mi instead.
Huang Xiao Mi could not resist, he was a huge burden to Meng Qiu Zhen.
Meng Qiu Zhen had to grit his teeth as he helped Huang Xiao Mi time and again. Eventually, he lost the initiative and got suppressed by the two elders.
In the end, Huang Xiao Mi was killed by the bald youngster, dying on the spot.
“All variant human mushroommen deserve to get killed!” The bald youngster shouted with a righteous tone, filled with excitement.
At the next moment, the dream realm shattered.
Meng Qiu Zhen returned to the sovereign immortal aperture, healing himself while collating his insights about the dream.
“I used dream butterfly Immortal Gu earlier to investigate this dream realm but I did not find the bald youngster. To think that after exploring this dream realm to a degree, it would develop on its own and create new characters.”
“Why did the bald youngster come to the prison?”
“From his tone, he seemed to have discovered my traces, what method did he use to find me?”
“Unless, he already found out about the secret of his identity, he knows that his ‘mother’ is a mushroomman variant human? So he went along with the flow?”
After his injuries were healed, Meng Qiu Zhen went back into the dream realm with several questions to answer.
The route did not change, Meng Qiu Zhen arrived at the prison cell in advance.
He lurked at a corner and watched as Huang Xiao Mi was beaten and interrogated by the two elders.
These elders had outstanding strength, more importantly, they had the help of the Gu formation, Meng Qiu Zhen did not want to use brute force.
After two failures and accumulating experience, his own strength already surpassed the original Huang Wan. But his greatest weakness was still Huang Xiao Mi.
His earlier failures already proved that as long as Huang Xiao Mi died, the dream realm would fail.
It seemed that this scene of the dream realm required him to save Huang Xiao Mi successfully.
Meng Qiu Zhen waited patiently, after the two elders left, he immediately went to Huang Xiao Mi’s side.
Not waking him up first, Meng Qiu Zhen directly used the poison path killer move to get rid of the mushroomman plague in Huang Xiao Mi’s body.
Next, Meng Qiu Zhen woke Huang Xiao Mi up.
Huang Xiao Mi found out that his illness was cured, he was overjoyed: “Thank you senior! Please save the mushroomman tribe, many of our members are afflicted with this plague.”
Meng Qiu Zhen nodded, giving Huang Xiao Mi some poison path Gu so that he had some battle strength.
Huang Xiao Mi did not need Meng Qiu Zhen’s help, he was barely able to walk on his own as they sneaked out.
But this time, the bald youngster still found them along the way.
“Stand there! As expected, someone came to save you.” The bald youngster was very excited.
Meng Qiu Zhen had a peculiar expression as he asked: “I used many methods to conceal my traces, how did you find us?”
The bald youngster chuckled: “I’m not afraid to tell you, with my genius talent, I created a move called earthly underground qi. After I captured this mushroomman, I secretly used this tracing killer move, how can you get rid of it in such a rush?”
“Not bad, even though you are an external member of the clan, you have some talent.”
“Very good, all thanks to you, we found this problem today. This is your merit.”
The two rank four elders looked at the bald youngster in a renewed light.
“Thank you, lords!” The bald youngster was very excited, he had the demeanor of a lackey: “I will do my best.”
Meng Qiu Zhen: “…”
After an intense battle, Huang Xiao Mi still died in battle.
Meng Qiu Zhen failed his third exploration.
After deep analysis and deductions, he went into the fourth exploration.
This time, he sneaked in early and hid in a corner. After the two elders left, he immediately entered the prison cell, healing Huang Xiao Mi’s illness and even giving him healing Gu worms.
“Wait here and heal yourself continuously, do not step out of the cell. There is a tracking method on you, if you try to get out, the enemy will find out.” Meng Qiu Zhen instructed: “After I kill the crucial Gu Masters, when you see this healing Gu worm fly in the air, get out and escape.”
Huang Xiao Mi was very obedient, he nodded: “I will listen to senior’s instructions.”
Meng Qiu Zhen made the optimal arrangements and left the cell.
At the other side, with the development of the dream realm, the bald youngster appeared.
He was summoned by the two elders and made his way to them but was suddenly attacked by Meng Qiu Zhen.
“Hmm?!” Even though the bald youngster had great strength, he was not Meng Qiu Zhen’s match, not to mention that Meng Qiu Zhen had prepared for this assault.
The bald youngster died on the spot.
But Meng Qiu Zhen found that he could not move, an intense feeling of sadness, guilt, and regret overwhelmed his heart, he found that he lost control of his body.
“What is going on?”
“It seems that I cannot kill the bald youngster?”
“Maybe because they lived together for so long, the mushroomman Huang Wan had already treated him as her real son.”
The feeling was so intense that even with Meng Qiu Zhen’s fortitude, he could not suppress it.
Mushroomman Huang Wan shuddered as tears flowed down her cheeks, it could not be stopped.
Clank clank clank…
Alarm bells suddenly rang, the Gu formation was activated as the two elders found their way to Meng Qiu Zhen.
They must have gotten suspicious after waiting for the bald youngster for so long, they came over to check.
Eventually, Meng Qiu Zhen’s exploration failed as well.
“So this guy cannot be killed either?” Meng Qiu Zhen was troubled.
Because he could not unravel and dispel that earthly underground qi killer move.
Even though it was a mortal killer move, Meng Qiu Zhen did not know what Gu worms were used in it. And more importantly, even if he knew, could the Gu worms on him achieve such an effect?
“If only I knew how many Gu worms the bald youngster had. It is a pity I have already lost the opportunity to find out.”
In the third scene, Fang Yuan’s identity was Fang Tu. If he tried to investigate, with the bald youngster’s affection for her, he should have gotten some clues.
Earlier, when Fang Tu sold mushrooms, the bald youngster flirted with her, it was a great opportunity.
But back then, Meng Qiu Zhen had not thought of this.
Because dream butterfly Immortal Gu did not let him see this scene. Back then, the bald youngster did not exist in this scene in the first place, the dream realm changed on its own after saving Huang Xiao Mi, causing the bald youngster to appear.
Now, after reaching this scene, the earlier ones had vanished already.
After deep consideration, Meng Qiu Zhen went into the dream realm again.
This time, he did not enter the cell directly and wait there.
Getting there early was useless.
Meng Qiu Zhen had to wait for the elders to leave before he could try and save Huang Xiao Mi.
Meng Qiu Zhen set up some arrangements on the route that the elders would take instead.
He used create dream Immortal Gu to establish a complicated tunnel along the way.
After making his arrangement, Meng Qiu Zhen came to the prison cell, the two elders had just left.
He immediately saved Huang Xiao Mi but did not leave him in the cell, bringing him away directly.
The two elders were just about to meet up with the bald youngster but they lost their way.
With this crucial gap in time, Meng Qiu Zhen successfully brought Huang Xiao Mi away.
During this period, the bald youngster chased them and wanted to stop them.
But Meng Qiu Zhen did not kill this troublesome guy, instead making him faint on the spot. After stopping Huang Xiao Mi from taking revenge, he successfully passed the scene of the dream realm.
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Chapter 2147: War
The Gu Masters reacted and quickly retreated.
Meng Qiu Zhen stomped on the ground with a loud sound, a hole immediately appeared below him.
A Gu Master was caught off guard, he fell into the trap.
“Wanting to restrict me with this method?” He was just about to fly out of the pit, when Meng Qiu Zhen held a huge rock that was the size of a horse carriage and tossed it down.
“Don’t….”
Boom!
The huge rock crashed down and sent the Gu Master into the pit, losing all signs of life. From below the rock, bright red blood started to spread into a puddle.
“What are you doing? Are you crazy!”
“You are actually attacking our own clan member, a Tu clansman?”
The remaining two Gu Masters watched this as their hearts jumped intensely.
“Aren’t you guys indignant?” Meng Qiu Zhen snickered as he approached.
Even though the bald youngster had limited Gu worms, against Meng Qiu Zhen’s combat attainment, how could these mortal Gu Masters resist him?
After a short while, they were all sprawling on the ground.
“Stop it, stop it, we give up!” The Gu Masters pleaded in a hurry.
The sixth scene of the dream realm.
Meng Qiu Zhen became the mushroomman Huang Xiao Mi again.
His injuries had healed already, the mushroomman plague was successfully healed through Huang Wan’s secret treatment.
Huang Xiao Mi also obtained some poison path Gu from Huang Wan. Using these Gu to form killer moves, he could completely get rid of the plague that troubled his mushroomman tribe.
Huang Xiao Mi moved stealthily in secret, trying to escape.
The surroundings of Tu clan village had surveying Gu Masters that did patrols regularly.
A group of rank two Gu Masters, with a total of five members, were moving in the forest.
“Stop, we will rest here.” The leader suddenly extended his hand, instructing.
The moment the group rested, a colorless and odorless poisonous gas spread towards them.
Boom boom boom.
The five Gu Masters fell on the ground, falling unconscious.
“Huang Wan’s poison path killer move might only be effective against rank three and below Gu Masters, but it has no aura at all when used, it is very valuable in realistic situations.” Meng Qiu Zhen evaluated as he set off again.
He could not kill these Tu clan Gu Masters, even though they could not resist him now.
Once he killed them, Tu clan village would get alerted, they would chase after him.
But a change happened before Meng Qiu Zhen’s very eyes.
The dream realm suddenly changed, a Gu Master group led by the bald youngster met with Meng Qiu Zhen head on.
“Variant human thief, you are still here? Stop there! Where are you trying to escape to?” The bald youngster was slightly stunned before shouting and chasing after him.
“It seems that this happened in history as well.” Meng Qiu Zhen was helpless about this.
Dream butterfly Immortal Gu could not detect such sudden changes in advance.
In fact, even if he saw it, Meng Qiu Zhen could not do anything about this.
No matter what route he chose, with the natural development of the dream realm, the bald youngster’s group would still meet up with Meng Qiu Zhen regardless.
And looking at it from another perspective, this was a necessary event for this dream realm.
Only by escaping from the bald youngster’s pursuit could he successfully pass this scene.
An exciting chase and escape battle erupted between the two sides.
The bald youngster chased while Huang Xiao Mi, who had recovered, did not waste time fighting him, he escaped while setting up traps, killing the rest of his group members.
The bald youngster was the son of Huang Wan, to play safe, Meng Qiu Zhen did not attack him.
Eventually, Meng Qiu Zhen successfully escaped.
The bald youngster stood behind him without any hope of catching up, he shouted: “Mushroomman thief, I will remember you! One day, I will kill you!”
Their grudges intensified.
Seventh scene.
Eighth scene.
Ninth scene…
Meng Qiu Zhen acted as the bald youngster ‘Green Beast’ at times, while acting as Huang Xiao Mi at other times.
Using the poison path killer move that Huang Xiao Mi brought back, the mushroomman tribe successfully healed from the plague.
But war ensued.
Even though the location of the mushroomman tribe was not discovered, with Tu clan village’s rampant searches and investigation, they could not hide for long.
The two sides started to send their Gu Masters to engage in small interactions and battles.
The two sides suffered heavy losses, but because of that, champions appeared.
Tu clan village had the bald youngster, who was Huang Wan’s adopted son. The mushroommen had Huang Xiao Mi, the tribesman of Huang Wan.
The two interacted occasionally, fighting against each other frequently.
Because of their contest, their strength grew rapidly, they reached rank four at the same time.
On both sides, their clansmen and tribesmen died terribly at each others’ hands.
They became the greatest enemies of each other’s lives!
Finally, at the twelfth scene of the dream realm.
Meng Qiu Zhen acted as Huang Xiao Mi, he set up a trap and sowed discord, causing Tu clan village’s higher-ups to feel wariness against the bald youngster.
‘Green Beast’ was not a Tu clansman after all, he was not truly one of them.
The mushroommen set up a trap that did not seem obvious, it seemed to be the true gathering spot of the mushroomman tribe. Tu clan village immediately dispatched the bald youngster to go and probe them out.
Even though the bald youngster knew that something was up, he was uncertain.
After going and investigating, the bald youngster fell into a trap, he was in a life-and-death crisis.
“Green Beast, today, you will die!” Huang Xiao Mi shouted, leading his troops to encircle and attack the humans who were lower in numbers.
“Even if I die, I will drag down ten mushroommen with me to die together!” The bald youngster shouted.
He was bathed in blood and covered in injuries but his morale was high, even the mushroommen attacking him realized that this person was a true warrior!
Eventually, the bald youngster used up all his strength and primeval essence.
He was all alone.
Tens of mushroomman corpses were lying around him.
“You variant humans will not live for long.”
“Damn it, damn it!”
“I want to kill my enemies, but I have no way of doing that anymore.”
The bald youngster smiled coldly as he knelt on one knee, raising his head up with pride and arrogance.
He shouted at Meng Qiu Zhen: “Huang Xiao Mi, come and kill me! Even if I die at your hands today, I have merely lost to the schemes of those Tu clan elders.”
“You understood it after all.” Meng Qiu Zhen smiled coldly as he walked forward, ready to deal the final blow, but suddenly a change occurred.
Huang Wan concealed her appearance and appeared suddenly, a wave of white poisonous smoke spread out, she saved the bald youngster successfully.
But at the next moment, a human Gu Master who had rank five cultivation level made his move.
Boom!
With a loud sound, not only was the white smoke dispersed by the human Gu Master, everyone’s vision cleared up and he even obstructed Huang Wan from escaping.
Huang Wan held onto the bald youngster as they landed at the periphery of the battlefield.
“Village head!” The bald youngster was overjoyed when he saw the rank five human Gu Master, he also looked at the female Gu Master who saved him.
From this female Gu Master, the bald youngster could sense a familiar yet foreign aura, he asked in curiosity: “Benefactor, who… are you?”
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Chapter 2148: Le Tu
At this time, Tu clan village’s Gu Masters appeared from all directions, surrounding all the mushroommen as well as Huang Wan and her son.
The mushroommen fell into panic as they got encircled.
Huang Xiao Mi shouted: “Don’t panic! I have already requested for help from the tribe, they will arrive shortly. We need to persevere until then!”
The mushroomman Gu Masters forced themselves to calm down.
Tu clan village’s leader did not attack directly, he took a few steps forward and stared at Huang Wan with a complex gaze: “Wan Er, as expected, you came.”
Huang Wan snorted coldly: “What do you want?”
Once she said that, the bald youngster realized at once, his body and mind shook, gasping: “Mother?!”
Her identity was exposed, Huang Wan got rid of her concealment and returned to her original appearance.
“At this point in time, I can’t hide it from you anymore, little rascal.” Huang Wan looked at the bald youngster and sighed deeply with a melancholic expression.
The mushroommen were all shocked.
“This is… the previous generation witch?”
“Why did our former witch save the human Gu Master Green Beast?”
“From their conversation, it seems that they are mother and son?”
“So Huang Wan was exiled from the tribe because she had an affair with Tu clan village’s head, they even had a son!!”
The truth was unveiled before everyone, they quickly understood the whole situation from start to finish.
“Mother! Are you really my mother? Are they speaking the truth?!” The bald youngster was so shocked he could not control himself.
All along, he had lived as a pure human, to think that he was actually a mixed breed of human and mushroomman.
Huang Wan sighed deeply: “They are all correct, I am sorry for hiding it from you for so long!”
The bald youngster took in a deep breath as he stumbled back for a few steps, looking at Huang Wan with wide opened eyes.
He had never seen his mother’s mushroomman form, with the truth of his identity exposed, he could not accept it so easily.
Tu clan village’s head looked at the bald youngster deeply before turning his gaze to Huang Wan: “Wan Er, is he really our son? I did not expect that after leaving me back then, you would stay behind and lurk within Tu clan village. You even raised our son all alone, it has really been tough on you.”
Huang Wan snorted coldly: “You are Tu clan village head, while I am the witch of the mushroomman tribe, we are destined to be separated. But our child is innocent, I only stayed in the village for a reason. That was because my son, a hybrid, will not be accepted by the tribe. Thus, all these years, I let him grow up in Tu clan village, eventually, I would reveal the truth to you and make you take him in.”
Saying so, Huang Wan looked towards the bald youngster, saying gently: “Didn’t you ask me who your father was when you were young? Now you know. I had my own plans, but reality is often not under people’s control, today’s scene was something I did not anticipate. Child, no matter what, regardless of how much you hate me or your father, you need to remember something: People who live in this world, be it humans, variant humans, or mixed breeds, have to be happy and blissful, they should not dwell on grudges or hatred, a big heart will allow you to see a big world, thus, mother named you Le Tu[1].”
Hearing this, Meng Qiu Zhen was shaken internally.
“What, ‘Green Beast’ is Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable? He actually has mixed blood, but how can a mixed breed become one of the ten human venerables?!”
“No wonder I felt such intense emotions after killing Le Tu as Huang Wan earlier, causing the exploration to fail.”
“So it turns out my deductions were wrong, they really are mother and son!”
“Mother, say no more.” Le Tu shook his head as he stepped backwards, looking at Huang Wan in disbelief: “How… are you a mushroomman?”
Huang Wan’s heart jumped: “Ah Le, you lived among the humans since you were born, I know you cannot accept it immediately, but…”
Boom!
The ground behind Huang Wan cracked open as a Tu clan rank four elder came out and sneak attacked her.
Huang Wan was caught off guard, she was sent flying as she spat out a mouthful of blood while in mid air.
This Tu clan rank four elder did not have strength to chase her after using this move, he had a twisted expression: “Huang Wan! Back then, you saved Huang Xiao Mi, my brother died at your hands. For today, I practiced this cracked soil shattering life killer move for a long time, how does it feel? Hahaha.”
“Mother!” Le Tu subconsciously ran towards Huang Wan.
“Lady Huang Wan saved our mushroomman tribe from the plague, quickly save her!” Meng Qiu Zhen shouted too.
“Too late, my fellow Tu clan village members, kill them all!” Tu clan village head shouted as he unleashed a barrage of attacks.
The mushroomman Gu Masters quickly defended against their enemies, they were unable to care for anything else.
“Lord village head!” Le Tu was anxious at the moment, he could not call that person his ‘father’, he defended Huang Wan as he looked at Tu clan village’s leader in disbelief.
Le Tu was not a three year old, he was a veteran in war, he knew about people’s hearts. When the situation occurred earlier, Tu clan village’s leader had used words to distract Huang Wan, he used Le Tu to draw away her attention and kept the elder hidden so his sneak attack succeeded.
“You made this decision after all!” Huang Wan stared at Tu clan village’s head, her former lover, with a cold expression.
The situation was urgent, there was no time for healing. She quickly suppressed her injuries and stood up.
“I am the head of Tu clan village, I am responsible for all the lives of my Tu clan village’s members. Moreover, culling variant humans is the righteous duty of all humans!” Tu clan village’s leader snorted as he attacked.
“You have such a cruel and wicked heart!” Huang Wan screamed before pushing Le Tu aside, fighting against Tu clan village’s leader.
Boom boom boom.
The two fought with a huge commotion, the effects of their attacks spread out, causing unguarded Gu Masters to die continuously.
Thus, the surrounding Gu Masters moved away, creating a huge space for these two to fight in.
“Stop fighting!” Le Tu was anxious, he screamed in his anxiety and helplessness.
His body was in poor condition, he could not join the fight now.
“Ah Le, escape!” Huang Wan shouted.
“Ah Le, you are a mixed blood but you are still my son. I’ve seen all your achievements so far, quickly come and help the village, these mushroommen deserve death!” Tu clan village’s leader shouted.
“Stop fighting, stop fighting!” Le Tu’s entire body shook, he was completely lost at the moment.
A dark light flashed in the eyes of Tu clan village’s leader as he thought of a plan.
His cultivation level was higher than Huang Wan, with the latter injured from the sneak attack, Tu clan village’s leader had the upper hand, he controlled the situation.
Tu clan village’s leader purposely forced Huang Wan to approach a certain Gu Master of Tu clan village.
This Tu clan Gu Master unfortunately fell into Huang Wan’s attack range, but his cultivation level was only rank two.
Huang Wan did not think much about it, her attack landed on this Tu clan Gu Master and killed him on the spot!
“No!” Le Tu shouted, subconsciously running over.
It turned out that this Tu clan Gu Master was his close ally, they had gone through dangerous situations many times in the past.
“Go away, Ah Le!” Huang Wan saw that Le Tu charged in, she screamed with a pale expression.
Tu clan village’s head used the chance to attack thrice, landing three attacks on her as she fainted on the spot.
“Mother!” Le Tu shouted, using his body to block the leader’s path, protecting Huang Wan behind him: “Don’t harm my mother!”
Tu clan village’s leader burst out with killing intent, he was about to attack when he suddenly heard some shouting from afar.
“The mushroomman tribe’s reinforcements!”
“Their tribe leader arrived too.”
Tu clan village’s head squinted as he thought: “We came here stealthily without many people, but they are all elites, it is not worth losing them over these mushroommen. Moreover, so what if we win? As long as we cannot find the mushroomman tribe’s hideout, they will not lose against us.”
Thinking so, Tu clan village’s head ordered: “Retreat.”
“What are you thinking of doing?” Seeing Tu clan village’s head approach, the bald youngster called out nervously.
Tu clan village head sighed as he showed a gentle expression on his face: “Le Tu, I will not attack you. You are my son after all, but your mother, she is a mushroomman.”
“A variant human!” His voice suddenly became sharper and louder.
“Do you want to side with the variant humans?!” Tu clan village’s head shouted again.
Le Tu gritted his teeth but did not speak.
“All these years, how many mushroommen have you killed? Do you think they will accept you if you side with them?” Tu clan village’s head smiled coldly.
Le Tu snorted coldly, staring at Tu clan village’s head fiercely: “I want my mother to live! If you have any ill intentions towards her, I will not let you off.”
Tu clan village’s head chuckled: “If you continue keeping her in that state, in just a while, she will die from her injuries.”
“This…” Le Tu was completely lost at the moment.
Tu clan village’s head suddenly attacked, causing Le Tu to faint, he brought both son and mother away.
“Kill!”
“Kill these humans!”
“Bring Huang Wan back, she knows the secret of our tribe’s hideout!!”
The mushroomman Gu Masters chased relentlessly.
The Huang Xiao Mi that Meng Qiu Zhen was portraying also shouted among them, but he did not do anything.
Because he had already used dream butterfly Immortal Gu to check the next scene.
After the mushroomman Gu Masters failed in their pursuit, Meng Qiu Zhen arrived at the next scene.
This time, he became Huang Wan again.
His body was bound by chains that pierced through his bones, he had no primeval essence at all, he was completely out of strength.
In the dark prison cell, the door was suddenly opened.
Tu clan village’s head walked in.
Meng Qiu Zhen squinted, from the situation of the previous scene, this was clearly an ambitious and formidable person!
Tu clan village’s head smiled, he came prepared.
“You know my objective, don’t be too rash to reject it. Let me show you this.” Tu clan village’s head took out an information path Gu worm.
Immediately, a video played itself in the air, the scene within it was vivid and lively.
In a well decorated room, Tu clan village’s head opened the door and met with Le Tu.
“I heard from my subordinates that you are awake, I immediately came to meet you, my son.” Tu clan village’s head had a warm expression.
Le Tu was covered in bandages, the moment he got out of bed, his body wavered as he fell back onto the bed.
“How is my mother now?” Le Tu immediately asked in an urgent tone.
[1] These are the same characters as Paradise Earth, his later venerable title.
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Chapter 2149: I Confess Everything
Tu clan village head sighed deeply: “Your mother is a noble mother, for your sake, she took a huge risk and stayed within Tu clan village for so many years.”
Tu clan village head’s tone suddenly changed: “But I cannot let her off, she is a mushroomman, a variant human!”
“You are also clear about these mushroommen. Those of other races will have different motives, the best outcome for these mushroommen is death!”
“But you are different, you are my son. You know that I have no other children, you are my only son!”
“Ah Le, come and help me. Only I can accept you here, this Tu clan village is your home.”
“As your father, I owe you a lot, I will do my best to make up to you in the future.”
“After this huge battle, you have already accumulated sufficient credits. I know that you want the Tu surname, originally, the village would need to test you, but father will allow it now. From today onwards, you will be a true Tu clansman. With the new surname, you will no longer be Le Tu, you will be called Tu Le!”
“Child, father is proud of you. This is your new life!”
Le Tu laughed loudly, his voice was filled with mockery and sadness.
The goal that he had always pursued was finally achieved, but he felt no sense of accomplishment or happiness.
“I don’t want the Tu surname, I want to exchange for my mother’s life using all the contributions I’ve done for Tu clan village over these years!” Le Tu called out.
But Tu clan village’s head had an expressionless face, he shook his head with a firm attitude.
Le Tu gritted his teeth, blood flowing out from his teeth as he pointed at Tu clan village head: “If you kill my mother, I will not live alone. In fact, I will stake my life against yours!”
“Ah Le!!” Tu clan village’s head shouted coldly.
Le Tu did not speak, he stared at Tu clan village head fixedly.
The atmosphere in the room became immensely tense.
The father and son stared at each other with a deathly gaze, eventually, the expression of Tu clan village’s head changed.
He shifted his sight towards the ceiling as he sighed deeply to himself.
His sigh was filled with complex emotions. There was anger, hatred, helplessness, and sadness.
Tu clan village’s head looked at Le Tu deeply as he said with deep emotions: “All these years, father did not discover you. I really owe you a lot, my son. If I had taken care of you, things would not have gotten to this stage.”
“Never mind!”
“Since it was my fault, I will satisfy your request.”
“I will let your mother escape, but I will only let her go secretly.”
“However, the mushroomman tribe needs to be eradicated, not a single one of them will be left!”
“This is your father’s limit, it is also the greatest compromise I can give you as the head of Tu clan village. Ah Le, you need to understand my difficulties as well.”
Le Tu’s expression was immediately moved, he gulped: “Village… village head, as long as you let my mother off, I don’t care about those mushroomman tribe members!”
All these years, Le Tu had been fighting against the mushroomman tribe, they had immense grudges and mutual hatred.
He only cared about Huang Wan after all.
“Good child!” Tu clan village’s head was very excited, he patted Le Tu’s shoulders: “But I cannot let your mother go now. You know that even though we have the advantage, as long as we cannot find the mushroomman tribe’s location, we cannot obtain true victory.”
“But your mother knows the location of the mushroomman tribe, she knows how to find them. Ah Le, I need your help, convince your mother to tell us this secret.”
“I promise you, I assure you, as long as we eliminate the mushroomman tribe and get rid of this huge threat, I will let your mother off and she will live in peace for the rest of her life.”
“This…” Le Tu hesitated.
Even though he wanted to eliminate the mushroomman tribe, he understood that his mother had deep feelings for her tribe.
Tu clan village’s head patted Le Tu’s shoulders, saying in a kind tone: “Father will not force you, think about it yourself. You are still injured, you need to recuperate. I will give you enough time to think, I believe in you!”
The video ended here.
Tu clan village’s head smiled coldly as he approached Huang Wan: “What do you think? Do you want your own son to come and convince you personally?”
“Think about it, Wan Er.”
“You can disregard your own life, but what about your son’s life?”
“If our relationship really turns sour, neither of you will have a good ending.”
“I may not kill him.”
“But I just need to send him to fight on the front lines and kill all of your tribesmen, what do you think?”
Meng Qiu Zhen looked at Tu clan village head with a look of appreciation: “Unscrupulous and shameless, you are quite something.”
“Hahaha, a great person would not mind small sacrifices! Have you just found out about it, it is too late now!” Tu clan village head laughed loudly, but he felt that Huang Wan’s gaze was not normal.
Meng Qiu Zhen nodded in a serious manner: “Exactly why I appreciate you.”
As his laughter stopped abruptly, Tu clan village’s head could not believe what he had just heard: “What did you say?”
Meng Qiu Zhen had a straightforward attitude, his gaze flickered: “Actually, you don’t have to go through the trouble, don’t you want to know the location of the tribe? I’ll tell you directly.”
“What?” Tu clan village’s head was dazed.
Meng Qiu Zhen shrugged.
During this period, he used dream butterfly Immortal Gu to check the next scene, and the following one as well, he obtained crucial information.
In the end, Tu clan village’s army attacks the headquarters of the mushroomman tribe, this meant that Tu clan village’s head would learn of the location of the mushroomman tribe eventually.
In history, Huang Wan might not have exposed the location even after interrogation and torture, or after Tu clan village’s head threatened her using her son.
But this was the dream realm, Huang Wan was not really Huang Wan, she was Meng Qiu Zhen.
“Not only will I tell you the location of the tribe, I’ll even tell you that the tribe has a small secretive tunnel. You can send elites to attack it while the main troops are at the front.” Meng Qiu Zhen suggested.
Tu clan village’s head had a look of deep disbelief and suspicion.
The more cooperative Meng Qiu Zhen was, the less he believed in the words that were said.
Tu clan village’s head was silent for a moment before he laughed coldly: “As a captive, you dare to toy with me? Good, very good, to think that you would disregard your own son, you are such a cold blooded person.”
“No, listen to me. I am really telling you the truth.” Meng Qiu Zhen said sincerely.
But Tu clan village’s head shook his head, his voice became even colder: “I won’t listen! Do you think I will believe you?”
“You can test out what I just said.” Meng Qiu Zhen could not help but roll his eyes.
Tu clan village’s head continued his cold snicker: “Do you think I am stupid? In the earlier battle, your mushroomman tribe created a trap. This time, it must be a trap too. You want me to lose my elite members.”
Meng Qiu Zhen sighed deeply: “If you do not test it, what will you do now? Without knowing the mushroomman tribe’s location, how can you attack?”
Tu clan village’s head laughed loudly: “I am prepared for that.”
Clap clap clap.
He clapped and said: “Master Wu Xiao, please come out.”
“Wu Xiao greets Tu clan village’s leader.” A Gu Master with a grim expression, having a tall and thin body, was created by the dream realm.
“I’ll let you know, this is the famous doctor of Southern Border, Master Wu Xiao. Did you think I came unprepared?” Tu clan village’s head introduced.
Meng Qiu Zhen sighed: “What’s the point of all this?”
Wu Xiao walked forward and used Gu worms to investigate Meng Qiu Zhen and said: “Reporting to village head, this captive has tight defenses, if we soul search her abruptly, not only will her soul dissipate immediately, it will even cause a backlash on the attacker and cause them to get badly poisoned.”
Tu clan village’s head nodded: “Precisely so, I asked for you to come here. Master Wu, you cultivate soul path, you can use soul healing methods and are one of the six great doctors of Southern Border. In the current Southern Border, only you can resist the mushroomman poison path methods, while preserving their souls at the same time.”
Wu Xiao smiled proudly: “Village head, I am flattered, please watch me as I use my methods now.”
Wu Xiao started to use his killer move on Meng Qiu Zhen.
Meng Qiu Zhen grunted, intense pain assaulted him as his body shuddered, cold sweat broke out.
The dream realm intensified at this moment, causing his soul foundation to dwindle.
“Stop it, don’t you want to know their location? I’ll tell you directly, isn’t that enough?” Meng Qiu Zhen shouted.
“Do you think I will believe you? Wan Er, I know you too well, saying such words is an insult to my intelligence!” Tu clan village’s head snorted and waved his sleeves in anger.
“Ahhh… ahh…” Meng Qiu Zhen pretended to cry out in agony: “I am telling the truth!”
Tu clan village’s head was enraged: “You dare to lie further!”
“Ahhhh…” Meng Qiu Zhen pretended to have broken down: “I can’t take it anymore, I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you everything.”
Tu clan village’s head waved his hand: “Say no more, I will soul search you either way.”
Meng Qiu Zhen shut his mouth at this moment.
He was certain now.
At this juncture, he needed to pass the dream realm’s test.
Some dream realms were like this, they could only be passed after expending soul foundation. If one’s soul foundation was too low, they would die in this dream realm.
Guh.
Suddenly, Doctor Wu Xiao spat out a mouthful of blood.
He took several steps back, his forehead was covered in sweat, he panted heavily, there was purple blood flowing down his lips.
“Amazing, impressive! A poison within a poison, to think that there is such an amazing method in the world. To think that I was actually hit by it, it seems that I have to use my final method.”
Wu Xiao turned his gaze to Tu clan village head, reporting: “But this method has a drawback.”
“What drawback?”
“This is considered forceful soul search, the target would go insane, but their insane words are truthful thoughts!”
Tu clan village’s head did not even look at Huang Wan, he said without hesitation: “Please go ahead and use your method, there is no need to hold back.”
“Yes.” Wu Xiao immediately took action.
A few moments later, Huang Wan went insane, she lost her mind completely.
This was the first time Meng Qiu Zhen had encountered such a situation.
This condition directly influenced his thoughts as well.
“Tell me the mushroomman tribe’s location.” Tu clan village’s head asked.
Meng Qiu Zhen wanted to tell him the truth but his words that came out were: “La la la my homeland exists in my heart. Hehehe.”
Huang Wan started to smile foolishly.
“How do I get into the mushroomman tribe’s headquarters?” Tu clan village’s head continued to ask.
“Use your legs to walk in, of course, you can crawl too. Hahaha…” Huang Wan started to laugh madly again.
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Chapter 2150: Crazy Mother
Tu clan village head became anxious, he started to fire off questions.
But even though Huang Wan spoke the truth each time, her replies were all nonsensical.
Tu clan village head did not get the answer he wanted, he looked towards Doctor Wu Xiao with an unkind gaze.
Doctor Wu Xiao was shocked too: “Amazing, too amazing! This mushroomman’s will is too strong, even though she lost her mind and has fallen into insanity, she became even purer as a result, each of her actions resonate with her true feelings. In her heart, she will definitely not betray her tribe, even if they exiled her. Tu clan village head, there is nothing else I can do.”
“You…” Tu clan village head was very angry, he controlled himself: “Then Master Wu Xiao, you can go rest now.”
In the jail cell, only Tu clan village head and Huang Wan were left.
Tu clan village head looked at Huang Wan and laughed coldly: “Don’t worry, even if you are crazy, I can still make use of you. If I cannot get an answer from you, I will capture more mushroomman higher-ups and ask Master Wu Xiao to take action. I do not believe that I cannot find out the location of your mushroomman tribe!”
Thus, in the next scene, Meng Qiu Zhen turned into Huang Xiao Mi.
The elite Gu Masters of the mushroomman tribe were beside him.
The night was dark, they had already stealthily arrived near Tu clan village.
“Brother Xiao Mi!” Fang Tu secretly went to receive him.
These years, Fang Tu had received the help of Huang Wan and Le Tu, she started her cultivation journey and was now a rank two Gu Master.
She had received immense help from Huang Wan, because of her fortuitous encounter, she bore goodwill towards the mushroommen.
“How is the situation?” Meng Qiu Zhen asked immediately.
Fang Tu answered: “The village head is already prepared, tomorrow morning, Auntie Huang Wan will face the trial publicly, she will be beheaded! On the other hand, I have already found out about the location where Le Tu is kept in.”
“Alright, we will split into two groups, one group will head to the execution ground and lay in ambush. The other group will save Le Tu and pass him those Gu worms that we prepared.” Meng Qiu Zhen instructed.
The sky gradually lightened up.
Right when Huang Wan was about to be beheaded, Meng Qiu Zhen led the mushroomman Gu Masters to attack the execution ground.
“You came after all.” Tu clan village head laughed.
“Everything has gone according to leader’s estimations.” The elders praised.
“Mother!” On the other hand, Le Tu also arrived with his reinforcements.
Tu clan village head frowned: “You chose the other side after all! Forget it, today, I will slay my kin in the name of justice, I will correct my past mistakes. Kill that pair of mother and son! Try your best to capture all the remaining mushroommen.”
A chaotic battle started.
Tu clan village soon gained the upper hand, this was a trap that they had set in the first place.
The mushroomman tribe also predicted this but there was no choice. Huang Wan was the former witch, she knew too many secrets of the tribe, she could not be allowed to stay in Tu clan village.
Huang Xiao Mi and Le Tu fell into tough combat, they were surrounded by strong foes.
“To think that the day would come where we fight on the same side.” Le Tu looked at Huang Xiao Mi, smiling bitterly.
Meng Qiu Zhen suddenly laughed heartily: “Don’t worry, our reinforcements are here.”
At the crucial moment, the dream realm changed once again as a large number of mushroomman Gu Masters joined the fight.
It turned out that the mushroomman tribe leader had gone all-out, he led the entire tribe to attack Tu clan village in a last ditch attempt.
To win or to die trying!
There was no other possible outcome!
Most of Tu clan village’s higher-ups were at the execution ground, because of their temporarily weakened defenses, the mushroomman army actually broke in and charged all the way into Tu clan village.
An intense battle erupted.
The village head and tribe leader were both rank five, they fought against each other.
Le Tu and Huang Xiao Mi’s alliance became the crucial element that could break this stalemate.
They were too familiar with each other, even though this was their first alliance, they had immense coordination in working together.
Both of them had rank four cultivation level, once they joined hands, their battle strength rose greatly, even Tu clan village’s head could not resist them.
In the end, the mushroomman tribe won while Tu clan village suffered a terrible loss.
The remaining Gu Masters escaped into the prison, resisting with all their might, desperately attempting to survive.
Meanwhile, Tu clan village’s head was heavily injured, he was on the brink of death, captured by the mushroomman tribe.
“Mother, how are you? What happened to you?”
Le Tu managed to save his mother in this chaotic battle after suffering huge injuries. But he found that Huang Wan had already gone mad.
Huang Wan looked at Huang Xiao Mi: “Son, oh son, you must live in happiness and bliss. That is why I named you Le Tu. Come, smile for mother, show me a smile.”
“Oh mother…” Le Tu was covered in tears: “It was my fault, if I had not barged in, you would not have gotten hit by the village head! You would not be in such a state.”
At this time, Wu Xiao was brought over.
He begged for mercy: “Don’t kill me, don’t kill me! I know what happened to your mother.”
“Speak!” Le Tu roared.
Tu clan village head who was heavily injured smiled and replied in a cold tone: “Hahaha, your mother cannot be saved, she had gone completely insane. That’s right, I caused it, this Doctor Wu Xiao is the direct culprit behind it as well.”
“You will all die!!!” Le Tu’s expression was distorted, he was about to make a move.
But Huang Wan suddenly stopped him: “Don’t kill him, don’t kill anyone! That is not good, you must be a kind person, you stupid rascal.”
“Mother, you finally recognized me.” Le Tu cried.
Slap.
Huang Wan suddenly slapped as Le Tu became stunned.
“Who are you calling mother! My son is right here.” She grabbed Huang Xiao Mi, patting the latter’s chest: “This is my son.”
“Look at my son!” Huang Wan said proudly: “My son is so strong and tall! He is such a wonderful lad.”
“Oh son.” Huang Wan was smiling earlier but suddenly, she cried: “Mother let you down. I hid your identity from you and shaved your head because I was afraid that your hair might grow into a mushroom cap instead. Will you blame me?”
Le Tu wept in agony as tears flowed like a river.
But Huang Wan paid him no attention, she only looked at Huang Xiao Mi.
For the first time, Le Tu looked at Huang Xiao Mi in a pleading gaze.
Huang Xiao Mi nodded as he acted: “Mother, I won’t blame you, you will always be my wonderful mother.”
Huang Wan shed tears of joy as she said: “Stupid rascal, I’m glad you forgive me. But don’t kill your father, don’t kill anyone else. I want you to live in peace and happiness, that is all I want. Let them off, conflict and slaughter only breeds deeper conflict and hatred, it will make you empty, it will torture you, it will make you unhappy.”
“If you are not happy, you will not be Ah Le anymore.”
The surrounding people were silent.
Even Tu clan village head was the same.
“You want me to spare these people?!” Le Tu’s eyes were red, he clenched his fists as his expression became distorted with rage.
“How can I do that?!” He forced that question out through the cracks between his teeth.
Tu clan village head smiled coldly, he had already lost completely, he became disheartened, he had no fear towards death.
But Doctor Wu Xiao suddenly shouted: “There is hope, there is still hope! Your mother still has a chance of regaining her sanity.”
Le Tu grabbed Wu Xiao’s shoulder and lifted him up: “Tell me, what method is it?”
Wu Xiao quickly answered: “Even though your mother is mad, she still has a bit of her mind left in her. Look at her actions and words, they are pure and sincere, this is her inner heart. As long as you do not go against her wishes, in time, her condition will not aggravate, her mind will grow and recover.”
“After that, with my healing, she will definitely be able to recover, there is still hope!”
Wu Xiao shouted for his life, in order to live, he did not give up any opportunities.
Bam.
Le Tu threw Wu Xiao to the ground.
“Ah—!” Le Tu raised his head to the sky and shouted in pain and agony.
His two enemies were right in front of him, they were completely defenseless, but he could not take revenge!
For the sake of his mother, he had to follow her wishes.
“Fine, for my mother’s sake, I will spare you two today.” Le Tu gritted his teeth, he used so much force that his teeth were bleeding.
The dream realm ended here.
Meng Qiu Zhen’s soul returned to his body, he sighed deeply to himself.
“To think that Paradise Earth had such an arduous and difficult life.”
“Heroes often experience difficulties beyond an ordinary man.”
“No wonder he had no hair in the depiction of his appearance that was left behind in history. But that green beast tattoo is also gone.”
“Paradise Earth is actually the mixed blood of human and mushroomman? How did he become venerable?”
“After that, did he manage to save his mother?”
“When he was still young, he had a rash temper and deep killing intent, he was no different from any other person. How did he end up being the person he was?”
The dream realm gave Meng Qiu Zhen many questions.
And they could not be answered for now.
But the fact was that his attainment level had risen.
Fang Yuan’s earth path attainment level jumped to great grandmaster!
Not only that, his poison path attainment also rose to great grandmaster.
Before this, Fang Yuan’s poison path attainment level was at grandmaster. This dream realm that Paradise Earth left behind contained the true meaning of both earth path and poison path.
Fang Yuan took a risk to raise his dream path clone into an immortal, the gains were quite apparent now.
Not only were food path, poison path, and earth path elevated to great grandmaster, even luck path and ice and snow path were grandmaster now. Space path, metal path, wind path, cloud path, lightning path, information path, light path, and dark path were also at master level.
After passing Paradise Earth’s dream realm, he only had a few dream realms left.
Before the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan would definitely be able to use up all of these dream realms.
At this moment, he had basically no weakness in most cultivation paths. However, painting path, weapon path, and pill path were still blank.
This could not be helped.
These paths did not exist in any of Spectral Soul’s dream realms.
This might be part of Spectral Soul’s plan, or maybe even he did not have attainment in those paths. After all, they were produced after Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s era. Meanwhile, painting path was kept in the hands of Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, he did not let any information leak out, it was even more secretive than Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s luck path inheritance.
Moreover, a portion of Spectral Soul’s dream realms were taken by Feng Jin Huang while pursuing Fang Yuan.
But she obtained very few dream realms.
It was not worth it for Fang Yuan to take them back.
After all, Feng Jin Huang had immense luck.
After becoming an earth path great grandmaster, Fang Yuan immediately started to modify the details of his earth vein project, he saved a lot of cost and reduced the time needed for it.
“Looking at the time, Ke Xin Hong should have already arrived in Southern Border’s Wu clan and met with Wu Yong?”
Fang Yuan counted and planned.
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Chapter 2151: Refining Gu in Exchange for Famous Mountains
Southern Border.
Wu Yi Mountain, Wu clan’s headquarters.
In a hall.
Ke Xin Hong had a faint smile as he greeted politely: “Ke Xin Hong pays respects to Wu clan’s first supreme elder.”
Wu Yong sat and smiled: “Esteemed envoy, no need to be so polite.”
Ke Xin Hong spoke openly and straightforwardly: “I came here with fan wind Gu, it has already been refined and raised successfully. Please do examine it now.”
Wu Yong could not help but feel surprised: “So quickly? Does Fang Yuan have a method to refine fake Immortal Gu, is he here to scam me?”
He received it and checked thoroughly, there were no flaws at all.
“It is a genuine rank eight Immortal Gu. But how can Fang Yuan refine a rank eight Immortal Gu in such a short period of time?” Thinking of this, Wu Yong was uncertain again.
In his mind, Fang Yuan’s main traits were craftiness, viciousness, shamelessness, unscrupulous, and ruthlessness. This number one demon in the world could not be assessed using common sense.
“Envoy, please hold on, our Wu clan Gu Immortal will come and check it.” Wu Yong answered.
Wu clan had their own refinement path Gu refinements, but they were not strong.
Wu clan was not specialized in refinement path, they were best at wind path. Not only in Southern Border, even in the five regions, Wu clan was first rate in wind path.
After a few minutes, Wu Yong received information that rank eight fan wind Gu was the real thing, it could not be fake.
Wu Yong had a complex emotion.
Immortal Gu were unique, because rank eight Immortal Gu were too hard to refine, they had an extremely important significance!
Ordinary rank eight Gu Immortals did not even have one rank eight Immortal Gu. For example, Old Ancestor Xue Hu lost everything that he had worked to accumulate for many years on Snowy Mountain blessed land after trying to refine fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu.
Of course, this was because his ambitions clashed with Heavenly Court’s and Longevity Heaven’s benefits.
“Even though the world has been changing in the last few years, with the movement of earth veins and rampaging of qi tides, a vast amount of immortal materials surfaced, it will likely cause a large increase in rank eight Immortal Gu. But for ordinary rank eight Gu Immortals, especially the lone immortals, they will still face problems getting one rank eight Immortal Gu.”
“To think that my Wu clan has gained a new rank eight Immortal Gu.”
Wu Yong was happy but also gained increasing wariness regarding Fang Yuan.
“Even though I know that Fang Yuan had annexed Lang Ya Sect, it is still hard to believe that his refinement path ability has become so incredible, it feels like he had an easy time refining a rank eight fan wind Gu with no problems encountered at all.”
On the other hand, Ke Xin Hong added: “Since you have checked it, which two Immortal Gu does your clan want to refine next? I can bring them both back next time.”
Wu Yong became hesitant.
Should he pass the seven-faced prestige wind Gu to Ke Xin Hong?
If he could refine eight-faced prestige wind Gu, Wu Yong would gain a huge boost in strength. But precisely so, seven-faced prestige wind Gu was extremely important.
If he gave it to Fang Yuan and the latter snatched it, what would he do?
“Come to think of it, there are many options.” At this moment, Wu Yong felt that three chances were too few. He would want nothing more than to raise all of Wu clan’s Immortal Gu to rank eight!
“To think that you acted so quickly, I am quite spoiled for choice at the moment, I need to think about it carefully. Envoy, why don’t you stay here and give me three days to consider?” Wu Yong asked.
Wu Ba Chong heard this and added, urging Ke Xin Hong: “Speaking of which, this is the third time you’ve come to Wu clan, let us host you and bring you around.”
“Alright.” Ke Xin Hong smiled lightly: “I do like Wu clan’s style a lot, I’ll trouble you with my stay. As for first supreme elder’s considerations, I understand. In fact, I have been tasked with another mission, I wonder if your clan would like to undergo another transaction with us?”
“What transaction?” Wu Yong became alert.
He thought of the secluded domain of heaven and earth Hu Land, it was akin to a quasi-rank nine Immortal Gu, but Fang Yuan forcefully bought it.
Thinking of this, Wu Yong felt a slight heartache again.
Ke Xin Hong explained the details while Wu Yong fell into contemplation.
Wu Ba Chong shouted in shock: “What? Fang Yuan wants to dig away our Wu clan’s famous mountains? In return, he will refine rank eight Immortal Gu for our Wu clan?”
“Precisely.” Ke Xin Hong nodded.
Wu Ba Chong snickered: “How can that be? Any famous mountain is a large resource point at least. Most of them are giant resource points, a select few are super resource points, they can produce rank eight immortal materials! Even though you can refine rank eight Immortal Gu, you are still using our Immortal Gu as the foundation to raise their rank, you are not giving us additional Immortal Gu.”
“Furthermore, Immortal Gu are hard to feed, rank eight Immortal Gu are too. Even if they are refined, they will expend our resources. Yet, famous mountains are able to produce resources continuously, they will almost never dry out. You want to take our famous mountains, you are trying to cripple our foundation, what intentions do you have, what schemes are you up to?!”
Towards the end, Wu Ba Chong was basically screaming in anger.
But Ke Xin Hong was prepared for this, he spoke calmly: “Not so, not so at all. Elder Wu Ba Chong, you are too pessimistic about this. Think about it carefully, your clan has just gotten many Gu Immortal seeds to undergo immortal ascension recently, but you only gained six new immortals, with most of them being external members.”
“Even with more Gu Immortals, Wu clan’s territory is too big, you cannot defend it. Since that is the case, you might as well sell some territories. In that case, not only would Wu clan have higher ranked Immortal Gu, you will even have sufficient manpower.”
“Furthermore.” Ke Xin Hong continued: “Immortal Gu are unique, I am sure Elder Wu Ba Chong knows how priceless rank eight Immortal Gu are. Immortal materials can be sold and bought, but can Immortal Gu be easily bought? They are unique, they can only be traded. Even if treasure yellow heaven is the number one market in the world, let me ask you, how many Immortal Gu have been traded in it over these years?”
“The five regions are now one, the five regions chaotic war cannot be avoided. Gu Immortal battle strength is the most important thing, you can only consider the rest after having sufficient strength to defend yourself. A rank eight Immortal Gu can cause your clan’s strength to rise sharply, not only can you protect yourself, you can invade others and gain a huge amount of wealth in war.”
“This…” Wu Ba Chong hesitated.
Ke Xin Hong looked at Wu Ba Chong, he cast a secretive glance at Wu Yong without showing any signs, continuing to convince them.
“Human Smoke Mountain is Chai clan’s headquarters, they sold it to us recently.”
“What? There is such a thing?” Wu Ba Chong was stunned.
Ke Xin Hong did not elaborate further, he took a step back: “If Wu clan does not want this trade, we will not force you. This time, other than bringing back Immortal Gu for refinement, I also need to find other clans and undergo this trade with them.”
Wu Ba Chong’s expression changed mildly.
If Wu clan did not deal with Fang Yuan but the other clans did, their battle strength would surge instead.
Even if they give up on resources now and lose future potential, what if they decide to expand through invasion?
By then, if Wu clan refuses to work with Fang Yuan, their battle strength would be surpassed by other clans, by then, Wu clan would fall from their throne of the number one Southern Border force, they would be bullied by others.
Wu Yong tapped on the table with his finger as he fell into deep thought.
“Fang Yuan is so domineering even when doing business, he gives others no way of rejecting!”
“However, even though Ke Xin Hong is trying to convince us, he is not wrong about it.”
“This trade is sensible, but we need to control the extent of our dealing!”
At almost the same time, in Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
“Gan Ni pays respects to master!” Earth Extremity of the Eight Extremities knelt before Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
Earth Extremity Gan Ni was a female immortal, she cultivated earth path and refinement path, her refinement path attainment was quite deep.
At this moment, she held four rank eight Immortal Gu and handed them over respectfully.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun inspected them for some time and felt pleased: “Gan Ni, you are our Longevity Heaven’s refinement path expert indeed. Since the fate war until now, you received my orders and refined four rank eight Immortal Gu, you have made a huge contribution.”
Gan Ni quickly answered: “It was all thanks to master’s luck path methods, otherwise, with just my mere talent, we could not have refined so many rank eight Immortal Gu in these few years. But because of that, Longevity Heaven’s luck fell greatly…”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun interrupted her as he waved his hand: “In this world, there are losses where there are gains. To refine these Immortal Gu, luck expenditure was a necessary investment.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun took one of these four Immortal Gu and observed it carefully in front of him.
This Gu had a peculiar shape, it was cubic and resembled a wooden box.
This was imitation Gu, it was eighth place on the List of Mystical Gu, originating from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable!
If one placed this Gu with any Immortal Gu in the world together for some time, the Gu cultivator could activate imitation Gu to turn itself into that Immortal Gu.
Immortal Gu were unique, but imitation Gu could bypass this logic to some extent. However, the imitated Gu could not compare to the real one in power.
Back then, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable asked Heavenly Court for human qi Immortal Gu and failed.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable took another path, refining imitation Gu and turning it into human qi Immortal Gu. Next, with this ‘human qi Immortal Gu’ as the core, he established Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Other than this imitation Gu, the other three rank eight Immortal Gu were all blood path Immortal Gu!
Divine Emperor City.
Light flickered, the ten children of human path came out of the painting world, returning to the real world.
“We… are finally back.”
“It is a pity that we did not manage to take down those two new paintings.”
“We were nurtured by Heavenly Court but the time is up, we needed to leave.”
“What are you worried about? Even though we did not take it down entirely, the situation has been set. There are so many beast tamers in the painting world, even cultivators have appeared. Moreover, with the deep foundation that we created, there is no chance of failure.”
“That’s true.”
After the ten children of human path conversed for some time, their sect’s Gu Immortals arrived to bring them back.
Qin Ding Ling and the rest concealed their traces, watching the scene unfold before them.
“These ten people are the human path immortal seeds of our Heavenly Court. Regardless of the results from this Crazed Demon Cave expedition, we need to nurture these people, invest fully in them!” Qin Ding Ling announced.
“Yes, madam.” The Gu Immortal in charge listened to Qin Ding Ling’s words and engraved it in his mind.
“Let’s go.” Qin Ding Ling turned around and said to Genesis Lotus’ will.
Genesis Lotus’ will nodded.
At the next moment, Divine Emperor City moved, the huge city flew up again, heading straight from Central Continent with unparalleled momentum.
The target was Crazed Demon Cave!
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Chapter 2152: Earth Vein’s Initial Formation
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Several variant human men gathered into a circle, they were busily engaging in an important business.
“Slowly, slowly.”
“Guys, relax a little, don’t be so anxious.”
“Faster, faster, I can’t endure it anymore.”
Bam.
A loud sound was heard.
A gigantic hill landed on the ground.
This hill was not tall, it did not have clear waters of beautiful vegetation, there were mostly dust rocks and iron cloud stones on the mountain, causing it to look grey in most areas.
And most amazingly, this entire hill was completely silent.
Even though there were many life forms, when Gu Immortals spoke here, no sound could be transmitted unless they used specific methods.
This was silent hill.
It had the same reputation as Western Desert’s anti-sound desert, famous in the world. Any sound path killer move used here would be greatly weakened and suppressed.
Silent hill was a famous mountain in Southern Border, but because it produced little resources, it had not been very useful to anyone.
This time, Fang Yuan sent envoys all over the place to negotiate in transactions.
Silent hill was sold to Fang Yuan as a result, these variant human Gu Immortals moved in groups, they were in charge of moving silent hill back into a specific location of the sovereign immortal aperture.
But relocation was just the first step, next, they had to develop its mountain roots.
The one in charge of this was a rockman Gu Immortal.
He activated a method as silent hill’s mountain roots began to grow rapidly, stabbing into the surrounding environment.
“Deeper, go deeper!” The leader instructed as he suddenly sighed: “Sigh, why did you stop? Are you finished so quickly?”
The rockman Gu Immortal said impatiently: “Say, leader, can you keep quiet? I want to go deeper too, but I only have rank seven cultivation level. This is a famous mountain, it is very exhausting to influence and manipulate its mountain roots!”
But the leader said: “That’s why I said you need to work harder. Your cultivation level is too low, when will you become a rank eight?”
The rockman Gu Immortal rolled his eyes: “Boss, I was still rank six some time ago, I only went to pass the tribulation and reached rank seven because of our master. I also want to reach rank eight, but that is just too difficult.”
The other Gu Immortals quickly spoke.
“Leader is right, in our group, you’re the only one that can deal with the mountain roots, allowing them to grow thick and long. If you were stronger, we would complete our mission to a greater extent, we would receive better rewards as well.”
“You are in charge of the mountain veins, your contribution is the highest among us!”
“I heard that you went to sleep recently?”
“I have not slept in two months, I have been doing mountain relocation missions the entire time.”
“Master has such grand ambitions and inspirations, he is managing a project to create artificial earth veins. But this plan will eventually be completed, aren’t we grabbing onto this chance when it is available to us? Look at the other groups, the more missions they complete, the fewer we will have for ourselves.”
The other Gu Immortals stared at the rockman Gu Immortal, they had a look of expectation and disappointment.
The rockman Gu Immortal was very helpless: “Don’t you guys know? We rockmen have no lack of sleep in our lives. Because our bodies are too heavy, it is a huge burden on our soul. We need to sleep to pacify our soul.”
“Then use the liver life formation!”
“I already used it.”
“On master’s contribution board, aren’t there soul path methods to raise your soul foundation?”
“But I cultivate earth path, soul path methods are less effective on me. Instead of using my contribution points on them, I might as well raise my earth path attainment instead.”
The leader gritted his teeth: “Stop arguing, let’s pool our funds and help our little rockman brother. Let’s gather some points and raise his soul foundation.”
The other Gu Immortals agreed together.
Right now, the rockman Gu Immortal was their group’s weakness, if he got stronger, the entire group would benefit from it.
Fang Yuan handed out all sorts of missions, they were created after wisdom path deductions, their contents were simple but they had deep meaning.
Be it the difficulty of the mission or the content itself, Gu Immortals often had to cooperate with others, it was hard to do any mission alone.
This gave the Gu Immortals of various races a chance to work together intimately.
After a long period of cooperation, they naturally developed camaraderie and friendship.
Thus, within the entire sovereign immortal aperture, all the different tribes and races were seamlessly fusing together into one big community.
Humans, rockmen, feathermen, inkmen, snowmen, and others, they were all working together, contributing blood and sweat for the sake of building their wonderful homeland.
“Excellent, silent hill has been relocated already. All the famous mountains are distributed around the mini five regions, the most basic requirement has been met, we can now start developing the earth vein.”
Fang Yuan had been paying huge attention to the famous mountain relocation plan.
After seeing the situation over at silent hill, he started to take action personally.
In order to construct the earth vein, he had already created many immortal formations in the important areas of the mini five regions.
At this moment, Fang Yuan willed as immortal essence was expended, the immortal formations started to activate on their own.
The ground of the mini five regions was shaking with greater intensity as time passed.
The variant humans living in the various areas were lost and confused, while some showed expressions of joy.
“What is happening? Is there another earthquake?” Most of the mortal Gu Masters did not understand the situation.
“Master has started to take action. Oh heavens, he is affecting the entire mini five regions in one go, this is truly a huge project!” The Gu Immortals sensed the situation, they all felt intense joy and also deeper admiration towards Fang Yuan.
Rumble…
The ground continued to rumble but the extent was not too severe, there was not much loss from this.
An earth vein started to form in a chain due to the effect of the Gu formations in various areas, using the famous mountains as its various nodes.
This earth vein crossed through the mini five regions, it was present in Mini Eastern Sea, Mini Central Continent, Mini Northern Plains, Mini Southern Border, and Mini Western Desert.
If one looked from above, this earth vein would resemble an irregular geometric shape, the lines were very clear and simple, it barely covered the area of half the mini five regions.
The earth vein was successfully constructed, the ground returned to normal.
The immortal formations of various places came to a halt, they were basically fueled by immortal materials that were almost completely expended, the formations were now incomplete and could not be used again.
Fang Yuan started to carefully assess the outcome.
He was very patient and thorough, after some time, he nodded in satisfaction.
It had gone according to plan, the entire earth vein was created perfectly, no flaws could be observed.
Of course, this had to do with the simple design of the artificial earth vein, it was simply too crude.
The truth was, the hardest part of the artificial earth vein project was not the creation of the earth vein. The problem was the way to gather enough famous mountains to use as the nodes of the various regions’ earth vein.
The second hardest thing was the method to create an artificial earth vein.
“The earth vein is completed in its initial state, it is quite crude now and does not have an immediate impact on the entire sovereign immortal aperture. In fact, it might even cause problems to occur frequently during this initial period, but after some time when things go back to normal, the sovereign immortal aperture will become more stable than before!”
Fang Yuan estimated in his mind, he withdrew his attention from the sovereign immortal aperture and used Cooking Luck Pot to inspect his luck again.
With one glance, Fang Yuan’s eyes shined, joy was expressed in his gaze.
The creation of his artificial earth vein had a huge effect on his luck.
His luck was originally a grand pillar of silver light, but it was quite loose like cloud soil, it could scatter with one touch.
Now, even though the silver pillar was smaller, it became more condensed.
This was quite an assuring development.
“But the luck of the other venerables has also grown stronger.” Fang Yuan frowned to himself.
At the top of the silver light pillar, three clouds were looming over it, they represented Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, and Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
Star Constellation’s cloud was still in control of the first level, it had expanded slightly.
Spectral Soul was at the second level, while Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was at the third.
But there was an odd scene now, Star Constellation’s cloud seemed to be devouring Spectral Soul’s cloud.
This scene was quite confusing to Fang Yuan, he had many guesses in his mind but he was not certain about anything.
There was also another transformation.
At the bottom of the silver light pillar, yellow-brown dust started to spin around it again. This earthy dust moved around the silver light pillar, seemingly stabilizing it.
Through luck inspection, Fang Yuan confirmed that the artificial earth vein plan was very useful to himself, he became even more resolved to continue this plan.
“But after getting an earth vein, I can no longer use myriad beings assimilation transformation.” Fang Yuan reminded himself.
Myriad beings assimilation transformation killer move was the ultimate method of Beast Calamity Immortal, it contained the highest profundity of transformation path, able to turn dao marks of all other paths into transformation path dao marks. It could even influence heaven path dao marks, thus all sorts of tribulations could turn into beast calamities.
Fang Yuan’s main body could not use it anymore.
This move that transformed dao marks had a huge effect on the sovereign immortal aperture’s habitat.
Fang Yuan had a terrifying number of dao marks now, ignoring anything else, just refinement path dao marks alone amounted to over six million. If these six million dao marks suddenly turned into another path’s dao marks, the sovereign immortal aperture would not be able to adapt to the change.
By then, a huge issue would occur in the environment, the terrifying tribulation that occurs would have unimaginable consequences!
For example, it was like a fish swimming in water but the water turned into lava, it was easy to guess the outcome of the fish.
In the past, when Fang Yuan used myriad beings assimilation transformation, the sovereign immortal aperture’s development was still quite low, there were very few life forms inside. At that time, he also had far fewer dao marks.
If he used myriad beings assimilation transformation now, there would be too many dao marks transformed, it could not be done. But if he transformed fewer dao marks instead, against venerables, it would not have any purpose in combat.
Immortal killer move — Heaven and Earth Travel!
At the next moment, Fang Yuan’s main body went from Eastern Sea to Southern Border.
A tall mountain peered into the clouds, frost energy emanated from it, its mountain roots were cut already, Fang Yuan was here to retrieve it after the preparations were done.
This was Frosty Peak.
Back then, Fang Yuan disguised as Wu Yi Hai and sneaked into Wu clan, he had gotten into conflict with Xia clan over this mountain.
Frosty Peak was a famous mountain of course, it produced ice and snow path resources. However, the originally white and beautiful Frosty Peak was now littered with holes all over as a result of excessive excavation, not only was it ugly, the production of resources was also affected.
Thus, this Frosty Peak was sold to Fang Yuan by Wu clan.
At this moment, there were many Gu Immortals surrounding Frosty Peak.
Other than the variant human Gu Immortals that Fang Yuan dispatched, Wu clan’s Gu Immortals were here as well, Wu Yong was among them.
“Fang Yuan, have you been well?” Wu Yong took the initiative to greet him, showing a complex expression at the same time.
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Chapter 2153: Lord Fang Yuan, Time to Get Going!
Wu Yong wanted to meet Fang Yuan personally.
If the pursuit of Fang Yuan had just ended, Wu Yong would not dare to get close to him at all.
Fang Yuan was the number one demon in the world, Wu Yong would not dare to approach him, there was a threat of getting killed.
It was too dangerous!
But now was different.
Fang Yuan had an entire series of methods for foreign affairs, he engaged in transactions with many major forces without using brute strength.
The initial effect might be small but after so long, super forces like Wu clan, Fang clan, and Chai clan could see that Fang Yuan was someone who could work with principles and rules.
After these super forces reassessed Fang Yuan, they decided to work with him.
It was not easy to reach this stage.
Would a rabbit have the guts to make transactions with a wolf?
“But this man in front of me achieved this feat.” Wu Yong looked at Fang Yuan while feeling complicated internally.
Wu Yong was a current generation hero, his talent and aptitude were top rate even among rank eight Gu Immortals. Seeing Fang Yuan’s actions these days, even Wu Yong sighed to himself as he developed feelings of admiration.
Having strength but not abusing it or bullying the weak casually, this was not something easy to achieve. On the surface, this seemed like the demeanor of someone with self-control and an understanding that one could not abuse their advantage or they would eventually falter. But the truth was, he was unaffected by greed or ambition, his logic had always suppressed other emotions.
In the current world, no, throughout time, throughout the history of mankind, how many people could reach this stage?
Fang Yuan could even make these weaker forces undergo transactions with him without worries. Initially, there was only Wu clan, but Wu Yong soon found that almost all super forces were transacting with him, they sold some useless famous mountains in exchange for the chance to refine rank eight Immortal Gu.
This was not easy.
It showed that Fang Yuan had incredible interpersonal skills.
Be it through threatening or temptation, even if he used other methods, the result was that he succeeded.
“Fang Yuan is truly an incredible person! Even though he started from the demonic path, his mannerism and mindset has never been restrained by shallow ideas like factions.”
“He can be righteous or demonic, he can either help the world or cause chaos in the world, everything depends on the methods he adopt. Even throughout history, such a demon is truly the most terrifying.”
“Being born in the same generation as this person is also my blessing.”
Wu Yong was wary of Fang Yuan, he had felt disappointment and rage because of Fang Yuan, but he had also gained morale and inspiration, he even saw the beauty of life because of Fang Yuan.
Because from Fang Yuan, he saw himself, it was a testament to his own ideals.
He had too many similarities with Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan’s series of actions during this period allowed Wu Yong to see Fang Yuan’s vision, he knew that Fang Yuan was someone who saw ten steps ahead of each action.
“Since everyone’s opinions and actions have changed because of Fang Yuan, why can’t I try to cooperate even more deeply with him?” After losing Hu Land, Wu Yong developed this thought.
What to do with an enemy you could not beat?
The best way was to cooperate with them, to turn from enemies to allies!
Cooperating with Fang Yuan had huge potential for gains, it was very helpful to Wu clan.
Wu Yong was someone with high restraint, but he also had the honor of the righteous path.
Except that the honor of an ambitionist like him was worth less than a piece of paper. As long as the benefits were high enough, Wu Yong could tear this paper into pieces with no second thought.
Thus, Wu Yong took the initiative to come and meet with Fang Yuan personally, he wanted to talk and try to see if he could deepen their cooperation!
Seeing Wu Yong, Fang Yuan also revealed a faint smile.
Wu Yong had once chased after his life, but so what?
If you can kill me, that is testament to your strength! This is a world where the strongest survive, if I die because of you, that is because I am weak, it is my own lack of capability, it is my fault!
The weak were devoured by the strong, was this not a natural thing?
Thus, in Fang Yuan’s heart, he had never felt any pointless hatred or grudge.
Wu Yong came here of his own accord, his intention to cooperate was obvious, then let’s cooperate!
For Fang Yuan, working with Wu clan had benefits and gains too.
Wu Yong was the leader of the Southern Alliance, while Wu clan was the number one super force in Southern Border. They would become a role model for other forces if they chose to cooperate.
Like how Fang Yuan traded with other forces for famous mountains, he had used Wu clan’s transaction records to tempt them.
But just when Fang Yuan was about to talk with Wu Yong, a Gu Immortal flew over in the sky.
This Gu Immortal was dressed in a grey hemp garment and conical hat, he had a muscular body and a chin that was wide and thick, it was Lu Wei Yin.
He had always been calm and composed, but now, he showed an anxious expression.
Lu Wei Yin saw Fang Yuan and shouted from afar: “Lord Fang Yuan, I finally found you!”
“What’s the matter?” Fang Yuan smiled.
Lu Wei Yin flew towards Fang Yuan, casting a glance at Wu Yong but not greeting him.
Wu Yong became quite curious, he had never seen Lu Wei Yin in such a frantic state.
Lu Wei Yin spoke directly in front of Fang Yuan: “Lord Fang Yuan, do you know that yesterday, Divine Emperor City brought Heavenly Court’s immortals from Central Continent straight towards Northern Plains’ Crazed Demon Cave!”
“Oh?” Fang Yuan’s expression moved slightly.
Lu Wei Yin continued: “Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has likely revived, if she joins up with Heavenly Court, they will be able to work together, Crazed Demon Cave’s situation will be very dangerous. There is no time, we need to head there immediately and take control of the situation!”
“What?” Wu Yong heard this and felt incredibly shocked.
What in the world was going on?
Why were Heavenly Court and Crazed Demon Cave involved in something?
Wu Yong was very perceptive, he immediately realized that this was an incredibly important fight. Regardless of the result, it would definitely affect the entire Gu Immortal world, as well as the five regions and two heavens!
But Fang Yuan was not anxious, he consoled Lu Wei Yin: “Your information network is really broad. But don’t worry, don’t be anxious, I still have matters to settle.”
Saying this, Fang Yuan used a method to put Frosty Peak into the sovereign immortal aperture.
“How can I not be anxious?” Lu Wei Yin took off his hat as he stared with wide eyes, urging: “We are going against Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven, the location is also Limitless Demon Venerable’s Crazed Demon Cave, as well as that secluded domain of heaven and earth, Primordial Domain. Lord Fang Yuan, we cannot lose our initiative in this fight.”
“What? What? Heavenly Court, Longevity Heaven… Limitless Demon Venerable… and Primordial Domain? The secluded domain of heaven and earth recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]?” Wu Yong had more and more questions in his mind, he felt more anxious as well.
He wanted to know everything.
Fang Yuan had a solemn expression: “I know that you want to make contributions, I’ve already promised you. If Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable wants to revive, I will help you. But I have my own judgment towards the situation, if I do not use my time to strengthen myself, how can I go up against the venerables? There is no need to rush me any further.”
“This…” Lu Wei Yin pondered without speaking further.
Fang Yuan turned to Wu Yong as he smiled again: “Wu Yong, regarding the sale of famous mountains, I think we can expand the scale of transactions. For example, Moon Bowl, Corpse Mountain, Phoenix Peak, or Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian, and others.”
Wu Yong showed a difficult expression: “These famous mountains have higher value than Frosty Peak. The true value of Phoenix Peak is that phoenixes will gather every year to lay eggs. If you take the mountain, it might not have great value anymore.”
“As for Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian or Corpse Mountain, they are things that Wu clan needs. Not long ago, we obtained the enslavement path true inheritance of the Corpse Emperor, we are trying to develop and use it, these two mountains are not for sale.”
“As for Moon Bowl, as long as the price is reasonable, we can consider selling it.”
Wu Yong spoke with a sincere tone but his mind was wandering elsewhere.
He had been anticipating this conversation for a long time. But because of Lu Wei Yin’s words earlier, Wu Yong’s attention was drawn away to the issue instead.
Fang Yuan negotiated with Wu Yong for some time, Lu Wei Yin was left unattended beside them.
Fang Yuan truly needed more famous mountains now.
Even though the earlier transactions were helpful, they were mostly useless mountains. But if Wu clan led the transaction, this huge deal between Fang Yuan and Southern Border’s super forces could go one step further.
After the discussion, Fang Yuan waved his sleeves: “Alright, I’ll see you both another time.”
Lu Wei Yin stretched out his hand: “Lord Fang Yuan…”
Before leaving, Fang Yuan cast a cold glance at him: “I have other matters to attend to.”
Lu Wei Yin could not speak any of the words that he had bottled up inside.
At the next moment, heaven and earth travel was activated, Fang Yuan vanished on the spot.
He really had things to do.
This time, he went to Rotten Mud Mountain and took the mountain.
“Sigh!” Lu Wei Yin sighed deeply to himself.
Wu Yong smiled: “We have not met for some time. Why don’t we…”
Lu Wei Yin waved his hand: “Wu Yong, I have matters to attend to, when I am free, I will definitely visit Wu Yi Mountain.”
Saying so, Lu Wei Yin left.
He did not have the mood to explain things to Wu Yong.
Wu Yong also had a bunch of bottled up questions, he felt horrible internally.
He immediately turned his gaze towards the variant human Gu Immortals that were present.
His smile did not change, he asked these people.
But what did these variant human Gu Immortals know?
The leader replied calmly: “Without master’s permission, how can us subordinates speak out of line? Please do not blame us, Lord Wu Yong, we need to continue moving the mountains.”
Wu Yong was helpless as he watched these people leave.
Even though he spoke to Fang Yuan and achieved his original goal, Wu Yong could not be happy.
He sensed acutely that he was starting to get left behind by Fang Yuan and others. He had no idea what was going on in Crazed Demon Cave, for example.
“No wonder Fang Yuan is trying to work with the major forces… Star Constellation Immortal Venerable revived? One can only imagine the pressure he is facing.”
“Maybe I should use this to haggle for more conditions with Fang Yuan?”
After understanding Fang Yuan’s difficulties, Wu Yong started to develop some thoughts.
“Wait.” His eyes burst with bright light: “Lu Wei Yin could have transmitted those words to Fang Yuan, why did he speak in front of me purposely? It is likely that I can gain more information by asking him. He rejected me earlier to try to raise his status and get a higher price.”
Wu Yong smiled bitterly internally.
He knew that if he contacted Lu Wei Yin now, he would be extorted by the latter.
But if he did not ask for information, how could he know if there was a chance to benefit from this situation?
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Chapter 2154: Looting Everything
Immemorial white heaven.
Intense winds blew, Fang Yuan’s hair fluttered in the wind as a result.
After preparation, he activated his killer move.
A rank eight earth path grotto-heaven was devoured by the sovereign immortal aperture under Fang Yuan’s method.
Like what he did earlier, Fang Yuan did not annex this grotto-heaven wholly, he chose to split it into different portions and placed them into the sovereign immortal aperture’s various areas.
Of course, because this was a rockman earth path grotto-heaven, most of it landed in the mini five regions, only a small portion ended up in the mini nine heavens.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
As profound light faded, a mountain range appeared in Mini Central Continent out of nowhere.
“It’s here, it’s here, our tribe’s Myriad Ravine Mountain Range!” Shi San Bai was incredibly excited.
“Yes, this is our former Sacred Mountain, but now that it is inside the sovereign immortal aperture, it has become quite ordinary.” Shi Gua Bi had a complex expression, he felt dejected but also happy.
These few rockman Gu Immortals gathered together for this moment.
They were the Gu Immortals of this former grotto-heaven, but they were sent into Fang Yuan’s sovereign immortal aperture in advance.
During this period of time, their cultivation levels rose rapidly, they also gained many Immortal Gu. They were simply on a whole new level than before.
“Let’s go, let’s go in.” The rockman Gu Immortals flew into Myriad Ravine Mountain Range.
“Greetings to supreme ancestor!”
“The ancestors have finally returned!!!”
Myriad Ravine Mountain Range still had a large number of rockman Gu Masters, after seeing the rockman Gu Immortals, they cheered loudly.
“Indeed, this is our new home.”
“We have a bright future living here.”
After the rockman Gu Immortals gave them a speech, they started to take action.
They had missions to do.
This Myriad Ravine Mountain Range was a famous mountain too, it was going to be one of the cores of an earth vein.
Fang Yuan spent several hours annexing this earth path grotto-heaven, during the process, certain changes developed in various places across the sovereign immortal aperture.
In Star Collection City, Combat Beast King held the fort as he observed the commotions in the sovereign immortal aperture along with other Gu Immortals.
“During this period of time, master annexed several grotto-heavens and caused the dao marks to rise in number. It can be expected that the various areas of the sovereign immortal aperture will have increasing commotion over time, with rising intensity.”
“Isn’t this good? The more incidents there are, the more missions we have to do.”
“Sigh, when will our tribe’s grotto-heaven be annexed by master?”
The Gu Immortals talked among themselves, feeling expectant towards their future prospects.
Their mindsets had already changed drastically.
In the past, they were against Fang Yuan annexing their grotto-heavens, but now the situation was different, they looked forward to it. It was as if they could not gain their master’s acknowledgement if their grotto-heaven had not been annexed. Many Gu Immortals who had their immortal apertures annexed felt that they were a true part of the sovereign immortal aperture, they felt superior to the Gu Immortals of the two heavens.
“Lord Fang Yuan, Lord Fang Yuan!” Lu Wei Yin shouted.
He flew over from afar.
Fang Yuan turned around and smiled: “It has been tough on you, you came all the way here to immemorial white heaven.”
Lu Wei Yin smiled bitterly, he said in an urgent tone: “Lord Fang Yuan, you must know why I came here. Let’s set off now, do you know that yesterday, a rank eight Immortal Gu House flew from immemorial black heaven to Crazed Demon Cave.”
Fang Yuan nodded: “Many people saw that, the Immortal Gu House should be the one that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left behind, Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, right?”
“Indeed.” Lu Wei Yin nodded continuously, staring at Fang Yuan: “Right now, Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court have moved. If we still do not start taking action, we are going to lose this prime opportunity.”
Fang Yuan nodded: “Fine, let’s go.”
“Really?” Lu Wei Yin heard the answer he wanted, but he could not believe it.
These last days, he had used information path methods to urge Fang Yuan to go, but he kept on refusing it.
To think that Fang Yuan was actually going to move now.
“Can I confirm when Lord Fang Yuan will go?” Lu Wei Yin was still in disbelief.
Fang Yuan smiled: “How about now?”
Lu Wei Yin was overjoyed: “Lord Fang Yuan is truly resolute, that is the best answer, let’s go, let’s go!”
The truth was, Fang Yuan had already decided to go to Crazed Demon Cave now.
He had already used up all of the dream realms, his attainment levels rose accordingly.
Quasi-supreme grandmaster: refinement path, time path, enslavement path.
Great grandmaster: theft path, transformation path, rule path, qi path, fire path, wisdom path, water path, earth path, poison path.
Grandmaster: blood path, strength path, star path, dark path, formation path, soul path, sword path, human path, wood path, food path, phantom path, luck path, ice and snow path.
Master: dream path, space path, metal path, wind path, cloud path, lightning path, information path, light path, sound path.
As for the remaining paths like bone path, they were not at master level yet, but he still had some progress. Heaven path was the same.
Even though he did not reach Spectral Soul’s level, Fang Yuan’s attainment levels were already top rate in the current world. Be it breadth or depth, he could be considered the number one person in the world!
After all, Spectral Soul lost his attainment levels after leaving behind the dream realms, while Star Constellation and Giant Sun would not retain their supreme grandmaster attainment levels even if they revived now.
Of course, he still had insufficiencies.
For example, painting path, weapon path, and others, they were completely blank.
These paths were just too rare, painting path was intentionally concealed by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, while weapon path was crudely created by Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortal Che Wei recently.
With the rise of attainment level, Fang Yuan could annex more grotto-heavens, the sovereign immortal aperture reached its limit once again.
If there was some time to digest the new gains, the sovereign immortal aperture would become more stable.
But there was neither time nor opportunity.
Through luck inspection, Fang Yuan found that the situation had worsened again, even though there was still leeway, it had clearly gotten quite severe.
With a resolute decision, Fang Yuan immediately went to Northern Plains with Lu Wei Yin.
Ever since that pursuit battle over Fang Yuan ended, he had already used all his time to the limit, recuperating and raising his strength as much as he could.
Now, it was time to face the venerables head on!
Years had passed, Fang Yuan returned to Crazed Demon Cave again.
Initially, when he first came here, he only had rank seven cultivation level and was restricted by an alliance agreement.
Now, he looked down towards Crazed Demon Cave, ready to engage in battle with venerables.
The first layer of Crazed Demon Cave was a huge land of yellow soil.
This was a huge cave, it was almost circular at the entrance, spanning hundreds of kilometers, it looked extremely grand.
Inside the cave, there was a lush rain forest, filled with the colors yellow and green. Desolate beasts formed into groups, vines and trees tangled together, growling could be heard everywhere, it was a primitive sight.
“We will go down from there.” Lu Wei Yin said.
“No rush.” Fang Yuan raised his hand: “These immortal materials are useful to me.”
He opened his immortal aperture’s entrance, many variant human Gu Immortals were let out.
These Gu Immortals were talking among themselves, they went down in groups, causing chaos in the entire first layer.
“Quick, there is a desolate plant here!”
“Dig it up, bring it back.”
“Oh oh, there’s a group of desolate beast monkeys here, let’s work together.”
“Squeak squeak…” The monkey group cried out together.
“These rocks are immortal materials, bring them back, bring them all back.”
“These are all contribution points!!”
The Gu Immortals worked enthusiastically, they were like a group of bandits that entered a mortal village.
Even though the first layer of Crazed Demon Cave had wild beasts and plants, Fang Yuan’s subordinates were superior in numbers, there were also many rank eight Gu Immortals among them that possessed rank eight Immortal Gu and rank eight killer moves.
The first layer of Crazed Demon Cave was completely looted!
Lu Wei Yin watched with a dazed expression.
In just this short period of time, how did Fang Yuan’s subordinates become so strong, didn’t their strength rise too absurdly?
“I have too many people under me, our resource expenditure is very high, especially when I made the artificial earth vein recently. This is really embarrassing.” Fang Yuan smiled.
Lu Wei Yin quickly waved his hand: “Of course not, I feel admiration towards you instead. In the current world, only Lord Fang Yuan is capable of making use of these chaotic immortal materials.”
Because Crazed Demon Cave had demonic sounds at set intervals, dao marks would become chaotic and all the immortal materials would be useless. Living beings would rampage and lose their senses, even rank eight Gu Immortals became lunatics in such an environment.
A while later, the first layer that was filled with vitality became a barren land.
The variant human Gu Immortals were still not satisfied as they brought the vast amount of resources back into the sovereign immortal aperture.
Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin went into the second layer after that.
Crazed Demon Cave’s second layer was an incredibly hot land of burning rocks. A large amount of rocks were piled up together, big and small, the large ones were like huge elephants, the small ones were like pebbles.
These Gu materials also had chaotic dao marks, but they were mostly made of fire path and earth path dao marks.
“Take them all.” Fang Yuan ordered, the variant human Gu Immortals moved again.
They swept the area like a locust swarm, emptying the entire second layer.
After that, Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin went into the third layer.
The third layer was covered in dense fog, it had a vast number of fog worms and cloud bamboos. These life forms were also senseless and chaotic, they were all taken down or chopped down and collected by the variant human Gu Immortals.
There was even a Fog City here.
A ghost city of dead people.
The Gu Immortals who died in Crazed Demon Cave gathered together with vengeance and created this Fog City.
When Fang Yuan came here before, he avoided it as he had rank seven cultivation level, if he entered it, he would definitely die, there was no way to escape.
But it was different now.
Fog City?
Mine.
Take it away!
After looting everything in his path, Fang Yuan arrived at the seventh layer of Crazed Demon Cave.
He spent much less time compared to his previous expedition.
Back then, Fang Yuan was led by Not Immortal, they kept taking detours. The deeper they went, the more turns they had to make, sometimes, the straight distance seemed to be short, but they had to make a long detour. With their strength back then, detours actually saved them more time than taking a straight path.
But now, Fang Yuan moved unhindered.
No matter what obstacles he met along the way, he placed them all into the sovereign immortal aperture.
The seventh layer of Crazed Demon Cave was filled with bright colors. The rocks, grass, soil, and trees were all shining in bright lights.
Every piece of soil or rock here was a quasi-rank nine immortal material.
But the dao marks were chaotic, they could not be used at all.
Of course, that was the case for most Gu Immortals in the world.
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Chapter 2155: Paradise Earth’s Sacred Tomb
Fang Yuan was the exception, of course.
As demonic sounds rang, Fang Yuan had already prepared himself. Back then, he was able to deal with the demonic sounds, now, it was simply too easy.
Under the demonic sounds’ influence, dao marks of the same path in the seventh layer gathered together and formed large areas of beautiful rainbow lights, they were no longer as scattered and random as before.
“Such an incredible sight!” Lu Wei Yin sighed in amazement: “Eh…”
At the next moment, he saw Fang Yuan taking out Immortal Gu House Thieves Den.
Steal dao killer move activated!
Large numbers of dao marks were stolen, forming into corresponding rank nine immortal materials within Thieves Den.
These rank nine immortal materials were very pure, they only had one path’s dao marks, they had immense value.
Lu Wei Yin watched, he became tongue-tied.
He estimated that in just over ten breaths of time, Fang Yuan obtained at least three rank nine immortal materials!
Rank nine immortal materials!
Wasn’t he obtaining them simply too easily?
Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin moved together, everywhere they went, large areas of dao marks vanished.
The beautiful sight turned into something that resembled cheese gnawed by rats, everywhere Fang Yuan went, there were large pieces of black and white spots.
Lu Wei Yin watched, his eyes turned slightly red.
Fang Yuan’s gains were too huge, the benefits were large enough for him to feel envy internally.
“Such wealth, he’s earned a fortune! This is the first time I’ve seen anyone gain a vast number of rank nine immortal materials so easily!!” Lu Wei Yin shouted internally to himself.
He could no longer guess how many rank nine immortal materials Fang Yuan had obtained.
The only thing he was knew, his gains were huge, enormous, unthinkable.
Continuing to move forward, they finally arrived at the entrance of the eighth layer.
Fang Yuan’s expression was slightly pale, the burden of using Thieves Den and the killer move steal dao along the way was not small, especially in terms of immortal essence expenditure.
Lu Wei Yin became slightly worried: “Lord Fang Yuan, do pay attention to your immortal essence storage.”
“No need to worry.” Fang Yuan smiled mildly: “I have rank eight Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus.”
Lu Wei Yin heard this and his expression froze before replying: “Impressive, impressive, as befitting of Lord Fang Yuan.”
At the entrance, Fang Yuan saw three paths ahead again.
One path was filled with golden light, luck surged around it. It was the luck path left behind by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
One path was dark and horrifying, killing intent filled it. It was the soul path left behind by Spectral Soul when he entered the eighth layer.
One path was humble and plain, giving a virtuous aura. It was Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s path.
Because Lu Wei Yin had methods prepared beforehand, he could enter Paradise Earth’s path.
But Fang Yuan waved his hand, Thieves Den activated, the three paths were completely devoured, they disappeared.
A large number of rank nine immortal materials were produced as a result.
Lu Wei Yin moved his lips but he did not manage to say anything, he followed Fang Yuan into the eighth layer wordlessly.
Nothingness!
This was a boundless void that resembled a huge ocean with no shore in sight.
Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin who entered were like two bugs in the ocean, extremely minuscule and insignificant.
Fang Yuan had once come here, he had a deep impression of the place.
In this boundless void, countless worlds were created and destroyed, deriving brand new heaven path dao marks.
He had once tried to enter the ninth layer but he did not succeed.
This void was evidently the profundity of phantom path, but Fang Yuan did not have phantom path attainment back then, he could not deduce the location of the ninth layer’s entrance.
This time, he came prepared.
His phantom path attainment level had reached grandmaster.
Immediately, Fang Yuan used his phantom path method.
“Hmm?” At the next moment, Fang Yuan raised his brows: “The void here is different from the one I experienced last time.”
But Fang Yuan could not point out the exact difference.
Even though he made huge progress in phantom path, he was still very far from understanding or breaking Limitless Demon Venerable’s eighth layer arrangements.
“Please follow me.” Lu Wei Yin activated a certain killer move and found his direction, leading the way.
Fang Yuan followed after Lu Wei Yin.
Along the way, he saw worlds created and destroyed, it was truly an extraordinary sight.
But different from before, these worlds were moving along the void, no matter which world it was, they went in the same direction.
Fang Yuan’s deductions finally had some results.
He was evidently moved: “I understand now, this void is contracting. At the final moment, all of the worlds and heaven path dao marks will be squeezed together, they will be completely fused into one. Is this Limitless Demon Venerable’s plan?”
Lu Wei Yin shook his head: “I only know the location of Yellow Earth Great World, we need to hurry and head there.”
The two immortals flew for a few more hours before finally seeing their destination.
“This is?!” Lu Wei Yin expressed shock on his face, because he did not just see Yellow Earth Great World, he also saw the worlds that Reckless Savage and Genesis Lotus left behind.
Fang Yuan squinted: “The three great worlds are fusing into one, not just that, there are also many small worlds following beside them.”
These worlds were motionless within the void.
Each world was like a bubble, the three great worlds were the largest bubbles, being green, yellow, and red respectively. The three worlds were joint together at the center, the periphery was filled with smaller bubbles that were linked to the surface of the three great world bubbles.
“Oh no, lord, please look!” Lu Wei Yin pointed at the yellow bubble and said anxiously.
Fang Yuan turned his gaze and saw that Yellow Earth Great World was currently attacked by the joint efforts of the other two great worlds.
Even though the view outside the bubble was quite vague, Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin could still sense the intensity of the battle inside. Especially when the connecting area of the three worlds was filled with corpses, it was the most intense area of the battle.
“Lord, with my method, Yellow Earth Great World will not resist us. Let’s go and reinforce them!” Lu Wei Yin charged in like a falling meteor.
Fang Yuan followed after him, his body was also shrouded in a yellow light.
It was this yellow light that allowed them to easily pass through the bubble and enter Yellow Earth Great World.
Looking at the great world, the thing that attracted Fang Yuan’s gaze the most was that huge mound at the center.
This mound resembled a mountain, the mountain itself was quite flat, it looked man-made.
But Fang Yuan could see the true essence of the mountain at first glance: “This is Tomb Earth of the Ten Earths? This is such a huge tomb.”
This unprecedented tomb had a tombstone on it.
The tombstone had six words written on it — Tomb of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable!
Seemingly sensing Lu Wei Yin and Fang Yuan, the tomb suddenly emitted a grand pillar of light.
It rose up into the skies, resembling a pillar that held up heaven itself, the entire battlefield froze, everyone’s eyes were attracted to it.
“The Sacred Tomb is shining, heaven and earth can bear testament to it. Our sage has arrived!” After a few breaths of time, a huge roar erupted in Yellow Earth Great World, it was like a huge tsunami.
The people of Yellow Earth Great World became energized and surged with morale, they started to counterattack.
Green Lotus Great World.
This was the Dao field of Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, look at it, forests and vegetation were abundant, it was filled with greenery and vitality, giving off an unfathomable aura.
In this densely green world, there was a black and white mountain.
At the peak of the mountain, there were rows of chairs that extended downwards.
The top two chairs were unoccupied, while Qin Ding Ling sat at the fourth seat!
“Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin arrived after all!” After receiving the information, Qin Ding Ling snorted coldly.
During the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin took the initiative to help Fang Yuan, not only did he help to kill Spectral Soul, he even helped Fang Yuan escape.
Lu Wei Yin was Southern Border’s Paradise Earth inheritor, after that, Paradise Earth’s intention to cooperate with Fang Yuan became obvious.
The Paradise Earth Sacred Tomb at the center of Yellow Earth Great World was also openly seen to everyone, the Gu Immortals of the three worlds knew of it.
Thus, there was nothing strange about Lu Wei Yin and Fang Yuan showing up here.
Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth as she said: “Currently, we need to split up into two groups, one group will advance and attack Yellow Earth Great World, the other will aid Demon Judgment Board in suppressing and resisting Savage Wilderness Great World as well as restraining Longevity Heaven. As for the other Gu Immortals, you can go conquer the small worlds in groups.”
“Originally, our side was cooperating with Longevity Heaven to devour Yellow Earth Great World, but now that Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin showed up, Yellow Earth Great World is no longer meat on the chopping block, we can suffer losses if we are careless.”
Saying so, Qin Ding Ling stood up and bowed to the Gu Immortal on the third seat: “Lady Ming Hao, please allow this subordinate to use Divine Emperor City and personally lead the group invading Yellow Earth Great World to resist Fang Yuan.”
Qin Ding Ling was originally the leader of Heavenly Court, but here, she was only fourth place, she had to obey the three fairies at the top.
Currently, the first and second fairies were not around, only the third Fairy Ming Hao was here to control the situation.
This Fairy Ming Hao had the appearance of a three to four year old girl, she was cute and delicate, her large eyes shined with sparkling starlight specks.
She blinked her large and shiny eyes, she pondered before replying with a childish voice: “I’ve heard of Fang Yuan, but do you need to deal with him personally? Let them go instead.”
Saying so, her tiny arm waved as a Gu worm flew out.
This information path Gu worm flew to the middle of the mountain and landed in front of two Gu Immortals.
These were neither human nor variant human Gu Immortals.
One was an old tree with a thin and dry trunk, it had countless branches of different length but had no leaves on them. It had thin and long roots that number to a hundred. The tree’s name was Mu Cha Lang.
The other was a long bamboo that was green like jade, its name was Qing Hao Zi.
Qing Hao Zi floated in the air, casually and peacefully sleeping.
Mu Cha Lang was lying on the mountain rock that seemed like a chair, its branches wrapped around a small rock like a person resting his legs on a stool, it was very relaxed.
After seeing the information path Gu worm, Mu Cha Lang stood up immediately.
It extended its branches to nudge Qing Hao Zi: “Stop sleeping, stop sleeping, the sage has sent an order.”
Qing Hao Zi waved back and forth because of the nudge but it did not land on the ground.
After getting awakened, it straightened its body and remained in the air: “To think that we are going to move out so quickly.”
Next, the two immortals left the mountain, leading their troops to the front lines.
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Chapter 2156: Heaven Extremity Gai Mei
Savage Wilderness Great World.
A grand and ancient dark gold palace floated in the sky.
It was Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
Within the palace, Bing Sai Chuan sat on a cushion with one information path Immortal Gu on the tiny table in front of him.
Several Gu Immortals were standing towards his left and right.
Bing Sai Chuan stared at the information path Immortal Gu, he frowned slightly.
Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin came together, it created a huge uncertainty in the battle of the three great worlds. What should Longevity Heaven, which occupied Savage Wilderness Great World, do?
Should they retreat first or send more people to probe Fang Yuan’s strength?
Bing Sai Chuan could not decide immediately.
He thought for a while and cast his gaze towards the first person on his left.
A fatty was sitting there.
The fatty was lying down on the table, fast asleep, there was even saliva flowing out of his mouth, onto his sleeves and the table below.
Bam bam bam!
Bing Sai Chuan knocked on the table with his knuckle several times.
The fatty was woken up by this noise, he opened his sleepy eyes and asked in a daze: “What happened?”
Bing Sai Chuan withheld his anger: “Gai Mei, you are the Heaven Extremity, you cultivate wisdom path. The newest information is here, I want you to deduce what our following actions should be.”
Saying this, the information path Immortal Gu flew and landed on the fatty’s head.
The fatty did not use his hand to touch it, he looked into the Immortal Gu directly, his pupils shrank immediately.
“What? That demon Fang Yuan is here?” The fatty shrugged: “See, weren’t my previous deductions correct?”
Bing Sai Chuan knocked on the table again: “I want you to deduce what action our side should take for this situation. Originally, Yellow Earth Great World was weak, with our control over Savage Wilderness Great World, and Heavenly Court’s control over Green Lotus Great World, we could invade Yellow Earth Great World and strengthen ourselves before deciding the victor between us. But now that Lu Wei Yin and Fang Yuan appeared in Yellow Earth Great World, if we attack it by force, they might counterattack and expend our strength instead.”
Bing Sai Chuan was not afraid of Fang Yuan’s counterattack, he was worried about the impact on the overall situation instead.
After all, the current situation was more complex than before, the three worlds were resisting each other. If any two forces went ahead and fought too intensely, the third force would benefit.
“Then let me deduce it.” The fatty Gu Immortal, Heaven Extremity Gai Mei, waved his loose sleeves and stretched out five fat fingers, he pretended to make a deduction.
“Oh, I deduced it, let’s follow our original pan.” Gai Mei said.
Bing Sai Chuan watched with a dumbfounded expression: “Can you use your Immortal Gu to activate a killer move and make a proper deduction?!”
Gai Mei blinked innocently: “What? How did you know I was pretending? You actually found out, you are so smart! You must be the wisdom path cultivator instead, right?”
Veins bulged on Bing Sai Chuan’s forehead: “Do you think you are Southern Border’s Wu Yong? You have no methods to conceal your aura, hurry up and make a deduction!”
Gai Mei waved his wide sleeves again, exposing his five fat fingers, he was about to make a deduction when he suddenly sighed: “Sigh! Forget it, the killer move is too tiring to activate. Why don’t we just ask our lord ancestor instead?”
Bing Sai Chuan was livid with anger, he shouted: “Absolutely not! Our lord is working with Earth Extremity, Black Extremity, and Space Extremity to deduce Limitless Demon Venerable’s plot, how can we disturb him?”
“Currently, Heavenly Court already has the initiative, they obtained Book Mountain. We are relying on our lord to have any hope of catching up to Heavenly Court. Heaven Extremity, can’t you see the big picture?”
Gai Mei pouted unhappily: “Stop calling me Heaven Extremity all the time, I didn’t even want to be Heaven Extremity, you guys forced it on me.”
Yellow Extremity Jiao Huo who was sitting beside Gai Mei tried to convince him: “Brother Gai, just help out and make the deductions. This is not just about the strength of Yellow Earth Great World, it also concerns Fang Yuan’s possible actions.”
“This demon Fang Yuan has no regard for his identity as a human. I am more worried that he might relocate the local Gu Immortals of Yellow Earth Great World and the ones he captures from our forces into the sovereign immortal aperture. Look at what he did in the five regions, he recruited the variant humans to become his subordinates and almost rejected nobody. In my opinion, it is likely he would do this.”
“In that case, it might foil our lord’s plans.”
Jiao Huo spoke, trying his best to convince Gai Mei, but he still shook his head, smiling instead: “Actually, you guys don’t have to be so worried. Isn’t Heavenly Court just as worried as us? Let’s see what Heavenly Court is doing now, wouldn’t that do? They are guarded by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, she is the number one wisdom path expert in history, she is definitely better than me at deductions.”
Jiao Huo’s expression froze: “Even so, if Heavenly Court deduces first, they will gain the initiative. If we join them in their plan, we will fall behind them.”
“Regardless, I am not going to work!” Gai Mei rolled his eyes as he went back to sleep on the table.
Jiao Huo and Bing Sai Chuan stared at him angrily, but he completely ignored them.
“Charge, charge with me!”
“Force back all of these enemies.”
“Charge—!”
Thousands of Gu Masters engaged in battle on the ground, the front lines looked disorderly, blood flowed everywhere.
The sky was the battlefield for Gu Immortals as they fought, more than ten Gu Immortals engaged in a chaotic battle at once.
On the ground, Yellow Earth Great World’s Gu Master army launched a powerful counterattack, while in the sky, Yellow Earth Great World’s Gu Immortals were suppressed.
Yellow Earth Great World’s sage had already descended, the Gu Masters were spirited and motivated, but in the battle between Gu Immortals, morale alone could not make up for their difference in strength.
After all, Yellow Earth Great World had fewer Gu Immortals than Green Lotus Great World.
This could not be helped.
The three great worlds were made one after another, Savage Wilderness Great World had the longest history, but it had a lot of internal conflict over the years. Green Lotus Great World was second while Yellow Earth Great World was the most recent. After all, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was the most recent venerable.
Yellow Earth Great World had very few Gu Immortals to begin with, it was even attacked by the joint force of two other worlds, they had fewer and fewer Gu Immortals gradually, the situation was dire.
“Our sages have arrived, there is still hope.”
“I will defend Yellow Earth Great World, I will defend my homeland!”
The Gu Immortals of Yellow Earth Great World shouted together, raising their morale.
Green Lotus’ side laughed coldly.
“Even if your sages arrive, they cannot stop us from killing you guys.”
“You have sages but so do we. The result of this battle will not change!”
“We don’t want to do this too, but we have orders from our sage, we need to kill all of you and devour all the worlds to prevent the apocalypse from happening.”
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals continued to attack.
Yellow Earth’s Gu Immortals were specialized in defense, even though the situation was dangerous, they were barely able to hold the line, struggling at the brink of defeat.
Right at this time, from the huge tunnel connecting Yellow Earth Great World and Green Lotus Great World, two armies appeared.
They were led by the Gu Immortals Qing Hao Zi and Mu Cha Lang.
Immortal killer move — Spring Upon Withered Tree!
Mu Cha Lang shouted as green leaves appeared all over its entire tree body, the new leaves flew out and landed on the Green Lotus Gu Immortals.
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals were not severely injured to begin with, their large injuries became small while their small injuries healed completely.
The condition of the Green Lotus Gu Immortals improved immediately!
Immortal killer move — Green Life Taker.
Qing Hao Zi flew with extreme speed, creating a green trail in the sky, piercing the body of a Yellow Earth Gu Immortal.
The Yellow Earth Great World’s Gu Immortal was a black bear, it grabbed its empty chest.
After gasping, it fell to the ground.
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals were anguished.
After dealing the fatal blow, Qing Hao Zi looked at these Gu Immortals arrogant and said: “The Sacred Mountain gave orders, you will all die.”
Mu Cha Lang laughed loudly: “So what if your sage is here? The eventual victor will only be our Green Lotus Great World!”
At the same time, in another battlefield.
Savage Wilderness Great World’s main forces were fighting against another group of Yellow Earth Great World inhabitants.
“Die! Die! Die!”
A six legged black tiger that was as large as a mountain charged around in the sky, it managed to grab a Yellow Earth Great World Gu Immortal.
“I finally caught you!” The six legged black tiger laughed and exerted force with both claws.
Swoosh!
With a soft sound, the giant-like Yellow Earth Gu Immortal was torn into two by the six legged black tiger, dying on the spot.
“Hahaha!” The six legged black tiger laughed loudly, the giant’s blood spurted all over its face, the tiger licked and showed a maniacal and bloodthirsty expression.
“Little Rock Monarch was killed by Hei Liu Biao.”
“Let’s retreat, we are not these people’s match.”
“Indeed, our sage has already arrived, let’s return and ask him to take charge of us.”
The Gu Master armies were still fighting on the ground, but in the sky, Yellow Earth Great World’s Gu Immortals had lost their fighting spirit, they wanted to retreat.
Suddenly, there was an eagle cry as white light flashed in the sky.
Everyone turned to look, they saw a snow wing eagle pecking a Yellow Earth Gu Immortal and devouring him whole.
“Xue Li Du!”
“He ate another person!!”
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals were furious and shocked.
Snow wing eagle Xue Li Du said in a shrill voice: “Escape? Don’t even think of running!”
The morale of the Yellow Earth Gu Immortals collapsed at once.
At Paradise Earth’s Sacred Tomb.
“Kan Ke La greets both sages!”
“Big Rock Monarch greets both sages, we implore you, please save our Yellow Earth Great World!!”
A group of Gu Immortals knelt on the ground.
They were either beasts or plants. Some even had peculiar forms, some seemed like they had been formed from casually molded clay, some were like children’s doodles, there were no pure humans.
These Yellow Earth Gu Immortals were all injured, some had severe injuries, on the brink of death.
But because of the commotion that Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin caused when they arrived, these sick and injured Gu Immortals came over.
Fang Yuan took a glance at them, seeing a ‘familiar person’.
This was a giant grey fish, it resembled a goldfish but had the size of a whale.
When Fang Yuan first entered the eighth layer, he met with this fish and forcefully enslaved it, it was named Little Flower.
Right now, as Little Flower saw Fang Yuan, it was very excited and wanted to say something, but in this situation, it chose to control its emotions as the timing was inappropriate.
Fang Yuan nodded, saying: “I wanted to see the ones behind Green Lotus Dao field as well.”
“Lord Fang Yuan, you cannot attack rashly.” Lu Wei Yin suddenly transmitted.
Fang Yuan looked at Lu Wei Yin with a peculiar gaze, seemingly saying: ‘Didn’t you invite me here because of my battle strength?’
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Chapter 2157: Rushing Forward Together
Lu Wei Yin secretly transmitted as he explained in detail: “Lord Fang Yuan, you may not know this, because of your high battle strength, it will trigger a retaliative method from Limitless Demon Venerable. After our obvious arrival, why did Heavenly Court send more troops to provoke us? It was to probe our strength and try to lure you into attacking, which would be the best outcome for them.”
“What are the details about this?” Fang Yuan asked.
Lu Wei Yin smiled bitterly: “I’m not sure about the exact situation, but I know that Limitless Demon Venerable exerted huge effort to create Crazed Demon Cave back then, it was to make derivations regarding the Heavenly Dao, to find the true path of eternal life. At this point in time, the arrangement is finally about to reveal the result and bear fruit.”
“The current eighth layer void is contracting and shrinking now, all the various worlds are lured to the center, fusing into or annexing each other, until only one great world is left in the end.”
“And this great world might be the result of Limitless Demon Venerable’s derivation, it might contain the answer to eternal life.”
“If we attack abruptly and cause a huge commotion in battle, we may disrupt the eventual derivation of Crazed Demon Cave, Limitless Demon Venerable’s method will immediately activate to deal with us.”
“That will incur an unfavorable loss to our side.”
“Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven will be happy to see that happen. If we end up suffering mutual losses with Limitless Demon Venerable’s method, we will be less threatening to them while Limitless Demon Venerable’s method will also be exposed, they will be able to discern information about it.”
Fang Yuan pondered: “In that case, we can only make a move when the final great world is formed? Then why would Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven come here early to take charge of their respective great worlds?”
Lu Wei Yin explained patiently: “More precisely, only people with battle strength like yours cannot make a move. I am still able to take action here.”
“If our side can control Yellow Earth Great World and emerge victorious, we will have the upper hand in the final battle. When the final great world is created, the amount of control we have over it will determine our gains. Thus, we need to invade more worlds and devour them to expand our territory.”
After his transmission, Fang Yuan finally understood the situation.
Currently, he could not take action.
Once he took action and caused a big commotion, he would disrupt Crazed Demon Cave’s final derivation, it would trigger the retaliative method of Limitless Demon Venerable.
Of course, Fang Yuan could suppress his strength to take action.
But there was no need to.
Suppressing his strength would mean that Fang Yuan was about as strong as other Gu Immortals, he might be slightly superior but that would not have an impact on the overall situation. In fact, after making many moves, Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven would gain information about his methods, he would even waste his luck in advance.
Thus, Lu Wei Yin invited Fang Yuan over mainly to deal with the final eventual battle.
Once the final world was formed, Fang Yuan, Star Constellation, and Longevity Heaven might have equal battle strength, they would fight it out for the final fruit in Crazed Demon Cave.
At that time, they would fight for real.
Before that, Lu Wei Yin could still make a move (he was pseudo venerable battle strength only in terms of defense) to try to make Yellow Earth Great World the victor of this war.
This would have significant impact on the final battle.
If Lu Wei Yin could succeed, Fang Yuan would gain the initiative later.
“Even if Yellow Earth Great World cannot win in this battle, we cannot let the other two worlds gain too much of a lead. As long as we defend the Sacred Tomb, during the final battle, Lord Paradise Earth will be able to revive successfully. By then, our battle strength will reign above the other two forces.” Lu Wei Yin explained his meticulously crafted plan to Fang Yuan.
The conclusion was to defend now and counterattack later.
Defending their base initially while stirring conflict in secret, to make Savage Wilderness Great World and Green Lotus Great World fight each other and expend their strength, to make sure the three forces were eventually matched in the end.
At the later stage, after Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable revives, he would gain Fang Yuan’s support and use their superior battle strength to gain victory over the others.
This was a logical arrangement to bide for time, it suited Lu Wei Yin’s nature.
But…
This was not Fang Yuan’s style.
Fang Yuan looked at the kneeling Yellow Earth Gu Immortals before turning to Lu Wei Yin, smiling: “Taking hits passively is not how I do things. Since we cannot use our top battle strength easily, it means that Heavenly Court is taking advantage of the fact that we lack subordinates.”
“In that case…” Fang Yuan smiled as he looked towards Green Lotus Dao field: “Everyone, come outside.”
Saying so, he opened his immortal aperture’s entrance.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh.
A large number of Gu Immortals flew out.
“We pay respects to master!” Dozens of Gu Immortals greeted at once.
Their voices were thunderously loud, all of the Gu Immortals had evident excitement on their faces.
“The details are listed on the mission board, go.” Fang Yuan waved his hand casually.
Swoosh swoosh!
These Gu Immortals immediately split into two groups, charging towards the two battlefields.
The kneeling Yellow Earth Gu Immortals were dumbfounded.
“How did so many Gu Immortals appear at once!”
“These people seem to be calling that handsome sage master.”
“We are saved, Yellow Earth Great World is saved!”
After the Yellow Earth Gu Immortal reacted, they all relaxed and some even wept in joy.
Not just them, even Lu Wei Yin was shocked.
He had seen Fang Yuan dispatching variant human Gu Immortals all over Southern Border to collect mountains, he also knew that Fang Yuan led the variant human alliance, his force was not small.
But after seeing the main force that Fang Yuan sent out, Lu Wei Yin was filled with shock.
“So many Gu Immortals, they number to over fifty!”
“And from their aura, there are eighteen rank eight Gu Immortals, the rest are all rank seven Gu Immortals.”
“How can there be so many rank eight Gu Immortals?”
“The rank seven Gu Immortals also have surging auras, they are close to the realm of rank eight already.”
“No, there is no way Fang Yuan has zero rank six Gu Immortals, this means that these Gu Immortals are not his entire force?”
“That’s right, Fang Yuan’s clone Wu Shuai has not showed up either.”
As Lu Wei Yin analyzed, the disbelief in his heart intensified.
He also felt worried.
“Did Fang Yuan spend all of his recent time nurturing these subordinates? According to his personality, he should not be this unwise…”
“Also, even though these Gu Immortals are high in number and have high cultivation level, who knows how high their actual battle strength is.”
The ones that Lu Wei Yin was confident in were Xiao He Jian and Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
Front lines.
“Go and die!” Qing Hao Zi killed another Yellow Earth Gu Immortal.
But its injuries were not light either.
It had to temporarily stop its movement and go to Mu Cha Lang.
After Mu Cha Lang’s healing killer move was used, Qing Hao Zi recovered greatly.
“This is all thanks to you, my old friend.” Qing Hao Zi was overjoyed.
Mu Cha Lang said in admiration: “This is all I am skilled at, I feel admiration towards your ability to kill so many people. But don’t be too rash and forget your defense, the final struggle of these Yellow Earth Gu Immortals will not be simple to heal if you get hit.”
“Don’t worry.” Qing Hao Zi raised its bamboo tail: “I will try to kill four people.”
“Hey, you guys should calm down, leave some for me to kill.” Qing Hao Zi called out loudly as it entered the battlefield again.
Right at this time, a group of Gu Immortals flew over from the sky.
They were led by rank eight snowman Gu Immortal, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
He shouted: “We are the subordinates of Yellow Earth Sage, Gu Yue Fang Yuan, we are here to help and kill the Green Lotus Gu Immortals!”
The Gu Immortals were stunned.
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals who were in deep peril saw hope, they became overjoyed.
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals started to feel their hearts pounding wildly.
It could not be helped.
Together with Mu Cha Lang and Qing Hao Zi, they only had eight people.
But there were over twenty Gu Immortal reinforcements!
Among them, there were nine rank eight Gu Immortals!
On Green Lotus’ side, only Mu Cha Lang, Qing Hao Zi, and Old Forest Moss had rank eight cultivation level.
Weren’t their reinforcements simply too large?!
Mu Cha Lang gritted its teeth, shouting: “Don’t be scared by numbers, who knows what their actual battle strength is!”
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals regained their morale upon hearing this.
That’s right, cultivation level was just part of the battle strength, only by fighting could their true strength be seen.
If they did not even dare to fight and retreated immediately, how would they face the sages on the Sacred Mountain?
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals disregarded the Yellow Earth Gu Immortals, they faced Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s group instead.
Immortal killer move — Snow Avalanche!
Immortal killer move — Crashing Rock Slide!
Immortal killer move — Great Earth Collapse!
Immortal killer move — Refine Life!
Immortal killer move — Multi-layered Five Poisons!
…
Bam Bam Bam Bam…
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals who were disregarded opened their mouths in shock as they watched.
The moment they fought, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s group erupted with their full strength.
All sorts of killer moves were sent out like fireworks, the commotion was huge, resounding in heaven and earth.
Green Lotus’ group also unleashed killer moves but the quantity was lower, their strength was also largely inferior.
Only after just one round, the Green Lotus Gu Immortals faced a terrible loss.
“Retreat, quickly retreat!” Old Forest Moss shouted.
“How can this be? The other side has so many rank eight Immortal Gu!” Qing Hao Zi shouted.
He had become a rank eight Gu Immortal long ago but he had never obtained a rank eight Immortal Gu, in this life, he had not even seen three rank eight Immortal Gu!
But Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was quite unsatisfied, he scolded: “Don’t launch a barrage like this, it is very wasteful, understand? The moves conflicted with each other, half of it was wasted, only thirty percent landed on the enemies! Find your individual targets and don’t let them escape!”
Even though the first round had huge commotion, a lot of the moves’ strength was wasted.
The outside world was not the sovereign immortal aperture after all.
Thus, the Green Lotus Gu Immortals managed to survive.
But the first round of combat gave them huge gains too.
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals were completely scared and lost their morale, they wanted to retreat now.
But Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s group had advantage in number, they dispersed and encircled the enemies.
Battle resumed.
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals were soon beaten up harshly, they were battered and bruised.
“These Gu Immortals have an absurdly perfect set of Immortal Gu!” Qing Hao Zi shouted.
“We can only focus on one aspect, but all of them have superb healing methods.” Mu Cha Lang said bitterly.
“They have too many killer moves, they are all incredible methods!” Other Gu Immortals shouted.
Fang Yuan’s refinement path attainment was number one in the world, Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven could only look at him in admiration.
After obtaining a vast number of immortal materials from the various grotto-heavens, compared to other forces, Fang Yuan had the highest number of Immortal Gu in the world.
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Chapter 2158 Too Brutal!
Immortal Gu were unique, Immortal Gu were the most fundamental.
After sovereign immortal aperture’s Gu Immortals obtained Immortal Gu, they were also able to easily exchange for corresponding killer moves.
Even though they lost some dao marks, these gains were simply too immense, completely negating the flaw of fewer dao marks.
A moment later, the Green Lotus Gu Immortals ran with all their strength.
Only three rank eights escaped, the rest were all killed by Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s group.
“Without a battlefield killer move, we cannot kill Gu Immortals efficiently.” Bing Yuan sighed.
“Cannot kill efficiently?” The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals looked at the five corpses on the ground, their hearts beating wildly.
“Too timid, too timid!” Shi Zong sighed in pity: “They actually ran away, they are a disgrace to all rank eights!”
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals looked at each other and transmitted secretly: “Even if I have rank eight cultivation level, I would have ran away in this situation too?”
“How can we face our master with just these results?” Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch gritted his teeth, making a decision: “Chase, we will pursue and kill them!!”
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortal were shocked, they quickly urged: “Everyone, don’t be too rash. There are still a number of Green Lotus rank eight Gu Immortals, they did not join the battle.”
“Indeed, we barely managed to win this fight, we should go on the defense instead.”
“Green Lotus Great World has many Immortal Gu Houses with terrifying strength, many Gu Immortals were killed on the spot because of their rampage.”
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was completely unmoved, he looked at the Yellow Earth Gu Immortals indifferently: “We are the subordinates of Sage Gu Yue Fang Yuan, we only obey his orders. You can all stay and clean up the battlefield.”
Be it the Immortal Gu or immortal apertures of these fallen Gu Immortals, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s group did not take any.
That was Fang Yuan’s order.
The Gu Immortals and Immortal Gu that belonged here were part of Limitless Demon Venerable’s derivation results.
Killing these Gu Immortals would promote the fusion of the great worlds.
At the same time, in another battlefield.
Xiao He Jian and the rest arrived before Hei Liu Biao and Xue Li Du.
“So many reinforcements!”
“Wonderful, we’re saved.”
There were only two Yellow Earth Gu Immortals left.
“Be careful, these two are powerful rank eight experts from Savage Wilderness Great World, they are very strong!”
“They are specialized in…”
“Noisy!” Xiao He Jian took charge as the leader, he shouted and interrupted the advice of the Yellow Earth Gu Immortals.
This miniman Gu Immortal’s eyes seemed to be glowing red, he pointed at the mountain-like six legged black tiger and shouted: “This guy belongs to me, I will fight anyone who contests with me!”
Roar—!
Hei Liu Biao was triggered: “Tiny little bug, you are going to die, I will kill you, no Gu Immortal had ever treated me with such an attitude!!”
Hei Liu Biao charged in a frenzy towards Xiao He Jian.
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals were deeply scared and shocked.
“Numbers do not determine everything!” Xue Li Du also smiled coldly, charging into the Gu Immortal group.
Bam Bam Bam Bam….
An array of fireworks erupted, it was a beautiful sight.
Bam.
With a loud sound, Hei Liu Biao crashed onto the ground, creating a huge and deep crater.
It stared with wide eyes, struggling to get up.
Boom!
Xiao He Jian flew like a meteor, charging down.
Behind him were five to six rank eight Gu Immortals, they also attacked.
Bam bam bam bam!
The ground shook intensely, dust clouds rose, almost covering the rays of the sun.
With an intense wind that swept by, the dust clouds were dispersed.
The crater was even deeper now.
Hei Liu Biao was lying at the bottom of the crater, holding onto its last breath, its six tiger claws were twitching.
“I told you guys not to interfere!” Xiao He Jian shouted.
“On what basis?”
“Whoever kills it gets the contribution points!”
The other Gu Immortals shouted in retaliation.
Xiao He Jian rolled his eyes: “We all attacked, so who killed him? Who can be sure of it?”
“Easy, we can split up the contribution points. Whoever gets the largest part of the corpse will get the most points.”
Nobody knew who was the one who suggested this.
But at the very next moment, the rank eight Gu Immortals flew down into the pit, splitting up the corpse of Hei Liu Biao.
“The leg is mine!”
“Hmph, I only got a tail! Give me back the butt.”
“Head, this tiger head, hahaha, it is mine!”
The rank eight Gu Immortals shouted loudly, some were happy while others were dejected.
Those who did not get enough body parts directed their gaze towards snow wing eagle Xue Li Du.
But Xue Li Du had been killed already, it died even earlier than Hei Liu Biao.
The corpse was also completely split up between the Gu Immortals.
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals watched in a daze.
Too brutal.
Too brutal!
Weren’t these Gu Immortals the subordinates of the sage? Why were they so brutal?
Not only did they kill the Gu Immortal, they even dissected the corpse.
And they were so happy when dissecting the corpse?
Too brutal!
Too vicious!
Yellow Earth Great World was created by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, his ideal was to live in harmony and peace, emphasizing on unity and love. Even though Yellow Earth Great World had its own internal conflicts, the main trend had always been the same.
The action of Fang Yuan’s subordinates was completely the opposite of Yellow Earth Great World, this was a huge contrast to the expectations of these Yellow Earth Gu Immortals.
“There are some Gu Immortals left.” The rank eight Gu Immortals’ eyes flashed.
But those rank seven Gu Immortals quickly shouted: “Before coming here, we already decided that the rank sevens belong to us. You rank eights already took the bulk of the gains, shouldn’t you leave some to us?”
The rank eight Gu Immortals pouted: “Then hurry up, don’t waste time! Otherwise, we will help you out and take a portion of the contribution points…”
“Wishful thinking!” The rank seven Gu Immortals quickly exerted effort and killed all of the Savage Wilderness Great World Gu Immortals in a moment’s time.
“Hahaha, these Gu Immortals are so stupid, none of them ran away.”
“Indeed, I was afraid that we lacked a battlefield killer move and could not stop them from escaping.”
The Gu Immortals started to discuss heatedly.
The two Yellow Earth Gu Immortals looked at each other, they had peculiar expressions.
The Gu Immortals of Savage Wilderness Great World were combat maniacs, their ferocity was always the thing that made Yellow Earth Great World and Green Lotus Great World’s Gu Immortals wary. Savage Wilderness Great World’s Gu Immortals would rather fight to the death than retreat, they were courageous maniacs who did not care about their own lives when they were in combat.
But in the perspective of the sage’s subordinates, they were stupid?
“How much did you snatch?”
“I only got this much.”
“Heh, only? You earned a lot!”
“Hehe, it was all thanks to master who handed out such a lucrative mission.”
The Gu Immortals collated their gains as they tossed away the corpses in their hands.
Fang Yuan had given specific instructions, be it immortal aperture, body, or Immortal Gu, they were all to be thrown away.
These subordinates did not dare to defy him.
Seeing the scattered corpses, the two Yellow Earth Gu Immortals’ eyelids twitched.
If you were going to throw them away, why snatch them with such intensity earlier?
Was it just for fun?
What sort of monsters were these Gu Immortals!
The two Yellow Earth Gu Immortals who had just mustered up courage to express their gratitude instantly lost all motivation to do so.
They breathed in deeply and wanted to speak but suddenly, Xiao He Jian’s group’s expression changed.
“Master sent orders, we need to gather with the other group and attack Green Lotus Great World.”
“Go, let’s go! Don’t let Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s group gain the initiative.”
Swoosh swoosh.
The Gu Immortals left rapidly in a hurry, leaving the two Yellow Earth Gu Immortals who stayed behind with a dazed expression on their faces.
They looked at the Gu Master battlefield that was still fighting (Yellow Earth Gu Masters were already moving forward and pursuing the enemies), they felt completely lost for words.
For some reason, they started to feel pity for the Green Lotus Great World’s Gu Immortals.
Fang Yuan watched from afar, capturing the scenes of the two battlefields with his eyes.
After those Gu Immortal corpses landed on the ground, they were quickly absorbed into the world. Immortal apertures disintegrated rapidly, the Gu worms inside faced the same end, there was no winds of assimilation produced, no traces were left at all.
Fang Yuan was not feeling calm internally.
“This is the profundity of refinement path!”
“Except that Limitless Demon Venerable is not refining Immortal Gu, he is refining the entire world.”
“If I want to become venerable on the path of refinement, this is an aspect that I lack as well!”
In his later years, Limitless Demon Venerable wanted to break free from Fate and obtain the way to attain eternal life, but he could not find an answer from Heavenly Court of that time.
Thus, he created Crazed Demon Cave, he decided to use his own method and derive the method of eternal life.
After all, fate Gu was still around back then, completely intact.
The unified great world that was formed in the end might be the result of his plan, it might contain the method of eternal life. And now, the fighting and slaughter of these Gu cultivators became the fuel and sacrifice for this derivation.
After understanding this, Fang Yuan would not take the corpses of these Gu Immortals or their Immortal Gu.
This huge battle between worlds was definitely going to have countless dead Gu cultivators, be it mortal or immortal.
As for how many could survive in the end? Would there be thousands, or just one person?
Nobody knew.
But so what if that was the case?
Be it Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin, Heavenly Court, and Longevity Heaven, they did not care about that answer.
They had their own objectives.
The Gu Immortals born here obeyed the orders of their sages, they fought and killed, using their lives and wits to resist the others, they were necessary sacrifices that were determined from the start.
Fang Yuan casted his gaze towards Green Lotus Great World, he saw that his army had gathered and invaded Green Lotus Great World.
“If an outsider Gu Immortal died here, what would happen?” Fang Yuan had a calm gaze as he watched with anticipation.
These Gu Immortals were just his pawns after all!
When it was time to sacrifice them, Fang Yuan would not be stingy to do so.
“But I should prevent unnecessary deaths if possible.” Thinking so, Fang Yuan said to Lu Wei Yin: “Friend Lu, I would like you to go and help out my subordinates. If the situation turns dangerous, your life is the highest priority, you can ignore the rest if necessary.”
Lu Wei Yin nodded and he flew away.
Fang Yuan’s subordinates were so ferocious, Lu Wei Yin was quite pleased and surprised.
At the same time, he agreed with Fang Yuan’s plan.
They were already behind to begin with, having such a large force, they had to work hard and catch up to the rest, to make up for their difference!
Savage Wilderness Great World.
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
Bing Sai Chuan looked at the information path Immortal Gu on the table with a grim expression: “To think that Fang Yuan’s force is so powerful, Hei Liu Biao and Xue Li Du are powerful rank eight experts in Savage Wilderness Great World, they actually died so easily.”
“But now, Fang Yuan’s two groups have gathered to attack Green Lotus Dao field.”
Saying so, Bing Sai Chuan let out a breath of turbid air, feeling emotions of joy and gladness.
He was glad that he did not send reinforcements, because Heavenly Court sent more troops against Fang Yuan, he sent his army to find trouble with them.
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Chapter 2159 Fairy Ming Hao
“That's why I said we should continue with our previous plan, my deduction was not wrong." Heaven Extremity Gai Mei drank wine and ate snacks while saying shamelessly.
Bing Sai Chuan could not be bothered to retort him, he looked at the rest: "Fang Yuan has such a huge force, it is very unexpected. If he attacks us, we will land in a passive spot. Even though Savage Wilderness Great World has the most Gu Immortals, most of them have their own intentions, they do not obey orders. If we could unify and rule them, we would have been the number one world long ago, suppressing Heavenly Court."
Heaven Extremity rolled his eyes: "Don't you know the reason? That Yellow Earth Great World was the arrangement of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable to begin with. Green Lotus Great World is also created by Heavenly Court's Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable. Meanwhile, Savage Wilderness Great World was made by Reckless Savage Demon Venerable but our lord obtained it, without a proper relationship, how can we convince them?"
“Bing Sai Chuan could not help but tap on the table: "Forget about the reason, let's try to deal with the current problem. Do you guys have any good ideas to recruit those savage Gu Immortals?"
Green Lotus Great World.
Once in a while, an information path Gu worm flew over.”
“Qin Ding Ling was frowning deeper.
"Fang Yuan's subordinates are so ferocious, in just half a day, not only did they defeat our main troops, they even invaded and broke three of our defense lines!”
“We've already lost close to twenty Gu Immortals, the defeated rank eight Gu Immortals have suffered huge injuries, they came to the mountain to seek an audience with the sage."
"Oh?" The third seat Fairy Ming Hao showed an expression of curiosity: "As expected of Fang Yuan I guess. To think that he is skilled at nurturing subordinates too."
After pausing for a moment, Fairy Ming Hao asked in a child-like voice: "This means to say that Longevity Heaven also sent more troops out?"
"Yes." Qin Ding Ling nodded: "After sensing that Fang Yuan gathered his groups to attack us, Longevity Heaven immediately sent more people to stall Lady Yu Xiu's group, this might be the scene that Fang Yuan wants to see."
Fairy Ming Hao laughed heartily: "Since they want to attack us, let them come. Withdraw our defense lines, let them come and attack us."
"Yes." Qin Ding Ling immediately ordered and reorganized the troops without a hint of questioning.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian moved unhindered, they charged all the way until the center of Green Lotus Great World, below the Sacred Mountain.
“Looking at the mountain, they saw that it had a peculiar appearance.
The entire mountain was black and white, all of the mountain rocks looked like they were drawn with black lines and filled with patches of white paper.
All of the life forms on the mountain were also altered.
They were all white paper people that were drawn with black lines.”
“A tiny white paper person flew down from the mountain, after leaving the area of the Sacred ”
“Mountain, she turned back into flesh and blood, looking like a cute and innocent young girl.
Xiao He Jian and Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch looked at each other, feeling that the situation was not simple.
The latter half of their trip was unhindered, that made them uneasy already.
And after reaching the enemy's headquarters, they only sent one rank eight Gu Immortal.
This was Heavenly Court!
No matter how weak they became, they had those rank eight Gu Immortals who escaped earlier at least right?
Why did they send a little girl?
Even though Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian had surging momentum, they were already feeling uneasy internally.”
“This army was mainly made up of people from the two heavens' grotto-heavens.
They had spent most of their lives hiding in the grotto-heaven, living a life of trepidation and fear, afraid that the five regions' humans would discover them.
If Fang Yuan did not have such demonic might that suppressed them, and also with the huge increase in their strength and confidence during these few fights, they would not dare to attack with such intensity in their previous state.
"What do we do now?"
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian transmitted their thoughts, sending out one person to test the enemy's strength.
This Gu Immortal was Ke Xin Hong.
He cultivated poison path and was the strongest expert of the mushroomman Gu Immortals.”
“Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian did not choose their own members, they chose him instead.
After all, the mushroommen were the last group that joined Fang Yuan, they did not join the current major factions. Thus, as the seniors, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian worked together to target them.
And truthfully, many people were jealous of Ke Xin Hong recently.
He had the most envoy missions, he was almost the sole beneficiary of these missions that could gain huge rewards by just talking.
Many Gu Immortals were jealous.
Ke Xin Hong took in a deep breath, stepping forward and facing Fairy Ming Hao.
Brilliance shined in his eyes, he had soaring fighting spirit.”
“On one hand, after many envoy missions, he gained a lot of animosity from the rest, he needed to prove himself through combat. On the other hand, he wanted to use this chance to make a huge contribution, to make sure the mushroomman tribe was the number one faction in Fang Yuan's subordinate force, he would be able to protect his tribesmen in the future.
"Our mushroomman tribe joined master the latest, we are naturally ostracized by the senior members."
"Even though we want to establish a good relationship with Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian, it seems that master does not want to see that."
"Why did master give me envoy missions time and again, he might not have planned this from the start, but as time went on, his intentions became increasingly deep.”
“Master has a total of two factions under him, they are the variant humans and the humans. There are fewer humans, forget about them now. There are far more variant humans instead, led by Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian, these two groups are getting larger and more influential, as time passes, they will definitely clash over benefits, because of their large influence, master will not be able to control them easily."
"Thus, from the start, master did not want us mushroommen to join them. The reason why master gave me envoy missions time and again is to help our mushroomman tribe gain power and sow discord between the variant human forces."
Ke Xin Hong sighed internally.
The longer he joined Fang Yuan, the more he felt Fang Yuan's unfathomably deep schemes, as well as his experienced political skills and methods.”
“Ke Xin Hong had already expected Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian to ostracize him in such situations.
He calmed his mind and collected all his scattered thoughts, he gathered his spirits and looked at the young girl, cupping his fists: "I am Ke Xin Hong, I would like to exchange pointers with you."
The young girl smiled: "I am Fairy Ming Hao, Ke Xin Hong, I know about you, is your poison path method used like this?"
Saying so, Ming Hao moved her tiny arm as poisonous fluid flew out.
Each lump of yellowish brown poisonous fluid flew into the air and turned into a goose.
Soon, an army of poisonous geese danced around in the sky, changing their formation constantly.
Ke Xin Hong was shook internally: "This is my uniquely created method, why can she use it?”
“Is she also a poison path Gu Immortal?"
"But why can she use my unique method?"
Ke Xin Hong stabilized his mind: "Fairy Ming Hao, that is an amazing method, but this move has a variation move, watch."
Saying so, Ke Xin Hong used the same poison path killer move.
After the geese were formed, they cried out as poison seeped out wherever their voices reached.
Ming Hao's eyes shined, she moved her poisonous geese to fight them as she observed carefully.
After a few breaths of time, she smiled and laughed: "So that's how it is, look, is this how the move works?"
Saying so, she activated Ke Xin Hong's variation move and caused her own geese group to cry out as well.”
“What?!" This time, not only was Ke Xin Hong shocked, even the other subordinates were shook.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian thought to themselves: "This immortal is very strange, she can mimic other people's killer moves. But she only has rank eight cultivation level, our army is huge, how can we falter to one person?"
The two of them had similar thoughts, they immediately ordered and led the other immortals to get around Ming Hao and attack the Sacred Mountain behind her.
Fairy Ming Hao sighed: "Oh you guys, can't you play along? Why are you in such a rush?"
Saying so, her aura surged as she resonated with the Sacred Mountain behind her.
Next, the Sacred Mountain made of black lines and white paper shot out profound lights that had countless killer moves flying out of them.”
“Fang Yuan's subordinates were busy resisting the attacks.
Bam bam bam...
After an intense clash of killer moves, Fang Yuan's subordinates' attacks were all dealt with.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian showed expressions of shock.
"What killer move is this? It can actually mimic all of the killer moves that we used earlier?!"
"This mountain is not normal, it is not just a famous mountain, it is a secluded domain of heaven and earth!"
"Is this the legendary Book Mountain recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]?"
Fairy Ming Hao chuckled: "This killer move was casually created by me, it uses humility Gu as the core, it is called humble reciprocation. This move ”
“can use the information recorded on Book Mountain to deduce and unleash the killer moves that you use. Every killer move that you use is a present for me. Thank you very much."
"Is that really Book Mountain?"
"Humble reciprocation? That is clearly a human path killer move."
Fang Yuan's subordinates were shook internally, they attacked again.
But Fairy Ming Hao unleashed humble reciprocation killer move again, dealing with all of their offenses.
Fang Yuan had many subordinates but they were all stopped by one person.
"Master often told me that a lack of reciprocation is a lack of proper manners. After receiving so many gifts, I should return the favor. Take these." Fairy Ming Hao raised the intensity of her attacks.”
“The attacks came in waves, they were hard to block.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian had to use their full strength to defend and retreat.
At the crucial moment, a muddy yellowish light shot out and blocked most of the attacks, helping Fang Yuan's subordinates stabilize their footing.
It was Lu Wei Yin who had helped.
Fairy Ming Hao casted her gaze and smiled: "You are the current generation Paradise Earth's inheritor? You finally showed yourself?"
Lu Wei Yin frowned deeply, bowing at Fairy Ming Hao: "Greetings to Fairy Ming Hao, I wonder what is your relationship with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable?"
Fairy Ming Hao blinked cheekily: "Make a guess?"
Saying so, she stretched out her tiny finger and pointed at Lu Wei Yin.”
“Boom!
A five pointed starlight speck shot out with intense speed, once it was activated, it arrived before Lu Wei Yin.
Lu Wei Yin's expression did not change, he did not dodge either.
The starlight speck arrived before him and got blocked by a yellowish light wall, turning into nothingness.
Lu Wei Yin sensed something from this as he raised his brows, saying with peculiarity: "Carefree Wisdom Heart?”
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Chapter 2160 Book Mountain
“You are quite perceptive." Fairy Ming Hao smiled.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
Around her, starlight specks continued to shoot out towards Lu Wei Yin.
Lu Wei Yin flew up against the attack and started to engage in battle.
Initially, he was able to fight evenly with Fairy Ming Hao. But soon, he started to get suppressed.
Fairy Ming Hao only used the flying stars to attack her enemy.
Initially, she shot out the flying stars one by one, but soon, they started to shoot out in groups of three, five, or even ten at once.
The power of her flying stars did not increase, but Lu Wei Yin faced increased pressure when they landed on him!
“These flying stars are very profound, this seems to be an endless consecutive move! I am going to face greater and greater pressure as time passes." Lu Wei Yin had a grim expression as he felt fatigue in defending himself.
Both sides only fought for some time, Lu Wei Yin had to retreat as he fought, Fairy Ming Hao had the complete advantage.
Each time she waved her hand, a large cloud of fragmented starlight specks flew out.
Each time the stars shot out, their quantity rose, they were already over a hundred in number.
Starlight shined as the stars moved in the air, the sound of air getting pierced was unceasing, it was a dazzling sight.
"This Ming Hao cultivates wisdom path and star path, she definitely has pseudo venerable battle strength. I should retreat for now!" Lu Wei Yin had intentions of retreating.
Fang Yuan also gave out orders to retreat at the appropriate time, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and the rest let out a sigh of relief as they quickly backed out.
Fairy Ming Hao smiled: "You all came here to seek death, why don't you stay here for good?"
Fairy Ming Hao attacked the immortals.
"Don't even think about it!" Lu Wei Yin blocked her.
Fairy Ming Hao chuckled, a mysterious light flashed in her eyes, shooting towards Lu Wei Yin's forehead.
Lu Wei Yin felt an indescribable change in his mind, he only had the capacity to store up half of his original thoughts.
At the same time, when his thoughts moved, they became much faster but each time, they would stop preemptively. It seemed like all of his remaining thoughts became 'rash', they collided impatiently, trying to deduce the results more quickly.
Lu Wei Yin fell into a predicament immediately.
When using killer moves, he needed to mobilize thoughts.
The more killer moves he used or the more complex they were, the more thoughts he would need to use.
But now that he had only half his thoughts left, he could not think as easily as before. More importantly, even when these thoughts collided, they would resolve in advance, he could not get the most useful result that he wanted.
This was quite fatal.
Once Lu Wei Yin's thoughts end preemptively when he activates a killer move, towards the end when he prepares his killer move, it would end up in failure.
With the killer move activation failing, Lu Wei Yin would suffer a heavy backlash himself.
"Such an incredible wisdom path method!!" Lu Wei Yin was helpless, he could only defend himself, he could not care about the rest.
Fairy Ming Hao grasped the absolute advantage, she immediately ordered the rank eight Gu Immortals of the Sacred Mountain to move out and chase after Fang Yuan's subordinates and kill them.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian retreated with huge losses.
Along the way, they lost nine Gu Immortals, among which three were rank eight Gu Immortals.
The immortal apertures of these Gu Immortals landed on the ground and got absorbed by Green Lotus Great World, their Immortal Gu were also quickly dissolved.
When the Gu Immortals died, their obsession was left behind but Fang Yuan did not see the birth of any land spirit or heavenly spirit.
After Fang Yuan's subordinates returned to Yellow Earth Great World, Fairy Ming Hao judged the situation and stopped her advances.
Lu Wei Yin led the immortals to meet Fang Yuan, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian quickly knelt down and sought for forgiveness.
But Fang Yuan consoled them amicably: "This loss is not your fault. I could tell clearly that this Fairy Ming Hao had outstanding strength, she possesses pseudo venerable battle strength. To think that this place could nurture an expert of such a level.”
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and the rest were relieved, they started to calm down.
While retreating, they were all worried that Fang Yuan would be enraged and kill them all to vent his anger.
After that, Fang Yuan sent out these Gu Immortals to be stationed at all the various defense lines of Yellow Earth Great World. The emphasis of their defense was on the boundary and connection points of Yellow Earth Great World and the two other great worlds, Green Lotus Great World, and Savage Wilderness Great World.
"I am ashamed. To think that Heavenly Court actually has such a female immortal, she possesses an incredible combat system, I am not her match." Lu Wei Yin said with an expression of guilt.
Fang Yuan also consoled him.
Fang Yuan knew that Lu Wei Yin had already used his full strength at this point.
After all, in the previous fight, he had worked with Lu Wei Yin to fight against Spectral Soul and Heavenly Court, it was a near death situation, during that time, Lu Wei Yin had no way of concealing his strength if he wanted to live.
When fighting against Fairy Ming Hao, Lu Wei Yin had already used all of the methods that Fang Yuan knew he had. Yet, he was still not the enemy's match.
"Since this is war, there will be sacrifices. Maybe in the future, you and I might lose our lives too. This is the world of the Gu Immortals, we do not need to harp on it." Fang Yuan was quite satisfied with this result.
The conclusion was that Fang Yuan's losses were smaller than Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven. This was considered a victory.
Furthermore, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian even forced someone like Fairy Ming Hao to take action, Fang Yuan gained useful information about her.
Fang Yuan nurtured Gu Immortals for the purpose of sacrificing them to begin with.
If these cannon fodder could display their value, it would not be his loss.
"The biggest pity is that Lord Fang Yuan lost many Immortal Gu." Lu Wei Yin added: "But now, Northern Plains' Paradise Earth true inheritance is right before us, lord might have something to gain from it."
Lu Wei Yin was referring to Paradise Earth's Sacred Tomb.
Even without his explanation, when Fang Yuan sent him on this mission, he had already done his investigations.
"The tomb of Paradise Earth contains extraordinary profundity, I have not gotten any useful leads yet."
Fang Yuan said frankly before asking: "Do you know anything?"
Lu Wei Yin smiled bitterly: "I am ashamed, I know nothing about it."
Fang Yuan nodded and said: "The wisdom path killer move that hit you earlier was the key that resulted in your loss, what do you think about it?"
This wisdom path killer move was too powerful, since it was exposed already, Fang Yuan wanted to create a counter for it.
Lu Wei Yin thought about it and said with uncertainty: 'It seems that the core Immortal Gu of that move is... pride Gu?"
Fang Yuan nodded again: "That is what I deduced as well."
Lu Wei Yin took in a deep breath of cold air: "Fairy Ming Hao is not a simple person. She possesses the Carefree Wisdom Heart Physique, she also has humility Gu and pride Gu, this reminds me of the description within [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]."
"According to what I know, there is no such person in the history of Heavenly Court, and she seems to have a deep connection with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable."
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]], chapter five, section thirty-five states —
Ren Zu and Great Strength True Martial went through great hurdles and finally arrived before Qian Kun Crystal Wall.
Qian Kun Crystal Wall was straight and stood upright in the void, it was like a huge mirror that reflected everything that happened in the world.
Ren Zu and Great Strength True Martial went inside Qian Kun Crystal Wall.
Numerous flowers, birds, fish and insects converged into a colorful dazzling shadow that filled Great Strength True Martial's vision. The sound of the waves, thunder, and birds' singing in his ears rippled together, there was a fresh, sweet, exciting, spicy taste dancing on his tongue. At times, he felt like he was walking on a steep mountain path, at other times he felt like he was swimming in the waves, and at other times he felt as if he was falling from a great height.
"Father, father! Where are you?" Great Strength True Martial shouted.
But Ren Zu could not hear Great Strength True Martial, he could not see Great Strength True Martial, the color of white filled his vision, it was boundless and vast.
"Oh son, where are you?" Ren Zu sprinted, wanting to find Great Strength True Martial.
Ren Zu ran and ran and ran, after a long time, he saw a black dot at the furthest point within his vision.
Initially, he felt happy and thought it was Great Strength True Martial. But when he approached the black dot, he found that it was actually a huge mountain.
This mountain was very special, the mountain rocks and vegetation were made of white paper, the streams and waterfalls were made of black ink.
This was Book Mountain.
At the foot of Book Mountain, there was a village with many inkmen living in it.
Ren Zu went into the village, causing a huge commotion to arise.
"This is really a rare sight." The inkman spoke: "When ordinary lifeforms enter Qian Kun Crystal Wall, they would get lost after a few steps, they cannot resist the allure of the material world or the countless temptations within it, they can never reach here. You are the first person to arrive here."
Ren Zu was confused: "Why so?"
The inkman elder replied: "Oh human, you are only left with a skeleton, you cannot see, hear, taste, smell, or touch, it allowed you to roam Qian Kun Crystal Wall freely without losing your life."
Qian Kun Crystal Wall existed when the world was first created, it reflected everyone and everything, it contained all the secrets of the world's past and present. Once a person enters it, they would face the barrage of endless information, after some time, they would die from information overload.
After Ren Zu heard this, he felt very worried about Great Strength True Martial, he asked the inkman elder about the way to survive, the elder thus brought Ren Zu to ascend the mountain.
On Book Mountain, there was a largest ink waterfall, and below it was a deep pool.
The inkmen called this pool literature spring.
The ink waterfall continued to flow as it landed on the literature spring, water splashed about. These black color splashes flew in the air as the water droplets formed into ink texts.
"If a person wants to continue living in Qian Kun Crystal Wall, the ink text will be your best helper. The reason why we inkmen can live here is also because of the ink text." The inkman elder told Ren Zu about this big secret.
Ren Zu received the inkman's advice, he collected a lot of ink texts and left the mountain.
Every time he walked for some distance, he would leave behind some ink texts as reference points.
In this vast world of whiteness, the pitch black ink text became very conspicuous. Even though ink
texts faded over time, using them, Ren Zu no longer walked on unnecessary trails, he eventually found Great Strength True Martial.
Great Strength True Martial received Ren Zu's ink texts, every step he walked, he would leave behind some ink texts.
The ink texts recorded the information that barraged Great Strength True Martial, turning them all into pieces of literary work. These literary pieces turned into pieces of tiles that were layered below Great Strength True Martial's feet.
Great Strength True Martial was finally free, his eyes were not blurry, his ears were not buzzing, he could no longer smell the mix of countless fragrances as well.
Stepping on these tiles, he followed Ren Zu back to the inkman village.
Ren Zu asked the inkman elder again: "Oh elder, how can I find wisdom Gu inside Qian Kun Crystal Wall?"
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Chapter 2161 Carefree Wisdom Hear
“The inkman elder told Ren Zu: "Even though wisdom Gu often stays within Qian Kun Crystal Wall, it is hidden very deeply. To find it, you will need to venture deep into the crystal wall, it will not be possible with just ink texts and the tiles that are formed below your feet. These tiles only record all sorts of information on the superficial level, with the endless barrage of other information the limited ink texts within the tiles will change in content, they will disappear quickly and cannot last for long."
The inkman elder said again: "Oh human, you need to turn all the information into knowledge. Only with knowledge can you explain information clearly, you will be able to write them down in words, ”
“allowing you to create a real path instead of just tiles made of texts."
Ren Zu was troubled: "How can I turn them into knowledge?"
The inkman elder laughed: "There are many bookworms on Book Mountain, they record the knowledge that our inkman seniors have left behind. Oh human, you can go look at them."
"It is not difficult to gather the knowledge yourself either. Firstly, you need memory Gu to store all of this information inside your mind. Next..."
Before the inkman finished his words, cognition Gu appeared, saying to Ren Zu: "After that, I can help you to refine knowledge."
The inkman elder nodded with a smile: "Indeed, cognition can produce knowledge."
Ren Zu: "Then I will thank you all in advance.”
“The inkman elder shook his head: "No need to stand on ceremony."
Cognition Gu: "Don't say that human. We have always been good friends, and this situation benefits myself as well."
If cognition did not take in new information, it would quickly get outdated. Only by receiving new information and thinking about it could cognition create useful new thoughts that were healthy and vibrant, innovative and lively.
Ren Zu gathered many bookworms on Book Mountain, he obtained a lot of new information.
Next, with cognition Gu's help, he created many new knowledge from the vast amount of information.
He used ink texts to write down his knowledge, scattering them on the ground and creating a black path made of ink texts.
Ren Zu and Great Strength True Martial walked on this path, they walked for a long time, far longer than any of their previous trips.
"Oh no, I don't have enough knowledge left." Ren Zu walked to the end of the path, feeling very dejected and upset. He had gathered many ink texts but the knowledge in his mind was insufficient already.
Ren Zu and Great Strength True Martial's first attempt failed, they had to return to Book Mountain.
Great Strength True Martial continued to collect ink texts while Ren Zu gathered all the bookworms, with cognition Gu's help, he refined even more knowledge from them.
With more and more knowledge, Ren Zu found that his mind was getting filled up.
“I have too much knowledge now." Ren Zu was very satisfied, he said confidently: "Let's go, I am sure we can reach the deepest part of Qian Kun Crystal Wall this time!"
However, they still failed in their second attempt.
"Why did this happen? My mind was already filled with knowledge." Ren Zu said dejected: "This is all the knowledge I can hold."
"No, oh human, look closely again." Self Gu suddenly spoke to remind him.
Ren Zu inspected his mind, he found a Gu hiding inside it.
Ren Zu realized at once: "So you are occupying my mind, preventing me from getting more knowledge. What Gu are you?"
The Gu answered: "I am pride Gu."
Ren Zu said anxiously: "Can you hurry and get out, you are occupying such a huge area, I want to fill the place with knowledge instead."
But no matter how anxious Ren Zu was, or how he urged, pride Gu refused to leave.
When Ren Zu was out of ideas, Great Strength True Martial spoke: "Oh father, don't be anxious. Don't forget that I still have humility Gu. I will give it to you."
Great Strength True Martial took out humility Gu and gave it to Ren Zu.
Pride Gu was chased away by humility Gu, it had to fly out of Ren Zu's mind and land on Great Strength True Martial instead.
Strong Gu was very happy: "The strong have their own pride!"
After Ren Zu chased pride Gu away from his mind, he returned to Book Mountain to continue gaining knowledge.
“After Ren Zu gained humility Gu, he realized that the more knowledge he had, the more he found ”
that he was lacking knowledge, and the more he wanted to fill his mind with even more knowledge.
Ren Zu's mind was quickly filled.
Self Gu urged him: "Oh human, stop now, your mind is already full of knowledge."
But Ren Zu replied: "But I think that it is insufficient, I am certain that I still do not know a lot of things, I need to continue gaining knowledge."
Ren Zu continued to refine his knowledge, his mind was getting bloated, it was hurting and could not hold anymore information, but humility Gu made him feel like he was still lacking in knowledge.
Suddenly, there was a loud boom.
Eventually, Ren Zu's mind could not take it anymore, it exploded from an overload of knowledge.”
The knowledge scattered on the ground as a little girl stood up from within.
"Father, father." The little girl hugged Ren Zu's leg happily: "My name is Carefree Wisdom Heart, I am your daughter."
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Northern Plains.
Sincerity grassland.
Chen Cheng was dressed in green, his arms were crossed behind his back as he stood arrogantly upright.
He stared at the foreign female immortal before him as he shouted: "Who are you? Why did you request to meet me here?"
The female immortal standing before him wore a half-mask covered her nose, mouth and cheeks, only revealing the upper half of her face which ”
showed her strong contours, sharp and long brows, bright eyes and a heroic aura.
She wore a dark gold armor that covered her whole body, bringing a heavy feeling of suppression on any that looked at it, she was definitely not an ordinary person.
"You can address me as Fairy Black Moon." This female immortal said.
"Fairy Black Moon?" Chen Cheng raised his brows: "Where are you from?"
Now that the five regions were merged, Gu Immortals no longer had region specific auras, that was why Chen Cheng asked the question.”
Fairy Black Moon smiled lightly: "My identity and origin are not important. Chen Cheng, you are called the Sincerity Immortal, you cultivate rule path. Back then, you had an agreement with your friend, the loser in the battle would recognize the winner as their owner and assist them. Do you remember this?"
Chen Cheng's pupils shrank as he frowned: "I was young and arrogant then, I did not know what that truly meant, that was why the agreement was made. I was still a mere Gu Master back then, who are you exactly? You know such an obscure secret!"
Fairy Black Moon smiled coldly: "I'm only asking you, Chen Cheng, is this agreement still effective?"
Saying so, she took out a token.
Chen Cheng received it as his expression changed again: "This token is real, where did you get it? What relationship do you have with my friend?"
Fairy Black Moon said again: "I said these are not important."
Chen Cheng took a deep breath, he said with a solemn expression: "I understand now, you want us to have a fight, if you win, you will make me your servant! Since you took the initiative to find me, I am sure you are confident in your own strength. But I need to remind you, even though I am a lone cultivator, after roaming Northern Plains for so many years, I have gathered many trump cards. If you win this battle, I will acknowledge you as my master. But if you lose, I will be your master!"
Fairy Black Moon laughed heartily: "Everyone calls you the Sincerity Immortal, someone who keeps his words and promises. After meeting you, it seems that this is true after all. Let's fight!"
Chen Cheng was furious: "Regardless of who you are, today, I will see what you are capable of!"
At the next moment, thunder rumbled as the battle of two immortals ensued.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
He Chun Qiu was taking charge of Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool.
Splash splash splash.
The water of time moved erratically, creating the mesmerizing sound of waves.
A rank eight Immortal Gu was quickly forming, landing in He Chun Qiu's hands.
"Good, all of the destroyed rank eight Immortal Gu have been refined successfully." He Chun Qiu nodded, feeling satisfied about the progress.
Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool had the ability of Regret Pool, any Immortal Gu that it refined would have an insignia left behind. When the Immortal Gu is destroyed, Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool would use the power of the tributary of the River of Time together with the insignia to refine the Immortal Gu again, the success rate would be higher than refining a new rank eight Immortal Gu normally!
When Fairy Ming Hao forced Fang Yuan's subordinates to retreat earlier, Lu Wei Yin expressed his pity over the destroyed Immortal Gu.
But he did not know that Fang Yuan's refinement path methods were unimaginably powerful, in just a few days, he refined all three rank eight Immortal Gu that were destroyed in that battle.
But Fang Yuan was still not satisfied with his current refinement path attainment.
Several days had passed since Ming Hao defeated Lu Wei Yin and the rest.
These days, the three worlds were quiet and safe, battle had stopped, there was temporary peace.
Since it was not time for the actual fight yet, Fang Yuan used this time to comprehend the profundity of the place.
He had already investigated Paradise Earth's tomb, there were countless dao marks distributed in it, the structure was complex and profound, the scale was immense, he could not unravel it in a short time.
Fang Yuan spent most of his energy on the countless big and small worlds here, trying to comprehend the refinement path profundity that they contained.
"Sage, Savage Wilderness Great World's envoy seeks your audience." At this time, a Yellow Earth Gu Immortal reported respectfully.
"It's Bing Sai Chuan." Lu Wei Yin came over as well, bringing accurate information with him.
Fang Yuan smiled lightly: "It is about time they came here."
Earlier, the loss of Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian was actually part of Fang Yuan's scheme.
Even though Heavenly Court lost to him before, Fang Yuan had never underestimated their foundation.
Heavenly Court placed a huge focus on Crazed Demon Cave, they even brought Divine Emperor City over, how could Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian defeat Heavenly Court?
With the current situation, even though Longevity Heaven, Heavenly Court, and Fang Yuan had one of the three great worlds each, Heavenly Court was still the dominant party.
The three sides were contesting but there was still the strongest and weakest side among them.
Together with Bing Sai Chuan taking the initiative to cooperate with Fang Yuan during the fate war, after Lu Wei Yin and the rest returned in defeat, Fang Yuan waited patiently for Bing Sai Chuan's envoy to come.
It was just that Bing Sai Chuan, one of the Four Desolation Immortals, actually came here personally.
It showed Longevity Heaven's sincerity right away.
"Friend Fang Yuan, have you been well?" Bing Sai Chuan smiled.
But Fang Yuan's expression was cold: "I am working together with Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable to help him revive. Bing Sai Chuan, it is really unwise that your Longevity Heaven wants to cooperate with us. After all, when the time is ripe and Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable revives, our strength will rise sharply, we can even suppress Heavenly Court."
"This..." Bing Sai Chuan's expression froze immediately.
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Chapter 2162: Cooperating Once Again
The purpose of Bing Sai Chuan’s visit was obvious, he wanted to work with Fang Yuan and resist Heavenly Court.
Fang Yuan did not want to waste time, he directly stated the obstruction towards their cooperation instead.
Paradise Earth’s tomb was huge as a mountain, Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court knew about it long ago.
The reason why they attacked Yellow Earth Great World earlier was also because of this.
Bing Sai Chuan was a rank eight expert renowned in history after all, he laughed, the stiffness on his face vanished at once: “Fang Yuan, do you know where this Book Mountain originates from?”
Fang Yuan had a thought: “Book Mountain is not originally an arrangement of Heavenly Court?”
Bing Sai Chuan nodded: “Indeed, that is so. Book Mountain was originally in the ninth layer of Crazed Demon Cave, but because of Heavenly Court’s immense foundation in wisdom path, they comprehended a portion of the profundity and took out Book Mountain from the ninth layer in advance.”
“Oh?” Fang Yuan did not acknowledge nor reject the answer.
But Lu Wei Yin’s expression changed.
This was something that the Gu Immortals of Yellow Earth Great World did not know of.
After all, it happened deep within Green Lotus Great World.
“Heavenly Court has such a method? They have already started comprehending the ninth layer and even managed to bring out Book Mountain? Did Limitless Demon Venerable’s retaliative method not activate?”
Bing Sai Chuan sighed deeply: “If it worked, we would not have come here so urgently to seek an alliance.”
Fang Yuan replied in a solemn tone: “Did you see Star Constellation Immortal Venerable?”
Bing Sai Chuan shook his head: “Not even once.”
Fang Yuan asked again: “Then what is the relationship between Fairy Ming Hao and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable?”
Bing Sai Chuan replied honestly: “Since the arrangement of Limitless Demon Venerable exists, until the right opportunity arises, we will not use our full strength, thus, we did not force Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to show herself. But Heavenly Court had three female immortals that appeared, they all possess pseudo venerable battle strength, Fairy Ming Hao is one of them.”
“These three female immortals are Ming Hao, Yu Xiu, and Feng Ya respectively, they cultivate wisdom path with star path secondarily. Your side has already seen Fairy Ming Hao’s strength, Fairy Yu Xiu is stronger than her, days ago when we fought, our side had to send reinforcements to stall them and form a stalemate.”
“As for Fairy Feng Ya, she seems to be even stronger but she has never taken action, she has been secluded in Crazed Demon Cave to comprehend the ninth layer profundity. Book Mountain is the fruit of her labor.”
Lu Wei Yin could not help but sigh: “Heavenly Court is the number one force in the world after all, their foundation is unfathomably deep. After Duke Long died, they lacked pseudo venerable battle strength, but to think that three of them were hidden in Crazed Demon Cave! This shows the importance Heavenly Court is placing on Crazed Demon Cave.”
Bing Sai Chuan added: “Other than these three pseudo venerables, there are also rank eight elites like Qin Ding Ling. In addition, regarding the forces they have out in the open, there are Divine Emperor City, Demon Judgment Board, and Heaven Overseeing Tower. With Heavenly Court’s foundation, it will not be strange for them to bring out more Immortal Gu Houses.”
Lu Wei Yin gritted his teeth: “Heavenly Court even transferred a portion of the immortal graveyard into Crazed Demon Cave, this immortal graveyard was created here by using the Tomb Earth they collected. At the crucial moment, the immortal graveyard’s slumbering experts in history would awaken, they have terrifying strength too.”
“Precisely so.” Bing Sai Chuan concluded: “Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin, both our sides need to cooperate. Otherwise, how can we force Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to show up? How can we defeat three pseudo venerables? How can we ensure the revival of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable?”
Bing Sai Chuan’s intention was obvious.
Heavenly Court’s advantage was too great, if they were not stopped in time, even before Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable revives, Heavenly Court would have won already!
Thus, there was a need for them to work together.
Lu Wei Yin looked at Fang Yuan, who nodded slightly, agreeing to this cooperation.
Longevity Heaven seemed to have no fear regarding Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s revival, they were very confident in themselves, their trump cards were definitely not few. But currently, with Heavenly Court in the lead, they had to do something to slow them down.
Savage Wilderness Great World and Yellow Earth Great World stopped fighting between themselves, they sent out troops to attack Green Lotus Great World together.
Even though there was cooperation with Longevity Heaven, the extent was quite limited.
Fang Yuan suggested that they should exchange true inheritances. He wanted to use venerable true inheritances of equal value to exchange for Longevity Heaven’s luck path true inheritance of Giant Sun.
Bing Sai Chuan rejected him with a polite tone but his attitude was firm.
Fang Yuan also suggested that they should exchange immortal materials. He wanted rank nine luck path immortal materials but Bing Sai Chuan rejected him as well.
Fang Yuan’s force had already inflated to this level, when he sent out his subordinates earlier, even Bing Sai Chuan was completely stunned from their collective strength.
Bing Sai Chuan and the rest had a strong opinion against Spectral Soul and Red Lotus! To help Fang Yuan destroy fate Gu, they had truly given him too much help.
In just these few days, Fang Yuan’s force had already grown to this terrifying level!
And what about his own strength?
How much had he grown until now?
In this situation, how could Longevity Heaven make a transaction with Fang Yuan? Wouldn’t that be helping his growth?!
Due to the cooperation of Fang Yuan and Longevity Heaven, the situation changed greatly.
But Heavenly Court seemed to have predicted this, even though the two sides attacked with their full strength, they were still defending themselves firmly.
At times, when the defensive lines were about to break, Fairy Ming Hao and Yu Xiu would take action personally, either maintaining Heavenly Court’s position by forcing enemy Gu Immortals to retreat, or using the battle opportunity to invade Savage Wilderness Great World and Yellow Earth Great World instead, causing huge destruction and countless deaths.
Fang Yuan also saw Fairy Yu Xiu’s strength for the first time.
Fairy Yu Xiu had an exceptional combat system. Her attacking methods were very special, they relied on the difference between the two sides’ attainment level. The bigger the difference, the stronger the attacks.
Ever since the first time they reached the base of Book Mountain, Fang Yuan’s subordinates made no such advancement again.
Like this, the three sides fought with each other, the situation was in a deadlock, days went by one by one.
A large number of Gu cultivators died, their sacrifice made the three worlds grow larger with an increasing number of stable dao marks. The more Gu cultivators died in this place, the more the boundaries of the three great worlds faded, and the larger the area which the worlds were connected to became.
On this day, at the peak of Book Mountain.
Fairy Yu Xiu gathered the Heavenly Court immortals, she spoke: “Right now, Fang Yuan and Longevity Heaven have cooperated, this is giving us huge pressure. Our immortal graveyard has a backup hidden force but Fang Yuan’s Wu Shuai clone has not shown up yet, Longevity Heaven is also hiding their strength.”
“Since the situation is now in a deadlock with all three sides wary of each other, the small worlds around the three great worlds will be the key to our victory.”
“These small worlds might be weak but they still have Gu Immortals. If we can get them to join us, we will gain an advantage in the fight between the three forces.”
During this time, Fang Yuan and Longevity Heaven cooperated, managing to suppress Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court was losing more and more members.
Zhou Xiong Xin sighed: “These small worlds are easy to defend but hard to attack, even though we tried many times and are able to win by force, very few Gu Immortals decided to join us sincerely.”
Prince Feng Xian added: “These Gu Immortal inhabitants lack sufficient intelligence, they are very stubborn as well, most of them bear animosity towards the three great worlds. They think that fusing their world into the great worlds would cause the destruction of their homeland, they hold a firm attitude.”
“Thus,” Fairy Yu Xiu smiled: “I will hold a lesson at the peak of Book Mountain to teach the countless masses. Any Gu cultivator, mortal or immortal, can join this session.”
“How will you do that?” Wan Zi Hong asked.
Fairy Yu Xiu explained the details, Heavenly Court’s immortals had changes of expressions.
“Lady Yu Xiu has such an incredible method? We are truly in admiration!”
“In that case, we will not have to worry about these Gu cultivators not joining us sincerely.”
“These lowly Gu cultivators actually have such a great fortune to be able to get a Dao lesson from Lady Yu Xiu, this is too good for them.”
“Haha, they are all just cannon fodder, they will be sacrificed in the end, there is no harm in doing this.”
Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals discussed among themselves, the atmosphere slowly became relaxed.
Divine Emperor City.
Qi howling painting world.
A group of beggars stood around Fang Di Chang, facing a huge elephant.
The huge elephant was pure white in color, its four legs stomped on the ground, it was unmoving like a sturdy mountain.
The beggars were in a stalemate for a long time, their morale was falling, they started to feel like they could not resist this huge elephant.
Fang Di Chang was frowning deeply: “This qi monster is made from righteous qi, the longer we fight it, the more disadvantageous it is for us.”
Qi monsters had all sorts of shapes and sizes they were not fixed, they could be made from all kinds of qi, having varying temperament and strength.
For example, qi monsters made of domination qi would be domineering, qi monsters made from death qi would love to be in places filled with many deaths. Qi monsters made of life qi would have strong recovery abilities, while qi monsters made from luck qi would be hard to kill, once they were killed, the benefits to the Gu cultivator would not be small.
Even though Fang Di Chang was Fang Yuan’s clone and shared his attainment level, he had lost his body and soul. With just his will left, he resided within the human path beggar Gu.
Thus, he could not resist this white elephant made of righteous qi.
But thankfully, the righteous qi white elephant was not rampaging, it did not make a move in the end, only staring at the beggars.
“I have arrived!” Shen Shang finally fought his way to them.
After finishing off his earlier opponent quickly, he came to help out Fang Di Chang.
He fought against a group of blood qi monsters earlier, he was bathed in blood.
Fang Di Chang immediately sighed in relief as he made the beggars fall back and let Shen Shang in.
Shen Shang fought against the white elephant using human path methods.
This rank eight Gu Immortal was indeed the human path quasi-supreme grandmaster chosen by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, he quickly gained the upper hand.
But right when he was about to finish off the elephant, the ground started to shake.
Rumble…
About ten thousand bull shaped qi monsters stampeded together while creating huge dust clouds behind them.
Shen Shang and Fang Di Chang’s expressions changed.
The righteous qi elephant screeched in fear as it escaped in panic.
Shen Shang did not bother with it, he grabbed Fang Di Chang and quickly ran in another direction.
The stampede of countless bulls was like a tsunami that swept heaven and earth, it could not be stopped.
Shen Shang and Fang Di Chang managed to escape with their lives, they watched as the bulls charged away.
“These qi monsters are made of charging bull qi, but isn’t the size of the group too big, who can block it?” Shen Shang sighed.
Fang Di Chang replied: “The bulls are running towards the closest camp. Who knows how many will die, but that camp is going to end up in ruins.”
Shen Shang nodded: “Indeed, once the camp is destroyed, we can only retreat to another camp further back. Our exploration will get tougher.”
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Chapter 2163: Endless Learning
The two of them had deduced something earlier, thus they worked together and explored deeper into qi howling painting world, in order to find and communicate with Heavenly Court’s enemy at the depths of the painting.
The enemy of an enemy was a friend.
But even after Shen Shang and Fang Di Chang did their best, they could not reach the deepest part of the painting.
Qi howling painting world was too huge, Fang Di Chang’s strength was at a limit, even though Shen Shang had rank eight cultivation level, it was severely restricted in here, the difference between mortal and immortal was not evident.
The only good thing was that Shen Shang’s illness was greatly alleviated here. Ever since he entered the painting world, he had not relapsed again.
According to Shen Shang’s estimations, the dense human path environment here was helping him.
“Sigh, the ten children of human path have left. Without their help, how can we get through this painting and meet the one suppressed at the deepest part of the painting?” Fang Di Chang sighed.
Shen Shang was about to speak when his expression changed suddenly, he shouted: “This is?!”
Next, Fang Di Chang also sensed the aura of a rank eight Immortal Gu rapidly spreading towards him.
The two no longer cared about qi howling painting world, they quickly returned to the central area of the original painting world.
The two of them saw a rank eight Immortal Gu at the same time, it was floated in the air, shining with radiance.
“Divine Emperor City is truly deep, it actually contains this legendary Immortal Gu!”
“If I am not wrong, this should be the learning Gu recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]!!”
The two conversed, seeing the shock on each other’s expressions.
“Learning Gu is a human path Immortal Gu, this is likely the highest ranked human path Immortal Gu in the current world.” Fang Di Chang sighed.
“I get it now!” Shen Shang’s eyes suddenly shined with bright light: “Why did beast tamers and qi cultivators appear earlier? It was the result of this learning Gu’s effect. Of course, this should not be the only Gu used, it is likely a killer move. Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable had such grand ambitions, his arrangements were truly deep.”
Fang Di Chang frowned: “But why did this learning Gu activate on its own now? Did something happen in the outside world?”
Shen Shang was troubled, he did not know about the situation outside.
But he quickly reacted: “This is a prime opportunity! Learning Gu must be one of the cores of Divine Emperor City, regardless of what is going on outside that caused this core to be used alone, at this point, Divine Emperor City’s intact structure has a crack in it, we can find this weakness and make use of it!”
“Good idea!” Fang Di Chang’s pupils expanded as he looked at Shen Shang excitedly: “Let us work together and explore the secret of Divine Emperor City.”
At the same time.
Crazed Demon Cave.
Eighth layer.
Green Lotus Dao field, above Book Mountain.
Fairy Yu Xiu sat at the peak of Book Mountain, within her immortal aperture, Divine Emperor City’s learning Gu spread out its radiance, cooperating with Fairy Yu Xiu’s other Immortal Gu to form a human path killer move —
Endless Learning!
At the middle and bottom of Book Mountain, there were countless Gu cultivators.
The killer move’s radiance was light blue in color, it spread down and covered all of these Gu cultivators.
Their bodies shook intensely.
“This is?!”
The immortals’ expressions changed, they were filled with deep shock.
An indescribable profundity of the Great Dao flowed into the depths of their hearts like a gentle river.
The attainment levels of these immortals started to rise!
“There is actually such an incredible killer move in this world, if I am not experiencing this personally, I will not be able to imagine it!”
“This is the teaching of the sage, the sage is merciful and benevolent!”
Many Gu Immortals were so touched they shed tears on the spot, others knelt down on the ground, kowtowing to Fairy Yu Xiu at the peak of the mountain.
These were all non-standard Gu Immortals, but they were receiving the most traditional Gu cultivation method now.
They were all clear about how hard it was to raise attainment levels!
This was truly an unprecedented fortuitous encounter for them!
“In this world, there are indeed other methods to raise attainment level other than dream realms. Human path… Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable had already made his arrangements to this degree. It is definitely not wrong for Heavenly Court to develop human path!” Qin Ding Ling was very excited internally.
Heavenly Court’s members, with her at the lead, sat down together and closed their eyes to comprehend calmly.
Fairy Yu Xiu opened her eyes slightly, looking down below her with a glance.
Sweat had gathered on her forehead, all the thoughts in her mind were used to sustain this move.
Endless learning was a human path method of strategical value, its benefit for any super force was huge beyond imagination.
Its greatest advantage was that it did not expend the user’s true meaning, it created true meaning in the mind of the targets instead!
Rule path and wisdom path Gu Immortals were more adept at extracting their own true meaning compared to other paths.
When other Gu cultivators take the true meaning, their attainment levels of the corresponding path would rise sharply.
But the Gu cultivator who extracted their true meaning would experience a fall in attainment level, the losses could not be regained.
This was why true meaning was so rare in the world.
Endless learning was a killer move that made use of Fairy Yu Xiu’s attainment level, the secluded domain of heaven and earth Book Mountain, as well as learning Gu.
This move could create new true meaning in the mind of the targets.
Once the true meaning was created, it would be instantly absorbed by the Gu cultivator and cause their relevant attainment level to rise.
This was the greatest advantage of the killer move endless learning, it did not consume anyone’s attainment level.
But at the same time, this advantage was also its weakness.
Because the true meaning created by the killer move had limitations.
The limitations were the Gu cultivator themselves.
The Gu cultivator’s aptitude, talent, comprehension and personal experiences were conditions that restricted their production of true meaning.
Attainment level profundity of the same level would vary across the different people who were comprehending them. If one reached their limit and could not comprehend the profundity, they would start to develop illusions.
As expected, not long after, Gu cultivators on Book Mountain started to see illusions.
Some of them saw surging golden lotuses, some saw azure rain, some saw surging bloody water, some saw bone forests, or rainbow colored phoenixes that growled loudly.
“I, I can’t persevere anymore!” A moment later, someone spat out blood and fainted.
More and more people followed.
But some Gu cultivators were still enduring.
With this, the talent, personal experiences and comprehension of the Gu cultivators were also clearly distinguished.
But by the time, those among Qin Ding Ling’s group started to waver as sweat appeared on their foreheads, about ninety percent of Green Lotus Dao field’s native Gu Immortals had already fallen.
“Even if these natives become Gu Immortals, they are still inferior to humans, who have the highest natural talent and intelligence.” Fairy Yu Xiu nodded to herself.
After some observation, she had already gained a clear understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the Gu Immortals from Green Lotus Dao field.
When Qin Ding Ling and the rest started to waver, the other Gu cultivators on the mountain had already fainted.
Bai Cang Shui fainted, Zhou Xiong Xin also fainted, followed by Jun Shen Guang.
Eventually, only three Heavenly Court members were left.
They were Qin Ding Ling, Che Wei, and Gu Yue Fang Zheng.
“Brother?” Gu Yue Fang Zheng’s eyes were filled with blood, he grunted before fainting.
Thereafter, Qin Ding Ling smiled bitterly as she lost consciousness as well.
Che Wei lasted until the end.
Fairy Yu Xiu nodded to herself: “As expected of the creator of weapon path. Hmm? I actually misjudged.”
Fairy Yu Xiu’s expression suddenly changed as she shifted her gaze from Che Wei to a meteor at the bottom of the mountain.
This meteor was large as an elephant, it was also a Gu Immortal.
Earlier, it had fallen into a state of semi-unconsciousness. Even Fairy Yu Xiu did not expect that a certain strength would gather within the rock.
At this point, the mystical strength reached its limit, there was a qualitative change occurring.
Rumble!
With a thunderous sound, the meteor shattered as golden light shined in all directions.
From the piercing and blinding light, a rock monkey flew out.
The rock monkey landed on the ground and scratched its ears, shouting: “Brilliant, truly brilliant!”
Plop.
At the other end, Che Wei could no longer endure it, he fainted on the spot.
Fairy Yu Xiu’s expression became even more peculiar: “This rock monkey is born from heaven and earth, it is extraordinary. It even has incredible talent surpassing Che Wei. With such potential, it will definitely reach great heights in the future!”
“Amazing, amazing.”
“What a pity, what a pity.”
Fairy Yu Xiu sighed continuously.
She was referring to Limitless Demon Venerable when she said ‘amazing’.
Limitless Demon Venerable created Crazed Demon Cave, the derivation of new heaven path dao marks went on for over a million years, the results were huge. This rock monkey was the proof of it!
This rock monkey’s potential and comprehension ability even surpassed Heavenly Court’s members, it defeated Che Wei!
If this rock monkey was nurtured well and grew successfully, it might create its own path in the future.
But this rock monkey was destined to have a pitiful ending, it could not live for long.
It was meant to be Limitless Demon Venerable’s sacrifice!
Even Heavenly Court could not let it off.
Because it was not a pure human.
This was also why Fairy Yu Xiu said ‘what a pity’.
The rock monkey lasted for a few more minutes before falling on the ground, unconscious.
Fairy Yu Xiu stopped using the killer move, she started to rest.
Even though she did not consume her attainment level, the price of using this move was quite high. Be they thoughts, immortal essence, or her own lifespan, they were expended.
Not long after, the Gu Immortals started to wake up.
They started to cheer, unable to control themselves.
Their attainment levels had all risen, the problems that they faced normally with killer moves or incomplete Immortal Gu recipes were all resolvable now.
Many Gu Immortals even had new ideas regarding the modification of their current killer moves.
“Thank you, sage, for imparting the Dao to us!”
“Sage has unsurpassed virtue for imparting the Dao to us!”
The Gu Immortals knelt on the ground of their own will.
Fairy Yu Xiu smiled, her voice spreading throughout Book Mountain, before spreading to the entire Green Lotus World: “Three days later, I will hold another session to impart the Dao on Book Mountain again.”
The immortals were stunned, at the next moment, a thunderous cheer resounded.
Three days later, not only on Book Mountain itself, even a large number of Gu Masters gathered near the base of Book Mountain.
Gu Masters could only surround Book Mountain but not ascend it, on the mountain base and the sides, many new Gu Immortals showed up.
These Gu Immortals came from various small worlds, hearing that a sage was imparting the Dao on Book Mountain, they came of their own accord to benefit from it.
Fairy Yu Xiu used endless learning again.
As illusions started to show up, everyone saw different sights.
“I can see many flowers!”
“So many pig heads are flying in the sky…”
“Fairy, don’t run, you can’t escape from me! Hehehe…”
“That rascal is dead meat, I’m telling you, even a Gu Immortal cannot save him!”
“The man of my dreams is an unparalleled hero who will come and marry me while riding on a rainbow cloud, even though I am also a man.”
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Chapter 2164: Ant Poison Appears Again
All sorts of illusions appeared.
Soon, the Gu Masters outside of the mountain quickly fell unconscious one by one.
Next, the ones on the mountain, those Gu Immortals who had attended the previous session also fainted in succession.
During the first session, they had already reached their limits. After just three days, the growth of their foundation was very limited.
Even Heavenly Court’s members were no exception.
After them were the various mutant Gu Immortals of the small worlds. They had deep foundations and this was their first time attending the Dao lesson.
“Hmm?” Fairy Yu Xiu expressed her surprise again.
Among these mutant Gu Immortals, she found another genius this time.
It was a lump of deep green colored tornado, it persevered until the end. The aptitude and comprehension ability it displayed was equally matched with the rock monkey.
When this tornado Gu Immortal fell unconscious, Fairy Yu Xiu also stopped using her killer move.
By the time they awakened, she announced again: Three days later, the next session will be held.
For the third Dao lesson, even more Gu Immortals came.
Not only the mutants of the various small worlds, even Savage Wilderness Great World’s and Yellow Earth Great World’s Gu Immortals came.
Eventually, the one who lasted until the end was a lizard Gu Immortal.
This immortal came from Savage Wilderness Great World, its aptitude was on par with the rock monkey and tornado, they were extraordinarily talented.
Fairy Yu Xiu conducted three Dao lessons in total, the influence was not just kept in the three great worlds, it even spread to the remaining small worlds. Not only the small worlds at the boundaries of the three great worlds, but even many other small worlds that were currently being drawn to the central area.
Fairy Yu Xiu achieved her goal, the effect was evident.
Their impression on the various Gu Immortals of Green Lotus Grand World improved greatly, many Gu Immortals chose to join them.
Yu Xiu chose three leaders from among them, they were the rock monkey Bu Tian Kong, the tornado immortal Nie Kuang Feng, and finally, the lizard Gu Immortal from Savage Wilderness Great World, Duan Hu.
But a large number of Gu Immortals still chose to watch on the fence.
These Gu Immortals mostly came from small worlds, their worlds were still moving now, they had not landed near the three great worlds yet.
“Since this change occurred in the void, the unification of the worlds cannot be avoided, we need to find a good allegiance!”
“Indeed, we are all rulers of our small world, we can influence where we end up in to a certain extent.”
“Green Lotus Great World’s sage gave a Dao lesson, I wonder if the other two worlds’ sages will do the same?”
Unavoidably, these Gu Immortals started to hold expectations.
A capable person will often choose to find a capable leader.
Even though they were native Gu Immortals that were not human, they had ample intelligence and were quite astute.
From Fairy Yu Xiu’s Dao lessons, they sensed that she was trying to recruit them.
The three great worlds were in heated conflict, the amount of losses was huge and severe, it was the stage for them to shine on.
They even started to spread the word.
“If the other two great worlds do not give such a benefit, we will join Green Lotus Great World!”
“The three great worlds have existed for so long, Green Lotus Great World’s sage imparted wisdom on everyone, they are truly magnanimous and benevolent. I am sure that the other two worlds’ sages are the same.”
“We will join whichever world gives the greatest benefits.”
These Gu Immortals wanted to gain the most benefits for themselves.
As for which world they would end up joining?
Haha, they can decide that after getting the benefits!
The situation changed abruptly, Lu Wei Yin quickly went to Fang Yuan for a discussion.
Lu Wei Yin sighed: “Currently, Heavenly Court has the initiative again, after cooperating with Longevity Heaven, we managed to destabilize Heavenly Court’s advantage over us, but with Fairy Yu Xiu’s Dao lessons, all our efforts ended up in vain. But thankfully, the situation is salvageable, how should we go on to recruit those Gu Immortals who are still on the fence?”
Fang Yuan was silent.
These mutant Gu Immortals who were still roaming around were top tier cannon fodder, Heavenly Court’s recruitment of them was a great move.
Fairy Yu Xiu’s method also expanded Fang Yuan’s horizons.
“Learning Gu… endless learning…”
Other than the dream realm, this was the first time Fang Yuan saw a killer move capable of directly raising attainment levels.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, he had no recollection of such a killer move.
From what he gathered and from Lu Wei Yin’s information, there was no warning or hint that such a killer move existed.
This meant that the killer move was likely a new creation of Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court had deep foundation and countless elites who progressed and developed with time.
Lu Wei Yin looked at Fang Yuan as he said: “This killer move is extraordinary, it can raise the power of an entire force. Attainment level is very hard to raise, even I am slightly moved by Heavenly Court’s offer. There is also something more worrying, within [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], there are records that Ren Zu and the other two went into Primordial Domain using true meaning.”
“Heavenly Court possesses the killer move endless learning, this means that they have a method of creating true meaning that is unique in this world. This method might allow them to enter Primordial Domain earlier than others, or even like Book Mountain, they might be able to obtain Primordial Domain from the ninth layer!”
Fang Yuan nodded slightly.
Lu Wei Yin was very astute, all of his words made sense.
Primordial Domain was the key factor in the conflict of the three parties, even if a venerable revives successfully, to become a true Dao Lord again, they need to rely on Primordial Domain.
One could say that whoever obtains Primordial Domain first would gain the greatest advantage, they would become the eventual winner of this fight!
Fang Yuan pondered: “Endless learning is truly incredible and useful, but we also have a strategic level killer move ourselves. I have already used it.”
Lu Wei Yin’s expression turned to joy as he guessed: “That lingering poisonous ant plague killer move?”
Fang Yuan nodded while adding: “I used this move in Eastern Sea before, let’s see how Heavenly Court deals with it. Other than that, we need to keep an eye on Longevity Heaven, I am quite curious about their following actions.”
Lu Wei Yin thought about it and added: “Lord, since you have already used lingering poisonous ant plague, we should take the initiative to attack and exert pressure, when Heavenly Court is busy dealing with it, they will not have the time or energy to resist this move.”
Fang Yuan had already shut his eyes: “You can go handle this matter. I want to deduce the Paradise Earth true inheritance here.”
Lu Wei Yin immediately took his leave, his best idea was to communicate with Longevity Heaven and attack in unison.
After getting Lu Wei Yin’s invitation, Longevity Heaven did not hesitate, they cooperated smoothly.
The truth was, their pressure was higher.
Many Gu Immortals defected from Savage Wilderness Great World to Green Lotus Great World, even more than Yellow Earth Great World. The most famous among them was Duan Hu.
This rank eight expert was very famous in Savage Wilderness Great World, with him taking the lead to join Heavenly Court, the influence on Longevity Heaven was dire.
Days later, Longevity Heaven and Fang Yuan sent out their troops again to attack Green Lotus Great World.
In the sky, Gu Immortals fought intensely.
“Kill!” Golden Fur Immortal Monarch held two large hammers on both hands as he attacked aggressively.
He was covered in thick golden fur, he had many Immortal Gu and killer moves, allowing his defense to be tight, he had no worries about charging forward.
The formation of Heavenly Court’s mutant Gu Immortals were disrupted many times because of him.
“Don’t be too arrogant.” A child-like wood path Gu Immortal with grass growing on his head gritted his teeth as he blocked Golden Fur Immortal Monarch.
Golden Fur Immortal Monarch’s advancement was halted, he fought against this immortal.
After dozens of rounds, there was no clear victor.
“Hmph!”
“I am Grass Head Child, I was born with an Immortal Gu, I am blessed with great fortune.”
“You have Immortal Gu, but my Immortal Gu are also not fewer than yours!”
This wood path Gu Immortal shouted with a confident disposition.
Suddenly, his expression became distorted as his body started twisting around.
“So itchy!” Suddenly, Grass Head Child could not endure the intense feeling.
Wave of ants crawled out of his body, piercing his grass skin.
“What is going on? What are these things!” Grass Head Child was shocked, he quickly retreated.
“Hahaha, where are you going!” Golden Fur Immortal Monarch saw the chance and chased relentlessly.
Grass Head Child was hit by the killer move lingering poisonous ant plague, he was greatly distracted and lost his momentum, after several rounds, he was smashed into pulp by Golden Fur Immortal Monarch’s hammer, dying on the spot.
Similar scenes were occurring to the other mutant Gu Immortals.
With the activation of lingering poisonous ant plague, the situation was immediately changed.
Originally, Heavenly Court had many mutant Gu Immortals, they were able to enter a deadlock with Fang Yuan’s subordinates who were better equipped, but now that their immortal apertures were getting attacked, they lost all their morale, they had no will to fight.
“Run!”
“Why are there ants on my body as well?”
“Don’t kill me, I surrender!”
The formation collapsed entirely, Fang Yuan’s subordinates chased after them and obtained great results.
“This is the outcome for siding with Green Lotus Great World!”
“All the Gu Immortals who sided with them faced the judgment of lingering poisonous ant plague.”
“Kill all the captives, our master has given orders, we will not accept them!”
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and the rest cheered loudly, resounding in the entire battlefield.
They worked with another group from Longevity Heaven, making great advances and forcing Heavenly Court’s mutant Gu Immortals to run in fear, unable to retaliate.
The defeated mutant Gu Immortals found that they could not resolve lingering poisonous ant plague killer move, they had to rush to Book Mountain and kneel towards the peak, requesting for the sage’s help.
At the peak of Book Mountain.
Qin Ding Ling frowned: “Fang Yuan used that move after all! If we cannot resolve it, our great advantage is going to be lost entirely.”
Many of the mutant Gu Immortals were still watching in anticipation.
If Green Lotus Great World was too weak, even if the benefits were huge, they would not join them.
After all, great benefits were pointless unless one had sufficient lifespan to enjoy them.
At this moment, Fairy Yu Xiu defended Book Mountain while Fairy Ming Hao went to the front lines, preventing Longevity Heaven’s troops from causing any more trouble.
Fairy Yu Xiu was also quite troubled: “You have already given us the information of this lingering poisonous ant plague killer move. This is quite an impressive move, it contains poison path, enslavement path, refinement path, wood path, food path, and even heaven path profundity.”
“It contains heaven path profundity?” Qin Ding Ling was deeply shocked: “No wonder Eastern Sea’s Righteous Qi Alliance can only alleviate the effects of this move but not remove it completely!”
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Chapter 2165: Operation of Heaven and Earth
Peak of Book Mountain.
Regarding Fang Yuan’s lingering poisonous ant plague, Fairy Yu Xiu explained: “Thankfully, this move had already been used in Eastern Sea before, you also made Zui Xian Weng infiltrate Righteous Qi Alliance and obtained first-hand information about it. Thus, I am prepared against it.”
“But the current lingering poisonous ant plague has been modified by Fang Yuan. My original method isn’t going to be suitable, I need to modify it as well.”
Qin Ding Ling heard this as her expression eased up slightly: “That will be good.”
Fairy Yu Xiu smiled: “I only need three days to succeed. During this period, Heavenly Court can spread the news regarding lingering poisonous ant plague to everyone.”
Qin Ding Ling acknowledged and left.
Not long after, the mutant Gu Immortals learned of the situation, they became very angry.
“Yellow Earth Great World’s sage is truly too vicious!”
“I’ve heard that Yellow Earth Great World’s Gu Immortals are united and harmonious. To think that their sage is such a vicious person, this is really a huge disappointment to everyone.”
“In comparison, Green Lotus Great World’s sage is really magnanimous, they have the disposition of a sage. Even Savage Wilderness Great World’s sage pales in comparison.”
The observing Gu Immortals were very disappointed. They waited for so long but neither Longevity Heaven nor Fang Yuan gave the response that they wanted.
They gained nothing from waiting, Yellow Earth Great World and Savage Wilderness Great World directly sent their troops and started the war!
These mutant Gu Immortals were very disappointed, but they also started to get angrier.
“The sages of these two great worlds are acting like this, are they not afraid that we will join Green Lotus Great World?”
“Hmph, the sages of these two worlds are too high and mighty.”
“Forget it, I will join Green Lotus Great World instead!”
All of the observing mutant Gu Immortals chose to join Heavenly Court.
“Heavenly Court’s wisdom path method is quite formidable. The emotions of these mutant Gu Immortals were influenced, according to what I know, many Gu Immortals made the decision to join Heavenly Court in a spurt of anger.” Lu Wei Yin sighed as he explained to Fang Yuan.
Heavenly Court first spread information of Fang Yuan’s vicious method before helping the mutant Gu Immortals resolve their lingering poisonous ant plague without asking for compensation, finally, they even used a method to influence the emotions of these mutant Gu Immortals.
After this series of actions, not only did they alleviate lingering poisonous ant plague’s terrifying effect, they even retaliated and caused Fang Yuan and Longevity Heaven’s position to be worse than before.
“Currently, Heavenly Court has recruited many mutant Gu Immortals, their advantage in numbers is increasingly evident. Should we recall our troops at the front lines?” Lu Wei Yin asked.
Fang Yuan smiled as he waved his hand: “Heavenly Court is formidable, according to my deduction, this mysterious wisdom path killer move contains heaven path profundity too, it is similar to heaven’s will and has the ability to influence the thoughts and emotions of living beings.”
“Lingering poisonous ant plague has been troubling the Righteous Qi Alliance but Heavenly Court managed to resolve this move so easily.”
“In fact, I even modified this move once again.”
“However, Longevity Heaven is taking action now, let’s watch and see before making a decision.”
Gu Tou Luan was one of the mutant Gu Immortals who joined Heavenly Court.
After making the agreement with Heavenly Court, she traveled through the void and returned to her small world.
Using several days, she set up an immortal formation.
This immortal formation was Heavenly Court’s reinforcement, after activating it, it could influence the travel route of the small world, allowing it to land on the boundary of Green Lotus Great World.
“Green Lotus Great World’s sage is truly unfathomable. This immortal formation is amazing and has huge power but the expended immortal essence is so little.”
Gu Tou Luan praised internally as she activated the immortal formation.
The immortal formation burst out with profound light, spreading from the inside to the outside of the small world.
The small world had always been moving towards the center of the void, but under the effect of the immortal formation, it started to change its trajectory slightly.
“Hmm?!” After several breaths of time, Gu Tou Luan’s expression turned to shock.
“What is going on? I activated the immortal formation but the small world is uncontrollable, it is forcefully moving towards another direction!”
“Is the immortal formation ineffective?”
Gu Tou Luan quickly checked and was shocked to find out: It was not that the immortal formation was useless, but a profound force had been influencing her small world from long ago.
Compared to this vast force, the immortal formation had no strength to counter it.
Gu Tou Luan could only watch as her homeland flew and landed on the boundary of Savage Wilderness Great World.
This was not a unique situation, many small worlds were influenced and landed on Savage Wilderness Great World, while others were still on their way.
Gu Tou Luan and the other mutant Gu Immortals were stunned.
They joined Green Lotus Great World, but their own small worlds ended up in Savage Wilderness Great World, they would definitely be absorbed by Savage Wilderness Great World and fuse into it.
“This is the method of Savage Wilderness Great World’s sage!”
“Unbelievable, that sage already took action long ago. He is actually able to attract all the small worlds.”
“Only those small worlds at the periphery were spared.”
“What do we do?”
Many Gu Immortals were starting to feel regret. Had they known this, they would not have joined Green Lotus Great World so quickly.
Peak of Book Mountain.
“This is Giant Sun’s heaven and earth luck method.” Qin Ding Ling sighed: “Fate is fixed while luck is a variable. Longevity Heaven disregarded the cost and brought Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace here, they have already started to influence the heaven and earth luck of the eighth layer of Crazed Demon Cave. Thus, these small worlds were all drawn to them.”
“It is a venerable method after all.” Fairy Yu Xiu sighed. Even though they could understand Longevity Heaven’s method, they had no way of resolving it.
Not only because Longevity Heaven was superior to Heavenly Court in terms of luck path methods.
But because this method was used by Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, to resolve it, they had to destroy the palace.
And Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace had been hiding deep within Savage Wilderness Great World, now that pseudo venerables could not use their full strength, who could reach it and destroy it?
Heavenly Court had no answer, they could only sit and wait.
This way, Heavenly Court gathered most of the mutant Gu Immortals, they had advantage in numbers. Longevity Heaven obtained most of the small worlds, Savage Wilderness Great World was growing and expanding rapidly.
Only Fang Yuan’s side was the weakest, during this period, not only did they not recruit many mutant Gu Immortals, they also failed to get many small worlds.
Heavenly Court started to instruct the mutant Gu Immortals to retaliate, the front lines that went deep into Green Lotus Great World started to be pushed away outwards again.
Gu Masters gathered into armies, fighting and killing all over the battlefield.
Immortals fought in the air, it was an intense battle.
Rock monkey Bu Tian Kong roamed unhindered, with a sudden roar, it vanished on the spot.
“This move again!” Bing Zhuo’s eyelids were twitching, he quickly looked around him: “Where? Where will he show up?!”
But Bu Tian Kong did not attack Bing Zhuo, it teleported behind Shi Zong instead.
“Take my fist!” Bu Tian Kong shouted.
Shi Zong quickly defended himself but his defensive killer move was quickly broken through.
Bu Tian Kong’s fist pierced Shi Zong’s chest, protruding out of his back.
Bu Tian Kong snickered, its body shook as a killer move was activated, Shi Zong exploded and shattered into pieces that flew everywhere.
Shi Zong and Bing Zhuo were rank eight Gu Immortals, while Bu Tian Kong also had rank eight cultivation level, to think that he managed to kill Shi Zong while going up against two opponents.
“No matter what formation this is, I will send it flying!” At the other end, Nie Kuang Feng, who was inside the Rotting Smell Vicious Cloud formation, shouted.
The six eggman Gu Immortals from Rotten Egg grotto-heaven formed into the ancient battle formation Rotting Smell Vicious Cloud as they trapped Nie Kuang Feng for some time, at this point, they were unable to hold on anymore as the latter broke out from within.
The six eggman Gu Immortals spat out blood in response, they were either dead or injured.
And on another battlefield.
Duan Hu fought against Lu Tong Lan.
Lu Tong Lan was the Desolate Extremity of the Eight Extremities, but she actually fell into a disadvantage.
Duan Hu’s attacks were powerful and wild, its body was tough like a mountain, when colliding, it felt like one was colliding with the world itself, Lu Tong Lan’s blue phoenix totem killer move was almost destroyed in the fight.
“These three immortals were born with immense innate luck, they are the luck children of Crazed Demon Cave’s eighth layer. Originally, Yellow Earth Great World should have produced such an expert too, it is a pity…”
Fang Yuan understood the reason behind these three immortals’ existence, he casted his gaze at Paradise Earth’s tomb.
Using luck inspection killer move, he saw that this Paradise Earth’s tomb had immense luck that resembled a yellow soil mountain, it was unmoving and incredibly dense.
These days, with their losses at the front lines, many of Fang Yuan’s subordinates also died.
But Fang Yuan remained calm as ice, these fatalities were just numbers to him.
The longer this dragged on, the more advantageous it was for him.
Fang Yuan had already comprehended a lot of the profundities regarding Paradise Earth’s tomb, in the past he did not have the ability to create his own Tomb Earth, but now, he could create a huge graveyard in the sovereign immortal aperture to act as a node of the earth vein.
Most of Fang Yuan’s time and energy were spent comprehending the refinement path profundity here.
Ordinary Gu Immortals refined Immortal Gu, while Limitless Demon Venerable refined the worlds of heaven and earth.
This gap in refinement path was now quickly filled up by Fang Yuan, he was even gaining huge results from it.
At the same time, Fang Yuan gained a deeper and clearer understanding of Limitless Demon Venerable’s arrangements.
“It is time.” Fang Yuan muttered lightly, he gazed afar with his deep abyss-like eyes.
Crack!
A shocking flash of lightning landed on the battlefield.
The immortals on the battlefield were shocked.
In an instant, lightning bolts crashed down like a forest, the immortals had to stop and retreat immediately.
Thereafter, tribulations of various intensity rained down like a torrent, occurring to all three great worlds and their boundaries.
At the peak of Book Mountain, Qin Ding Ling was shocked: “What is going on?”
After making some deductions, Fairy Yu Xiu explained confidently: “This is Limitless Demon Venerable’s method, so it turns out that when the fusion of worlds reach a certain stage, tribulations will befall.”
At the same time, Fang Yuan’s gaze focused on these tribulations that were extremely far away.
Waves of comprehension emerged in the depth of his mind.
“All tribulations are superb methods in refining heaven and earth.”
“Gu Immortals manage their immortal aperture, under normal circumstances, their main source of dao marks come from tribulations.”
“When Gu Immortals successfully pass a tribulation, they would gain a large number of dao marks. These dao marks will modify the immortal aperture and cause the environment to change, this is the refinement of heaven and earth.”
By expanding this logic, all tribulations were refinement path methods.
Fang Yuan smiled lightly.
At this point, the refinement path profundity regarding the refinement of the world and heaven and earth had already been comprehended by him to a large extent.
“Earlier, my luck gave me an indication. Now is the time to use that move.”
Fang Yuan started to activate heaven’s envy Immortal Gu!
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Chapter 2166: Heaven Envies Heroic Geniuses
The sky was in chaos, Gu Immortals fought intensely everywhere.
Wild winds blew, wind blades shot all over the place.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch paused for a moment, his body was surrounded by wind blades from all directions.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s square face was covered in frost, he snorted coldly, he shot out immense crystal frost qi that destroyed all the wind blades.
But at the next moment, Nie Kuang Feng suddenly arrived right before him.
Nie Kuang Feng was a green tornado to begin with, it condensed into a ball and burst out with a terrifying suction force!
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch wanted to dodge but it was too late, he was trapped by the tornado, unable to escape for the moment.
“Oh no!” Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s expression changed.
It was too late to use extreme ice crystal light immortal suppression coffin now.
Normally speaking, the stronger the killer move, the longer the time needed to use it. When fighting against Nie Kuang Feng, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch could not find the time or opportunity to use this move.
At the crucial moment, this move could no longer be used. During a deadlock, using this move would expose weaknesses for the enemy to exploit. Even if he used it, with the enemy on guard, the effect would not be decisive either.
“Hehehe, this is my signature killer move — Wind Suction Life Twister! I spent thirty years to painstakingly create it, before spending a hundred years to modify it. Nobody has ever survived against this move, you will be no exception.”
Nie Kuang Feng laughed wildly.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s expression was grim, it was too late to dodge now, he could only activate his defensive killer moves desperately.
“Ahh—!”
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch cried out in pain.
First, his arms were absorbed into Nie Kuang Feng’s body, even though they were covered in thick ice crystals, they only lasted for a few moments before disintegrating.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s arms were directly shredded into particles!
Next was Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s body.
“I am finished.” Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch felt despair at this moment, but suddenly, a bolt of black lightning shot down.
Nie Kuang Feng was directly hit and suffered a huge blow, its suction force stopped for a moment.
The speed of Nie Kuang Feng’s wind ball tornado fell greatly, within the green wind, there was a large area of black ink-like color that got corrupted.
“Damn it, tribulations appeared again.” Nie Kuang Feng gritted its teeth.
Since several days ago, tribulations started to occur at all corners of the various great worlds.
Especially places with more Gu Immortals, they would encounter more tribulations.
Now that there were many Gu Immortals fighting intensely on the battlefield, it was not strange to have many tribulations occurring here.
Nie Kuang Feng’s attention was drawn to Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch again: “Die!”
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch tried his best to break free but he could not get away from Nie Kuang Feng’s suction force, he was pulled into Nie Kuang Feng’s body inch by inch.
“I am finished!” Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch felt despair at this moment once again, but suddenly, a bolt of black lightning shot down.
Crack, the black lightning bolt landed on Nie Kuang Feng.
Nie Kuang Feng froze again, the black color in the green wind tornado became denser.
“This tribulation is so strong, it can actually cause such injuries to me.” Nie Kuang Feng sighed, growling at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch: “But you cannot escape, your life is mine!”
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was sucked into the tornado again.
“It seems that my life is really going to end here.” Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch sighed again, but at this moment, a bolt of black lightning shot down on Nie Kuang Feng.
Nie Kuang Feng’s movements froze, the tornado twisted and almost seemed like it would explode!
“What happened?”
“What is going on with this tribulation?!”
“Why did it hit me three times in a row? I am so close to Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch yet it did not even hit him once?”
“Is his luck that good? I don’t believe it!”
“I’ll suck him in with me!”
Crack.
Black lightning shot down, landing on Nie Kuang Feng.
Nie Kuang Feng refused to believe its luck: “I’ll do it again.”
Crack.
“I do not believe it, I’ll draw him in!”
Crack, crack, crack!
Nie Kuang Feng could not take it anymore.
As black lightning bolts continued to shoot down, they landed on his head without any deviation.
Nie Kuang Feng’s body almost collapsed, it could not draw in Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch anymore.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch took the chance to retreat, quickly getting away from Nie Kuang Feng.
“I actually survived? What in the world is going on?” Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was lucky to survive, he was filled with disbelief and surprise.
Far away, black lightning continued to land on Nie Kuang Feng.
No matter where Nie Kuang Feng went, black lightning seemed to target it specifically.
No, not only black lightning, soon, tribulations like blood dragons and grey spirits also went to approach Nie Kuang Feng.
Nie Kuang Feng was going crazy, at this moment, it felt like the entire world was going against it!
Of course, tribulations also landed on other Gu Immortals, but Nie Kuang Feng experienced the most animosity from these tribulations.
While Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch healed himself, he observed and found another person who faced the same situation as Nie Kuang Feng.
It was rock monkey Bu Tian Kong!
This unlucky monkey was currently fighting against several rank eight Gu Immortals like Solid Rock Warrior.
Countless bats and white flying cranes attacked him, disrupting the rock monkey’s attacks and causing it to lose momentum.
Even though Solid Rock Warrior and the rest were also affected by the tribulations, they were less targeted and found an opportunity to retaliate fiercely.
The rock monkey was very troubled, in this situation, it could only turn from offensive to defensive.
Peak of Book Mountain.
“What is going on?” Qin Ding Ling stood up, her expression had changed.
Book Mountain was an information path secluded domain of heaven and earth, because of Heavenly Court’s method, it had been collecting the information of the two battlefields.
Thus, even though Qin Ding Ling stayed at the headquarters, she quickly observed many of the changes in the battlefields.
Currently, Heavenly Court’s troops had already moved into Savage Wilderness Great World and Yellow Earth Great World.
The tribulations in Savage Wilderness Great World were quite low regardless of strength or quantity.
Green Lotus Great World had an ordinary number of tribulations.
But Yellow Earth Great World was clearly abnormal, not only were they more severe, they even targeted Nie Kuang Feng and Bu Tian Kong.
“What is going on here?” Qin Ding Ling was uncertain and shocked.
Fairy Yu Xiu had started her deduction long ago, after getting the result, she said: “Amazing move, this should be Fang Yuan’s work. This mysterious killer move can actually amplify calamities and tribulations of heaven and earth, prioritizing the targets that have the most outstanding aptitude and talent.”
“Nie Kuang Feng and Bu Tian Kong represent the small worlds and Green Lotus Great World respectively, they are two of those who have the greatest innate luck among all the inhabitants of Crazed Demon Cave’s eighth layer.”
“Thus, they were targeted specifically!”
“Hmm?” Saying this, Fairy Yu Xiu’s expression suddenly changed: “This killer move’s range is increasing rapidly, it has already arrived here.”
“Oh no.” Qin Ding Ling’s expression changed yet again as she raised her head to look up.
Above Book Mountain, tribulation clouds rumbled, covering the entire sky with endless thick layers of over ten thousand li of space!
“The tribulations are still intensifying, what is going on?” Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth, even someone like her felt a terrifying might from the tribulation clouds above her.
Fairy Yu Xiu’s expression was grim: “This tribulation is targeting Fairy Feng Ya. She possesses talent Gu, she has been in closed cultivation to deduce Limitless Demon Venerable’s arrangement to the best of her abilities.”
When wisdom path Gu Immortals made deductions, they were also exposing themselves.
Thus, heaven and earth detected Fairy Feng Ya’s existence, it started to create a tribulation to exterminate her!
“Fang Yuan’s mysterious killer move actually makes use of Limitless Demon Venerable’s arrangement to attack our Heavenly Court, he is really vicious.” Qin Ding Ling said in anger: “Lady Yu Xiu, please allow me to bring Divine Emperor City to the front lines and find trouble with Fang Yuan so that he cannot use this move casually.”
“No. That is exactly what Fang Yuan wants to see.” Fairy Yu Xiu shook her head and said with a firm attitude: “The key now is to protect Fairy Feng Ya. We will gather our formation and resist the tribulation, we will give Fairy Feng Ya the most optimal environment to make deductions.”
At almost the same time, in Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun also sensed Fang Yuan’s method, he praised in amazement: “This method contains heaven path profundity, it is truly out of my expectations that Fang Yuan seems to be cultivating heaven path! I wonder what the name of this move is?”
“Hmph!” Desolate Extremity Jiao Huo said in displeasure: “Fang Yuan has already allied with us, yet he is using this move on our Savage Wilderness Great World as well, causing our subordinates to face its effects too.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun smiled lightly: “When we made the alliance agreement, he had already considered this, thus he used the loophole and is not breaking our alliance. After all, this move is mainly targeting the Gu Immortal Duan Hu.”
“But our Gu Immortals are being weakened by the tribulation, that is the truth.” Jiao Huo said.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun nodded, his gaze turning deeper: “He is forcing me to take action. Hahaha, very interesting, then I shall make my move to deal with this method.”
“Master!” All the Gu Immortals in the hall shouted in concern.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun waved his hand: “Don’t worry, the fate war has ended for a long time already, my strength has been recovering steadily. Moreover, I am taking action now not just to deal with Fang Yuan’s killer move but also to participate in the operations of the worlds, I want to observe Limitless Demon Venerable’s arrangements more deeply.”
At the next moment, Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace shot out with a beam of light soaring to the sky, it was grand and powerful, shining in golden radiance.
“Very good, Longevity Heaven took action already.” Fang Yuan soon sensed the commotion at Savage Wilderness Great World.
He looked over there, his gaze crossing a huge distance as he analyzed Savage Wilderness Great World.
“Longevity Heaven had a trump card indeed.”
“At this moment, Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace activated and surged with luck path aura. This effect mixed into the operations of the worlds, combining with Limitless Demon Venerable’s arrangements to hasten the fusion of the small worlds.”
“No, there is also the method of all living beings luck in use.”
“Longevity Heaven’s subordinate mutant Gu Immortals are being taken care of, they are facing less pressure from the tribulations now.”
Fang Yuan observed for some time and gained great insights.
At his current level, he could already gain comprehension of other paths using his own as a foundation. Right now, by just observing a move from Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, Fang Yuan could deduce a lot of the profundity of all living beings luck and heaven and earth luck.
The move that Fang Yuan activated was called heaven envies heroic geniuses, it used heaven’s envy Immortal Gu as the core and targeted those people with outstanding talents.
Originally, Fang Yuan wanted to use this move on venerables, but now, it was unleashed at a superb timing, it complemented Limitless Demon Venerable’s arrangements and used his power to allow this move to spread out across the various great worlds, amplifying its strength!
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Chapter 2167: Wooden Statue Lord Wu Guang
It rained not long ago.
The sky of Northern Plains was pale white, it looked extremely clear.
A Gu Immortal lowered his altitude, he was only tens of feet above the ground, flying rapidly as he scanned the area below him, seeming trying to find something.
This Gu Immortal was bare chested, his body was well proportioned and his muscles were bulging. He has an ordinary face, a sharp nose and pursed lips, giving the impression of a man with perseverance.
He looked at the ground with lush growing grass, a field of green filled his vision. But observing closely, he found that the ground below the grass were cracked and shattered, there was something going on here.
Because the Northern Plains Gu Immortal had sensed something amiss here, he came to investigate.
Now, he had already inspected the range of a hundred li.
Suddenly, a green shadow flashed in the crack of the ground.
“Found you!” The Northern Plains Gu Immortal’s eyes shined, he flew down rapidly with a grey shadow around him, he was filled with determination like an eagle hunting its prey.
Rumble!
The Northern Plains Gu Immortal directly crashed into the ground, causing a huge explosion, rocks flew while grass swayed in the air from the shock wave.
The Gu Immortal hit the target with one attack!
“Hmm?” At the next moment, his pupils contracted.
The ground cracked open, revealing a huge body below the topsoil, it resembled a huge yellow dragon.
But looking closely, it was not a dragon but a huge trunk of a ginseng.
The ginseng trunk was yellow in color, covered in wrinkles and gave people a feeling of great strength.
Even though it was attacked, the ginseng trunk exploded with terrifying power, as if a giant dragon was turning over its body.
Boom, boom, the surrounding ground was cracked again, grass and soil splattered, the Northern Plains Gu Immortal was sent flying by this action.
He flew up into the sky and saw the entirety of the ginseng. In the surrounding hundred li of area, yellowish ginseng roots were protruding out of the soil, it looked like a forest had appeared.
Several hundred roots that resembled yellow dragons attacked the Northern Plains Gu Immortal in a frenzy.
The Gu Immortal took a deep breath, grey shadows appeared around his body.
Under the cover of the grey shadows, his figure became blurred like a shadow, he alternated between intangible and solid.
As the ginseng roots landed on his body, they passed through like he was an illusion, there was no effect.
The Northern Plains Gu Immortal was like the moon in the lake, no matter how the water rippled, he was completely unaffected.
The Gu Immortal thus regained his footing and started to prepare his offensive method.
As the killer move was unleashed, greenish grey wooden spikes with the size of ancient trees stabbed into the ginseng roots, pinning them to the ground.
The Gu Immortal continued to use this move as the surrounding ginseng roots fell in number.
“What a good thing!” The Northern Plains Gu Immortal was called Wu Guang, he was a rank seven wood path Gu Immortal, titled Wooden Statue Lord.
He observed the ginseng roots for some time, his gaze becoming increasingly heated.
This yellowish ginseng was a mysterious product, even the wood path cultivator Wu Guang did not know much about it.
But this was quite a common situation. After the five regions merged, earth veins rumbled and qi tides surged, a vast quantity of cultivation resources appeared one by one, among which were many strange and mysterious things.
This ancient desolate plant was one of them.
It was found by Wooden Statue Lord Wu Guang by chance.
This gigantic ginseng had extraordinary value.
If Wu Guang could successfully obtain it, it would be a profitable source of revenue in the long run. But it was not easy to subdue a wild ancient desolate plant, compared to those desolate plants who were cultivated from saplings.
Subduing an ancient desolate plant required enslavement path methods, this was not Wu Guang’s expertise.
But he was not asking for much now, he wanted to kill the giant ginseng and get a huge quantity of immortal materials.
Problems would arise if this dragged on, he was currently in the territory of the Huang Jin bloodline tribes, if they found him, the lone immortal Wu Guang would not reap any gains.
Immortal killer move — Decaying Wooden Death!
After the roots surrounding Wu Guang thinned to a certain extent, Wu Guang pushed with both palms, a loud explosion could be heard, a grey light pillar shot through the sky, landing on the trunk of the ginseng.
On the ginseng trunk, a huge hole was formed, it got instantly pierced by the light pillar.
The roots that were still attacking Wu Guang seemed to have lost all their strength, they fell to the ground like feeble insects, no longer having their strength like before.
“It is over.” Wu Guang smiled lightly, but suddenly, his expression changed!
Rumble!
At the next moment, the ground shook intensely like heaven and earth was flipping around. A thousand ginseng roots appeared at once, they were tall and mighty, each being over a hundred feet in height, roots filled the entire place as their shadow cast down on Wu Guang’s body.p
Wu Guang was greatly shocked to realize that the ginseng trunk he perceived earlier was merely a larger branch of the entire plant.
“This ancient desolate plant likely has tens of thousands of years of history. It is very close to rank eight, it is at the peak of an ancient desolate plant!” Wu Guang was deeply shook.
Countless roots slammed down.
Wu Guang quickly dodged them.
But right at this moment, the wild Immortal Gu living in a certain part of the ginseng burst out with power, causing Wu Guang’s speed to fall rapidly.
Wu Guang was hit by many roots at the same time.
At the crucial moment, the grey shadows appeared again!
A thousand ginseng roots rampaged like huge whips, cracking the air as they moved, creating huge shock waves.
Wu Guang’s body shook intensely, his immortal essence expenditure was very high.
“Oh no.” Wu Guang could sense the aura of death. At this rate, his immortal essence storage was going to be emptied.
Even though he relied on a defensive method and managed to stay alive, this defensive killer move had a huge flaw, once activated, the Gu Immortal could not move, they had to stay at the same spot.
Wu Guang fell into danger again.
The situation changed too quickly, at the next moment, he was at the brink of life and death.
Wu Guang was feeling bitter internally.
He had been too overconfident, he did not investigate the situation more clearly.
As a matter of fact, the ginseng had been moving underground, it was not easy for Wu Guang to find it and force it to come to the surface. If he had to make a thorough investigation, by the time he finished, the ginseng would have escaped into the ground already.
“It is too late to say anything now, to think that I, Wu Guang, would die in the hands of an ancient desolate plant.”
As his immortal essence dried out, Wu Guang started to feel despair.
Roar—!
Right at this moment, a fierce tiger attacked.
The tiger was black in color and gave off a metallic luster, it was huge like a mountain and had sharp and powerful claws, it easily tore the ginseng roots to shreds, it was extraordinarily fierce.
“What ancient desolate beast is this? No, wait, this is a killer move.” Wu Guang stared with wide eyes, feeling surprised and curious.
The black tiger fought against the ginseng roots, the two were stuck in a deadlock, being evenly matched.
Rumble!
At the next moment, the ground shook again.
The ginseng roots suddenly straightened before falling to the ground with a loud thud, no longer moving again.
“What? This mysterious ancient desolate plant got killed by someone in one move!” Wu Guang was shocked, his internal worry became much deeper.
Often, humans were much scarier than beasts or plants.
Wu Guang did not need to think to know that the Gu Immortal who killed the ancient desolate plant was very strong, extremely strong!
Once Wu Guang escaped death, he saw a green robed Gu Immortal.
Wu Guang knew this person, he immediately cupped his fists: “So it was you who saved my life, Chen Cheng.”
Gu Immortal Chen Cheng waved his hand: “I was only assisting, the one who saved your life is my master.”
“Master? Whose servant did you become?” Wu Guang was shocked.
At this moment, the ground cracked as a figure flew up into the sky.
Wu Guang stared with wide eyes at this female immortal, she wore a half-mask that covered the lower half of her face.
Her brows were sharp and her eyes shined with brilliant light, she wore a black-gold armor with an aura of domination around her, intimidating her foes.
The one who entered the ground to kill the mysterious ginseng was Hei Lou Lan.
Roar—!
The black tiger roared as it returned to her, turning into a tattoo on Hei Lou Lan’s skin.
It was the totem killer move — Dark Capital Strength Tiger.
Wu Guang had never seen this move or even heard of it, upon seeing this sight, his shock intensified.
Hei Lou Lan looked down at him at an angle: “I saved you, how will you repay me?”
Wu Guang’s body shook, he quickly expressed his gratitude: “I will not forget the debt of saving my life! I wonder what I can do for you? As long as you tell me, I will do my best to complete your request.”
But Hei Lou Lan laughed as she looked at Chen Cheng: “I see that you are acquainted with him, what use does this person have?”
Chen Cheng: “Master, we are heading to Crescent Moon Mound to challenge Yin Wu Que, this person has a close relationship with him, he can lead the way.”
Wu Guang quickly added: “I am acquainted with Brother Yin, but the challenge…”
Chen Cheng smiled as he explained: “Master succeeded in her cultivation, she came out of seclusion to challenge the experts of the world, she wants to face off against the various geniuses. I lost to her and according to the agreement, I became her servant.”
Wu Guang took in a deep breath: “So that’s it…”
He was hesitant.
Yin Wu Que was his good friend, if he had to lead this expert to his friend for a fight, regardless of result, he would feel very troubled.
But Hei Lou Lan did not care about Wu Guang’s feelings, she said: “Lead the way.”
Wu Guang shook internally.
Hei Lou Lan’s tone was filled with dominance that did not allow rejection.
Wu Guang was sure that if he defied her, he would end up like the ginseng earlier.
“Please follow me, benefactor and Chen Cheng.” Wanting to preserve his own life, Wu Guang led the way.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Milky white sea water rose and fell with the tides, the sea was covered in thick fog, one could not see anything including their five fingers.
In this milky white fog, countless people seemed to be moving in it rapidly at all times.
Shi Zong’s mind was completely chaotic, he was muddled and dazed, he was submerged in the sea water at times, while floating in the white fog at other times.
He could vaguely hear a voice calling him: “Shi Zong, since you are awake, why are you not coming out?”
Thus, he followed this voice and walked out of the sea, arriving at the shore.
He was bare naked with no clothing on him, after leaving Human Sea, he suddenly jolted awake.
Looking at the dense white fog and sea around him, he checked his own body.
He was in disbelief: “Didn’t, didn’t I die already?!”
“Shi Zong, you have already revived in master’s secluded domain of heaven and earth, Human Sea. But your cultivation level has been lost, you are a mortal and will need to cultivate from the start again.” The Gu Immortal who led him out smiled as he said.
Shi Zong was speechlessly dazed, after a while, he fell to the ground as he knelt by the shore.
“I was able to revive all thanks to master’s kindness and generosity!” Shi Zong raised his head and shouted, tears flowing down his face in excitement.
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Chapter 2168: Unifying Human And Gu
Before Fang Yuan entered Crazed Demon Cave, the secluded domain of heaven and earth Human Sea had already been completed.
In order to construct the complete Human Sea, Fang Yuan ordered the slaughter of countless humans, he had unsurmountable sin and blood on his hands, but he also achieved his goal as he obtained the results that he expected at this moment.
Evidently, if news that dead Gu Immortals could revive through Human Sea spread among his subordinates, Fang Yuan’s force would gain a huge boost in morale!
The truth was, in the five hundred years of his previous life, Human Sea secluded domain was used by Eastern Sea’s Xia clan.
In Fang Yuan’s first life of five hundred years.
When Xia clan’s Gu Immortals died outside, they were not truly dead, they could revive from Human Sea. Although their Immortal Gu and immortal aperture’s accumulations would be lost, they would still retain their cultivation level and immortal aperture itself.
Eastern Sea’s Xia clan gained a huge reputation because of this, for the following period of time, they invaded Southern Border. Southern Border’s Gu Immortals fought against Xia clan, over time, they learned about Xia clan’s background and foundation, eventually, Chai clan mimicked Human Sea and created their own Human Mountain secluded domain.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, fate Gu was only damaged but not entirely destroyed. Now, fate Gu was completely gone.
Thus, Human Sea could revive Gu Immortals with much less difficulty.
But Fang Yuan did not let those Gu Immortals who revived become Gu Immortals again immediately.
Firstly, to revive a Gu Immortal who retained their cultivation level, it would cause a huge expenditure to Human Sea. After a few uses, he would need to slaughter a massive number of humans and variant humans to replenish it.
It was not that Fang Yuan could not bear to do that, but it was troublesome.
Also, if these Gu Immortals became mortals again and had to cultivate all over again, Fang Yuan could make use of them.
Firstly, these revived Gu Masters had the foundation of a Gu Immortal, they had rich cultivation experience, it was probable that they would succeed in immortal ascension again. During their ascension, the natural inspiration would be a good chance for Fang Yuan to get answers he wanted!
Secondly, when these Gu Immortals re-cultivate, they would need to undergo tribulations, Fang Yuan could help them with that and gain heaven path dao marks.
Finally, after these Gu Immortals cultivate from the start, they might gain inspiration and innovate new killer moves. In the process, they would also be more reliant on Fang Yuan, it would mean that he would gain greater control over them.
But at this moment, after using the killer move human revival sea, his heart shook as inspiration flashed in his mind.
At this moment, he obtained a crucial breakthrough in refinement path.
“So the human body Gu refinement method is like this.” Brilliance flashed in Fang Yuan’s mind, a light sense of joy appeared in his heart.
The so-called Human Sea revival method was in essence using a Gu cultivator method to refine the human body and soul. This was a human path method indeed, but it was also using Gu to refine a human!
Fang Yuan lacked insight on the human body Gu refinement method earlier. When he researched on Ni clan, he found that the human body Gu refinement method was related to blood path and others, this conclusion was not wrong.
“Using a human to refine Gu and using Gu to refine a human, the two are interchangeable in essence.”
These two were like the two sides of a coin, they existed with one another.
The true core was — Unifying Human and Gu!
It was like sovereign immortal fetus Gu, it was a Gu worm that could turn into a human body after activation. But it did not provide a soul, instead, the sovereign immortal body would be created with the most compatibility with the Gu cultivator’s soul.
When Fang Yuan used Human Sea to revive a Gu Immortal, he was refining a human body and also a human soul.
Looking at the legendary immemorial desolate beast Qing Chou, it was originally a killer move that was converted into a life form.
This meant that any life form could be created with a Gu cultivation method!
This was totally possible in theory.
And the truth was, this was already hinted in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]].
In [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], chapter three section fourteen, it was clearly stated. The myriad lifeforms in the world were originally secluded domains of heaven and earth — Gu worms within the Blue Sea of Life. These Gu worms were washed ashore by the waves of the Blue Sea, turning into all sorts of lifeforms.
All the countless methods converged into the same origin.
Using Gu to refine Human, using Human to refine Gu, Human and Gu were one to begin with!
Although Fang Yuan understood this logic, he had only fully comprehended the complete details of this logic at this moment in time.
This comprehension broke through the thin barrier that obstructed him, Fang Yuan could see a bright scene beyond it.
He only needed to make a small deduction now to design a killer move that could unravel Ni clan’s Gu Immortal method, he could extract all sorts of Immortal Gu from the Ni clan members’ bodies.
It was not easy to reach this stage.
Fang Yuan had a foundation in this aspect already, after all, he used the human isolation style Gu refinement method in the five hundred years of his previous life.
In this life, he had all sorts of encounters and accumulations in this aspect.
Even though Ni clan was not his breakthrough point, by studying and analyzing them, Fang Yuan gained a deeper foundation.
Eventually, the immense foundation led to a qualitative change, Fang Yuan unexpectedly succeeded in his breakthrough due to Human Sea.
Throughout history, refinement path had two styles.
The first was the hairy man nature Gu refinement method, it used nature and dao marks to refine Gu.
The opposite was Limitless Demon Venerable using Gu worms to refine heaven and earth.
The second was the human isolation style. Ni clan’s Gu Immortal, the refinement path quasi-supreme Ni Ren, used humans to refine Gu, implanting all sorts of Immortal Gu deep within the bloodlines of his Ni clan descendants.
The opposite was sovereign immortal fetus Gu, the Human Sea revival method, and the Blue Sea of Life which used Gu to refine human.
“The depth of refinement path supreme grandmaster should likely comprise these four aspects. Currently, I have already comprehended human and Gu refinement methods, I only lack the final ‘using Gu to refine heaven and earth’ aspect! By comprehending the arrangements of Limitless Demon Venerable, I have already broken through this hurdle, I have passed the initial stage with no obstacles remaining, as long as I continue progressing, I will eventually comprehend all the profundities.” Fang Yuan evaluated.
Treasure yellow heaven.
Bai Ning Bing’s divine sense roamed around within it.
She was selling immortal materials.
Ever since she saw Fang Huan’s revival by chance and killed him, Bai Ning Bing obtained a large number of desolate beast and ancient desolate beast corpses. She even obtained the true inheritance from searching Fang Huan’s soul.
Bai Ning Bing’s immortal materials were already about to be sold out.
Only the last portion was left.
“How are you selling these immortal materials?” At this time, a divine sense came and asked for the price.
Bai Ning Bing explained the sale price.
After Little Immortal Xing Luo heard the price, she shrank slightly and wanted to bargain: “Can it be a little cheaper?”
Immediately after, Little Immortal Xing Luo stated her quote: “If you sell at this price, I’ll buy it directly!”
Bai Ning Bing wanted to refine Gu herself, she created the killer move breath concealment ice pearl, if she could refine an ice pearl Immortal Gu, it would supplement this killer move greatly.
She had already collected most of the immortal materials now, Bai Ning Bing did not excel at trading, she wanted to nod and agree to the transaction when suddenly, another divine sense got closer.
“Oh, someone is actually selling the mala[1] duck’s neck? This food path ancient desolate beast is very rare, where did you find it from?” The divine sense asked.
Bai Ning Bing was unwilling to expose clues about herself, she asked directly: “Are you buying or not?”
“What price?”
Bai Ning Bing expressed the price while the divine sense said: “I’ll buy it, I’ll buy everything. Do you need immortal essence stones or immortal materials?”
Bai Ning Bing gave the list of ice and snow path immortal materials she needed.
The divine sense smiled: “I have them all, just wait a moment.”
In Eastern Sea, Zui Xian Weng withdrew his divine sense and contacted the Righteous Qi Alliance.
The Righteous Qi Alliance had abundant immortal materials in the inventory, Zui Xian Weng used his contribution points to exchange for some ice and snow path immortal materials.
Next, he sent these immortal materials into treasure yellow heaven, allowing Bai Ning Bing and Zui Xian Weng to complete the transaction.
After getting the immortal materials she wanted, Bai Ning Bing turned around and left treasure yellow heaven.
Central Continent’s Little Immortal Xing Luo’s divine sense was still lingering around: “It’s such a huge pity.”
She failed to obtain the immortal material she wanted.
Little Immortal Xing Luo was a lone immortal, she was a single person with only rank six cultivation level. She could not match Zui Xian Weng in wealth, not to mention the fact that he took out ice and snow path immortal materials that the seller requested.
“I’ll continue looking around.” Little Immortal Xing Luo was very disappointed but she did not want to give up, she continued to look around in treasure yellow heaven.
“What is this?” Not long after, she was shocked to find that a huge mountain appeared in treasure yellow heaven!
“Who put an entire mountain in here?” Sensing this situation, Little Immortal Xing Luo stared with wide eyes as this was the first time she had seen such a ‘gigantic’ transaction.
The appearance of the mountain caused a small commotion to occur.
Many divine senses came over and many Gu Immortal wills even gathered to observe the commotion.
“Who is so amazing to be able to sell an entire mountain?”
“It is not easy to do this, they will need deep earth path attainment.”
“This mountain is quite good, it contains abundant moon path dao marks. But this large resource point is very valuable, who would sell it? Selling it in treasure yellow heaven will also incur a huge fee of immortal essence stones.”
The discussions had just started when this mountain vanished instantly.
“Someone actually bought it!”
“It seems that the transaction was made beforehand.”
“The mountain earlier seems to be Southern Border’s Moon Bowl?”
It was indeed Southern Border’s Moon Bowl.
Fang Yuan had left a batch of Gu Immortals in Southern Border, Eastern Sea and various areas.
After negotiating with Wu clan, Moon Bowl was sold by Wu clan, sent into the sovereign immortal aperture through treasure yellow heaven.
“Moon Bowl has arrived, catch it, catch it!”
“Good, good, move to the left, move a bit to the right.”
Bam!
The earth shook slightly as Moon Bowl landed on the ground.
Immediately, a rockman Gu Immortal came forward and used a killer move, manipulating Moon Bowl’s mountain roots to stab into the ground, turning it into a node of the earth vein.
The other variant human Gu Immortals were free for the moment, they watched while conversing.
“Did you hear? Shi Zong revived!”
“Not just Shi Zong, any Gu Immortals who died in the outside world were revived through Human Sea.”
“Master has divine might, he is all-powerful! Reviving us Gu Immortals is nothing more than a piece of cake!”
“But we will lose all our cultivation level and need to start all over again.”
“Hmph, there is only hope for the future if we are alive, so what if we become mortals? We just need to re-cultivate!”
“If only I can receive the missions for combat.”
“Don’t even think about it. Those Gu Immortals who are able to take those missions have strong battle strength, even though you have rank seven cultivation level, you have just advanced, your still lack sufficient Immortal Gu.”
“That’s right, we need to take one step at a time. Let’s work hard and do these missions to elevate ourselves first.”
While a portion of Fang Yuan’s elite subordinates fought outside, the rest helped to manage the sovereign immortal aperture, they worked hard and contributed their blood and sweat.
Even though unexpected events constantly occurred in the sovereign immortal aperture, it was still orderly and well managed.
[1] Mala is the spicy and numbing flavor in Chinese cuisine, which is made from Sichuan peppercorn, chili pepper and various spices simmered with oil.
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Chapter 2169: Shocking Find of Thieving Heaven’s True Inheritance
Northern Plains.
A few rounds of an intense battle had just passed.
Yin Wu Que retreated constantly while pointing his finger, aiming at Hei Lou Lan.
Immortal killer move — Crescent Moon Thrust!
Ching!
At the next moment, there was the crisp sound of unsheathing blades as a translucent pale blue crescent moon shot out from the ground like a sword towards Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan was prepared against this, she jumped up at almost the same time, avoiding it.
Yin Wu Que’s pupils contracted slightly, this move was very fast and ordinary Gu Immortals could not dodge it easily. But Hei Lou Lan succeeded in that, it showed that she had an exceptional investigative killer move.
“My method has only failed against Tian Xia Xin and Zhou Ye Zi. The former is a wisdom path Gu Immortal capable of deductions while the latter cultivates time path, he had an investigative method that could peer a few breaths into the future.”
“To think that today, it would fail against this mysterious female immortal. Even though this person cultivates strength path, she is not to be underestimated!”
Thoughts flashed in Yin Wu Que’s mind as he retreated at the same time.
Rumble!
Hei Lou Lan exerted strength as her body charged forward like a meteor, pushing aside the air in front of her, arriving before Yin Wu Que in a few breaths of time.
Yin Wu Que gritted his teeth, he raised both hands and used a killer move — Moon Rise.
Moonlight gushed out of his forehead as he started to float up, but before he got far, Hei Lou Lan’s fist already landed.
Bam.
With a loud sound, Yin Wu Que was sent flying by Hei Lou Lan like a rubber ball.
His thin body was sent flying far away, he landed on the ground and bounced along the surface for tens of steps, causing a gorge to form in his path.
Raising his head again, Yin Wu Que’s vision was filled with Hei Lou Lan’s figure, as well as her fist!
Yin Wu Que’s heart jumped.
The fist earlier caused considerable injuries to Yin Wu Que despite his defensive method.
He did not want to face another punch.
“You fell for it!” Yin Wu Que suddenly smiled, he stretched out five fingers and aimed at Hei Lou Lan.
Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang!
Instantly, five translucent light blue crescent moonblades shot out, they were created from nothing, targeting Hei Lou Lan who was at the center from all directions.
Hei Lou Lan’s eyes shined with cold light, she did not dodge but attacked with her fist instead.
Yin Wu Que’s smile froze on his face, he watched as this fist got larger and larger, before landing on his eye socket.
Boom!
Yin Wu Que was originally lying on the ground with his head raised, after taking this terrifying hit, his head was pushed down into the huge pit that was created below him.
Ground shook as rocks were sent flying.
The spectators, Wooden Statue Lord Wu Guang and Sincerity Immortal Chen Cheng, had twitching eyelids as they watched Yin Wu Que get punched, they could feel his pain from over there.
Yin Wu Que was sent crashing underground from this punch, he was tens of feet below the ground surface.
Dust clouds spread but Hei Lou Lan did not chase him, she retreated rapidly instead!
Clang clang clang…
An unceasing number of moonblades were produced and shot towards Hei Lou Lan in a frenzied state.
Hei Lou Lan had a calm expression as she continued to dodge. Her actions were simple and agile, most of the moonblades were evaded while some were shattered by her fists.
Yin Wu Que attacked desperately, he finally obtained some time to regain his footing.
He flew out of the deep pit, rising towards the sky.
Currently, he was covered in dust and one of his eye sockets had cracked, the eyelid was swollen and turning purple, the vision in his eye was extremely blurred, his gaze flickered with lingering fear.
“The two punches earlier almost made me unconscious. It was so dangerous! Thankfully, the moon has already risen successfully.” Yin Wu Que let out a breath of air.
Earlier, moon qi appeared from the top of his head, it had already gathered into a waxing crescent moon hanging in the sky under broad daylight.
The moonblade killer move was still being used continuously as Hei Lou Lan dodged while diverting some attention to look at the waxing crescent moon in the sky.
“Earlier, the moonblades could only be formed from the ground, but now they can appear from thin air, is this the effect of the moon in the sky?” Hei Lou Lan thought rapidly.
As her thoughts collided, they sparked brightly: “But this amplification is not worth paying such a huge price, Yin Wu Que endured two punches from me in order to activate this crescent moon.”
Hei Lou Lan was calm and composed internally.
Earlier, she took the initiative to attack, now, she focused on defense, her actions were meticulous and allowed her to advance or retreat at will.
Yin Wu Que was still using his moonblade killer move.
Crescent moonblades continued to form, the attack was unceasing, but Hei Lou Lan managed to defend herself stably and even had the chance to attack the crescent moon in the sky with her fists.
The waxing crescent moon suffered an impact from her punch, but it only shook slightly like the mirage in a desert.
“The crescent moon is getting larger?” Bright light flashed in Hei Lou Lan’s eyes as she found out new information at this moment.
“So that’s it.” Hei Lou Lan had some sort of insight in her mind.
After she stopped moving back, she charged ahead instead, enduring the attacks of the crescent moonblades in order to attack Yin Wu Que.
Yin Wu Que’s heart jumped: “This female immortal’s combat instincts are too powerful, it seems that she has seen through my combat system!”
Yin Wu Que had an immortal opportunity in his earlier days, he inherited the inheritance of a certain Olden Antiquity moon path Gu Immortal great expert, he thus had a complete and stable combat system.
The waxing crescent moon was hanging in the sky, it amplified the various moon path killer moves of Yin Wu Que. At the same time, when Yin Wu Que’s moon path killer moves get destroyed or countered, the lingering moon path dao marks would be absorbed by the waxing crescent moon, causing it to grow.
The waxing crescent moon would grow into a half moon, before becoming a full moon.
Once it becomes a full moon, Yin Wu Que’s offense and defense would be amplified to the strongest state.
Because Hei Lou Lan had seen through this tactic, she started to use her strongest offenses.
Yin Wu Que knew from the start that he was not Hei Lou Lan’s match at the moment, he had to choose a delaying tactic to retreat while blocking her offenses.
Hei Lou Lan engaged in a full frontal charge.
The two immortals chased and escaped respectively, they fought intensely, rocks were sent flying wherever they went, nobody in their path was spared.
Immortal killer move — Eight Directional Strength Fight!
Hei Lou Lan shouted as her body flickered, eight figures flew out and encircled Yin Wu Que.
Yin Wu Que was caught unguarded and got surrounded in the middle.
“Oh no!” Yin Wu Que’s expression turned pale at once.
…
Fang Yuan’s divine sense expanded and spread out in the sovereign immortal aperture.
The sovereign immortal aperture was simply too big, it was hard to inspect it entirely, he had to extend his divine sense for some time before he could see the entire landscape.
Strange events were still occurring in various places, but with Star Collection City controlling the situation, these events were mostly dealt with by Gu Immortals nearby.
There was no longer any disturbance, Fang Yuan focused on observing the earth vein this time.
Originally, the earth vein was already created but it was crude and simple. More than ten nodes formed into a line which made a circle around the five regions, connecting the first and the last nodes.
But after this period of development, although the current earth vein was still following a singular trail, there were many branches developing away from the main trail already, it was no longer as empty as before.
“After some time, the nodes at the end of these branches will be interlinked to form a second ring that is even larger. By then, the earth vein will have two different layers of connected lines.”
In the current five regions, not only were Southern Border’s super forces transacting with Fang Yuan, the Righteous Qi Alliance was also preparing for this matter under Qi Sea Ancestor’s orders.
Two sea islands had already been sold to the sovereign immortal aperture through treasure yellow heaven, they were used as the earth vein nodes in Mini Eastern Sea.
Eastern Sea’s righteous path forces were still kept in the dark.
They did not know that the buyer was Fang Yuan.
There was profit to earn, a large sum at that, thus they were very enthusiastic.
Fang Yuan had abundant capital now, even though he faced a lack of resources in his initial investment period, this problem no longer existed.
Fang Yuan had a vast number of immortal materials!
He used these immortal materials to pay for the sea islands and famous mountains.
The immortal materials from the first six layers of Crazed Demon Cave were chaotic and could not be transacted. But the seventh layer’s dao marks were obtained by Fang Yuan through Thieves Den, they became pure rank nine immortal materials.
These rank nine immortal materials were all extraordinarily valuable, there was no way to quantitatively define the price. Thus, Fang Yuan’s wealth also soared, giving him great confidence in transactions.
The truth was, if he did not use them to refine Gu, these rank nine immortal materials could only be sold to rank eight Gu Immortals or super forces.
Rank six or seven Gu Immortals were not able to even make use of rank nine immortal materials.
These immortal materials were too high-end, even many rank eight Gu Immortals did not have the capability to use them.
Only those super forces wanted to stock up on them.
After inspecting the earth vein and seeing nothing wrong, Fang Yuan retracted his divine sense after noting that the development was progressing well.
As his attention returned to the main world, Fang Yuan willed as Cooking Luck Pot shook slightly.
Fang Yuan started his luck inspection.
He saw that some changes had occurred to his silver light luck pillar.
The silver light pillar had become more condensed.
It was half the size of earlier, but the density was at least five times of before!
Be it the earth vein construction or Fang Yuan’s own refinement path comprehension, they were reasons that caused the silver light pillar to become more condensed.
The three clouds representing Star Constellation, Spectral Soul, and Giant Sun were still at the top of the pillar of light, showing intentions to suppress and obstruct him.
But at the bottom of the silver light pillar, the original soil dust circulating around had already turned into a mound that covered the silver light pillar, it seemed like the foundational base of the pillar.
“Recently, I have been comprehending Paradise Earth’s tomb, I gained some insight, I can now create my own Tomb Earth.”
“Using Tomb Earth, I can make Gu Immortals revive! Even the Immortal Gu that they had when they were alive can be produced alongside the person.”
“Looking at the luck phenomenon, if I can comprehend Northern Plains’ Paradise Earth true inheritance, it will help me greatly too!”
“Huh?”
Right when Fang Yuan was thinking, his luck changed again.
He saw that above the silver light pillar, a dazzlingly bright star appeared between the three clouds.
This star was shining in a silver-white light, it penetrated the cloud layer and shined directly onto the surface of the silver light pillar. They were similar silver lights, they seemed like they would benefit the silver light pillar a lot.
“What is going on?” Fang Yuan’s body shook: “So that’s it! I understand now.”
He gazed afar, through ten thousand li, looking at the central area of the intersection between the three great worlds.
A small world revealed itself over there, emitting the intense aura of Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable.
It was Thieving Heaven’s space!
It was very likely to contain one of Thieving Heaven’s true inheritances!
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Chapter 2170: Thieving Heaven Versus Limitless
Crash crash crash….
A series of brutal assaults hit Yin Wu Que, who was on the ground.
Yin Wu Que shielded his head with both arms, he was curled up into a ball, desperately activating his defensive killer move!
However, after a barrage of punches and kicks, his defensive method soon broke apart.
“I admit defeat, I admit defeat!” Yin Wu Que shouted loudly in panic and desperation.
“Fairy Black Moon, it’s over, spare him.” Wu Guang who was at the side came to urge her.
Hei Lou Lan was only wanting to spar and had no intention to kill, immediately, she stopped using her method.
She turned to Chen Cheng and asked: “Yin Wu Que has been defeated, who is the next opponent?”
While she was asking, two Gu Immortals flew over from the sky.
One female and one male immortal.
The male had a skinny body and a sharp face, he had bean-like eyes, he emitted rank seven light path aura.
The female immortal had the body of a young child, her eyes were watery and bright, her petite body was cute and delicate, she was a rank seven wood path Gu Immortal.
They were Liu tribe’s Liu Chang and Liu Luo.
Chen Cheng and Wu Guang looked at each other, they did not speak.
Liu Luo was the first to ask: “What is happening here?”
As nobody answered her, Liu Luo quickly turned to Yin Wu Que.
Yin Wu Que was still lying on the ground, he received Wu Guang’s treatment as he smiled bitterly: “This Fairy Black Moon came to challenge me, she has outstanding methods, I am not her match.”
Liu Chang heard this and his eyes shined, he smiled and said: “Fairy Black Moon? May I have the honor of knowing your name? To think that a new outstanding figure would emerge in Northern Plains’ Gu Immortal world.”
Liu Luo mocked Yin Wu Que: “Yin Wu Que, do you know the difficulties of a lone immortal now? Our Liu tribe invited you to be our external supreme elder, it is something that would benefit you. At least, after joining our tribe, if any Gu Immortal challenges you, it will incur the wrath of my Liu tribe!”
Yin Wu Que smiled bitterly and shook his head: “Thank you for the repeated offer, but I am used to being alone, I have no intention of joining any super force.”
Liu Luo frowned: “Can you not see what’s good for you?”
Ever since the fate war ended, in order to prepare against the five regions chaotic war, Longevity Heaven had ordered the various Huang Jin tribes to unify Northern Plains’ Gu Immortal world. Many Gu Immortals were recruited into Huang Jin tribes, while many demonic immortals were killed as well.
At the other side, Hei Lou Lan showed no intention of answering Liu Chang’s question.
She said to Chen Cheng: “Let’s go.”
“Hold on!” Liu Luo’s sharp voice interrupted her, she looked at Hei Lou Lan: “You are very brazen, do you not know that Yin Wu Que is the target of our Liu tribe’s recruitment? Now that you injured him, you want to leave so easily?”
“Sister.” Liu Chang called out, feeling helpless internally.
Liu Luo had just gone from rank six to seven, with the rise in strength, her temperament was also more arrogant now.
If she was alone, she might not act like this, but with her brother Liu Chang here with her to rely on, Liu Luo showed a casual and carefree attitude.
But because Liu Chang doted on his sister, he did not chide her, he stared at Hei Lou Lan: “Fairy, why be in a rush to leave? Are you interested in joining our Liu tribe? If you can become Liu tribe’s external supreme elder…”
“Shut your dog mouth.” Hei Lou Lan replied plainly.
“What?” Liu Chang was stumped.
Liu Luo stared with wide eyes, she was filled with rage and shock: “How dare you! Bitch…”
Before she finished, Hei Lou Lan interrupted again: “Two dogs that block my way, bark once more and I will kill you.”
Seeing that the situation was going out of control, Chen Cheng quickly came in to mediate the situation.
Liu Luo called out in a shrill voice: “Today’s matter will not end like this, I want to see if…”
Boom!
Hei Lou Lan attacked fiercely, a strength path phantom appeared before Liu Luo abruptly, punching the latter’s face and sending her flying.
“Sister!” Liu Chang was enraged, he was about to attack.
Boom, he was also sent flying by Hei Lou Lan.
Liu Chang was a famous rank seven expert of Northern Plains, his strength far exceeded Liu Luo, he quickly stabilized his footing and said: “You dare to attack us Gu Immortals of Liu tribe?”
Boom boom boom!
Eight strength path phantoms appeared around Hei Lou Lan, the dark capital strength tiger totem was also summoned, beating the Liu tribe siblings to a pulp.
“This, this, this…” Chen Cheng watched with a dumbfounded expression.
“It cannot be resolved amicably now.” Wu Guang was tongue-tied, he smiled bitterly towards Yin Wu Que: “So Fairy Black Moon’s temperament is like this, Brother Yin, it was really lucky that you managed to survive at her hands.”
Yin Wu Que snorted: “If Fairy Black Moon really kills the Liu tribe siblings, do you think Liu tribe or Longevity Heaven will let us off?”
Wu Guang was dazed, he showed an unsightly expression.
“Are we going to take action to help the Liu tribe siblings?” Wu Guang asked helplessly.
Yin Wu Que gritted his teeth: “Do you want to hug Longevity Heaven’s smelly feet? Ever since Giant Sun Immortal Venerable created the Imperial Court contest, the entirety of Northern Plains became his kingdom. For the last three hundred thousand years, have we, the lone cultivators of Northern Plains, not suffered enough?”
Most of the immortals knew about the truth behind the Imperial Court contest.
Northern Plains’ lone immortals and demonic cultivators had a poor impression of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. Back then, Five Elements Grandmaster, who was still a lone cultivator, invaded Longevity Heaven, he was the proof of this mindset.
Longevity Heaven desired to rule Northern Plains’ Gu Immortal world, but the difficulty was too high.
Many Gu Immortal experts did not want to submit to the Huang Jin tribes, they did not want to obey the words of these people they detested.
With the exception of two cases.
One was during the five regions chaotic war, when Northern Plains’ Gu Immortal world faced great external pressure, these Gu Immortals would have no choice but to band together as one.
The second was if Giant Sun Immortal Venerable revives successfully, his invincible might would force all these demonic immortals and lone cultivators to submit to him.
The truth was, even in the five hundred years of Fang Yuan’s previous life, Longevity Heaven managed to unify Northern Plains’ Gu Immortal world because of Ma Hong Yun.
Ma Hong Yun had the power of Fortune Rivalling Heaven, he seemed to be someone who started from a humble origin, he was able to unite many lone and demonic immortals as a result. But he was in fact Longevity Heaven’s chess piece, an arrangement of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
By relying on this, Longevity Heaven was able to unify Northern Plains’ Gu Immortal world after the five regions chaotic war started.
But now, the five regions chaotic war had yet to start while Ma Hong Yun was killed by Fang Yuan, the difficulty for Longevity Heaven to unite Northern Plains was simply much harder.
“Fairy Black Moon, I will definitely find you in the future to repay the shame of today’s defeat.” Liu Chang brought Liu Luo away, they escaped in anger.
He was very strong but he could not display his strength.
Hei Lou Lan targeted Liu Luo constantly, it made Liu Chang hold many reservations, he could only take hits passively, it was a terrible feeling.
“They finally escaped.” Chen Cheng let out a breath of air, he had been holding his breath in anxiety earlier.
“Hmph, they cannot escape. After I defeat the lone and demonic immortal experts, I will challenge these Huang Jin tribes, I will let the whole of Northern Plains know of my might.” Hei Lou Lan smiled coldly.
Chen Cheng was feeling a headache, he did not expect his master to have such grand ambitions. not only did she want to defeat the lone and demonic immortals, she even wanted to challenge Northern Plains’ overlords, the Huang Jin super tribes!
“Fairy, if you have such an ambition, I, Yin Wu Que, am willing to travel alongside you as your entourage.” Yin Wu Que was standing with Wu Guang’s help, he walked towards Hei Lou Lan.
“Oh?” Hei Lou Lan raised her brows.
Yin Wu Que smiled bitterly: “The truth is, if I do not travel with you, when Liu tribe’s Gu Immortals come to find me, they will not let me off. I do not want to be a member of the Huang Jin tribe.”
“Alright.” Hei Lou Lan nodded: “Back then, Chu Du also wanted to challenge the Huang Jin tribes. We both cultivate strength path, how can I be inferior to him? Let’s go together.”
“I will come along too.” Wu Guang said: “This is an interesting matter, I want to watch it with my own eyes.”
Thus, Hei Lou Lan’s group grew larger again.
Crazed Demon Cave, eighth layer.
Three hundred thousand years ago.
In the void, worlds were created and destroyed like bubbles.
Suddenly, chains appeared, making loud clanking sounds as they formed into a chain domain that intertwined in the surrounding area.
“I was actually discovered.” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable was slightly surprised, having been forced to reveal himself.
Limitless Demon Venerable’s will appeared: “Do stop, new venerable. The Space Door that you seek is not here.”
As he spoke, countless chains shot out towards Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable from all directions.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable moved like lightning, traversing between the chains, he was agile like a fish in water.
“Limitless Demon Venerable’s will?” Excitement shined in his eyes: “How do you know I am looking for Space Door? Are you saying that because you do not want me to destroy your arrangements in Crazed Demon Cave? You hid the ninth layer too deeply, I actually could not decipher it immediately, why don’t you let me in and take a look, as long as Space Door is not there, I will take my leave!”
Limitless Demon Venerable’s will said: “Thieving Heaven, even though I do not leave Crazed Demon Cave, I know many things about the current world. The current you cannot even control yourself, how can I allow you to enter the ninth layer?”
“Cannot control myself? Why can’t I control myself?” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable raised a brow: “I just want to go home, I just want to go back and see my friends and family, but all of you want to obstruct me!!”
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable spoke with increasing agitation.
Limitless Demon Venerable was silent, the chains attacked even more fiercely now.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable snorted coldly, he stopped moving far away, no longer dodging.
A blinding blue jewel-like light burst out with radiance, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable activated his killer move, the blue light faded, forming into a huge suit of armor around his body, turning him into a metallic giant.
The metallic giant was covered in electric sparks, it moved rapidly towards Limitless Demon Venerable’s will.
The endless chains came to obstruct him but they were all pushed aside by the metallic giant.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable rode in the metallic giant and charged his way forward, forcing his way to the central area of the chain domain, grabbing onto Limitless Demon Venerable’s will.
But at the next moment, Limitless Demon Venerable’s will dissipated.
At almost the same time, another lump of Limitless’ will appeared, saying calmly: “This is Crazed Demon Cave, my will can regenerate endlessly in here, there is a limitless supply of it.”
“Is that so?” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable smiled coldly: “Then have a taste of my methods.”
Bam bam bam…
A shocking battle erupted at once.
Within the void, countless worlds were implicated, they were all destroyed in the process.
Limitless Demon Venerable’s will had the territorial advantage, he was able to fight evenly with Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable initially. But as time went by, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable was superior after all, he started to gain the upper hand.
Limitless Demon Venerable had died long ago, this was only his will controlling Crazed Demon Cave after all.
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Chapter 2171: Four Venerables Repair The World
The lightning giant attacked, each action carried unparalleled lights.
Countless chains swayed and targeted Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable as they sealed and slashed.
The damage caused by the two venerables continued to spread out, the entire void was shaking intensely, it seemed to be unable to sustain the pressure.
One by one, small worlds were implicated, they were rapidly destroyed and unable to last a few breaths of time.
Within the lightning giant, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable’s expression became increasingly twisted, blood surged in his eyes as his aura became more vicious and wild.
“Take this move!” Thieving Heaven shouted as the lightning giant’s mountain-like body stopped on the spot.
The surface of its body started to transform rapidly, with the crisp sound of clanking metal, cannons started to extend out of its body in all directions.
Boom—!
Thousands of cannons fired at once, countless rays of light pierced the void, a rainbow color of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and others dazzled the entire heaven and earth.
As light rays shot out and crossed a vast distance, they destroyed everything in their path, many chains that Limitless Demon Venerable’s will controlled were easily decimated.
“This move actually comprises metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and other paths. Each color of the cannons represent a different path. Oh no!” Limitless Demon Venerable’s will was shaken.
The defensive line that he had established was penetrated, exposing the two great worlds that he was protecting.
One world had rampaging wild beasts, the other was covered in lush greenery.
They were Savage Wilderness Great World and Green Lotus Great World.
Most of the cannons were blocked successfully but a hundred of them still shot towards the two great worlds mercilessly.
“What? These two worlds contain life?” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable was internally shocked.
He could see clearly, his twisted expression froze on his face, clarity returned to his eyes that had turned blood red.
Earlier when he explored the void, he saw that the small worlds were devoid of life, they were deathly silent.
Thus, he did not care about the destruction of these small worlds.
But Savage Wilderness Great World and Green Lotus Great World contained living beings, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable did not want to be a mass murderer.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable gritted his teeth, he used all his strength to control the lightning giant and turn the cannon in another direction.
All of the cannons narrowly avoided the two great worlds.
Guh.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable spat out a mouthful of blood.
By forcefully changing his attack direction, he had to endure the backlash of the killer move.
The lightning giant that had been powerful and unstoppable was no longer shining, it dimmed by a lot.
The battle of the two venerables came to a halt at this moment.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable breathed roughly while Limitless Demon Venerable’s will was protected by countless chains, he fell into deep thought.
At the crucial moment, he saw the former’s true nature.
“I can open the pathway and let you enter to take a look.” A moment later, Limitless Demon Venerable’s will said.
“What?” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable was surprised.
But he immediately understood the reason, blood traces were still lingering on Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable’s lips, with his relatively severe injuries, he could not heal them in the short period.
He chuckled: “Then what are we waiting for?”
Limitless Demon Venerable’s will opened a path as he led Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable into the ninth layer of Crazed Demon Cave.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable first saw a large mountain that was black and white in color.
“This is the Book Mountain recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]?” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable dispelled his lightning giant killer move, he expressed his surprise.
Limitless’ will smiled: “Book Mountain is one of the cores, with it, this crazed demon ninth void formation can continue to grow. Each time a new genius Gu cultivator appears in the world, they would help with the progress of their respective path, Book Mountain will absorb the new knowledge and develop the crazed demon ninth void formation to continuously improve and develop.”
“Initially, the eighth layer’s void was very small, there were no worlds at all. But afterwards, as rule path, phantom path, and refinement path developed in the five regions, this place also continued to expand and grow.”
“Small worlds first appeared, before they quickly increased in number. Reckless Savage Demon Venerable left behind Savage Wilderness Great World, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable created his Green Lotus Dao field, greatly promoting the growth of the crazed demon ninth void formation. In time, living beings will be created and destroyed alongside the small worlds, no longer limited to the current two great worlds.”
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable went deeper, he started to see blocks of floating ice, they had various sizes and all sorts of strange shapes.
“This is the truthful floating ice? No wonder I did not find them when exploring the River of Time, so it was you who found and kept them here.” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable realized.
And finally, he arrived at the deepest part of Crazed Demon Cave.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable showed a downcast expression, he felt very disappointed: “Space Door is not here after all.”
Limitless’ will did not lie to him.
Limitless’ will said: “Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, if you do not believe me, you can continue to look. Space Door is not here.”
“How can I find Space Door? That is my only hope of returning home!” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable inquired.
Limitless’ will shook his head: “If I knew about it, why would I need to fight you earlier? Oh Thieving Heaven, please go back, what you seek is not here.”
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable was in a daze, he did not speak for some time.
“No… maybe, this is what I am looking for?” Suddenly, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable emitted a peculiar laugh.
His expression was twisted, his eyes were blood red, his tone and mannerism of speech had changed completely, his voice was hoarse as if this was another person speaking.
“Oh no!” Limitless’ will had a change of expression too.
The thing he was worried about the most had still happened in the end.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable continued to speak in a hoarse voice: “If I am not wrong, hehehe, this is the place where the world boundary of the Gu cultivation world is at its thinnest. Oh Limitless Demon Venerable, your crazed demon ninth void formation is using this place to pierce through the world boundary and bring those things that are beyond the world to act as the raw materials. That is how the eighth layer developed these great and small worlds, right?”
“Say, if I were to break this boundary and leave the Gu cultivation world entirely, will I be able to find a way back?” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable said that as his eyes widened, the aura of excitement and insanity grew more intensely on his body.
Limitless’ will replied solemnly: “Impossible!”
“You are a Gu Venerable yourself, do you not know the power of those things beyond the world? You have already experienced their strength, haven’t you?”
“How long do you think you can last outside?”
“The venerable is the strongest person in the world, but even if you can last a long time, you will reach your limit eventually.”
“Can you be sure that you will coincidentally find your original world before you reach your limit?”
“You need to know, you are not the only otherworldly demon, the worlds outside of the Gu cultivation world are more than just your original world.”
“But!” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable raised his hands as he shouted: “But do you know? Do you know how much I want to return?!”
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable then lowered his head, his fingers stabbing into his hair as his eyes were hollow, he muttered: “Do you know how tough it has been for me?”
“When I was a mortal, I told myself that if I became a Gu Master, I will be able to find a way home.”
“When I became a Gu Master, I told myself that after becoming a Gu Immortal, I will be able to find a way home.”
“After becoming a Gu Immortal, I consoled myself again, if I become venerable, I will be able to go home.”
“But now, I am already a venerable! And yet, I cannot find Space Door! Where is Space Door?”
“Even if I find Space Door, can it really let me return home?”
“Gu Venerables are the strongest! There is no road ahead of me anymore. Sometimes, I will dream of Space Door, I dreamed that I found Space Door but realized it was completely useless.”
“Whenever I wake up from such a nightmare, I will be covered in cold sweat.”
“I admit that I am afraid, I am afraid that I cannot find Space Door, I am afraid that the truth behind it will send me into utter despair.”
“Can you understand my feelings?”
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable’s breathing became rougher, he looked at the deepest part of Crazed Demon Cave, the thinnest part of the world boundary.
He suddenly laughed, his eyes lit up as he said in a hoarse voice: “So let me take a risk now! I will pierce this world!”
“Stop it!!” Limitless’ will shouted.
He was already prepared, he used his full strength to stop him.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable was instantly trapped by the surrounding chains.
But at the next moment, another Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable appeared in front of him, he raised his arms high and slammed down fiercely.
Boom!
With a loud sound, the world boundary was broken, the most terrifying tribulation in the world descended!
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable went out of the broken hole immediately.
But Limitless’ will no longer had the time to pursue him, he tried his best to seal the broken boundary.
But terrifying tribulations were spewing out of the hole, Limitless’ chains could not resist them, they could not even get close.
After a few breaths of time, the hole expanded to twice of its original size.
“The situation is critical, if we do not mend this hole now, the entire world will be destroyed. Please lend me a hand!” Limitless’ will shouted loudly.
Reckless Savage’s will flew out of Savage Wilderness Great World, bringing with him countless fierce beasts.
Genesis Lotus’ will flew out of Green Lotus Great World, bringing along countless trees and grasses.
The power of three venerables could only maintain the situation, they could not fix this hole!
The hole did not expand but the three venerables were already dead, just the power left behind by their main body could not salvage the situation.
As the three venerables’ power weakened, their expressions turned unsightly.
“To think that the world is going to be destroyed.” Genesis Lotus’ will smiled bitterly.
Limitless’ will sighed: “I should not have taken the risk to let him in.”
“No.” Reckless Savage’s will said grimly: “In that situation, even if all three of us took action, we could not stop Thieving Heaven, after all, we cannot take his life. Even if we force him away several times, he can still come back and challenge us until our strength is depleted.”
“This is all my fault, Limitless, release me, I can help you.” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable said regretfully.
One Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable had left through the broken boundary, while another Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable was still trapped by Limitless Demon Venerable’s chains.
“You?” Genesis Lotus’ will was surprised.
“Who is the one who left earlier?” Reckless Savage’s will asked.
“That is Sha Xiao.” Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable smiled bitterly: “He is my Dao Guardian. He is also…”
The situation was urgent, Limitless’ will interrupted him, asking: “What plan do you have?”
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable said: “Do you know why fate Gu’s control over otherworldly demons is limited? That is because every otherworldly demon who comes into this world will carry their original world’s insignia. Those are otherworldly dao marks.”
“Next, I will use the otherworldly space path dao marks on my body to create a subspace and block this hole. Using the opportunity, I want you all to use your full strength and quickly mend it!”
Without hesitation, Limitless’ will retracted his chains: “Go ahead.”
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Chapter 2172: Demonization
Crazed Demon Cave, eighth layer.
Large and small worlds were rapidly fusing together, all sorts of calamities and tribulations were rampaging in the worlds.
The fighting between Gu Immortals was also extremely heated.
Weaklings would lose their lives from the shockwaves of clashes between experts, strong individuals were also unable to defend themselves in this huge chaotic battle, they were like small boats facing a tsunami, with slight carelessness, they would be overturned and face death.
“Weak, too weak.”
“Who else can stop me?”
“Die!!!”
“Hahaha!”
Bu Tian Kong continued to provoke its enemies, it charged unhindered, nobody on the battlefield could stop it.
It was favored by the innate luck of Crazed Demon Cave to begin with, under the effect of endless learning, its attainment level rose sharply. Afterwards, it received Heavenly Court’s help and gained Immortal Gu and killer moves, its strength rose explosively.
Nie Kuang Feng and Duan Hu were also like it, at this moment, the three of them were the strongest Gu Immortals shining in this battlefield.
“Vile beast, don’t think you can act so arrogantly!” Fang Yuan’s four rank eight subordinates surrounded rock monkey Bu Tian Kong.
Bu Tian Kong instantly felt pressure as it stretched out its tongue, licking its lips with excitement and cruelty shining in its eyes: “Very good, you have nice numbers. Who are you guys?”
“Lightning Lion!” Lightning Lion Warrior said as he activated a transformation path killer move, turning into the Lightning Lion Warrior that had a lion head and human body.
“Remember me, I am Dharma!” Dharma Lion Warrior also activated his transformation method, turning into a lion head and human body warrior.
“Steel Rush.” Steel Rush Warrior turned into a rhino person.
“Frost Butterfly.” Frost Butterfly Warrior shrank in size, becoming the size of an adult’s fist, it had a human shape with butterfly wings and could let out powerful frost energy.
In Gu Immortal combat, individuals often fought alone.
But these four Gu Immortals cultivated transformation path, they did not have conflicting dao marks, furthermore, they were familiar with each other, they had all originated from Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
They originally had rank seven cultivation level, but with Fang Yuan’s help, they all became rank eight.
Immediately, the four warriors surrounded Bu Tian Kong, they fought intensely.
Their battle went on until the sky turned dark, as if they could go on until the sun and moon lost their luster.
Bu Tian Kong was encircled and its injuries intensified, but it was getting more ferocious in combat.
Fists, legs, head, body, knees, elbows, all of these body parts were Bu Tian Kong’s weapons.
Fist shadows flashed as collisions occurred, Bu Tian Kong would send one person flying each time. But the four were transformation path experts, their bodies were tough and sturdy, even though they were sent flying, they would quickly return and maintain the encirclement, giving Bu Tian Kong huge pressure.
The battle of the five went from the sky to the ground, before going back to the sky again.
Everywhere they went, other Gu Immortals dodged with all their might.
“Awesome, awesome!”
“Again, again!”
Bu Tian Kong got more and more excited, it felt its mind becoming clearer as all sorts of inspiration of killer moves surged internally, the barriers that it felt before were starting to loosen.
It was one of the three luck children of Crazed Demon Cave’s eighth layer, its talent and aptitude were superb and unmatched.
The strong external pressure were an opportunity to squeeze out even more of its potential in this situation.
The rock monkey got fiercer and fiercer, it was originally not proficient with Heavenly Court’s killer moves, but now, it had already mastered them, it even fused the moves into its own combat style.
“This rock monkey is terrifying, even with the four of us working together, we cannot kill it.” Lightning Lion and the rest were feeling worried.
Even though they were still encircling the rock monkey, they felt that they were trying to suppress a volcano.
The volcano was storing up strength at the moment, turning external pressure into its own driving force. Once it reached its limit, the volcano would erupt, the commotion would shock the world, it would retaliate with a fatal attack.
“Quick, kill him!”
“Make use of master’s method, let the tribulations wear it down!”
The four immortals communicated in secret, their cooperation also got smoother.
All along, Fang Yuan’s heaven envies heroic geniuses killer move had been exerting its effect.
The tribulations were used by him to target Bu Tian Kong, Nie Kuang Feng, and the rest.
Of course, most of the tribulations were a form of refinement path method to refine the various small worlds, and the conflicting dao marks between the great worlds.
Especially with the eruption of tribulations within and outside small worlds.
These explosions caused small worlds to be destroyed and completely fuse with the three great worlds.
During this process, Savage Wilderness Great World had the greatest gains.
However, there was a small world that acted independently, it was ‘outstanding’ among the small worlds, no matter how the tribulations attacked it, it remained unmoved.
It was Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space.
Ordinary small worlds were spherical bubbles, while Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space was cubic with sharp edges.
No matter what the tribulations did, it remained in its original shape.
Within Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s gaze was already on this true inheritance space of Thieving Heaven.
“Otherworldly Demon.” He snorted, memories surfacing in his mind as his expression turned unpleasant.
Back then, Giant Sun became an Immortal Venerable, he went into Crazed Demon Cave’s eighth layer and learned of the true details regarding the four venerables repairing the world.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable had disregarded the entire Gu cultivation world for his selfish desire, he almost caused the world to be destroyed.
Even though he extracted his own otherworldly space path dao marks at the crucial moment to seal the gaping hole by creating a subspace, the crack was already created, it could not be mended fully.
The other three venerable wills gave it their all and paid a huge price.
Other than Limitless’ will, Genesis Lotus’ and Reckless Savage’s wills had to fall into deep slumber afterwards.
Using the opportunity, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable got rid of Reckless Savage’s will and took over the control of Savage Wilderness Great World.
“When Thieving Heaven left behind this true inheritance, other than to seal the hole he made, he had a deeper motive, that was to leave it for the crucial person three hundred thousand years later — Gu Yue Fang Yuan.”
“However, I made my move in advance to dismantle a portion of the true inheritance, I obtained the killer move perfect pair and imitation Gu.”
Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space paid a huge price to block the hole back then, it became flawed and was not intact anymore.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun thought about the situation.
“Since Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance has appeared, with Fang Yuan’s possession of self luck true inheritance, he can use luck inspection to find out that this is his fortuitous encounter.”
“He will definitely go there.”
“And Heavenly Court will send troops to stop him.”
“The greatest enemy is still Heavenly Court!”
Heavenly Court had the initiative, they were maintaining their advantage. Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was a luck path cultivator, he could not match true experts of wisdom path in deductions.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun decided to watch Fang Yuan’s conflict with Heavenly Court and try to reap the gains of their fight. The main thing was to deal a heavy blow to Heavenly Court!
Peak of Book Mountain.
Fairy Yu Xiu, Qin Ding Ling, and the rest were also looking at Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space.
“Thieving Heaven’s space has appeared. Since it could block the hole back then, it would not be destroyed by the tribulations within this void. We need to deal with it quickly, it is becoming our obstruction.” Fairy Yu Xiu said.
“Hmm?” Qin Ding Ling suddenly received important information, she quickly said: “Our informant in Yellow Earth Great World said that Fang Yuan has already gone to Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space. But Longevity Heaven is very quiet, they are not doing anything.”
Fairy Yu Xiu was not surprised: “Of course he would go, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable left behind this true inheritance for him after all. As for Immortal Zombie Giant Sun who is in Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, he will go there as well.”
Saying so, Fairy Yu Xiu smiled: “Qin Ding Ling.”
“Yes.” Qin Ding Ling replied solemnly.
“Let’s go. We will go find Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.” Fairy Yu Xiu stood up gradually.
Excitement flashed in Qin Ding Ling’s eyes, she said hesitantly: “Don’t we have to mind Limitless Demon Venerable’s retaliative method anymore?”
“Don’t worry, Thieving Heaven’s space is not part of Limitless Demon Venerable’s arrangements, he needs us to destroy it or have Fang Yuan inherit it so that it will disappear. This space is an obstruction to Limitless’ derivation, he will be more than happy to see us destroy it.” Fairy Yu Xiu answered.
Heavenly Court’s troops moved out!
Divine Emperor City brought Fairy Yu Xiu, Qin Ding Ling, and others along as they departed from Book Mountain.
At the same time, Demon Judgment Board moved with Fairy Ming Hao and Gu Yue Fang Zheng inside, they also left the front lines.
Even though Green Lotus Great World was facing the attack of Longevity Heaven and Fang Yuan, because of Fairy Yu Xiu’s earlier actions, Heavenly Court had many mutant Gu Immortals joining them like Bu Tian Kong, Nie Kuang Feng, and Duan Hu.
These Gu Immortals forced Yellow Earth Great World and Savage Wilderness Great World into a disadvantage.
Immortal killer move — Spiraling Green Leaf Blade!
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
Countless flying leaves moved like blades as they spiraled towards Nie Kuang Feng from all directions.
Nie Kuang Feng laughed wildly, its body moving agilely between the flying leaves, dodging while also directly charging past the blades that it could not avoid.
It turned into a tornado at times, the wind blades around it were very sharp and thin.
Xiao He Jian gritted his teeth, he watched as Nie Kuang Feng approached rapidly, feeling intense pressure in his mind.
He had already fought Nie Kuang Feng for several minutes now.
Even though heaven envies heroic geniuses could restrain Nie Kuang Feng, it could not kill him. Nie Kuang Feng had Heavenly Court’s help and managed to recover quickly, it was now treating Xiao He Jian as its own prey.
“Die!” Nie Kuang Feng shouted.
“You fell for it!” At the crucial moment, two figures appeared beside Xiao He Jian.
One was a miniman Gu Immortal, Green Forest Great Sage, the other was Black Locust, the owner of Giant Locust grotto-heaven, who was also another wood path cultivator.
Xiao He Jian’s killer move changed at once as the three immortals cooperated, their strength grew explosively.
Flying leaf blades turned into seeds that were planted on Nie Kuang Feng’s body.
Countless vines started to grow from them, tying Nie Kuang Feng up tightly.
Nie Kuang Feng was a tornado to begin with but these vines were still capable of binding it, interrupting its immortal essence usage.
Thus, Nie Kuang Feng’s killer moves could not be sustained for long, the immortal essence flow became unsteady and the power of the moves fell to rock bottom.
More and more vines appeared, growing longer and longer, they almost covered Nie Kuang Feng completely, leaving no gaps at all.
“Don’t… force me.” Nie Kuang Feng struggled but it was getting weaker.
“We finally caught this guy!” Black Locust was overjoyed.
The three wood path Gu Immortals looked at each other, showing expressions of joy.
Xiao He Jian was very happy now, because Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch lost to Nie Kuang Feng earlier, while he defeated the latter. Comparing the two, it allowed Xiao He Jian to suppress Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
But at this moment, Nie Kuang Feng’s aura started to become quite peculiar and strange.
The vines had already turned into a huge ball, but Nie Kuang Feng’s voice could still be heard from within: “I am going to demonize… every time I fall into a desperate predicament, I will demonize.”
“I don’t want to undergo demonization.”
“Because once I demonize, I will lose my consciousness until I destroy and kill everyone and everything in the world that I am in!”
“But you guys forced me, you forced my hand…”
“Ahhhhhhh!”
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Chapter 2173: Perish with the Wind!
“Ahhhhhhh!”
Nie Kuang Feng shouted loudly, the louder its voice, the stronger its aura, it soon reached a shocking and unprecedented level.
Boom!
With a loud sound, the vines were torn into countless pieces.
Nie Kuang Feng regained its freedom.
But currently, it was not a deep green tornado, it had turned into a reddish brown demonic wind.
Intense winds blew, it instantly crossed several thousand steps of distance, arriving before Green Forest Great Sage.
Green Forest Great Sage had already used his defensive killer move, but after the reddish brown demonic wind devoured him, his aura quickly weakened before completely dying after a few breaths of time.
The demonic wind stopped for a moment, it was like a shark that could smell blood as it charged towards Black Locust who was nearby.
“Be careful!” Xiao He Jian quickly moved to help.
But after a few rounds, the demonic wind still managed to kill Black Locust.
The demonic wind finally targeted Xiao He Jian.
Xiao He Jian could not match Nie Kuang Feng, he had to retreat as he fought.
After a few rounds of combat, his tiny face showed a grim expression, his forehead was covered in sweat.
The aura of defeat and death was getting denser.
Rumble!
Lightning tribulations continued to strike but Nie Kuang Feng did not care about them, it was terrifyingly strong.
Elsewhere.
“Stop!” Lu Wei Yin shouted.
But Bu Tian Kong’s fist still landed, smashing Steel Rush Warrior’s skull into mush.
Thereafter, Bu Tian Kong growled, Steel Rush Warrior’s soul was shattered.
Steel Rush Warrior could not be more dead, his headless corpse fell from the sky like a broken rag doll.
Be it his body or immortal aperture, they were absorbed by the great world as nutrients.
“Who else?!” Bu Tian Kong raised its head and roared, it was overflowing with fighting spirit, rivaling the nine heavens and resounding in the world.
At this point, the four rank eight Gu Immortals attacking it were all dead, they were mercilessly killed in a horrific manner.
Lu Wei Yin sighed as he flew towards the rock monkey.
The rock monkey stared at him fiercely: “Are you the next one? Very good, I will kill you, even if you are Yellow Earth Great World’s sage!”
Lu Wei Yin shook his head: “I am no sage. Bu Tian Kong, your killing intent is too overbearing.”
Lu Wei Yin had to take action against Bu Tian Kong personally.
Bu Tian Kong killed too many Gu Immortals, if it was not stopped, the overall situation of this Gu Immortal battle would be affected.
Boom boom boom!
Lu Wei Yin and Bu Tian Kong exchanged blows.
This time, Bu Tian Kong was finally suppressed.
Even though it was strong and could kill many rank eight Gu Immortals, it was still not pseudo venerable level. In contrast, even though Lu Wei Yin lacked offense, his defense was firmly in the realm of pseudo venerable level.
Lu Wei Yin endured Bu Tian Kong’s fierce attacks with much energy to spare.
“You are not a sage, yet you are so strong already?! Good, very good!”
“Come and attack me, try and kill me, I have not sensed any fatal killing intent against me for some time already.”
“Why are you not attacking? Why do you only defend yourself?”
“Are your attacks so weak and useless? You are too disappointing!!”
The rock monkey continued to shout as it moved rapidly like lightning in the sky, its attacks were like furious lightning bolts from heaven, its power was rising endlessly.
But Lu Wei Yin got distracted.
Because he heard that Fang Yuan had already left for Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space at the center.
“Oh no!”
“Lord Fang Yuan, please stop.”
“Even though that small world might contain Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance, it will be targeted by Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven together.”
“Heavenly Court has already sent their main troops, there are many Immortal Gu Houses and Gu Immortals. Longevity Heaven has also sent Calamity Luck Altar.”
“Now is not the time for a climactic battle, if Star Constellation Immortal Venerable attacks Paradise Earth’s tomb while you are away, what will we do?”
Lu Wei Yin transmitted time and again, but Fang Yuan did not even respond to it.
Lu Wei Yin gritted his teeth, his expression turning unsightly.
“No matter how strong Fang Yuan is, he is still just a pseudo venerable, he is not a true venerable.”
“I need to help him!”
“If Star Constellation Immortal Venerable shows up and kills him, who will protect Paradise Earth’s tomb, who will stall for the crucial time?”
While thinking of this, Lu Wei Yin’s vision suddenly turned dark.
Bam.
At the next moment, rock monkey Bu Tian Kong’s fist landed squarely on Lu Wei Yin’s face.
“You dare to be distracted? You are looking down on me, you will pay a terrible price!” Bu Tian Kong shouted.
Bu Tian Kong flew towards Lu Wei Yin as they got closer again.
Lu Wei Yin was forced to retreat, he quickly used his killer move.
It started to rain.
Tribulation rain fell on Bu Tian Kong’s body, greatly slowing it down while also corroding its defenses.
At the same time, Lu Wei Yin’s killer move showed effect.
Yellowish brown dust started to appear below Bu Tian Kong, they moved around and gradually sealed it.
“Get lost, get lost!” Bu Tian Kong shouted, using killer moves in a frenzy, trying to sweep away all of the rain and dust surrounding it.
But the rain and dust gathered together increasingly, eventually sealing it entirely.
A lump of soil that trapped Bu Tian Kong fell from the sky, after landing on the ground, it turned into a huge soil mountain.
“Just stay put here.” Lu Wei Yin immediately flew towards Thieving Heaven’s space.
“No!”
“I won’t give in, these things cannot hold me down!”
“Roar—!”
Bu Tian Kong shouted, its voice resounding like thunder as it reverberated in the battlefield.
With a loud sound, the mountain was shattered, dust clouds emerged, from within the broken rocks, it flew out again.
“What?” Lu Wei Yin was stunned.
Bu Tian Kong’s performance was out of his expectation, how could it escape so quickly?
Bu Tian Kong resisted the tribulations while flying to catch up to Lu Wei Yin.
Boom!
The two exchanged killer moves again, while Lu Wei Yin was held back this time.
“This monkey’s killer moves are getting stronger, so that’s it.” Lu Wei Yin understood at this moment.
The tribulations were aiding Bu Tian Kong all along, as long as it was not killed, it would continue to undergo tribulations and gain more dao marks, that was why Bu Tian Kong got increasingly stronger as it fought.
“I want this heaven… to no longer shroud my vision!” Bu Tian Kong shouted as it used a move that shot out a rainbow, sweeping away the dark clouds of the surrounding five hundred li.
“I want this earth… to no longer bury my heart!” Bu Tian Kong shouted as it stomped on the ground, mountains collapsed, as Lu Wei Yin, who had his defensive method broken through, watched in surprise.
Bu Tian Kong was already in a state of insanity, it found Fang Yuan who was not far away, it abandoned Lu Wei Yin and went for Fang Yuan instead!
“Be careful!” Lu Wei Yin quickly advised: “This monkey is not simple.”
Fang Yuan did not turn around, it was as if he heard nothing, he only looked at the subspace in front of him.
Bu Tian Kong moved rapidly and seemingly teleported behind Fang Yuan.
“I want all life… to understand my intention! I want this sage… to perish with the wind!!” Bu Tian Kong shouted, activating the strongest killer move it had used in its life.
Winds, clouds, and thunder roared, the world changed colors at this moment!
“Hmm?” Fang Yuan turned around slightly, waving his hand lightly towards the back.
At the next moment, Bu Tian Kong fell like a comet, crossing the entire battlefield and slamming into several mountains.
After a chain of loud explosions, it created a huge gorge of several kilometers on the ground.
Finally, it lay on the ground, its eyes were wide open but it did not move at all.
It was dead.
The unceasing chaotic battles and heated battlefields turned silent at this moment.
Nie Kuang Feng, who was unstoppable and killing everything in its path, froze in its reddish brown demonic wind state.
Fang Yuan cast his glance upon it.
Nie Kuang Feng shuddered immediately.
At the next moment, endless fear filled its mind and body!
“I will die, I will die, I am going to die!!”
It went out of its demonized state, immediately gaining clarity.
“Escape!!”
It quickly flew away, ignoring its opponent, Xiao He Jian.
Xiao He Jian was heavily injured and was on the verge of death, he had no way to fight back, with just one attack, he would die.
He stared with a dumbfounded look as Nie Kuang Feng escaped from the battlefield in a crazed state.
Fang Yuan turned around again, looking at Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space with a calm expression.
He turned to look at Heavenly Court’s army, Divine Emperor City and Demon Judgment Board were arriving soon.
He looked at the other side.
Longevity Heaven’s Calamity Luck Altar shined with a golden aurora, it was arriving too.
A cold and ruthless light flashed in Fang Yuan’s eyes for a moment, he turned into a white ray of light as he entered Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space.
“Charge, we will fight inside!” Fairy Yu Xiu immediately ordered.
Once Heavenly Court’s Immortal Gu Houses arrived, they also entered Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space.
They could not use their full strength outside, if they went past the limit, they would face Limitless Demon Venerable’s retaliative method.
At the same time, it was easier to destroy Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space from the inside.
Fang Yuan’s vision changed rapidly, when he regained his sight, he was already in this true inheritance space.
Every true inheritance space that Thieving Heaven left behind could be considered an artificial secluded domain.
This was a strange space, it had warm lights but no mountains, rivers, wind, or land, it was completely empty.
But there were some peculiarities in here, there were black lines that extended everywhere, covering every inch of the space.
These lines were either thick or thin, they all gave off a terrifying aura that Fang Yuan felt fearful towards.
At the same time, he felt familiarity in this aura.
He quickly thought of the mysterious black fire in the blue dragon whale’s grotto-heaven.
Even though Fang Yuan did not know what happened three hundred thousand years ago, after seeing this, he realized immediately: “It seems that this true inheritance space is going to collapse soon. I need to quickly comprehend the mysteries here and decipher where the true inheritance really is.”
The last time he entered a true inheritance space of Thieving Heaven, he obtained ghostly concealment.
That time, Fang Yuan went in through open door Gu and close door Gu. At that time, the true inheritance space was very stable, it had many winds of assimilation tornadoes inside. Only an otherworldly demon could dispel the wind by touching them.
Because of that, Fang Yuan accidentally saved Feng Jiu Ge.
After all the tornadoes had vanished, Fang Yuan successfully obtained ghostly concealment, it was a smooth process.
But this space was different.
There were no tornadoes at all, if Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance really existed here, it would be hidden deeply and would require deductions.
But Fang Yuan was not rushing to make deductions, he took out a formation from his immortal aperture and placed it within this space.
It was the five regional limit formation.
The five regional limit formation activated, five colored smoke spewed out.
In a few breaths of time, five colored smoke spread out in the surrounding ten li, it was so dense that one could not see their own fingers.
After Heavenly Court’s troops entered Thieving Heaven’s space, they went inside the five colored smoke and immediately felt suppressed.
“These are… the five region’s regional walls?!”
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Chapter 2174: I Became Handsome, I Became Stronger!
“Why are the five regional walls mixed together in here?!”
“Is this an arrangement of Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space?”
“No, this is Fang Yuan’s five restriction profound light qi, he had modified it, it is as if the five regional walls are replicated.” Fairy Yu Xiu quickly deduced.
Fang Yuan’s five restriction profound light qi and five regional limit formation were exposed during the fate war, with these clues, it was not an issue for a wisdom path great expert like Fairy Yu Xiu to deduce.
Boom!
Fang Yuan suddenly appeared, his killer move landing on Demon Judgment Board.
Demon Judgment Board was instantly swept away deep into the dense fog.
“We cannot fight here, Fang Yuan has the sovereign immortal body, he is unrestricted!” Gu Yue Fang Zheng shouted.
“Originally, the five regional walls had disappeared completely, to think that Fang Yuan would reproduce them, it seems that he has been preparing for this battle for a long time.” Fairy Ming Hao gritted her teeth before ordering: “Find the five regional limit formation and destroy it!”
Southern restriction purple-black miasma light qi, central restriction white-gold saint light qi, northern restriction jade licorice light qi, western restriction red raging flame light qi, and eastern restriction blue water light qi. They were all different now, having being elevated to a whole new level, they were already on par with the five regional walls that existed in the past.
Back then when Tao Zhu researched on the five regional walls, he created the methods of five regional limit formation and five restriction profound light qi.
Fang Yuan used the foundation of his life’s research and made a breakthrough, he reached a height that Tao Zhu had never seen in his life.
Fang Yuan had the sovereign immortal body, he was completely unaffected in the five regional walls, other Gu Immortals, however, were restricted by the regional walls, no matter what Gu worms they used, they would have to face a backlash.
With this difference, Fang Yuan’s advantage was too huge, Heavenly Court did not want to see this situation.
In the past, they would not be affected by central restriction white-gold saint light qi, but now was different, with the merging of the five regions and the rampage of qi tides, the entire world’s aura has been unified, Gu Immortals were no longer differentiated by regions.
And this new combined aura of the five regions was not any of the previous five regional qi.
Thus, no matter which region the Gu Immortal came from, they would be suppressed within this five restriction profound light qi.
Boom boom boom!
Fang Yuan dealt a heavy blow to Divine Emperor City, causing this huge city’s green surface layer of light to shake and tremble.
But Divine Emperor City was too huge, even Fang Yuan could not destroy it for now.
From Divine Emperor City, a female immortal flew out, she was a young lady with a beautiful appearance, it was Fairy Yu Xiu.
She surged with battle intent as she went to Fang Yuan: “Gu Yue Fang Yuan, do you dare to fight me?”
At this time, another Immortal Gu House arrived in Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space.
It was Longevity Heaven’s Calamity Luck Altar.
Bing Sai Chuan’s voice resounded from within: “Fang Yuan, why don’t we join hands and dismantle this Divine Emperor City first!”
Fang Yuan smiled lightly and replied: “No, currently, Demon Judgment Board has been thrown into the five regional walls, while Divine Emperor City is too big and hard to send flying. Your side will stall Divine Emperor City while I will go and destroy Demon Judgment Board!”
“Fang Yuan…” Bing Sai Chuan wanted to urge him.
But Fang Yuan turned around and went into the five colored smoke without hesitation.
“Ignore him, our target is Divine Emperor City!” Within Calamity Luck Altar, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun sat at the main seat as he ordered.
“Yes, master!” Bing Sai Chuan immediately moved Calamity Luck Altar, which crashed towards Divine Emperor City like a comet.
Fairy Yu Xiu gritted her teeth, she had to defend it.
Lu Wei Yin also arrived at this moment.
“Lord Fang Yuan!” He only managed to see Fang Yuan’s figure disappearing into the five colored smoke.
“Sigh!” Lu Wei Yin sighed deeply, he did not dare to enter the five colored smoke deeply, he had to communicate with Bing Sai Chuan and attack Divine Emperor City instead.
The five regional limit formation continued to function as five colored smoke poured out endlessly.
Within the dense smoke, Demon Judgment Board charged everywhere, trying to find the location of the formation. Outside the dense smoke, Divine Emperor City and Calamity Luck Altar fought intensely.
“Found it!” Inside Demon Judgment Board, Fairy Ming Hao’s eyes suddenly opened.
She was a pseudo venerable level wisdom path great expert, her full strength was nothing short of extraordinary.
But this deduction also dealt heavy damage to her, after all, she was using wisdom path killer moves in the five regional walls.
“Good, if we destroy this formation, we will be ruining one of Fang Yuan’s trump cards!” Gu Yue Fang Zheng flew with great morale, charging with Demon Judgment Board.
The five colored smoke became denser as Demon Judgment Board’s luster became dimmer, Gu Yue Fang Zheng was sustaining a huge backlash, his face soon turned pale as blood oozed out of his mouth.
Boom boom boom!
Fang Yuan found them and used killer moves continuously with terrifying strength.
Demon Judgment Board was facing greater difficulty in defending itself, it moved precariously ahead.
“Ignore him, destroy the formation!” Fairy Ming Hao’s child-like appearance was filled with boldness and determination.
Demon Judgment Board paused for a moment before shooting out a blood red beam of light.
The blood red light was thick and powerful, it landed on the formation with an extremely fast speed.
The surface of the five regional limit formation radiated with five colored lights, it shook slightly but did not collapse.
“How can this be?” Within Demon Judgment Board, Fang Zheng was very shocked.
He was clear of this move’s power, even within the five regional walls, it should not be this weak.
Fairy Ming Hao understood the reason immediately, her pupils shrank slightly: “Fang Yuan invested a lot into this formation, it has at least eight rank eight Immortal Gu and the defense is high, we cannot destroy it in a short period of time!”
The five regional limit formation used Region and Limit as the cores originally, as well as a vast number of mortal Gu.
Afterwards, Fang Yuan added earth vein Immortal Gu, followed by Formation Spirit and Formation Flag.
During the fate war, these Immortal Gu were mostly rank seven.
But the current Fang Yuan was different, while recuperating, he did not just modify the five regional limit formation again by raising its defense, he even raised all of the Immortal Gu in this formation to rank eight.
His wealth was simply unimaginable!
The full powered attack of Demon Judgment Board could not even remove one layer of the five regional limit formation’s defense. In fact, because they activated a powerful killer move, the backlash was even greater.
This famous rank eight Immortal Gu House was now covered in cracks, it was near the point of breaking apart.
“What should we do now?” Fang Zheng could not help but be flustered internally.
Fang Yuan was attacking outside and giving him huge pressure. Their goal of trying to destroy the five regional limit formation was also impossible now.
“I advise that we retreat!” Fang Zheng gritted his teeth, suggesting to Fairy Ming Hao.
Fairy Ming Hao nodded: “Fighting here is too unfavorable. But it is fine, destroying this formation was only one attempt, even if we fail, there is no consequence on the eventual outcome. Let’s go!”
Fairy Ming Hao left Demon Judgment Board and opened her immortal aperture’s entrance, storing this Immortal Gu House.
Next, in front of Fang Yuan’s surprised gaze, she vanished on the spot!
Soon, Lu Wei Yin, who was fighting outside, transmitted to Fang Yuan that Fairy Ming Hao had suddenly appeared beside Fairy Yu Xiu, he also asked about the situation on Fang Yuan’s end.
“The two pseudo venerables Ming Hao and Yu Xiu are able to teleport to each other instantly?” Fang Yuan guessed.
Fairy Ming Hao did not succeed in destroying his five regional limit formation, while Fang Yuan also failed to destroy Demon Judgment Board.
In essence, this was a draw, Fang Yuan might have a slight upper hand.
But the situation was still stuck in a deadlock.
“As long as the five regional limit formation is still functioning, five colored smoke will continue to spread and fill the entire true inheritance space.”
“But this will take too long, neither Heavenly Court nor Longevity Heaven will want to stay in here until then.”
Fang Yuan pondered rapidly.
The five regional limit formation was not a battlefield killer move, it could not restrain people, they could enter and exit freely.
It would take too long for the five colored smoke to fill Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space, during this period of time, Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance might be discovered by someone, or the space might collapse because of the intense fights.
Fang Yuan flew out rapidly, leaving the five colored smoke, he went to the battlefield of Divine Emperor City and Calamity Luck Altar.
On one hand, he was wary of Heavenly Court’s deduction ability, similar to his refinement path attainment, Heavenly Court’s wisdom path attainment was a huge advantage for them. Fang Yuan had to restrain them from having the time to deduce the true inheritance’s location.
On the other hand, Fang Yuan had to join the battle and make deductions in his mind as well.
Divine Emperor City floated in the sky while spreading green light, it was grand and imposing, remaining unmovable.
Calamity Luck Altar was like a golden comet, Bing Sai Chuan manipulated it to its limit, it flew around Divine Emperor City continuously, launching all sorts of attacks.
Between the two Immortal Gu Houses, four pseudo venerables, Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin, Ming Hao, and Yu Xiu were fighting.
The two sides were first evenly matched, but soon, Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin fell into a disadvantage.
Fairy Ming Hao and Fairy Yu Xiu were very powerful, they each had a mature combat system.
Fairy Ming Hao’s flying stars seemed like a singular move but they were all consecutive moves. By repeatedly hitting the same target, Fang Yuan would have to endure increasing damage each time.
Fairy Yu Xiu’s methods were also very profound, she used her attainment level to suppress others. It was hard for ordinary Gu Immortals to find a countermeasure.
Lu Wei Yin fell into a tough battle due to Fairy Yu Xiu’s focus on him.
While Fang Yuan also had a taste of the power of Fairy Ming Hao’s pride Gu.
Thoughts collided in Fang Yuan’s mind with great issues, many powerful and complex killer moves could not be used, the risks were too great.
And most importantly, Ming Hao and Yu Xiu had incredibly well coordinated cooperation.
Their coordination was extraordinary, Fang Yuan had never seen anything like it before.
Because of this, while Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin worked together, they were suppressed by the two fairies.
“The cooperation of Yu Xiu and Ming Hao has produced a qualitative change, if I fought alone, I would have lost already!” Lu Wei Yin had a solemn mood.
The opponents were working together impeccably, their cooperation was simply not humanly possible, they gave off a natural feeling, as if it was only reasonable for them to work together this perfectly.
While Ming Hao and Yu Xiu fought against Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin, they even had time to help Divine Emperor City resist Calamity Luck Altar.
“Fang Yuan, you want Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance?” Fairy Yu Xiu smiled: “Then you need to know that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had once been here and damaged Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space, he took out a portion of the true inheritance by force. Thankfully, you are allies, you can ask for it.”
Fairy Yu Xiu easily tried to sow discord.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly as he said to Lu Wei Yin: “Go deal with Divine Emperor City, I will handle these two.”
“Lord Fang Yuan, without me, if you fight alone…” Lu Wei Yin was hesitant.
Fang Yuan looked at him coldly: “Leave, you are hindering me.”
Lu Wei Yin gritted his teeth as he flew away from Fang Yuan.
Seeing this change, Fairy Ming Hao and Yu Xiu saw the weakness in their enemies, they looked at each other before launching rapid attacks at Fang Yuan together.
Fang Yuan opened his immortal aperture’s entrance and let out a young Gu Immortal.
Rank eight transformation path Gu Immortal Zhan Bu Du!
Immortal killer move — Incomplete Freedom Transformation!
The young man shouted as a blood red cape appeared on his back, fluttering with the wind.
“I became handsome, I became stronger!” Zhan Bu Du clenched his fist, staring at the two female immortals with a shining gaze filled with surging fighting spirit.
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Chapter 2175: Giant Sun Takes Action
In Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space, the battle between two Immortal Gu Houses had been ongoing for some time.
It was very intense.
“Come fight!” Zhan Bu Du shouted as he descended like a ferocious dragon, charging towards the two Heavenly Court pseudo venerables, Yu Xiu and Ming Hao.
Yu Xiu and Ming Hao split up at once, retreating at the same time as they created a long distance.
Zhan Bu Du missed his target again, he snorted coldly with some anger internally.
He was one of Fang Yuan’s clones, he cultivated transformation path and rose to rank eight, he had his own totem killer moves. But his own battle strength was still far from the peak of rank eight, he was not the match of experts like Qin Ding Ling or Wu Yong.
But once he used the killer move incomplete freedom transformation, he would instantly reach pseudo venerable battle strength!
Incomplete freedom transformation was not simple at all, it was extraordinary.
This transformation was made up of three moves: internal breathing green fish transformation, devouring blue leopard transformation, and thunder rush yellow bird transformation.
After Zhan Bu Du used incomplete freedom transformation, he gained the advantages of all three killer moves without any of their drawbacks.
He could move like lightning, shoot out lightning bolts, possess immense recovery and regeneration, and also the ability to devour all attacks.
Even though he was human, each action held divine strength that could intimidate demons or deities! He could directly suppress all immemorial desolate beasts or plants, he was basically a moving calamity that could fight heaven and earth, dominating all that were in his way!
Even Ming Hao and Yu Xiu did not dare to fight Zhan Bu Du head on, they engaged with him from a distance.
However, when their various killer moves got close to Zhan Bu Du, they would either be devoured or endured forcefully, before his regeneration took place and healed his body completely.
After a few rounds of combat, Ming Hao and Yu Xiu lost their enthusiasm to fight against Zhan Bu Du.
The enemy was too resilient but also very fast, thankfully, he lacked in the wisdom path aspect, while Yu Xiu and Ming Hao were experts in this.
Thus, they started to use wisdom path killer moves to weaken Zhan Bu Du, while deducing and preempting many of his attacks to dodge them.
It was very wise that Fang Yuan gave incomplete freedom transformation to Zhan Bu Du.
He was a pseudo venerable in the first place, using incomplete freedom transformation was quite wasteful, giving it to Zhan Bu Du would produce another pseudo venerable instantly.
Once Zhan Bu Du took action, the situation changed.
Fang Yuan and Zhan Bu Du worked together to deal with Ming Hao and Yu Xiu, they regained their footing as Heavenly Court lost the initiative, they went into a deadlock again.
Zhan Bu Du frowned deeply: “These two are extremely slippery and utilize their advantages well, I am unable to use my expertise against them. And their cooperation is simply too fluid, even though the main body and I have the closest of relationships, we are still not as well coordinated as them. It is likely because they are both wisdom path great experts!”
Rumble…
While moving around, both sides launched killer moves again, causing a beautiful display of fireworks to occur, the firepower was getting more intense.
Fang Yuan’s main body was still showing a cold expression.
Ming Hao and Yu Xiu were also secretly scheming.
“From the start, Fang Yuan has not been using his full strength, he is making deductions while fighting! He wants to deduce the location of Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance.” Fairy Yu Xiu was very clear of her enemy’s actions.
Fairy Ming Hao gritted her teeth: “He also has the Qi Sea clone, that is another pseudo venerable battle strength, if he is let out, this will get more troublesome. If we work together, we can resist the three of them for now, but this crafty Fang Yuan will definitely use the numbers to his advantage, he will ignore us and focus on Divine Emperor City!”
Heavenly Court actually knew about Qi Sea Ancestor’s true identity.
As it turned out, Qin Ding Ling knew this secret some time ago but she did not expose him at that time.
During the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, Heavenly Court did not know. But afterwards, Qin Ding Ling learned about the truth from Heavenly Court grotto-heaven.
After all, the Qi Sea clone was created in Heavenly Court, Heavenly Court’s qi harvest fruit was used in the process!
Heavenly Court had existed for millions of years, it naturally had ways to find out.
Precisely because of that, when the Qi Sea clone used the name of the Righteous Qi Alliance and invited Heavenly Court to send Gu Immortals against Fang Yuan, Qin Ding Ling did not give an affirmative response.
Fairy Yu Xiu transmitted: “Qin Ding Ling is a passable leader of Heavenly Court, when Heavenly Court lacked a pseudo venerable battle strength, she controlled herself and caused Fang Yuan to be misled into thinking that the Qi Sea clone was not be exposed, thus not using him now. Right now, we are benefiting from that.”
Fairy Ming Hao nodded secretly: “We can’t kill Fang Yuan here, but we cannot let him obtain the Thieving Heaven true inheritance here, we need to try and destroy this true inheritance space from the inside!”
The battle intensified but the strange thing was that neither side truly treated the opponent as their opponent.
Fang Yuan was doing his best to make deductions, he was not using his full strength in battle.
Zhan Bu Du was sent out to restrain the two Heavenly Court pseudo venerables as well. After all, he could cooperate better with his clone compared to Lu Wei Yin.
Meanwhile, Heavenly Court focused on destroying Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance.
As for Longevity Heaven.
Calamity Luck Altar had been finding trouble with Divine Emperor City, all sorts of killer moves were unleashed without restraint, not caring about this true inheritance space.
Evidently, regardless of what Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was after, he still had the intention to destroy this space so Fang Yuan could not gain anything!
Even though Longevity Heaven was allied with Fang Yuan, they were only doing so out of pressure from Heavenly Court.
They did not want to see Fang Yuan get any more help.
Especially when this help came from Thieving Heaven!
Divine Emperor City’s green light continued to shine densely, defending it from any attacks no matter how fierce or intense they were.
Divine Emperor City was not only defending itself, it also had offenses!
Immortal killer move — Divine Bean Soldier!
Yellow bean soldiers charged ahead, green bean soldiers shot out arrows like rain, red bean soldiers self-detonated, black bean soldiers defended at the center. There were also blue and white bean soldiers mixed among them, having their own tasks.
Each time Lu Wei Yin attacked Divine Emperor City, he would face the encirclement of these divine bean soldiers.
Lu Wei Yin used his offensive killer moves and caused great losses to these divine bean soldiers, less than ten percent of them survived.
This result shocked Lu Wei Yin, despite him being specialized in defense, his offensive methods were also at the peak of rank eight, to think that he could not completely eliminate these divine bean soldiers.
The reason was because of Divine Emperor City’s other move — Graft Wood.
This move could allow the divine bean soldiers to be connected together and share the damage they suffered. The bulk of the damage went to Divine Emperor City, while the divine bean soldiers bore the rest of the burden. Thus, these divine bean soldiers were very hard to kill in battle!
After Lu Wei Yin spent a long time to break out of the encirclement, when he approached Divine Emperor City, countless lightning bolts shot towards him.
It was immortal killer move — Myriad Life Spring Lightning!
Countless sparks that resembled dragons or snakes, as well as jade green lightning balls that exploded.
After they exploded, the remaining wood path dao marks would remain in the area and modify this battlefield gradually.
Thankfully, this was Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space and not the five regions, thus this move’s power could not be fully displayed.
After Lu Wei Yin endured the lightning bolts and got closer, the jade lights around Divine Emperor City started to turn into spirals as they shot out painting path killer moves.
These painting figures had countless forms, like flowers, birds, fishes, or insects, they were extremely varied and gave Lu Wei Yin a huge problem.
“Painting path is very unique, my attacks cannot get rid of them, I can’t conceal myself with my defensive methods either, this is a problem.”
Painting path was kept as a secret by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, this was Lu Wei Yin’s first encounter with it, there was no helping it, he felt he was without options.
Lu Wei Yin was unable to break Divine Emperor City’s defense, Calamity Luck Altar was similar.
Calamity Luck Altar was a rank eight luck path Immortal Gu House, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable created it personally, it displayed great might during the fate war, but right now, it could not do anything to Divine Emperor City.
The reason was that Divine Emperor City shot out rays of white light from time to time, Calamity Luck Altar had to dodge them each time without being careless.
This was human path killer move — Broken Homes and Dead Family!
This move countered Immortal Gu Houses, during the fate war, Immortal Gu House Chicken Dog Coop was only grazed by it and the entire Immortal Gu House broke apart without a single Gu Immortal inside surviving.
This was the human path offensive killer move that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable created, Calamity Luck Altar was restrained by it.
At once, Calamity Luck Altar could only guard the surroundings. This structure with three floors of round altars and multiple pillars holding it up, having white jade railings and shining aurora, was acting like an irritating fly that was moving around a person.
However, it was also not strange.
Calamity Luck Altar displayed great might earlier when fighting against Gu Immortals. The truth was, its most valuable method was the killer move calamity luck revolution. This move could turn all sorts of calamities and tribulations into becoming harmless to the immortal aperture, instead nourishing it accordingly. Longevity Heaven relied on Calamity Luck Altar to survive countless tribulations and grow over time.
That was the use of Calamity Luck Altar, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left it in Longevity Heaven before dying for this reason as well.
Divine Emperor City, painting world.
Fang Di Chang and Shen Shang worked together to comprehend the mysteries within.
“There is a huge disturbance in the outside world, it is likely a huge battle! Divine Emperor City possesses the methods of Divine Bean Palace and Emperor City, now that these methods are used so frequently, it shows that the ones attacking Divine Emperor City are not weaklings.” Shen Shang said.
This was a good thing for them.
The more these methods were used, the more they could observe and comprehend the wood path, painting path and human path profundities within.
“Is it my main body attacking Divine Emperor City now?” Fang Di Chang guessed: “Or maybe someone is trying to save the existences within growling beast painting world and qi howling painting world?”
Right at this time, Shen Shang’s and Fang Di Chang’s expressions changed, they stood up in shock as their gazes pierced through the room, towards the painting world’s sky.
In the sky, golden aurora gathered into two giant hands.
These two hands shrouded heaven and earth, they were unimaginably big, the left hand grabbed qi howling painting world while the right hand grabbed growling beast painting world.
Genesis Lotus’ will growled loudly, the power of painting path burst out to suppress the two giant hands.
Within Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space.
The battle was at the final critical moment, the entirety of Thieving Heaven’s space was covered in black lines, at the brink of destruction.
Zhan Bu Du gritted his teeth, he felt anxious internally: “The main body has not deduced the true location yet, he might not make it in time!”
“The time is now!” Within Calamity Luck Altar, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun took a look at Fang Yuan before taking a step out.
At the next moment, he appeared on the battlefield.
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Chapter 2176: Primordial Domain!
“Giant Sun Immortal Venerable?!” Fang Yuan’s pupils contracted, even though he had a guess already, he could not help but feel internally moved.
Golden light burst out in the battlefield, Divine Emperor City shook intensely as if something was breaking out from within.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun bellowed.
In the painting worlds, countless citizens looked up at the sky dumbstruck, they saw two hands flying in the sky, directly smashing two huge holes in the painting worlds!
The two hands flew out of Divine Emperor City unobstructed, disintegrating in the battlefield, revealing Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Mao Li Qiu.
“I was saved?” Demon Immortal Qi Jue was filled with surprise and joy.
“Master!” Mao Li Qiu saw Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and was choked with tears: “I knew you would come and save me, woof!”
Mao Li Qiu’s body immediately shrunk, it became tiny and jumped into Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s arms.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun showed a doting smile as he petted Mao Li Qiu’s head: “You are still the same, you bark like a dog when you are excited.”
“Woof woof woof!” Mao Li Qiu looked up at its master and barked with tears flowing out of its eyes.
“Giant Sun Immortal Venerable? He has already recovered to this degree.” Fairy Ming Hao was shocked.
“Ignore him, use our full strength to stall Fang Yuan, we are about to destroy Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space!” Fairy Yu Xiu reminded.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, opening his immortal aperture’s entrance.
Qi Sea Ancestor flew out.
Immortal killer move — Unlimited Qi Sea!
At once, vast qi surged, rushing towards him from all directions.
Ming Hao and Yu Xiu were intercepted by this move, while Fang Yuan used the chance to dive into the five colored smoke.
“It’s here!” He finally found the location of Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance.
The five colored smoke had reached it already.
Fang Yuan instantly went there and took away the remaining content of Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance.
At almost the next moment, Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space collapsed.
“Quickly leave!” Lu Wei Yin and the rest quickly retreated.
After Fang Yuan withdrew the five regional limit formation and became the last person to leave, Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space vanished into thin air at almost the same time!
“He succeeded after all.” Fairy Ming Hao sighed.
Fairy Yu Xiu smiled: “This true inheritance has been half devastated already, no need to worry, our goal has been achieved in this fight. Let’s go! The crucial part starts now.”
Fairy Yu Xiu stored Divine Emperor City, the two immortals vanished instantly.
Seeing this, Fang Yuan revealed an expression of contemplation.
“Lord Fang Yuan.” Lu Wei Yin quickly gathered alongside Zhan Bu Du, Qi Sea Ancestor, and Fang Yuan.
At the other side, there was Calamity Luck Altar and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun!
Both sides did not talk, even though they were allies, they both knew about the dependability level of their alliance.
“Four pseudo venerable battle strengths…” Bing Sai Chuan, who was within Calamity Luck Altar, was tongue-tied, in just a short period, Fang Yuan’s strength had grown to such a level.
Longevity Heaven’s Gu Immortals were not fools, the moment Qi Sea Ancestor appeared, they realized he was Fang Yuan’s clone.
“Giant Sun Immortal Venerable…” Fang Yuan looked at Immortal Zombie Giant Sun as he squinted, maintaining silence.
Even though the other party was an immortal zombie now, he still had extraordinary strength and profound methods, the moment he took action, he broke into Divine Emperor City and saved Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Mao Li Qiu, who were sealed inside the painting worlds.
Right now, Mao Li Qiu was curled up in Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s arms, wagging its tail in joy, how could one even imagine that this was a proud legendary immemorial beast?
As for Demon Immortal Qi Jue, he stood at one side without much embarrassment, his expression was hesitant and suspicious.
He was saved by Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, but the moment he came out, he saw Longevity Heaven, Heavenly Court, and Fang Yuan in a three-way battle, after that, Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space got destroyed, what in the world was happening?
The scale of the battle was huge, the situation was complex, Demon Immortal Qi Jue could not process it immediately.
“Fang Yuan.” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun nodded at Fang Yuan, taking the initiative to speak: “This is Heavenly Court’s scheme.”
Fang Yuan raised his brows: “Oh? How so?”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun pointed at the place where Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space was destroyed: “According to what I know, Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space was added in much later, it was used to salvage the situation. Because it greatly affected Limitless Demon Venerable’s derivation, its destruction is something that Limitless’ will is happy to see.”
“At the same time, Heavenly Court’s Feng Ya is trying to deduce Limitless Demon Venerable’s arrangements, she is also obstructed by this space. Now that it is destroyed, her progress will be smooth sailing.”
“Earlier, when I deduced Limitless’ arrangements, I had fought against her from afar, she is the strongest wisdom path expert among the three pseudo venerables. She has already come into contact with the other core of the ninth layer — Primordial Domain!”
“Heavenly Court came here to obstruct you from getting Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance on the surface, but their true intention was to force me to take action by using the captives in Divine Emperor City as bait.”
“Without my obstruction, seeing that Feng Ya has not shown up even now, it is likely that they have made a breakthrough there. Their advantage and initiative has grown even larger.”
The moment Immortal Zombie Giant Sun finished his words, Fang Yuan’s expression changed slightly.
The other immortals’ pupils shrank, along with Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, they all turned towards the direction of Green Lotus Great World.
The immortals looked past a vast distance, seeing that at the center of Green Lotus Great World, a lump of phantom image appeared at the peak of Book Mountain.
This phantom image was pure white and humongous, it was far larger than even Book Mountain, having the shape of a ball, with the inner area shining dazzlingly with white light.
The immortals were all shaken.
Lu Wei Yin’s expression turned ugly as he said: “Primordial Domain!”
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]], chapter five, section thirty-six states —
Carefree Wisdom Heart was born, she was intelligent and witty, Ren Zu liked his eighth child a lot.
But at the same time, Ren Zu was vexed: “My mind shattered, what do I do? I cannot store more knowledge anymore. Sigh, it seems that only the two of you can help me now.”
Thus, Carefree Wisdom Heart and Great Strength True Martial used their own minds to store up more knowledge.
They filled their minds with knowledge, before moving along with Ren Zu.
Ren Zu and his children started their third attempt.
Before they took a step, they would scatter ink text and knowledge, the text would describe their knowledge and form a small black path.
Ren Zu and his children walked on this small path.
But when they finished using their knowledge and reached the end of the ink text path, they did not see any signs of wisdom Gu.
Ren Zu’s third attempt failed again.
Great Strength True Martial shrugged in disappointment: “What do we do now? We have already done our best, but our knowledge is still insufficient. We cannot hold any more knowledge in our minds.”
Ren Zu sighed, he was also quite helpless.
At this time, hope Gu flew out: “Oh human, don’t be disappointed, I am here.”
Ren Zu was surprised: “How can you help me?”
Hope Gu answered: “Oh human, I can awaken your aperture[1].”
Hope allowed people to gain enlightenment (awaken their aperture).
Thus, hope Gu exerted effort to create an aperture for Ren Zu.
Humility Gu laughed: “Then let me help you as well, human. When you have humility, your capacity will be larger, you will be able to hold more things.”
Thus, the aperture expanded in size.
Ren Zu obtained the aperture and felt very happy: “This place is really huge, I can store so much knowledge! This is wonderful.”
Ren Zu and his children went to Book Mountain again, they refined their knowledge and searched for ink text.
Ren Zu stored a lot of knowledge into his aperture, even he did not know the quantity he took.
Ren Zu and his children set off on their fourth journey, they stepped on the ink text path and entered deep into Qian Kun Crystal Wall.
They went very deeply and searched many places, they changed directions countless times but still could not find wisdom Gu.
They had no choice but to return to Book Mountain.
This time, because the exploration took too long, the ink text path that they created when they set off was unable to endure the endless barrage of information, a large portion of it faded away.
Ren Zu found the inkman elder and asked: “Why can’t we find wisdom Gu?”
The inkman elder replied: “Sometimes, when we inkmen explore the place, we would encounter wisdom Gu. But you three have searched the entire Qian Kun Crystal Wall but did not find wisdom Gu, it means that it is intentionally hiding from you, it does not want to meet you.”
Carefree Wisdom Heart quickly asked: “Then where is wisdom Gu hiding at?”
The inkman elder pondered and said: “Oh humans, you have searched the entire Qian Kun Crystal Wall. If wisdom Gu is still inside here, it can only hide in one place. That place is called Primordial Domain, it is the most mysterious part of Qian Kun Crystal Wall.”
“Qian Kun Crystal Wall has a record of everything that happens in the world, it contains infinite information. Primordial Domain contains the information of the world since creation, it also has the information of the ends of all living beings. It is both the starting point and the ending point. It has nothing, yet it comprises everything.”
Great Strength True Martial was overjoyed: “We have not gone to Primordial Domain yet, oh inkman elder, tell us how to get into the Primordial Domain.”
The inkman elder shook his head: “It is not that I do not want to help you, but we inkmen have also only heard of the location, we have never entered it. Oh humans, we inkmen admire you a lot. You possess knowledge that far surpasses us, thus, if you want to enter Primordial Domain, you need to rely on yourselves.”
Ren Zu and his children had to make their own research.
Carefree Wisdom Heart had a find, she shouted joyfully: “I found it, I found it!”
“Oh daughter, what did you find, why are you so excited?” Ren Zu asked in curiosity.
Carefree Wisdom Heart opened both her palms: “On my right palm, I found right Gu. On my left palm, I found wrong Gu.”
“These two Gu are born in your body, they are ordinary looking and are much less presentable than my authority Gu. What help can they give us?” Great Strength True Martial was very prideful, he spoke nonchalantly.
Carefree Wisdom Heart answered: “These two Gu allow us to differentiate and classify our knowledge. Look at our knowledge again, the truth is, much of it is right at this moment, but after some time, those pieces of information will be wrong. There is also much of it that is right when placed here, but wrong when placed there. I think that if we use the knowledge that is always right at all times and use it to make our text path, we will be able to reach Primordial Domain.”
Ren Zu nodded: “Your words are quite logical. Let us try it.”
But no matter how they looked, they could not find such knowledge.
Great Strength True Martial’s strong Gu said proudly: “Oh humans, you are wasting your effort. Because in this world, there has only been strong and weak, there has never been right or wrong, thus, your actions are in vain, you cannot classify right and wrong.”
[1] Awaken aperture in Chinese can also mean enlightenment/reach an understanding.
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Chapter 2177: Venerable Invincibility
“Qian Kun Crystal Wall contains everything that happens in the world, all of the information comprises genuine events with no lies. Using right and wrong will not be able to differentiate them at all, because since they exist, or rather, since they existed, they are all logical information.”
Carefree Wisdom Heart was criticized, but her eyes shined with bright light: “I get it, the existence of everyone in the world, regardless of right or wrong, is logical, because this is the true meaning of their existence. This is what true meaning is!”
“Be it information or knowledge, they are a type of expression of true meaning, a form of revelation. If we can grasp true meaning, not only can we explain what is right, we can also explain what is wrong, it can explain everything!”
“Let us search for it.”
The three of them started to dig up true meaning from the vast sea of knowledge.
Great Strength True Martial was the first to get impatient, Ren Zu also lost his perseverance soon, but only Carefree Wisdom Heart remained calm and composed, her expression was serious and solemn.
After a long time, Great Strength True Martial pointed at Carefree Wisdom Heart, he gasped in shock: “Look, another Gu grew on your body!”
The newly born Gu was called serious Gu.
After Carefree Wisdom Heart obtained it, she became very happy: “With this Gu, I will be able to recognize true meaning more easily.”
After a long time, Ren Zu pointed at Carefree Wisdom Heart as well: “Look, another Gu appeared on your body.”
The second Gu was called learning Gu.
Carefree Wisdom Heart started to learn knowledge, she converted knowledge into things that she truly understood, she was no longer just storing them using memory Gu.
She started to understand more and more knowledge, soon, a third Gu appeared on her body.
The third Gu was called talent Gu.
“I found it, I found it!” One day, Carefree Wisdom Heart shouted with joy, with the help of self will Gu, learning Gu, and talent Gu, she finally found the true meaning of knowledge.
“Quickly tell us, what does true meaning look like?” Great Strength True Martial was very happy as he asked.
But Carefree Wisdom Heart shook her head: “The true meaning contained within will be lost if I try to convey it in words.”
“Then write it out using ink text.” Great Strength True Martial thought about it and suggested.
But Carefree Wisdom Heart shook her head again: “The meaning can only be understood, it cannot be passed down in text!”
Ren Zu waved his hand: “Forget it, since you possess true meaning now, let’s head out immediately.”
Carefree Wisdom Heart was filled with true meaning, they set off from Book Mountain as she scattered ink text on the ground, the path was much wider than before, it was also more sturdy.
Ren Zu and his children walked on the great path and arrived in Primordial Domain.
Within Primordial Domain, they met wisdom Gu.
Wisdom Gu was quite helpless, it had already hidden itself so deeply but Ren Zu still found it, self Gu managed to take a bite out of it in the end.
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Crazed Demon Cave, eighth layer.
Center of Green Lotus Great World.
At the peak of Book Mountain, everyone was present.
Che Wei took the fifth seat, Qin Ding Ling took the fourth, Fairy Ming Hao took the third, Fairy Yu Xiu took the second, while Fairy Feng Ya took the main seat.
Fairy Feng Ya’s hair was tied up in a bun, she was old but not wrinkled, she retained her beauty and elegance.
Her entire body was covered in a thin layer of dazzling light, it was the sign that she possessed talent Gu.
Currently, she was taking charge of the situation, exerting power in secret to force Primordial Domain to appear at the top of Book Mountain.
After Thieving Heaven’s space was destroyed, Yu Xiu and Ming Hao brought all of their troops with them as they teleported back to Fairy Feng Ya’s side.
Fairy Ming Hao sighed: “To think that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had such deep painting path attainment, he easily managed to save Mao Li Qiu.”
Heavenly Court had indeed wanted to use Mao Li Qiu and the rest to force Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to take action.
Heavenly Court was clear of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s protective nature towards his descendants and kin.
But unexpectedly, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable managed to easily save the captives without issue.
“He is a former Immortal Venerable after all, this is nothing strange.” Qin Ding Ling said: “Furthermore, our side benefited the most from this battle.”
Fairy Yu Xiu was hesitant: “It is still unclear which side benefited the most. We expanded our advantage while Giant Sun Immortal Venerable took back Mao Li Qiu, and Fang Yuan also obtained the remainder of Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance. For some reason, I am feeling quite uneasy.”
Fairy Feng Ya looked at Primordial Domain in the sky as she said: “The situation is clear now, Giant Sun and Fang Yuan will send their troops against us. We will remain here and stay on the defense, as long as we can endure their attacks, we will grasp the key to this battle and return victorious, we will rebuild the glory of Heavenly Court! Everyone, do you have confidence in this?”
Hearing this, the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were riled up with great morale, they answered together.
“It was all thanks to Lady Feng Ya’s planning that we have such a great advantage now!”
“We need to defend it at all cost! We cannot lose again.”
“Even if we sacrifice our lives, there is no regret.”
“In my opinion, even though there are many enemies, Giant Sun and Fang Yuan will not work together sincerely, they will be guarded against each other.”
Yellow Earth Great World.
Lu Wei Yin looked at Fang Yuan and frowned deeply: “Primordial Domain has appeared, Heavenly Court’s wisdom path attainment is truly incredible, we cannot wait any longer. The situation is really terrible.”
Primordial Domain had already been exposed, but Heavenly Court only managed to get that far, they had not truly obtained it yet.
Even so, Heavenly Court’s advantage was immense.
Because Primordial Domain was far more important and crucial than Book Mountain!
As long as a venerable entered Primordial Domain, they would regain their supreme attainment level and become a Dao Lord again. Whoever entered Primordial Domain first would turn the advantage into victory, they would be the eventual winner of this Crazed Demon Cave battle.
Not only that, after this, when the venerable who became a Dao Lord went back to the five regions, they would take control of the world’s situation. Thus, they would likely become the winner of the five regions chaotic war, ending up as the new ruler of the world.
“Lord Fang Yuan, Heavenly Court is about to obtain Primordial Domain. We need to attack with full force, if we cannot stop Heavenly Court, we will experience defeat this time.” Lu Wei Yin said with determination.
Originally, his tactic was to defend first and retaliate later, but now, they had no choice but to go on the offense.
“How do we use our full strength?” Fang Yuan asked.
Lu Wei Yin showed a conflicted expression immediately.
Heavenly Court had a clear wisdom path advantage.
Ever since the start of the Crazed Demon Cave battle, Heavenly Court had held the initiative and advantage at all times.
Heavenly Court’s three pseudo venerables cultivated wisdom path, due to their planning and foresight, their advantage was not just maintained, it was even expanded.
Right now, Heavenly Court even managed to draw out the other core of the ninth layer, Primordial Domain. And more terrifyingly, they did not cause Limitless Demon Venerable’s retaliative method to trigger.
This meant that Heavenly Court had already comprehended a lot of the ninth layer’s profundity, they were able to avoid Limitless’ method from activating.
All along, Fang Yuan did not see Limitless’ will manifesting, it was likely that it had already been destroyed.
Lu Wei Yin sighed deeply in admiration: “Back then, Limitless Demon Venerable fought his way to Heavenly Court and forced Star Constellation’s will to play a game of chess with him, they comprehended and deduced together, obtaining all sorts of heaven path research results that were secretly sent into Crazed Demon Cave for the derivation here.”
“But at the same time, Heavenly Court’s methods also infiltrated Crazed Demon Cave, when Heavenly Court managed to draw out Book Mountain from the ninth layer, I had already felt something amiss. Now that they are about to bring out Primordial Domain, I can see that their wisdom path attainment is truly unmatched.”
“Now that Heavenly Court has the initiative and territorial advantage, we are all forced to attack them while they only need to defend.”
“And the worst thing is that we cannot truly use our full strength!”
Fang Yuan nodded slightly: “That is also my worry. Heavenly Court is skilled in wisdom path, why would they not know that both of our sides are going to attack them desperately? But they still went ahead with this, it means that they are confident in stopping our attacks. And their confidence might likely stem from Crazed Demon Cave.”
Heavenly Court was able to bring out Book Mountain earlier, they also took out Primordial Domain now without activating Limitless Demon Venerable’s retaliation. One reason was their superb wisdom path method, the other was that Heavenly Court’s infiltration of Crazed Demon Cave had lasted for over a million years, they had deep foundations.
Fang Yuan could clearly not reach that level of understanding, if he used his full strength, he would likely face Limitless’ retaliative method.
This meant that Heavenly Court was making use of Limitless Demon Venerable!
“This is the problem with fighting wisdom path experts.” Lu Wei Yin continued frowning, the truth was, he still had a deep worry internally but he could not express it.
That was Gu Yue Fang Yuan’s strength.
Fang Yuan was a pseudo venerable indeed with outstanding strength, he was the strongest person in the world before the trip to Crazed Demon Cave.
But now?
He was facing Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!
The appearance of Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was a huge blow to Lu Wei Yin. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, who had yet to appear, also placed a huge pressure on him internally.
Could Fang Yuan fight against these two enemies?
The truth was, Lu Wei Yin had no confidence in him.
Venerables were invincible!
This was the truth of the world in the last few million years of human history.
Because Lu Wei Yin had no confidence, he made the plan earlier to defend first and retaliate later.
Fang Yuan might be able to defend against a venerable for some time, but only a venerable could defeat a venerable!
These were Lu Wei Yin’s true thoughts.
At the same time, Fang Yuan’s subordinates had the same mentality.
Even if these people idolized and admired him, they were not brazen enough to think that Fang Yuan could defeat a venerable.
Venerables were invincible!
Back then, during Primordial Origin’s era, variant humans ruled the world, did they lack pseudo venerable battle strengths?
They had them, and the numbers were not few.
But they had never held any hope of defeating a venerable.
Indeed, Fang Yuan had unfathomable strength and was able to easily defeat other pseudo venerable Gu Immortals. But this was not strange, even though pseudo venerables surpassed the peak of rank eight, among themselves, their difference in strength could still be huge.
But if Fang Yuan had to fight against a venerable, nobody would think that he could win, they would only think of how long he could last.
“As long as Fang Yuan lasts until Lord Paradise Earth revives, we will win. But now, Heavenly Court is pressuring us to take action. If we fight now, we might not make it in time for Lord Paradise Earth’s revival!” Lu Wei Yin felt like a stone was weighing down on his heart.
Fang Yuan looked at the Primordial Domain far away as he said expressionlessly: “The situation is as such, we have to attack forcefully. Let’s follow our agreement with Longevity Heaven earlier and send out our subordinates.”
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Chapter 2178: Intense Battle
Crazed Demon Cave, eighth layer.
Primordial Domain’s silhouette remained motionless in the sky, it was getting more vivid and condensed.
The fusion of Green Lotus Great World, Yellow Earth Great World, and Savage Wilderness Great World was also getting deeper, only a small part of the boundary walls remained to obstruct their connection.
All of the small worlds had already fused into the three great worlds, Savage Wilderness Great World gained the greatest benefits, they had the most people.
This was thanks to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s heaven and earth luck method, causing most of the small worlds to fall towards Savage Wilderness Great World.
Fang Yuan sent out almost all his Gu cultivators, charging towards Heavenly Court’s Book Mountain.
Longevity Heaven also sent troops with surging might and morale.
Heavenly Court was already prepared against them, Duan Hu and Nie Kuang Feng led their troops as they defended on both sides.
“As long as it is not a sage, nobody is my match!” Nie Kuang Feng roared.
It swept around with a huge fierce wind, the entire battlefield was pressured with wind, creating a great commotion.
“The enemy is in front of us, we need to work together to obtain victory!” Xiao He Jian looked at Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, the latter nodded with a solemn expression.
In the earlier battle, these two variant human Gu Immortals had fought against Nie Kuang Feng and lost individually. Not only did many Gu Immortals die, Xiao He Jian and Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch were also heavily damaged, they barely survived.
This time, after recovering their strength entirely, they decided to face Nie Kuang Feng together, putting down their grudges and rivalry.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch waved his hands imposingly as frost qi shot out, shrouding Nie Kuang Feng and slowing its movement, reducing its speed.
Xiao He Jian shot out green leaf blades that moved from all directions, they had impressive power.
Nie Kuang Feng whipped up a strong wind, heaven and earth changed colors, the leaves and frost winds were scattered everywhere.
Immortal killer move — Extreme Ice Crystal Light Immortal Suppression Coffin!
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch gave a roar, his aura got completely concealed, not a single bit leaked out.
At the next moment, his entire body exploded and spread out into countless frost lights.
The frost lights shot out with extreme coldness! Everywhere they went, air would freeze into ice crystals before falling to the ground.
“Hmm?” Nie Kuang Feng was shocked, it tried to dodge but how could it avoid in time?
It was shot by countless crystal lights, sealed in the mountain-like ice coffin.
“The thicker the ice, the stronger the amplification of the crystal lights that land on me!” Nie Kuang Feng struggled desperately but could not escape, facing the pressure of death, it went into demonization.
Crack…
From the inside, cracks started to appear and spread around the ice coffin.
“Oh no , I can’t trap it anymore.” Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch sensed the threat.
But at this point, Xiao He Jian’s move was finally prepared.
Immortal killer move — Cut Grass!
Xiao He Jian’s palms slashed down like blades, aiming at Nie Kuang Feng, who was stuck inside the ice coffin.
Immediately, two blades of leaves appeared and fell slowly, stabbing into the cracks between the ice and piercing Nie Kuang Feng’s body.
Nie Kuang Feng’s body instantly shook.
Xiao He Jian attacked without stopping, Nie Kuang Feng’s body shook as the green tornado got weaker and thinner, its resistance also started to fall.
“I am willing to surrender…” Nie Kuang Feng said weakly.
“Our master has orders, we will not accept anyone’s surrender!” Xiao He Jian replied coldly.
In the end, Nie Kuang Feng lost its life at the hands of Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian.
Once Nie Kuang Feng died, the mutant Gu Immortals were left without a leader, many were killed while the rest escaped in desperation.
Fang Yuan’s army charged forward and reached the base of Book Mountain.
At the other end, Space Extremity and Desolate Extremity of Longevity Heaven’s Eight Extremities worked together and killed Duan Hu.
The two armies arrived at the center of Green Lotus Great World.
Heavenly Court had only obtained Book Mountain recently, they only managed to set up their formation around it.
This formation was known as four-way star formation, it had four sub-formations in four different directions, defending Book Mountain tightly with no gaps present.
At the peak of Book Mountain, Fairy Feng Ya continued to use her killer move without stopping, drawing out Primordial Domain, which was in the sky.
The two armies discussed for a while before attacking the four sub-formations.
Mao Li Qiu led its group to attack the west formation.
Gai Mei led a group to attack the north formation.
Xiao He Jian led a group to attack the east formation.
Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch led a group to attack the south formation.
The remaining ones were led by Bing Sai Chuan and Lu Wei Yin, they firmly supported the four vanguard groups.
The moment Mao Li Qiu entered the formation, countless starlight specks shot down like a torrential rain with countless droplets.
Mao Li Qiu growled as it expanded and became much larger, its purple fur was smooth and thick, the starlight could not penetrate it.
It charged around in the sub-formation with other Gu Immortals following it, attacking, killing, and causing destruction.
“Vile beast, you are here to cause problems again. We will kill you this time!” The star formation shook as two Gu Immortals flew in.
Nine Spiritual Fairy and Prince Feng Xian.
Nine Spiritual Fairy turned into an immemorial desolate beast to block Mao Li Qiu. The transformed immemorial desolate beast was superior to the real immemorial desolate beast, Mao Li Qiu was soon suppressed, its energy was expended and its body was hurting.
Prince Feng Xian activated his fire path killer move, all sorts of birds rained down with flames, killing more than ten mutant Gu Immortals of Savage Wilderness Great World in one move.
Mao Li Qiu was unable to resist, it had to retreat.
Elsewhere, Gai Mei went up against Zhou Xiong Xin and Jun Shen Guang.
Zhou Xiong Xin activated information path killer move and attacked, while Jun Shen Guang turned into a ray of light to support him. They worked together in unison with one as the attacker and one as support.
Yellow Extremity Jiao Huo used a totem killer move and fought against Zhou Xiong Xin, they were evenly matched.
But Gai Mei, on the other hand, was shouting loudly, he was running around and dodging Jun Shen Guang’s attacks.
“Quickly go, quickly go.” Gai Mei grabbed onto Jiao Huo’s shoulder and dragged him away, ignoring the latter’s stare.
Longevity Heaven’s two groups returned without result, Fang Yuan’s two groups were even worse.
Xiao He Jian and Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch were trapped, they could not even retreat.
“These two immortals met with Heavenly Court’s Che Wei and Wan Zi Hong, they are in great danger, quickly send help!” The reinforcement letter had already reached Lu Wei Yin.
Che Wei created weapon path, his methods were getting more mature, his status was only below Qin Ding Ling.
Wan Zi Hong was originally a demonic immortal of Western Desert, she was recruited by Heavenly Court. During the fate war, she displayed great abilities, and now that her Immortal Gu were fully with her, her battle strength returned to its peak, she was very powerful.
Bing Sai Chuan and Lu Wei Yin held an emergency meeting: “This four-way star formation is a star path formation, we cannot take it down by force. It is simply too hard with Heavenly Court’s elites guarding all four areas. Lord Fang Yuan was able to destroy the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation with that thing, I am sure he can deal with this formation too.”
Bing Sai Chuan was talking about the five regional limit formation.
Lu Wei Yin nodded and was about to speak when suddenly, a Gu Immortal came out of Yellow Earth Great World.
This female immortal had snow-white skin, her ears were like rabbit ears, her eyes were blood red, it was Lady White Rabbit.
Lady White Rabbit had become a genuine rank eight Gu Immortal with Fang Yuan’s help.
Lu Wei Yin laughed and said to Bing Sai Chuan: “I’ve already asked Lord Fang Yuan for help, I wanted to borrow the five regional limit formation to break the formation using a formation. Lady White Rabbit, thank you for the hard work.”
Lady White Rabbit smiled: “Of course I need to work hard for master, I’ll even give up my life, this is nothing. But master did not pass me the five regional limit formation, he said that this formation does not have a specific target range, its effect takes too long and won’t be effective. Thus, I brought other methods.”
Bing Sai Chuan was curious: “Lord Fang Yuan’s methods must be extraordinary, please allow me to have a look.”
Thus, Lady White Rabbit took out several Immortal Gu Houses from her immortal aperture.
Rising Cloud City, Profound Frost House, Unbreakable Golden Fortress, Dragon Soul Dark Castle, Red River Pavilion, Red Heavenly Altar, Scarlet Palace!
A total of seven Immortal Gu Houses which were all at rank eight.
Bing Sai Chuan was completely dumbstruck.
“Master said that he could only create these few Immortal Gu Houses in the short period of time. He has already given orders, we will charge with these Immortal Gu Houses as the vanguard.” Lady White Rabbit said.
It turned out that ever since Fang Yuan entered Crazed Demon Cave and collected a vast amount of immortal materials, he had ordered the time path clone He Chun Qiu to use Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool to refine Immortal Gu.
After all sorts of rank eight Immortal Gu were created, he started assembling Immortal Gu Houses.
Fang Yuan did not intend to construct Immortal Gu Houses originally, they were not very useful to him.
But after entering the eighth layer, he could not fight with his full strength here, he made preparations to arm his subordinates instead.
He had no time indeed
These Immortal Gu Houses were all modified on the basis of Cloud City, Dark Flow Giant City, Profound Ice House, Unbreakable Iron Fortress, Blood River Chariot, Nightmare Castle, Green Wave Pavilion, Weaving Cocoon Manor, Golden Altar and other Immortal Gu Houses.
Strictly speaking, these were considered only partial innovations.
But against Heavenly Court, even with three wisdom path pseudo venerables, they could not easily decipher and break them, they needed to spend time on deductions.
That was enough!
Lu Wei Yin became very happy, he distributed the Immortal Gu Houses and charged through into the formation, saving Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch and Xiao He Jian.
Afterwards, the seven rank eight Immortal Gu Houses swept through the battlefield, breaking two more sub-formations.
The two groups gathered towards Book Mountain.
At the peak of Book Mountain, Fairy Feng Ya’s eyes were shut as she used her method. Ming Hao and Yu Xiu were taking charge of the situation.
Seeing so many Immortal Gu Houses, Fairy Yu Xiu had a grim expression: “Fang Yuan is so rich and has terrifying refinement path methods. It seems he intends to progress in refinement path!”
“Thankfully, his wisdom path is inferior to us, these Immortal Gu Houses are all not new, they have an origin that we can trace.” Fairy Ming Hao said as she used her killer move.
Human path killer move — Humble Reciprocation!
Book Mountain shook as countless killer moves were unleashed like fireworks.
In the sky, Primordial Domain surfaced with rumbling tribulation clouds, calamities and tribulations were unceasing.
On the battlefield, countless killer moves filled the vision, surging like sea waves that crashed down in all directions.
Against such an endless tide of killer moves, Fang Yuan’s subordinates hid inside the Immortal Gu Houses, moving against the waves.
Longevity Heaven had many Gu Immortals but they could not all enter Calamity Luck Altar.
Thus, Bing Sai Chuan took out five Immortal Gu Houses.
Wide Building Harem Palace, Internal Delight Harem Palace, Red Bean Harem Palace, Lovesick Harem Palace, Young Peach Harem Palace.
They were the five palaces that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable placed in the five regions when he was alive, they were all rank eight.
The foundation of an Immortal Venerable was displayed in full view!
“My lifetime accumulation cannot even rival Fang Yuan, he seems to have an overflowing number of rank eight Immortal Gu. Is he trying to become venerable through refinement path?” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun looked at the battlefield as he thought.
Fang Yuan was observing the battlefield as well while comprehending Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance.
This Thieving Heaven true inheritance contained imitation Gu and the killer move perfect pair originally, but Fang Yuan only obtained the rest.
But this remaining portion was very important to Fang Yuan.
The true inheritance content was about refinement path, it talked about how Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable created a fake Qian Kun Crystal Wall in his time, how he created fake Immortal Gu and so on.
“Other than the four aspects of refinement path that I summarized earlier, there is also this aspect!”
“Refining fake Gu…”
“Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable left this true inheritance to me with deep intentions.”
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Chapter 2179: Battle of Book Mountain
Book Mountain was surrounded in the two colors of black and white, Gu Immortals fought intensely as they could be seen everywhere.
Immortal killer move — Great Qi Cloud Explosion!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue stretched out his finger and pointed consecutively.
Instantly, the air in front of him surged and gathered into a lump.
Several hundred white qi comets shot out at once, blocking the attacks of Book Mountain.
Fairy Ming Hao had been using Book Mountain to unleash the killer move humble reciprocation. Relying on this terrifying move, she was able to suppress the forces of Fang Yuan and Longevity Heaven.
These killer moves were all recorded in Book Mountain, there were a variety of them, this was a human path killer move in essence but the released attacks had the power of their original paths.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue faced offense with offense, after destroying the current wave of attacks, he sighed and retreated.
After he was saved by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, he did not interact with Longevity Heaven or Fang Yuan, he moved on his own and quickly learned about the current situation.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue also did not want to see Heavenly Court obtain Primordial Domain.
He wanted to enter Primordial Domain, in fact, to raise his qi path attainment level to supreme grandmaster, how could he allow others to snatch it first?
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was alone and could not take down Heavenly Court. But with Fang Yuan and Longevity Heaven working against the colossal force, he would not be Demon Immortal Qi Jue if he did not make use of this opportunity.
“To think that attacking Book Mountain is so dangerous, I can’t even reach the middle of the mountain.” Demon Immortal Qi Jue frowned.
When he was suppressed by Divine Emperor City, he lost many of his qi path dao marks. Furthermore, the secluded domain of heaven and earth that he relied on, Xi Land, had only about thirty percent left after the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan.
Bubble bubble…
As if a tsunami had struck, another wave of attacks swept down from the top of the mountain like a waterfall.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue had no choice but to retreat again.
“Charge, charge up!” A rank eight Immortal Gu House went past him, completely ignoring Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
That was the rank eight Immortal Gu House that Fang Yuan created, Unbreakable Golden Fortress.
The Gu Immortals in the Unbreakable Golden Fortress saw Demon Immortal Qi Jue but did not pay any attention to him. When Demon Immortal Qi Jue first appeared, he was quite the hot topic, but seeing that he had attacked Book Mountain too, Fang Yuan’s subordinates also learned of Demon Immortal Qi Jue’s stance.
Seeing Unbreakable Golden Fortress charge up and resisting the endless wave of killer moves, Demon Immortal Qi Jue could not help but show some envy in his eyes.
In this battle, Immortal Gu Houses were simply too important.
They provided the Gu Immortals strong defense, otherwise, as just a single person, how could he advance while resisting endless tribulations and killer moves?
Unbreakable Golden Fortress reached the middle of the mountain, in the fireworks of killer moves around it, there was a bloody shadow that flashed by.
At the next moment, the huge bloody shadow arrived, showing itself.
This was a huge red tombstone with text characters moving around it, it had a dense aura of blood path, this was Demon Judgment Board!
“Don’t think of moving further!” Within Demon Judgment Board, Gu Yue Fang Zheng spoke.
Bam.
With a loud sound, the two Immortal Gu Houses crashed into each other.
Unbreakable Golden Fortress’ advancement was forcefully halted.
Demon Judgment Board shot out blood red light that resembled a beam, it hit Unbreakable Golden Fortress.
Unbreakable Golden Fortress raised its defense and blocked the blood red light, but it was still forced down from the middle of the mountain by an unstoppable force.
Even though Unbreakable Golden Fortress was a rank eight Immortal Gu House, it was still far from Demon Judgment Board, which was a peak creation.
Gu Yue Fang Zheng breathed roughly.
Heavenly Court had few Immortal Gu Houses.
Even including Divine Emperor City, Heaven Overseeing Tower, and Divine Emperor City, they only had six.
Right now, these six Immortal Gu Houses were used to defend themselves, dealing with the Immortal Gu Houses that attacked them.
Over on Longevity Heaven’s end, Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace did not move out, but Calamity Luck Altar and the five Harem Palaces totaled to six, they were equally numbered with Heavenly Court’s Immortal Gu Houses.
While Fang Yuan suddenly brought out seven Immortal Gu Houses!
This was out of their expectations.
They had originally thought that Fang Yuan would reconstruct Dragon Palace or Myriad Year Flying Warship, but to think that he would start over and bring out seven Immortal Gu Houses like Unbreakable Golden Fortress.
So be it if he made new ones, but these Immortal Gu Houses were all rank eight.
Seven rank eight Immortal Gu Houses gave Heavenly Court an immense pressure in guarding themselves.
Heavenly Court only had around half the Immortal Gu Houses of their enemies, while Longevity Heaven’s Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace and Fang Yuan’s Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress had yet to join the battle, this made the hearts of Heavenly Court Gu Immortals sink.
Under Fang Zheng’s control, Demon Judgment Board went around to force back the invading Immortal Gu Houses, attempting to maintain their defensive circle.
“The enemies are very strong, we can maintain the situation now with Divine Emperor City, Heaven Overseeing Tower, and myself as support. But if this goes on, we will not last long.”
Gu Yue Fang Zheng’s expression was pale, he understood this internally.
He felt like he was reaching his limit already.
The intensity of the battle was too high.
Demon Judgment Board not only had to go around to fight against the many Immortal Gu Houses, it also had to resist the bombardment of killer moves and tribulations.
The expenditure of immortal essence was shocking even for Fang Zheng.
Demon Judgment Board’s damage level was also increasingly severe. Back then in Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space, Demon Judgment Board had already been heavily hit by Fang Yuan, it had already been repaired earlier. Now, its current damage was newly created.
If Fang Zheng was alone, he might have already lost control of the situation. Thankfully, Demon Judgment Board had the wills of the previous Demon Judgment Board Lords, these wills were helping him to rapidly repair the Immortal Gu House.
“Since when did our Heavenly Court’s foundation lose to others?” At the peak of Book Mountain, Fairy Ming Hao maintained the killer move humble reciprocation while sighing to herself.
In Heavenly Court’s case, the situation was quite bad. Even though Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals fought desperately to defend themselves, the defensive line was already wavering, the Immortal Gu Houses might break through at any moment and arrive at the peak.
At the peak of Book Mountain, Fairy Feng Ya was still using her full strength to use the killer move and try to obtain Primordial Domain, she could not be interrupted.
Fairy Ming Hao and Yu Xiu looked at each other, the latter waved her hand: “Go.”
A tiger roar and crane cry resounded in the battlefield.
Two legendary immemorial beasts, Shabi Ninety-five and Ruan Dan, charged down the mountain.
Even though Heavenly Court did not have any more Immortal Gu Houses, they had two legendary immemorial desolate beasts. Immemorial desolate beasts had tough bodies, legendary immemorial desolate beasts were even tougher.
Shabi Ninety-five and Ruan Dan charged towards Rising Cloud City from the left and right, ignoring all the killer moves and tribulations above them.
Rising Cloud City was controlled by Fairy Miao Yin, she was about to charge into the battlefield when two legendary immemorial beasts pincer attacked her.
Fairy Miao Yin quickly used her killer move, Rising Cloud City spewed out endless cloud qi to push the Immortal Gu House upwards rapidly.
But Ruan Dan flapped its wings and flew above Rising Cloud City, activating a killer move and slashing with the crane leg, shattering the roof of Rising Cloud City and destroying countless mortal Gu.
Bam.
At the next moment, Shabi Ninety-five charged fiercely and knocked Rising Cloud City over, causing it to roll down the mountain.
Fairy Miao Yin’s figure staggered, she wanted to control Rising Cloud City to ascend again but it did not respond to her, her immortal essence was instilled without getting any response.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was to the left, upon seeing this, he immediately flew over.
He gave a cry, Xi Land’s silhouette appeared above his head.
Immortal killer move — Xi Xi!
Xi Land erupted with immense attraction force, absorbing the qi ring around the surface of Rising Cloud City into Xi Land.
After getting released, Rising Cloud City immediately regained freedom.
“Thanks!” Fairy Miao Yin thanked and was about to move the Immortal Gu House back into the battlefield when she suddenly heard Fang Yuan’s orders.
Fairy Miao Yin was stunned.
But she reacted quickly and brought the other Gu Immortals out of Rising Cloud City.
“Lord Qi Jue, my master ordered me to gift this Rising Cloud City to you!” Fairy Miao Yin said.
“What?” Demon Immortal Qi Jue was stunned before laughing heartily: “Fang Yuan is truly generous, I will receive it with thanks.”
Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not stand on ceremony, he entered Rising Cloud City, it flew up and attacked the mountain again.
At the middle of the mountain, Shabi Ninety-five and Ruan Dan worked together and pushed down Dragon Soul Dark Castle.
Lady White Rabbit led the immortals inside Dragon Soul Dark Castle, she did not charge anymore, instead, returning to the base of the mountain to join up with Fairy Miao Yin.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue finally reached the middle of the mountain, he saw Shabi Ninety-five and his eyes lit up: “Good beast, I lack a steed myself.”
Demon Immortal Qi Jue kept Rising Cloud City and only attacked Shabi Ninety-five.
The two fought for a few rounds, Shabi Ninety-five soon fell into a disadvantage, it started requesting for help.
This legendary immemorial beast cultivated qi path, it was completely countered by Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
“Don’t fear, I am here!” Ruan Dan came over to help, it spat out a bright red pill.
“What path is this?” Demon Immortal Qi Jue sensed the mysterious aura of the pill, he did not dare to be careless, he brought out Rising Cloud City and went inside.
Boom!
The pill landed on Rising Cloud City and self-detonated, the intense shock wave spread out everywhere, a corner of Rising Cloud City was destroyed in the process.
Even though pill path was not specialized in offense, it was still a new path that Rising Cloud City could not guard against.
“Hahaha, Ninety-five, you owe me a favor!” Ruan Dan laughed proudly.
Shabi Ninety-five pouted and was about to answer when its expression suddenly changed: “Be careful!”
Ruan Dan’s heart shook as it quickly jumped.
But the mysterious enemy was even faster.
“Can you escape?” Hearing the voice, Ruan Dan felt like its long neck was grabbed by a tiny hand.
Compared to its mountain-like body, the normal human-sized hand was definitely tiny.
But Ruan Dan felt a shudder when this hand touched its neck, it screamed in a shrill voice.
Because it twisted its neck and saw a young man wearing a red cape, standing on its back.
It was none other than Fang Yuan’s transformation path clone, Zhan Bu Du!
At this moment, he had already used incomplete freedom transformation killer move, his battle strength rose to pseudo venerable level.
“Wait.” Ruan Dan screamed, but Zhan Bu Du snickered and exerted strength.
At the next moment.
Boom!
An intense explosion resounded like thunder.
Book Mountain shook, black and white rocks were sent flying.
At the next moment, a huge pit appeared on the ground.
Ruan Dan was beaten unconscious by Zhan Bu Du, its body was motionlessly embedded into Book Mountain, its mouth opened as blood flowed out.
But soon, a bright light flashed on Ruan Dan’s body.
Its injuries healed quickly, it regained its consciousness.
“Thankfully, I have my killer move, life-saving recovery pill!” Ruan Dan woke up and wanted to struggle.
But Zhan Bu Du’s fist was already raised.
Bam bam bam…
With a series of punches, Zhan Bu Du slammed down on Ruan Dan’s head each time, causing the whole of Book Mountain to shake. Only until he smashed Ruan Dan’s skull completely and brain matter flowed out did he stop attacking.
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Chapter 2180: Qi Sea Versus Yu Xiu
Against Zhan Bu Du, the great legendary immemorial beast Ruan Dan was completely unable to put up a fight.
But at the next moment, a bright light flashed on Ruan Dan’s corpse again.
Immortal killer move — Life-Saving Recovery Pill!
With the effect of the killer move, Ruan Dan’s smashed skull started to heal, it was soon revived.
“Pill path…” Zhan Bu Du also showed a look of surprise.
Ruan Dan’s healing killer move was formidable, it could actually revive it from that state.
Even with Zhan Bu Du’s pseudo venerable battle strength, he could not easily get around it. After all, even the main body did not understand pill path.
“Since I cannot unravel it, so be it, I want to see how many times you can revive!” Zhan Bu Du showed a ruthless expression.
Boom boom boom.
He punched time and again, each punch landed heavily on Ruan Dan, killing it on the spot.
The poor Ruan Dan had just revived and did not react in time before its skull was smashed again.
Immortal killer move — Life-saving Recovery Pill.
A few breaths of time later, the recovery method activated again.
But this time, the killer move’s shining light became much dimmer.
“Persevere, Ruan Dan, I will save you!” Shabi Ninety-five shouted, rushing from another area to help out.
Even though it constantly argued with Ruan Dan normally, the two of them had a close friendship. Especially after major battles like the fate war, their camaraderie had already improved greatly.
Even if this was Zhan Bu Du, Shabi Ninety-five did not care about anything else, it wanted to save its friend.
“Hmph, trying to leave? Do you think I am not here?” Demon Immortal Qi Jue shouted in anger as he used a killer move that landed on Shabi Ninety-five’s back.
Shabi Ninety-five suffered a heavy blow, it growled in pain and fell from the sky.
Seeing that Ruan Dan died at Zhan Bu Du’s hands again, at the peak of Book Mountain, Fairy Ming Hao’s frown became deeper.
Zhan Bu Du was an opponent that gave the three fairies, Feng Ya, Ming Hao, and Yu Xiu a huge headache.
He had terrifying strength and overwhelming defense, together with the abilities of internal breathing green fish transformation, devouring blue leopard transformation, and thunder rush yellow bird transformation, Zhan Bu Du had no weaknesses at all, the three immortals did not know how to deal with him.
If this were a normal battle, the three immortals could rapidly move and attack him from a distance, restraining and weakening him.
But now, Heavenly Court had to defend Book Mountain.
This was a defensive battle.
And the worst nightmare for a defensive battle was someone like Zhan Bu Du. If he managed to charge unhindered and went beyond the defensive line, it would be trouble.
But the three immortals had discussed it already, they had a plan against Zhan Bu Du.
Immediately, Fairy Ming Hao willed and transmitted some words to Genesis Lotus’ will inside Divine Emperor City.
At the next moment, a jade light spiral appeared on the surface of Divine Emperor City.
From within the spiral, a giant flew out from the center.
The giant wore golden green armor, its left hand held a shield, its right hand held a spear, it was bursting with vitality and life force, its aura was immense.
The giant recited —
A hundred thousand years of unending hatred,
Killing the enemy with a shattered body.
Awakening once more in Divine Emperor City,
Qing Chou exists under the karma divine tree.
It was the legendary immemorial desolate beast — Qing Chou.
During the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, Qing Chou killed Spectral Soul, but it was also completely blown to bits by Spectral Soul’s self-detonation, reduced to countless pieces of flesh.
Divine Emperor City retrieved these pieces of flesh and revived Qing Chou again.
The current Qing Chou was no longer in its initial form of turtle shell, tiger claws, dragon tail, snake neck, bat wings, and human head. It was now a completely armored and equipped warrior.
Qing Chou arrived before Zhan Bu Du and its towering body slammed down like a mountain, its spear pierced the air as winds blew intensely, as if a giant dragon had struck.
“Come!” Zhan Bu Du did not retreat but moved ahead, his figure flashed and appeared at Qing Chou’s forehead immediately.
Zhan Bu Du punched fiercely, hitting Qing Chou’s helmet.
With an intense sound, a huge force caused Qing Chou to move backwards, its colossal body landed on the middle section of the mountain, causing Book Mountain and its surroundings to tremor.
Zhan Bu Du flew down and rained a flurry of fists, the attacks were intense and unceasing.
If Qing Chou let the punches land without obstruction, it would end up like Ruan Dan.
At the crucial moment, a giant tree formed above Qing Chou’s head, absorbing the force of Zhan Bu Du’s punches.
Immortal killer move — Karma Divine Tree!
At the next moment, the divine tree shook as countless fists shot out from between the leaves.
It was Zhan Bu Du’s earlier wave of attacks.
This move had once caused trouble to Spectral Soul, Zhan Bu Du also felt troubled, he was forced back by the fists.
Qing Chou took the chance to stand up as Zhan Bu Du floated in the air, resisting Fairy Ming Hao’s humble reciprocation killer move while regaining his footing.
Qing Chou roared and took large strides forward, it arrived before Zhan Bu Du with two steps, waving its long spear to attack him.
Rumble!
Two figures continued to fight intensely, they exchanged blows and caused the entire place to tremor, their offenses caused a huge commotion.
“I get it now, so this was Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable’s objective. Qing Chou has been completely subdued by Divine Emperor City, it is now the general of the divine bean soldiers. This is the strongest divine bean soldier!” Zhan Bu Du had a realization.
A few rounds later, he gained the upper hand again.
Qing Chou was not an ordinary legendary immemorial beast, but Zhan Bu Du was currently using incomplete freedom transformation!
He had genuine pseudo venerable battle strength, Qing Chou could not win.
Heavenly Court also did not expect a win, they only wanted to stall for time.
It was like how Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable invited Fang Yuan in order to stall for time as well.
As long as time passed and Heavenly Court obtained Primordial Domain, their advantage would be expanded, they would be able to claim victory!
Immortal killer move — Unlimited Qi Sea.
A figure suddenly appeared, carrying with him an endless sea of qi that surged together, shrouding the rays of the sun.
It was Qi Sea Ancestor!
Seeing that Zhan Bu Du was obstructed, Qi Sea Ancestor immediately chose another direction to attack the mountain.
At the peak of the mountain, Fairy Yu Xiu sighed as she was forced to take action, she left the mountain and fought against Qi Sea Ancestor.
Qi Sea versus Yu Xiu!
One was a qi path pseudo venerable, the other was a wisdom path pseudo venerable.
The former attacked fiercely, wanting to devastate Heavenly Court, but the latter was resolved to defend this base even at the cost of her life.
Qi Sea Ancestor attacked grandly with incredible attacks, qi tides swept the area, accompanied by pillars of white qi that shot out at times.
Fairy Yu Xiu however, was graceful and elegant, she moved agilely and dodged the endless wave of attacks while activating all sorts of wisdom path killer moves.
She had an exceptional combat system which used her attainment level to suppress others, it was extraordinary and even Immortal Zombie Giant Sun would be affected by this move.
But her enemy was Qi Sea Ancestor.
Qi Sea Ancestor was the clone of Fang Yuan, he shared attainment levels with the main body!
Fairy Yu Xiu tried many times with no success, for Fang Yuan, it was not hard to resist her attacks.
Fang Yuan was a master in dream path, space path, metal path, wind path, cloud path, lightning path, information path, light path, and sound path.
He was a grandmaster in blood path, strength path, star path, dark path, formation path, soul path, sword path, human path, wood path, food path, phantom path, luck path, ice and snow path.
He was a great grandmaster in theft path, transformation path, rule path, qi path, fire path, wisdom path, water path, earth path, poison path.
He was even a quasi-supreme grandmaster in refinement path, time path, and enslavement path!
With such attainment levels, how could Fairy Yu Xiu suppress him?
Fairy Yu Xiu had no choice, she had to use other methods against Qi Sea Ancestor.
Fairy Yu Xiu was unable to display the power of her combat system, but thankfully, she was familiar with Qi Sea Ancestor’s methods.
Even though Qi Sea Ancestor had Primordial Origin’s true inheritance, he obviously could not use those killer moves against Heavenly Court. As for other killer moves like heavenly astral cloth robe, yin-yang great killer hands, unlimited qi sea, and others, they were all used many times and were known to everyone.
“Let me help you!” Lu Wei Yin flew over, assisting Qi Sea Ancestor.
Fairy Yu Xiu used her strongest killer move to suppress Lu Wei Yin through attainment levels, effectively weakening him.
But Qi Sea Ancestor gained a greater advantage with his help, managing to approach Book Mountain.
At this time, Calamity Luck Altar burst out with a golden light.
The golden light surrounded Book Mountain and spread around the battlefield like vines. Wherever the golden light went, tribulations would transform and target the peak of Book Mountain instead.
And Book Mountain was also shaking intensely from the infiltration of the golden light.
Fairy Ming Hao’s body shook unsteadily, her face turned pale as her pupils shrank: “This must be Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s doing! To think that he managed to counter humble reciprocation after it was only used for a second time!”
She gritted her teeth, even though she was unwilling, she had no choice but to withdraw humble reciprocation killer move.
If it continued, she would lose her life.
Earlier, when Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin first entered Yellow Earth Great World and led their army to attack Book Mountain, Fairy Ming Hao had stopped them using humble reciprocation.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was exceptionally talented, he thought of a way to counter this move in such a short time and successfully dealt with it now.
Without the endless tribulations obstructing them, Longevity Heaven’s immortals had a clear path now, many of them cheered loudly in the Immortal Gu Houses as they attacked from all directions.
Fairy Ming Hao gritted her teeth, Fairy Feng Ya could not take action against them now, while Fairy Yu Xiu was fighting outside, in this situation, they had to rely on her.
Immortal killer move — People’s United Hearts.
Immortal killer move — Hope of the People.
Immortal killer move — Heroes Among People.
The scene during the fate war was displayed again.
Light spread out towards the Heavenly Court immortals, causing their strength to rise sharply!
But this was not enough.
Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals and Immortal Gu Houses were just too few in quantity.
“Then awaken.”
“Friends from Heavenly Court, our comrades!”
“The people of the five regions and two heavens need you, Heavenly Court needs you now!!”
Fairy Ming Hao shouted loudly.
From the northwest direction of Book Mountain, an immortal graveyard radiated with countless rays of bright light.
From the light, two figures walked out.
One was an old man with a benevolent countenance, his brows were particularly peculiar, they were like two exquisite dark brown roots that extended down from his forehead to his chest.
The other was a middle-aged man with a very robust physique, his face and muscles seemed to be made from brass as they let out cold metallic luster.
“I heard the call.” The old Gu Immortal, Duke Mei, squinted and said.
“Where are the enemies?” The middle aged Gu Immortal Duke Tong looked beyond a vast distance, locking his eyes on Calamity Luck Altar.
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Chapter 2181: Duke Mei, Duke Tong
Crucial information regarding the battle entered the minds of Duke Mei and Duke Tong.
At the moment when they saw the battlefield themselves, they also learned of the current situation.
Duke Mei sighed: “Duke Long…”
Back then, when he first saw Duke Long, the latter still had black hair and was a youngster.
The moment Duke Long joined Heavenly Court, he met with Duke Mei.
Even though Duke Mei was a senior, he quickly greeted in return: “Friend, you are a Dao Guardian, the happiness of all living beings is resting on your shoulders.”
Duke Long replied solemnly: “I will do my best for the world, even if I have to sacrifice my life, there is no regret!”
Time passed, when Duke Mei reawakened in the five regions, Duke Long had already died ahead of him.
“Duke Long, you died a good death, throughout your life, you did not turn on the promise you made from the start.” Duke Mei said with deep emotions, before flying forward: “And now, it is our turn.”
Within Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan’s eyes shined with bright light: “The immortal graveyard… so it was nearby all along, Heavenly Court has brilliant methods after all, we could not find it even with repeated investigations.”
Be it Longevity Heaven or Fang Yuan, they had already confirmed the information of the immortal graveyard. They had expected Gu Immortals to awaken during this battle.
“Quickly look, Fang Yuan’s side is making a new action!” One of the Eight Extremities shouted.
Bing Sai Chuan quickly shifted his gaze, he saw that four Immortal Gu Houses, Profound Frost House, Dragon Soul Dark Castle, Red River Pavilion, and Red Heavenly Altar, had changed locations, flying down the mountain.
Bing Sai Chuan could not help but feel shocked: “It seems that Fang Yuan has a plan already, but mobilizing four Immortal Gu Houses at once, isn’t that too much?”
Fang Yuan had a total of seven Immortal Gu Houses, now that Rising Cloud City was given to Demon Immortal Qi Jue, and after moving four Immortal Gu Houses away, there was only Unbreakable Golden Fortress and Scarlet Palace left on the mountain.
Currently, the most important thing was to reach the peak of Book Mountain and ruin Heavenly Court’s killer move so that they could not obtain Primordial Domain.
Right now, Fang Yuan diverted his forces to attack the Gu Immortals of the immortal graveyard, he was putting his emphasis on the wrong target.
But at the next moment, the four diverted Immortal Gu Houses split up.
Profound Frost House and Red River Pavilion went to help Zhan Bu Du in fighting Qing Chou.
Dragon Soul Dark Castle and Red Heavenly Altar charged towards Heavenly Court’s immortal graveyard.
Bing Sai Chuan realized at once, he yelled in his mind: “So Fang Yuan is trying to free up Zhan Bu Du!”
Zhan Bu Du had incomplete freedom transformation, he was powerful and unstoppable, he was the crucial battle strength for Fang Yuan’s side to ascend the mountain.
Even though Fairy Ming Hao’s humble reciprocation killer move was broken now, there were three pseudo venerables at the top of the mountain, if ordinary rank eight Immortal Gu Houses charged to the top, they would be suppressed by the three.
Divine Emperor City was at the middle section of the mountain, it was a tough hurdle too.
It had the killer move ‘broken homes and dead family’, that was the biggest counter to Immortal Gu Houses.
Thus, letting Zhan Bu Du take the lead was the wisest decision.
Dragon Soul Dark Castle and Red Heavenly Altar flew rapidly, soon arriving before Duke Mei and Duke Tong.
Duke Mei took in a deep breath, he straightened both arms and aimed at the two Immortal Gu Houses.
Vines suddenly appeared around Dragon Soul Dark Castle and Red Heavenly Altar, these vines were dry and tough, they bound the two Immortal Gu Houses tightly.
“Oh no, the immortal essence storages in the Immortal Gu Houses are being absorbed by the vines!” Fang Yuan’s subordinate Gu Immortals realized this and shouted in anger.
The two Immortal Gu Houses started to counterattack.
The surface of Red Heavenly Altar radiated bright red light, melting all of the dried vines around it.
Dragon roars could be heard from Dragon Soul Dark Castle, the vines around it were snapped and sent flying.
But with this amount of time, Duke Tong’s killer move was already prepared.
Two different sized bronze rings formed instantly and attached themselves to the two Immortal Gu Houses and spinning rapidly, buzzing loudly.
The bronze rings were flying too quickly, they seemed like vague shadows that immobilized the Immortal Gu Houses that they were surrounding.
Heavenly Court had learned from their lesson. During the fate war, because of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s method, Longevity Heaven managed to directly enter Heavenly Court, catching them off guard. In that battle, even though Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals awakened, because they lacked Immortal Gu, they did not display their true battle strength.
But now, Heavenly Court prepared the Immortal Gu of their hibernating Gu Immortals in advance.
Thus, Duke Mei and Duke Tong were able to immediately act and restrain the two Immortal Gu Houses.
But good times did not last, suddenly, a dragon soul appeared from within Dragon Soul Dark Castle, the dragon soul made several attempts before managing to destroy the bronze ring.
Next, Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit flew out of their Immortal Gu House, attacking Duke Mei and Duke Tong.
Fairy Miao Yin activated wondrous hand profound sound, her eight arms stretched out elegantly.
Lady White Rabbit had lumps of light surrounding her, her aura surged intensely.
The two immortals charged forward, Duke Mei was the first to block them, after a few rounds, Lady White Rabbit noticed a weakness and got around Duke Mei to attack Duke Tong.
Duke Tong was interrupted, he had to cancel his bronze ring killer move and fight White Rabbit instead.
The four immortals clashed and parted continuously, nobody could interrupt their battle.
Duke Mei and Duke Tong had rank eight cultivation level and their battle strength was on par with Qin Ding Ling, but they did not have pseudo venerable battle strength like Duke Long.
Dragon Soul Dark Castle and Red Heavenly Altar regained freedom, they charged at the immortal graveyard, trying to destroy it!
Rumble!
These two Immortal Gu Houses had just charged forward when a Gu Immortal repelled them.
This Gu Immortal had a calm expression, his nose was tall and his eyes were deep, his shoulders were lifted up as they held up one mini mountain each.
“With me, Uncle Feng, here, don’t even think of destroying the immortal graveyard.” Uncle Feng blocked the path of the two Immortal Gu Houses, he had the demeanor of a person trying to stop an army.
Fang Yuan’s subordinates were not ready to give up, they controlled the Immortal Gu Houses to attack.
But Uncle Feng fought similarly to Lu Wei Yin, they were specialized in defense, even with the attack of the two Immortal Gu Houses, he still held them off.
“What do we do now?” A Gu Immortal in Red Heavenly Altar asked.
Currently, Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit were fighting against Duke Mei and Duke Tong, the mission of destroying the immortal graveyard was in the hands of these two Immortal Gu Houses.
“No worries, he has already been hit by our method.” The immortals in Dragon Soul Dark Castle snickered.
Guh.
As he said that, Uncle Feng’s expression turned ashen, he spat out pieces of soul fragments.
“A soul path method?” Uncle Feng frowned.
In his era, there was no soul path.
Right at this moment, a newly awakened Gu Immortal flew out of the immortal graveyard.
“It seems like my awakening was timely.” This female immortal was just a soul, she had no body.
She blew at Uncle Feng lightly.
This blue-gray breath reached Uncle Feng’s body and quickly fused into his soul.
Uncle Feng felt a sense of relief, his soul injury was rapidly healing.
“Oh no, this is Heavenly Court’s soul path great expert from Spectral Soul’s era, Fairy Maiden Soul who is on par with Thunder Ghost True Monarch. She is most skilled at healing methods!” The Gu Immortals in Dragon Soul Dark Castle had a change of expression.
The ones in Red Heavenly Altar gritted their teeth: “Kill this healing Gu Immortal first, otherwise, all our efforts will be nullified by her.”
The battle erupted again, the two Immortal Gu Houses focused their target on Fairy Maiden Soul.
All sorts of killer moves were unleashed, Uncle Feng defended desperately, both sides gave it their all as the sky turned dark from their clash, winds and waves were rising.
While they were in a deadlock, another immortal awakened and joined the battle.
This immortal had a round head and large ears, he wore a loose robe and qi path aura surged around him.
Boom boom boom!
As the air exploded, the qi path immortal charged in between the two Immortal Gu Houses.
“Take this move — Rugged Fiendish Qi.”
The qi path immortal shouted as he waved his sleeves, blowing out countless traces of fiendish qi.
The fiendish qi gathered and took form, becoming huge rocks that turned into mountains and valleys, enveloping the two Immortal Gu Houses.
Red Heavenly Altar and Dragon Soul Dark Castle tried to charge out at the first moment, destroying countless fiendish qi mountains.
But after these mountains shattered, they quickly formed again to obstruct the Immortal Gu Houses.
“This is… Senior Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch!” Uncle Feng and Fairy Maiden Soul were surprised.
Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch was a famous qi path expert renowned in history, after he became rank eight and traveled the world, he purposely looked for the fiendish qi sea springs and created the Shabi from them. He refined a total of ninety-nine Shabi, he formed a grand army with them. These Shabi were compatible with his immortal killer moves, he could use them extremely well, during that era, almost nobody could rival him.
The current Shabi Ninety-five was one of them, after a long period of time, its strength had risen to legendary immemorial beast level.
With the help of Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch, Heavenly Court managed to defend the immortal graveyard.
Thereafter, more and more Gu Immortals awakened, Heavenly Court survived the initial stage which was the most dangerous, they started counterattacking.
Many Gu Immortals directly got around the small battlefield and tried to reinforce Book Mountain.
“Giant Sun Immortal Venerable! Are you there? Come out and meet me!” Golden Hooped Great Immortal shouted in deep anger.
He had once invited Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to tour Heavenly Court, during that time, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable planted a seed that erupted during the fate war, causing Longevity Heaven to arrive in Heavenly Court and cause huge losses to them.
“Ninety-five, come here.” Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch blocked Demon Immortal Qi Jue and beckoned Shabi Ninety-five.
“Master.” Shabi Ninety-five was filled with admiration and fear, it went to Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch with injuries all over the body.
Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch petted it lightly, Shabi Ninety-five instantly became revitalized, its injuries mostly healed.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue had a dark expression, with the appearance of Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch, his plan of capturing Shabi Ninety-five became hopeless.
“Stop him!” Right at this moment, Fairy Ming Hao shouted.
Zhan Bu Du moved like a raging dragon, he arrived at the middle of the mountain from the southeast direction.
Behind him, Qing Chou was chasing relentlessly but it was obstructed by Profound Frost House and Red River Pavilion, it could not move quickly enough to stop Zhan Bu Du.
Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch took in a deep breath: “You are one of the clones of the current generation demon, Fang Yuan? Let me have a taste of your power.”
Right when he was about to go, Demon Immortal Qi Jue blocked him.
The latter chuckled: “You think you can leave?”
Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch had a solemn expression: “Since senior insists, then I, the junior, will have to risk my life to face you in battle.”
“Where are you going?” Gu Yue Fang Zheng shouted loudly.
Demon Judgment Board which was flying around the place quickly arrived, but with a loud sound, it was sent flying by the Unbreakable Golden Fortress that had just arrived as well.
“Help Zhan Bu Du to fight his way to the peak of the mountain.” The other immortals saw a chance, they took action and blocked the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals for Zhan Bu Du.
Fairy Ming Hao saw this and sighed deeply, she had no choice but to fly out and stand in front of Zhan Bu Du: “Wait…”
“Get lost!”
Zhan Bu Du shouted, sweeping his arm fiercely.
Boom!
Fairy Ming Hao’s body was covered in dazzling starlight, even though she blocked this move, her entire person was sent flying like a cannonball, she crashed through many rocks on Book Mountain before stopping.
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Chapter 2182: Hu Elevation!
Fairy Ming Hao’s body shook as she quickly stood up.
She was not injured, but the issue here was that she could not block Zhan Bu Du.
In this current situation, Zhan Bu Du’s threat level was far greater than the Immortal Gu Houses.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
Fairy Ming Hao stomped lightly as she quickly flew out, her palm stretched out as tens of stardust specks flew around.
Zhan Bu Du did not dodge, he allowed the stardust to land on him, he was as fierce as a dragon or tiger, only aiming for the mountain peak.
Fairy Ming Hao gritted her teeth, she could only fly forward and face Zhan Bu Du in close combat.
Zhan Bu Du kicked and she was sent flying again, he completely ignored her.
“Charge!” Some Gu Immortals saw Zhan Bu Du ascending to the top of Book Mountain, they were about to cheer when suddenly, starlight flashed before them.
Zhan Bu Du was enveloped by starlight and quickly vanished, when he reappeared, he was at the base of Book Mountain.
The immortals were shocked before understanding why.
This killer move was not new, it had been used during the fate war.
As expected, when Zhan Bu Du raised his head to look above Book Mountain, he saw a tiny and delicate Immortal Gu House.
Which other chessboard looking Immortal Gu House could it be but Star Constellation Chessboard?
Star Constellation Chessboard radiated with starlight, any enemy that approached the peak of the mountain would get enveloped by starlight and forcefully teleported elsewhere, it was an impossible position.
Fairy Ming Hao charged at Zhan Bu Du again, trying to stall him while feeling nervous internally: “Hopefully, no one can break this killer move!”
This move had been used before.
The more a Gu Immortal uses their method, the greater the risk of it getting seen through.
Zhan Bu Du’s gaze turned slightly dim, he soon made a decision.
He endured Fairy Ming Hao’s furious attacks as he charged to the top again at full speed!
He seemed to have made no advancement, but he had succeeded in his goal. Fairy Feng Ya was originally fully invested in retrieving the Primordial Domain, now, she had to multitask and control Star Constellation Chessboard, her efficiency was greatly reduced.
Fang Yuan’s side had to continue exerting pressure to distract her.
Fairy Ming Hao had an outstanding combat system, the more stars that hit the target, the greater the damage they would progressively take.
Zhan Bu Du initially resisted the stars which could not even pierce his skin. But after hundreds of stardust strikes, he was bathed in blood. When the attacks reached over a thousand, his wounds were deep until bones could be seen.
During this period, he had already failed in three attempts to charge up.
He was transported by Star Constellation Chessboard each time.
“It seems that at this moment, nobody can break this method.” Fairy Ming Hao relaxed at long last.
During this period, Gu Immortals had taken action, but Star Constellation Chessboard’s killer move was constantly modified by Heavenly Court to a mild extent, allowing it to display effectiveness even now.
“This cannot drag on.” Qi Sea Ancestor had been fighting against Fairy Yu Xiu all along, seeing Zhan Bu Du’s state, he made a decision.
He waved his sleeves, a silhouette flew out, taking the place of the main body to deceive Fairy Yu Xiu.
Fairy Yu Xiu quickly exposed this fake body but Lu Wei Yin flew in front of her, desperately blocking her.
Because Fairy Yu Xiu was stalled for a moment, Qi Sea Ancestor, who was far away summoned a secluded domain of heaven and earth above his head.
“Hu Land?!” Demon Immortal Qi Jue was fighting against Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch, at this moment, both of them turned around together and shouted in unison.
“Move aside.” Qi Sea Ancestor’s sleeves fluttered intensely along with his beard, his face was flushing red.
Lu Wei Yin quickly dodged to the side.
But Qi Sea Ancestor suddenly changed directions, aiming towards Book Mountain instead.
“Oh no!” Fairy Yu Xiu saw this and her heart jumped, she quickly used a killer move, disregarding the danger as she stood between Qi Sea Ancestor and Book Mountain.
Immortal killer move — Hu Elevation!
Hu Land suddenly shook intensely as countless qi currents shot out of it fiercely.
Qi currents surged intensely and grandly, there was righteous qi, evil qi, blood qi, strange qi, and others, they had gathered into a single force under the effect of Hu Land, they were tightly connected and inseparable!
Bam!
Heaven and earth shook, it could astound demons and gods.
An immensely thick qi beam shot out abruptly, it flew towards Book Mountain with terrifying force that could split heaven and earth.
Fairy Yu Xiu gritted her teeth, she used the strongest defensive method that she possessed, traces of fresh wisdom path insignias surrounded her body, radiating over the world.
As the qi beam approached, the wisdom path insignias were quickly melted, and Fairy Yu Xiu’s tiny body was quickly submerged in the vast force.
The qi beam was obstructed by this and lost thirty percent of its power, but it still moved towards Book Mountain with an unstoppable momentum.
“Don’t even think of it!” At the crucial moment, Bai Cang Shui controlled a rank eight Immortal Gu House and charged forward.
With a heaven-shaking sound, Heavenly Court’s rank eight Immortal Gu House only lasted for a few breaths of time before disintegrating.
On Book Mountain, Star Constellation Chessboard shot out a beam of light that landed on Bai Cang Shui through the gaps of the Immortal Gu House, bringing her away.
Without Bai Cang Shui controlling it, the Immortal Gu House quickly got destroyed by the qi beam, turning into scraps.
Next, even the scraps were blown to oblivion by the qi beam!
The qi beam’s power weakened by another twenty percent, but it was less than a hundred steps away from Book Mountain.
At the crucial moment, a golden green giant appeared.
It was Qing Chou.
Qing Chou raised its shield and blocked the qi beam.
Boom.
The qi pillar sent Qing Chou crashing into Book Mountain as well, creating a huge pit that was hundreds of feet deep.
Even as the qi beam dissipated, the lingering aura permeated the battlefield.
Qing Chou did not move at all, its shield was destroyed and a huge hole that was completely see-through appeared on its chest.
Divine Emperor City quickly came over with flickering green light, a spiral appeared and sucked Qing Chou’s dead body back into it.
Elsewhere, starlight specks started to shine beside Fairy Ming Hao as Fairy Yu Xiu appeared.
Her hair was disheveled, she was in a pitiful state.
Her expression was pale, her body was unstable, she fell to a half-kneeling position on the ground immediately after.
Qi Sea Ancestor’s Hu elevation killer move was terrifyingly powerful, he defeated Yu Xiu, destroyed the Immortal Gu House, and killed Qing Chou in just one move!
But Qi Sea Ancestor was in poor condition as well.
After using this move, he lost thirty percent of his immortal essence storage, he even expended ten thousand qi path dao marks.
Chains started to appear from the space around him, binding Qi Sea Ancestor in a fixed position.
“Qi Sea Ancestor’s killer move was too powerful, it caused Limitless’ retaliation method to trigger!” Lu Wei Yin saw this and his expression changed slightly.
If this Hu elevation was not used on Book Mountain, which was guarded by Heavenly Court desperately, it would have caused immense destruction to the great worlds.
That would severely affect Limitless Demon Venerable’s final derivation.
Thus, Limitless Demon Venerable’s method activated, restraining Qi Sea Ancestor immediately.
Qi Sea Ancestor wanted to struggle but was helpless to find that he could not move, the chains even moved into his mind, stopping the collision of his thoughts, there were also chains in his immortal aperture that sealed all his immortal essence.
Lu Wei Yin quickly went to him and guarded his body.
The peak of Book Mountain was still not taken down, the Primordial Domain silhouette in the sky was becoming more vivid, but Bing Sai Chuan smiled from within Calamity Luck Altar: “Heavenly Court is at their wits end too.”
Earlier, even though Heavenly Court blocked Hu elevation at the critical moment, they had expended their trump cards, they were exhausted now.
Bing Sai Chuan could tell that they were weakened, he immediately said to the Eight Extremities behind him: “The time is now, go and attack Book Mountain!”
Heaven Extremity Gai Mei, Earth Extremity Gan Ni, Black Extremity Sun Ming Lu, Yellow Extremity Jiao Huo, Space Extremity Chang Bai, Time Extremity Man Xin Yi, Flood Extremity Yu Yi Yi, and Desolate Extremity Lu Tong Lan, they were all mobilized.
Once they left Calamity Luck Altar, the eight of them activated an ancient battle formation — Eight Extremities!
This ancient battle formation was very special, normally speaking, ancient battle formations gathered the strength of many Gu Immortals into one, but this ancient battle formation split the gathered power into eight Gu Immortals, causing the Eight Extremities’ battle strength to surge immensely, making them go from rank seven to rank eight elites.
Once the Eight Extremities moved out, from the direction of Yellow Earth Great World, a group of people came.
They were led by Fang Yuan’s enslavement path clone Wu Shuai, and the giant formed from the Twelve Zodiac battle formation.
Originally, Fang Yuan was waiting at the back while observing the situation, once he saw a chance, he mobilized his people to attack.
Heavenly Court’s pressure intensified at once.
In order to prevent the Gu Immortals from breaking through, Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals flew out of their Immortal Gu Houses.
Instantly, the battle surrounding Book Mountain reached the most intense climax.
Almost each breath, there would be a killer move unleashed.
Countless killer moves weaved together and created a beautiful fireworks of varying colors, from within the dazzling display, there was deep killing intent.
Red Heart Traveler suddenly held up a sun of blood that shone brightly, shielding Nine Spiritual Fairy.
Nine Spiritual Fairy gave a clear roar, the nine-colored barrier shook and the nine layers of light mixed together, becoming extremely dazzling.
Next, the mixed light sphere flashed as Nine Spiritual Fairy transformed into a colorful rhinoceros.
The rhinoceros had a large head and small body, it was shining with various colors. It spoke human language: “Thank you!”
Saying so, it charged towards the Twelve Zodiac Giant.
Rumble!
The two huge existences clashed, dust clouds rose and rocks were sent flying.
The moment Nine Spiritual Fairy left, Yellow Extremity Jiao Huo appeared behind Red Heart Traveler.
Pew!
As flames surged, Red Heart Traveler was caught unguarded and got hit by Yellow Extremity, his defensive killer move was pierced and he got substantially injured.
“How can this be?” Red Heart Traveler was shocked but quickly retaliated.
But at the next moment, Yellow Extremity pierced through space, escaping far away.
Red Heart Traveler saw this, his heart sank, he could tell that Yellow Extremity was a fire path cultivator, but he managed to unleash a space path method.
“So Longevity Heaven’s eight extremities killer move can not only connect the thoughts of the Eight Extremities together and share their vision, they can also share killer moves!”
Under the effect of the killer move eight extremities, the Eight Extremities cooperated smoothly, the battle strength they displayed was beyond imagination.
Red Heart Traveler became incredibly alert, he swiftly dodged attacks.
At the next moment, countless army ants swept the base of the mountain like a tsunami, quickly rising to the middle of the mountain.
Wu Shuai did not step onto the mountain, he was outside manipulating his army.
Divine Emperor City sent out countless divine bean soldiers to fight against the army ants.
In the chaotic battle, a figure flew out like a rampaging dragon, there were huge waves wherever he went. There was a cape behind him that was blood-red in color, he was Zhan Bu Du!
Fairy Yu Xiu had already gone to obstruct the Eight Extremities, while Fairy Ming Hao was sent flying by Zhan Bu Du again.
“Stop him!” Fairy Ming Hao shouted loudly.
Ruan Dan was nearby, it hesitated upon hearing this, not daring to move forward.
Zhou Xiong Xin gritted his teeth, he stood before Zhan Bu Du.
Immortal killer move — Rumors Become Tigers!
Fierce tigers roared, charging towards Zhan Bu Du with imposing might.
Zhan Bu Du sucked in with his mouth as the tigers were absorbed into his stomach, he easily arrived in front of Zhou Xiong Xin.
Zhan Bu Du punched directly, piercing Zhou Xiong Xin’s chest as his hand appeared behind the victim.
Zhou Xiong Xin’s eyes were wide open, he died on the spot.
Zhan Bu Du waved his arm, this corpse was sent flying, he met with the awakened Gu Immortal Fairy Maiden Soul next.
Zhan Bu Du shouted loudly, his monstrous strength obliterated Fairy Maiden Soul, her soul was completely destroyed.
Zhan Bu Du stomped as he finally arrived at the top of the mountain, this time, Star Constellation Chessboard had ceased attacking as well, it did not shoot out any more star pillars.
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Chapter 2183: Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!
Star Constellation, as a child, was laughing happily.
She wandered around the back mountain, roamed the multi-colored flower fields, and played with the sweet mountain springs.
She teased a young, intelligent leopard cat which she had saved coincidentally.
These last days, she would often come to the cave to see it, feed it, and play with it.
“You are playing around again?!” A voice suddenly came from behind.
The child Star Constellation’s body shook, she felt her skull turning numb as she slowly turned around and saw the white robed, solemn-looking Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable.
“Master…” Star Constellation lowered her head, saying softly.
“Give your hand.” Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable brought out a ruler.
Star Constellation gritted her teeth as she stretched out her small white hand.
Slap.
The ruler struck her palm and left a red mark.
The intense pain struck her, but Star Constellation fought back the tears.
“The homework that you did recently is a total mess, instead of training killer moves, you are playing with a cat here?” Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable looked at the leopard cat behind Star Constellation.
The child Star Constellation immediately brimmed with tears: “Master, don’t be angry, don’t chase Little Yellow away. Its injuries have just healed, I promise I will definitely practice my killer moves.”
Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable fixed his gaze at Star Constellation, but Star Constellation drummed up her courage and held her gaze, like she would protect the leopard cat no matter what.
Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable’s expression was stiff, he picked up the child Star Constellation: “Come with me.”
Star Constellation felt a strong wind brushing past her face and could not open her eyes.
After some time, the roar of the wind suddenly stopped and she felt her feet touching the ground.
“Take a look.” Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable’s voice reached her.
Star Constellation opened her eyes and saw that she was in a ruin.
Her pupils shrunk, her sight was filled with burning houses and corpses of man, woman, old, and young…
“This village was peaceful and quiet, but because it is near the regional wall, a group of variant human bandits invaded and massacred everyone.”
“Do you know how often this situation occurs?” Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable asked.
The child Star Constellation was deeply shocked, shaking her head subconsciously.
“This kind of situation is happening almost every day.” Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable heaved a sigh, “Not only at the periphery of Central Continent, there are remnant variant humans even deep within Central Continent itself. They come out occasionally and kill us humans.”
“Heavenly Court is already established in Central Continent, humanity has firm dominance, while the variant human super forces have gone into hiding or have left Central Continent. As for the other four regions? Variant humans still hold power. Do you know why that is the case?”
The child Star Constellation answered quickly: “I know! I heard from the senior brothers and sisters that master roamed the five regions and attacked all the variant human super forces. No matter how many variant human Gu Immortals there are, they cannot beat you. But they all hid away, so we cannot find them.”
“Right.” Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable nodded his head, “When immortal apertures are placed in the world, they shrink down to the size of a speck, searching them is extremely difficult, like searching for a needle in the ocean.”
“Because of this, even though humanity has me, an Immortal Venerable invincible in the world, we are still unable to get rid of those variant humans.”
“Although we have taken control of Central Continent, the other four regions are still not liberated. Because our human population is too small, we cannot compare to variant humans.”
“Even if we target the four regions’ variant human Gu Masters and mortals, even if we kill them all, as long as those variant human blessed lands and grotto-heavens exist, they can easily nurture countless variant humans.”
Once blessed lands and grotto-heavens hid, they were difficult to find, and the time inside was much faster than the outside world. The population inside could increase much more rapidly.
Every once in a while, the blessed lands and grotto-heavens could open their entrance and release the extra population in the four regions.
“These Gu Immortals’ immortal apertures are the foundations of the variant humans. If we cannot find their specific locations, when I die, humanity will still be in a perilous situation, the past tragedy will repeat once more.” Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable heaved a deep sigh and stroked the child Star Constellation’s hair, “This is why you need to work hard! Fate has decreed that you will become the future Immortal Venerable and create wisdom path.”
“With wisdom path, we can deduce the location of most of the blessed lands and grotto-heavens, we can kill those variant human Gu Immortals and ensure the prosperity of humanity for countless generations ahead.”
“Xing Su[1], you need to understand that with every moment you spend playing around, more of our people will die under the blades of the variant humans. Among them, there are many old people, and also many who are the same age as you. While you are playing, the children who are of your age lie in a pool of blood, unable to see the sun of tomorrow.”
The child Star Constellation was pale as paper as she pursed her lips in silence.
Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable used his killer move again, bringing her back to the back of the mountain. He did not instruct her anymore and left her by herself.
Several days later.
The child Star Constellation parted with the leopard cat Little Yellow.
Despite Little Yellow being very reluctant to leave, she still returned it to the forest.
When she was alone, she squatted on the ground and held her knees, weeping softly to herself.
“Although master is completely right, I am only just a child. The senior brothers and sisters can have fun, so why can’t I?”
“Is it simply because fate decreed me as the future Immortal Venerable?”
The child Star Constellation cried for a long time till nighttime, the sky was filled with stars.
She slowly stood up, her small, round face still had tear stains.
A lump of starlight gushed out of her heart.
Star Constellation held this starlight and threw it on the back of the mountain.
This lump of starlight bore a vague resemblance to her shadow.
The child Star Constellation said to this starlight shadow: “Actually, I don’t want to become an Immortal Venerable, but fate cannot be changed. Everyone is so kind to me, I need to think for them as well and bring happiness to the whole of humanity.”
“If there is a second life, I want you to play all you want and make up for my regret in this life!”
The starlight shadow did not leave.
The child Star Constellation looked at her and said: “Let me give you a name. Since master often praises my wittiness, bright eyes and white teeth, let’s call you Ming Hao.”
The starlight shadow seemed to be very happy after receiving the name, it left quickly.
Teenage Star Constellation grew into a young lady, and she was now an immortal.
She did not just stay in closed cultivation, she often traveled to different places to enrich her experience.
There was no use in just cultivating behind closed doors, because what she needed to do was not to inherit Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable’s legacy, but to create wisdom path.
When she was traveling Eastern Sea with a disguised identity, she became acquainted with a Gu Immortal.
Under some coincidences, she and this Gu Immortal ran into each other time and again. They joined hands to fight and got rid of variant human tribes, they explored sea trenches, and so on. Their friendship deepened, which eventually turned into feelings of fondness.
But…
“You are a variant human!” When Star Constellation saw her beloved’s true appearance, she stepped back in shock.
“Xing Er, I did not hide it on purpose, please listen to my explanation.” Her beloved one was anxious.
Star Constellation, however, shook her head and flew up to the sky.
The man gave chase without letting up, but because of his heavy injuries, he fell from the sky in the end.
When he gained consciousness, he found that he was lying on a beach and Star Constellation was beside him.
“You saved me, Xing Er! I know it is you, where are you? Come out and meet me!” The man was both surprised and happy as he struggled to get up and shouted with all his strength, but he received no reply after all.
In the end, he could only leave the island.
Under the setting sun, looking at his lonely receding figure, Star Constellation stood on the beach and revealed herself.
Her eyes were brimming with tears along with reluctance to part with him: “Why do you have to be a variant human? How great would it be if you were human? Do you know that I already thought of marrying you? According to customs, master had already prepared Embroidered Tower for me as dowry.”
“But I cannot do it.”
“Because I am Star Constellation, the future Immortal Venerable of humanity.”
“I need to get rid of the variant human Gu Immortals for my people, if I become your wife, how can I attack them? Once the variant humans get comfortable, what will happen to the future of humanity?”
Her master’s anticipation, the hope of humanity, and the support of the people around her; all of these burdens were weighing on Star Constellation’s shoulders.
But her heart still ached!
The pain of unfulfilled love almost tore her soul apart.
Starlight started to gush out of Star Constellation’s heart.
She held this lump of starlight again.
She mumbled to the starlight shadow: “Since he praised my beauty and talent, I will name you Yu Xiu. If there is another life, please live well for me, don’t care about the future of humanity, don’t think about the safety of people, for just once, live for yourself and be selfish, go ahead and love, you can cry to your heart’s content!”
The starlight shadow rippled as if replying to her.
In her later years, Star Constellation had already become a venerable.
Inside a hall, she sat on the main seat, looking at her senior sister who had always supported and taken care of her, she was like her own mother.
“Let me do it!” The senior sister shouted, “Ah Su, you are the great Immortal Venerable, you cannot sacrifice yourself to merge with heaven’s will.”
“No.” Star Constellation shook her head softly, “Precisely because I am the Immortal Venerable, I need to do this.”
The senior sister’s eyes were filled with tears: “Ah Su, you were only three years old when you became master’s disciple. I have taken care of you this entire time, I looked at you grow bit by bit, mature step by step, and finally become the Star Constellation Immortal Venerable of humanity.”
“No one knows better than me how much sadness and pain you have endured in this process. You have already sacrificed too much over these years.”
“Now, you have already done a great job and fulfilled everyone’s expectations. Don’t make sacrifices anymore, you still have a lot of time to do what you want to do.”
“Didn’t you often complain to me? Although your life seemed great and you have been praised by countless people, you still hold many regrets. Ah Su, you deserve a better life from now on.”
“You have sacrificed too much for humanity, it is time for you to live for yourself.”
“So this time, let me assimilate with heaven’s will.”
Star Constellation smiled, her figure flashed and appeared before her senior sister.
She softly wiped her senior sister’s tears and took out a lump of starlight from her heart.
“Senior sister.”
“You praised me for my great magnanimity. I shall name this starlight shadow Feng Ya, let her accompany you in my stead. I was an orphan from birth, you looked after me all my life, you are my sister and also like my mother. How can I let you do this?”
“In any case, I have already sacrificed and given up so much, it is already like a habit for me. Haha.”
“Let Feng Ya stay and look after you, she will help me make up for the regrets in life.”
“I have left behind three starlight shadows, they are also my arrangements for revival.”
“I do not want to see the day where I can revive, but if the situation aggravates to that degree and I revive, I will listen to you, my senior sister. Forget about this world or the whole of humanity, I will live for myself and myself only!”
“For once, I want to be selfish too.”
Crazed Demon Cave.
When Ming Hao, Yu Xiu, and Feng Ya woke up, they received devastating news.
Fate Gu was destroyed, Heavenly Court had fallen to an abysmal state, the great demon Fang Yuan had risen up, the righteous path was declining while demons surged, Central Continent was surrounded by danger on all fronts.
I once vowed to myself!
I want to live my own life..
To live for my pleasure, to live for my love, and to live for my happiness.
Was I wrong?
I had already completed my mission, I created wisdom path, I already got rid of most of the variant human Gu Immortals, I even led humanity on the path of prosperity.
It was time I took a rest.
But why?
Why did I subconsciously make plans and arrangements?
Why am I still fighting here?
Why?
Fairy Ming Hao looked at the rising fire and smoke, she curled her lips.
Fairy Yu Xiu looked at Demon Immortal Qi Jue and the Eight Extremities with a cold gaze.
Fairy Feng Ya looked at the charging Zhan Bu Du and smiled plainly.
At this moment, starlight flickered on the bodies of the three fairies, resonating with bright radiance.
The three immortals recited together —
A life of selfless giving,
Worrying and helping the people.
Sacrificing my body and life,
For starlight to radiate the world.
Everything changed upon revival,
The five regions became unrecognizable.
Only my heart remained the same,
The three avatars unite to save heaven!
Starlight connected and fused into one, its radiance rising towards the sky.
The light soon formed into an immortal with peerless beauty, her eyes shone brightly like stars in the sky.
Star Constellation?
Star Constellation.
Star Constellation!
[1] Star Constellation’s name which also became her title later, much like Paradise Earth.
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Chapter 2184: Immortal Venerables Enter Primordial Domain
“Star Constellation Immortal Venerable?!”
On the peak of Book Mountain, the scene of three star avatars joining into one and turning into Star Constellation Immortal Venerable shocked the immortals, who were bathed in blood.
Although the immortals already expected the revival of venerables with fate Gu being destroyed, when a venerable really revived in front of them, they still could not help but feel intense shock.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!
The only female among the ten venerables. She created wisdom path, inherited Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable’s will, developed Heavenly Court, assimilated with heaven’s will, and helped Heavenly Court resist three Demon Venerables.
Her name was always resplendent in the history of humanity, her glorious reputation had never dimmed.
Now, she had revived!
“Star Constellation, take this punch!” Zhan Bu Du did not have any hesitation as he stepped on the mountain peak, and with a thunderous voice, he attacked Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s revival did not surprise Fang Yuan.
In fact, he already had some speculations regarding the identities of Ming Hao, Yu Xiu, and Feng Ya.
These three had extremely high strength, they were all pseudo venerables.
Just this point alone was enough to explain the problem!
Heavenly Court was persistent in repairing Fate and had worked for it for over one million years. But in the crucial fate war, there was only one pseudo venerable battle strength – Duke Long – defending Heavenly Court.
But right now in Crazed Demon Cave, Heavenly Court had suddenly brought out three pseudo venerable battle strength experts, this proved that these three female immortals had revived only after the destruction of fate Gu.
If not for this, how could they not participate in the fate war?
Since they were revived pseudo venerables, their names should have been renowned in history, but they were shrouded in mystery.
More importantly, there was no trace of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable from the start.
With these several clues and his strong wisdom path attainment, Fang Yuan deduced that the probability of these three immortals being Star Constellation was increasingly obvious.
It was like how Fang Yuan could create clones like Qi Sea Ancestor, Zhan Bu Du, and Wu Shuai, why could Star Constellation Immortal Venerable not do the same?
It was just that Star Constellation’s three avatars were more profound and mysterious than Fang Yuan’s clones —
The three fairies could become Star Constellation by fusing together!
Zhan Bu Du showed no fear against the revived Star Constellation. Before his punch even landed on Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, the intense wind from his punch blew Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s long hair into the air.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, however, was smiling.
At the next moment, Zhan Bu Du struck Star Constellation, but he passed right through her.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s figure vanished like an illusory bubble.
This was fake, it was merely an illusion.
Zhan Bu Du realized this and quickly activated an investigative method, but could not detect Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s main body.
“Star Constellation, please hold on.” Suddenly, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s voice came from Calamity Luck Altar.
Golden light drifted in the air, revealing Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s figure.
But Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used a killer move.
Inside her immortal aperture, Fairy Feng Ya’s talent Gu, and Fairy Yu Xiu’s serious Gu and learning Gu, which were temporarily taken out from Divine Emperor City, activated one after the other.
Immortal essence was consumed intensely, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s figure turned illusory again.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s golden light could not obstruct her any longer.
Under everyone’s gaze, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable flew to the sky grandly and entered Primordial Domain!
“Damn it!” Zhan Bu Du gritted his teeth as he gave chase.
However, although he caught up to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, she was like a silhouette that could not be disturbed by Zhan Bu Du. She quickly entered the depths of Primordial Domain.
But Zhan Bu Du passed through Primordial Domain.
“Without special methods, there is no way to enter Primordial Domain!” Zhan Bu Du’s eyes burned with anger.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was revived.
But she did not fight Zhan Bu Du, instead choosing to directly head to Primordial Domain.
She was a venerable, she could not make a move casually; otherwise, she would be suppressed by Limitless Demon Venerable’s methods just like Qi Sea Ancestor.
She directly left without caring for Heavenly Court’s immortals, Book Mountain, and the whole battlefield, but this became a fatal move!
Lu Wei Yin’s expression was ashen and extremely unsightly.
Primordial Domain was the crucial factor of the battle in Crazed Demon Cave.
The reason they attacked Book Mountain furiously was to obstruct Heavenly Court from obtaining Primordial Domain. They never expected that even though Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was unable to get Primordial Domain, she could directly fly into it.
Zhan Bu Du lacked suitable methods and could not block her.
In fact, even Immortal Zombie Giant Sun made a move but was unable to obstruct Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!
“What do we do?” Lu Wei Yin was at a loss.
Once Star Constellation Immortal Venerable entered Primordial Domain to replenish her lost attainment level, she would quickly become a wisdom path supreme grandmaster and regain her status of the wisdom path Dao Lord.
“Is Heavenly Court going to continue controlling the future of this world?” Bing Sai Chuan sighed dejectedly.
“Not necessarily.” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun sneered, “Let’s go!”
At the next moment, Calamity Luck Altar shone with dazzling golden light.
The golden light shot everywhere before joining together and making a path that stretched forward.
It was Calamity Luck Altar’s killer move — Luck Changing Golden Light Path!
At the same time, Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace that was stationed in Savage Wilderness Great World also let out a majestic light.
Ever since Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace was brought into Crazed Demon Cave, it had actively participated and cooperated with Limitless Demon Venerable’s deductions regarding the development of the worlds, it had gotten deeply involved.
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace’s light shone on Calamity Luck Altar, creating mysterious changes in the luck changing golden light path.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun flew out of Calamity Luck Altar and followed the golden light path into Primordial Domain.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was unable to stop Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, but he possessed the number one luck path attainment in the world. He made use of Calamity Luck Altar and Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace to enter Primordial Domain.
Longevity Heaven’s immortals cheered as they saw this.
But Fang Yuan’s subordinates were pale.
“Damn it, damn it!” Lu Wei Yin’s expression was extremely unsightly.
Although Longevity Heaven cooperated with Fang Yuan, their main goal was to make use of him. Right now, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun directly abandoned Fang Yuan and entered Primordial Domain himself.
It was obvious that he was seeking to replenish his luck path attainment level in Primordial Domain and become a luck path Dao Lord once again!
Both Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven threw Fang Yuan aside.
“Is this a venerable’s foundation?” Xiao He Jian heaved a sigh.
“Should we retreat?” Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch’s will started to waver.
Fang Yuan was the source of these variant human Gu Immortals’ confidence, but currently, it was obvious Fang Yuan could not compare to the two venerables. This made the variant human Gu Immortals’ morale fall sharply.
“No need to worry.” At this time, Fang Yuan’s main body came over from Yellow Earth Great World.
His expression was still calm.
Lu Wei Yin’s eyes shone with hope: “Lord Fang Yuan, you have a way?”
Fang Yuan nodded, looking towards Rising Cloud City: “Qi Jue, let’s cooperate once again.”
Demon Immortal Qi Jue flew over from Rising Cloud City: “Heh, I knew you had ulterior motives when you gave me the rank eight Immortal Gu House. But your killer move has no issue, come, let’s work together!”
Fang Yuan stretched out his hand, taking out Hu Land from the Qi Sea clone’s immortal aperture.
At the same time, Xi Land appeared above Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Hu Land and Xi Land came together and shone on each other.
Lu Wei Yin was exulted when he saw this: “I get it, [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] has records of this!”
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]], chapter five, section thirty-seven.
Wisdom Gu was bitten by self Gu, it felt very angry and decided to take revenge.
Wisdom Gu found lie Gu: “No matter what I say, my words are filled with wisdom, they will advise and help others. This won’t do, so I came to you for help.”
Lie Gu asked: “How do you want me to help you?”
Wisdom Gu said: “This is easy and simple. Ren Zu and his children are in Primordial Domain now. In front of Primordial Domain is Xi Land, while behind it is Hu Land. Go to Primordial Domain and deceive Ren Zu, tell him Hu Land is in front while Xi Land is behind.”
Lie Gu was puzzled: “That can help you take revenge?”
Wisdom Gu laughed loudly: “Humans need to breathe in first before they can breathe out. Meanwhile, Xi Land and Hu Land are the breathing of heaven and earth. Just follow my instructions.”
Lie Gu followed wisdom Gu’s arrangements and went to Primordial Domain. It told Ren Zu: “Human, you need to be careful. You are in a mystical place, you will reach Hu Land if you go forward and Xi Land if you move back.”
Ren Zu had been thinking of leaving Primordial Domain, he thought: “The beastmen once advised me to not go to Hu Land. In that case, I shall head towards the back and go to Xi Land.”
Ren Zu moved towards the back of Primordial Domain with his children Great Strength True Martial and Carefree Wisdom Heart.
Thus, they arrived at Hu Land.
“This is not Xi Land!” Carefree Wisdom Heart knew they had been deceived.
Ren Zu patted his chest: “Fortunately, I died once and betrayal Gu has already left me. Otherwise if I care[1], betrayal Gu will harm me.”
But Great Strength True Martial suddenly realized something and shouted: “This is bad!”
“What’s wrong?” Ren Zu was just about to ask when self Gu flew out of his body.
Self Gu left Ren Zu, leaving behind a sentence: “Oh human, after you put attitude Gu on me, you deceived even yourself, so don’t blame me for leaving you.”
Back then, Ren Zu protected weak Gu. Weak Gu urged Ren Zu to put attitude Gu on self Gu to deceive himself; creating the perfect deception that managed to even deceive the Predicament.
If humans deceived themselves, their sense of self would leave and the person would lose themselves.
Ren Zu was angry and anxious: “What to do, self Gu left me. How can I obtain freedom without it? How can I break free of the restraints of fate?”
“Self Gu once took a bite of betrayal Gu, so it gained the inclination to betray. I was already dissatisfied with it.” Great Strength True Martial’s ability Gu shouted.
The skilled were naturally dissatisfied with themselves.
“Self Gu will be out of our sight soon, we need to give chase!” Carefree Wisdom Heart reminded.
The three immediately chase after self Gu.
Self Gu left very fast and dove into a river.
The river’s surface was calm with ice of all sizes floating on it.
“This is the River of Time, the ice floating on the river is called truthful floating ice.” Ren Zu’s group recognized it immediately, they had gained this knowledge in the Qian Kun Crystal Wall.
Ren Zu looked afar and said: “I think self Gu is hiding in the center of the floating ice, let’s quickly go and catch it!”
[1] ‘Care’ is read as ‘At Hu’ here, its a word pun.
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Chapter 2185: Fang Yuan Enters Primordial Domain
Ren Zu’s group sized up the situation by the riverside.
Every piece of floating ice in the River of Time was a piece of truth.
Ren Zu observed for a long while before pointing towards a floating ice: “This floating ice is neither big nor small and has a smooth surface, let’s step on this.”
But Great Strength True Martial said: “This floating ice is clearly too small, it is not enough for us three.”
Carefree Wisdom Heart shook her head: “This floating ice is quite big but there are many spikes on it, they will pierce our feet.”
Even when looking at the same truth, from the perspectives of different people, they could be big or small, minor or severe, difficult or easy. Some could accept it, but some could not.
Ren Zu’s group discussed for a long while before they chose a floating ice and stepped on it.
When Ren Zu stepped on this ice, he immediately cried and sniveled; Great Strength True Martial shouted in anger, while Carefree Wisdom Heart laughed happily.
When looking at the same truth, different people would have different feelings and emotions regarding it.
Ren Zu and his children could only endure this.
“Every piece of floating ice in the River of Time is a cold and silent truth. But we humans have hearts, we feel emotions when we come across truths, and when truths and emotions mix, they create different situations[1] for everyone.” Carefree Wisdom Heart recalled the knowledge in her mind.
The floating ice carried the group and drifted for a while before it started shrinking and submerging.
“Let’s jump to that floating ice.” Ren Zu pointed towards the left, at his front.
Before the floating ice under them submerged, the three jumped to the second floating ice.
This piece of truth created different emotions in Ren Zu’s group.
The longer they stood on the floating ice, the more these emotions accumulated.
As the floating ice continued to sink, the emotions they felt also changed. Some went from angry to happy, while others went from happy to depressed.
“I can’t endure this anymore, I feel horrible.” After persisting for a while, Ren Zu said while grasping his heart, “Let’s jump to that floating ice.”
The three jumped over, but shortly afterwards, Carefree Wisdom Heart said: “I cannot stand this situation, I am also feeling extremely down. I even want to die.”
Ren Zu’s group of three quickly changed to another floating ice.
No matter what truth they came upon, in reality, they could be endured by gritting one’s teeth. The most dreadful thing was the suffering of the heart.
If the heart could not endure it, the person would be unable to continue moving forward.
After changing several pieces of floating ice, Great Strength True Martial felt the least amount of discomfort: “I am still fine.”
Strong Gu shouted proudly in his heart: “There are too many situations in the world, but it has always been the weak who suffer more than the strong.”
Fortitude Gu called out: “The credit here goes to me because I have been helping you since the start.”
Fortitude Gu could suppress emotions.
Suddenly, two Gu worms grew on Carefree Wisdom Heart’s palms.
The Gu on the left palm was called Good. The Gu on the right palm was called Bad.
“Humans, we can help you distinguish which situation is good and which is bad.” Good Gu and bad Gu said together in a soft voice.
Thus, with the help of good Gu and bad Gu, Ren Zu’s group was able to choose a piece of floating ice that had a good situation.
All three of them felt happy when standing on this floating ice.
When the floating ice started to submerge and good situations turned bad, the three jumped away.
Like this, the three gradually turned happy, then ecstatic, before finally becoming euphoric. They could not move forward anymore as they drowned in emotions of endless joy.
The three forgot about their situation, the truthful floating ice they were standing on submerged completely, they fell into the river one after the other.
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Crazed Demon Cave, eighth layer.
Xi Land!
Hu Land!
The two secluded domains of heaven and earth let out misty white light that mixed into one and formed a horizontal pillar of light.
“The final step.” Fang Yuan let out a breath of relief as he activated a killer move.
Qi aura flew into the light pillar, forming a vortex in the middle.
The vortex shot to the sky, and when the white light vortex touched the surface of Primordial Domain, it expanded and shrouded the whole Primordial Domain like a fog.
Fang Yuan followed the white vortex of light and went into Primordial Domain!
“Amazing, amazing! Primordial Domain is in between Xi Land and Hu Land, using these two secluded domains of heaven and earth, he managed to locate Primordial Domain.” Lu Wei Yin praised loudly as he followed after Fang Yuan.
Behind him were pseudo venerable battle strength experts like Zhan Bu Du, Demon Immortal Qi Jue, and Qi Sea Ancestor.
After these immortals entered Primordial Domain, the white vortex dissipated rapidly, disappointing those Gu Immortals who had been thinking of making a move.
Fang Yuan was floating in Primordial Domain, frowning deeply.
The moment he stepped in, countless inspirations appeared in his mind.
But this was not a natural process, it was like a forced instillation, Fang Yuan experienced an indescribable pain.
This pain did not come from his body or soul, it came from his mind.
His mental state had been like a lake with no waves, being tranquil like a giant mirror. But now, there were fierce waves moving roughly.
This was like a process where an infant who only knew how to eat, drink, sleep, and excrete got forced to learn the joy of a child jumping and playing. If infants jumped and played, they would injure themselves.
It was also like a child who thought toys were the most precious thing, but was forcefully instilled the perspective of an adult — that money was the most important thing.
A Gu cultivator’s attainment level was very hard to raise. By entering Primordial Domain, Fang Yuan was increasing his attainment level unnaturally and forcefully, it went against the law of nature.
Fang Yuan clenched his teeth and endured it.
There was no trace of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, who had entered earlier. Fang Yuan also did not concentrate on them, he quickly inspected his body and came to a realization.
“Many paths’ attainment levels are increasing rapidly! Refinement path is also among them, but rule path’s progress is the fastest.”
Fang Yuan thought about it and started to move in Primordial Domain.
He used a method which allowed him to fly in Primordial Domain like a free bird.
Primordial Domain crumbled apart wherever he went.
Fang Yuan’s heart sank.
Although Primordial Domain was a secluded domain of heaven and earth, it was extremely fragile!
Fang Yuan did not even attack, it was just that he had too many dao marks, even Primordial Domain could not endure it.
Fortunately, before those areas of Primordial Domain collapsed, the attainment levels they contained were transferred into Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan felt a sense of urgency.
“I must find the correct direction quickly.”
“If those areas in the Primordial Domain that contain refinement path are destroyed, it will be terrible!”
Fang Yuan was unfamiliar with Primordial Domain, but all kinds of thoughts clashed in his mind and his profound wisdom path attainment allowed him to quickly understand his situation.
Primordial Domain contained the profundities of all paths, any Gu cultivator could benefit from it.
Fang Yuan acutely adjusted his direction and moved in Primordial Domain, gaining a lot of progress in his refinement path attainment level.
His direction was correct, and soon, his rate of progress in refinement path became the highest, among several other paths that were growing too.
Fang Yuan’s feeling at this moment could not be expressed in words.
Even though he was feeling incomparable pain and his mental state was unstable, he also felt full and satisfied, at the same time, there was also an increasing ‘thirst’!
This ‘thirst’ was towards knowledge, towards attainment levels.
“It is no wonder that in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], after Ren Zu obtained knowledge, he was not satisfied, he kept taking in more knowledge until his brain reached its limit and exploded.”
Fang Yuan felt a sense of resonance with Ren Zu.
“Almost, almost there!” Fang Yuan endured the pain as joy appeared on his face.
His intuition was telling him strongly that he was only a short distance from refinement path supreme grandmaster.
Rumble!
Right at this time, Primordial Domain shook and large areas started collapsing and breaking apart.
Fang Yuan’s refinement path attainment level that had been rising stopped abruptly.
“Giant Sun, Star Constellation!!!” Fang Yuan’s gaze turned cold and sharp.
He looked far away, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable were fighting.
They selected the location of their fight really well, it was in the main area of refinement path.
Once this portion of Primordial Domain was destroyed, Fang Yuan’s refinement path attainment level could not increase anymore.
In previous fights, Fang Yuan had probed many weaknesses of Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court; similarly, details about him were also taken notice of by Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
They were aware that Fang Yuan wanted to break through in refinement path.
Since they came to Primordial Domain a step earlier, how could these two venerables watch without doing anything?
Thus, as they fought, they destroyed the future prospects of Fang Yuan!
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable must have taken the initiative to attack, and although Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was in an alliance with Fang Yuan, he was definitely happy to take advantage of the situation.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable saw Fang Yuan’s main body, immediately pointing at him.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
Hundreds of deep blue stars shot towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan gave a shout, his whole body emitting seven-colored radiance.
Immortal killer move — Seven Kills Rainbow!
Metal path’s yellow light, wood path’s jade-green light, water path’s light blue hue, fire path’s red light, earth path’s brown light, wind path’s green radiance, and lightning path’s deep blue light; seven lights from these seven paths mixed together and shot forward in a drill shape.
Bam!
The seven kills rainbow destroyed most of the stars and continued towards Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Starlight flashed around Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, blocking this killer move. But she still staggered, and her face revealed surprise.
“What killer move is this?”
It was naturally a compound killer move.
This seven kills rainbow was modified from the five technique rainbow. The latter was once used by Fang Yuan in Eastern Sea when the Righteous Qi Alliance attacked Xia clan headquarters to retrieve Xia clan’s lost territory.
Five technique rainbow used metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, for a total of five paths. But seven kills rainbow went a step further, containing the swift wind and violent lightning.
It was hard for Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to defend against such a killer move.
Because to block this move, she had to simultaneously consider metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and lightning, these amounted to seven paths!
There were many killer moves that seemingly involved many paths, but they were without any substance in essence.
For instance, when Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable fought with Limitless’ will in Crazed Demon Cave, he had used a killer move that imitated other paths’ strength.
The essence of the killer move was still one path, it was just that it imitated other paths.
In fact, to deal with his killer move, only theft path needed to be targeted.
But seven kills rainbow genuinely contained the strength of seven paths.
With just one exchange with Fang Yuan, even the grand Star Constellation Immortal Venerable felt troubled!
One aspect was the difficulty of defending against compound killer moves, the other aspect was Fang Yuan’s vast dao mark accumulation.
He had too many dao marks, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable might have been able to match it before, but the current her had just revived.
The three avatars merged into one, their dao marks were also added together, which became the current Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s foundation.
But clearly, the number of dao marks that Star Constellation had was lower than Fang Yuan.
[1] The Chinese character for situation/thing is made up of truth and emotion.
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Chapter 2186: Snatching Primordial Domain
Crazed Demon Cave.
Primordial Domain.
Fang Yuan’s main body finally fought against a venerable!
Immortal killer move — Sword Tongue Dragon Soul.
Fang Yuan roared again, his body shook and over a hundred evil dragons rapidly condensed around him.
The evil dragons roared and charged towards Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
“Another compound killer move?” Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s pupils shrank slightly, she immediately noted that the evil dragons in front of her contained profundities of at least transformation path and enslavement path.
Fang Yuan’s dao mark quantity was horrifying, although Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could fight him head on, that was not her style.
She was a wisdom path supreme grandmaster!
This was true in her previous life, it was also true now.
Her body immediately flickered as the surrounding starlight split into a thousand specks, each of time transformed into one Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
“Hmm?” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun quickly activated his investigative method to distinguish the real body.
Fang Yuan’s pupils shrank, but he still ordered the dragons to charge forward.
The dragons fought with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s illusions, instantly, the whole battlefield was turned into a chaotic scene.
The evil dragons bit, swung their tails, stabbed with their horns, or used their claws, some even shot out sharp sword qi with their tongues…
At the start of the fight, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s illusions were caught off-guard and suffered heavy losses.
But not long later, they realized the patterns of these evil dragons, Star Constellation Immortal Venerables stabilized the situation and began to counterattack.
The methods of these Star Constellation illusions were ordinary, each illusion only had one killer move and there were only six kinds of killer moves altogether.
But these Star Constellation illusions had extremely high cooperation, not much inferior to the three avatars.
The Star Constellation illusions used their numerical advantage, about ten illusions would attack one evil dragon and kill it after sacrificing several illusions.
Fang Yuan’s evil dragons began to decrease rapidly in number.
“Fang Yuan’s sword tongue dragon soul has enslavement path profundity, so they can be controlled. But he is far from being Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s match in terms of wisdom path.” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun evaluated inwardly.
“But Fang Yuan knows his strengths and weaknesses as well as the enemy’s, it would not be worth the effort if he put his attention on carefully controlling the dragon souls. So he is just activating this move repeatedly.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun did not interfere for the moment, he just observed from the side.
While observing the battle, he continued to activate his methods. Crimson light flew and wrapped the surrounding areas of Primordial Domain, pulling them into his immortal aperture.
Information was extremely important to Gu cultivators.
Especially when facing an enemy like Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, killer moves were most effective during the first time they were used.
Fang Yuan did not use other methods, he was still activating sword tongue dragon soul without stopping.
Groups of evil dragons that numbered over a hundred each continued to rush to the battlefield.
They were killed by the Star Constellation illusions, but they soon gained the upper hand in terms of overall strength.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was inwardly surprised: “So this move contains soul path as well?”
He saw these evil dragons being annihilated, but gradually, the souls of the evil dragons appeared. At first, these dragon souls were extremely weak, their battle strength was only ten percent of the evil dragons.
But as evil dragons continued to die, the scattered soul path dao marks in the battlefield surged continuously; the dragon soul beasts born from the deaths of these evil dragons also grew increasingly strong.
Twenty percent, forty percent, sixty percent…
The evil dragon souls’ battle strength continued to increase, finally defeating the Star Constellation illusions and tilting the battle situation in Fang Yuan’s favor.
And when there were only dozens of illusions remaining, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s main body could not remain hidden.
She smiled at Fang Yuan and actually retreated from the battlefield, taking her leave.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly.
From this fight, he gained a deeper understanding of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s nature.
Even though Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had revived and clearly had the battle strength to fight Fang Yuan head on, she did not battle frontally, she was very rational and flexible in thoughts.
It was like how she retreated this time and made Fang Yuan’s efforts go to waste.
These soul path dao marks on the battlefield were advantageous to Fang Yuan, but with Star Constellation’s casual retreat, Fang Yuan had to give chase, giving up this favorable battlefield.
It was not pleasant at all to fight with such an opponent.
“Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, hold up.” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun smiled, magnificent lights appeared and blocked Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
“Good!” Fang Yuan praised, taking the chance to catch up.
It seemed like the alliance agreement between Longevity Heaven and Fang Yuan was still effective.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s choice could be explained easily.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun saw Fang Yuan’s battle strength, and adding on the fact that he was still in his immortal zombie body, he regarded Heavenly Court as the main enemy.
Were Fang Yuan to be weaker, he might have been jointly attacked by Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, to get rid of this easiest target and prevent him from obtaining benefits while the two venerables fought.
Fang Yuan fought Star Constellation Immortal Venerable once again, while Immortal Zombie Giant Sun barely made any moves.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable lightly waved her jade-like hands, sending out a flurry of stars.
The stars were extremely fast, whistling through the air as they shot at Fang Yuan’s body.
Fang Yuan had tried to dodge them before, but these stars had homing ability, they reached him no matter how he dodged.
Fang Yuan would need a long time to deduce and plan before he could decipher this killer move.
Crack crack.
Soft sounds echoed as the light barrier around Fang Yuan started to break.
This light barrier was a compound killer move as well, it had outstanding defense, but under the continuous attack of the stars, it had already broken several times.
The power of each flying star never changed, but they were tightly connected as a consecutive move.
This was very terrifying.
Suppose that a flying star’s power was one, the first star would have the battle strength of one, second would have at least three, third would have six…
Their strength increased progressively, reaching a terrifying level at the later stages.
This was Fairy Ming Hao’s combat system.
The barrier of light collapsed, Fang Yuan immediately used a new defensive method, a halo shone above his head.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable smiled. Just like what Heavenly Court’s intel described, Fang Yuan was very cautious. After using the defensive killer move a few times, he would change to a new one, afraid that his defensive killer move would be deciphered, which could cause heavy injuries or even death if he was caught off-guard.
In fact, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s plan was exactly this.
However, every time she got some results in her deductions, Fang Yuan would readjust his methods, making her deductions pointless.
“Fang Yuan, you are really well-prepared for this battle, you have been changing your killer moves so frequently, I am really curious how long can you continue this for?”
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable spoke while using a killer move.
This wisdom path killer move was formless and invisible. It created a whirlwind out of thin air, but it did not target Fang Yuan, instead targeting the surrounding Primordial Domain.
In an instant, all the areas of Primordial Domain within thousands of steps were emptied by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!
On the other side, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun sent out golden light similarly, absorbing a small area of the Primordial Domain into his aperture.
Fang Yuan’s eyes shone with dark light.
These two venerables had extraordinary methods, they had been absorbing Primordial Domain even during the battle.
Fang Yuan’s accumulation was much inferior when compared to them.
He had also tried, but did not find an effective method to collect the Primordial Domain, he could only watch as these two made gains.
“Since it is so…”
Fang Yuan resolutely activated a killer move.
Flames flew and lightning shot out.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had been collecting Primordial Domain when the lightning-fire wave formed by Fang Yuan’s killer move swept over and emptied out the areas of Primordial Domain around him.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun failed to gain anything, but he remained silent.
Fang Yuan activated another move.
Strong winds blew, an ice storm filled the area.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was implicated once again, the areas of Primordial Domain he was about to absorb into his immortal aperture were destroyed once again.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun clenched his teeth while taking a look at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan activated another move.
Eerie souls moved and golden light shone, destroying all the surrounding areas of Primordial Domain.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun could not help but glance at each other; the former was no longer smiling, while the latter’s eyes were twitching.
“If I can’t have it, you can also stop dreaming about it!”
With this thought, Fang Yuan attacked without any restraint.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun needed some time to collect the Primordial Domain, flaws appeared during this process.
Fang Yuan was directly destroying Primordial Domain, which was much faster and more convenient.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was interrupted again and again, but Fang Yuan used the excuse of attacking Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. He did not suffer restrictions from the alliance agreement, and there was no obvious point to criticize.
He was really feeling impatient, as he transmitted his voice to Fang Yuan: “Fang Yuan, let’s negotiate. If you block Star Constellation Immortal Venerable while I collect the Primordial Domain, we can split the gains with a seven-three ratio!”
“No, I want half!” Fang Yuan immediately answered, as if he had been waiting for this.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was naturally unwilling: “Without my method, you won’t be able to collect even a portion of the Primordial Domain. If you dare to comprehend the Primordial Domain now, you will be met with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s attacks, the risk is too high.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was not wrong.
It was not difficult to interrupt the instillation of Primordial Domain.
But even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not dare to comprehend Primordial Domain while fighting, and was only trying her best to collect it.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun put forward a fair argument, but Fang Yuan paid him no attention.
Boom…
Lightning exploded and qi waves rose as the surrounding Primordial Domain was once again destroyed by Fang Yuan’s killer move.
Primordial Domain might have been a secluded domain of heaven and earth, but it was different from Book Mountain and Dang Hun Mountain, it was fragile.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun gritted his teeth.
Fang Yuan used actions to tell him: It had to be fifty-fifty! If you don’t agree, then even you, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, won’t get any Primordial Domain.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun could only relent: “Alright, we will split it fifty-fifty!”
Fang Yuan continued: “Giant Sun, can I trouble you to put half of the Primordial Domain in treasure yellow heaven at your own convenience?”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun could not help but open his eyes wide.
Fang Yuan urged: “Don’t worry, with me disturbing her with all my strength, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable will not be able to collect much of Primordial Domain.”
These words were a reminder to him: Look, Heavenly Court is still our biggest enemy. Also, weakening Heavenly Court was also Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s intention all along.
“Alright.” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun sent half of his Primordial Domain into treasure yellow heaven to express his sincerity.
Fang Yuan laughed heartily, attacking Star Constellation Immortal Venerable even more fiercely.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was only one person, she was starting to suffer losses after Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Fang Yuan collaborated to target her.
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Chapter 2187: This Rascal Fang Yuan!
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable fell into a disadvantage.
Fang Yuan was in charge of disturbing her, while Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was collecting Primordial Domain. Although Star Constellation Immortal Venerable also obtained some with difficulty, her opportunities were decreasing rapidly as she fought with Fang Yuan.
After this situation lasted for a while, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable made a decision.
She resolutely activated a killer move, attacking Primordial Domain!
The Primordial Domain’s stability was like an avalanche, at first it was only a small piece that got affected, but in just a short while, the collapse became increasingly severe.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun gave a shout, sending out a golden-red aurora light.
He succeeded in obstructing Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s killer move; however, she activated the killer move again.
“Fang Yuan!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun shouted.
Even without Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s reminder, Fang Yuan was already attacking fiercely to force Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to defend and give up on destroying Primordial Domain.
This time, it was Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s turn to use killer moves continuously.
Since the battle started, this was the first time she had taken the initiative to attack!
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s response was not fast enough. Many of these offensive methods were used for the first time by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was not able to effectively block them.
Rumble…
After dozens of moves, Primordial Domain was completely destroyed.
Most of the destruction was done by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
“Star Constellation, you live up to your reputation!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun praised in amazement.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable saw that her efficiency in collecting Primordial Domain could not compare to Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s joint effort, so she directly attacked Primordial Domain instead.
Such decisiveness and rationality, she was indeed an Immortal Venerable of human history, the second generation Immortal King of Heavenly Court!
“Hmm? This place is…” Fang Yuan’s expression was slightly strange.
Primordial Domain was completely destroyed, but he did not fall down from the sky, instead, he found himself in a void.
There was no trace of the worlds of the eighth layer of Crazed Demon Cave.
“This is Crazed Demon Cave’s ninth layer!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun said.
He slowly flew over and stood a hundred steps away from Fang Yuan as they faced Star Constellation Immortal Venerable together.
Previously, Heavenly Court used Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance and the captives in Divine Emperor City to lure Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun into taking action, giving them time to seize the Primordial Domain.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Fang Yuan responded extremely quickly, mobilizing all their forces without caring for consequences.
Heavenly Court had experienced the fate war and were no longer in their prime condition, they could not block the joint attack of the two forces.
Since they could not seize it, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could only choose the next best alternative, she directly flew into Primordial Domain and raised her wisdom path to supreme grandmaster attainment level.
However, Fang Yuan, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, and other pseudo venerables also entered Primordial Domain.
The battle situation gradually escaped from Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s grasp, forcing her to destroy the whole of Primordial Domain.
Primordial Domain was not seized by her, it was actually still in the ninth layer. The moment Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, Fang Yuan, and other immortals entered Primordial Domain, they had also entered Crazed Demon Cave’s ninth layer!
“The void in this ninth layer is far smaller than the eighth layer. Is this the truthful floating ice depicted in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]?”
Fang Yuan stared at Star Constellation Immortal Venerable while also noticing the mysterious floating ice behind her.
These bluish-white floating pieces of ice were of all sizes and had a huge quantity. They were floating quietly, they did not rotate by themselves, but because of the attractive forces between them, they flew around in groups. All the flying floating ice groups were slowly orbiting around the center.
From afar, these orbiting pieces of truthful floating ice looked like a giant ball on the whole.
The truthful floating ice’s orbit was filled with mysterious profundity, Fang Yuan felt dizzy after just taking several glances.
He intuitively sensed that these truthful floating ice pieces were continuing to grow bigger.
“Looks like this formation is the foundation for the construction of the whole of Crazed Demon Cave. Book Mountain and Primordial Domain are the cores that Heavenly Court took out from this formation.”
“Amazing, truly incredible!”
“This rank nine formation keeps on orbiting and deducing, these truthful floating ice pieces are its gains. Those dead Gu Immortals and immortal apertures in the eighth layer are the fuel for this formation and also the clues for deductions.”
“If so, the derivation Gu recorded in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] and Limitless Demon Venerable’s study of eternal life are at the center of the formation?”
Just as Fang Yuan was thinking this, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun shouted in a cold tone.
At the next moment, a luck path killer move pierced through Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable dissipated like a bubble.
Her true body appeared, but it was no longer in front of Fang Yuan, she had already entered the rank nine formation.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s expression sank slightly: “Such a good method, this illusion was destroyed with one touch, but even I was unable to detect it was a fake. If not for a fluctuation in my luck, I would still have no clue. We need to move quickly! Limitless Demon Venerable used everything to arrange Crazed Demon Cave and it has been deducing for over a million years. We can’t let these gains go to Heavenly Court.”
Why would Fang Yuan hesitate, he immediately moved with Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and arrived at the periphery of the formation.
The two immortals stopped.
“This formation is really terrifying, all the truthful floating ice are formation cores and also the safest places. All the other areas besides them are extremely dangerous. If we stop at other areas, we will be crushed by the formation.”
Fang Yuan’s heart jumped as he saw this.
This rank nine formation’s crushing force came from the fusion of sacrificing countless Gu Immortals and great worlds, even he would not be able to endure it.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun inspected for a bit and jumped on a piece of truthful floating ice.
Be they the leading Star Constellation Immortal Venerable or Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, they both made the same choice. Fang Yuan was naturally going to follow them.
He jumped on an elephant sized truthful floating ice.
The moment he stepped on the floating ice, a strong guilty conscience attacked Fang Yuan’s heart, like he was a bandit that had invaded a peaceful village.
Fang Yuan’s expression changed slightly as he quickly resisted this strong emotion.
After adapting to it, Fang Yuan jumped to the second truthful floating ice.
This time, an intense sadness engulfed his heart, the intensity was higher than before.
Fang Yuan gritted his teeth and adapted to it with difficulty.
He looked ahead, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had already jumped to the fifth truthful floating ice, while Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was far ahead, already at the central area of the formation.
“I don’t have time!” Fang Yuan was hurried, he quickly jumped to the third floating ice.
The outcome of the fight in the Primordial Domain was not ideal to Fang Yuan.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun were likely to have already regained their supreme grandmaster attainment level, while Fang Yuan’s refinement path was still lacking.
However, since the opponent was the grand Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, this outcome was also within Fang Yuan’s expectations.
The Primordial Domain’s battle was already like that, he could not let these two venerables get their hands on Limitless Demon Venerable’s eternal life research results as well.
“Eternal life … eternal life…” Fang Yuan mumbled.
Reaching eternal life was Fang Yuan’s goal and dream, even if he did not obtain it, he could not let it fall into other people’s hands.
The deeper into the formation, the higher the intensity of the emotions brought by the truthful floating ice.
These emotions were of all kinds, some were happiness, some were grief, some were sadness, some were anger…
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was still taking the lead.
Her advantage in this formation was extremely obvious!
Firstly, the game of chess back then was the fight between Limitless’ will and Star Constellation’s will.
Secondly, Heavenly Court had already begun infiltrating three hundred thousand years ago, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable’s Green Lotus Great World was the best proof.
Lastly, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable cultivated wisdom path.
Wisdom path had three aspects, thought, will, and emotion.
Dealing with emotions and even using them to battle was what wisdom path was most proficient in.
With all these reasons, it was no wonder Star Constellation Immortal Venerable rushed to the formation instead of fighting.
“But….” Star Constellation Immortal Venerable stepped on a truthful floating ice and gazed back, her brows slightly furrowed.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was rushing forward, constantly drawing nearer to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was not surprised about this.
The deeper into the formation, the more terrifying the intensity of the emotions and the more obstruction they created for Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had not hesitated to leave Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace behind to take part in the deductions. He himself had seized Reckless Savage Demon Venerable’s Savage Wilderness Great World in his era.
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable came after Limitless Demon Venerable.
When Reckless Savage Demon Venerable entered Crazed Demon Cave, it was over a million years ago!
Thus, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun also had a high understanding of Crazed Demon Cave.
And his luck path methods also helped him to choose the most suitable path.
“But why is Fang Yuan also getting close? It even seems like he is going to surpass Immortal Zombie Giant Sun?” Star Constellation Immortal Venerable frowned.
This was beyond her expectations.
Heavenly Court had naturally handed all the information about Fang Yuan to her.
So, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable knew Fang Yuan very well.
She knew that although Fang Yuan’s wisdom path attainment was also extremely high, his specialty was not in deducing but in guarding against others’ deductions.
From this, it was clear that though Heavenly Court’s expedition against Fang Yuan had failed repeatedly, they had considerable gains as well.
At least, under Heavenly Court’s pressure, Fang Yuan had to give up on deductions, the handling of emotions, and other aspects of wisdom path, he could concentrate only on raising his defense against deductions.
Right now was obviously Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s time to profit, but how could Fang Yuan still pursue them closely?
Not only was Star Constellation Immortal Venerable surprised, even Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was astonished.
He watched as Fang Yuan jumped forward rapidly and surpassed him!
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun sensed a peculiar aura from Fang Yuan’s body.
Suddenly, he understood the truth.
“Fortitude Gu!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s mind jolted, gritting his teeth.
He recognized the aura of fortitude Gu.
Fang Yuan had never been good at hiding his aura, and there was also no need to hide it at this moment.
“So it was him!”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun finally realized that the biggest mastermind who plotted against Hei Lou Lan in Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven was Fang Yuan!
“This rascal took away fortitude Gu and ability Gu from Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven.”
“These two strength path Immortal Gu are at rank eight…”
“Fortitude Gu can suppress emotions, no wonder he is at ease in this formation!”
“Don’t tell me, Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven is also Reckless Savage Demon Venerable’s arrangement to help Fang Yuan?”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s thoughts started to run amok.
He suddenly had a bad feeling.
“Although I seized Savage Wilderness Great World, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable still arranged for Fang Yuan to obtain fortitude Gu and ability Gu… Then, the portion of Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance that I extracted before, could it also be bait arranged by Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable?”
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Chapter 2188: Bedazzlement
Northern Plains.
Two figures were flying in the air and exchanging killer moves rapidly; air currents and thunder resounded constantly.
Among them, the male immortal who was dressed in a white robe cultivated light path. He had a skinny body and a sharp face, and his eyes were small like beans.
Meanwhile, the female immortal was covered in dark gold armor and was wearing a half mask, her every move was filled with domineering aura.
Besides these two, there were over ten Gu Immortals watching the battle in the surroundings.
“Big brother, quickly kill this bitch!” The female immortal Liu Luo shouted with her gaze fixed on the battlefield.
Beside her were Liu tribe’s Gu Immortal elders.
Besides them, other Huang Jin tribe Gu Immortals also came, like Chanyu tribe’s Chanyu Xiong and Gong tribe’s Gong Tong Kuai.
The male immortal in combat was a famous rank seven expert of Northern Plains’ righteous path — Liu Chang.
The female immortal was Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan used Black Moon as her alias and challenged experts everywhere. After defeating Chen Cheng and Yin Wu Que, she continued to challenge lone and demonic immortal experts. She was not defeated even once, her reputation rose rapidly, shocking Northern Plains.
The two siblings Liu Chang and Liu Luo had failed to recruit Yin Wu Que, and even came into conflict with Hei Lou Lan.
To take revenge, Liu Chang publicly challenged Fairy Black Moon.
Once the news got out, it immediately shocked Northern Plains’ Gu Immortal world.
This battle was the result of that!
Immortal killer move — Light Horse Crossing.
Liu Chang activated a killer move, a small steed appeared below his legs, carrying him into the sky with a rapid speed.
This movement killer move was exceptional, it allowed Liu Chang to maintain a fixed distance from Hei Lou Lan throughout the battle.
After the loss against Hei Lou Lan the previous time, Liu Chang sensibly chose a long ranged battle tactic in this battle.
“Big brother, this is it!” Let that bitch suffer more and die in vain later! Hahaha.” Liu Luo cheered on Liu Chang with a shrill voice, her laughter was very painful to the ears.
But right at this time, Hei Lou Lan’s figure disappeared from her spot.
It was an illusion!
“When did she do it?” Liu Chang was shocked and knew he was tricked, subconsciously dodging.
But Hei Lou Lan’s true body immediately appeared behind him.
Bam bam bam…
Fist shadows rained down and enveloped Liu Chang firmly.
Liu Chang screamed while trying his best to activate defensive killer moves to endure the beating.
Liu Luo’s laughter stopped abruptly.
Hei Lou Lan’s attacks were extremely fierce, even the Gu Immortal spectators felt their eyelids twitch.
“Great!”
“Awesome beating.”
“She finally caught this crafty Liu Chang!”
Among the spectators, the lone and demonic immortals cheered and praised.
In this group, besides Chen Cheng, Wu Guang, and Yin Wu Que, there were also many other people.
Some of these people were defeated by Hei Lou Lan, while some heard of Hei Lou Lan’s deeds and followed her of their own accord.
“Lady Black Moon has the upper hand.” Wu Guang transmitted his voice while smiling.
“Don’t you feel that Lady Black Moon has grown stronger recently? Now that I think of it, Lady Black Moon has been challenging others continuously, her battle strength has been rising during these challenges. Brother Wu, could it be that you don’t sense it?” Yin Wu Que was bewildered.
Wu Guang mumbled, shaking his head and transmitting his voice: “I also noticed it. But how could there be such rapid progress and growth in this world? It might be that Lady Black Moon was hiding her strength before, or maybe she had been in closed cultivation all this time and started to connect her methods with the increase in her battle experience, thus, it caused us to feel that her battle strength is increasing rapidly.”
Yin Wu Que nodded and was about to speak, when there was a change in the battle.
Gu Immortal Liu Chang was indeed worthy of being a famous expert in Northern Plains, after some efforts, he finally escaped from Hei Lou Lan’s attack range.
Hei Lou Lan naturally did not want to let him go and immediately gave chase.
But Liu Chang suddenly stopped, smiling darkly towards her: “Black Moon, you have fallen into my trap!”
Immortal killer move — Bedazzlement!
In an instant, intense light exploded, enveloping the whole battlefield.
The Gu Immortal spectators closed their eyes immediately, even Hei Lou Lan shut her eyes subconsciously.
But when she opened her eyes again, the scene was still completely white.
She was struck by the killer move bedazzlement, her vision turned into a scene of white and she could no longer see.
“Damn it, Liu Chang actually learned this killer move.”
“No wonder he was not afraid to openly challenge Lady Black Moon!”
“This move is Liu tribe’s trump card method. Once a Gu cultivator is hit with this move, it will be extremely difficult for them to recover unless they use Liu tribe’s special recovery method.”
Many lone and demonic immortals had changed expressions, the mood immediately became heavy.
This battle was not just a simple fight between Liu Chang and Hei Lou Lan.
In the current situation, this battle already held much political meaning.
Fairy Black Moon, who had no roots or background, represented the lone immortal faction. While Liu Chang represented Northern Plains’ righteous path.
Ever since the fate war, Northern Plains’ Longevity Heaven had been actively uniting Northern Plains’ Gu Immortal world.
Lone and demonic experts like Yin Wu Que were actively recruited by the Huang Jin tribes, and the recruitment process was extremely forceful.
So be it for the few lone immortals who were willing to accept this, however, the main thing was that most of the lone immortals and demonic immortals rejected this. But being lone forces, they did not want to offend those Northern Plains righteous path forces, so they kept silent even though they were furious.
Under this situation, Hei Lou Lan’s appearance was like a rallying banner for these Gu Immortals.
Hei Lou Lan dared to issue challenges everywhere without fearing the Huang Jin tribes, which gave these lone and demonic immortals a huge boost of morale.
Especially now that Snowy Mountain blessed land was destroyed and the demonic head Old Ancestor Xue Hu had hidden himself, the lone and demonic cultivators needed a leader.
Because of this, Wu Guang, Yin Wu Que, and others followed Hei Lou Lan on their own initiative. Many lone and demonic immortals came to observe this battle and support Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan was struck by the killer move and could not see anything. These Gu Immortals became extremely anxious and worried.
Liu Chang easily retreated, smiling.
Immortal killer move — Vitality Glow.
His injuries began to heal slowly.
Immortal killer move — Gleaming Light.
Light shone around him, like countless gleaming fish scales.
“This is not good!” Chen Cheng frowned, “This move restricts investigative methods.”
Yin Wu Que and Wu Guang stopped conversing secretly as they fixed their gazes on the battlefield.
Even if Gu Immortals could not see, they had all kinds of investigative methods. But with Liu Chang using this killer move, other investigative methods might be useless.
Since she could not see, Hei Lou Lan simply closed her eyes.
She was not panicking, instead, she sighed lightly: “Liu Chang, oh Liu Chang, it is such a pity, you missed your final chance.”
Liu Chang was stunned before scoffing: “Fairy Black Moon, who are you trying to bluff? You have already lost, how can you counter my Liu tribe’s bedazzlement killer move in this battle? There is no use in stalling for time!”
Hei Lou Lan did not retort.
She replied to him with her actions.
A killer move was activated.
Immortal killer move — Dark Capital Strength Biao!
A black tiger condensed into solid form.
“This move again?” A trace of solemness flashed on Liu Chang’s face.
“It is different now!” Yin Wu Que’s eyes shone, “This dark gold tiger seems to have grown wings?!”
“What? I didn’t see it clearly.” Wu Guang quickly replied.
The moment the totem black tiger condensed, it disappeared, many including Wu Guang did not see it properly.
“Where is it? Does it have the ability to hide itself?” Liu Chang’s expression changed slightly as he activated investigative methods.
But at the next moment, his pupils shrank to pin size, his face was filled with shock and horror.
The giant dark gold tiger appeared behind him!
Whoosh.
The tiger swatted, sending Liu Chang flying like a rubber ball.
Howling winds rang past Liu Chang’s ears while his vision spun like a whirlpool, he felt terrified internally.
That attack had huge strength, almost destroying his defensive killer move.
“It is not that the black tiger has a concealment method, the reason is its speed, it is too fast, simply too fast to react to!”
The dark gold tiger’s speed was so fast that it had already surpassed the limit of what the Gu Immortals’ naked eyes could perceive. It was like a phantom, appearing and disappearing suddenly.
Every time it appeared, it sent Liu Chang flying.
Liu Chang was completely at a disadvantage with no strength to retaliate.
If he could use light horse crossing, he might be able to escape for some time. But right now, he had fallen into a passive position and had to focus all his strength in maintaining his defensive methods, otherwise, he might be turned into meat paste by the black tiger.
Rumble!
The black tiger’s strike sent Liu Chang flying to the ground.
Dust clouds rose, a deep crater formed, Liu Chang remained unmoving, he had fallen unconscious.
“Brother!” Liu Luo screamed shrilly, pointing at Hei Lou Lan, “You bitch, you killed my brother. How dare you do this! I want you to die, I want you to die!”
She was about to charge forward but was stopped firmly by a Liu tribe elder.
Right at this time, a feeling of joy spread in her heart.
Liu Luo was stunned.
She felt incredulous at herself: “Big brother is in such a state but I feel happy?!”
The other righteous path immortals also had a change in their expressions, they were all feeling happiness.
Gong Tong Kuai slightly shook his head to calm himself, saying in a quiet voice: “Liu tribe’s fairy, please don’t be anxious, Brother Liu is not dead yet.”
“Calm down, so many people are looking, don’t cause Liu tribe to lose face!” A Liu tribe elder berated and flew towards the battlefield.
He cupped his fists towards Hei Lou Lan: “Fairy Black Moon, you have won this battle.”
He had just said that, when he almost started crying.
An intense wave of sadness filled his heart.
Hei Lou Lan nodded: “Okay, so what about this battle’s wager?”
She did not feel well either.
First was the baffling happiness, followed by the intense sadness, what in the world was going on?
Liu tribe’s elder forcefully calmed down, replying to Hei Lou Lan: “It has been sent to treasure yellow heaven.”
Since Liu Chang lost, and with so many people watching, Liu tribe’s elder had to openly send a considerable amount of cultivation resources to treasure yellow heaven.
Treasure yellow heaven had treasure light to distinguish value of the items, at the same time, it also showed Liu tribe’s openness and upright handling of the loss.
The immortals present used their Gu worms to connect to treasure yellow heaven, they saw Liu tribe’s wager indeed.
“That secluded domain of heaven and earth is still there!”
“More accurately, this is a portion of the Primordial Domain.”
“I wonder which great expert is openly transacting the Primordial Domain!”
The Gu Immortals’ attention was drawn to another direction.
Not long ago, a portion of the Primordial Domain had appeared in treasure yellow heaven, shocking the entire five regions’ Gu Immortal world.
Yin Wu Que shouted to bring back the attention of the immortals: “According to the agreement, please dispel the bedazzlement killer move on Fairy Black Moon’s body.”
“Naturally.” Liu tribe’s elder used a killer move straightforwardly, restoring Hei Lou Lan’s vision.
Hei Lou Lan slightly nodded at the Liu tribe elder, and withdrew the dark capital strength biao which was beside Liu Chang.
This totem killer move had gone through modifications, its battle strength surged and it had already become her unique method!
Chen Cheng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this: “Lady Black Moon’s reputation is going to rise even higher.”
Liu Luo carried Liu Chang, while saying with hatred: “Black Moon, don’t be pleased with yourself. Our righteous path is filled with experts, you might have won against brother by chance, but can you win against others? Let’s not talk of others, just Chu tribe’s first supreme elder Chu Du is someone you won’t be able to surpass.”
However, right at this time, an intense emotion of affection rose in her heart.
Liu Luo’s expression turned twisted immediately.
“What’s going on! Why do I have such a strong feeling of affection when I look at this Black Moon whore?”
Hei Lou Lan did not feel well either, but her expression did not change as she sneered: “Chu Du? I have heard of his name, he also cultivates strength path. I am challenging him next!”
The lone and demonic immortals’ expressions changed.
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Chapter 2189: The Answer To Eternal Life
Crazed Demon Cave.
Ninth layer.
Four Gu Immortals arrived at the periphery of the Crazed Demon formation.
“This is the truthful floating ice?” Zhan Bu Du’s eyebrows rose.
“Seems like it is not easy to enter deep into this formation.” Qi Sea Ancestor was solemn. Unlike the main body, they did not have the assistance of fortitude Gu.
“Star Constellation is at the front, nearest to the center of the formation. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable is second, while Fang Yuan is the last.” Lu Wei Yin’s heart tensed up as he looked ahead.
Fang Yuan did not have the upper hand, so Lu Wei Yin had to do his best to help him!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue stared at the formation in front of him, he mumbled softly as if recalling something of the past: “Limitless, this fellow…”
He leaped forward and stepped on a piece of truthful floating ice.
The other three immortals glanced at each other before moving as well.
The record in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]] was true, the pieces of the truthful floating ice were of different sizes and shapes in the eyes of different people, the emotional impact they felt were different as well.
Because of this, Gu Immortals could not move forward in a group. The best method was to move alone, choosing the floating ice most suitable for oneself.
Fang Yuan had been maintaining the activation of fortitude Gu.
This Gu was only at rank eight level, while this Crazed Demon formation was as high as rank nine.
The deeper he went into the formation, the stronger the emotions he felt. When he had just activated fortitude Gu, these emotions could be ignored and he did not feel anything.
But now, Fang Yuan felt like when he had just stepped on the formation and started probing it.
As for Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, after these two recognized Fang Yuan’s method, they brought out their trump cards.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun activated familial emotion Gu, sharing his emotions to others.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable brought out a mysterious secluded domain of heaven and earth!
This secluded domain looked like a cage as well as a lantern, Fang Yuan could not help but recall a certain chapter in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]].
The two venerables’ foundation was much deeper than Fang Yuan’s.
They had also made ample preparations for Crazed Demon Cave.
Thus, Fang Yuan still fell back to the last position among the three.
Fang Yuan did not give up, continuing to move forward while gritting his teeth.
The situation was getting worse.
The emotional impacts became stronger, shaking his mind and spirit.
But Fang Yuan was happy instead.
Since he was receiving such fierce emotional impacts here, the two venerables who were ahead would face even fiercer emotions.
Fang Yuan’s perseverance soon got favorable results.
The leading Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was moving increasingly slower, she needed to rest for a long while after stepping on a piece of the truthful floating ice before she could move forward.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s speed became slow, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was the same.
Gradually, the distance between the three Gu Immortals started to shorten.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable often looked back, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun who was in the middle also stopped often and observed Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Fang Yuan. This was a difficult journey, the three immortals fully realized each other’s vast tenacity and patience.
After this situation continued for a while, a change occurred.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, she collapsed on the truthful floating ice.
Her body flashed with deep blue starlight.
After the starlight dimmed, it actually split into three, becoming three avatars again!
“Could it be that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s revival is not complete and she has only revived temporarily? The stable state is still in the form of three pseudo venerables?” Fang Yuan’s thoughts shook.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun felt an urge to take action: “A chance!”
He gritted his teeth and persevered, slowly surpassing Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Star Constellation’s three avatars stopped on the same truthful floating ice, they were trying to recuperate as soon as possible.
When Fang Yuan overtook them, he hesitated for a moment.
Should he take advantage of this situation?
Fang Yuan quickly suppressed this impulse.
Right now, he was deep in Limitless’ Crazed Demon formation, if he were to even make an attack, he might trigger Limitless’ countermeasures. His situation might be even more severe than the Qi Sea clone’s.
Moreover, if Fang Yuan were to fight with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, would it not be giving an advantage to Immortal Zombie Giant Sun?
Look at Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, he directly went to the center of the formation without paying attention to Star Constellation’s three avatars.
“If regaining supreme grandmaster attainment level gave these venerables the initiative, then gaining Limitless Demon Venerable’s deduction results might let the winner rise above other venerables!”
Fang Yuan was increasingly certain of this speculation.
“It is time!” Fang Yuan stopped on a truthful floating ice piece, enduring the vast emotional impact as he activated an immortal killer move.
Immortal killer move — Calm and Steady!
The killer move’s effect was immediate, the vast and strong emotions that were crushing Fang Yuan and almost destroyed his mental state disappeared almost completely.
Fang Yuan possessed countless Immortal Gu recipes along with just as many killer moves.
This calm and steady killer move was part of them.
This move required two main cores, calm Gu and suppression Gu.
Fang Yuan did not have calm Gu and was unable to refine immortal level calm Gu, but he had fortitude Gu. Previously, Fang Yuan had been moving while modifying the killer move, and was finally able to use this move now.
As for suppression Gu, Fang Yuan had it.
Speaking of which, he needed to thank Heavenly Court.
Before the fate war, Fang Yuan had fought several battles with Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals in the River of Time. In one such battle, Fang Yuan destroyed the river suppression lotus sealing formation, obtaining suppression Gu from it.
Suppression Gu was rank eight, fortitude Gu was also rank eight.
The killer move with two rank eight cores would naturally have stronger effect than just fortitude Gu alone.
Fang Yuan’s speed increased again!
However, he had already been somewhat far from Immortal Zombie Giant Sun before, so despite trying his best, Fang Yuan could not catch up to him.
“I did not expect Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to be the first to reach the center!” Lu Wei Yin heaved a deep sigh.
Under Fang Yuan’s, Star Constellation’s three avatars, and other pseudo venerables’ gazes, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun suddenly stopped.
He stopped on the truthful floating ice that could be said to be one step away from the largest truthful floating ice at the center.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun showed hesitation at this moment.
What was he hesitating for?
While he was hesitating, Fang Yuan caught up.
“Fang Yuan, it is somewhat strange here.” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun spoke.
Ever since he and Fang Yuan entered the formation, they were competing secretly. The mood between the two became strained, this was their first conversation.
Fang Yuan’s eyes shone as he carefully sized up the truthful floating ice in front of him. For a moment, he was unable to find any clues.
But he did not take a risk to step forward.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was the best model.
He was so close to success, but he still stopped. It could be seen that there was definitely something strange.
“It is odd indeed.” Fang Yuan nodded, revealing an expression of realization.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was slightly surprised. The reason he stopped was because his luck path investigative killer move showed a slight fluctuation, making him feel something wrong, but he was unable to tell what it was. However, looking at Fang Yuan’s expression, did he realize a crucial point?
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had been putting a lot of attention on Fang Yuan.
In his view: Fang Yuan was chosen by heaven’s will, he had talent that ordinary people could not match. To cause the destruction of fate Gu, many venerables helped Fang Yuan. Moreover, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, and Reckless Savage Demon Venerable were still helping him now!
Even if Immortal Zombie Giant Sun did not think highly of Fang Yuan, he could not disregard the other venerables.
So, he did not find it strange for Fang Yuan to see a crucial clue when he could not.
“Please enlighten me on what you found out.” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun said.
Fang Yuan was surprised, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had the dignity of a grand venerable, but he actually took the initiative to ask for guidance with no mental obstruction.
However, Fang Yuan had actually not noticed anything.
Therefore, he first looked back at Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Those three fairies were still at the original spot, resting with their eyes closed.
Then, Fang Yuan looked at Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, smiling: “The eternal life research results are not easily obtained, but we can share them. Giant Sun, how do you want to pay?”
No matter what the oddity was, he would first extort some benefits from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable!
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s eyes shone, he was just about to speak when a person actually came out of the truthful floating ice at the center.
“Huh?” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s attention was immediately attracted.
Fang Yuan was also stunned.
Afterwards, Star Constellation’s three avatars, Lu Wei Yin and the rest also discovered this abnormality.
A rank seven Gu Immortal came out of the truthful floating ice.
Fang Yuan even recognized this rank seven Gu Immortal!
It was Not Immortal of the Three Crazed Demon Eccentrics!
The Three Crazed Demon Eccentrics were wisdom path Gu Immortal Secret Schemer, earth path Gu Immortal Pang Shan, and rule path Gu Immortal Not Immortal respectively.
These three lived in Crazed Demon Cave, they had been trying to find a way to enter the deepest layer of Crazed Demon Cave, to obtain the secret of eternal life.
Regarding this goal, they and Fang Yuan were kindred spirits.
The Three Crazed Demon Eccentrics did not have enough strength, they could not even enter the eighth layer, so they took in the strength path Gu Immortal Chu Du. Chu Du then invited Fang Yuan, which was how Fang Yuan entered Crazed Demon Cave.
Later, to prepare for the fate war, Fang Yuan came to Crazed Demon Cave to invite the Three Crazed Demon Eccentrics to take part in the battle.
The Three Crazed Demon Eccentrics agreed, but they were not seen throughout the fate war and even after it. Thus, they lost contact with Fang Yuan.
Who could have thought that Not Immortal would actually appear here!
Not Immortal looked at Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and was stunned, immediately showing a vigilant expression. He did not recognize Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, but from the terrifying aura, he knew this immortal zombie could not be provoked.
He then looked at Fang Yuan, his brows rose as he revealed joy: “Fang Yuan, you are finally here!”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s mind jolted, he immediately turned around to look at Fang Yuan: “Fang Yuan, you made such deep arrangements, I am in admiration.”
Fang Yuan shook his head: “How could I possibly arrange this? Not Immortal, I wonder if Secret Schemer and Pang Shan…”
Not Immortal immediately replied: “They are inside.”
He then showed an ashamed expression: “The three of us agreed to your request to participate in the fate war and fight Heavenly Court. But that day, there was suddenly a change in Crazed Demon Cave, and us three were pulled into here. With Limitless Demon Venerable’s will’s guidance, we understood the full details.”
“Because us three lived here for a long time, our sincerity was finally seen by Lord Limitless’ will. He arranged for us to be here to cooperate with the formation, by controlling practice Gu to carve this piece of truthful floating ice.”
“Once all the worlds in the eighth layer are merged into one, they will disappear completely and turn into clues and energy for this Crazed Demon formation’s derivation. Then, we will finish carving this truthful floating ice and find the method of eternal life!”
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Chapter 2190: Star Constellation’s Scheme
“Method of eternal life?” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s eyes shined with bright light.
Not Immortal did not hide anything. The immortals present on the scene were all peak experts of the current five regions, they all heard it.
In an instant, the immortals’ hearts pounded with excitement.
Gu Immortals could obtain longevity, but they were bound by lifespan, Fate, and other restrictions. Even though Fate was destroyed now, and lifespan restrictions were greatly relaxed, they could still be killed by a stronger enemy.
Eternal life was absolutely greater than longevity.
Speaking of longevity, the ten thousand years old turtle living in the sea could also be considered to have longevity, but it could not be considered to have eternal life.
Eternal life meant that everyone and everything could not threaten the individual’s existence.
It meant complete invincibility.
Be it time, space, or living beings, none could threaten an entity with eternal life.
The concept of eternal life was paramount and above all.
Even venerables only had longevity and could not be said to have eternal life! Especially now that multiple venerables existed in the same era, they threatened each other’s existence.
Shortly afterwards, there was commotion ahead. Secret Schemer also came out from the central truthful floating ice.
Secret Schemer cultivated wisdom path, after seeing the situation in the formation, his mind shook as he quickly said: “Us three need to maintain the activation of practice Gu at all times, there has to be someone activating it and carving this truthful floating ice piece continuously.”
“It is still too early now.”
“It is not ready yet. The great worlds in the eighth layer are still not destroyed, so many lifeforms are still living.”
Secret Schemer then urged: “Fang Yuan, I am aware of your goal. But right now, it is best if you don’t step in here. Us three have already used all kinds of methods, after we stepped on this truthful floating ice piece, we are unable to get off. That is, unless the derivation is complete or the formation is destroyed!”
“He is right!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun nodded.
After he stopped, he had been secretly activating methods to investigate and deduce.
He still needed some time, but with Secret Schemer’s reply, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun checked it and realized Secret Schemer was not lying.
Secret Schemer was solemn, but showed anticipation as well as resolution, continuing: “The most important thing now is to protect this formation and hasten Limitless Demon Venerable’s arrangements, letting this formation complete its derivation. Fang Yuan, we have the same goals, please protect the formation and guard against all these malicious characters. The three of us will stake everything including our lives to maintain the usage of practice Gu.”
They did not know Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s true identity, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable also split into three avatars, their intel seemed to stop at the period before the fate war.
Fang Yuan’s thoughts moved rapidly, he first nodded towards Secret Schemer before looking back at Star Constellation’s three avatars with a solemn expression.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun sighed and turned to look at Star Constellation’s three avatars as well: “I don’t want us to be schemed against.”
The moment he said that, Ming Hao, Yu Xiu, and Feng Ya opened their eyes.
Starlight emerged as the three fairies converged once again.
At the next moment, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable appeared.
“Rise.” Star Constellation Immortal Venerable said softly.
There was a sudden change in Crazed Demon formation, the truthful floating ice’s orbiting speed became faster and seemed to trap Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun inside.
Star Constellation’s will and Limitless’ will had been deriving heaven path research results using their game in Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court had infiltrated Crazed Demon formation deeply, they were able to take out the cores, Book Mountain and Primordial Domain, so how could they not know about the situation of Crazed Demon formation’s derivation?
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used this to exploit Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s lack of information. Her main body personally moved to lure Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun deep into Crazed Demon formation.
Be it Primordial Domain or Crazed Demon formation, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Fang Yuan would not let Star Constellation Immortal Venerable obtain either easily.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used this to trap Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
Crazed Demon formation changed, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Fang Yuan quickly tried to get back.
However, Crazed Demon formation had become a lot more dangerous than before. Truthful floating ice pieces even collided with each other, if they were careless and fell off the floating ice, they would be crushed to a pulp by the terrifying strength of the formation.
Even if they wanted to jump to a different floating ice, they would need to deduce and wait till the formless force between the floating ice pieces weakened before they could take the risk.
Fang Yuan was already deeply in danger as he hopped over several truthful floating ice pieces, he turned around and inquired loudly: “Secret Schemer, can you three control this formation?”
Secret Schemer shook his head: “We three are only in charge of activating practice Gu.”
Not Immortal was pale: “As expected of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, she actually infiltrated the formation to such a degree that she can even be considered half the formation’s owner. She activated the formation but did not influence its derivation, instead she is accelerating it; Limitless Demon Venerable’s arrangements will not trigger from this!”
Secret Schemer replied in a loud voice: “Please don’t destroy these truthful floating ice pieces. They are all a part of the formation, this concerns the success or failure of the derivation. If you two make a move, you will definitely cause Limitless Demon Venerable’s retaliative method to trigger!”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s expression became unsightly.
“Friends, take a rest. We will exchange pointers later.” Star Constellation Immortal Venerable smiled and retreated after leaving behind these words.
Lu Wei Yin and the other pseudo venerables instantly prepared themselves for this huge enemy.
But Star Constellation Immortal Venerable ignored them, she flew out of the formation and disappeared into the void.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was worthy of being the number one person in wisdom path. Currently, Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun were unable to get free, pseudo venerables like Qi Sea and Qi Jue would not be able to obstruct Star Constellation Immortal Venerable even if they hurried back to the eighth layer.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had infiltrated Crazed Demon formation to such a shocking degree. Once she unifies the great worlds in the eighth layer and gains a hold of all the sources of fuel and clues for Crazed Demon formation’s derivation, her grasp over Crazed Demon formation would rise massively!
It was possible that Crazed Demon formation might even change owners!
One could easily fall into a trap if they were careless when fighting against wisdom path Gu Immortals. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s scheme was the same, it progressed step by step and was interlinked with each step as it latched onto the enemy’s weaknesses; even Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun could only fall into the trap unknowingly.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was solemn as he looked at Fang Yuan: “The situation is urgent, I wonder if Friend Fang Yuan has a good plan?”
Fang Yuan shook his head, sighing indifferently: “This Crazed Demon Cave battle has ended in Heavenly Court’s victory. They have prepared for many years and spent a lot of energy, and with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable leading them, it is only natural for them to gain victory. Looks like Heavenly Court is still going to lead the five regions for a long time. But as long as I have a breath left in me, I won’t let Heavenly Court have an easy time.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun stared at Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan did not look at him, he was continuously deducing the violent formation, looking like he wanted to retreat.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun gritted his teeth before laughing and shaking his hand: “Friend Fang Yuan, it is too early to be discouraged, please look at my method!”
At the next moment, golden light spread out from Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s body.
The threads of golden light shone on the surrounding truthful floating ice pieces, constantly dying the floating ice pieces with a golden hue.
At the same time, a majestic rank eight Immortal Gu House flew over from outside the formation.
It was Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace!
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace stopped outside the formation for a while before entering the formation directly.
Lu Wei Yin and the rest exclaimed in surprise, thinking that Immortal Zombie Giant Sun wanted to break out forcibly.
However, Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace safely entered and orbited alongside other truthful floating ice pieces. It acted like a piece of truthful floating ice as well, just that its appearance was somewhat strange.
“Friend Giant Sun, you have a great method!” Fang Yuan could not help as he praised.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun snorted: “Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could infiltrate the formation, but my luck path methods are also not inferior. It is just that before the formation stops, I won’t be able to take out Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace. Let’s leave quickly!”
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace took part in the operation of Crazed Demon formation, so Immortal Zombie Giant Sun could also influence this formation now.
He also copied Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and accelerated the formation; at the same time, he made a way out conveniently.
Relying on this, he and Fang Yuan retreated together.
As for Lu Wei Yin, Qi Sea and the rest, they were also brought away by Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun to the eighth layer.
In this while of delay, the combat in the eighth layer had almost stopped completely.
Heavenly Court was victorious!
Only half of Longevity Heaven’s Eight Extremities remained, Bing Sai Chuan was also severely injured.
The casualties on Fang Yuan’s side were even more severe. Experts like Xiao He Jian and Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch had perished.
“Star Constellation!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun shouted with fury as he charged forward.
This time, he was much more active than in the Primordial Domain.
Fang Yuan moved right behind him.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable remained at her spot and did not evade.
The other immortals quickly got out of the way in panic.
Boom boom boom!
The three sided battle erupted once again.
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Chapter 2191: Fighting And Entering The Immortal Graveyard
Rumble…
Thunder rumbled ceaselessly. Immortal Zombie Giant Sun breathed out countless golden rays; Star Constellation Immortal Venerable emitted beautiful starlight; Fang Yuan’s killer moves engulfed the battlefield.
Worlds shook like a huge pancake, mountains and rivers continued to be destroyed completely.
In such a battlefield, the three great worlds became food on a chopping board.
Fang Yuan breathed out indifferently; countless sword qi flew out like lumps of clouds, blocking the starlight. He then pushed with his hand as another killer move shot out like a divine wind that roared like dragons or tigers.
Fang Yuan was not able to do anything more than that in combat.
He had too many dao marks, his killer moves were also too powerful. He could only choose the weakest among those to use.
In fact, although the fight between the three was filled with explosions, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable were also like Fang Yuan, they were holding back.
This was not Primordial Domain.
They could show their skills fully in Primordial Domain, but this was the eighth layer. Crazed Demon formation still needed the great worlds to act as clues and fuel, if this place was destroyed, it would definitely trigger Limitless Demon Venerable’s retaliative measures.
“But it doesn’t matter, we only need to restrain Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.” Fang Yuan was happy to accept this outcome.
Both him and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun were delayed in Crazed Demon formation, resulting in Heavenly Court’s victory in the fight between the great worlds.
With their return now, another change emerged in the overall battle situation.
Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun joined hands to obstruct Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, while Zhan Bu Du and the rest counterattacked.
Qi waves surged as Demon Immortal Qi Jue ran rampant in the battlefield.
The phantom image of the damaged Xi Land appeared above his head, facing Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch and Shabi Ninety-five once again.
Shabi Ninety-five roared towards the sky as it charged into the battle.
Immortal killer move — Xi Xi!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was already prepared, immediately using his strongest method. Shabi Ninety-five’s qi path killer move was absorbed by Xi Land, increasing Demon Immortal Qi Jue’s foundation.
Shabi Ninety-five got a huge fright, retreating quickly.
If not for Xi Land being damaged and only thirty percent of it remaining, even some parts of Shabi Ninety-five’s body would have been devoured.
“Senior, let me lend you a hand!” At the crucial moment, an Immortal Gu House in the shape of a tombstone flew over.
It was Gu Yue Fang Zheng in Demon Judgment Board.
Immortal killer move — Blood Extraction Light!
A scarlet blood light pillar pierced the skies and shot towards Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
“If not for my Xi Land being damaged and only thirty percent of it remaining…” Demon Immortal Qi Jue flew away, dodging this vast attack.
Right at this time, a qi wall suddenly spread out and seemed to connect heaven and earth, it suppressed Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals.
Qi Sea Ancestor had made his move.
There was similarly a secluded domain of heaven and earth above his head, it was Hu Land.
Using Hu Land as the core, his various qi path killer moves had boundless might and unparalleled vastness.
Qi wall killer move was originally only limited to defending, but Qi Sea Ancestor did the opposite, spreading it to entrap enemies.
Even Demon Immortal Qi Jue was surprised at such power.
He took several glances at Hu Land specially, commenting inwardly: “Truly the secluded domain of heaven and earth that is comparable to Xi Land. It is just that Xi Land is good at absorbing, while Hu Land is specialized in releasing. If both lands were gathered and used together in a complete circulation…”
Boom boom boom.
On the other side, Zhan Bu Du wore the blood-red cape and moved like a flash of red lightning.
Everywhere he went, Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals were beaten badly.
Qing Chou was already killed by Qi Sea Ancestor’s Hu elevation, even if it was revived, it would need to recuperate for a long time in Divine Emperor City, and would not be able to participate in the battle for this period of time.
Without Qing Chou and the fact that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was unable to use her full strength, the bulky Zhan Bu Du once again became a headache for Heavenly Court!
Zhan Bu Du tore through the sky, closing in on Duke Mei.
“Duke Mei, careful!” Duke Tong shouted while hurrying from afar.
Duke Mei shouted with fury: “Junior, don’t be arrogant!”
He activated his strongest method, his eyebrows and hair fluttered and grew tens of feet long.
His snow white hair could become hard and soft, it was used for both attack and defense. The skillful series of moves even immobilized the violently charging Zhan Bu Du.
Zhan Bu Du only felt that he could not use his strength. His violent force was diverted and dispelled, it was very stifling.
He immediately opened his mouth and roared, yellow lightning erupted from his roar, destroying the countless hair in his surroundings like they were dry twigs.
A part of the incomplete freedom transformation was thunder rush yellow bird transformation. This move was a fierce and powerful method that shot yellow lightning, its power was magnified several times in Zhan Bu Du’s hands.
Zhan Bu Du broke through the obstacles and arrived before Duke Mei, directly punching ahead.
Duke Mei’s killer move was broken, the backlash caused him to reveal a weakness. He dodged a second late as the punch broke his head like a watermelon, his brain matter splattering everywhere.
Duke Mei died but his phantom aperture that contained all kinds of Gu worms, immortal essence, and immortal essence stones flew towards the immortal graveyard.
Zhan Bu Du tried to catch it but the phantom aperture passed through his palm like an illusion.
Seeing Duke Mei dying right before him, Duke Tong shouted furiously: “Demon, you will pay with your life!”
His muscles that were bulging and shining with brass luster rained down punches after punches. Every punch broke through the sound barrier and had horrifying momentum.
Zhan Bu Du laughed fiercely: “Come at me.”
He charged head-on and fought Duke Tong in close combat without dodging.
Bam bam bam!
Punches and kicks interchanged, Zhan Bu Du just attacked without defending. Duke Tong’s punches struck his body, the pain made Zhan Bu Du attack even more wildly.
Soon, Duke Tong was unable to hold on and fell into disadvantage.
Heavenly Court Gu Immortals hurried over to reinforce him, using all kinds of killer moves to attack Zhan Bu Du.
Zhan Bu Du’s movements slowed down immediately as he was attacked by lightning, golden spears, and so on.
His robust body shook slightly, he endured it all and grabbed Duke Tong’s hand.
“You can’t run away!” Zhan Bu Du laughed malevolently, exerting strength in his hand.
Crack, Duke Tong’s large and rough arm was broken completely!
Duke Tong shouted in pain, his leg kicked like a whip, creating countless leg shadows that drowned Zhan Bu Du.
Zhan Bu Du’s eyes shone with a fierce light as he punched Duke Tong’s chest.
The two immortals staked their lives in attacking the other, blood and flesh splattered everywhere.
Duke Tong kicked Zhan Bu Du’s two shoulders again and again, Zhan Bu Du’s neck and face turned purple from a lack of blood flow. While his rib bones were shattered, his heart that had no protection was also destroyed by Zhan Bu Du!
Duke Tong’s heart was destroyed, but he still roared and continued to attack.
Zhan Bu Du gave an evil grin, he stretched out his hands like a bear and clasped Duke Tong’s head.
Zhan Bu Du pressed viciously; first, he pressed his thumbs into Duke Tong’s eyes, squeezing the eyeballs till they burst. Shortly after, with a crisp crack, Duke Tong’s head broke into pieces.
Finally, Zhan Bu Du clenched his fingers, crushing Duke Tong’s brains, his face, and the crushed head together.
Only then did Duke Tong’s attacks stop, his body fell while his phantom aperture flew away with his Immortal Gu.
Zhan Bu Du’s gaze was vicious as he followed the phantom aperture, his gaze landing on the immortal graveyard.
Just as he was about to charge into the immortal graveyard, an Immortal Gu House flew over and blocked his path.
Divine Emperor City!
Zhan Bu Du showed a solemn expression, he restrained his fearless momentum slightly.
After all, Divine Emperor City had the strength of painting path, Zhan Bu Du could not defend against it; if he was careless, he would also be captured and sealed in painting world by Divine Emperor City.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable resisted Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Fang Yuan while observing the whole battlefield, a trace of worry showed up on her face.
Heavenly Court lacked manpower. They could have the upper hand if they just fought Fang Yuan or Longevity Heaven. But when these two sides allied, they were in disadvantage.
Especially now that she was tied up and Heavenly Court lacked pseudo venerable battle strength, Heavenly Court was being beaten back by Zhan Bu Du and the rest’s crazed attacks.
Immortal killer move — Humble Reciprocation!
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable moved her left palm, a small phantom image of Book Mountain floated on it.
Thousands of killer moves bloomed like fireworks or like a chaotic tidal wave as they poured out in a torrent.
These killer moves had their respective target, each targeting their original owners. Demon Immortal Qi Jue, Qi Sea Ancestor, Zhan Bu Du, and the rest were ‘taken care of’, they had no choice but to divert their attention and focus on defending.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was also engulfed by golden rays, he was also targeted by humble reciprocation.
Undoubtedly, this move was truly suitable for the current situation.
It was not that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not have powerful methods like Hu elevation, but if she used them, it would trigger Limitless’ countermeasures.
And humble reciprocation was only ‘returning’ the other Gu Immortals’ attacks, the power of each move was not high and did not cross Limitless’ bottom line.
At the same time, these killer moves targeted their original owners and not the three great worlds. Their owners had to focus on defending instead, this greatly stabilized Heavenly Court’s situation.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was holding Book Mountain while pointing with another hand; stardust shot towards Fang Yuan.
She needed to pin down Fang Yuan herself.
Because Fang Yuan’s killer moves could not be ‘returned’ by humble reciprocation.
These killer moves were compound killer moves, only Fang Yuan with his sovereign physique could use them. So, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had to target Fang Yuan herself.
Fang Yuan gave a cold snort, suddenly using the compound killer move wind-light-fire-lightning wheel!
This move was modified from fire-wind wheel, adding in profundities of light path and lightning path.
Five rings surrounded Fang Yuan, the five rings rotated and carried him away rapidly.
Fang Yuan had been secretly inspecting and discovered that the aura of Heavenly Court’s immortal graveyard kept on growing stronger, it was extremely odd. With Book Mountain already in Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s immortal aperture, only the immortal graveyard was left outside. It was a vital area of Heavenly Court!
Humble reciprocation burdened the mind and consumed too much thoughts, even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was burdened.
Fang Yuan retreated from the fight and charged towards immortal graveyard, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable immediately experienced what Fang Yuan felt when she ran away from the fight before.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable quickly moved to stop Fang Yuan, but Immortal Zombie Giant Sun noticed this. Even though there had been no communication, he decisively moved to stop Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Fang Yuan’s main body charged into the immortal graveyard alone.
“Not good, this demon Fang Yuan is here!”
“He finally discovered the immortal graveyard’s secret.”
“That’s fine, we don’t have to keep on hiding here.”
Duke Mei, Duke Tong, and others appeared to block Fang Yuan with a decisive and furious expression.
All of them had actually been revived!
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Chapter 2192: Invading The Door of Life and Death
Immortal killer move — Year Beast Summoning.
Fang Yuan waved his hand, dozens of immemorial year beasts appeared from the air above him.
To complete the Twelve Zodiac battle formation, he had kept on fishing immemorial year beasts and gathered a complete set after much difficulty. As for these, they were all leftovers.
Immemorial year beasts roared and howled as they streaked across the air towards the immortal graveyard.
Duke Mei and Duke Tong were still blocking Fang Yuan’s path.
At the same time, many Gu Immortal figures appeared from the immortal graveyard. They were those who had died in the battle before.
The Gu Immortals moved out, stopping all the immemorial year beasts.
Fang Yuan came to a realization after seeing this: “It seems like the Gu Immortals who revived in the immortal graveyard have intact cultivation and dao marks as well. As for the Gu worms, their phantom aperture brings them back to the immortal graveyard when they die.”
Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortal revival method was extremely advanced, with almost no flaws.
“Fortunately, Fang Yuan discovered this ambush in time!” Lu Wei Yin felt fortunate. If they were continued to be kept in dark, when the battle fell to a stalemate, and these Gu Immortals attacked, Longevity Heaven and Fang Yuan’s side would be caught off-guard.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable sighed inwardly.
The reason she concealed these Gu Immortals and did not let them participate in the battle immediately was to ambush at the crucial time, it was also to preserve strength for Heavenly Court.
The expedition to Crazed Demon Cave was not a fight to the death between the three sides, it was a competition to seize the derivation results of the Crazed Demon formation.
In this aspect, the main player was Star Constellation Immortal Venerable herself, others like Fang Zheng and Che Wei did not have the qualifications to take part in this kind of contest.
Moreover, with Heavenly Court weakened to a great degree, they had little manpower. Even if Star Constellation Immortal Venerable obtained the Crazed Demon formation’s derivation and governed Heavenly Court in the future, she would need manpower to control Central Continent. She could not be a leader with no followers.
But now, Fang Yuan had discovered these people.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was aware: This demon Fang Yuan was crafty and cruel with not even a little pride, since he found this weakness, he was definitely going to take advantage of it.
People like Reckless Savage Demon Venerable disdained attacking those that were weaker than them.
Although Spectral Soul Demon Venerable slaughtered countless lives, he treated everyone the same. He killed the weak, he killed the strong, slaughter had become his nature and madness had seeped deep into his bones.
But Fang Yuan purposely bullied the weak! He liked attacking and bullying the weak, but if he met someone stronger, he would go into hiding. Before the fate war, Heavenly Court searched for him repeatedly, but he kept on hiding, using wisdom path methods to guard against deductions.
Stardust flew, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had no choice but to move to support the immortal graveyard.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun naturally stopped her with all of his methods.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used the illusion killer move once more, even if Immortal Zombie Giant Sun could find out the real copy, he would need some time to check.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable succeeded in returning to the immortal graveyard.
But in just this short while, Duke Mei and Duke Tong had died miserably at Fang Yuan’s hands once again.
Fang Yuan tried to catch their phantom apertures, but did not succeed.
“If the immortal graveyard is not destroyed, these Gu Immortals will still revive with their cultivation level restored. This is a big problem!” Lu Wei Yin also hurried over.
Following Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s movement, other Heavenly Court Gu Immortals also returned to the immortal graveyard.
The situation once again turned into an offense and defense battle. Heavenly Court was still the defending side, but this time, they were not guarding Book Mountain, instead, they were surrounding the immortal graveyard and fighting an intense battle!
“Hmph, once we kill these Gu Immortals and destroy the immortal graveyard, Heavenly Court will only have Star Constellation Immortal Venerable left. Hahahaha.” Zhan Bu Du let out crazed laughter filled with killing intent.
However, Heavenly Court seemed to have expected this situation.
This immortal graveyard was already modified, Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals flew down and acted as the formation cores, forming an immortal formation.
The immortal formation created fog that quickly spread across the whole battlefield. Inside it, Gu Immortals could not see clearly, like they were inside thick clouds.
Not only this, Gu Immortal figures were still rising from the immortal graveyard.
Zhan Bu Du and the rest fought with these figures, these figures had the same battle strength as their main bodies, but after they were killed, they only broke apart into lumps of fog.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun deduced for a while and said: “This is a painting path formation, but it also contains human path methods. This formation uses Divine Emperor City as the core, Heavenly Court Gu Immortals as supplementary cores, and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable as the main formation core. It will be extremely difficult for us to break this formation, do you have a good plan?”
Fang Yuan shook his head, his expression turned cold.
Once they entered a deadlock, it would be very disadvantageous to him.
Heavenly Court had infiltrated the Crazed Demon formation very deeply, they had a huge lead. If Heavenly Court was allowed to stall for time, when the three great worlds broke down into fuel for the Crazed Demon formation and the derivation of eternal life succeeds, Heavenly Court would have a much higher chance to seize the results than Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
Heavenly Court was not a match for Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s alliance in a frontal fight. But under Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s strategic and decisive leadership, Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun were the ones who fell into a passive state.
Fang Yuan was aware of the severity of this situation, immediately replying: “I know a bit about human path methods, but I don’t know the first thing about painting path. Giant Sun, you are proficient in painting path, we need to join hands to have a chance at deciphering this formation.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun nodded slightly, he had the intention of allying as well.
Immediately, the two stopped attacking. They only ordered Lu Wei Yin, Zhan Bu Du, Bing Sai Chuan, and the rest to try attacking the formation, so that they could gain all kinds of clues and test their speculations.
Fifteen minutes went by, Qi Sea, Qi Jue, and the rest continued attacking with no success, their injuries accumulated instead.
Heavenly Court’s formation was still standing firmly.
Fang Yuan suddenly made his move, the Human Sea in his sovereign immortal aperture became turbulent, causing the fog in the outside world to fluctuate as well.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun acted as well, spitting out rays of golden light. The golden light spread throughout the whole formation like ripples.
Wherever the golden light went, the fog dissipated, revealing the immortal graveyard.
The two sides’ alliance army saw this and cheered.
But this did not continue for long, the golden light dissipated quickly; the fog was restored almost immediately, blocking the sight of the immortals again.
Zhan Bu Du and the rest tried to attack the formation, but they failed. They could not even sense the locations of the formation cores.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was astonished for a moment before smiling bitterly: “This formation should have already broken, but the main formation core is Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. She forcefully used a wisdom path method to stabilize this formation!”
Gu Immortals were the foundation of killer moves, the main part of any methods was still the person. Under Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s control, this formation of Heavenly Court’s was forcefully stabilized, firmly obstructing Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s and Fang Yuan’s alliance army.
Fang Yuan slowly shook his head: “Looks like we won’t be able to break this formation in a short period of time.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun did not reply, silently agreeing with this judgment.
When he and Fang Yuan attacked just earlier, it was already their strongest method that was allowed in this situation. Since it could not break this formation, they would need half a month or so to deduce and break this formation.
According to the current fusion rate of the great worlds as well as the Crazed Demon formation that was accelerated by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, half a month was enough for the derivation to be complete.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s expression returned to normal, asking brightly: “Good formation! Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, can you tell me the name of this formation?”
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s voice came from within the fog: “This formation is called Transient White Cloud City Suppression, it was created by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable but was not perfected. Only now, after Heavenly Court explored deeply into human path, we managed to fortunately complete it.”
Right at this time, Fang Yuan attacked once again, causing the formation fog to turn chaotic.
Fang Yuan continued: “Giant Sun, since we cannot break the formation, we need to weaken Star Constellation Immortal Venerable for the future.”
“That is reasonable.” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun immediately shot golden light which spread throughout the whole formation.
Wherever the golden light went, the fog disappeared and everything was cleared.
But, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable still stabilized the formation, soon, the battlefield was covered in fog again.
Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun attacked again and again, while Star Constellation Immortal Venerable stabilized the formation every time. Both sides had no other choice.
As this stalemate continued, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s expression changed suddenly, he felt some changes in luck.
After dozens more rounds, Divine Emperor City suddenly shook, an immortal flew out of the painting world.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun took this chance and shot out golden light, instantly, rays of golden light spread like ripples.
Divine Emperor City’s shaking caught Star Constellation Immortal Venerable off-guard, the formation was not stabilized, causing the formation to break. Many Heavenly Court Gu Immortals who acted as the formation cores started coughing blood, every one of them was heavily injured!
Zhan Bu Du took the lead to kill his way into the immortal graveyard, shouting towards that Gu Immortal who broke through the painting world: “Shen Shang, ally with us in attacking Heavenly Court!”
This crucial character who broke the formation was the pseudo venerable of Eastern Sea’s righteous path who cultivated human path, Shen Shang.
Shen Shang was shocked mentally and physically, but he immediately joined Fang Yuan’s side without any hesitation and attacked Heavenly Court.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable heaved a deep sigh as she waved her sleeve. She took all the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals and Immortal Gu Houses, and entered deep into the immortal graveyard.
Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun naturally would not give up. They chased all the way and saw a secluded domain of heaven and earth in the depths of the immortal graveyard.
This secluded domain of heaven and earth was a tall pitch-black door, it emitted an aura of eeriness, deathly silence, terror, and power.
Secluded domain of heaven and earth — Door of Life and Death!
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable entered the Door of Life and Death, but Fang Yuan and the rest slowed down.
It was not easy to enter the Door of Life and Death.
[[The Legends of Ren Zu]] recorded this in detail, Ren Zu had once asked wisdom Gu for guidance, wisdom Gu told Ren Zu the path to enter the Door of Life and Death was called the path of destiny. Living beings could enter the door through the path of death; if they wanted to exit, they needed to walk through the road of life. The path of death was filled with suffering Gu, while the road of life had three obstacles – Dang Hun Mountain, Luo Po Valley, and Reverse Flow River. Within the Door of Life and Death, there was Pacifying Soul Lake, fairness Gu, and so on.
Not only these, according to Fang Yuan’s intel, it was clear that the Door of Life and Death had Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s main body as well as Ren Zu’s eldest son Verdant Great Sun’s soul!
Now, there was Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and the Heavenly Court immortals.
The Door of Life and Death had become a dangerous area.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable entered the Door of Life and Death with no hesitation, there was close to zero possibility of there being no arrangements inside.
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Chapter 2193: Spectral Soul’s Shocking Awakening
Looking at the Door of Life and Death in front of him, Fang Yuan immediately recalled his previous luck inspection result.
The dark clouds that represented Spectral Soul Demon Venerable were corroded by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s starry clouds.
“Let’s look at it again.” Fang Yuan willed and used Cooking Luck Pot.
His silver light pillar luck had condensed a bit. The dust around the base of the pillar was getting increasingly thick and solid, as for the three clouds above the pillar, the starry clouds and dark clouds had almost merged into one, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s golden cloud was still suppressed to the bottom.
The starry clouds and dark clouds had become even larger, they were already beginning to corrode Fang Yuan’s silver light pillar.
This change clearly indicated a problem.
“Heavenly Court has prepared abundantly in Crazed Demon Cave, looking at this, it seems like Spectral Soul Demon Venerable has actually allied with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable?”
“According to the current state, Heavenly Court has too much of a lead.”
“It is very likely that the final victor will be Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.”
Previously, there was Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance, an external factor, that affected the silver light pillar.
But when Fang Yuan observed his luck now, there was no external factor remaining.
In fact, at his level, there were extremely few external factors that could influence him and this battle in Crazed Demon Cave.
Only factors like Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance had the ability to influence it.
“Looks like I will have to rely on myself to resolve this situation.” Although the result of the luck inspection was not good, Fang Yuan activated his method decisively.
A finger-thick rainbow of chaotic colors wriggled out of his body.
The rainbow first linked to the Qi Sea clone, granting him a multi-colored radiance that covered his whole body. The rainbow came out again and connected to Zhan Bu Du.
“This move will protect you when you move in the Door of Life and Death.” Fang Yuan said to Lu Wei Yin, Shen Shang, and Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue smiled: “I have my own way.”
Shen Shang and Lu Wei Yin received this move.
Thereupon, the multi-colored rainbow connected them as well.
At the other side, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun put Calamity Luck Altar in his immortal aperture, his whole body was covered in a barrier of golden light. Right now, he was staring at above Fang Yuan’s head.
Ordinary Gu Immortals naturally could not see the hidden Cooking Luck Pot, but Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was its creator, he could somewhat sense it.
Cooking Luck Pot’s strong aura astonished Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
But thinking back to this battle in Crazed Demon Cave and refinement path accomplishments of Fang Yuan, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun did not feel it strange.
Both sides activated their methods and charged into the Door of Life and Death.
They smoothly entered the Door of Life and Death without encountering any setbacks.
Inside the Door of Life and Death was a scene of vast darkness.
When Fang Yuan and the rest entered, it was like many torches were lit in a dark night. In an instant, countless soul beasts were startled, they started howling and roaring.
The soul beasts began to attack frantically, while Fang Yuan and the rest defended.
“So many soul beasts?!” Shen Shang was astonished.
“This is the place with the greatest concentration of soul beasts. The soul beasts here are beyond a hundred million, it is an inestimable number!” Lu Wei Yin said while activating a killer move which formed earthen walls.
“There are too many soul path dao marks here, my killer moves can’t even achieve fifty percent of their effects!” Demon Immortal Qi Jue’s face paled slightly after he tried several killer moves.
There were all sizes of soul beasts with all kinds of strength. There were countless ordinary soul beasts, as well as an inestimable number of desolate and ancient soul beasts. There were also many immemorial soul beasts.
The soul beasts were like a pitch-black tsunami, endlessly and fearlessly moving towards Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, trying to drown these Gu Immortals.
“What about Star Constellation Immortal Venerable?” Qi Sea Ancestor asked.
“If Star Constellation Immortal Venerable keeps on hiding, how can we find her in this situation?” Zhan Bu Du frowned.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Fang Yuan had not attacked yet, they were activating all kinds of methods to inspect and try to find Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s traces.
But soon, the two gave up.
They failed.
“Since it is like this….” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun snorted, his whole body emitting golden light.
Instantly, it was like a sun had appeared in the dark Door of Life and Death!
The sun rose high, illuminating all the surrounding space!
The light was extremely piercing, wherever it reached, countless soul beasts melted like ice, without even being able to let out a scream.
The immortals were shocked.
“Could this person be?!” Shen Shang’s eyes opened wide as he finally recognized Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s identity.
The power of this move was absolutely beyond Qi Sea Ancestor’s Hu elevation.
Fang Yuan also could not help taking a few glances, his pupils shrinking slightly.
Since the battle in Crazed Demon Cave began, this was the first time he saw Immortal Zombie Giant Sun taking such an action. In Fang Yuan’s hands, luck path was mostly used as support, but when Immortal Zombie Giant Sun used it at this moment, it showed extreme offensive power!
The golden light spread far, even immemorial soul beasts could not resist it. In an instant, there were uncountable casualties.
The battlefield that spanned thousands of li was cleared completely. At the periphery of the battlefield, a lake was revealed.
The lake was calm with no ripples. Even under the illumination of the golden light, it was still motionless like a mirror.
Pacifying Soul Lake!
There was a mountain range beside Pacifying Soul Lake.
The mountain range was majestic, it was so tall and vast that it seemed to touch the sky and spread beyond the range of the immortals’ sight.
“Since when is there a mountain here?”
“[[The Legends of Ren Zu]] has no records of it.”
“This mountain is so dark, it is bursting with demonic aura. This is too strange!”
“Is Star Constellation Immortal Venerable on this mountain? Maybe this pitch-black mountain range is Heavenly Court’s arrangement?”
The pseudo venerables discussed, but right at this time, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun suddenly said: “Found her.”
Fang Yuan’s gaze also moved over.
Following his gaze, the immortals discovered Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
She was standing at the peak of the mountain. Starlight twinkled around her and her sleeves fluttered in the air, adding splendor to her unmatched elegance.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable looked down at the immortals, saying with a smile: “The enemies are here, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, you should wake up.”
Her voice was calm, but it quickly spread and reverberated in this special world, like an echo in an empty valley.
At the next moment, the dark mountain range that spanned across heaven and earth shook, a voice could be heard: “Who… is disturbing my sleep?”
The mountain range shook with increasing intensity, the entire world was shaking, the ground cracked and mountains shattered!
Two blood-red suns suddenly appeared, each was much larger than Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s attack earlier.
These were Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s eyes!
This vast mountain range before the immortals was actually Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s main body!
“Strong enemies? Who are you… Kill, I will kill you!” Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s murmur shook the air, producing a vast whirlwind.
There was something wrong with his condition, he actually did not recognize Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Fang Yuan, as if he had lost his memories.
Bam Bam Bam Bam…
Hands spread out from the mountain range, in an instant, it was like countless giant trees had grown and formed a terrifying forest of arms.
Rumble…
A huge explosion rang as Spectral Soul Demon Venerable changed from an inclined position to sitting cross-legged.
Even when sitting cross-legged, his shoulders still reached high into the sky, the immortals could not even see his head and could barely see most of his chest.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s main body was too huge. Compared to him, Fang Yuan and the immortals were like ants beside an adult.
Lu Wei Yin, Demon Immortal Qi Jue, and the rest were pale with fright.
They could sense that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s main body was not just huge, the aura he emanated almost suffocated them. The soul path dao marks on him were too dense and of an enormous scale, even the current Fang Yuan could not compare.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable opened his eyes, the two blood sun let out ominous light from the dark cloudy fog.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable opened his mouth and breathed out.
At the next moment, dark soul fog moved with the fierce wind and covered the whole battlefield.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The violent wind howled by their ears, the pseudo venerables’ expression changed one after the other.
The dark soul wind was extremely terrifying, it shook them so intensely that they were almost swept away.
The soul wind did not target just their bodies, it also specially attacked their souls.
At the crucial moment, Fang Yuan called out, the multi-colored rainbow suddenly brightened, helping these pseudo venerables stabilize their souls and resist the soul wind.
“Fang Yuan!” Demon Immortal Qi Jue could not hold on, quickly asking for help.
Fang Yuan immediately activated the multi-colored rainbow, linking him as well and helping him resist the wind calamity.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable saw that no one was blown away, he shouted in anger and pressed down with one of his huge hands!
The huge palm seemed to cover the world, it carried ferocious might and wind and lightning roared alongside it. It gave a feeling of being unblockable and unavoidable.
The giant palm’s target was Demon Immortal Qi Jue!
Among the auras of the pseudo venerables, his aura was the weakest. He had been sealed for a long time in Divine Emperor City, much of his dao marks were extracted.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue wanted to dodge, but the giant palm had the ability to instill fear, he would not be able to move in a short period, and could only defend passively.
Boom!!!
The earth shook.
The immortals dodged, only Demon Immortal Qi Jue was left in the area.
He frantically used many defensive killer moves, but he was like an ant trying to fell the tree, he was instantly slammed down by the giant palm.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue’s aura rapidly fell to rock bottom.
Spectral Soul’s giant palm stamped on the ground and did not move. The palm that was stable as mountain roots or towering like a heavenly pillar let out a strange aura.
“One hand of Spectral Soul can suppress a pseudo venerable?” Even Immortal Zombie Giant Sun revealed an astonished expression, saying, “Save him quickly! Spectral Soul is trying to seal Qi Jue!”
Even without his reminder, Zhan Bu Du had already charged forward.
He was like a meteor as he pierced through Spectral Soul’s arm with a loud crash.
Zhan Bu Du laughed loudly and was about to turn around to attack again, when another hand pressed down with an incredible speed.
Boom!!!
Another loud explosion rang, Zhan Bu Du was also slammed down on the ground by the giant palm, his aura falling violently.
“Even with such a large size, it is actually so fast!”
“Too terrifying!”
“Save them, we cannot wait anymore.”
Qi Sea Ancestor, Lu Wei Yin, and the rest quickly attacked. The two heavenly pillar-like arms began to collapse from the strong attacks.
Right at this time, dozens of arms fell down from the sky.
Immortal killer move —Ten Li Time Wind.
With a cold snort, Fang Yuan raised his arms and pushed forward with his palms.
Immediately, boundless wind rose, blocking the dozens of giant arms.
This move contained the profundities of time path, rule path, and wind path. When Fang Yuan’s palms formed into a claw shape, it could confine the enemy and lock the time of the target.
However, currently, Fang Yuan’s hands were raised high, he was trying to grip with his fingers using all his strength, but they were trembling hard and he was unable to contract into a clenched shape.
He could only slow these dozens of giant arms, he could not completely lock their time.
“Good job!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun praised, his figure suddenly transformed and became a soft rain of golden light.
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Chapter 2194: Unification of Three Worlds
Immortal killer move — Golden Top Ox Hair!
The drizzle of dazzling golden light increased rapidly, it quickly spread and covered the dozens of giant arms.
Golden light rained down endlessly, penetrating into the pitch-black giant arms.
The giant arms shook, golden flowing veins appeared and moved up the arms while interweaving into an exquisite web.
When the golden web covered over half of the giant arms, the giant arms started shaking extremely fiercely.
The pressure on Fang Yuan reduced sharply, the giant arms could not even budge under the infiltration of the golden web.
This golden top ox hair killer move clearly also had the ability to confine its enemies. But it was different from Fang Yuan’s ten li time wind, it infiltrated the target’s body and controlled their movement.
When the golden web covered the giant arms completely, these dozens of giant arms came under Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s control. They moved up and attacked Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s main body!
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was furious, at that instant, a thousand or so giant arms came down, destroying these dozens of traitorous arms.
The golden web lost its attached targets, turning back into a drizzle of golden light.
Amidst the golden light drizzle, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s figure appeared slowly.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable gave a shout, his thunder-like voice shook the whole Door of Life and Death.
A grey tornado immediately formed and moved towards Fang Yuan’s group.
The grey tornado did not have absorption force, instead it had a huge repulsive force. Wind blades that were sharper than Luo Po wind rotated and cut the souls.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, Fang Yuan, and the immortals quickly retreated. Soul beasts rushed over from afar, but were dismembered by the wind blades.
After these soul beasts died, they were absorbed by the grey tornado, changing into grey soul bombs.
A soul bomb struck and exploded on Lu Wei Yin. Lu Wei Yin’s soul was immediately injured heavily, he almost fainted.
He had exceptional defense but faced this situation. Other immortals like Qi Jue and Shen Shang were even more miserable, their souls might have been swept away if not for Fang Yuan’s help.
The number of soul path dao marks in the Door of Life and Death was unimaginable.
Before Spectral Soul Demon Venerable awakened, these pseudo venerables could only use fifty percent of their strength because of the dao mark suppression.
Now that he awakened, pseudo venerables could only use twenty percent of their strength. Even Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun could only use fifty percent of their strength!
“What’s going on? Spectral Soul is also a supreme grandmaster.”
“Although Spectral Soul Demon Venerable lost his physical body, he has already modified himself into gaining a soul beast body!”
“He has almost merged with the Door of Life and Death. With this environment, all his killer moves are amplified greatly, he can easily suppress us. This is the power of a Dao Lord!”
“What now?”
The immortals could not help but hesitate.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s battle strength far surpassed the expectations of many of them.
Another crucial point was that the Door of Life and Death had too many soul path dao marks.
When fate Gu was intact, the soul of every dead being returned to the Door of Life and Death. Even when fate Gu was damaged, most of the dead beings’ souls still returned here.
Countless years accumulated, countless souls gathered and broke down to form the current Door of Life and Death.
Among all the secluded domains of heaven and earth, the Door of Life and Death was likely to have the highest number of dao marks!
At the crucial moment, Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun collaborated to destroy the grey tornado and detonate the thousands of grey soul bombs.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable bent over slightly, thousands of giant arms attacked from all sides. It was like the sky was falling, creating a suffocating feeling!
Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun began to use all their strength.
The giant arms were destroyed one after the other. Their fragments fell to the ground, immediately changing into soul beasts that charged forward to fight once again.
Lu Wei Yin and the other pseudo venerables were in charge of killing these soul beasts.
After the soul beasts died, their fragments combined to form new soul beasts.
Moreover, these newly born soul beasts were stronger than the previous soul beasts. They possessed talents and abilities, thus they could counter Lu Wei Yin and the other Gu Immortals.
Fang Yuan, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, and other Gu Immortals were at a disadvantage.
They were struggling to cope with the countless soul beasts and endless giant arms that attacked unceasingly.
Right now, soul path fully displayed its combat advantage by fueling itself through killing!
“Die! All of you, die!!” Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s mind became even more chaotic, roaring like a wild beast.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable smiled, her clear voice was not suppressed by the chaotic battlefield, instead it reached the immortals’ ears: “Everyone, your valiance really makes me feel admiration. Fang Yuan, Giant Sun, I’ll take a quick leave first.”
Saying this, she leisurely retreated. Her body streaked across the dark world like a meteor, easily leaving the Door of Life and Death.
Since the battle began, she had been standing on Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s head, even though she was openly leaving now, she did not attract Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s attention.
This situation was frightening to see.
The grand Spectral Soul Demon Venerable actually became Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s puppet!
Lu Wei Yin suddenly shouted, his face was pale: “Oh no, Lord Fang Yuan! Star Constellation will definitely unite the three great worlds and destroy Paradise Earth’s tomb. We must quickly go and stop her!”
However, this was easier said than done.
Spectral Soul’s main body was a genuine Dao Lord inside the Door of Life and Death!
A soul path supreme grandmaster.
A complete rank nine venerable!
On the contrary, Fang Yuan was only at rank eight, and though Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was also a Dao Lord, how could he use the outside world’s luck path dao marks to amplify himself in the Door of Life and Death?
Heaven and earth travel?
Fang Yuan had already tried it secretly, but it had no effect.
Heavenly Court knew Fang Yuan had fixed immortal travel Immortal Gu, how could they not have prepared for it?
No killer move was invincible. Just like Fang Yuan’s ghostly concealment killer move, it showed no effect inside the Door of Life and Death!
The three great worlds were rapidly melting.
The boundaries had already shrunk by thirty percent.
As for the void in the eighth layer, it was originally vast and infinite, but the boundary was now sticking close to the bubbles of the three great worlds.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable returned here and immediately set up a formation.
The formation activated, Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals split and invaded Savage Wilderness Great World and Yellow Earth Great World.
These two great worlds’ main forces had almost all died in battle. Only a few remained, they were the old and weak Gu Immortals with no battle strength left, or elite Gu Masters.
Be they the former or latter, they had no ability to block Heavenly Court’s advancement.
Heavenly Court continued to push in, setting a sub-formation after occupying each territory.
These sub-formations resonated with the main formation which was personally controlled by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. The sub-formations let out grand lights that shot towards the sky and shone on the surroundings, making the vast and desolate Savage Wilderness Great World, and the hilly Yellow Earth Great World bloom with green.
Weeds and tree saplings grew at a visible speed, quickly forming a dense forest.
This was only the visible phenomenon, the true essence lied in Green Lotus Great World expanding continuously as it absorbed the other two great worlds into its territory!
If looked from above, the green color that was like moss spread from the Green Lotus Great World and slowly covered the other two great worlds.
After covering them, the lush green became even deeper in color.
At first, it was only light green, many areas with the sub-formations turned into deep green. The deep green then turned into dark green.
The three great worlds finally merged!
After reaching a certain extent, a storm started brewing indescribably.
The storm was not large, but its range was astonishing, covering the whole world.
Wind blew like the qi tides of five regions, it quickly merged the primeval energy of the great world and distributed it evenly.
“Limitless Demon Venerable’s heaven and earth refinement method has already reached the peak. If I am not wrong, this wind will continue to grow until it becomes the winds of assimilation!”
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable controlled the main formation, she personally took part and helped the great worlds unite, so she gained many insight from this.
In fact, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable accounted for almost half of the heaven path research results in the Crazed Demon formation!
Why did Limitless Demon Venerable go to Heavenly Court in his later years and play this game with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable?
The reason was simple.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had merged with heaven’s will of her own accord. The killer move human executing heaven’s work was extremely profound, while she altered heaven’s will, she was also comprehending heaven path.
So, Limitless Demon Venerable competed with Star Constellation to extract the heaven path mysteries, he also received the help of this wisdom path supreme grandmaster, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, to deduce new heaven path research results.
Limitless Demon Venerable cultivated rule path, only by cooperating with the creator of wisdom path, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, could he realize the insane concept of Crazed Demon Cave!
Limitless Demon Venerable achieved his goal, while Star Constellation Immortal Venerable also gained many benefits.
The three avatar fairies’ method of influencing the emotions of many mutant Gu Immortals and making them join Heavenly Court was a result of heaven path.
Being able to control Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was also an embodiment of heaven path research results. Naturally, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable took advantage of this situation. Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s main body already had flaws.
“The three worlds have merged, the outcome has been decided.” Star Constellation Immortal Venerable let out a breath of air, her eyes shining with starlight.
She had succeeded.
Fang Yuan and Longevity Heaven’s alliance was very powerful. But she relied on her incomparable wisdom path attainment to take a lead step by step, maintaining her advantage and not letting the other two sides surpass her.
Although Heavenly Court was weak, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used Book Mountain, Primordial Domain, the Crazed Demon formation, and the Door of Life and Death, she used everything that could be used to help claim victory.
This was Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
This was the power of wisdom path!
Heavenly Court had already infiltrated the Crazed Demon formation, now that they united the three worlds and got hold of massive clues and fuel, it was like letting half of the Crazed Demon formation falling into Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s hands.
“It is your turn now, Paradise Earth.” Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s eyes shone coldly.
She did not like Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable.
Even though Paradise Earth had the name of Immortal Venerable and had extremely high reputation, he loved and defended variant humans. Paradise Earth left Merman Imperial Court in Eastern Sea and also Mushroomman Paradise in Southern Border.
What repulsed Star Constellation Immortal Venerable even more was Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s identity.
Paradise Earth had gone through many fortuitous encounters in his life that could have allowed him to change his fundamental identity to that of a pure human. But he did not do so, he was always a mixed blood which could never be accepted by Heavenly Court.
Immediately, sub-formations buzzed and tore the earth.
Ground crumbled, deep ravines spread quickly from all sides to Paradise Earth’s tomb.
Paradise Earth’s tomb was broken apart.
Afterwards, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable gave a cry, her gaze looking at the distant sky.
Soon, endless starlight condensed and solidified in the sky, turning into meteors that fell to the ground.
Like a rainstorm, the meteors smashed onto Paradise Earth’s tomb.
Bam bam bam…
The explosions rang, starlight and rock fragments flew everywhere.
After a few minutes of time, Paradise Earth’s tomb was leveled and turned into ruins.
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Chapter 2195: Paradise Earth’s Revival
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s gaze crossed through thousands of miles and landed on the ruins of Paradise Earth’s tomb. She checked carefully before giving a satisfied nod.
She collected the main formation, while Heavenly Court’s immortals were in charge of collecting all the sub-formations.
Heavenly Court members gathered in one place and moved with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
After Primordial Domain disappeared, the eighth layer and ninth layer could be easily traveled to and fro.
They left the eighth layer and entered the ninth layer.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable personally pointed the way forward. Qin Ding Ling, Che Wei, Fang Zheng, and the rest stepped into the Crazed Demon formation one after the other, they each stopped on a truthful floating ice piece.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable told them the control method of the truthful floating ice in detail, she then went towards the center of the formation and faced the central truthful floating ice.
“Lady Star Constellation, what are you going to do?”
“If you insist on forcing your way, we will immediately activate practice Gu and destroy this truthful floating ice!”
Not Immortal was alarmed. Pang Shan and Secret Schemer immediately appeared, they tried to threaten Star Constellation.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable smiled: “Truthfully, you three being able to control practice Gu was beyond my expectations. I had already sealed Limitless’ will, I did not expect him to still be able to bring you three here. However, the reason why I sealed Limitless’ will was just as an additional layer of assurance.”
“I am going to use all my strength to accelerate the Crazed Demon formation. This formation that Limitless set up back then is indeed astonishing and extraordinary, reaching the peak of the world. But he is still a rule path Gu Immortal and not of wisdom path. He naturally realized this, if not, why would he invade Heavenly Court and bet with me?”
Pang Shan and Secret Schemer looked at each other. The latter thought for a bit and mustered his courage to ask: “Since Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has the same thought as us, why not come in? We are willing to hand over practice Gu.”
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable smiled: “That is not necessary. This area is the Crazed Demon formation’s core, it is easy to enter but difficult to exit. It also concerns the final deduction results, if I forcefully break out, I may destroy this truthful floating ice, ruining the million year derivation.”
“I am already in control of half the Crazed Demon formation, and only with me leading my Heavenly Court’s immortals outside to prevent any unexpected situation, can I safely push this Crazed Demon formation to the limit.”
“I am already aware of your ambitions. No need to hesitate, go carve the truthful floating ice.”
Pang Shan and Secret Schemer gritted their teeth. Right now, Fang Yuan was missing, and it probably bode ill rather than well. Since Heavenly Court had already controlled the situation, and these three immortals were unable to go out, even if they could go out, they definitely were not Heavenly Court’s match. They could only continue to drill the truthful floating ice and resume their work.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable began to activate the formation step by step.
Under her influence, the Crazed Demon formation’s form started changing again and again, the derivation efficiency also continued to rise.
Many of Heavenly Court’s members were controlling a truthful floating ice piece each, they listened to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s arrangements as they controlled their respective truthful floating ice.
The melting speed of the eighth layer’s great world sped up by several times.
Many peripheral truthful floating ice pieces were starting to thaw and shrink. But the central truthful floating ice piece was continuing to expand in size.
There would only be one truthful floating ice piece left in Crazed Demon formation at the end.
If Limitless’ arrangements succeeded, then the one who obtained this truthful floating ice could gain eternal life!
Because the truth of eternal life would already be carved.
“Worthy of Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. Under such a bleak situation, she fought one battle after another and made Heavenly Court emerge victorious.” Qin Ding Ling was moved.
“With such a person leading Heavenly Court, our deaths would be without regrets.” Duke Mei and the rest conversed happily.
“No one else is more suitable than Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to obtain eternal life! With her leadership, our Heavenly Court will definitely become a supreme existence once again, we will unite the five regions just like Crazed Demon Cave’s three worlds.” The immortals were looking forward to a beautiful future.
When Heavenly Court did not have an Immortal Venerable in charge, there was the tradition of having a wisdom path Gu Immortal lead them.
Past experience proved the sensibility of this system.
Now that the creator of wisdom path, a wisdom path supreme grandmaster, the number one person in wisdom path, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, was controlling Heavenly Court, no one in Heavenly Court had any objection!
Even if Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable and Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable were to revive, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable would still be much more suitable than them to obtain eternal life.
Inside the Door of Life and Death.
“All of you must die… why are you still not dead?” Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was sitting cross-legged. Pacifying Soul Lake was only a puddle in comparison, while Fang Yuan and the immortals were like insignificant ants.
But this group of ants made Spectral Soul Demon Venerable extremely angry.
Boom boom boom!
Countless giant arms attacked these ants.
Lu Wei Yin, Demon Immortal Qi Jue, and the rest used all their strength to counterattack. They were only second to peak level battle strengths like that of Fang Yuan, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, but they were in an extremely miserable situation here.
If not for Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun helping them time and again, some of them might have already perished.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s main body was at rank nine, after transforming into a soul beast body and his attainment level having been raised to supreme grandmaster level, he had become a Dao Lord.
Originally, a venerable that had just become a Dao Lord was still not invincible, they had to refine dao marks of their path in the outside world and raise their strength.
But it just so happened that this Door of Life and Death was Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s territory, he had occupied it since long ago.
And the Door of Life and Death had the highest number of soul path dao marks in the world, even Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun were in a disadvantage.
The longer this dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for them. Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was aware of this, so they fought while finding an exit path.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun made deductions and smiled bitterly at Fang Yuan: “This is not good. When Star Constellation Immortal Venerable left, it was Spectral Soul Demon Venerable who took the initiative to open a path. He has already completely refined the Door of Life and Death and become this place’s master. It is impossible for us to leave like Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!”
Fang Yuan fixed his gaze on Spectral Soul Demon Venerable: “Who could have expected Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to turn Spectral Soul Demon Venerable into a puppet. Giant Sun, you should know that in the five hundred years of my previous life, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable possessed the sovereign immortal body and became the greatest mastermind behind the five regions chaotic war. He infiltrated Heavenly Court and made them a mere figurehead. Now, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable can be considered to have taken revenge for Heavenly Court.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was solemn: “There is no use in saying these things now. Our hope lies with you.”
Fang Yuan nodded: “I know, I have already begun deducing!”
He knew what Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was pointing towards.
Back then, when Ren Zu tried to leave the Door of Life and Death through the road of life, he encountered three obstacles; Dang Hun Mountain, Luo Po Valley, and Reverse Flow River.
Ren Zu failed when he was in Reverse Flow River, if not for this, he could have escaped the Door of Life and Death.
And now, Fang Yuan was the Gu Immortal with the most secluded domains of heaven and earth. In fact, he had Dang Hun Mountain, Luo Po Valley, and Reverse Flow River!
As long as these three obstacles were used to create the road of life, they could escape the Door of Life and Death through it and return to fight Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Fang Yuan had a bitter expression: “Deductions need time and clues. I have no clue about this road of life, I just have these obstacles. And this Door of Life and Death has long been modified by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable and merged into himself, there is a huge difference between it and the records in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]]. Furthermore, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable does not have a clear mind, I need to split my attention to guard against his mad attacks.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun heaved a sigh: “Spectral Soul Demon Venerable has astonishing attainment in soul path, he made the Door of Life and Death much more exceptional than before! Even though the situation is already like this, I still hope you will give your best effort.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s expression changed suddenly: “It is here again, follow me!”
He suddenly threw out Calamity Luck Altar.
Immortal killer move — Luck Changing Golden Light Path!
A dazzling path of golden light formed instantly.
The immortals knew the situation, quickly stepping on the path of light and letting it bring them away.
At the next moment, countless soul bombs, each the size of a mountain, shot down while having tadpole-like tails.
The giant tadpole soul bombs detonated with horrifying strength, the path shook intensely from the explosion and dimmed rapidly.
But the immortals managed to escape from the soul bombs.
They had already suffered once, Shen Shang and Demon Immortal Qi Jue had gotten heavily injured from the explosion. Fortunately, Shen Shang cultivated human path and was an expert in treating these injuries, he displayed human path’s superiority, healing the immortals quickly.
After that time, every time the soul bombs attacked, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun used luck changing golden light path and moved the immortals away.
This move was extremely profound, it could forcibly create a survival route in a hopeless situation.
Soul beasts attacked and soul bombs detonated around the light path, many of their attacks canceled each other which instead kept the light path safe.
If it was before, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun could have already escaped with this move. But this Door of Life and Death was different, it was extremely troublesome; even if Immortal Zombie Giant Sun used luck changing golden light path multiple times, he could not succeed.
“Careful!” Qi Sea Ancestor alerted.
After all the soul bombs detonated, a soul river crashed down.
Countless wronged ghosts formed a black river. The ghosts cried and howled, the tragic and furious sounds slightly slowed the immortals’ thoughts.
The soul river was extremely huge, covering thousands of miles!
The immortals could not evade it, so they used all kinds of methods. For a moment, they were carried up and down by the soul river, being tortured physically and mentally.
Profound light surrounded and protected Fang Yuan. Multi-colored rainbow bound other pseudo venerables, preventing them from getting washed away.
Under this perilous situation, once the pseudo venerables left the group for some time, they would die a miserable death.
The crucial point was that if they died here, their souls would be used by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable to target the remaining people.
This was what Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was good at.
So, Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun were helping themselves by saving these people.
“I can hardly look after myself, how can I quickly deduce the road of life in this situation?” Fang Yuan showed a difficult expression as he looked at the tumultuous soul river.
The situation was bad, as time passed, Fang Yuan’s chance of victory would be increasingly low.
If they were delayed for a long time in the Door of Life and Death, if Star Constellation Immortal Venerable obtained eternal life, she might come back to finish them with greatly increased strength.
At that time, if there was no improvement, Fang Yuan would not just be defeated but might even lose his life!
Right at this time, in the great world in Crazed Demon Cave’s eighth layer, a yellow light shone.
The yellow light covered the ruins.
This was Paradise Earth’s tomb!
The yellow light erupted, shooting towards the sky, before changing direction towards the Door of Life and Death.
A Gu Immortal appeared in the yellow light.
“Buried in the earth for a hundred thousand years,
Brushing dust off my clothes as I rise once more.
Wishing for all lives to be equal,
May all living beings compete in harmony.”
After the recital, the Gu Immortal said: “Spectral Soul, please open the door. Paradise Earth… is here to pay a visit.”
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Chapter 2196: Spectral Soul Versus Paradise Earth
For an instant, the fighting in the Door of Life and Death suddenly stopped.
The furious Spectral Soul Demon Venerable stopped roaring, countless giant arms stopped moving like space had frozen.
“What happened?” Qi Sea Ancestor was puzzled.
At the next moment, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable opened his huge mouth, letting out an earth-shattering roar.
The roar contained anger, hatred, as well as excitement towards meeting a great enemy!
“You revived…”
“You revived as well!”
“I finally meet you. Since you are here, come in.”
“So that I can… kill you!!”
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable did not remember Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, but he seemed to have a deep impression of Paradise Earth.
Suns of blood color rose in the sky, these were Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s eyes.
He had three heads; only one head had awakened in the previous battle, now the remaining two heads also opened their blood colored eyes!
The entrance of the Door of Life and Death opened, forming a huge vortex that let out a terrifying suction force.
The entrance opened and closed in an instant. When Fang Yuan and the rest came to their senses, a Gu Immortal was pulled into the Door of Life and Death.
He had a shiny bald head and wore plain clothing.
He had a kind expression and his entire body let out a faint radiance.
“Paradise Earth!” Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun called out.
“Lord Paradise Earth, you succeeded in reviving!?” Lu Wei Yin was surprised and happy. He suddenly shouted, “Careful!”
Bam bam bam…
Hundreds of giant arms repelled the air as they ruthlessly charged towards Paradise Earth while producing thunderous rumbles.
Battle erupted once again!
The Crazed Demon formation turned chaotic.
Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals were heavily injured, their expressions were pale and bewildered.
This was all caused by Paradise Earth’s revival.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable revealed an astonished expression.
Ever since the battle in Crazed Demon Cave started, this was the first time she showed such an emotion.
The reason was that although Paradise Earth revived, his revival method was beyond Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s expectations.
“I thought you would revive as an earth path venerable, but to think you would take another path.”
“I underestimated you.”
“You actually converted to heaven path, Paradise Earth’s tomb was only a target. Only through its destruction could you revive.”
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable let out a breath of air, but did not move towards the Door of Life and Death. At the moment, the Crazed Demon formation was rotating like a tornado, she could not get away easily.
Moreover, although Paradise Earth revived, he had converted to heaven path and the tomb was destroyed much earlier by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, so his current cultivation was only at pseudo venerable level.
If Yellow Earth Great World had annexed the other two great worlds and Paradise Earth’s tomb was destroyed along with the great world, the revived Paradise Earth might have venerable cultivation!
Right now, the main focus was still on the Crazed Demon formation. The sensible Star Constellation would never abandon the larger goal for smaller gains. Moreover, even if she returned to the Door of Life and Death, her battle strength would also be suppressed greatly, it would not be worth the effort.
Inside the Door of Life and Death.
“Careful!” Lu Wei Yin’s shout had just landed.
A giant web appeared in front of Paradise Earth.
The milky white web was extremely thick, every thread of the web had the size of an elephant, giving a monumental and majestic feeling.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s attacks were completely blocked by this giant web.
“What kind of killer move is this, it actually has such defensive prowess!?”
“This aura, I have never felt it before…”
“Wait a moment! Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable does not have rank nine cultivation, he is only at rank eight level like us!”
Demon Immortal Qi Jue, Zhan Bu Du, and the rest were greatly shaken.
“This is a heaven path killer move! Paradise Earth converted to cultivating heaven path, he revived but did not regain his venerable cultivation, this might be the price!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was somewhat aware.
Fang Yuan’s emotions were slightly complex.
He had also once considered progressing in heaven path.
Who could have expected Paradise Earth’s scheme to be deeper than his, he had even greater progress. Through this revival, he directly became a pseudo venerable in heaven path!
Using heaven path’s advantage, the suppression of the Door of Life and Death on Paradise Earth was the smallest.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was roaring in fury, he half-squatted from his cross-legged position!
Thousands of giant arms attacked, the five fingers of every hand were placed together like a drill, and the sharp nails stabbed like spears.
Countless giant hands stabbed the web of light, Paradise Earth’s expression did not change, but the heaven path giant web that did not even budge before was shaking slightly.
“Although he cultivates heaven path, he is only a pseudo venerable. Reinforce him.” Fang Yuan immediately saw through the situation and alerted others.
Lu Wei Yin was the first to charge forward, but was blocked by giant arms midway.
Fortunately, Fang Yuan and the rest followed closely to reinforce Paradise Earth.
After Spectral Soul Demon Venerable adapted, the giant arms changed shape, a large number of spikes extended from the fingernails, his action changed from poking to tearing.
Slash, slash… countless giant arms tore layers of webs of light, continuously breaking them.
Although Paradise Earth only had pseudo venerable cultivation level, his defensive method was exceptional and was at Immortal Venerable level. It was just that when Spectral Soul Demon Venerable used his full strength, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had to retreat even after obtaining the reinforcement.
The immortals’ situation was still as perilous as before.
After blocking for a while, Paradise Earth transmitted his voice: “Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s condition is strange, his mind is not clear, his emotions were probably tampered with by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. I have a method that can dispel all emotions and make someone’s rationality as calm as ice.”
Wisdom path had three main elements; thoughts, wills, and emotions.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was definitely at the peak in these three aspects.
Fairy Feng Ya deduced Limitless’ arrangements, always being ahead of others. This was the attainment of thoughts.
Limitless’ will was sealed by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, this was a method of will.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s emotions were agitated and in disorder, he did not have even a trace of rationality. This showed Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s might in terms of emotions!
Regarding this, Fang Yuan, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, or other pseudo venerables had all made an attempt.
However, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s condition was the same, never showing a sign of regaining his sanity.
The immortals’ attempts failed, they agreed that it was because Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s method was exceptional. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was a wisdom path supreme grandmaster, the number one in the world in this path, since she left confidently, she naturally had full confidence in her method, she believed this method would not be broken for a short period of time.
Right now, although Paradise Earth mentioned this idea, the immortals did not object, they cooperated with him quickly.
Spectral Soul’s attacks were extremely fierce, Paradise Earth’s appearance had agitated his state even further.
All kinds of soul path killer moves were used one after the other; some were sinister, some were weird, some were domineering, and some were unrestrained. The immortals were too busy dealing with them.
Paradise Earth was protected at the center, but he was disturbed again and again. The killer move’s activation progress was minimal.
After a long while, Fang Yuan snorted coldly: “All of you, move aside!”
The immortals quickly retreated.
Fang Yuan’s face was indifferent but his eyes shone as he faced the tsunami-like wave of soul beasts. He opened his arms and roared towards the sky.
Along with his roar, specks of light flew out of his immortal aperture.
The specks were of all kinds of color, they rapidly collided in the air, turning into dragons, wolves, tigers, fishes, and other beings.
These were all totem killer moves!
Countless totems of all kinds and shapes charged forward. Wherever they went, soul beasts cried out miserably as they were torn into shreds, burned into ashes, drowned, cleaved by lightning…
In an instant, Fang Yuan released hundreds of totems that he had gathered on his body.
These killer moves were all at rank eight, that was to say, Fang Yuan used hundreds of rank eight killer moves in an instant.
Peerless might!
The immortals immediately felt the pressure on them reducing sharply.
Countless soul beasts were slaughtered, even when the giant arms attacked, ten or so totems attacked one giant arm and destroyed them.
“Thirty percent of my immortal essence was used up!” Fang Yuan let out a breath of air, returning to the group.
The immortal essence expenditure of releasing so many totem killer moves was extremely terrifying.
According to Fang Yuan’s current immortal essence reserves, he could only use this move three times at most.
Among the present Gu Immortals, the lowest cultivation was at pseudo venerable. Yet. when they looked at Fang Yuan, their expressions were all shaken and even contained vague fear.
Totem killer moves were quick and convenient, but Fang Yuan released so many totems at once, which was the thing that really shocked them.
Ignoring anything else, with just this method, Fang Yuan could exterminate almost any super force in the world!
Even Immortal Zombie Giant Sun stared at Fang Yuan for a while.
He knew of totem killer moves, so he understood the advantages and weaknesses of this kind of killer move.
Totem killer moves were indeed quick and convenient, but they were difficult to nurture.
However, Fang Yuan had actually nurtured so many rank eight totems, this made Immortal Zombie Giant Sun shocked at Fang Yuan’s wealth.
“Good method!” Paradise Earth praised before concentrating on preparing his killer move.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s three heads opened their mouths and breathed out a vast soul river.
Three soul rivers converged into a soul river of an unprecedented scale. It crashed down like dark clouds covering the sky.
Totem killer moves flew and charged into the soul river as they fought.
The soul river’s speed of descent fell, while these totems’ radiance was extinguished one by one.
Thoughts moved rapidly in Fang Yuan’s mind, all kinds of thoughts sparked as he madly dispatched the totems and coordinated their actions.
His immortal essence was expended rapidly, his mind was beginning to overheat as it reached the limits of his wisdom path capability.
Totem killer moves were far superior to immemorial desolate beasts because they could coordinate with each other and be controlled casually. More importantly, each of them possessed extreme prowess, comparable to immemorial desolate beasts that had wild Immortal Gu, or even immemorial desolate beasts that grasped immortal killer moves.
These totems gained twenty-two breaths of time for Paradise Earth.
Finally, Fang Yuan heaved a sigh as he collected the remaining twelve totems in his immortal aperture.
These totems survived fortunately but they were in an extremely damaged state. The other hundreds of totems had all died in battle.
Naturally, accompanying their deaths were countless soul beasts and dozens of Spectral Soul’s giant arms.
Fang Yuan retreated to the depths of the group, he had to rest his mind and it seemed difficult for him to battle for some time.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun stood up and took his place.
He had already prepared his killer move, using it with no hesitation.
Immortal killer move — Unforeseen Disaster!
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun grabbed at his head repeatedly with his palms that were covered in a layer of light.
The pure gold light around his palms was rapidly dyed black and red.
Every time Immortal Zombie Giant Sun grabbed, he threw them as well.
The dark-red bad luck flew in the air, turning into lumps of dark-red clouds that flew everywhere.
Each lump of dark-red cloud was not large; wherever they went, soul beasts within a hundred li howled for a few breaths of time before losing their lives, giant arms broke, large segments of the soul river also broke apart.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun repeatedly grabbed his bad luck and threw them at his enemy.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s body itself was becoming unstable after being hit by this method. His left head shouted as it used burning soul bursting luck, his luck immediately rose and offset Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s method.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun attacked for a while before stopping.
It was not that his immortal essence was not enough or his mind got tired, it was because he had used up all his bad luck.
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Chapter 2197: Killing Spectral Soul?
“This method is really good.” Fang Yuan was slightly moved as he observed Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
If he could use all of his bad luck to attack, then his own luck would always remain at the highest level.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had an excellent combat system, this method definitely had high importance in this combat system.
With Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s help, Paradise Earth got the time to prepare and activate his killer move.
Immortal killer move — Emotionless Heaven and Earth!
White waves of light spread from between Paradise Earth’s brows, the light waves immediately spread towards the whole battlefield and covered Spectral Soul Demon Venerable completely.
Waves of light activated one after the other, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable did not feel anything at first, but he soon showed a response. The killing intent in his blood-red pupils decreased rapidly as they revealed flickers of rationality.
But at this time, the silhouette of a figure showed itself on Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s stomach.
The immortals heard this figure speak: “Heaven and earth is emotionless, that is correct, but humans have emotions.”
Saying so, this figure laughed.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s pupils were filled with killing intent once again, the trace of rationality just earlier had vanished without a trace.
“Who was that?” The immortals were astonished.
Clearly, this figure had caused Paradise Earth’s killer move to fail.
“Is it Verdant Great Sun?” A thought emerged in Fang Yuan’s mind.
According to Spectral Soul’s memories and the records in [[The Legends of Ren Zu]], Ren Zu’s eldest son Verdant Great Sun’s soul lay on the shores of Pacifying Soul Lake.
But right now, there was nothing around Pacifying Soul Lake.
It was very likely that Verdant Great Sun’s soul was devoured by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
But for some reason, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable who cultivated soul path and food path could not ‘digest’ Verdant Great Sun, he was instead controlled.
It was very likely that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had played a crucial role in this.
Paradise Earth revealed a troubled expression at seeing his killer move have no effect.
Spectral Soul attacked once again, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Fang Yuan glanced at each other as the former said: “Fang Yuan, have you gained any comprehension?”
Fang Yuan shook his head, his expression was solemn: “There is no progress.”
“I have an idea.” Shen Shang suddenly said, “Since the fate war, I have been lurking inside Divine Emperor City while cultivating human path. Besides the gains, I also pondered on how to get out of difficult situations, so I thought of a human path method. Right now, I have already deduced ninety percent of this method, only the final ten percent remains. When I saw Lord Paradise Earth activate the human path killer move, my intuition told me that this is the final ten percent I require. With it, I can complete this killer move.”
“This…” The other Gu Immortals murmured softly.
Shen Shang’s intention was to ask for Paradise Earth’s heaven path research results, this was quite an impudent request.
There was an example here, despite Fang Yuan having three crucial secluded domains of heaven and earth, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had never asked to borrow these secluded domains of heaven and earth to deduce the road of life to escape from the Door of Life and Death.
But in the current situation, Shen Shang’s overbearing request had some reason behind it.
The crucial point was that he and Paradise Earth had a peculiar relationship.
Shen Shang was an Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, he secretly committed many sins to cultivate human path. After Paradise Earth learned of it, he immediately took action.
Shen Shang could not even take one strike from Paradise Earth, but instead of killing or confining him, Paradise Earth gave him a chance to atone for his sins.
Thus, Shen Shang entered the blue dragon whale and cultivated bitterly.
After obtaining Paradise Earth’s help, Shen Shang made progress time and time again, advancing stably.
With heal injury Immortal Gu as the foundation, he developed and created saving dead healing injuries, light injuries, heavy injuries, fatal injuries, sensory injuries, seven laborious injuries, and other killer moves. Later, he created the killer move countless injury marks, from which he deduced the Immortal Gu recipe of injury mark Immortal Gu. Finally, he refined injury mark Immortal Gu, and changed it to his vital Gu.
When Fang Yuan explored the blue dragon whale’s aperture, he released Shen Shang.
Shen Shang cooperated with Fang Yuan according to Paradise Earth’s instructions and participated in the fate war. At the crucial moment, he played a key role and set the crucial foundation for Fang Yuan’s victory over Heavenly Court.
Shen Shang’s and Paradise Earth’s relationship could be said to be extremely close.
Back then, when Shen Shang cultivated human path in blue dragon whale, he had received Paradise Earth’s guidance.
The connection between the two was very deep, second only to the relationship between Lu Wei Yin and Paradise Earth.
Thus, Shen Shang made this seemingly impudent request. Because back then, Paradise Earth guided him, there was a high chance of him guiding Shen Shang again now that he had revived.
The only difference was that it was human path before, and now it was heaven path.
Sure enough, like Shen Shang expected, Paradise Earth directly imparted the information of emotionless heaven and earth to him without any hesitation.
“I thank lord’s guidance!” Shen Shang bowed with his hands cupped before him, his voice slightly shaking from excitement.
Paradise Earth nodded, saying with a smile: “Shen Shang, your appearance here can be considered a fortune. Whether we can leave here or not will depend on your talent.”
“Junior will do his best to not let down lord’s expectation!” Shen Shang was even more excited.
He was a grand pseudo venerable, but in front of Paradise Earth, he positioned himself as a junior and was extremely humble and respectful.
He was indebted to Paradise Earth!
In fact, many people and forces were indebted to Paradise Earth.
Everyone knew Paradise Earth was the most popular among the ten venerables, even many people of Central Continent respected him.
The amount of good deeds Paradise Earth had done over his life and the number of people he had helped was inestimable!
After receiving Paradise Earth’s approval and encouragement, the other Gu Immortals were slightly expectant of Shen Shang.
Most of them were still placing their hopes on Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan had made crucial breakthroughs during battles before, he had created reverse flow protection seal, he was the person who defeated Heavenly Court. There were precedents for this.
Moreover, at present, Fang Yuan’s position was higher than Shen Shang’s.
The immortals fought and evaded Spectral Soul’s attacks.
Another head grew on Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
This was because Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, Paradise Earth, and Fang Yuan’s joint attacks had cleaved one of his heads into two.
However, the halved head split, one turning into two, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable gained another head.
Not only the head, no matter how many of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s arms were destroyed, they quickly grew again.
His arms were increasing in number, becoming even more sturdy and strong.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s strength was still continuing to grow!
The fiercer Fang Yuan’s group counterattacked, the faster the speed of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s growth.
Nurturing strength through battle!
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was already a special venerable, but he could still grow. Compared to the full strength he used before, his strength had clearly risen a lot.
The immortals were not able to estimate his limits, which firmed up their decision to leave.
It was too disadvantageous to fight Spectral Soul Demon Venerable inside the Door of Life and Death.
There were endless soul beasts, there was no use no matter how many were killed.
All kinds of soul path killer moves covered the world, forcing the immortals to defend with all their strength and concentration.
“Hmm?” Fang Yuan suddenly showed a peculiar expression.
This change in expression immediately attracted the gazes of the immortals.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun asked with hope: “Fang Yuan, you made some progress?”
Fang Yuan nodded before shaking his head: “Yes, there is progress, but it is not the road of life. Let me try this!”
The moment he said this, Fang Yuan’s aura turned eerie and dark.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture, Dang Hun Mountain and Luo Po Valley started buzzing and shaking slightly as they resonated with each other, emitting an increasingly bright radiance.
After the preparation was complete, Fang Yuan’s aura became restrained. He pushed his palm, from which a lump in the form of a grey-white square seal flew out.
The square seal’s speed was slow, but wherever it passed by, all the souls disintegrated into ashes.
A large area of the soul beast army was immediately cleared up, even immemorial soul beasts did not have a trace of resistance against this grey-white square seal, they were thinner than even paper!
The vast soul river that had been shrouding the sky also crumbled apart.
Most of the soul path killer moves were greatly suppressed and weakened in front of this grey-white square seal.
The immortals surrounding Fang Yuan were also terrified, a bone-chilling cold feeling spread from the depths of their soul.
The whole battlefield was silent, even Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s breath turned rough when he guarded against this square seal.
Since the battle started, this was the first time he was breathing roughly and stopped his tsunami-like attacks!
Immortal killer move — Dang Hun Luo Po Seal!
“Strong… too strong…” Shen Shang was shaken.
Even Paradise Earth’s eyes opened wide, turning speechless!
“This move is terrifying, it can be considered as soul path’s nemesis!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was stunned for a bit before complimenting. He saw the grey-white seal rise up, a hundred of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s giant arms that were in its path were destroyed.
Even though the grey-white square seal was finally destroyed, the areas where Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s hundred or so giant arms were destroyed still remained empty for a while as if the regenerative ability was exhausted.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s unforeseen disaster killer move was similar to Dang Hun Luo Po Seal, but these soul beasts could still resist unforeseen disaster killer move for a while. However, against Dang Hun Luo Po Seal, they had no ability to resist.
Fang Yuan heaved a sigh: “I am ashamed, I did not manage to deduce the road of life, but gained this instead.”
“This move is called Dang Hun Luo Po seal, it uses the two sacred lands as the cores, its foundation is the Luo Po seal I created before.”
“Spectral Soul had once said that Dang Hun Mountain and Luo Po Valley were sacred lands for soul cultivation. My killer move was developed from the foundation of soul path and suppresses it fundamentally. It is a pity that I only have the two sacred lands, if I had Pacifying Soul Lake as well, I might be able to restrain all soul path methods completely.”
Demon Immortal Qi Jue’s eyelids twitched, from Fang Yuan’s tone, it seemed he was still not satisfied with this killer move?
“Great!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun praised again, encouraging, “Fang Yuan has already combined the two obstacles now, if you can add in Reverse Flow River as well, you should be able to deduce the road of life.”
Zhan Bu Du gave another suggestion while pointing towards a direction: “No, from what I see, as long as we put this move to good use, with us supporting my main body, there is a huge chance of killing Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. Take a look!”
Following Zhan Bu Du’s finger, the immortals immediately discovered: It was deathly silent in the areas destroyed by Dang Hun Luo Po Seal, they did not restore quickly like before.
As for Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, although the hundred or so giant arms destroyed were regenerating, the speed was very slow.
Dang Hun Luo Po Seal was a pure soul path killer move, it was amplified in the Door of Life and Death. The soul path dao marks that this move left behind were like the winds of Luo Po Valley and the vibration force of Dang Hun Mountain, they made it difficult for soul beasts to condense into being.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun frowned, analyzing: “Although Spectral Soul Demon Venerable is a Dao Lord and can control the soul path dao marks here to amplify himself while suppressing Fang Yuan’s Dang Hun Luo Po seal, his state of mind is not clear, he only has a Dao Lord’s instincts, so Dang Hun Luo Po seal can also receive amplification here!”
The immortals’ eyes shined as they saw a new possibility —
Killing Spectral Soul?
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Chapter 2198: Star Constellation Versus Giant Sun
Thoughts began to surge rapidly in the immortals’ minds!
Dang Hun Luo Po Seal was truly amazing, it was a killer weapon against Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, who had lost his sanity.
Zhan Bu Du was correct. In the current situation, there was indeed a possibility of relying on Dang Hun Luo Po Seal to kill Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
“Barring unexpected surprises, it is feasible indeed…”
“It will be very difficult to find an escape route under Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s crazed attacks. However, directly eliminating Spectral Soul Demon Venerable is also an option!”
“This place is controlled by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, there is small hope of finding a way out. But going against Spectral Soul Demon Venerable and killing him will definitely be a life and death battle!”
They were all speculating.
Qi Sea Ancestor’s expression sank: “The fact is, don’t we need to step past the obstacle, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, to leave the Door of Life and Death? Even if we shake him off and leave the Door of Life and Death, what if he chases us? At that time, we will have to deal with both Star Constellation and Spectral Soul! It is better to use this chance when Star Constellation Immortal Venerable is busy with infiltrating the Crazed Demon formation to kill Spectral Soul Demon Venerable!”
The immortals’ minds jolted.
“Indeed.” Lu Wei Yin mumbled, “We will need to go against Heavenly Court to fight for the eternal life research results. If we can kill Spectral Soul Demon Venerable now, Heavenly Court’s threat will immediately be halved.”
“Hmph!” Zhan Bu Du snorted coldly, “What are you still hesitating for? Everyone, the longer we delay, the deeper Star Constellation’s infiltration becomes, she will be closer to the eternal life research results. Regardless of which plan we choose, we need to decide now.”
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, however, frowned, saying in a heavy tone: “It is not that simple, Fang Yuan. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable is the number one expert in wisdom path, will she leave behind such an obvious loophole? Right now, I am worried that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s control over Spectral Soul Demon Venerable has a time limit. Once the time limit is up, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable might get out of this predicament by himself. At that time, we will have Spectral Soul Demon Venerable as an ally.”
“If we really attack Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, whether we win or Spectral Soul Demon Venerable wins, even if it is a draw, both sides will be injured, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable will still be the biggest winner.”
The immortals were silent.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun made sense, since this was Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, there was no such thing as overestimating her planning.
“Giant Sun, when do you think Spectral Soul Demon Venerable will leave the control and gain his rationality?” Fang Yuan asked with a sharp gaze, “Let’s take your speculation a step further. Suppose Star Constellation Immortal Venerable intentionally left this loophole and lured us into thinking this way, in fact, even if Star Constellation can only control Spectral Soul Demon for some time, if she were to obtain the eternal life research results during this time, what do we do?”
“Then, Fang Yuan, you are intent on fighting to the death? Under this situation?” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun fixed his gaze on Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan did not yield, matching his gaze.
The atmosphere between the immortals suddenly became tense.
Right at this time, Shen Shang shouted: “I succeeded, I succeeded. My killer move is complete!”
Paradise Earth said with a heavy voice: “Shen Shang, what are your chances?”
“Eighty percent!” Shen Shang was excited, “This move was incomplete before as it lacked heaven path results. But the lacking part is not the crucial core. My intuition is telling me strongly that this move has an eighty percent success rate. There is still room for improvement, but it is already complete now and can be used.”
Fang Yuan and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun retracted their gazes.
Fang Yuan said: “Then, let’s protect Shen Shang while he attempts it.”
Previously, Fang Yuan and the rest succeeded in protecting Paradise Earth. With Dang Hun Luo Po Seal, there was no problem in protecting Shen Shang.
Immortal killer move — Heaven Always Leaves A Way Out For People!
After a while, amidst the tidal wave-like offense of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, Shen Shang activated the killer move, creating a narrow path.
The path was long and winding, it could not compare to luck changing golden light path. But it pierced through the Door of Life and Death, the immortals even saw the vague scene of the outside world at the end of the path.
The immortals were surprised and joyous.
Shen Shang laughed heartily, calling out with his arms raised: “It succeeded.”
Paradise Earth smiled: “I was right about you.”
“Hundreds of years eastern immortal leader, with half of a venerable’s talent, your reputation matches your abilities indeed.” Qi Sea Ancestor cupped his fists.
“We all owe you a favor for getting out of this predicament.” Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not stint on praising.
“Let’s go.” Zhan Bu Du still took the lead, he was very suitable in opening up a path.
The immortals did not have any hesitation, they protected each other as they stepped on the narrow path.
Shen Shang’s killer move was unique, even the Door of Life and Death could not stop these Gu Immortals from escaping successfully.
When the immortals got out of the Door of Life and Death, they prepared for a fight.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s mad roars came from the Door of Life and Death, the whole giant door shook constantly.
But in the end, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable did not step out of the Door of Life and Death!
“So it was like this, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable is not able to exit the Door of Life and Death for some reason.”
“No wonder Star Constellation Immortal Venerable lured us inside.”
“Maybe Spectral Soul Demon Venerable can come out, but Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s method of control is most effective inside the Door of Life and Death.”
The Gu Immortals let out sighs of relief as they made guesses.
“Quick, let’s go to the Crazed Demon formation. So much time has passed, who knows how much progress Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has made?” Demon Immortal Qi Jue reminded.
Before the immortals left, they used their methods to try to destroy the immortal graveyard.
However, the killer moves were all absorbed by the Door of Life and Death.
“No use. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s arrangements are exquisite, this immortal graveyard is closely connected with the Door of Life and Death. If we want to destroy the immortal graveyard, we need to destroy the Door of Life and Death first.” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun sighed and left.
It was because they saw through this, he and Fang Yuan had chosen to invade the Door of Life and Death.
Naturally, there were also many other reasons.
“This method can be broken, and we can separate the immortal graveyard from the Door of Life and Death. But we don’t have time. Let’s go, onwards to the Crazed Demon formation!” Fang Yuan also turned around and left.
The immortals did not delay as they followed closely behind.
After the destruction of Primordial Domain, the eighth and ninth layer could be easily traveled to and fro.
When Fang Yuan, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, and the rest once again arrived before the Crazed Demon formation, only thirty percent of this formation remained.
A large number of truthful floating ice pieces were already melted, the remaining truthful floating ice pieces had expanded several times their previous size.
Bam.
Right at this time, a truthful floating ice piece suddenly detonated, turning into countless ice fragments.
Most of the ice fragments dissipated on the spot, and a small portion floated towards the formation, joining other truthful floating ice pieces.
“In this battle, Primordial Domain was lost, Giant Sun, Star Constellation, and even Spectral Soul have already become supreme grandmasters. If these eternal life research results derived by the Crazed Demon formation for over a million years are also seized by these people, that would truly be a crushing defeat!”
“If I cannot compete for it, I might have to destroy the final truthful floating ice piece and let no one gain anything.”
Fang Yuan’s gaze was icy as he charged towards the formation.
The other Gu Immortals also charged forward.
This group contained the strongest people of the current world; Fang Yuan, Giant Sun, Paradise Earth, Qi Sea, Zhan Bu Du, Shen Shang, Qi Jue, and Lu Wei Yin. This lineup was truly horrifying and suffocating.
“Terrifying!” Gu Yue Fang Zheng’s face was pale, he felt the intense killing intent even inside Demon Judgment Board.
“Don’t even think of it!” Even under the huge pressure, Heavenly Court Gu Immortals still walked forward.
It was Duke Mei!
Not only Duke Mei, Duke Tong, Golden Hooped Great Immortal, and others moved forward to block the path.
“Get lost!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun shouted coldly. Golden light bloomed, turning into a giant palm that sent several people flying.
Hu Land appeared above Qi Sea Ancestor, qi waves surged and turned into a qi wall that blocked Ruan Dan and Fairy Maiden Soul.
Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch attacked while riding on Shabi Ninety-five, Shen Shang and Demon Immortal Qi Jue were stopped by the killer move, their momentum stopping immediately.
“Damn it!” Demon Immortal Qi Jue furiously activated the killer move Xi Xi, suppressing Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch.
Shen Shang attacked in coordination with a cold expression.
Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch held on for a few breaths of time before he was killed by Qi Jue and Shen Shang. Shabi Ninety-five was also hacked into two, dying on the spot!
Although Heavenly Court’s members were strong, they were too weak in front of Fang Yuan’s group, of which the weakest was still at pseudo venerable level.
Moreover, they did not have the help of immortal formations or Immortal Gu Houses in this fight, they were using their lives to delay the enemies.
In just a short while, Heavenly Court’s side suffered huge casualties.
However, they also achieved their goal; Fang Yuan’s group’s momentum slowed down.
“Heavenly Court has the Door of Life and Death and the immortal graveyard, so what if these Gu Immortals died? They will revive soon without any loss to their battle strength.”
“If we want to fight our way into the formation, we need to control a part of it.”
Lu Wei Yin and Zhan Bu Du called out.
Starlight appeared, before Lu Wei Yin and Zhan Bu Du could react, they were sent flying by the starlight.
Starlight specks shone as Star Constellation Immortal Venerable revealed herself. She looked around and sighed: “You are all too anxious, Crazed Demon formation’s derivations are at the final juncture, you cannot act recklessly. What will we do if Limitless’ painstaking efforts of over a million years are destroyed?”
Fang Yuan’s expression was cold, while Immortal Zombie Giant Sun smiled and said with his gaze fixed on Star Constellation Immortal Venerable: “Since that is the case, I might as well wait for them. But we cannot waste time now. Star Constellation, let us settle this once and for all!”
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s gaze lingered: “I would like to see your skills too. Please go ahead and make your move.”
The moment she finished speaking, the void fluctuated, stardust flew, creating vertical and horizontal starry paths, forming a grand chessboard.
At the center of the chessboard was the Crazed Demon formation, while Heavenly Court, Fang Yuan, Longevity Heaven, and other Gu Immortals were all inside the chessboard.
“Star Constellation Chessboard!” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s eyes shone sharply.
Paradise Earth smiled as he came to realization: “So Star Constellation Chessboard was an Immortal Gu House as well as an immortal formation. But there are no records of this transformation.”
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable answered Paradise Earth: “This was modified by me after I regained my Dao Lord status. Please do critique it.”
Qi Sea Ancestor attacked directly without waiting for her to finish speaking.
Qi surged and shook the surroundings.
For a moment, starry paths vanished and stardust was swept away.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable threw down a chess piece.
The chess piece turned into Nine Spiritual Fairy in midair. Nine Spiritual Fairy had already activated her transformation path killer move to turn into a kingfisher, she shot towards Qi Sea Ancestor with an astonishing speed.
Qi Sea Ancestor fought with her. After three to four rounds, there was still no clear victor.
Nine Spiritual Fairy was clearly strengthened by the formation.
After five to six rounds, Nine Spiritual Fairy had already transformed three times, but was starting to fall into danger.
But right at this time, chess pieces fell down; Wan Zi Hong, Bai Cang Shui, Jun Shen Guang, Zhou Xiong Xin, and other immortals attacked. The battlefield instantly turned chaotic.
After just a few rounds, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun saw the ingenuity behind this.
These Heavenly Court members were formation cores of Star Constellation Chessboard Formation. Under Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s control, their coordination was extremely good.
As more and more Gu Immortals entered the battle, the situation became increasingly chaotic, and Heavenly Court’s advantage got bigger.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun snorted coldly, he broke free from the chaotic battlefield and charged directly towards Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not evade this time, she met Immortal Zombie Giant Sun head on.
A fight between two venerables could be said to be unprecedented!
Starlight flickered strongly, golden light spread, the whole battlefield was dyed golden and blue.
The aftermath of the two venerables’ fight created a vast qi tide that was much worse than the past qi tides.
On one end, there was a wisdom path supreme grandmaster, the second generation Immortal King of Heavenly Court, an unmatched strategist with dazzling achievements. On the other end, there was the number one person in luck path who changed the luck of countless lives, he controlled Northern Plains and spread his bloodline widely.
They were evenly matched!
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Chapter 2199: Star Constellation’s Difficulty
All kinds of killer moves and methods were activated endlessly by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
Some killer moves were domineering, spanning across heaven and earth. Some methods were exquisite and dazzling, splitting the universe.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was like a golden meteor, charging forward bravely.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s body flickered as she moved around in Star Constellation Chessboard Formation, leaving behind starlight shadows that attacked Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
Moreover, even when fighting, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was still controlling Star Constellation Chessboard Formation to help Heavenly Court members.
Prince Feng Xian used phoenix flames, Bai Cang Shui let out a large blue river, flower petals rained down below Wan Zi Hong… All kinds of killer moves were used repeatedly, and under Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s support, the conflicts between them were greatly reduced, forming waves of attacks that followed one after the other with short gaps between each other. Lu Wei Yin and others got a feeling of Heavenly Court’s attacks being continuous and unending.
Fang Yuan frowned, commenting in his mind: “Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has astonishing wisdom path attainment, even though Immortal Zombie Giant Sun is fighting her, he is not able to force out her limits. She still has the energy to support others and control the whole battlefield.”
“So, from another angle, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun also hasn’t used his full strength?”
The two venerables were fighting, although there were huge explosions and countless methods used, their power did not go beyond Qi Sea Ancestor’s Hu elevation killer move.
Be they Star Constellation Immortal Venerable or Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, they were wary of triggering Limitless’ countermeasures.
A venerable’s foundation was unfathomable, if any one side were to trigger Limitless’ countermeasures, the other side would gain an advantage.
Naturally, the important thing was that both venerables wanted to obtain the eternal life research results!
The value of this research was enormous to the point of being inestimable.
In the deadlock between venerables, if a venerable could obtain the eternal life research results, they could likely break the balance and become the strongest among the venerables!
Even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun were coveting the eternal life research results, so they had to restrain themselves right now. If they destroyed this formation in the midst of the intense battle, that would be a huge problem.
They were not Limitless, these truthful floating ice pieces were nurtured for over a million years. If any one of them was destroyed, the venerables would not be able to substitute it.
“Since it is so….” Fang Yuan’s eyes shined brightly for a while, he suddenly commanded, “Qi Sea!”
Qi Sea Ancestor received the main body’s voice transmission, he immediately used a killer move without hesitation.
Immortal killer move — Hu Elevation!
The terrifying qi path killer move descended once again.
The immortals evaded immediately.
Even the allied group of Qi Jue and Lu Wei Yin was the same.
“Are you insane?’
“Aren’t you afraid of triggering Limitless’ retaliation again?”
“No, maybe this is Fang Yuan’s intention. Truly… amazing!”
The Gu Immortals were bewildered for a while before coming to a realization.
Lu Wei Yin’s group was joyous, while the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were worried.
Sure enough, at the next moment, chains appeared from thin air and bound Qi Sea Ancestor.
But the thing was, Qi Sea Ancestor was currently on Star Constellation Chessboard Formation.
Limitless’ countermeasures attacked Qi Sea, they naturally would not leave Star Constellation Chessboard Formation out.
Fang Yuan wanted to get the help of Limitless’ countermeasures to break Star Constellation Chessboard Formation!
But at the next moment.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable suddenly got away from Immortal Zombie Giant Sun: “Fang Yuan, your scheme is wonderful, but how could I have not prepared for such a huge flaw? Please take a look.”
The moment her words landed, starlight bloomed, many of the horizontal and vertical starry paths moved and attached on Limitless’ chains.
After a few breaths of time, Limitless’ chains were bound by starry paths and were under Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s control now.
Star Constellation Chessboard Formation was not disturbed by Limitless’ countermeasures, instead, it made use of them. The strength of these chains were used to make Star Constellation Chessboard Formation even firmer.
“How could this be?!” Demon Immortal Qi Jue’s expression changed.
Lu Wei Yin said through gritted teeth: “Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has prepared too well, her infiltration of Crazed Demon Cave is too deep.”
This was not strange.
After all, when Crazed Demon Cave was just constructed, Limitless Demon Venerable attacked Heavenly Court and made a bet with Star Constellation’s will.
That was to say, Heavenly Court had begun infiltrating Crazed Demon Cave the moment it was established.
This infiltration lasted over a million years!
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun obtained Savage Wilderness Great World, his infiltration of Crazed Demon Cave was about three hundred thousand years or so, it was not even half the time of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s infiltration.
Moreover, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable cultivated wisdom path, which excelled in infiltrating.
And Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s Yellow Earth Great World was only established over a hundred thousand years ago.
As for Fang Yuan, he was the most miserable one.
Although he came in touch with Crazed Demon Cave about ten or so years ago, his infiltration time of the Crazed Demon formation was almost zero.
If the Door of Life and Death was Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s home ground. Then Crazed Demon Cave was over fifty percent the home ground of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, while Immortal Zombie Giant Sun only had less than half the home ground advantage. Fang Yuan was like a guest, his understanding of Crazed Demon Cave mostly came from Paradise Earth’s information.
Star Constellation Chessboard gained Limitless’ chains, becoming even more powerful.
Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were unafraid of death, they used their lives to tie down the pseudo venerable opponents.
After all, an Immortal Venerable was helping them.
Naturally, they could not obstruct Fang Yuan’s main body!
Fang Yuan’s main body moved towards the sky and joined Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s battle.
As for Qi Sea Ancestor, he was bound by the chains. He could not even be put back into the sovereign immortal aperture, and could only leave his protection to Zhan Bu Du and others.
“Then, let’s try this move.” Fang Yuan took a deep breath, his gaze shining brightly.
Immortal killer move — Five Restriction Profound Light Qi!
Five colored light qi rapidly spread from around Fang Yuan. Be they Heavenly Court Gu Immortals or Lu Wei Yin’s group, they all retreated.
They would suffer backlash every moment they fought in this five restriction profound light qi.
Five regional walls were manifesting once again through Fang Yuan’s hands!
“This move again!” Prince Feng Xian and others gritted their teeth.
This move came from Tao Zhu, it had repeatedly made things difficult for Heavenly Court during the fate war and in Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space.
Right now, it became Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s issue!
Five restriction profound light qi was spreading in Star Constellation Chessboard Formation, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable immediately felt its effects as she started suffering backlash.
Those chains of Limitless on starry paths began to shake, eager to take action.
“Five restriction profound light qi is suppressed in this formation. But it looks like Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has not been able to find a way to break it.”
“However… this method will trigger Limitless’ countermeasures.”
Fang Yuan observed carefully.
It was not strange for it to trigger Limitless’ countermeasures. Five restriction profound light qi was the nemesis of Gu formations and Immortal Gu Houses, the Crazed Demon formation was also restrained. Inside five restriction profound light qi, the Crazed Demon formation would also suffer backlash, breaking apart eventually.
Limitless’ arrangements would naturally detect this threat, so it was normal for five restriction profound light qi to trigger the countermeasures.
This was why Fang Yuan did not use five restriction profound light qi earlier.
As for the Door of Life and Death, there were too many soul path dao marks, even five restriction profound light qi would be suppressed. Moreover, even if the light qi became dense and formed five regional walls, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and the rest would also be endangered, it was not worth it.
But the current situation was different.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s methods were amazing, she actually used Star Constellation Chessboard Formation to forcibly merge Limitless’ chains. At this stage, Fang Yuan suddenly used five restriction profound light qi to oppose it!
In an instant, the amount of things Star Constellation Immortal Venerable needed to calculate increased by over ten times.
She had to deal with Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, help Heavenly Court members fight the pseudo venerables, forcibly control Limitless’ chains, and also accelerate the Crazed Demon formation to quickly produce eternal life research results.
Now, Fang Yuan activated five restriction profound light qi in Star Constellation Chessboard Formation, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had to endure the backlash as well as suppress Limitless’ chains.
Fang Yuan’s five restriction profound light qi was of extreme threat to the Crazed Demon formation, Limitless’ chains were doing everything they could to shackle him. But Star Constellation Immortal Venerable must suppress it, if she did not suppress it and let it take effect freely, it would severely interfere and ultimately destroy Star Constellation Chessboard Formation.
Once the formation was destroyed, just these Heavenly Court Gu Immortals, even if they had the immortal graveyard, could not block the bloodthirsty pseudo venerables.
At that time, even if Star Constellation Immortal Venerable blocked Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Fang Yuan, she would not be able to guard the eternal life research results, and the pseudo venerables would gain them.
There were no two ways about it, Heavenly Court had too little manpower after all.
Even though Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had revived, her enemies were too numerous!
“Five restriction profound light qi, what an amazing move!” Shen Shang praised as he saw through the situation.
Even he felt bad for Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!
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Chapter 2200: Luck Gamble!
Fang Yuan activated five restriction profound light qi which inflicted backlash to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable at every moment. But Star Constellation Immortal Venerable needed to suppress Limitless’ chains and control them, she was basically protecting Fang Yuan.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable heaved a deep sigh.
Even if she was the number one person in the wisdom path, she had more problems than she could cope with.
From her point of view: Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was the strongest enemy in her life, she had to pay enough attention to him. Comparatively, Fang Yuan’s threat was lower, but he could not be ignored. After all, many venerables had invested in him, even Star Costellation’s will had invested in him when Spectral Soul refined sovereign immortal fetus Gu.
Fang Yuan could not be left alone, if he was allowed to act as he pleased, he would give her huge problems!
Having this understanding, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable suddenly took out Book Mountain.
A chess piece flew out, it was Zhou Xiong Xin!
Zhou Xiong Xin landed on the middle of the mountain and controlled it with all his strength.
Book Mountain let out golden light, they were actually Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s luck path killer moves.
These luck path killer moves attacked Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, stopping him temporarily.
Almost at the same time, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable attacked Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan did not activate Dang Hun Luo Po Seal.
This method was amplified by his countless dao marks, it was far stronger than Hu elevation. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could disregard the cost to retrieve Star Constellation Chessboard Formation and release Limitless’ chains.
Adding on the previous accumulated ‘hatred’ towards five restriction profound light qi, Fang Yuan would be fiercely shackled by Limitless’ chains, his situation would be even worse than Qi Sea Ancestor’s.
At that time, Fang Yuan would lose his battle strength, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could take out Star Constellation Chessboard again and make the situation greatly advantageous for Heavenly Court.
Naturally, in the process of Star Constellation Chessboard being stored and taken out, it would be damaged, and even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable would suffer damage.
But how great would this damage be?
According to Fang Yuan’s estimation, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could endure it.
So, Fang Yuan did not attack, instead he retreated into the five restriction profound light qi.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable smiled.
Fang Yuan’s action was within her expectations.
Information about Dang Hun Luo Po Seal had already been transmitted from the Door of Life and Death. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was slightly disappointed that Fang Yuan did not use this method.
But, Fang Yuan retreating into the five restriction profound light qi made it convenient for Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to take her next action.
At the next moment, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable gave a cry. Hundreds of vertical and horizontal starry paths twisted and turned like water waves, they quickly gathered and weaved an azure sphere, covering all the five restriction profound light qi and Fang Yuan inside.
Fang Yuan was actually sealed.
Five restriction profound light qi was still continuing to spread, but the space inside the azure sphere was vast. It would take a long time to fill it completely.
“An excellent response.” Fang Yuan praised.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used wisdom path and star path to imitate space path. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not break five restriction profound light qi, but found a way to restrain it.
This response was amazing, not only did she use Star Constellation Chessboard Formation to a whole new level, there were extraordinary methods like dao embroidery used as well.
Fang Yuan was trapped, but he was not hurried.
He waited for Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s performance.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was extremely shrewd, he definitely realized Heavenly Court’s weakness and his side’s advantage.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable took the risk to deal with Fang Yuan, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had a good chance of success over on his end. On the contrary, if Star Constellation Immortal Venerable dealt with Immortal Zombie Giant Sun, Fang Yuan could make some arrangements. Although the strength of these cheap tricks was small, they would definitely cause great annoyance to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. If they were not resolved immediately, these cheap tricks would become the key to suppressing Heavenly Court!
Sure enough, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun shouted, a giant wave of golden light pushed Book Mountain aside as it charged towards Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
Book Mountain was sent flying like a meteor.
Zhou Xiong Xin, who was on the mountain, was already smashed to a pulp. This was the price of forcefully controlling Book Mountain!
This rank eight expert used all his strength but only stopped Immortal Zombie Giant Sun for a few breaths of time. This was the case even when he had Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s help, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun had also restrained his strength to prevent damaging Limitless’ formation.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun managed to get some free time, he immediately began preparing a method.
This chance did not come easily. When he fought with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable earlier, they attacked constantly, he had no such chances.
However, at the next moment.
“This killer move is finally complete.” Golden Hooped Great Immortal suddenly appeared, “Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, you fooled me, I invited you to Heavenly Court as a guest, but you took the chance to make your arrangements. During the fate war, Heavenly Court headquarters was ambushed by your Longevity Heaven!”
The moment he finished speaking, Golden Hooped Great Immortal used his life and all his cultivation to activate a killer move.
The mysterious light shone down and fell on Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s head, turning into a golden hoop.
The golden hoop bound Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s forehead, causing his mind and body to turn slightly sluggish.
A female immortal appeared behind Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
It was Qin Ding Ling!
“Giant Sun, I am repaying you for all the humiliation you have given me back then!!” Qin Ding Ling shouted, slamming her hands on Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s back.
Immortal killer move — Luck Gamble!
A black and white Gu worm resembling a die flew out of Qin Ding Ling’s phantom aperture, it rolled rapidly before coming to a stop.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun — Three!
The die Gu worm rolled once again before coming to a stop, revealing a number on its surface.
Qin Ding Ling — Five!
Bam!
In an instant, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s vast luck was transferred to Qin Ding Ling.
Qin Ding Ling’s body shook, her face reddened, and her teeth clattered together. She could only endure with all her strength and had no strength to fight for the moment.
“Back then, when I forcibly took away a portion of Crazed Demon Cave’s Thieving Heaven true inheritance, a mysterious Immortal Gu escaped, I could not catch it in time. It seems like it was obtained by you in the end.” Immortal Zombie Giant Sun came to a realization.
Qin Ding Ling perspired profusely as she took in the endless luck while replying with hatred: “To deal with you, I gave up on metal path, I sealed and buried myself deep under the earth in a metal coffin, cultivating in seclusion as I comprehended luck path. During these three hundred thousand years, this gamble Gu was attracted to me and came to the metal coffin one day. From that moment, I realized this was the backlash of you forcefully taking Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance, it is also my fortuitous encounter to take revenge. Gamble, gamble, let us gamble with our lives!”
The intense golden light around Immortal Zombie Giant Sun dimmed rapidly.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s expression turned solemn.
The foundation of his combat system was based on powerful and prosperous luck. He had all kinds of killer moves that helped him to maintain positive and powerful luck, for instance, the unforeseen disaster killer move he used in the Door of Life and Death, to extract his bad luck to deal with the enemy. Although it reduced the size of his luck, his luck path methods quickly restored it, on the whole, his luck became even better.
Once Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s positive luck was stronger than the enemy’s, his defense, offense, healing and other aspects would also rise based on the difference, always being higher than his enemy’s.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s methods were extremely powerful and exquisite. Under the support of such a combat system, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was invincible.
His luck path methods had never been spread, how could other Gu Immortals seize his luck?
Most Gu Immortals’ luck would fall to rock-bottom within ten or so rounds, while Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s strength would continue to rise.
While it looked like Immortal Zombie Giant Sun was in a stalemate with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, the fact was that he had already accumulated a huge advantage in terms of luck. At the final juncture, when the Crazed Demon formation stops and the eternal life research results emerge, without Limitless’ retaliation anymore, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun could erupt with extreme strength.
But now, Qin Ding Ling dug at his foundation!
Qin Ding Ling had almost performed a miracle!
Just based on gamble Gu, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable’s retaliation would not be able to accomplish this.
Just Qin Ding Ling alone also could not accomplish this.
Even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s arrangements and schemes alone could not dig at Immortal Zombie Giant Sun’s foundation.
But these three factors joined to achieve a miracle-like achievement!
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun immediately activated a killer move, his thoughts increased and collided rapidly: “I fell for Star Constellation’s scheme.”
“She had already prepared this trump card to deal with me, but just did not have a chance before.”
“When Fang Yuan used five restriction profound light qi, she saw the chance.”
“She intentionally left to deal with Fang Yuan, even throwing out Book Mountain, it was just to show me weakness.”
“She succeeded after all!”
Book Mountain was a secluded domain of heaven and earth, but in Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s eyes, it was only a chess piece that could be casually thrown.
In fact, many Heavenly Court members on Star Constellation Chessboard Formation were all Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s chess pieces.
Even Fang Yuan was used by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to lure Immortal Zombie Giant Sun!
Just like how Immortal Zombie Giant Sun took Heavenly Court as his enemy, Heavenly Court also considered Longevity Heaven and Immortal Zombie Giant Sun as an obstacle.
Fang Yuan?
Although Fang Yuan was very strong, even destroying fate Gu, he was selected by heaven’s will and received the help of venerables. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used Fang Yuan, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable also made arrangements for Fang Yuan…
Fang Yuan was a chess piece.
Even if Fang Yuan’s ambition was huge, wanting to become a refinement path venerable, turning into a player from a chess piece, Primordial Domain was already destroyed, how could he become refinement path Demon Venerable?
If he could not become venerable, even if he had more dao marks, he would only be a pseudo venerable.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had already returned to being Dao Lords!
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable left Fang Yuan and returned to fight Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
“Go.” Star Constellation Immortal Venerable pointed at Qin Ding Ling, Star Constellation Chessboard Formation activated, the chess piece Qin Ding Ling immediately disappeared on the spot and appeared at the edge of the battlefield.
The killer move luck gamble was already activated, Qin Ding Ling had completed this crucial part!
Luck gamble!
After Qin Ding Ling recovered, she activated the killer move again.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun — Three!
Qin Ding Ling — Two!
Boom…
At this time, Qin Ding Ling’s luck surged out and transferred back to Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
Luck gamble killer move’s power was like this, it could not be controlled by people. The numbers determined victory or defeat, but the outcome was determined randomly, even Qin Ding Ling, who was the user could not influence it.
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